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		<title>Two Views on Gender Ideology</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erich Vieth]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Nov 2024 01:32:49 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>I suspect that these tweets by J.K. Rowling and Billboard Chris are mostly entire compatible. And I do think the first and worst mistake we made as a society is allowing a decoupling of sex and gender. First, Billboard Chris:</p>
<p><a href="https://x.com/billboardchris/status/1855280098813129114?s=43" target="_blank"><img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-41004" src="http://dangerousintersection.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Screenshot-2024-11-10-at-7.23.50 PM.png" alt="Screenshot 2024 11 10 at 7.23.50 PM" width="912" height="476" title="Two Views on Gender Ideology 1" srcset="https://dangerousintersection.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Screenshot-2024-11-10-at-7.23.50 PM.png 912w, https://dangerousintersection.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Screenshot-2024-11-10-at-7.23.50 PM-300x157.png 300w, https://dangerousintersection.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Screenshot-2024-11-10-at-7.23.50 PM-768x401.png 768w" sizes="(max-width: 912px) 100vw, 912px"/></a></p>
<blockquote><p>There are two sexes, zero genders, and infinite personalities.</p>
<p>The word ‘gender’ was fine as a synonym for sex when those of us over the age of 30 were growing up. It’s not anymore. Use the word ‘sex.’</p></blockquote>
<p><a href="https://x.com/jk_rowling/status/1765822003246768198?lang=en" target="_blank">Now Rowling:</a></p>
<blockquote><p>The word ‘transphobic’, as used here, does not mean an irrational fear or dislike of trans people. It means refusing to use gender identity ideology’s jargon, refusing to parrot its slogans, refusing to accept that sex doesn&#8217;t matter when it comes to sport and single-sex spaces, refusing to believe a bearded heterosexual man becomes a lesbian when he declares himself one, and refusing to believe an abusive, misogynistic male is a woman because he likes to wear mini-dresses and pout in selfies.</p>
<p>Like every other gender critical person I know, I believe everyone should be free to express themselves however they wish, dress however they please, call themselves whatever they want, sleep with any consenting adult who wishes to sleep with them, and that trans-identified people should have the same protections regarding employment, housing, freedom of speech and personal safety every other citizen is entitled to.</p>
<p>But this isn’t nearly enough for the dominant strain of trans activism, which asserts that unless freedom of speech is removed from dissenters, unless </p></blockquote>&#8230;]]></description>
		
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		<title>Andrew Sullivan Pulls Aside the Curtain to Expose the &#8220;Transqueer&#8221; Movement</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erich Vieth]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Mar 2024 02:11:07 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Woke Issues]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Andrew Sullivan, a gay man who was a courageous leader of the movement to legalize gay marriage,<a href="https://andrewsullivan.substack.com/p/the-transqueers-take-the-mask-off" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> has written a thoughtful article about the &#8220;transqueer&#8221; movement. </a> Here&#8217;s an excerpt:</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;The truth is: we have come a long way in understanding and respecting the unique human experience of being transgender. In the US, trans people are protected by the gold standard of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. They are everywhere in our popular culture. An entire generation has even been told that being trans is the most glamorous thing you could possibly be. But none of this is sufficient for the transqueers. What they want is an abolition of biological sex for everyone; the end of men and of women as separate categories; the sex reassignment of children on demand; the destruction of the nuclear family; an end to the Hippocratic Oath; the abolition of homosexuality; the presence of male bodies in women’s showers, prisons and shelter; the creation of fantastical post-everything genders and pronouns; and the criminalization of anyone who would ever question this cultural revolution.</p>
<p>They are not winning, but it is not for lack of trying. The pseudoscience behind child transition is beginning to be exposed and puberty blockers are now banned in the UK outside clinical trials. A new lawsuit is being filed against the NCAA for destroying women’s sports. Public opinion has responded to the transqueer ideology by moving in the opposite direction, and now gay people are being caught in the queer crossfire.&#8221;</p></blockquote>&#8230;]]></description>
		
