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[–]sisterinsomnia 10 insightful - 1 fun10 insightful - 0 fun11 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

The bigger problem with this research is that researchers will not touch it today because only one set of results will leave your family unharassed. Because they know this beforehand, and because the point of the research is not to begin with a predetermined set of findings, there is little incentive to do it. So we are not doing enough research, because it is politically too explosive.

The people who will be hurt by this are transgender people, and the people who are causing this hurt are those activists who pretend to speak for them. After all, learning more about the best treatment benefits those who suffer.

[–]sisterinsomnia 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Forgot to add that the reason why looking at all the existing studies is not terribly informative when the total number of studies is so small and most quite old.