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Trans rights and evidence
On any fine day you will find gender critical feminists baldly stating that trans women are men and that therefore they are a threat to cis women and girls. They throw out tabloid headlines, slam transphobic memes in the threads, and invariably throw up a bunch of dodgy stats that would make a neoliberal economist blush. Indeed, they expect you to do all the fact checking, as if their dodgy dossiers and hate threads should exhaust you into submission. The irony is that the moment you show them the evidence, or call them out on their dodgy links they rinse and repeat, throwing a Reduxx link or two in for good measure. Evidence is not gender critical believers’ strong suit, indeed, I would argue that evidence is the last thing they want, as all they seem to do is wallow in their gender critical victim industrial complex.
Now, the reality is that all social stats and data are highly circumstantial and inherently subjective based on the questions asked and organisation reviewing the data. I am an absolute data sceptic, and the reason I ask for peer reviewed evidence is so that I can analyse it for myself. One of the critical things you learn as you progress through academia is that whatever truth you are being told is usually a data narrative that hews closely to the data, one which will always have a better translation. Thus, when I ask for the peer reviewed evidence I am in actuality asking to see…
