Academic Attack Against Transwoman by Alice Dreger

[katia]

Academic Attack Against Transwoman by Alice Dreger

http://www.intersexualite.org/Joelle.html
By Alice Dreger
9/25/2007

'I received this e-mail from a woman who simply made a call for a
paper. I wish to share this with all parties who support the right of
all women to be heard. - Curtis E. Hinkle, Founder: Organisation
Intersex International'

[Thundra]

I know Emi, so I don't think she was necessarily agreeing with Dreger on the subject matter, insomuch as she was agreeing that some of the reaction to Dreger was over the top, and should not be seen as proper. An overreaction perhaps, and very understandable under the circumstances, but bad behavior nonetheless. I think everyone would agree with that.

Dreger is a real piece of work. Talk about behavior unbecoming a scholar. If anyone else behaved badly, she certainly set the bar, did she not?  Her lack of methodology in her own study is so flawed that she ought to be run out of academia. She is a joke.

[Seshatneferw]

Yes, that's the way I read it too: she was agreeing that some of the reaction was excessive (which it was, from an academic point of view, even if it was understandable politically), and also pointing out that tackling controversial issues like this might cause problems career-wise -- just like Ryan herself figured out a bit later. Dreger's actions of course seem a bit, er, unexpected for a professor of bioethics. 

Then again, the history of academia is full of turf wars, some of them literally bloody.

  Nfr