#radblr survey

[femmesandhoney]

Spirituality Radblr Survey

I've created a spirituality and religion survey for radblr, please go fill it out. It will ask you to sign into google to limit each respondent to one attempt, but I do not collect your email addresses and it is anonymous. Thank you for your time if you complete it, I love you <3

#radical feminism #radblr #spirituality #survey #spirituality survey #If you are religious you are welcome to take this if you are on radblr it accounts for the differences between religious and spiritual it's #just interesting data to collect do not be offput #it's meant to be as unbiased as possible so everyone has the ability to answer honestly #there are only a few questions geared to spiritual people and they are stated to collect more specific data #If you take it please lmk if everything looks right! or if there are any confusing questions or something

[mikasasrippedtoenail]

Send in survey questions that I should ask my peers when I go to school tomorrow please!

#radblr #radical feminism #terfsafe #radical feminists do interact #radical feminists do touch #trans exclusionary radical feminist #radical feminist safe #female seperatism #women are the superior sex #terfblr #terfism #terf #rad fem #radical feminst #radical feminist community #radical feminist #radical feminist theory #radical feminist please interact #gender critical #survey #school #polls #I want some discourse to be born when go tmrw #moids will be moids even if they are fags #tw moid #scrote

[oracle-cassandra]

What are Radblr's thoughts about this? I'm on my way to take a test when this article popped up on my screen, and I wanted to post this before I leave, especially given that this is published by Scientific America. However, Im personally skeptically that "social contagion" doesn't play a factor at all; I wouldn't doubt it plays into this even a little bit. I'm sure everyone knows about articles posted in favor of this fad from, like, two years ago from even big names like Mermaids, who have either been proved wrong or backtracked.

I have pasted the article below. There are links in the original article.

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Health Care

Evidence Undermines ‘Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria’ Claims

Fears of “social contagion,” used to support anti-transgender legislation, are not supported by science

By Timmy Broderick on August 24, 2023

A recent study claiming to describe more than 1,600 possible cases of a “socially contagious syndrome” was retracted in June for failing to obtain ethics approval from an institutional review board. The survey examined “rapid-onset gender dysphoria,” a proposed condition that attributes adolescent gender distress to exposure to transgender people through friends or social media. The existence of such a syndrome has been the subject of intense debate for the past several years and has fueled arguments against transgender rights reforms, despite being widely criticized by medical experts.

The American Psychological Association and 61 other health care providers’ organizations signed a letter in 2021 denouncing the validity of rapid-onset gender dysphoria (ROGD) as a clinical diagnosis. And a steadily growing body of scientific evidence demonstrates that it does not reflect transgender adolescents’ experiences and that “social contagion” is not causing more young people to seek gender-affirming care. Still, the concept continues to be used to justify anti-trans legislation across the U.S.

“To even say it’s a hypothesis at this point, based on the paucity of research on this, I think is a real stretch,” says Eli Coleman, former president of the World Professional Association for Transgender Health. Coleman helped create the organization’s most recent standards of care for trans people, which endorse and explain the evidence for forms of gender-affirming care.

Many transgender people experience gender dysphoria, meaning that the gender that was assigned to them at birth and their gender identity don’t align, causing distress. ROGD was proposed as a gender dysphoria subtype in a 2018 paper by physician and researcher Lisa Littman, then at Brown University.* Littman’s survey asked parents of transgender adolescents—recruited predominantly from anti-transgender websites and forums—to describe their child’s “sudden or rapid onset of gender dysphoria” and to state if it coincided with increased social media usage or the child’s friends coming out as transgender.

Littman later issued a correction that updated the methodology, including a brief description of the websites and forums, and noted that ROGD is not a formal diagnosis. But the concept had already been taken upin books and podcasts—and by politicians—to promulgate the idea that peer pressure and social media are making kids transgender or that being transgender is a form of mental illness. As legislation targeting trans people has reached an all-time high in the U.S., ROGD’s alleged social contagion has been invoked by lawmakers in states such as Missouri, Utah and Arkansas to justify banning or restricting gender-affirming care for young people.

“This is just a fear-based concept that is not supported by studies,” says Marci Bowers, president of the World Professional Association for Transgender Health. The term ROGD is being used to “scare people or to scare legislators into voting for some of these restrictive policies that take away options for young people. It’s cruel, cruel legislation.”

Like the 2018 study that coined the term rapid-onset gender dysphoria, the recently retracted paper, which was published this March in Archives of Sexual Behavior, surveyed parents of transgender children about their children’s experiences. The study was co-authored by Michael Bailey, a psychologist at Northwestern University, and Suzanna Diaz, a pseudonym used by a mother of a child with gender dysphoria. Diaz is not affiliated with an institution and had already collected the survey data before collaborating with Bailey on the paper. The study was retracted because Diaz and Bailey did not get consent from the survey’s respondents to have their responses published, although Bailey disputes this. (Bailey declined to answer questions about the retraction from Scientific American.)

