White House orders NIH to research trans 'regret' and 'detransition'
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But I'm guessing maybe the point is, if you can get these studies published by the NIH, then red-state governments can more easily argue for conversion therapy since it will be "backed by science"
ExxonMobil and Phillip Morris used to have to fund their own scientists, this is just getting government to spend your tax dollars for them.
> But some people argue that previous research on trans regret and related issues have been poorly done and is outdated.
> "We are starting to see much greater numbers of young people who are seeing that they went down the wrong path for them and they're now left with irreversible changes to their body and they no longer identify as transgender," says Evgenia Abbruzzese, the co-founder of the group Society for Evidence-Based Gender Medicine. "But they are left with these permanent effects."
> She adds: "There are a lot of negative impacts of transition. And regret is definitely one of them," she says. "It's a very important area of medicine to study."
> Others agree.
> "The research on detransition is very useful, it's a very important area," said Michael Biggs, an associate professor of sociology at the University of Oxford. "This is an understudied population to collect systematic data on."
Is an American with a vague sense of dread, but no actual threat to their life going to make a better case than a MENA region refugee? A Ukrainian? I know that people like to dismiss this sort of thinking as "Oppression Olympics", but the reality is that there are a very limited number of "slots" for asylum seekers in a country like Norway and therefore an element of competition does exist.
Who has a more pressing need? Someone fleeing a war zone? An LGBT person from a country like Afghanistan? Or an American upset about divisive political rhetoric?
Personal choice is only for parents willingly exposing their kids to diseases.
Personal choice and bodily autonomy has never mattered to the current ruling group in office - unless that person is male identifying as a straight man that agrees with whatever they tell them.
Consider, for example, that Dr Johanna Olson-Kennedy received $9.7 million in NIH funding to study the effects of puberty blockers on trans-identifying children. After two years, there was no significant mental health improvement - so she refused to publish the findings.
Hopefully this new research into the oft-hidden side of this burgeoning medical scandal will provide data on what's actually been happening.