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Michael Bailey

@profjmb

1 year

It finally happened. Our article has been retracted.

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Michael Bailey

@profjmb

1 year

I have just been notified that my paper with Suzanna Diaz will be retracted by the publisher due to concerns about lack of informed consent. This paper:

RETRACTED ARTICLE: Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria: Parent Reports on 1655 Possible Cases

Archives of Sexual Behavior - During the past decade there has been a dramatic increase in adolescents and young adults (AYA) complaining of gender dysphoria. One influential if controversial...

link.springer.com

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Michael Bailey

@profjmb

1 year

It has come to my attention that the retracted version of our article on Rapid onset gender dysphoria (ROGD) is hard to read because of its defacing (Retracted Article on every page) by the publisher Springer Nature. Here’s a link to the original version:

Unretracted published version.pdf

Shared with Dropbox

www.dropbox.com

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Michael Bailey

@profjmb

2 years

Repeating an assertion is not an argument. Repeating an assertion is not an argument. Repeating an assertion is not an argument. Repeating an assertion is not an argument.

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Michael Bailey

@profjmb

1 year

Article will remain online but with retraction notice. It remains true. Let's Streisand this thing!

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Michael Bailey

@profjmb

23 days

@eyeslasho I am an expert and have been unable to find a link to the official data summaries. Do you have them?

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Michael Bailey

@profjmb

1 year

@Molly85224872 I am collaborating on a much larger (more participants, more extensive survey) long-term study that will include both parents. and gender dysphoric adolescents. Hope to launch this summer. The Diaz and Bailey study remains in the scientific literature. Cite it.

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Michael Bailey

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1 year

Parents contacted Suzanna Diaz after seeing her invitation to complete a survey. These parents were concerned their children have ROGD. They wanted the data out. Obviously.

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Michael Bailey

@profjmb

2 months

@DannyDeraney

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Michael Bailey

@profjmb

10 months

Our article “Detransition and Desistance Among Previously Trans-Identified Young Adults” is just published. Coauthors: @LisaLittman1 @stellaomalley3 @lacroicsz @profjmb Thread: 1/24

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Michael Bailey

@profjmb

2 years

Suzanna Diaz and I are happy that our new paper has been published: Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria: Parent Reports on 1655 Possible Cases open access

RETRACTED ARTICLE: Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria: Parent Reports on 1655 Possible Cases

Archives of Sexual Behavior - During the past decade there has been a dramatic increase in adolescents and young adults (AYA) complaining of gender dysphoria. One influential if controversial...

link.springer.com

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Michael Bailey

@profjmb

11 months

Our article that was retracted at Archives of Sexual Behavior (Rapid onset gender dysphoria: Parent reports on 1655 possible cases) has been “republished” at Journal of Open Inquiry in the Behavioral Sciences. Download here:

Rapid-Onset Gender Dysphoria: Parent Reports on 1,655 Possible Cases | Researchers.One | Research...

During the past decade there has been a dramatic increase in adolescents and young adults (AYAs) complaining of gender dysphoria. One influential if controversial explanation is that the increase...

researchers.one

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Michael Bailey

@profjmb

1 year

@Naozymandias It's okay. The controversy has publicized the article far more than it would have been. And the shame is Springer's, not ours.

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Michael Bailey

@profjmb

1 year

Woke-acdemic attempt to cancel our new article on Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria. Read it while you can!

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Michael Bailey

@profjmb

1 year

@sometherapist @DefinedUniquely You can download it yourself here: (It does have "Retracted Article" stamped on every page.) Does that work for you? If not, give me your email address.

RETRACTED ARTICLE: Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria: Parent Reports on 1655 Possible Cases

Archives of Sexual Behavior - During the past decade there has been a dramatic increase in adolescents and young adults (AYA) complaining of gender dysphoria. One influential if controversial...

link.springer.com

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Michael Bailey

@profjmb

1 year

@tuttleryandavid Read:

Anatomy of a Scientific Scandal

Under pressure, a journal once notable for its courage retracts a major paper on the social roots of gender-related distress—all over a minor, inconsistently applied technicality.

www.city-journal.org

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Michael Bailey

@profjmb

10 months

The incomparable and brilliant scholar of autogynephilia, Anne Lawrence, has just resurrected her website. No one should write (or even think) about autogynephilia without visiting and reading:

Home - Anne A. Lawrence, MD, PhD.

