(August 29, 2018 at 3:31 pm)CapnAwesome Wrote: The most hardcore trans advocates definitely are ready to ignore science to fit their world view. The evidence for that is pretty clear.
The reality is that trans women are not the same as women, biologically, in brain chemistry. Its also clear that there ARE parts of the brain that are different that cisgendered men as well. If scientists of the future examined the skeletons and dna of a trans woman, are they going to conclude they were a woman or a man?
Trying to block scientific studies shows on trans people just shows weakness in ones belief. If you really believed trans people are mentally healthy people who's other mental health problems are because of discrimination and not because gender dysmorphia is real, then you should be in favor of studies like this, because the more it's studied, the more the truth comes out.
The ONLY reason to shut down any scientific study, is to avoid the truth. Even if the study had flawed methodology, (no evidence presented that it does) you still need to be in favor of it, because that means you can set up a similar one with he correct methodology and see what the other results are.
Scientific consensus doesn't happen from a single study, but from many of them teaching the same results. So if the methodology is flawed, that will come out with the next study and eventually you get to an objective truth.
Some trans advocates have just made up their mind already with no science and are offended at even looking into whether or not their ideas are true. That is no what we should be doing.
I literally can't believe you just argued that one should be in favor of flawed studies.