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[–]theory_of_thisan actual straight crossdresser 3 insightful - 6 fun3 insightful - 5 fun4 insightful - 6 fun -  (1 child)

What about the experiments in other animals?

But no one is doing this research. In fact, no one is even suggesting it. Coz that would take real work and might yield results that don't fit with the speculative ideas of the gender theorists & others from the "soft sciences" & humanities where these sorts of hypotheses tend to come from & where they gain so much credence.

I'm sorry you're claiming that this is suppressed science because of a political agenda?

I'm not quite following your understanding here.

I'll get accused of doing a Cathy Newman again.

You're saying the relevant scientific community has been avoiding doing a simple test on hormones in newborns because they know it will show that hormones don't have an effect, or do? This is because they are homophobic or pro trans. I'm not clear on your take here?

What is is that they are trying to avoid showing?

How long has the suppression been going on?

How simple is the test?

[–]MarkTwainiac 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Wow, if jumping to conclusions were an Olympic event, you'd be a gold medalist!

I never said any research was being suppressed. I said it wasn't being done. Not necessarily coz of suppression or a plot or a political agenda, but coz of blind spots, lack of interest, and the way academia and research is Balkanized. The people involved in neonatal medicine and science who would be "the relevant scientific community" here are mostly not gender ideologues, sexologists, sociologists or theorists out of the humanities like Butler & Foucault. The intriguing questions they are interested in researching are different to the ones that you & the "scholars" you cite are. Moreover, in the biological sciences since the 1990s there has been a move away from the focus on hormones in basic science research having to do with sex differences and instead the focus is now on sex chromosomes, genes and cells.

However, if the QT crowd were interested, I imagine they could easily find some researchers in the life sciences to collaborate with - and they'd have no problem getting such research funded. But there's never any of that. All the QT people seem to like to keep things purely theoretical and speculative. Which is also why no research has been done or is being done on all the kids now dubbed "trans" to see if there's anything different about them physically that sets them apart from other kids, such as hormones, genetics, brains, digit ratios, propensity for left-handedness, etc.

How simple is the test?

By "the test" do you mean blood tests for hormone levels? If so, I dunno what happens in the lab, but I do know hormone testing has been done for a very long time & is quite standard & probably pretty cheap & easy. I also know that neonates & babies have their blood drawn for testing all the time. In fact, in the US, drawing blood from newborns to test them for various genetic conditions long has been mandatory in every state, territory & the District of Columbia. In many other countries this is the case too.