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“You leftists will believe anything a scientist tells you!”
“You all believe in scientism like it’s a religion and the scientists are your priests!”
<sarcasm>”TrUsT tHe ScIeNtIsTs, BrO!”</sarcasm>
I hear this shit all the time from people on the right. They accuse anyone to the left of Adolph Hitler of being in a cult. A cult whose priesthood is comprised of everyone with a PhD or who works in a lab, whose basic tenets of faith are ‘Wokeism’ and the Destruction Of Western Society. And degeneracy. Let us never forget the charges of degeneracy.
I’m actually a big fan of degeneracy, so maybe they have a point on that one.
Of course, it’s bullshit. It’s lip-flappingly stupid, transparent bullshit. One necessarily needs to be phenomenally ignorant (or fundamentally stupid) to even entertain the notion. But to those dumb enough to believe it, every single instance of a liberal or leftist using science to show how wrong some right-wing talking point is becomes just another mote of evidence on the pile.
So here I am, about to tear into one of the stupidest, most entitled, wrong-headed, ignorant and downright dishonest opinion pieces I’ve ever read, and it was written by a scientist.
Well, a former scientist. Colin Wright got a PhD in Evolutionary Biology and briefly worked at Penn State. But that’s in the past. These days, Colin makes his living by showing his ass online. No, not on OnlyFans, don’t get too excited. He’s using his words to show us what a shitty little chocolate starfish he is. You see, Colin is big mad about trans people.
Why is he so mad?
Who fucking cares? I don’t give a rat’s ass what’s gotten up his ass (probably not the last six or seven dolls he’s propositioned on dating sites). All I care about is the joy I take in laughing at his pathetic excuse for logic, and the slight little ego rub that comes from knowing that my 12yo kid is smarter than some dude with a PhD.
So let’s get started.
Two days ago, Colin published an opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal. In it, he claims that he’s found evidence for the wildly-conspiratorial pustule– sorry, postulate, that some kids will turn trans because they think it’s cool. (I guess it’s cool to get relentlessly bullied and hate-crimed. Maybe I’m just too old to understand kids these days, but that sounds horrible to me.) This particularly linty bit of ignorant naval-gazing is widely known as Rapid-Onset Gender Dysphoria, or ROGD. I encountered Colin’s whinging while editing Wikipedia, and I took a moment to read it. From the first paragraph, I found myself in stitches at just how bitter the piece is. (When I said Colin was big mad above, I meant it. )
So let’s go through this piece, passage by passage. Sometimes, I’ll be offering corrections. Other times, I’ll be just mocking this butthurt wittle baby. As a disclaimer, I am not an academic. I’m a jackass with an internet connection, which arguably makes me far more dangerous… But I’m a jackass who’s bound and determined to remain on the right correct side of history, and to have as good a time as possible while I’m doing it.
So heeeeeere we go! Let’s start with the entire first paragraph.
I was an academic scientist at Penn State in February 2020, when I became the target of an online mob for tweeting about transgender identity. I shared a link to an article from the Guardian with the accompanying quote: “Sweden’s Board of Health and Welfare confirmed a 1,500% rise between 2008 and 2018 in gender dysphoria diagnoses among 13- to 17-year-olds born as girls.” My commentary was brief: “Two words: social contagion.”
Welp, we’re off to a running start, I see. “Two words: social contagion” has all that whiny, bitchy, entitled, small-dick energy of every single right-wing ‘mic drop’ I’ve ever encountered. Right off the bat, Colin is telling us that -training and education be damned- he’s going to interpret everything he sees in light of his own biases and that he thinks he’s some kind of intellectual powerhouse. But as we’ll see, Colin is a powerhouse in the same sense that the mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell. To whit; He’s tiny. (You like how I picked a biology-appropriate meme to reference for that one? Pretty witty, right? Right?? Well, fuck you too, then… Sorry for trying to inject a little humor into things…)
In any event, we’ve stepped right into the middle of the ‘Fuck Around’ portion of this particular snafu. Colin certainly decided to fuck around in an obvious way. It’s weird, because a lot of the morons doing ‘science’ out there actually have the common sense to not be this obvious about their stupidity. But Colin, as is becoming distressingly common these days, is one of those entitled white boys who think their privilege will protect them from consequences. Spoiler alert: It won’t.
