Family Values!

One of the family values that were passed down from my parents I being able to talk to my parents on any topic without judgment. When I read this article that is what came to mind that I found on Facebook,

After Backlash, Publisher to Retract Article That Surveyed Parents of Children With Gender Dysphoria, Says Co-Author

Medscape

By Ellie Kincaid

May 30, 2023

Michael Bailey, a psychology professor at Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill., and the paper's corresponding author, tweeted:

I have just been notified that my paper with Suzanna Diaz will be retracted by the publisher due to concerns about lack of informed consent. …

Bailey told Retraction Watch that he would "respond when [he] can" to our request for comment, following "new developments on our end." Neither Springer Nature nor Kenneth Zucker, editor in chief of Archives of Sexual Behavior, has responded to similar requests.

Okay for many of you you have no idea who Mr. Bailey is, well… is the co-author of the so called debunked “autogynephilia” theory.

Bailey told Retraction Watch that he would "respond when [he] can" to our request for comment, following "new developments on our end." Neither Springer Nature nor Kenneth Zucker, editor in chief of Archives of Sexual Behavior, has responded to similar requests. 

Today I am not writing about  "Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria” and not about how the bogus research was conducted but about family values.

First though a little background the research on ROGD was done not by interviewing the trans children, the research was done on the parents of the trans children. But not just any parents of trans children but rather the subjects were found on a conservative anti-trans parents website… so that there was major bias in selecting the research subjects. And that is why the research papers were pulled the built-in bias of the research.

The Medscape article goes on…

Soon after publication, the paper attracted criticism that its method of gathering study participants was biased, and that the authors ignored information that didn't support the theory of ROGD.

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As I said my family values were my parents were always non-judgmental (Well in most stuff) but the parents of the study were conservatives and I would bet that the parents who were in the research study were anti-LGBTQ+ to begin with.

Now suppose your parents were staunch MAGA always cursing out gays and lesbians, trans people, “the liberals” and others, would a ten year old feel comfortable coming out to them? So the children kept their trans a secret from them.

So when they did come out to their parents it was a complete shock to the parents and those are the parents who the study used for their research.

When a family is “Woke” and creates a climate of being non-judgmental children feel safe in coming out. When children don’t feel safe, they keep things inside of them to fester, to think about running away, and to think about self-harm.

Which family values do you like? Which set of family values do you think creates normal well adjusted adults?