Category: Health
United Kingdom’s conversion therapy ban filled with poison pills
The proposal has carve-outs for religious-based conversion therapy that are broad enough to cover virtually any sort of therapy that assumes a veneer of religion.
Gloves Are Off on School Mask Mandates
In recent years, most ugly battles at school boards have been fairly one-sided. On the one hand, you typically have irate, hyperbolic conservative parents screaming at school-board members over the imaginary problem du jour, whether it is sex education, transgender students in bathrooms, transgender athletes, critical race theory, or mask mandates.
JK Rowling is an Unwitting Tool of the Religious Right
When JK Rowling tweeted that transition-related care for transgender teens is a form of gay conversion therapy, most LGB people who don’t follow the fights inspired by Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminists (TERFs) were mystified. It made zero sense to them, because they actually know transgender people. They know that conversion therapy for gays attempts to change…
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…