Final Pre-Election 2024 Anti-Trans Risk Assessment Map

There are two major updates for the adult map this month. The first comes in Texas. Attorney General Ken Paxton began barring transgender adults from updating their drivers licenses, even with court orders, a major escalation in attacks against transgender people in the state, and even targeted name changes. This was not enough to justify a Do Not Travel warning initially. However, this week, Odessa, TX, a city of over 100,000 people, became the first to pass a transgender bathroom bounty law. The ordinance puts $10,000 bounties on trans people in bathrooms, and I expect other locales in the state to follow. This demanded the highest risk for Texas, not just for transgender people living there, but for those traveling through. Secondarily, national risk level has increased to high in response to a potential Trump presidency as well as increased likelihood of transgender people being a sticking point in national budget negotiations.

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Debunked: Misleading NYT Anti-Trans Article By Pamela Paul Relies On Pseudoscience

The opinion piece by Pamela Paul relies on routinely debunked disinformation and gets factual information wrong about transgender care. It is the latest NYT published piece to do so.

https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/debunked-misleading-nyt-anti-trans

Her first source, used to support "Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria," is an article by Lisa Littman that has been retracted. Littman is notably one of the only researchers to argue for the theory, which has been repeatedly dismissed for lacking factual support and for recruiting subjects from anti-trans websites.
A study in the prestigious journal Pediatrics entirely debunked the concept of ROGD, determining that most transgender people know their gender identity for years before they come out and seek treatment for gender dysphoria. When transgender people finally do come out, many are overjoyed to finally reveal their true self to the world around them - to others, however, the process may seem “rapid.” To ascertain whether transgender identification occurs "rapidly," researchers directly asked transgender teenagers: "How long have you known you were transgender?" They discovered that on average, transgender people know their gender identity for four years before first coming out and presenting for treatment.

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