I genuinely, genuinely do not understand how the powers that be cannot see that the TRA pushback against the data linkage study is anything other than evidence in and of itself of the shaky ground that this whole ideology is based on.
If you were a cancer patient who had been treated some years ago, who was told that there might be some questions over your treatment, you would surely want to take part in a study to determine if you were incorrectly - or indeed correctly, yay! - treated. You’d want to know - for yourself, and hopefully unless you are a sociopath, for other cancer patients who come after you who deserve to have the best treatment.
If the point of “gender affirming medical care” is to get the best possible treatment for trans people, then why would you want to shut down investigations into what actually makes the best treatment?
And surely if they were all doing so much better and were so happy and well-balanced, post treatment, then they’d want to lay that open to investigation, so they could shout about it from the rooftops.
Unless, of course, the point is that they all know, deep down, that medicalisation is a horrible, barbaric hoax that makes next to no difference to mental health in the vast majority of cases, but they’ve all convinced themselves that it’s necessary, and their own sunk costs and fragile identities forbid them from admitting they were wrong.
The fact that they actively went out of their way to disrupt the data linkage study makes it clear to me they don’t want anyone looking behind the curtain. That should have been a whole parade of red flags for the powers that be.