Not sure whether this has been posted already, so my apologies if so:
An assistant professor at Brown University has published an article on “Rapid-onset gender dysphoria in adolescents and young adults” in PLOS One.
Predictably, the journal and the university have come under sustained attack by transgender activists. It is deeply concerning to see the journal and the university show signs of caving to pressure . The dean of public health at Brown University issued a statement implying that scientific research must not “invalidate the perspectives of members of the transgender community.” The author of the study, Lisa Littman, does not have tenure and so the fact that she’s being undermined by her own university is very serious—and it will strike fear into anyone who is contemplating research in this field.
If you can take ten minutes to write three emails (from your institutional email account) to the editor of the journal, and the dean and the chair at Brown, that will help to counterbalance the politically motivated attacks. The details are here:
4thwavenow.com/2018/08/28/brown-university-and-plos-one-defend-academic-freedom-and-scientific-inquiry/