SIO315: Lisa Littman's Latest Trans Study is Garbage
Serious Inquiries Only
Thomas Smith
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🗓️ 29 October 2021
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
It's part 2 of our Littman breakdown, find out what her latest junk study says. This time it's about detransitioning and it suffers from many of the same problems as her first study we covered in part 1. Also, friend of the show Aaron Rabinowitz, host of Embrace the Void, dug up some of the questions Littman asked. Which ones were and were not included says a ton about what the answers must have been.
Links: MacKinnon (2021), Littman (2021), Turban (2021)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Series Inquiries Only. This is episode 315. This is part two. I almost |
| 0:17.6 | said the end of gender part two. It's not. It's related. Yeah. It is debunking junk science |
| 0:24.8 | from Litman part two. We're finally getting to the study that has lately made the rounds on the |
| 0:32.1 | anti-trans Twitter sphere, I suppose, about de-transitioning. I'm curious to see if this study is even |
| 0:40.9 | half as bad as Litman's first attempt at transphobic science. So, oh, first off, how are you doing, Lindsay? |
| 0:47.8 | I still have a cold. Still have a cold. This is Dr. Lindsay Ostriman, of course, best science |
| 0:51.8 | person in the biz, giving us the science breakdown. All right. I think since it is another episode, |
| 0:58.6 | we should probably issue another content note that we'll be discussing awful transphobic pieces of |
| 1:03.9 | crap and their attempts at laundering their opinions through junk science. Absolutely. |
| 1:08.8 | Any other particular content notes you want to put on that? |
| 1:13.0 | Nope. I think that that covers it. Yeah. Oh, geez. Well, why don't we get to Lisa Litman's |
| 1:20.3 | second more recently published study on de-transitioning? Yeah, just this week. This is caught off the |
| 1:27.1 | presses, freshly minted here. So, I'm very curious about whether she learned any lessons from the |
| 1:32.7 | corrections from the first paper. I really hope so. She's had a couple of years to think about what |
| 1:36.9 | she did and try to do it better. But yeah, so this was titled Individuals Treated for Gender |
| 1:41.9 | Disphoria with Medical and or Surgical Transition, who subsequently de-transitioned Colin, |
| 1:48.6 | a survey of 100 de-transitioners. It's quite a title. Yeah, wow. So before we get into this paper, |
| 1:54.0 | I think we should define de-transition because it's a pretty broad term. The way that Litman and |
| 1:58.4 | others use this term is to describe situations in which someone initiates, at least initiates, |
| 2:04.3 | a social and or medical transition to a gender other than the one that they were assigned at birth. |
| 2:08.9 | And then they either halt, stop or take steps to reverse that transition. So it's pretty broad. |
| 2:15.8 | If somebody after transitioning then changes their hair and clothing to be more consistent with |
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