The participants in both the 2018 and the retracted 2023 studies were recruited from online communities that were explicitly critical about many aspects of gender-affirming care for transgender kids. Littman’s research was inspired in part by parents’ posts on these skeptical websites.

In response to criticisms that recruiting parents from anti-transgender websites may have biased the results, Littman says, “I reject the premise that parents who believe transition will harm their children are more likely to discredit their kids’ experiences than parents who believe that transition will help their children.”

Most experts cite the survey of parents rather than transgender children themselves as another major flaw in the methodology of both studies.

Diane Ehrensaft, director of mental health at the University of California, San Francisco, Child and Adolescent Gender Center, concurs. “To talk about what children are thinking, feeling and doing, particularly as they get old enough to have their own minds and narratives, you need to interview them,” she says.

Parents can often be the last to know about their child’s gender identity, Ehrensaft says. Coming out can be terrifying for many transgender kids. Family members often respond with violence or distrust or may even kick the child out of the house. Almost 40 percent of transgender youth experience homelessness or housing instability, according to a 2022 report from the Trevor Project, a nonprofit that provides crisis support for young LGBTQ+ people. Many kids who wait to discuss their gender identity with their parents before appearing to “suddenly” come out are simply keeping themselves safe, Ehrensaft says.

“It is not rapid-onset gender dysphoria,” she says. “It’s rapid-onset parental discovery.”

Many experts have also questioned what length of time qualifies as a “sudden” experience of gender dysphoria. Both the 2018 and 2023 studies left the definition up for parental interpretation. Complicating this, there isn’t one pathway or time line for being transgender, says Tey Meadow, a Columbia University sociologist who studies sexuality and gender. “For some people, it can evolve slowly. For others, it can evolve quickly,” she says.

For most transgender youth seeking gender-affirming care, considerable time elapses between when they realize they may be transgender and when they receive such care. A recent analysis of 10 Canadian medical centers in the Journal of Pediatrics found that 98.3 percent of young people seeking gender-affirming care had realized more than a year prior that they may have been transgender. “If ROGD were a real thing, we would expect to see two discernible streams of patients coming in [to receive care],” says Greta Bauer, a co-author of the study and director of the Eli Coleman Institute for Sexual and Gender Health at the University of Minnesota Medical School. There would be a distinct group of adolescents with more recent knowledge about their gender identity going to clinics and another group that had had such knowledge for years. “But we didn’t see that,” she says.

Thomas Steensma, a psychologist at Amsterdam University Medical Centers who provides gender-affirming therapy, says he has not seen evidence of the “social contagion” component of ROGD, and he cautions against even using these terms. “Rapid means out of control, and contagion signals a warning, and that warning induces fear,” he says. “There’s no evidence that certain developmental pathways are more problematic or less beneficial or helpful than others” for a child’s gender identity.

Steensma reports that he sees two “peaks” of referrals in his clinic: young adolescents and 15-year-olds. In a 2020 study Steensma and his colleagues looked at adolescent referrals from 2000 to 2016 and found no measurable difference in the psychological functioning or the intensity of the gender dysphoria between more recent referrals and those who came to the clinic starting in 2000. If adolescents are presenting with a different form of gender dysphoria, Steensma has not seen it.

The researchers did observe a change in their referral population in recent years, however. More kids assigned female at birth have been transitioning in recent years than those assigned male at birth. Many studies have captured this difference—including the 2018 survey proposing ROGD—but experts are unsure of its cause. Littman suggests that female-assigned kids are more susceptible to the “social contagion” of gender dysphoria because they feel social pressure more acutely than male-assigned kids. But Ehrensaft says nothing in the clinical literature corroborates this assertion. Instead she attributes this discrepancy to shifting cultural factors that influence how children express themselves and explore their identity. In our culture, Ehrensaft says, “there’s a lot more gender stress for the boy in the tutu than the girl in the football uniform.”

Other forms of gender incongruence, such as identifying as nonbinary or gender nonconforming, further challenge the idea that children should be forced to abide by traditional gender categories. And the best way to understand what kids are experiencing is to ask them questions and listen to their answers, Ehrensaft says.

“In some ways, [kids] are far more advanced than I am, as somebody in my 70s, about how they live and understand gender,” Ehrensaft adds. “So if we want to really understand gender, turn to the experts—and that would be the youth themselves.”

*Editor’s Note (8/24/23): This sentence was edited after posting to correct Lisa Littman’s occupation and her affiliation at the time of her 2018 paper.

