Posted on 05/11/2023 5:00:49 PM PDT by DallasBiff
Research into the determinants of gender identity may do more harm than good
In 1975 psychiatrist Robert Stoller of the University of California, Los Angeles, wrote something bizarre in his textbook on sex and gender. He asserted that people who were assumed to be boys when they were born but whose gender identity or expression did not match that assumption “often have pretty faces, with fine hair, lovely complexions, graceful movements, and—especially—big, piercing, liquid eyes.” Based on this observation, he suggested a theoretical model in which transgender girls become transgender because they are especially cute. Society treats them more like girls, he reasoned, and because of this experience, they start to identify as female.
As a physician-scientist, I’m generally of the opinion that knowledge leads to progress. But studies focused on this particular question—those asking what determines someone’s gender identity—have led us down some strange and dangerous paths. Researchers in this area appear to be in search of some objective truth, but the science is rooted in a subjective assumption: that we need to know what makes someone transgender so that they can be “fixed.” As a result, scientists have relentlessly pursued such questions, launching studies that promoted ideas that could hurt transgender children and their families
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I wonder if he is still around, and if he has a theory on why cute young girls want to be boys?
It doesn’t matter if you are a psychiatrist, “physician-scientist,” etc. Boys are boys and girls are girls.
In the same way that many guys have to learn not to touch girls inappropriately, a few guys need to learn to leave boys with “big, piercing, liquid eyes” alone. Let’s stop using make-pretend science to justify perversion.
Sadly, it now belongs on supermarket checkout displays.
It matters not what you look like or how you feel about yourself or your sexuality, if you are XY, you’ll have the plumbing to match and you’re a guy. End of story.
“In 1975 psychiatrist Robert Stoller......asserted that people who were assumed to be boys when they were born but whose gender identity or expression did not match that assumption “often have pretty faces, with fine hair, lovely complexions, graceful movements, and—especially—big, piercing, liquid eyes.”
Psychiatrist Robert Stoller is telling us he is a homosexual pedophile without telling us he is a homosexual pedophile.
It started in Weimar Germany.
This scientist recalls a time when the Scientific American was both scientific and American.
Sadly, it now belongs on supermarket checkout displays.
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Well said. Used to enjoy reading Scientific American (especially discovery of the charmed quark) but the mag slowly deteriorated along with Nature and National Geographic.
Nature’s cover article of Peter Gleick’s flawed PCA of Antarctic warming was it for me. He smeared warming from the Peninsula onto the Continent, later debunked as spurious.
Recently, warming in the Antarctic Peninsula has been linked to 91 underwater volcanos (underneath the Antarctic Ice Sheet).
This is a total crock. I’m truly amazed that Scientific American published this entirely speculative, subjective piece of garbage.
Richard Stoller sounds like a pederast. For Turban to have taken his paper this seriously means 1) he has been bought off by demons that are propagating this evil, or 2) he is a pederast, who didn’t want a fellow pedo revealing their sickness.
BINGO!
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