Tornado Alley (PROG)

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conix, You could have at least told your readers your author is a front and center anti-trans activist. And since you have in your narrowly bigoted manner given her voice in a highly bigoted conservative Murdoch publication it's only fair to have here also a voice from the other side. So here you go ..

Lisa Selin Davis vs. transgender people

With links

Lisa Selin Davis is an American author and “gender critical” activist involved in anti-transgender extremism. Since 2013, she has become a key anti-trans voice in American media, part of the movement’s “parental rights” faction.

Davis’ attacks on the trans rights movement center on several gender critical tactics:

* promoting the ex-transgender movement

^ supporting disease models of gender identity and expression

* supporting gatekeeping models of healthcare for our minors and young adults

* criticizing expert medical and scientific consensus on healthcare for our minors and young adults

* using her own child to draw sharp distinctions between the “tomboy” identity and other gender diverse youth identities

*i amplifying outliers and edge cases in controversies to derail broader discussions

Davis claims “there is a dominant narrative about trans kids that the media is promoting.” According to her, this alleged narrative is merely “mantras by activists” and based on “feeling over fact.” Davis says she has concerns about the affirmative model of care and is troubled that she and others can no longer publish their conservative beliefs without consequence.

Davis claims she is a liberal who is part of the “silenced center.” She says she is not part of the gender critical world or the gender affirming world and simply wants to “diversify the media narrative.” So far, her “viewpoint diversity” efforts have largely been the promotion of extremist clinicians, cultural critics, and activists who share her gender critical beliefs.

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Davis cites 3 neutral sources. She cites 7 sources that reflect expert medical consensus. She cites 35 sources that dispute expert medical consensus and support her gender critical view, which could basically be summarized thus: being trans is a rapidly spreading disease that should be monitored and controlled by a state-run healthcare system overseen by conservative clinicians and legislators, where even one bad outcome must be prevented at all costs. Even if the cost is 100 good outcomes. Others with her cis-centric point of view would add even if the cost is prosecuting the families and doctors who work toward good outcomes.

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Davis continues to place the same article in any outlet that will take it, in this case repurposing a Substack piece in the Boston Globe, whioch was then reprinted in the New York Post as “Kid gender guidelines not driven by science.” Davis blames WPATH for bomb threats against trans-affirming children’s hospitals, because they did not publish better Standards of Care. She quotes her anti-trans allies including Julia Mason, of Society for Evidence-Based Gender Medicine and James Cantor, formerly of CAMH. She once again holds up federally controlled conservative gatekeeping as her ideal protocol.

https://www.transgendermap.com/politics/media/lisa-selin-davis/