Explore Anne A. Lawrence's work on gender dysphoria, including her academic publications.

annelawrence.com

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Michael Bailey

@profjmb

1 year

@CJFerguson1111 Republishing in JOIBS, journal for SOIBS, where you are a member. In fact, the open access publishing agreement (which we have) allows multiple republication.

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Michael Bailey

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1 year

@Yi_Zen_Chu Many of those who do like what is going on in academia. That is worrisome.

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Michael Bailey

@profjmb

5 months

@benryanwriter The ability to change one's mind when confronted with evidence is the mark of an intellectual. Many high IQ persons fail the test.

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Michael Bailey

@profjmb

4 years

I’m very pleased to share our brand-new paper on male bisexuality, just published in PNAS: Thread

Robust evidence for bisexual orientation among men | PNAS

The question whether some men have a bisexual orientation—that is, whether they are substantially sexually aroused and attracted to both sexes—has ...

www.pnas.org

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Michael Bailey

@profjmb

9 months

@RayAlexWilliams How has this woman gotten a high-paying academic position and influence?

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Michael Bailey

@profjmb

10 months

We have just published an article on detransitioners and desisters. The article is here: A Twitter/X thread on the article is here:

Detransition and Desistance Among Previously Trans-Identified Young Adults

Archives of Sexual Behavior - Persons who have renounced a prior transgender identification, often after some degree of social and medical transition, are increasingly visible. We recruited 78 US...

link.springer.com

Michael Bailey

@profjmb

10 months

Our article “Detransition and Desistance Among Previously Trans-Identified Young Adults” is just published. Coauthors: @LisaLittman1 @stellaomalley3 @lacroicsz @profjmb Thread: 1/24

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Michael Bailey

@profjmb

1 year

AGP research army

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Michael Bailey

@profjmb

1 year

@hoovlet @AmericanAnthro @eweissunburied their values don't include the pursuit of knowledge and truth, unfortunately.

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Michael Bailey

@profjmb

1 year

Here is the official cancellation attempt:

International Academy of Sex Research

@TheIASR

1 year

1/Dear IASR members, In the interest of transparency, we want to communicate to the Membership about recent concerns regarding a publication in our official journal, the Archives of Sexual Behavior. On March 29th, the journal published an article authored by ...

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Michael Bailey

@profjmb

8 months

Jesse Singal ( @jessesingal ) has a contract to write a book about gender medicine (and trans stuff more broadly, presumably). This is an opportunity to persuade him of the harm that avoiding autogynephilia (AGP) discussion has done. It's mostly discussed by self-aware and decent

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Michael Bailey

@profjmb

1 year

@Rookerylaw Support further research on ROGD.

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Michael Bailey

@profjmb

1 year

@CJFerguson1111 @sfchronicle I detect some phobiaphobiaism here.

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Michael Bailey

@profjmb

10 months

Michael Bailey @profjmb Our article “Detransition and Desistance Among Previously Trans-Identified Young Adults” is just published. Coauthors: @LisaLittman1 @stellaomalley3 @lacroicsz @profjmb Link to study:

Detransition and Desistance Among Previously Trans-Identified Young Adults

Archives of Sexual Behavior - Persons who have renounced a prior transgender identification, often after some degree of social and medical transition, are increasingly visible. We recruited 78 US...

link.springer.com

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Michael Bailey

@profjmb

1 year

Activists Tried To Get This Researcher Banned - Michael Bailey | Modern ... via @YouTube I told you you’d be getting tired of me, but Chris Williamson is also an excellent interviewer and so I’m forwarding this, just released.

The Shocking Research On Sexuality They're Trying To Hide - Michael...

J. Michael Bailey is a Northwestern University professor of psychology, researcher, and an author known for his work on sexual orientation and human sexualit...

www.youtube.com

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Michael Bailey

@profjmb

10 months

There was considerable, but not universal agreement that they had had “rapid-onset gender dysphoria.” Encouragingly, gender dysphoria went WAY DOWN and life satisfaction went WAY UP after detransition. 4/24

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Michael Bailey

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1 year

Why is my gender research being cancelled?

