Dr. Ray Blanchard suspended from Twitter for stating his research views

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[–][deleted] 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

This is why I stopped using Twitter. I wonder if they would have have touched his account if he provided link to the whole research and therefore proving his "belief" with legit facts. I bet it wouldn't have happened if the President said that though; what the President has to say "has to be heard" according to Twitter. Twitter is no longer an unbiased platform, it has become a tool for propaganda. Does anyone know a good alternative to Twitter?

[–]UmamiTofu[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Twitter has restored him: https://twitter.com/BlanchardPhD/status/1127744928694587392

[–]magnora7 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Probably only after huge backlash. Too little too late, they just swing that banhammer around however they want. No one company needs that much control over the national conversation

[–]magnora7 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yeah twitter is too big for its own good. I don't use it anymore. One random company should not have so much sway over who is "allowed" in the public conversation, and who isn't.

[–]r721 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

News story: https://pjmedia.com/trending/expert-psychologist-blocked-on-twitter-for-expressing-clinical-opinion-on-transgenderism/

[–]PaigeAP 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (6 children)

While I'm against censorship on social media I don't give a shit about him.

I'm a transgender MTF and I almost killed myself because of his stupid ideology calling being transgender "autogenephilia".

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    [–]PaigeAP 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (4 children)

    I wanted to kill myself not because "wah there's someone who doesn't like me wah"(I couldn't care less what people think about me) but rather because according to his retarded theory I'm some kind of mentally ill freak that has a fetish for wanting to be female and that was the first thing about transgender people I read cause I didn't know anything before that.

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

      Yeah I agree. But on top of that, its special treatment. Either nobody is open to criticism or everybody is. Dont blog about evil white men then virtue signal about transphobia.

      [–]UmamiTofu[S] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

      What's so bad about autogynephilia? You're disparaging autogynephiles than most people do transgender people.

      [–]wizzwizz4 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

      I think the problem here might be similar to Freud's thoughts on "phallic whatsits" and mothers: generalising from (what we can joke about being) personal experience, resulting in categorisations of people in ways that are useless for helping them and, in fact, instead cause more harm than good.

      [–]Tom_Bombadil 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

      Is there a summarized version of his research?