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> But given the topic, I'm guessing he was stalked and harassed by people for whom this topic is a survival issue. So they did their best to make it a survival

> But given the topic, I'm guessing he was stalked and harassed by people for whom this topic is a survival issue. So they did their best to make it a survival issue for him. There's a problem with this approach. If research that produces the "wrong" results gets silenced, it's little more than a sockpuppet for the ruling ideology, and people will justifiably ignore it when they realize this. I say "if", but it's already the case. When a study gives results that agree with whatever is being pushed, it's publicized in the strongest of terms, it "shows" or "proves" or "confirms" something. If it disagrees, it's rarely mentioned, and downplayed to a mere "oh it's complicated, more research needs to be done, many questions still open...". That is if the study even gets funded in the first place, for fear it might give results we don't want.

DoreenMichele 6y ago
Create a world in which it is possible to say "Trans stuff sounds like baloney to me" without that assertion being a threat to the survival of such people and then you can have enthusiastic scientific debates about exactly what is going on with some people and why on Earth do they do things like dress like the "wrong sex" and choose to undergo invasive surgeries. As long as trans individuals face barriers to employment, barriers to housing and are at risk of being murdered simply for being who they are, this will remain a very touchy issue. We live in a world where being "the wrong kind of people" -- in ways that have absolutely nothing to do with trustworthiness or character or criminal behavior -- condemns people to a lesser life and where the world will act with enormous callous disregard for your welfare to an outright abusive degree and feel okay about it and like you shouldn't complain. Being LGBTQ, a person of color or even just female or poor can qualify you for such treatment and your complaints about being treated abusively will fall on deaf ears. No one will care. You will be told to quit your whining and stop acting entitled. So people being victimized try to argue "the science" because that's more socially acceptable. Otherwise they have zero voice if they politely go along with society's position that there isn't a problem and you should be neither seen nor heard because of who you are, much less voice complaints about the terrible quality of life you have due to details you didn't choose and cannot escape, try though you might.

DoreenMichele 6y ago

Create a world in which it is possible to say "Trans stuff sounds like baloney to me" without that assertion being a threat to the survival of such people and then you can have enthusiastic scientific debates about exactly what is going on with some people and why on Earth do they do things like dress like the "wrong sex" and choose to undergo invasive surgeries. As long as trans individuals face barriers to employment, barriers to housing and are at risk of being murdered simply for being who they are, this will remain a very touchy issue. We live in a world where being "the wrong kind of people" -- in ways that have absolutely nothing to do with trustworthiness or character or criminal behavior -- condemns people to a lesser life and where the world will act with enormous callous disregard for your welfare to an outright abusive degree and feel okay about it and like you shouldn't complain. Being LGBTQ, a person of color or even just female or poor can qualify you for such treatment and your complaints about being treated abusively will fall on deaf ears. No one will care. You will be told to quit your whining and stop acting entitled. So people being victimized try to argue "the science" because that's more socially acceptable. Otherwise they have zero voice if they politely go along with society's position that there isn't a problem and you should be neither seen nor heard because of who you are, much less voice complaints about the terrible quality of life you have due to details you didn't choose and cannot escape, try though you might.