Tag Archives: transphobia

What parents don’t know: Trans youth study reveals fatal flaw at the heart of “rapid-onset gender dysphoria” (ROGD) pseudo-diagnosis (1 of 3)

Posted on April 30, 2021 by Zinnia Jones

Part 1 — Part 2 — Part 3 Origin and scope of the “rapid onset gender dysphoria” (ROGD) pseudo-diagnosis of trans youth Rapid-onset gender dysphoria (ROGD) is an alleged new social phenomenon of inauthentic gender dysphoria suddenly appearing among cisgender … Continue reading →

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The Gayest Generation: Trans-hostile interpretations of changing LGBT demographics are baseless and backwards

Posted on March 1, 2021 by Zinnia Jones

Previously: Once more, with peer review: Transitioning is not anti-gay conversion therapy (January 2020) We the Mudbloods: J. K. Rowling and the Trans-Exterminationists (June 2020) Lesbocalypse Now: Elliot Page took nothing from you (December 2020) It’s fantastic news by any … Continue reading →

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2020’s hard lessons in public health pessimism

Posted on December 31, 2020 by Zinnia Jones

I was wrong. For the better part of a decade, my approach to communicating transgender medicine and science to the public has been premised on certain unexamined lay assumptions about what this wider audience struggles with and what they require … Continue reading →

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Lesbocalypse Now: Elliot Page took nothing from you

Posted on December 31, 2020 by Zinnia Jones

“Where have all the lesbians gone?” This is the assertion recently made by a spate of anti-trans commentators in the wake of Elliot Page’s coming out as a nonbinary trans man: that the number of cisgender lesbians is diminishing, being … Continue reading →

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Trans women and transfeminine people taking HRT are far less likely to develop prostate cancer

Posted on July 31, 2020 by Zinnia Jones

Concerns over supposedly cancer-causing effects of cross-sex hormone therapy are an area in which public alarm has often pulled far ahead of the facts on transition and transgender health. For instance, in 2019, the Telegraph breathlessly reported that the “risk … Continue reading →

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