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there seems to be about 2000 times more stuff in the media lately about “transgender” stuff these days…

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/21/health…

…in the spring of 2003, … Dr. Bailey published a book… explain[ing] the biology of sexual orientation and gender to a general audience.

researchers who have worked with Dr. Bailey say that he is a solid scientist and collaborator, who by his own admission enjoys violating intellectual taboos.

In his book, he argued that some people born male who want to cross genders are driven primarily by an erotic fascination with themselves as women. This idea runs counter to the belief, held by many men who decide to live as women, that they are the victims of a biological mistake … women trapped in men’s bodies. Dr. Bailey described the alternate theory, which is based on Canadian studies done in the 1980s and 1990s…

scientists praised the book as a compelling explanation of the science…

But days after the book appeared, Lynn Conway, a prominent computer scientist at the University of Michigan, sent out an e-mail message comparing Dr. Bailey’s views to Nazi propaganda. She and other transgender women found the tone of the book abusive, and the theory of motivation it presented to be a recipe for further discrimination…

What followed the publication of the politically incorrect thesis, it seems, is a politically driven witchhunt, replete with false accusations, and trying to get the guy fired.

“The bottom line is that they tried to ruin this guy, and they almost succeeded,” Dr. Dreger said.

Fascinating.

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One Response to “there seems to be about 2000 times more stuff in the media lately about “transgender” stuff these days…”

  1. Curtis E. Hinkle Says:
    August 23rd, 2007 at 5:12 pm

    We are starting our own Satire provided to us by Shirley Spammer.

    For information about the Baileyesque figure in the Intersex community
    http://www.intersexualite.org/AliceDreger.html

    I feel that Dreger and Bailey deserve NO serious response from most of us at this point. What Dreger has done in my opinion is use her social status and her normborn privilege to caricature me and in so doing it has been crafted into a genetic definition of me as disordered sexually. This is a very dangerous caricature. What Shirley Spammer and Andrew Kerr have done in the following satire is simply mirror back what they are doing; but, of course, there is no real danger there because it is not to be taken seriously as a scientific, truthful article. What Dreger and Bailey have done is very serious and even though it is a caricature, a perversion of what I am, it will end the lives of many like me in the future because of having a DSD or more precisely: a genetic birth defect suitable to be eliminated from the gene pool.

    Dreger and Bailey are the only ones with the TRUTH. All others are liars or erroneous. That ends the discussion. Freedom of expression only applies to the ones doing the research and speaking about us and for us – never to us the actual subjects. Like Sophie Siedlberg has so clearly pointed out, when we the subjects object, then the objection is the subject of another clinical study of the squeaks of the labrats. By accident of birth, we have no access to their Ubermensch truth. This is our disclaimer. We don’t pretend to have the truth. Only those who speak for us do.

    The first two in our series:
    Professor Rike Mengele Fatbastard and Dr M. Alice Doormat De Vile Are Innocent!!
    “When Professors are branded neo Nazi scum and liars”

    Access to the articles in this series
    http://www.intersexualite.org/AliceDreger.html#anchor_68