Within hours, colleagues denounced me as a “transphobic” bigot.
Oh yeah, we’ve moved on to the ‘Find Out’ stage. And what I have to say is ‘Yeah, Colin. They tend to do that. Most of your colleagues are educated, intelligent people. What did you expect, a standing ovation?’
Anonymous activists emailed universities to poison my job prospects.
Also predictable. I mean, you showed your ass on the internet, bud. Did you think the internet would forget? Or forgive??
A professional job board even published mock job listings warning others not to hire me.
BWAH HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!!! I’m here for this energy… God, I love the pettiness there.
My academic career never recovered.
Once again, what did you expect, Colin? To those of us with actual experience in the world, that tweet was tantamount to announcing that you’re bad at your job, and proud of it. I mean, you managed to pack an entire politician’s worth of arrogance, bias and motivated reasoning into four words. It’s actually a little impressive, in a certain light. But for a scientist, those are bad qualities. Science requires nuance, objectivity and a willingness to manage your own biases.
That’s enough of that preamble for me. Colin just wants us to know that he’s been wrongly crucified by the woke mob for daring to exercise his first amendment rights. As one does. Let’s get to the meat of the arti-
Nope. There’s more bitching and whining. Jesus Christ, dude…
But I wasn’t making an offhand remark or comparing a group of people to a disease vector, as some accused me of doing.
Uhhh, yeah you were, Colin. That’s exactly what those four words, in that context, did. And to claim it’s not an ‘offhand remark’ is kinda wild. It was four fucking words, Colin. Do you think four words makes a fucking essay?
I was referring to research published by Lisa Littman…
No, you weren’t. You wrote four words, and two of ’em sure as shit weren’t ‘Lisa Littman’. Jesus Harold Christ on a pogo stick, son, do you even English?
a physician and researcher formerly with Brown university, who had coined the term “rapid-onset gender dysphoria” in a 2018 peer-reviewed paper to describe a newly emerging cohort of adolescents—overwhelmingly girls with no childhood history of gender dysphoria or even sex nonconformity—who suddenly began describing themselves as transgender, often after friends in their peer groups did the same.
Where’s the mention of the post-publication review of that little article? The conflicts of interest involved in the creation of that article? Where’s the mention that Littman exclusively relied upon the subjective opinions of parents she recruited from anti-trans websites? Where’s the commentary on her tiny little sample size, or mention of the leading questions she used in her survey? We don’t get any of that, we just get “peer-reviewed” as the only description of the quality of this study. Why? Because it agrees with Colin’s biases, of course. Therefore, it must be unimpeachable.
Dr. Littman proposed that this pattern was best explained by social contagion, meaning the spread of ideas or behaviors through peer influence. The term isn’t an insult; it’s a well-established sociological concept used to describe how trends such as eating disorders and even suicide clusters can spread.
Colin Wright is a moron. The term isn’t an insult, it’s a well-established psychological concept used to describe someone with a learning disability who probably shouldn’t procreate.
Y’all saw the point I made there, right? The point was that anything is an insult, in the right context. I picked a term that’s widely accepted as an insult these days, though it’s (perhaps surprisingly) still part of the jargon of psychology, though it’s rarely used. Being popular among eugenicist tends to make certain terms unpopular more widely, after all.
Here’s another example. I find Colin’s complete lack of intellectual prowess to be absolutely stupefying. It’s amazing. It’s awe-inspiring. Reading through his comprehensive inability to string together an internally-consistent argument is an almost religious experience.
(To be fair, it’s a religious experience in the same way that giving Father Greg a blowjob behind the nave at 9pm on a Thursday when you’re nine years old is. To whit; deeply uncomfortable, traumatizing and just plain fucking wrong.)
In any event, my point is that you claiming it’s not an insult doesn’t change the fact that it’s an idiotic claim that undermines and invalidates fundamental aspects of people’s identities that they themself know to be immutable, but which you think your dumb ass should have some say in. And that’s a fucking insult, you dimwitted weeping sore on the penis of life.
