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I don't even necessarily want to call it transphobic. I know that transphobia does not need to be actively performed out of conscious malice, I know internalized transphobia is a thing, but um.

The thing about the "trans women are capable of harm" type posts and blogs like transmascvoicesproject is that on a daily basis trans women are told that we are predators, that we are violent, that we have the rape organ, that we solely exist for fetishistic reasons and that makes us dangerous to be around. Society never lets us forget this. Cinema never lets us forget this. Terfs never let us forget this. Political parties on either side of the spectrum never let us forget this. These people post like they live in a world where trans women/transfeminine people are shielded from the consequences of our actions by our identities, but that's a fantasy. We are not only held accountable for our actions, but responses to our mistakes and transgressions are often extremely worse than that of other people. Not to mention, a lot of trans women are lied about, marked rapist/pedophile/abusive by an abusive, transphobic ex, and then isolated and removed from friends groups for the crime of coming out as trans. This is so, so, so common.

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We're at the "JK Rowling is personally funding litigation to try and destroy AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL" stage of rabid UK terf brain.

The parachute study is actually a wonderful piece of art because it demonstrates so succinctly the kind of situation where randomized controlled trials are not the gold standard of evidence, and in fact reach misleading conclusions.

How would one go about making such a study though?

Well, barring exceptionally fortunate cases like this one, where they were able to use "skip the conventional wait time" as the test group and "wait as usual" as the control, you sort of can't.

The "gold standard" here would be some kind of quote-unquote "natural experiment" where you have 2 different countries that are very similar but one enforces wait times for trans care and the other doesn't, and then you compare outcomes for trans people in each country. Likewise, the "natural experiment" for parachutes would be crashes where people were able to eject with a parachute vs. crashes where they weren't. Or you could throw ballistics dummies out of planes.

The interesting part there being that we know for a fact that the SEGM-affiliated gender clinics, many of them state monopolies, have worse outcomes than informed consent clinics.

I already linked this in the replies, but there’s a substack article that touches on SEGM, evidence-based medicine, and the asshole who coined the term: