Comment discussion on r/detrans about Lisa Littman’s new detransition paper.
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Once again, thank you for your work but a certain question that you asked has been leaked due to Ky Schevers or formerly CrashChaosCats and I have to agree with them[the only thing I agree on really], that the question felt very out of place and took from your honest attempt of research on the topic of detransition.
It also bothers me that you didn’t include that you screened participants for 15-30 minutes prior to giving the survey, I wouldn’t expect you to include that your first attempt at this survey was sabotaged, which is likely why numerous trans people have copies of your questions. Ky Schevers has actually been actively slandering and claiming you ran no verification for this research whatsoever when I certainly recall differently.
What I mean by this is your focus and emphasis on the phenomenon of ROGD, which although you’ve now proven is very much something we should be on the look for, as has Lisa Marchiano and other researchers… there is an element of concern with your fixation on the topic.
lisalittman1 Op · 1d
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Hi– thanks so much for writing to me and sharing your thoughts. This research article comes from a project where participants were recruited in 2016 and 2017. It didn’t include the videoconference screening. There is a more recent, not published yet, project (recruited in 2020) that did have the sabotage attempt and the videoconference call screening. Don’t worry, those aspects are definitely described in that article. So the article that was published yesterday was anonymous, like the United States Trans Survey, which means that there was not verification.
Yes, I’ve seen what Ky Schevers is posting. It’s ok. I tried to explore a lot of different transition and detransition experiences to broaden our understanding about the topic. There were 115 questions in the survey and a couple of them explored the ROGD phenomenon. Since there isn’t much data about it yet, I thought it was prudent to explore it with a few questions. I also tried to include questions that had options that covered a lot of possibilities (including discrimination, including financial concerns, including medical complication, including dissatisfaction with effects of transition). I think that there is so little research about people who are detransitioning in current times, that it’s important to ask these questions.
Thanks again for letting me know what you think. Best, -Lisa