re: Dept. of Justice announces new interpretation of the Civil Rights Act

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More at the link.

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I don't give two shits about your shitty fricking op-ed. But since I'm a generous person and enjoy doing people's work for them, I dug up the actual study: LINK

Do you know what it proves? That I'm psychic. From me:

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I eagerly await your half-assed link from some dumbass social conservative website that will probably make some vague claim like "transgendered people have lots of problems" without doing anything remotely as rigorous as comparing cohorts before and after.

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So what do I have? A half-assed paper (from a fricking open-access journal) you saw referenced in a WSJ op-ed. And now to quote the primary source:

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Persons with transsexualism, after sex reassignment, have considerably higher risks for mortality, suicidal behaviour, and psychiatric morbidity than the general population

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Notably absent from this study: A comparison between gender reassignment therapy and psychotherapy-only approaches between transgender cohorts.

And even the study itself says this:

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It is therefore important to note that the current study is only informative with respect to transsexuals persons health after sex reassignment; no inferences can be drawn as to the effectiveness of sex reassignment as a treatment for transsexualism. In other words, the results should not be interpreted such as sex reassignment per se increases morbidity and mortality.

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It cautions against using it to make the exact point the WSJ author is making. You got took, son.

Don't ever trust someone citing a study on the Internet without providing a link. Hypertext has been around for a very long time. If they're not using it, there's probably a good reason.