Conservatives Are Now Blaming Science For Low Trans Regret Rates

[Ivy]

A post from Erin Reed

https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/conservatives-are-now-blaming-science?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

 

"Matt Walsh circulated a video asserting that scientific research holds little value, suggesting the low regret rates in the study are because “transgender people are just not admitting their regret” and are “lying to themselves.”

 

I guess if I'm happy living as a woman it's only because I don't want to admit to myself just how miserable I really am.  These people…………

[Carolyn Marie]

Matt Walsh is a propagandist, liar, science denier and...more stuff than I'm allowed to say here.  But I'm sure his family loves him. 

 

Carolyn Marie

[VickySGV]

In the short run, these folks will have some road traction, but in the long run, they will be asserting the up-hill flow of liquids (without a pump) which even their least educated and narrowest listeners will will be able to see.  An axiom of my science studies, and even my philosophy class in logic, and on to law study is that you cannot PROVE a negative assertion as negative. 

 

Wait, one place you can prove a negative is in electrical circuitry which may be what they need to jump-start their thought processes.  Their polarity has just been reversed and is burning up their brain.

[Davie]

If everything they say is a lie, the headline would say otherwise. 🤣

[Sally Stone]

not to divert too much from the topic here, but I am so tired of people like Walsh claiming to be conservatives.  While it is true the definition of conservative includes "averse to change and clinging to traditional values," this is just a smoke screen.  In actuality, people like Walsh are zealots, which is intolerance fueled by their fear of people or things that are different. People like him give conservatives a bad name. 

[VickySGV]

2 hours ago, Sally Stone said:

In actuality, people like Walsh are zealots, which is intolerance fueled by their fear of people or things that are different. People like him give conservatives a bad name. 

 

Excellent point, and I concur.

[awkward-yet-sweet]

Not sure about the regret rates, but the sample size of the study isn't exactly large.  It would be interesting to see what the results are with more participants.  FWIW, I see similar issues with other published studies that I read.  If Walsh was going to make a reasonable attack on something, it ought to be with something specific and measurable, or even something like proving conflict of interest related to a study's funding.  Science is properly challenged with evidence....he didn't do that.

 

I'm no scientist, but I have a reasonable high school education and a basic understanding of the scientific method.  We also have a library at home, and as my husband's mother is a doctor we get 3 of the JAMA journals once she's finished with them.  I might have to dig to see if there have been other similar studies, and I'll be interested to see if these sorts of results are repeatable over the coming years.  I'm sure this research isn't happening in a vacuum.