Meade Nicolas G, Lepore Christina, Olezeski Christy L, McNamara Meredithe
Department of Psychiatry, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA.
Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA.
Transgend Health. 2024 Aug 16;9(4):281-287. doi: 10.1089/trgh.2022.0198. eCollection 2024 Aug.
Legislation undermining the human rights of transgender and gender-expansive (TGE) people is on the rise. Many U.S. states have passed or proposed laws that restrict gender-affirming health care (GAC), which are largely rooted in scientific disinformation, meaning intentional falsehood. Scientific disinformation presents a significant threat to TGE people, providers of GAC, health care professionals, and the general public. Clinicians, legal advocates, and others need effective strategies to rebut disinformation. This perspective reviews the status of GAC bans and the disinformation strategies that underlie them, and provides practical tools to challenge false claims.
破坏跨性别者和性别认同扩展者(TGE)人权的立法正在增加。美国许多州已经通过或提议了限制性别肯定医疗保健(GAC)的法律,这些法律很大程度上源于科学虚假信息,即故意的虚假内容。科学虚假信息对TGE人群、GAC提供者、医疗保健专业人员和普通公众构成了重大威胁。临床医生、法律倡导者和其他人需要有效的策略来反驳虚假信息。这篇观点文章回顾了GAC禁令的现状及其背后的虚假信息策略,并提供了挑战虚假主张的实用工具。