shit like this is why psychology is a complete fucking joke, bunch of right wing white cishets write down complete bullshit and then decades later fellow white cishets still tout it as undeniable scientific truth

  • TheyLive [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    I don't see how Quillete is representative of psychology at all. Unless I'm unaware I thought Blanchard was mostly unrespected?

    • KobaCumTribute [she/her]
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      3 years ago

      I don't know how he's seen in academia now, but Blanchard did have a lot of institutional backing and status at least up to a decade ago and he still has followers churning out nonsense attempting to support his theories.

      • ultraviolet [she/her]
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        3 years ago

        This is a pretty big problem in general in academia. People who are in the field but don't know any better will tend to rely on old sources with very bad understanding of trans people because that's all they have to work off of. (and this leads to really bad gatekeeping when it comes to medical treatments for trans people) I do think it's getting better though since trans people are sharing more of their own experiences and dispelling a lot of the old myths people have.