• harmsy@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    My opinion on trans athletes is that I lack the qualifications to have an opinion. What happens to the human body during transition should be pretty well-documented by now, though. I’m sure if there’s any real problem, the doctors who work in gender-affirming care would be pretty vocal about it.

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        5 months ago

        Fucking lol

        The doctors who research this stuff for a living are biased

        Science is biased

        Reality is biased

        You’re a regressive who hates that reality disagrees with you and would prefer to live in a fantasy world of your own making

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          5 months ago

          Uh, calm down mate. Maybe you think you’re replying to somebody else? A doctor making their living from providing transgender healthcare is absolutely a biased party, as is any researcher choosing to focus on this topic. That’s reflexivity, it’s quite important to acknowledge.

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            5 months ago

            Buddy that’s like saying you won’t listen to physicists about gravity because they’re biased

            Researching and reporting on scientific realities isn’t bias

            It’s stating the truth

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              5 months ago

              You would definitely need to acknowledge a physicist’s bias towards the theory they have chosen to research. That’s absolutely a thing! I’m not saying anything controversial here. I don’t even like sociology very much, reflexivity is boring and over-emphasised but it’s a legitimate issue, and it’s a big issue in transgender medicine. Which people are very keen to point out when the research doesn’t agree with their own position.