My guest this week is Jesse Singal (@jessesingal), cohost of the Blocked and Reported podcast and a contributor New York mag and a range of other places, primarily Substack. We compare two recently published articles on detransition, Turban (2021) and Littman (2021).

Article citing Turban (2021): https://fenwayhealth.org/new-study-shows-discrimination-stigma-and-family-pressure-drive-detransition-among-transgender-people/

Turban (2021): https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/full/10.1089/lgbt.2020.0437

Criticism of Turban: https://medium.com/@JLCederblom/the-lukewarm-perjury-of-jack-turban-a85903109051

USTS 2015 Transgender survey: https://www.ustranssurvey.org/reports?fbclid=IwAR2uVJUhljZ1SQcVaLNAHCjtHqzuz-VrEXUzQiq139hB39i2oJk-YaIDWh0#USTS

Turban (2020): https://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/early/2020/01/21/peds.2019-1725/tab-e-letters?versioned=true

Jesse's thread announcing Littman: https://twitter.com/jessesingal/status/1450504856666509317?s=20 

Littman (2021): https://t.co/F9eKSCcbUj?amp=1

Twitter thread from Littman (2021) participant: https://twitter.com/reclaimingtrans/status/1450528282038898692

Twitter thread showing recruiting info for Littman (2021): https://twitter.com/ImplausibleGrrl/status/1261328400360275970

DysphoricWomen subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/DysphoricWomen/

Criticism of Littman recruitment strategies during the survey: https://www.reddit.com/r/ftm/comments/5ighgz/recruitment_call_individuals_who_received/

Call for participants on Cari Stella's blog: https://guideonragingstars.tumblr.com/post/159584327846/hi-id-like-to-announce-recruitment-for-a-new

Complete list of Littman (2021) questions: https://cryptpad.fr/code/#/2/code/view/Ns7EzZRCESHMqtDttHThtc9hM+D2cewT84ojyqZBG5Q/

Correction to Littman (2018): https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0214157

Littman's defense of her methods: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10508-020-01631-z

Convocation: George Takei

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