Activists are taking over prestigious journals

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Michael Bailey

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5 years

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Michael Bailey

@profjmb

2 years

@DaltonReport @BrentAWilliams2 This is a bad take. He is a psychologist and researcher committed to preventing child sex abuse. @IanVMcPhail

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Michael Bailey

@profjmb

4 years

Let this be a warning to societies wanting to put identity politics before the pursuit of knowledge and reasoned discussion.

James Cantor

@JamesCantorPhD

4 years

Open letter of resignation: My 27-year association with Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality must come to an end. In the present culture war between science and popular appeal, the SSSS Board of Directors selected the latter.

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Michael Bailey

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2 years

After social transition, youths became much worse off in terms of both their psychological functioning and their relationships with parents.

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Michael Bailey

@profjmb

3 years

I love a good novel. Increasingly though, I have noticed–just like everywhere else–novel reviews are weighted by "correct" politics. Probably unintentionally, but regardless: novels that can only be enjoyed if you have a particular political orientation don't interest me.

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Michael Bailey

@profjmb

1 year

I am pleased to announce the publication of our article “Elaborating and Testing Erotic Target Identity Inversion Theory in Three Paraphilic Samples.” (1)

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Michael Bailey

@profjmb

4 years

I was threatened by faculty with teaching removal in my department for teaching that SES is an effect as well as a cause.

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Michael Bailey

@profjmb

5 years

@4th_WaveNow @BlanchardPhD This is an incredible action on Twitter's part. Blanchard's tweet was that of a scientist, not a troll.

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Michael Bailey

@profjmb

1 year

#Puzzles2023 Next up: James Morandini, who is a leading therapist and researcher on gender dysphoria and autogynephilia. James will talk about "Bisexual Phenomena Among Autogynephilic Men"

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Michael Bailey

@profjmb

2 months

@wesyang cured meat better than sick meat

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Michael Bailey

@profjmb

5 years

Andrea James is a piece of work, to be sure, and what she tried to do to me was terrible. But her biggest victims are honest transgender persons with autogynephilia (AG). Suppression of discussion of AGP has been extraordinarily harmful to those who need knowledge.

Oozlum Sam

@OozlumSam

5 years

@HJoyceGender The person running this, andrea james, was involved in an insane harassment campaign against @profjmb . I can't remember all the details but she explicitly aimed stuff at his kids.

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Michael Bailey

@profjmb

1 year

My Research on Gender Dysphoria Was Censored. But I Won’t Be.

Trans activists forced the retraction of my paper. Their efforts have redoubled my commitment to the truth.

www.thefp.com

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Michael Bailey

@profjmb

1 year

#Puzzles2023

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Michael Bailey

@profjmb

10 months

It is one of the few empirical studies of persons who identified as transgender and then changed their minds. Often this occur afters serious steps towards social and medical transition. Thread: 2/24

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Michael Bailey

@profjmb

1 year

@StillTr05207382 Publishers not Editor, who I’m pretty sure opposed retraction

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Michael Bailey

@profjmb

10 months

More details below, but important findings included: our sample was seriously transgender before changing their minds. They changed their minds for “internal” reasons (they decided they’d been incorrect) rather than “external” pressure. Thread: 3/24

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Michael Bailey

@profjmb

10 months

So sorry I forgot the link!

Detransition and Desistance Among Previously Trans-Identified Young Adults

Archives of Sexual Behavior - Persons who have renounced a prior transgender identification, often after some degree of social and medical transition, are increasingly visible. We recruited 78 US...

link.springer.com

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Michael Bailey

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Michael Bailey

@profjmb

10 months

Participants had a high rate of lifetime mental health problems. 95% had at least one diagnosis, and they averaged 2.5 diagnoses besides gender dysphoria. 79% had engaged in self-harm (for example, cutting) 8/24

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Michael Bailey

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3 years

@elizamondegreen Autogynephilia

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Michael Bailey

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5 years

@Quillette recently published an essay by Deirdre McCloskey @DeirdreMcClosk that many people seem to admire. @BlanchardPhD @AliceDreger

Reflections on My Decision to Change Gender

It’s the same for a born female going the other way, to male—which by the way seems on recent evidence to be about as frequently desired as male to female.

quillette.com

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Michael Bailey

@profjmb

10 months

@CPD1617Scanner All female officers trying to arrest him?

