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Written by Doc Impossible on 2025-01-19 at 12:19

Ooh! New trans study!

Surprising absolutely nobody, two years after starting HRT, trans youth saw substantial improvements in every single marker of emotional well-being!

So, here's the deets:

315 participants (so, small-mid-size), about 2/3 transmasc vs 1/3 transfem, YET FUCKING AGAIN they don't bother to disambiguate binary and nonbinary identities, effectively erasing enby identities from the research literature by lumping them in with us binary folks.

Seriously, I'm gonna have kittens one of these days as researchers continue to use whatever inclusive terminology we come up with to reduce all trans people to a binary reality. 😤

The study skews toward a California, Illinois, and NY population, because those are the places the research team worked. Probably irrelevant, but worth noting.

Racial demographics look okay. About 59% white, which is good, but only 3.5% Black, which ain't. Most other demos look representativeish.

Bottom line:

This is a good study with good results, but not really one to lean on by itself. The skews aren't really a problem, but combined with the participant pool size, there's just enough here that it's place is in the chorus, not singing the melody, so to speak.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1054139X24005664?dgcid=author

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Written by Toni :QueerCat_Genderfluid: 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 on 2025-01-19 at 12:41

@Impossible_PhD@hachyderm.io I appreciate your advocacy in academic circles on behalf of us non-binary folk.

I wanted very badly to be a binary trans woman and early on tried to force myself into that identity but it's just not who I am. Am I a girl? Oh yes. Am I a woman? No, not exactly and how not exactly depends on the day. Treating us as either one end of the spectrum or the other is reductive at best and does real harm in the form of skewed results and misguided conclusions. (Which you, of course, know but sometimes I have to climb up on that soap box and get these things out)

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Written by Doc Impossible on 2025-01-19 at 13:14

@Toni2167 Hey, I'm binary. It's NEVER inappropriate for enbies to speak up over me where the nonbinary experience is what we're talking about.

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