Hey, pals, this study is headed by J Michael Bailey, Kenneth Zucker, and Lisa Littman, noted transphobes and pseudoscientist.

Aside from the obvious "don't trust someone who's trying to genocide us," part, Littman is infamous for putting her thumb on the scale in her research. Her "ROGD" study is a perfect example--she designed the methodology from the outset to show the result she wanted, not reality.

And finally, the smaller the participant pool for whatever garbage pseudoscience they're trying to cook up here, the easier it is for the scientific community to just ignore our of hand. If they can only recruit like 20 people, she can't show significance for anything.

If they gets several hundred, we have to go in an actually pull apart their idiot methods to show how "yes, this junk science was designed to fail from the outset; it can be safely ignored."

Dismissing their "findings" as insignificant is easier. And more insulting to them.

Meanwhile, J Michael Bailey is the PI for this study, and Kenneth Zucker is part of it, and their study won't even describe trans people as trans--they use "gender dysphoric youth."

This is 100% a study that's gonna try and prove that conversion therapy is effective.

For those who don't know: J Michael Bailey is best known for The Man Who Would Be Queen, a profoundly transphobic scree that represents itself as scientific despite having zero scientific references in it.

Here's a summary of the mess for those who don't know:

https://ai.eecs.umich.edu/people/conway/TS/LynnsReviewOfBaileysBook.html

He's also a leading proponent of Blanchardism, & insists that the overwhelming majority of trans women are just sex perverts.

Zucker, meanwhile, is a hardcore conversion therapy advocate, and doesn't seem to believe that trans people exist AT ALL.

https://bulletin.appliedtransstudies.org/article/2/3-4/1/

Littman hardly needs an introduction at this point, but this excellent article by Evan Urquhart talking to Zinnia Jones on the scope and scale of her trash science is a great primer.

https://slate.com/human-interest/2018/09/gender-dysphoria-depersonalization-not-contagious.html

Regardless, here it is. They wanna drill people about their sex lives; it's intending to paint us as sex perverts.

Also, fucking lol, they're even using Littman's disastrously discredited "ask transphobic parents an online survey" method. I bet they know they won't get hardly any actual trans people.

Aside from the obvious "don't trust someone who's trying to genocide us," part, Littman is infamous for putting her thumb on the scale in her research. Her "ROGD" study is a perfect example--she designed the methodology from the outset to show the result she wanted, not reality.

And finally, the smaller the participant pool for whatever garbage pseudoscience they're trying to cook up here, the easier it is for the scientific community to just ignore our of hand. If they can only recruit like 20 people, she can't show significance for anything.

If they gets several hundred, we have to go in an actually pull apart their idiot methods to show how "yes, this junk science was designed to fail from the outset; it can be safely ignored."

Dismissing their "findings" as insignificant is easier. And more insulting to them.

Anyway, in short:

I'd bet a lot of actual money that the aim of their "study" is to show that trans youth are just sex perverts who "need to be abused back into their AGABs." That's the intersection of each of their wheelhouses.

Avoid at all costs.

Anyway, in short:

I'd bet a lot of actual money that the aim of their "study" is to show that trans youth are just sex perverts who "need to be abused back into their AGABs." That's the intersection of each of their wheelhouses.

Avoid at all costs.

@Impossible_PhD This pisses me off on so many levels as a budding social science researcher who hopes to do research on trans/nonbinary communities. Obviously, the whole “let’s violate all research ethics so we can push our political viewpoint" angle is awful enough. But this also makes it so much harder for legitimate, ethical researchers to get participants who will trust us enough to participate in solid, peer reviewed research. And in the end that contributes to the information black hole that the trans community continues to do its best to fill.