#terfsafe #terfblr #radblr #radfems please touch #radfems interact #terfs please touch #terfs interact #radfem safe #radfemsafe

[shoppinghauer]

One of the worst parts of this mess is the perpetuation of gender stereotypes: men logic, women feel.

Imagine recently peaking trans and come to the radblr side and watch supposed feminists arguing that liking algebra makes you malebrained.

Tbh id like to survey how many atheists are non american and how many woowooists are usian because their stance sounds weirdly protestant. Yknow the kind of "secularized" ones who still put "in god we trust" in their bills and the ones instauring the Taliban in the Middle East. To push for religion in a political movemnt sounds american to me

[st-mchn]

Thought this might be good to share w radblr so these researchers could hear from some actual lesbians and bi women haha

“Researchers are conducting a study to better understand protective factors that might help prevent suicide among young lesbian and bisexual women. Your participation would involve completing a 30 minute online survey ever 3 months over an 18-month period (7 surveys total). You will receive a $30 gift card for completing each survey. To find out more about our study or see if you are eligible, please click the link below.”

#radfem #radblr #radfem safe #pls boost #i have no affiliation w this or anything just seems important #mostly sharing here bc i saw it shared on facebook by a TIM on my feed 🙄 #and like… come on

[gendiebrainrotreceipts]

www.tumblr.com/gendiebrainrotreceipts/724025959723958272/

A- Avishay's post literally proofs that "radblr" and by extention radfem online spaces in general are blatantly white usamerican centric you braindead whore

1. Nice misogynistic language, misogynist

2. Most of *tumblr* is white. You could make a survey of any group on tumblr and they’d mostly be white. English speaking online spaces in general are mostly white Americans. And that’s not even touching on the existence of Korean radical feminists and their online spaces which are pretty obviously not white. Did you ever consider to factor in non English speaking online spaces? In any case radblr is not radical feminism, nor are other online spaces. At most they’re just a small part of it.

#radfem safe #gender critical #gendie brainrot receipts

[menalez]

where did you get this number that lesbians are like 1% of the population? or that we're less than 5% (something i've seen other people claim on radblr. % of which population? which country? which age group? which ethnicity? what year did this number come from? why are you making data out of your ass. did you fail your statistics class?

you can look it up on google with ease. 0.5% is the correct number

also i didn’t say 1% of the population. i said the female population specifically

#the way u wrote this msg i just can tell u are a pain to talk to

[nomorerww]

it feels like there's a deep chasm between male socialization/biology and expectations of behavior and how women express themselves, often seeming apologetic or always citing some example of a woman who is nothing but submissive. we all know that women can be more deferential, and even surveys and studies on this crap show that abused women are more likely to try harder to please a partner.

Men don't do this. they may be callous assholes who inspire no love or respect but at least they're not the kind of passive aggressive, irritating and self-denying people that women are.

Why is every single example of a woman by a person on radblr supposedly nothing but fawning and differential? 'there's no amount of servitude and love and dedication that you can show man that will make him not commit x abusive action towards you b/c he's jealous/disgruntled/toxic!' you say.

except that it's NEVER that simple? you can't take an imaginary scenario that completely flattens nuance and complexity and pretend that it's anything like reality. The fact that the 'fems' on radblr continue to do do irks me to no end.

Stick to verifiable, known facts. I realize that a lot of us on here are just venting and annoyed (me included) so the point here is not to pump out like, scientific findings or some crap. But it doesn't hurt to be more objective or analytical and less female socialization oriented in your thinking

[there-are-4-lights]

[cats-moss-gays]

Radblr Survey

The survey is ready! Radical Feminist and Gender Critical Perspectives

Please take this and spread it around so we can get more accurate data :) Thank you to everyone who gave suggestions, if you see any issues with the survey let me know!

#my posts #radblr #survey

[femmesandhoney]

Interesting survey! It got me thinking about how I perceive the world since I didn't take my time to think about it after I left catholicism.

I'm also interested to see the results. idk why the spiritual discourse started on radblr, but I hope it'll end soon.

Ty I'm glad you enjoyed it and felt benefited from it!

[radfem-gossip]

We've had surveys of radblr demographics before, and bisexuals are the majority but there's a good number of heterosexuals too. Lots of the bisexuals aren't febfems either, they have boyfriends they don't gush about on radblr. I found that if you follow the bisexuals who talk about being with men (kiefbowl, rip madmaxies) and the openly straight radfems (blackswallowtailbutterfly), you find more of them. When I started out following a bunch of lesbians to learn more about lesbian issues in feminism, it made it harder to discover osa radfems. But this is like those studies where if women speak 30% of the time, men think they dominate. Most of us just aren't used to being around this many lesbians. (Also radblr mislabels a lot of users are radfems who aren't just bc they're normal feminists.)