Suggesting that social factors might cause or contribute to transgender identification violated fashionable left-wing dogma:
…and the overwhelming consensus of competent scientists in the field. Don’t forget that part, Colin. I mean, to be fair, I don’t think anyone denies that social factors might play a role, but to suggest that being transgender is exclusively caused by them flies in the face of well-documented scientific data that originates from well-designed and oft-repeated tests.
that “gender identity” is an innate and immutable trait, and that some people are born with one that conflicts with their sex.
I eagerly await Colin’s attempt to debunk the mountains of evidence showing that conversion therapy (from whence the notion that gender identity is, in fact, mutable stems from) is not just ineffective, but downright harmful. Because, if it’s not an immutable trait, conversion therapy would fucking work.
This claim underpins both medical practice and legal strategy—from puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones and surgeries for minors to arguments that “gender identity” deserves civil-rights protections akin to race or sex. Progressives treat those who question these ideas as heretics and bigots.
I don’t know about ‘heretics’, but treating bigots like bigots sounds like a fucking plan to me! I mean, it’s only natural. But wait… What’s that little runny turd in the middle of that quote? Right between the butthurt and the arrogance…
Computer: Zoom and enhance!
…surgeries for minors…
Surgeries? Surgeries, Colin? Who’s giving minors surgeries? Point me at them! Or rather, point me at the internet, so I can fact check this bald-faced fucking lie. With a single google search for “prevalence of gender affirming surgery on minors” I managed to find the total number of such surgeries that were performed in 2019. Spoiler: It’s six. Yeah, six. And all six were performed on teenagers, by the way. That’s a far cry from the claims of Colin’s president, that little kids are going to elementary school and having their gender transed in the classroom.
What’s actually happening might be too complex for someone with two brain cells currently fighting for third place, but I’m gonna lay it out anyways. What’s actually happening is that a teeny tiny fraction of trans teens are experiencing such severe dysphoria from growing a pair of tits on what their brain keeps screaming should be a hairy boy’s chest that medical intervention is becoming necessary to keep those fucking kids from killing themself, you sick bag of rotten ferret shit.
Oh, and here’s a fun fact: every single one of those six was a breast reduction. Nobody’s doing bottom surgery on kids, Colin. Jesus, it’s really weird and disturbing that you think they are. Kinda creepy, not gonna lie. Stop thinking about kids’ genitals, dude.
And for fuck’s sake, stop advocating for shit that makes kids kill themselves, you psychotic, self-centered sack of leftover orchiectomy scrap.
The dominant counterargument to the social-contagion theory, repeated endlessly by the media and activists, is that the sharp rise in transgender identification over the past decade simply reflects liberation: People today are more comfortable expressing their authentic selves.
Well, that makes sense, doesn’t it? I mean, not only is it common sense that you’ll get more trans people if you start telling people that it’s okay to be trans, it’s a basic application of Occam’s razor. You know, the thing that’s twice as sharp as your underutilized brain and half as sharp as that needle between your legs? I get that I’m not making an evidence-based argument here, but… Well, Colin isn’t either. Hopefully he says something worth digging into nex-
Well, turns out, he just waffles about the common (and fucking obvious) comparison of this phenomenon to the rise in left-handedness for a bit. Let’s skip ahead to the next paragraph.
If transgender identity were an innate trait, like left-handedness, we would expect identification rates to rise at first when it became socially acceptable, then plateau and remain stable at a fixed level. If the phenomenon were instead driven by social contagion, we might expect a boom-and-bust pattern: a spike followed by a rapid decline once the social forces driving it weaken.
Can we all just take a moment to appreciate the fact that Colin finally said something reasonable? Congrats, kid. I knew you had it in you. Well, okay, fine, that’s a lie. I had no real hope for you at all. But I’m happy to be surprised.
Recent data offer a mixed picture.
An analysis of campus surveys by Eric Kaufmann of the University of Buckingham and the Center for Heterodox Social Science found that the share of college students identifying as transgender fell 50% between 2023 and 2025.
