Washington Post Shamefully Endorses RFK Jr's Pseudoscience Report On Trans People

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On Sunday, the Washington Post editorial board published an op-ed that appeared to fully embrace the anti-trans pseudoscience promoted in the recent report from RFK Jr.’s Department of Health and Human Services. This is the same department that has overseen some of the most disastrous public health responses in recent memory, stacked key positions with conspiracy theorists, and pushed disinformation on everything from autism to vaccines. Ironically, the Post has criticized these failures in other reporting—but when it comes to transgender health care, the editorial board seems unwilling to apply the same scrutiny, leaving readers uninformed about the report’s dangerous, evidence-defying recommendations.

“Rather than say doctors have been performing interventions for which the evidence of effectiveness is inadequate, |Trump| said they are “maiming and sterilizing a growing number of impressionable children” based on “Junk Science.” … This hyperbole is not helpful to anyone, especially not young people and their families. What’s needed instead is better evidence and reasoned discussion about the trade-offs involved in intervening with the biological process of puberty in children who experience gender dysphoria… The good news is that the executive order provided some of what is too often missing in the debate over transgender medical care for children,” reported the Washington Post Editorial Board in an article titled, “Good questions about transgender care.”

I think RFK Jr is a dangerous animal whose being put down for the good of humanity would be a just and rational thing because he represents a faith-based approach to real-world policy while coating it in a thin veneer of contrarianism to pretend to be anything but demanding of anti-meritocratic conformity, not unlike the rest of the administration or conservatism in general

don't make me tap the sign

How do you shamefully endorse something?

Jarvis write me a critique of RFK JR. in the style of a reddit pseud

Grok, belt out a feigned detractor reply accusing the poster of being an LLM

Comparing genderbending guidelines to the science of vaccination is objectively so funny. I wish I could show this to Jonas Salk

rfk/anti-vaxxers are going to turn america in to terf island 2.0, just you watch
also wapo is a billionaire rag

feigned detractor

you don’t have to talk like this. school is out. No need to pad your writing anymore.

I wish I could send a terminator back in time to kill Jonas Salk because more cis people deserve to suffer

Was about to post this myself

What’s needed instead is better evidence and reasoned discussion about the trade-offs involved in intervening with the biological process of puberty in children who experience gender dysphoria… The good news is that the executive order provided some of what is too often missing in the debate over transgender medical care for children,” reported the Washington Post Editorial Board in an article titled, “Good questions about transgender care.”

That's all true tho.

The lack of quality research on transgender healthcare, at any age, is frankly appalling. That's why I'm actually pretty hopeful in the wake of the Cass report that things are looking up for us because it's the kick in the pants researchers need to actually do the work properly instead of just the HRT spray and pray.

I have yet to find a single academic anything that attempts to develop a physiological basis for the difference between binary trans and non-binarism.

the most important thing is invalidating the autistics, for me at least. Nothing will change until we can get the neo-furries/bronies to stop using the transgender label

politics is pointless
what's needed is more research
with more research we get more evidence
with more evidence we get better training for doctors
with better training for doctors we get better outcomes with less risks
and that's what everyone wants

all of that exists you mentally ill fat nazi bitch. they just keep saying it doesnt and retards like you lap it up because you miss getting to be a male so god damn much. god i hope you die of diabetus you dumb hoe.

I find that the building alliance between technological corporate power as exemplified by Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos, and TERF/cissexual ideology reveals a very a interesting contradiction. On one hand the largest proponents of transhumanism, like musk with neurolink, are the most resistant to those who most practically exemplify transhumanist technologies, transsexuals through the use of hormonal and survival manipulation. This is an obvious contradiction.

One potential reason for this could be analogous to AI control problems. They want technological development, but only on their terms and within their control. AI and transsexual bodies both become unclaimed, lawless, unincorporated territory. Nothing is more frightening to the techno feudalist than examples of autonomic intent. Very interesting dynamic

One issue though, is that researches often go into things with a bias, either their own personal bias, or that of their funders. It's not an exception, or even rare, it's most often the case, because if you don't keep your funders satisfied, you don't have funding. So while yes, research of all kinds is needed, the ideal I'm sure you have (that HRT will get further scientific support, that gender dysmphoria is better understood, and that we might hit on new medications, procedures, and other such things to improve transition) might not come about if researchers end up primarily politically motivated to disprove transitioning and/or transsexuality, rather than being motivated to discredit the Cass report further.