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Michael Bailey

@profjmb

2 years

The Rushdie tragedy is one where university administrators could plausibly make an announcement, defending free speech, that didn’t overstep. Don’t hold your breath.

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Michael Bailey

@profjmb

1 year

@CJFerguson1111 @EmilyYahr She couldn’t top the country charts maybe. Because her version isn’t country.

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Michael Bailey

@profjmb

11 months

Phil Illy is smart/wise/controversial. Importantly, he is autogynephilic and not in denial. AGP is a neglected part of this important conversation. Neglected on the Left by denying its existence/importance. Neglected on the Right by demonizing and attributing to porn.

phil illy

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CAN KIDS CONSENT TO TRANSSEXUALISM? Can kids meaningfully consent to going down the transsexual path? 🧵

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Michael Bailey

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10 months

Participants were 71 natal females and 7 natal males, with an average age of 25 years. On average, they first identified as transgender at age 17. Transgender identification lasted for more than 5 years. They were seriously transgender before changing their minds. 5/24

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Michael Bailey

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1 year

@JohnDSailer The elevation of DEI initiatives over scholarship, which even Inbar does not explicitly condemn, inevitably leads to stuff like this.

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Michael Bailey

@profjmb

3 years

Stop tormenting Old Dominion professor Allyn Walker for saying that attraction to children isn't immoral. It's not, because we can't help what/whom we're attracted to. Walker did not say that acting on that preference is okay. That's what matters.

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Michael Bailey

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2 years

Google “Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria,” and you will find Dr. Littman’s important study and news articles about it. But most links are to criticisms of ROGD, often asserting that it has been debunked. Our study shows that for many families, ROGD is a troubling reality.

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Michael Bailey

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5 months

I'm going to be writing some essays on autogynephilia, and one of them will address what I consider to be pseudoscientific essays about autogynephilia. I would appreciate if you would point me to authors and essays. @kevinjhsu @autogynephil @RayAlexWilliams @elegationvain

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Michael Bailey

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1 year

To my AGP followers: I will be giving a talk Thursday that Deirdre McCloskey will be attending. McCloskey was one the main attackers of my book (and me) in 2003. She appears to believe that she was a force for good back then and is an exemplar of good academic values now:

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@wil_da_beast630 Baby formula is stolen by thieves for resale, not by desperate parents.

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4 years

@primalpoly @APA APA has been an appalling organization for decades.

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@elegationvain What a patriarchal thing to say.

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2 years

ROGD occurs among youth without a childhood history of gender issues and appears to be socially contagious. ROGD appears to be especially common among natal (biological) females.

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Michael Bailey

@profjmb

5 years

Happy Autogynephilia (AGP) Awareness Day! @AGPAwarenessDay I fully support the goal of raising awareness. I want to raise several issues that if addressed would make the world better for persons with AGP and those in their lives:

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Michael Bailey

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2 months

Our article “Psychometric Evidence that Paraphilia is a Natural Kind” has just been published in Archives of Sexual Behavior. You can use this link to read the article: (If you need a link to a downloadable version, email me: profjmb @gmail .com)

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Michael Bailey

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2 months

@UsingLyft among the most privileged humans to ever walk the earth

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Michael Bailey

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1 year

I will be writing all about this soon. In the meantime, let's hope that @springerpub does not bend under the Woke pressure and do anything drastic, like retracting the paper or punishing the editor, Ken Zucker, who tries to publish both sides of controversial issues.

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Michael Bailey

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2 years

@kittypurrzog Lots of people dislike the old Twitter workforce, to which they attribute partisan censorship, etc.

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5 years

@Quillette @DeirdreMcClosk @BlanchardPhD @AliceDreger The urge to crossdress must have been powerful. In her autobiography she reveals that she broke into neighbors’ houses to wear teenage girls’ skirts. Powerful enough to motivate burglary. Not powerful enough to motivate transition, evidently:

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It is one of the few empirical studies examining the controversial phenomenon, Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria (ROGD). ROGD is an unofficial diagnosis first proposed by Lisa Littman in 2018 to explain the recent epidemic of gender dysphoria among adolescents and young adults.

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Michael Bailey

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2 years

Studies focusing on pro-transition families are also biased, because they are unlikely to recruit the kinds of families our study included. Studies of pro-transition families have not received the degree of criticism that Dr. Littman’s did, or that ours likely will.

