The point of this is explained further down in the article:
> But some people argue that previous research on trans regret and related issues have been poorly done and is outdated.
> "We are starting to see much greater numbers of young people who are seeing that they went down the wrong path for them and they're now left with irreversible changes to their body and they no longer identify as transgender," says Evgenia Abbruzzese, the co-founder of the group Society for Evidence-Based Gender Medicine. "But they are left with these permanent effects."
> She adds: "There are a lot of negative impacts of transition. And regret is definitely one of them," she says. "It's a very important area of medicine to study."
> Others agree.
> "The research on detransition is very useful, it's a very important area," said Michael Biggs, an associate professor of sociology at the University of Oxford. "This is an understudied population to collect systematic data on."
This is a welcome change of direction from an NIH that was captured by the "gender identity" ideological movement.
Consider, for example, that Dr Johanna Olson-Kennedy received $9.7 million in NIH funding to study the effects of puberty blockers on trans-identifying children. After two years, there was no significant mental health improvement - so she refused to publish the findings.
Hopefully this new research into the oft-hidden side of this burgeoning medical scandal will provide data on what's actually been happening.
It says that "gender identity" mustn't be used in lieu of sex and that the ideology that underpins it mustn't be promoted.
So if researchers holding datasets which currently have "gender identity" as a variable instead use more matter-of-fact descriptors like "desires to be the opposite sex" then this should be acceptable.
If researchers want to record "gender identity" or similar ideologically-driven claims then this should have to be justified. And probably labelled as something more to the point, e.g. "does this individual have a strong desire to be the opposite sex?"
Traditional gender roles and stereotypes are part of the reason why some males end up desiring to be women, because they've confused female with feminine. There's nothing wrong with men wearing dresses or indeed any feminine clothing. But thinking this somehow transitions them into being women is ludicrous and sexist.
Ideally we'd be rid of these stereotypes. They're part of the problem.
> Yours, worried and authoritarian, focused on an imaginary moral panic propagated by reactionary Internet forums.
The authoritarian side is the one insisting that males who call themselves women actually are women, and punishing those who disagree. In some states it is actually illegal to have a female-only space. It has to be female plus any male who says he's a woman.
That's not liberty is it, certainly not for women who want or need spaces without any males present.
There are so many cases where this type of policy has demonstrably harmed women. At the most extreme end is males being incarcerated in women's prisons on this basis, who have then raped, sexually assaulted and even impregnated the women locked up with them.
This is the consequence of these "luxury beliefs" capturing institutions of the state.
This isn't the issue. What people choose to do in their personal lives should be accepted or at least tolerated, as long as it's not harming anyone.
> what bathroom they use
This is the problematic part. A male using the women's bathroom is committing a violation against women.
> etc.
This includes males in women's prisons, males in women's changing/locker rooms, males in women's sports. All of which are violations against women.
It isn't about "hating LGBT people" as you suggest, but about compelling males to respect women's and girls' boundaries.
For far too long, a subset of males have been getting away with not doing so, just because these males express a desire to be female. It's quite absurd that it's taken Trump of all people to attempt to rectify this. The political left should have reeled in their activists, who were promoting all this, a long time ago.