Category: Politics
The Transgender Question
When I was about 13 in 1988, and starting to get inklings of gender dysphoria, I lacked the right words to express what I was feeling. Instead, I asked my mother what it would mean if my brother or I were gay. “I’d rather you were dead,” she replied curtly with a sense of finality….
The Discredited Brown Study on Trans Youth Isn’t Just Junk Science — It’s Dangerous
The latest tool in the effort to bring back conversion therapy doesn’t come out of the Bible Belt. Instead, it came straight from the Ivy League. Lisa Littman of Brown University published an August 2018 article in the journal PLOS One which purports to show that transgender identities are nothing more than social contagion. In “Rapid-onset gender dysphoria in…
Is Research Into the Biology of Gender Identity a Necessary Evil?
Are transgender people “born that way”? At one level this is a simple question, namely: are there biological reasons for gender identity, and can people have a gender identity that doesn’t match their sex assigned at birth? At this point, the general scientific consensus is that yes, humans have an innate gender identity even if the potential myriad…