an article by Paul R. McHugh, who was the head of #psychiatry at Johns Hopkins for a while, opposing sex-reassignment surgery for #transgender people, but also supporting the position that psychological gender differences are not environmental, based on studies of XY intersex people assigned female at birth. Like most psychiatry, the article is obsessed with the normal/abnormal distinction. Probably not irrelevant that this is published in “First Things”, which is a Christian magazine.
on 02016-02-02"Opalgate": The Opal Ruby-to-JS compiler project adopted a Code of Conduct explicitly refusing to act on issues like #Coraline Ada opened the famous #public-shaming issue about, entitled “Transphobic maintainer should be removed from project”, in which Elia Schito posted things on his personal Twitter about #transgender children.
on 02015-12-08