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[drewsaysshit]

EVERYONE RBING MY SURVEY CAN STOP NOW PLEASE I CANT HANDLE THIS I OPENED A CAN OF WORMS I CANT HANDLE

YALL ARE BEING RESPECTFUL BUT I PHYSICALLY CANT HANDLE IT PLEASE RADBLR LET ME REST I DONT WANT THIS TO BE MY LEGACY I WAS JUST CURIOUS AND NOW EVERYONE AND THEIR MOTHER IS RBING WITH THEIR ANSWERS

SHOULDVE MADE IT A GOOGLE FORM SO I COULD SHUT IT OFF

RADFEM TUMBLR FIX MY MISTAKE AND STOP REBLOGGING IT

(as a disclaimer i do not support transphobia or other forms of disrespect to transgender people. i myself am genderfluid and bisexual.)

#help #i want out of this nightmare ive created #a person said the original post is circling radfem tumblr and id rather it not anymore #i got my data can yall please leave #/nm #radfem #what have i done

[womenfrommars]

What is your opinion about the gold star discourse?

I sort of agree with both sides on some things. I agree with the gold stars that lesbians don't have consensual sex with men. We all understand why it's predatory for a man to knowingly pursue a woman who's a lesbian. When it comes to TRAs, we also voice this quite clearly. But then the non gold stars turn around and say that actually, lesbians can consent to sex with men all of a sudden. It's not consistent.

However, I disagree with the gold stars that every non gold star is a bisexual. I think many non gold stars are lesbians who experienced rape (either forcible or coerced) and are afraid to label their experience as such. It's not unheard of that rape victims pretend the sex was consensual to avoid dealing with the realisation that they were actually victims of rape. People also have a tendency to remember things in a better light in hindsight. I think it's proven that psychologically, your brain makes the past seem better than it actually was, to avoid draining on the negative. This is why you can laugh at something years later, when in the moment it happened, you cried. People also later say things like ''I'm glad it happened to me, it made me stronger'' when they'd never say that in the moment it happened. So I think a lot of these non gold stars are more or less kidding themselves saying it was consensual, especially because at the same time, they say it was traumatic. I don't think consensual sex is traumatic because I don't think people can consent to trauma. If the sex was so bad it traumatised you, it's no longer regrettable sex, it's just rape. It also ties in with the view that only forcible rape is ''real'' rape. A lot of MRAs say that coerced rape is just consensual sex, and I think many non gold stars have internalised that idea. Ask yourself: if you pressured someone into having sex with you, would you think the other person truly wanted it?

I do think at least some non gold stars are indeed bisexual and are resisting the label, partially because radblr further stigmatises bisexuality. If you keep joking about Cluster Bis it's no wonder many women don't want to be bisexual.

I also disagree with non gold stars that people just ''try out'' different things to figure out their sexuality. Surveys shows small amounts of people report sexual fantasies with the same sex, and even smaller numbers report sexual experiences with the same sex. The vast majority of people are exclusively heterosexual and there is no societal force that pushes people to have homosexual sex. If a ''heterosexual'' woman told me she had sex with another woman, I would consider her bisexual. ''Heterosexual'' means ''I would not engage in same sex behaviour under any circumstances''. Similarly, homosexuality is also exclusive. Anything non-exclusive is bisexuality.

Some bisexuals don't like this very much because it seems like their sexuality is treated as a garbage heap for rejected heterosexuals and homosexuals. That's not it, though. Bisexuality is a spectrum, so naturally not all bisexuals fall in the middle. Many have a clear preference for being with either sex, and that's okay, but that doesn't negate your bisexuality. The term ''febfem'' was coined to communicate that some bisexual women prefer to only date other women without appropriating the word ''lesbian'', but now people are hating on that as well. I can see why the term was created. Saying you are bisexual implies you are open to dating people of both sexes, which I don't think is an unreasonable assumption to make. Many bisexuals stay closeted because they only want to be in heterosexual relationships so they call themselves heterosexual when they're not. Some have likewise appropriated the term ''lesbian'' so the community is trying to fix these issues. Instead of hating on the term ''febfem'', let people just use it if that's what they want. It's better than falsely calling yourself heterosexual or lesbian

[blackswallowtailbutterfly]

Wasn't there a survey by oliviarodrigoisaterf that showed there are proportionately more WOC in terflblr than in general tumblr?

I recall that it showed most women in radblr were white, don't recall the proportions, though.

[radfem-gossip-reborn]

Remember when no one on radblr knew what race realism meant and marked that they agreed with it on that one survey bc they thought it meant like.. acknowledging racism and cultural differences and for a few days we thought radblr was FULL of undercover scientific racists but in reality no one uses google on that one question and the survey basically fell apart and no one talked about it again? That was a doozy lmao

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#radfem gossip #terf safe