Saturday, September 24, 2022

WSJ publishing anti-trans articles (2022) in context of bomb threats against hospitals and libraries

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The latest from WSJ

WSJ headline: Every Tomboy is Tagged 'Transgender' by Colin Wright, Sept 22, 2022
Mr. Wright, an evolutionary biologist, is founding editor of Reality's Last Stand. A child in pigtails dances on a jungle gym of male and female symbols.

These are the earlier screenshots:

WSJ headline: Opinion: A rare reversal on gender transition policy (Aug 23, 2022)
WSJ headline: Opinion: What we owe children contemplating a gender transition
WSJ headline: Opinion: Academy of Pediatrics abandons the children (Aug 22, 2022)
WSJ headline: Opinion: The American Academy of Pediatrics’ dubious transgender science (Aug 17, 2022)

December 2023

Oh, the WSJ is still at it. On December 14, Roy Eappen, "a former Conservative Party of Quebec candidate and member of the anti-trans organization Do No Harm," an organization that was founded with a $1 million ontribution from a billionaire, published an article headlined: "Most 'Transgender' Kids Turn Out to Be Gay."

The article is false. Erin Reed published this: "Fact Check: WSJ Publishes False Article Claiming Trans Kids Are 'Actually Just Gay.'" Erin in the Morning (Substack), December 15, 2023.

As Reed explains:

  • Trans kids are trans (not cis, gay or straight), and trans identity/transition just isn't conversion therapy to make gay kids straight.
  • It doesn't make sense that homophobia would motivate gay cis people to be transgender, since transphobia also exists, and in fact trans people currently enjoy "significantly lower social acceptance than gay people."
  • Even if some people were trying to encourage kids to be trans so that they wouldn't be gay, that strategy would be "entirely ineffective" given that lots of trans people are also gay.
  • The claim that "80% of transgender youth will desist from being trans" — i.e., not go on to transition at all, or else transition and then detransition — is false. Reed herself has already published an article debunking this. The real stat for people who regret their gender transition: 1–3%.
  • Regarding the claim that 80% of trans kids will stop being trans, Eappen appears to be referencing two data sets: one from 1995, the other from 1989-2001. The issue is that, under the DSM-IV at that time, a kid could be diagnosed with "gender identity disorder" just for enjoying the clothes and games associated with the other gender, preferring to make friends of the other gender and pretending to be the other gender during play, and feeling "discomfort" with their assigned "gender role." They did not actually have to insist that they were, nor want to become, a member of the other gender. So these kids who never said they were trans ended up not transitioning. This is not surprising. It doesn't mean that they were trans and stopped being trans. Furthermore, at this time, it was hard to transition, so the fact that they never did so doesn't imply they didn't want to. There's a flattening of people who are happy/unhappy with their lives or their choices; there's an assumption that everyone who never transitioned or who detransitioned is happy with that path.
  • Eappen "incorrectly states that gender-affirming care is administered to children 8 years old or younger," Reed says; if a child is on puberty blockers before age 8, it would be because their puberty onset is too early, not because they're preparing for cross-sex hormones.
  • Eappen refers to people as being "transed." This term, Reed notes, is "not recognized in legitimate discourse."
  • Letting trans people transition doesn't harm gay cis people.

In summary, the WSJ is publishing crap.

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In the UK

This, in the UK, is also crap.

Daily Mail have a 'special investigation' into Mermaids splashed across two pages today. The experts? JK Rowling, Stephanie Davies- Arai, Graham Linehan, Kate Harris all quoted or referred to. They actually went to Graham Linehan for quotes on this. Lee Hurley on Twitter, September 29, 2022

In February 2023, a 16-year-old transgender girl was murdered. The Daily Mail is going to...make a documentary? And probably not donate the proceeds to support trans people's safety?

Daily Mail headline announcing their exclusive 40-minute video documentary: Brianna Ghey: Teen murderers unmasked

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