https://x.com/swipewright/status/2070180767699771559?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw
" Defenders of child transition need to answer a basic question: What evidence would change your mind? We were told not to worry because such treatments and procedures were extremely rare. But when new data show that these treatments aren't so rare, the same defenders suddenly change their tune: the numbers are no longer reassuring because they are small; now they are reassuring because they are large. If the rates are low, that proves the panic is overblown. If the rates are high, that's evidence that access is improving. If the rates rise, that means stigma is declining. If they don't rise enough, that means barriers remain. Heads they win, tails you're a bigot. At some point, defenders of pediatric gender medicine must answer a simple question: What result would change your mind? We should have insisted on a clear answer to this question long ago, BEFORE we ever started performing these procedures on children—not AFTER the results come in, when activists have had time to devise post hoc explanations about why the latest horrific finding is actually wonderful news. Falsifiability is a basic principle of science. No claim that can be "confirmed" by every possible outcome can be called scientific. This failure to adhere to basic principles of science is made even more sinister given that kids are having their puberty stunted, fertility compromised, and healthy body parts altered or removed as a result."
https://www.city-journal.org/article/oregon-study-pediatric-gender-medicine-transition
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