Michael Bailey: "My Research on Gender Dysphoria Was Censored, But I Won't Be"

The transformer activists have tried to ruin Bailey's life ever since he published The Man Who Would Be Queen. They've groundlessly accused him of horrible and disgusting things--this is, of course, one of the progressive left's M.O.s, and the transformers/decepticons are the most vicious of them all. 

   Of course such character assassination is part of progressivism's overall strategy of shutting down discussion / debate of its ideas. The liberal (broadly construed) ideal is, of course: have a public debate and win it. But progressives are not liberals. 

   Nothing in American politics in my lifetime has been clearer than that "transgender" ideology is batshit crazy. And one consequence of it is rapid-onset gender dysphoria (ROGD). There is simply no significant doubt that ROGD is real. Nor is there any real doubt that social contagion is the explanation for most of the cases of transgenderism in the U.S. now. And if the data is made more prominent, it will make it more difficult for progressive "trans" activists to shut down the discussion. Transparency is their enemy; obfuscation one of their greatest weapons.

   What's going on in science (and "science") is just one chapter of what's going on in America more generally: leftist ideas are being shouted from the rooftops, criticism of them is being suppressed, and contrary ideas are rarely given a hearing, and almost never a fair one. Everything is being skewed in favor of the progressive left. Its ideas are spun to persuade, and criticism of them is shut down, misrepresented, and painted as "hate." As I've said for decades--since long before political correctness rose from the grave--if you get to control the skepticism setting...turning it down when your own view is being discussed, turning it up when your opponent's is...you can win (in the rhetorical sense) just about any debate. And that's what we're seeing now.

   The left doesn't have complete control over retractions--it can't force them at will. But it can plausibly threaten to do so. See e.g. not only this Bailey case but Tuvel's paper on transgenderism and transracialism in Hypatia, Gilley's paper on colonialism...and on and on...