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@etotheipie
Texas A&M Statistics PhD student. Hegelian/Hisgelian. Shit-posting @ntiRealistMan. On bsky, same name.
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Apr 21 • 18 tweets • 5 min read
One of the York review papers accompanying the Cass review, "Masculinising and feminising hormone interventions for adolescents experiencing gender dysphoria or incongruence: a systematic review", makes a false statement about one of their cited studies.
adc.bmj.com/content/early/… The review, whose primary author is fellow Dr. Joanne Taylor of @HealthSciYork, states about references 50 and 51:

"Two cross-sectional studies found conflicting results: those receiving hormones were less likely to have seriously considered/attempted suicide compared with >>
Excerpt from Taylor et al. (2024), stating in part "Two cross-sectional studies found conflicting results: those receiving hormones were less likely to have seri- ously considered/attempted suicide compared with adolescents not receiving hormones,50 and in birth-registered females there was no difference between groups.51"
Excerpt from references section of Taylor et al. (2024), showing the 50th and 51st reference, respectively 50. Green AE, DeChants JP, Price MN, et al. Association of gender-affirming hormone therapy with depression, thoughts of suicide, and attempted suicide among transgender and nonbinary youth. J Adolesc Health 2022;70:643–9. 51. Grannis C, Leibowitz SF, Gahn S, et al. Testosterone treatment, internalizing symptoms, and body image dissatisfaction in transgender boys. Psychoneuroendocrinology 2021;132.
Dec 11, 2023 • 15 tweets • 7 min read
Virtually every example here is a completely valid form of paraphrasing, and many highlighted pieces (which are color coded between Left and Right to match them) don’t contain any same text whatsoever. Like this is a joke
Excerpt from putatively copied text, with highlighted parts: “[4 words] the problems [4 words] in [12 words] the Goodman regression [14 words].”
Color coded matched text from Gay’s writing: “There are a number of problems with this method.”
Jul 25, 2023 • 44 tweets • 9 min read
Dr. Allen is again lying here, and this time we are forced to conclude it is perniciously. He spins a tale about Frederick Douglas & the source of his learning to read, glossing over his mistress' role in actively trying to prevent him to read. As before, let's fact check. We shall use Frederick Douglas' words from his autobiography:



We begin in Chapter VI. I will show nearly the full text, choosing to omit some elaborative paragraphs or passages, but you can read in full if you would like at the link. I've added emphasis.docsouth.unc.edu/neh/douglass/d…
Jul 22, 2023 • 36 tweets • 9 min read
This is a statement from two of the people who wrote Florida's new education standards on slavery. In it they give several names of people to exemplify slaves who learned skills they applied later in life.

Let's go through the supposed truth of this list one by one. The first name is Ned Cobb, who was listed as a blacksmith.

Ned Cobb was a tenant farmer and activist who born in 1885, 20 years after the emancipation of slaves.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ned_Cobb
Jul 30, 2022 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
I want to keep re-upping this thread because some main anti-trans people need to have their shit called out. We’ll start with the loser of Bailey v. Stonewall and founder of anti-trans hate group LGB Alliance, Allison Bailey. As mentioned in the decision, Allison subscribes to this farcical conspiracy that young girls are being forced into “surgery to reassign their gender rather than admit to being a lesbian”, a claim she has repeated a couple times publicly on Twitter.
Jul 30, 2022 • 22 tweets • 9 min read
OK, so I've finally had time to do this thread.