Oh no! This is horrible for my case! This has proven me wrong and- Wait… Did you say Eric Kaufmann? The guy who runs the right-wing Center for Heterodox Social Science? The guy’s who’s been on an anti-transgender tear since doing so became a sure-fire way to grift money from right-wing sources? Well, okay…
All right, all right. I get it. Attacking Eric is unfair. It’s an ad hominem, right? It’s actually not a fallacy, since I’m attacking his ability to contribute to this specific topic. Lots of folks don’t understand that an ad hominen isn’t necessarily a fallacy, it’s just a form of defeasible argument. But still, it’s not the most convincing way of debunking Eric’s claims. So let’s look at his data…
Uhhhh…. Do you see the problem there? That’s not tracking transgender people… That’s tracking people “Not Identifying as Male or Female”. And look at some of those lines… Nine plus percent in 2023? Colin, transgender people make up 0.6-1.5% of the population. And that 1.5% high end is wildly optimistic. How the actual fuck could anyone with an ounce of intelligence look at a graph that claims that almost ten fucking percent of students (note: these are college students) are trans while clearly actually referring exclusively to nonbinary people who reject both sexes (not genders) and not think there’s something fishy going on?
I mean, holy fucking shitballs, Batman, how the fuck do you need to structure a study to even show that 2% of people identify as that particular subset of nonbinary that rejects both sex classification, let alone that almost ten fucking percent of people identify that way? Was he trolling nonbinary support groups for respondents? Filtering out all nonbinary respondents? Jerking off in the closet while Grok hallucinated the numbers?
Jumping Jehoshaphat jorking it to greasy gender-nonconforming porn! What fucking predatory peer-reviewed journal even published this pile of stinking shit?
Oh wait, Eric self-published it. Ahh, yes. That makes sense. Some rabidly anti-trans grifter massaged some questionable data (complete with a happy ending, no doubt) into something that suggests an anti-trans data point. And then went on the blatantly misrepresent his own data. And you bought it, hook, line and sinker, Colin. I’m disappointed in you. (Not really, I never had any expectations for you.)
Oh, and one more thing… Why the actual fuck did you make a hyperlink to a file on your computer for publication in the Wall Street Journal, Colin? And why are you using Sierra McClain’s computer to write your bitter bullshit? Somebody needs to check on Sierra. Make sure they’re alright. Also make sure that Sierra isn’t actually a ‘trans woman’ on Twitter who conveniently supports Colin’s bullshit. That’s… Well, surprisingly likely with you lot.
If you’ve gotten enough of my excitable exclamations, you can read a much more sober and in-depth takedown of this particular bullshit over at erininthemorning.com. Suffice it to say, it’s not so much valuable scientific data as it is a hot pile of masturbatory anti-trans garbage.
Let’s move on…
Psychologist Jean Twenge’s analysis of the annual Cooperative Election Study, administered by YouGov, found that transgender identification among 18- to 22-year-olds declined by nearly 50% between 2022 and 2024. She concluded that “it looks like the peak of trans identification is in the past.”
Jean Twenge? Really? Miss Kids-These-Days herself? This is the woman who is almost single-handedly responsible for every Gen-X and Boomer on the internet claiming it’s been ‘scientifically proven’ that Millennials and Gen-Z are all narcissists. Jean hasn’t met a criticism of kids these days she didn’t wallow in like a pig encountering a fresh mud puddle.
I’m not even going to bother with this one, because it would require me to devote the kind of time and energy I usually reserve for clowning on idiots on Wikipedia who come running to the talk page of some article the day after a bullshit study comes out on a pre-print site. Why would it take that much time? Because literally nobody but right-wing news outlets have covered her claims. I have no doubt I’ll find problems with it, but I also have no motivation to subject myself to that degree of effort.
What can I say? I’m lazy af. So I’ll give you this one. Let’s assume Jean’s right. So why might trans identification have declined over the course of a period of time in which anti-trans rhetoric grew exponentially and became a focus of politicians and talking heads on a national level?
GEE, I FUCKING WONDER…
Over the last handful of years, hate crimes and harassment have both gone up, all of it emboldened by needle-dicked bug fuckers like you, cynically hating on an already-oppressed tiny sliver of the population because none of you shits are man enough to stop caring about the world not conforming to you narrow-minded views. And yet you act like it’s some big fucking surprise when fewer people are willing to tell a stranger that they’re trans. Jesus tit-honking Christ, how fucking stupid can you be?
A new report from the Society for Evidence-Based Gender Medicine seems to tell a different story.Drawing on data from the larger National College Health Assessment, the report found that transgender and “nonbinary” identification among U.S. college students is at a record high—between 4.7% and 6.7%—though it may be reaching a plateau.