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		<title>Substitution as a Lazy Narrative-Preserving Technique (Using Gays Against Groomers as an Example)</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erich Vieth]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Jul 2023 23:04:03 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>What are the policy positions of Gays Against Groomers? Many people won’t know because corporate media on the left (I checked the NYT and WaPo) refuse to mention the organization. I recently asked someone who considers herself to be on the political left. She cringed and responded by saying that it sounds like a Republican or conservative group and that there is no grooming going on in America’s schools.</p>
<p>That seems like an answer to the question, but it isn’t. What just happened is subtle, but it is critically important. The person I was talking to completely failed to answer my question. Her answer illustrates Daniel Kahneman’s principle of “substitution,” which he discussed at length in Thinking, Fast and Slow (2011).</p>
<blockquote><p>[W]hen faced with a difficult question, we often answer an easier one instead, usually without noticing the substitution.</p></blockquote>
<p>(p. 12).</p>
<p>In my experience, this is a go-to technique in the culture war conversations. Quite often, when people are asked factual questions about a person or organization they don’t like (or they assume they don’t like), they will substitute an easy question for the more difficult question of detailing the facts. The substituted easy question will often be something like “Do you like this person/organization,” even though that was clearly not the question asked. As Kahneman describes, the new simple question will be unconsciously inserted. With the new simple question substituted in, the answer is also simple. In culture war discussions, it often takes the form of an ad hominem &#8230;</p>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Ideology is Hollowing-Out Academic Biology</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erich Vieth]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Jun 2023 16:13:09 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>At <em>Skeptical Inquirer,</em> Jerry A. Coyne and Luana S. Maroja have written about the damage ideology is doing to the field of biology. Like many well-written articles today by people with their eyes open, this is not fun to read. It is never easy to read about the ideological capture of universities or the corruption of entire fields of study or the fact that numerous intelligent good-hearted people are increasingly afraid to speak up. I had the same reaction when viewing this 2022 video by Lawrence Krauss: &#8220;<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEHqk5CoUX0&#38;t=2s" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Is Woke Science the Only Science Allowed in Academia</a>?&#8221;</p>
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<p>Here is the Summary of the new article by Coyne and Maroja, <a href="https://skepticalinquirer.org/2023/06/the-ideological-subversion-of-biology/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">&#8220;The Ideological Subversion of Biology.&#8221;</a></p>
<blockquote><p>Previous research indicated that corrective information can sometimes provoke a so-called “backfire effect” in which respondents more strongly endorsed a misperception about a controversial political or scientific issue when their beliefs or predispositions were challenged. I show how subsequent research and media coverage seized on this finding, distorting its generality and exaggerating its role relative to other factors in explaining the durability of political misperceptions. To the contrary, an emerging research consensus finds that corrective information is typically at least somewhat effective at increasing belief accuracy when received by respondents. However, the research that I review suggests that the accuracy-increasing effects of corrective information like fact checks often do not last or accumulate; instead, they frequently seem to decay or be overwhelmed by cues from elites and the media promoting more congenial but less accurate </p></blockquote>&#8230;]]></description>
		
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		<title>Whistle-Blower Speaks Out at the Washington University Transgender Center at St. Louis Children&#8217;s Hospital</title>
		<link>https://dangerousintersection.org/2023/02/09/whistle-blower-speaks-out-at-the-washington-university-transgender-center-at-st-louis-childrens-hospital/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=whistle-blower-speaks-out-at-the-washington-university-transgender-center-at-st-louis-childrens-hospital&#038;utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=whistle-blower-speaks-out-at-the-washington-university-transgender-center-at-st-louis-childrens-hospital</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Erich Vieth]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2023 04:37:03 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>In November, 2022, Jamie Reed quit her job at the <a href="https://www.stlouischildrens.org/conditions-treatments/transgender-center" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Washington University Transgender Center at St. Louis Children&#8217;s Hospital</a> because she came to the conclusion that the way the Center treated its young patients was &#8220;morally and medically appalling.&#8221; Here are the opening paragraphs of her detailed story at The Free Press: <a href="https://www.thefp.com/p/i-thought-i-was-saving-trans-kids" target="_blank" rel="noopener">&#8220;I Thought I Was Saving Trans Kids. Now I’m Blowing the Whistle.&#8221;</a></p>
<p style="padding-left: 40px;">I am a 42-year-old St. Louis native, a queer woman, and politically to the left of Bernie Sanders. My worldview has deeply shaped my career. I have spent my professional life providing counseling to vulnerable populations: children in foster care, sexual minorities, the poor.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 40px;">For almost four years, I worked at The Washington University School of Medicine Division of Infectious Diseases with teens and young adults who were HIV positive. Many of them were trans or otherwise gender nonconforming, and I could relate: Through childhood and adolescence, I did a lot of gender questioning myself. I’m now married to a transman, and together we are raising my two biological children from a previous marriage and three foster children we hope to adopt.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 40px;">All that led me to a job in 2018 as a case manager at The Washington University Transgender Center at St. Louis Children&#8217;s Hospital, which had been established a year earlier.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 40px;">The center’s working assumption was that the earlier you treat kids with gender dysphoria, the more anguish you can prevent later on. This premise was shared by the center’s doctors and therapists. &#8230;</p>]]></description>
		
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