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It’s a hall of mirrors.

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Apr 20, 2023·edited Apr 20, 2023Liked by Bernard Lane
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That’s curious!

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Is it the same survey? The survey at this link is run by a school of visual arts in New York???

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Sorry yes, it seems that it is. Now I am confused. University publishes dodgy research from third party on their feed. Do other medical researchers post findings from the visual arts on their research feeds?

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What I thought interesting was that the Uni Melb summary did not include the erotic element.

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I admit I was too rushed to notice. Even more outrageous. The ARC/research funding review was recently released, no? I haven't yet read the report yet but I do recall a comment that it recommends mechsnisms for dealing with bad or unethical research. At the moment, it is left to individual institutions. This is a classic case where somebody should be asking what the hell is going on, especially if public monies are involved.

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No, but I have now. Thsnks.

I dread to think what sort of proposals this will attract. Developing models of care "for transgender and gender diverse children, adolescents and young adults including those with intersectional disadvantages, through co-design with consumers": because "intersectionally disadvantaged" 12 year olds demanding cross-sex hormones are the perfect candidates for co-designing such models. And because they are not patients in need of care but consumers demanding a good.

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Interesting that they concede imagined body parts are erotic in these populations.

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I guess the erotic doesn’t have to be tethered to reality.

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More fake science. A ridiculous study which, if it shows anything, shows that people suffering from a delusion have corresponding delusory feelings— no surprise there. The history of psychology is littered with examples of people having psychosomatic sensations and symptoms of all kinds.

I’m not surprised that the ideologically blinkered researchers here managed to dismiss the very real evidence of genuine phantom pain and other forms of discomfort in those who have been subjected to “gender affirming” mutilation. That doesn’t fit the narrative they’re striving for.

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