So wait… Of all the rabidly anti-trans sources you trolled for data to back up your stupid argument, the only one that regularly makes an effort to appear to be scientific and to avoid stirring up drama among the scientific community actually disagreed with the rest? Well, spank my lily-white ass and call me a good girl. I’m shocked. No, not by this ‘plot twist’, but by the electrodes attached to my nipples by a hot trans womans. Turn the voltage up a little, would ya? I’m digging this…
Some activists may wish to interpret this report’s findings as evidence that transgender identity is innate and immutable
No, no we wouldn’t. I know you’d like to think that we would, but we’re nowhere near as insecure as you rancid reprobate rat turds. That SEGM data is far too untrustworthy and narrow in scope for us to do anything with it alone. Unlike you, Colin, we aren’t out here searching for evidence to justify our conclusions. In fact, our conclusions are actually built on the evidence compiled over decades and decades of scientific data, the vast majority of which was collected by scientists who were probably deeply transphobic, but significantly better at their jobs and more honest than you.
but the data bolster the social-contagion hypothesis.
The overwhelming majority of those driving the trans craze fall into the “nonbinary” category—adopting identities which are said to be neither, both, or somewhere between male and female.
Uhhh, really, Colin? So, when you look at the actual fucking data, we see that only about 11% of LGBTQ people identify as non-binary (maybe that’s how Eric got his wild numbers…), and while nonbinary is broadly considered to be part of the trans umbrella, it’s also a nebulous, broad and very easily-adoptable category. Nonbinary people don’t medically transition at anywhere near the rates that other types of trans people do, and they’re not really accounted for in almost any of the research (except fucking Eric’s, of course) anti-trans activists pretend to engage in. At the same time, they’re almost never held up as examples of trans people, either by trans people themselves, or by anti-trans activists.
But let’s think about what nonbinary even means, for a minute.
Have you ever enjoyed a mint julep, Colin? Do you enjoy knitting? Have you ever sat around and gossiped? Is there any aspect of your character that isn’t 100% rooted in classical western masculinity? (aside from your weak-ass chin, I mean. I did say ‘character’.)
Of course there is. You’re a prissy little bitch, Colin. I guarantee there’s a whole host of feminine qualities you have, and I’d bet good money that you’re secretly insecure about most of them, but like those things too much to just give them up. You’re far more feminine than someone like myself, who changes his own oil, does woodworking and knifemaking and goes camping and hunting and shooting and just generally smells like man-musk, sawdust and gunpowder.
Colin, my fingernails are more masculine than your entire body, even when I give them a nice coat of rainbow-colored nail polish.
So what does that make you, Colin? You’re clearly not a hundred-percent man. I know this because I know I sure as shit ain’t. In my case, I don’t identify as nonbinary (even though there’s a lot in me that identifies far better with the women in my life than the men), because I think it’s easier for other people to understand me if they just think of me as a man. But make no mistake, I’m not 100% masculine. I certainly don’t ever do anything in order to be more masculine. I’m good and comfortable being just mostly manly.
So you see, the thing is, Colin… A whole bunch of those nonbinary people are just folks who are a hell of a lot more honest with themselves than you are. People who’ve looked at their own tastes and their own personality and accepted that they don’t fit neatly into the binary of man and woman, but straddle the line, or move back and forth, or simply exist outside of that spectrum.
You want to be identified as a man? That’s fine. But don’t sit here and try to paint a whole swathe of people who are only different from you in that they’re more honest with themselves as radical activists just because you’re too fucking insecure to let go of the label of ‘man’.
Jesus dick-jiggling Christ, that’s some weak-sauce shit, right there.
These include labels such as “demiboy,” “genderfluid” or “two-spirit.”
I guarantee that Colin has touched himself to pictures of a demiboy.
These are social identities, not biological ones.
No shit, Sherlock.
Unlike left- or right-handedness, which describe objectively measurable traits, “nonbinary” identities have no anatomical or physiological referent. They are conceptual, political and responsive to cultural trends—hallmarks of social contagion.
Okay, honestly, this is the cleverest fallacy you’ve made so far. Good job. Of course, I could also point out that the mere existence of transgender people, combined with the differences in gender roles observed across different cultures and times demonstrates conclusively that ‘man’ and ‘woman’ are conceptual, political and responsive to cultural trends.
