It is frustrating, but it's to be expected. Gender ideology is a religion in the sense that it's based on beliefs that are untethered from the real world. Once we take science and objective reality out of the picture, it becomes not only easy, but mandatory, to ignore evidence to the contrary. The fact that Littman, an experienced gyneco…
It is frustrating, but it's to be expected. Gender ideology is a religion in the sense that it's based on beliefs that are untethered from the real world. Once we take science and objective reality out of the picture, it becomes not only easy, but mandatory, to ignore evidence to the contrary. The fact that Littman, an experienced gynecologist and public health researcher, did her initial study at all, marked her as a heretic. How dare she question the pseudo-scientific orthodoxy of gender ideology?
Science denial is a hallmark of gender ideology, and it has corrupted the field of human biology. But that doesn't mean that Littman's research is worthless. Littman is a brave and pioneering woman, whose initial study enabled medical researchers as a group to have their first honest conversation about the epidemic of transitioning they were seeing but did not understand. And she's not done! She introduced the term ROGD into the lexicon, and its relevance is reasserted every day by parents who now have a word for what is happening to their kids, and young people recognize themselves as ROGD and either desist or detransition on their own.
It is frustrating, but it's to be expected. Gender ideology is a religion in the sense that it's based on beliefs that are untethered from the real world. Once we take science and objective reality out of the picture, it becomes not only easy, but mandatory, to ignore evidence to the contrary. The fact that Littman, an experienced gynecologist and public health researcher, did her initial study at all, marked her as a heretic. How dare she question the pseudo-scientific orthodoxy of gender ideology?
Science denial is a hallmark of gender ideology, and it has corrupted the field of human biology. But that doesn't mean that Littman's research is worthless. Littman is a brave and pioneering woman, whose initial study enabled medical researchers as a group to have their first honest conversation about the epidemic of transitioning they were seeing but did not understand. And she's not done! She introduced the term ROGD into the lexicon, and its relevance is reasserted every day by parents who now have a word for what is happening to their kids, and young people recognize themselves as ROGD and either desist or detransition on their own.