ColonizationAcademic article claims that "gender identity is [an] innate and immutable characteristic" with no evidence supporting that claim.

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[–]reluctant_commenter[S] 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Good question! At the top of the page, it says "Additional article information" in blue text. If you click on that, it'll send you to the bottom of the article where you can see the DOI.

If you click on the DOI, it will send you to this link, where the article is clearly archived as a "Letter to the Editor", as noted near the top of the page.

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10508-011-9805-6

If you would like to read more about Letters to the Editor in academic journals, this is a paper about it. The "Letter to the Editor" is not itself peer-reviewed-- it is a type of peer-review (which sometimes have statements that are just the opinion of the reviewer-- I have seen this before).

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4881237/#:~:text=%E2%80%9CLetter%20to%20the%20Editor%E2%80%9D%20or%20%E2%80%9CCorrespondence%E2%80%9D%20is%20considered,%E2%80%9Cpost%20publication%20peer%20review%E2%80%9D.&text=They%20are%20generally%20listed%20in,the%20journal%20editors%20and%20readers.

It is worth clarifying-- this article is not an example of academia failing in its process, but IMO it is an example of how willing academics are to believe transgender ideology (edit: see additional context at the top of the post) pervasive transgender ideology is within academia without the facts to back it up.

I think I'll actually edit my post, so that people can see this easier. Thank you for asking! It's important to be clear about this stuff.

edit: Also here's the DOI, for reference. A DOI is an identifier for a publication-- if you want to find a specific article, you can often do it just by having the authors' names and year of publication, but the DOI is often faster.

doi: 10.1007/s10508-011-9805-6

[–]Gearbeta 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I'm just going to add on to this, while I'm not a scientist, I did go to grad school for a hard science so reading scientific papers is something we did a lot. And even in hard sciences it wasn't uncommon to see poor research papers being done. In the case of TRAs theres many scientific papers that are supposed to be peer reviewed but have obvious glaring flaws. For example, there's a paper that's I believe peer reviewed about biological women having AGP. The author ignored the fact that by definition, this is not possible (because to have AGP you cannot be female) and the author also didn't ask questions that were AGP equivalents. Just recently, a paper got through peer review about how transitioning helps the mental health of trans people and several letters to the editor proved that even the most surface level analysis of the paper's own data did not come anywhere close to supporting their conclusion. That study that TRAs will often quote about how transwomen after a year on hormones are equivalent to biological women in terms of athetlic ability's data came from transwomen who self reported their own strength. So can't really be trusted. Gender studies has a real problem with poor and biased research coming out of that field and the fact that many of these people will protest against research doesn't help either.

[–]Q-Continuum-kin 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Why can't a woman have agp? I knew a guy that was pretty aroused by his own male body, idk why that also couldn't be true for a woman.

[–]Gearbeta 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Women can't have AGP because the definition of AGP excludes them. That's not to say that a woman couldn't be aroused by her own body, just that whatever she had that made that possible wouldn't be AGP. Its sort of like you know how TRAs like to say that gay people have a "genital fetish"? Well that inherently is not possible since the definition of the word "fetish" excludes genitals.

As for the research paper I was talking about here's an interview where Ray Blanchard talks about it https://quillette.com/2019/11/06/what-is-autogynephilia-an-interview-with-dr-ray-blanchard/ And here is a criticism of the paper that claimed that women could experience AGP https://sci-hub.tw/https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00918360903445749

TLDR of the criticism the author of the study was comparing things like women getting aroused by wearing sexy clothing like lingerie to AGP transwomen getting aroused by putting on a women's T-shirt. Or comparing women getting aroused by preparing for an upcoming sexual encounter with AGP transwomen getting arousing from putting on make up to walk out of the house.