Are young people becoming trans in order to avoid the stigma of being gay? Lol. Lmao. No, they are not. The Household Pulse Survey (HPS) has been collecting demographic information from adults across the US since the start of the pandemic. It is the first Census product which, since July last year, has been collecting information on gender identity (and sexual orientation).
Jul 29, 2022 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
The only reason anti-trans people say “social contagion” is because they want to invoke the idea of disease. That’s it. The borrow from epidemiological studies was a random encounter modeling scheme where populations are assumed to be heavily mixed. It doesn’t even match the stated dynamic for ROGD or whatever, let alone most interpersonal dynamics where people adopt new beliefs or behaviors.
Jul 2, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
The subsequent tweet, posted at the same time the original was and well before you ever QT'd it Jesse, was an excerpt from the very document showing the language which was used. *posted the following day, but a day before you responded Jesse
Jul 2, 2022 • 25 tweets • 9 min read
@jessesingal You're plainly wrong but it's not a surprise you make the mistake in this direction. @jessesingal 1. On the one hand: Outness is not a broad allowance granted to someone to extend to others who aren't already in the know. Transgender people who are "out" often want to control how they expose that to others they do not know, precisely for safety reasons.
Jun 30, 2022 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
Part of what makes airplanes expensive is the multiple redundancy required by regulations to protect consumer safety. And the Boeing 737 Max crashes highlight how companies will skirt even minor costs for critical safety components, and will intentionally lie to regulators. Companies do not have the public's interest at heart, especially when it comes to public safety. That's why we have regulatory bodies that can employ the expertise and flexibility necessary to implement specific regulations and specific oversight for novel problems.
Jun 29, 2022 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
I wonder if Mr. @Edsall reached out to Professor Kaufmann to hear his opinions on the “elevation of emotion and the personal over reason [and] data” with the afore-knowledge that Eric probably engages with fraud in his work—certainly at least once. Image I’ve raised this issue a few times and it seems that no explanation has been forthcoming for why the study which Eric led would falsely present (to study subjects and then to the public) disjoint passages from Ta-Nehisi Coates’ work as contiguous for a priming study.
May 31, 2022 • 19 tweets • 5 min read
The College Pulse data are based on a non-random sample which the organization tries to correct to Current Population Survey results, but the latest CPS they use is the 2017 one. Gender identity Q's are only in the HPS as of July 2021. It's not clear what this graph shows! The first four weeks of those Household Pulse Survey results place about 2.2% of respondents born in 2003 as answering "Do you currently describe yourself as male, female or transgender?" as "Transgender". The birth year breakdown is:
2002—2.9%
2001—1.8%
2000—1.9%
1999—2.2%
etc.
Aug 6, 2021 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Are there any standards for identifying if any particular media is an example of "social contagion"? The Littman paper hypothesizes that the "inspirational YouTube transition videos" may be analogous to pro-anorexia blogs, but what else is this aside from a "just so" theory? Surely whether media is social contagion is either a matter of the media in and of itself, in which case what are the standards for seeing this?—or in its observed "social contagious" effect, in which case aren't we getting ahead of ourselves here since ROGD isn't established?
Aug 5, 2021 • 7 tweets • 1 min read
Texas A&M will not be requiring vaccinations for this coming semester. They are constrained by both law and executive order: the governor's EO GA-38, signed only a week ago, explicitly bars state entities from requiring vaccination when only an EUA is in place, and what's worse: TX SB 968, signed into law in June, appears to outlaw any business requiring documentation of Covid vaccination whatsoever. It does not draw a distinction between EUA and full FDA approval. If the FDA approves the vaccines and the EO subsides, this law seems controlling.
Aug 5, 2021 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Idk if Shrier cited Littman, but one of the things that struck me when looking for some of the Reddit “lie to get healthcare” examples the latter included in her paper, was that a couple went on to appear in Abigail’s book. I found that because Google only gave me book excerpts. I had to type out the URLs in Littman’s paper to find the actual webpages. (FWIW most people in those threads say to not lie!)

Anyway whether they all get their examples from the same canonical mumsnet posts, or cite each other, there’s a LOT of cross-pollination in GC texts.
Aug 5, 2021 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
Bari’s takeaway is that the medical profession is en masse too stupid to provide healthcare premised on things more tangible than heuristics, so we should coddle them. Trans people aren’t in denial about what bodies they have. They’re making a point about sex and gender as categories, separable and *correlated*, but not *predicated* on physical body parts.
Aug 3, 2021 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
I mean, I’ve said a very similar thing before about what a “male reproductive system” is. Forstater would disagree with that step—she thinks the reproductive system is what determines male/female—but this is just NOT an essentialist statement from her! Image If she has made other commentary glaringly in contradiction with this, then that is what it is, but this is super easily interpretable as de-essentializing “femaleness” in the brain. It’s not a “female brain” because of form or content, but correlation with a label.
May 24, 2021 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Hey @fairforall_org, when writing a letter to the Education Secretary referencing the Manhattan Institute’s “study” about, amongst other things, Ta-Nehisi Coates’ essay in The Atlantic, did it occur to you to double check to make sure the essay passage was in fact ONE passage? Because idk if .@epkaufm told you, but it in fact was not. The passage in the study was two different passages stitched together from Coates’ essay. (And the passages aren’t contiguous in the book either.)

I don’t blame you for thinking it’s one since the study implies such!
May 9, 2021 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
GC's take epistemology seriously challenge 2021 /cc .@caitlinmoriah "I'm bored / you make it so cliché / sounds like woo" buddy YOU started talking about epistemology
Apr 18, 2021 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
There’s a lot missing in this analysis, namely that the FHSAA already required children to undergo a physical by such a licensed physician which, among other things, involves genital inspections for youth males.

fhsaa.com/services/downl… To be frank too, there’s already a fair amount of poor consent practices in genital inspections for youths. For myself as someone with testes, my annual physicals as a youth where the doctor checks for hernias and lumps were discomforting, and I was not told I could dissent.
Apr 4, 2021 • 7 tweets • 6 min read
@DiogenesKin @rasmansa @conor64 Incorrect—the snippet from Conor specifically talks about “within the Black community”, and then it proceeds by way of “Now,” into the pictured excerpt. She’s talking about what black people would say, and then proceeds to say now white people are saying it. It’s both. @DiogenesKin @rasmansa @conor64 Conor admits exactly this a couple comments upstream yours. So yes, the quote he included in the text body of his tweet IS about comments this woman says she got from black people. (And I don’t think either it came across as distinguishing past/present very well.)