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1 year

They say they are incensed by ethical and scientific issues. If you believe that, I have some DEI stock in Florida to sell you.

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They had a high rate of mental health issues–42% had a formal psychiatric diagnosis. Parents reported that mental health issues preceded the onset of gender dysphoria by nearly 4 years, on average.

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Michael Bailey

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1 year

Just saw this. Alex Byrne's forthcoming book, which I have been fortunate enough to read. Incisive like an academic book, but interesting and often entertaining (like when he critiques so many who deserve it):

Trouble With Gender: Sex Facts, Gender Fictions

Trouble With Gender: Sex Facts, Gender Fictions, Sex used to rule

www.politybooks.com

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Michael Bailey

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@LeorSapir When has a child or adolescent ever been wrong?

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@Quillette @DeirdreMcClosk @BlanchardPhD @AliceDreger After my book was published, I received many emails like the one below. Apparently, no one has told these people that autogynephilia has been “proven wrong.”

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Michael Bailey

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6 months

@buttonslives Thanks for this thoughtful and brave post. As in all areas of science, speaking/writing clearly and making valid distinctions is important. Unlike most areas of science, trying to be clear in area, rather than prioritizing outrage and disgust at all times, will get one yelled at.

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@DerekPederson3 @letsgomathias @RichardHanania @UTAustin @HarperCollins I read him. He's smart and not a bad person. Not gonna bother reading a Huffpost hit piece.

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The attackers are members of the increasingly woke International Academy of Sexual Behavior, which does not own but is associated with the Archives of Sexual Behavior, where the article was published.

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1 year

The critics could write letters to the editor (or do their own research). But no, that would allow rapid onset gender dysphoria (ROGD) to be discussed in polite company.

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Participants recalled considerable gender dysphoria during their transgender phase–on average 4.5 indicators from DSM-5 criteria, more than twice the number required for a diagnosis of gender dysphoria. 6/24

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@Quillette @DeirdreMcClosk @BlanchardPhD @AliceDreger These writers are grateful to know about autogynephilia. In her crusade against me and my book, McCloskey has increased the stigma against autogynephilia, frightening and shaming many who might otherwise engage in open discussion about it.

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83% had taken several steps towards social transition, and 68% had taken at least one medical transition step. (63% had taken cross-sex hormones and 28% surgery) 7/24

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@BlanchardPhD Gender ideology affects the choices of gender dysphoric natal males. I think that it creates gender dysphoria in natal females.

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5 years

@Quillette @DeirdreMcClosk @BlanchardPhD @AliceDreger I do not entirely lack sympathy for McCloskey. Her plight has not been easy. But nor was her family’s. Today we are too quick to dismiss their pain and celebrate the pursuit of gender authenticity.

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@Quillette @DeirdreMcClosk @BlanchardPhD @AliceDreger According to McCloskey, all of the 5,000 times crossdressing before her 1995 transition were sexual. But transition had nothing to do with sex?

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@Quillette @DeirdreMcClosk @BlanchardPhD @AliceDreger When I told a reporter in 2003 that McCloskey seemed autogynephilic, she threatened to sue me if I called her autogynephilic again. So I won’t. She is rich; I’m not. Is this legal threat admirable and a strong argument against autogynephilia?

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@tolstoi_boi @BlanchardPhD He is!

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@TheIASR

How to Ruin Sex Research

Archives of Sexual Behavior -

link.springer.com

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The respective numbers for medical transition were 11% versus 5%. Among the families who received a gender specialist referral, 51% of parents said they felt pressured by the specialist/clinic to allow their child to transition genders.

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The article is being widely discussed. Look at its metrics:

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5 years

Spread the word: Study of desisted and detransitioned persons with (or formerly with) gender dysphoria. Important effort!

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These concerns included inadequate caution at recommending transition for gender dysphoric children, an increasing number of whom are teenage girls without a history of gender dysphoria suddenly declaring transgender identity. Our study is entirely consistent with that essay.

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@RichardHanania To the activists it is a "gotcha," because most people won't know why it was retracted and will assume fraud. Also the publisher can disappear the article later if they choose to. And scholars may be discouraged by editors from citing the article.

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