Political Considerations Must Not Get in the Way of Good Science

and potentially even represents a more sinister attitude of distrust towards the medical profession similar to that found in postmodernism. (What we really need to emphasize more is that, neither side of politics has a monopoly on anti-science attitudes, and both sides of politics are not above denying reality when it suits them.) In reality, modern clinical medicine has a strong emphasis on everything being 'evidence based'. What counts as a medical condition must be based on objective considerations of health and dysfunction, and not the cultural views of society. The description of medical syndromes must be strictly based on clinical experience, and the recommended treatments must be strictly based on clinical evidence. There really is no room for politically motivated influence in modern medical science and clinical medicine.

Political Considerations Must Not Get in the Way of Good Science

While gender dysphoria is a well established and well described medical syndrome, the precise scientific causes of this syndrome remains unclear. In the interests of advancing the scientific understanding of the causes of gender dysphoria, several hypotheses have been offered, including pre-natal hormonal environment abnormalities, hormone receptor mutations, genetic imprinting errors, and so on. Some of these hypotheses could be 'offensive' to either critical theory and postmodern activists, or conservative cultural warriors, or even both. For example, many of these

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