Gender is a social contagion! Wake up, sheeple!
Of course, that’s ridiculous. What Colin is (quite deliberately, no doubt) leaving out here is that all gender identities are also rooted in our innate sense of self. A sense that, I hasten to point out, is rooted in the biology of our brains, and is usually (tho not always) also informed by the phenotypical traits of our bodies. For example, I don’t just think of myself as a man (with a few caveats, of course), but as a medium-large man, because I’m six feet tall and two hundred and forty pounds.
But honestly, the worst part of this is the claim that these things aren’t objectively measurable. The word ‘objective’ there is doing a lot of heavy lifting. I mean, you can objectively ask people what they identify as on a survey, and no matter how many people read that response, every single one who isn’t lying or illiterate is going to report the same exact answer. That’s the definition of ‘objective’.
But that’s not what Colin means, of course. What Colin means by ‘objectively’ is… Well, I don’t know, exactly. ‘Satisfying to my biases’ is the best I can come up with.
I mean, the most objective definition of ‘male’ is “the sex that produces small gametes”, but you might recognize that the word ‘small’ in that definition is a subjective measurement. And of course, no two gametes are the exact same size. This is biology, not a video game where cells are spawned from a class hierarchy defined by some developer with a handful of hard-coded numbers into it, all using the same set of models and textures. There are females with mutations that shrink ovum down to the range of sizes of sperm cells, and males whose sperm are fucking enormous.
On a related note, every time I ejaculate it’s like a paintball gun on full-auto. I really need to see a doctor about this. My girlfriend is sick and tired of all the bruises, and my drywall patch supplies are getting expensive.
Every other definition of the dominant two sexes out there relies upon multiple criteria, the measurements of which are analog and the degree to which each criteria matters is essentially entirely relative to the phenotypical presentation, making the whole thing an exercise in circular reasoning. Which is to say that, for example, a given organism’s hormonal balance is only considered to contribute to the establishment of its sex if that hormonal balance is in alignment with its observed sex. Otherwise, it is the observed sex in spite of the anomalous hormonal balance. That’s subjectivity, right there. There is no point on the finite, linear measure of sex-determining-hormonal balance, on one side of which all organisms are female, and on the other side of which all are male. That’s not how biology works.
I would expect someone with a PhD in Evolutionary Biology to not only be aware of such a fundamental feature of biology, but to have internalized it to such a degree as to avoid appealing to strict, pseudo-mathematical logic when talking about the process of doing science in their field.
But not Colin!
No, Colin (actually accurately) points out that these things aren’t objectively measurable. What he leaves out is that nothing in biology is objectively measurable. Biology is not mathematics. Everything is relative and there is no such thing as a strict category.
That doesn’t mean the transgender phenomenon will necessarily collapse. It’s possible that these identities will persist, not because they reflect a long-suppressed biological condition, but because activist, scientific and medical institutions have redefined transgender to encompass virtually any degree of nonconformity to traditional sex stereotypes. A masculine girl or feminine boy may now be labeled as “trans.”
That’s literally just the stupidest bullshit in this piece so far. Colin, who the fuck do you think you’re talking to? I can’t think of a single person stupid enough to believe that there’s no such thing as an effeminate man or masculine woman who isn’t trans anymore. Just last week, I watched a just-posted video of a flamboyantly gay man in a full face of makeup say some of the same stupid shit you’ve been on in this article. You think he’s secretly a trans woman, or just a tranphobic asshole? (Hint: he’s just an asshole, for fuck’s sake.)
Jesus Heartbreaking Christ with a nine-inch cock and a great rack, you need to get over whatever trauma you picked up being rejected by a trans woman when you were still in college. That was the most phenomenally stupid thing I’ve read in quite some time, and I regularly peruse 4chan and Wikipedia talk pages. I troll the comments in political subreddits. I argue with 19yo transphobes live on TikTok, motherfucker. I am a goddamn connoisseur of stupidity, and you still managed to impress me with that one.
Activists continue to argue in court that transgender identities are immutable.
Still waiting on that evidence for the efficacy of conversion therapy, bitch-tits.
