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From: dyer@vaxuum.DEC (This did not happen to/Pablo Picasso)
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Subject: Re: Innate Sexual Differences
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Date: Mon, 19-Aug-85 14:20:21 EDT
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Re: Innate Sexual Differences___________________________________________________

> So, Jym, what could possibly give us all better observations of which factors
> in humans are dependent on hormones, and which are not, than the observations
> of humans who have experienced both male and female hormones?

	I already told you what.  Said observations tempered with rigorous sci-
entific controls.  As far as I can tell, though, there are so many variables to
be controlled that a valid scientific study would be terribly inhumane.
	I said that your observations, alone, were not valid (i.e., not accept-
able as scientific knowledge).  I did not say that they were not valuable.  I
recognize that science cannot discover everything.

> I've seen too many articles here rejecting . . . my ability to make observa-
> tions unclouded by subjective factors, to believe that my viewpoint can be
> accepted as objective.

	If my article is one of the ones you refer to, you're taking it much too
personally.  It has nothing to do with you, personally; it has nothing to do
with your being a transsexual; and it has nothing to do with a desire on my part
to silence outspoken women (as somebody else implied).
	My article was not about you, or transsexuals, or outspoken women; it
was about people in and out of the field of psychology who make "conclusions"
based on flawed research.  Recall my emphasis that most of these people were
male and making sexist assumptions.
		<_Jym_>

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