It doesn't tho.

Even the supposed risks of estrogen is just second hand science from studies on menopausal ciswomen. Does it actually cause bloodclots in genetic males? If so what dose do the risks become non-negligible? We don't know, nobody has done that work.

Even positing the question of encouraging natural breast growth in MtF transsexuals to avoid breast augmentation surgery gets an absolute void of disinterested silence where volumes should have already been written.

Which is why repetition is so important.
This was the core of the repeatability crisis a few years ago in which it was discovered that even in A-ranked journals something like 80% of published findings were never repeated and yet had been adopted into "evidenced based medicine" without complaint.

MORE research. Just keep publishing studies until eventually we can go back through in a few years and do a proper meta-study and find the best practice. Many hands make light work.

You're not going to fix the issue of politicization with repetition, because if all the funders are on board, they're going to mass-produce junk science.

Elon Musk beat out Kathleen Kenedy for the biggest wokie of all time. And nobody sees it because everyone's so used to wokism being a left-wing thing that they don't recognize it going the other way.

His key businesses are:
Paypal
Ebay
Tesla
SpaceX
Xitter

All of which have a consumer base which either skews blue or is blue dominant. And yet this idiot jumps into bed with Trump and the TERFs to what? Sell Teslas to farmers? That's not going to work.

His trans daughter could have made him a billion dollars with a Tesla ad, but instead he set fire to his entire net worth because derp. He got woke, now he's going broke. Coz that's what that actually means.

He's already a billionaire, he doesn't need more money. The point of money is to remake society as he wants.

You're not going to fix the issue of politicization with repetition

Yes you are.

they're going to mass-produce junk science.

Which is why we should always treat the scientific method as sacrosanct but you lefties keep fucking that up.

Get YOUR politics out of it you dumb fucking slut.

I'm pretty sure she hated him before she transitioned, for basically being an absent dad.

He's already a billionaire

Not for long he isn't.
A fool and his money are soon parted.
His net worth relies entirely on the good will of his customers. That money didn't fall out of the sky, he offered a product and people bought that product.

His customers are all liberal af. And yet he's jumped into bed with the trumptards who are not buying what he's selling.

This is EXACTLY what Kathleen Keneddy did with star wars. She had two billion dollars a year worth of incels who were frothing at the mouth to hand over their money, and instead she takes a giant shit on everything they love to pander to a select group of feminists who were never going to give a shit about star wars. And now the star wars brand, once worth $4.1bn, is worth nothing now. Kathleen Kennedy's contribution to feminism was to prove that putting women in charge of shit is a bad idea. She got woke, she went broke.

Because that's how that actually works.

Hardly an unmanageable problem.

I have yet to find a single academic anything that attempts to develop a physiological basis for the difference between binary trans and non-binarism

yeah because it's a waste of time. we've spent decades trying to find a physiological basis for mental disorders as well as being gay/trans and never found shit. our level of understanding of the brain amounts to 1. doing a bunch of scans and looking at which parts light up the most and 2. deciding which people are crazy enough to get a chemical lobotomy. obsessing over trying to find the magic gene or whatever instead of focusing on harm reduction is about as intelligent as a monkey starving itself trying to crack open a brick for the nut inside.

e've spent decades trying to find a physiological basis for mental disorders as well as being gay/trans and never found shit.

The neurological basis for transgenderism is the most proven thing in science at this point.
It's become a meme for how many studies there have been to prove that trannybrain is actually a thing. Everyone with an MRI machine has, at some point, put a tranny in it to look at trannybrain.

oh look the parts that light up are more similar to the parts that light up for this one group than the other one

oh my science

Yeah so that's finding shit. You were wrong.
The neurological basis for transgenderism is WELL established.

greentext is a long well well-poisoning pill

complaining about trump form of speech

the basic political base of the alt-right is that political correctness is weaponized languange, a form of control. If forced not to use it, their opposition would appear as unhinged psychopaths expressing the same concepts

arguments based on troonscience are weak. aside from the fact that it is bullshit, even in a timeline where they were right on everything, the arguments would still be reject on political level based on the most entry level argument of conservativism.

Yeah bro he's going to go from over $400 billion net worth to a measly $0.9 billion in less than 10 years

I think RFK’s support is the result of people seeing society and the people that make up that go retardedly insane in 1000 different ways in the last 2 decades and nobody is giving us a direct answer as to why. Fact is we all know what is happening but can’t admit our addiction is the problem