In Talbott v. Trump (2025), plaintiffs challenging President Trump’s executive order barring people who adopt “a gender identity inconsistent with an individual’s sex” from serving in the military argued that “gender identity” is “innate,” “deep-seated” and “impervious to change through external influences.” They argued that transgender-identifying people constitute a discernible class with distinguishing characteristics and a biological basis. This language mirrors civil-rights arguments for immutable characteristics such as race or sex.
Oh my god, guys… You’re not going to believe this… But two court cases about similarly immutable characteristics had similar arguments!
Color me shocked! I’m scandalized! I’m… I’m bored of hyperbolic sarcasm. Colin, you’re a fucking idiot.
NEXT!
The purported evidence for innate, immutable transgender identity is deeply flawed, however, as is clear upon closer examination.
Finally! Let’s see what juicy logic and undeniable facts you’re going to bring to bear on this…
Studies of neuroanatomy, heritability and prenatal hormone exposure that claim a biological basis for gender identity are replete with small and selective samples, poor replication and uncontrolled confounding factors such as sexual orientation and cross-sex hormone treatment. Properly interpreted, they describe correlates of sex nonconformity and same-sex attraction, not proof of an innate transgender identity.
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So your big gotcha that somehow disproves the notion that internal gender is inherent is whining that there isn’t enough trans people in the world to make a big enough study, combined with whining about studies of trans people including (gasp) actual trans people and a flat-out lie about some supposed-yet-easily-disproven lack of proper controls? Colin, I’ve never encountered a single study on neuroanatomy that didn’t account for cross-sex hormone replacement therapy (Jesus, you can’t even use the proper term for it…), and I’d love to hear you explain to me how big an issue cross-sex hormone replacement therapy is IN FUCKING PRENATAL STUDIES OF HORMONAL EXPOSURE.
Who the actual fuck do you think is slipping titty skittles to a 3-month-old fetus, you absolute dumpster fire excuse for a semi-sentient troglodyte? There are literally no words to express exactly how stupid that is, because no human being has ever sunk to these depths of moronity before. It’s the Marianas Trench of window-licking dumbfuckery. You’re like the James Cameron of wearing a safety helmet, you absolute bastion of dipshittery. When your parents told you you’d go far as a child, I promise you they hoped you’d stay there. I’m half convinced that God’s knowledge that you would one day exist is the reason he gave us middle fingers in the first place. You’re living proof that evolution isn’t directed, because no intelligent designer would ever fuck up so bad as to create a ‘scientist’ as absolutely fucked in the head as you.
The notion that transgender identity is biologically hard-wired can’t explain why there has been a more than 20-fold surge in those identifying as transgender in the U.S. since 2010.
No, that would be explained by that left-handed analogy you took time to explain, buttercup.
The social-contagion hypothesis was never hateful.
It was purely descriptive: a recognition that social and cultural factors shape human behavior.
I would wonder aloud what social and cultural factors shaped your transphobic behavior, but I’m already convinced that it’s a 100% rejection rate on Taimi.
For years, even hinting that such factors influenced transgender identities could end a career. Now, as data accumulate, this is becoming harder for anyone to deny.
First off, no, it wouldn’t. Pushback against transphobia is a very recent thing. Shit, back in 2004, I had to sit and listen to some hundred and eighty pound moron spin a wild tale of being chased around his Thai hotel room by a ninety pound Kathoey intent on pinning him down and ravishing his precious little butthole, all to the uproarious laughter of everyone but me. Anti-transphobia is a fucking recent phenomena. For most of history, you could be as transphobic as you wanted, with no thought to any consequences.
Also, that last sentence is only even remotely true if by ‘data’ you mean ‘transphobic bigotry’ and by ‘accumulate’ you mean ‘get popular in right-wing media’.
The surge in transgender identification in recent years wasn’t the revelation of a hidden biological truth. It was a social phenomenon shaped by imitation, ideology and institutional reinforcement.
Keep telling yourself that, cupcake.
Mr. Wright is an evolutionary biologist and a fellow at the Manhattan Institute.
Doing evolutionary biology at a conservative economic policy think-tank? lol Really? I think this should read Colin Wright is a failed evolutionary biologist who currently gets paid to be a bitch online by right-wing provocateurs.
Matt Aadland is a sexy jackass with an internet connection and a 12yo son who is smarter than at least one PhD out there.