Template:Did you know nominations/Transgender health care misinformation

• ... that transgender health care misinformation has been used to justify legislative restrictions on minor's transgender health care in the United States and United Kingdom?

• Reviewed:

Your Friendly Neighborhood Sociologist ⚧ Ⓐ (talk) 00:03, 14 January 2025 (UTC).

• Comment - a careful reading of the source shows that the main hook is not explicitly verified. The source says that misinformation has led to policy restrictions on health care for transgender people in the U.S. (instead of minors' transgender health care in the United States and United Kingdom). The source does go on to discuss bans on gender-affirming care for minors and misinformation continues to impact support for these bans, but then misinformation has been used to justify legislative restrictions is not verified, and the support is not clarified as legislative support or public support. What would be verified is that transgender health care misinformation has been used to justify legislative restrictions on transgender health care in the United States. In any case, a peer reviewed source would be better than the non-profit Kaiser Family Foundation. Also, there is a questionable sentence in the lede to clear up and stuff about Australia too. starship.paint (talk / cont) 13:40, 16 January 2025 (UTC)

Hows ALT1 ...that transgender health care misinformation, such as the claim most pre-pubertal transgender children "desist", has been used to justify legislative restrictions on minor's transgender health care? [1] Your Friendly Neighborhood Sociologist ⚧ Ⓐ (talk) 16:56, 17 January 2025 (UTC)

• Quick comment: this is a much better source (accessible by WP:TWL, but I think more elaboration is needed for the above (i.e. desist from what? gender dysphoria / wanting to transition) but the hook has no space for it. I'd propose the below based on this source, but the below hook content will need to be added to the Wikipedia article. starship.paint (talk / cont) 14:42, 19 January 2025 (UTC)
  • Perhaps ...that legislative bans on minor's transgender health care have been justified with transgender health care misinformation such as the "desistance myth"?[2] Your Friendly Neighborhood Sociologist ⚧ Ⓐ (talk) 01:06, 28 January 2025 (UTC)
    • The term "desistance myth" does not appear in the McNamara source (the only mention of myth is in the references) cited above. The term "desistance myth" appears in the Natacha Kennedy source, which at a quick glance doesn't seem to discuss legislative bans. Hence, the above hook would be WP:SYNTH. starship.paint (talk / cont) 14:53, 29 January 2025 (UTC)

ALT2 ... that transgender health care misinformation has been used by authorities in the American states of Alabama, Florida and Texas to justify legislative restrictions on minors' transgender health care? [3] starship.paint (talk / cont) 14:42, 19 January 2025 (UTC)

• I've got two issues with this ALT. 1) I think it's important to include some specific piece of misinfo 2) The scope seems way too narrow relative to the article - We have the endocrine society saying 18 states banned GAC based on misinfo in 2023[4] and the APA et al saying misinformation about ROGD was involved in many of over 100 proposed anti-trans bills in 2021 [5] - seems weird to pick out 3 states when 26 now ban care. Your Friendly Neighborhood Sociologist ⚧ Ⓐ (talk) 01:06, 28 January 2025 (UTC)
  • Well, I only picked out 3 states because that's what kind of what that particular source did (picked out 4 states in particular, but the character count only could fit 3). starship.paint (talk / cont) 08:24, 29 January 2025 (UTC)

Alternatively, ALT3 ... that due to transgender health care misinformation, over 18 states in the United States banned gender-affirming care for minors in 2023, encompassing over 30% of trans children in the country?[6] Your Friendly Neighborhood Sociologist ⚧ Ⓐ (talk) 01:06, 28 January 2025 (UTC)

• I'd like to workshop ALT1 with you because I do think having a specific example would be educational and a good hook, however, this hook is really engaging as well, better covers the scope of the issue, and with a top tier source that's also more accessible! Your Friendly Neighborhood Sociologist ⚧ Ⓐ (talk) 01:06, 28 January 2025 (UTC)
  • @Your Friendly Neighborhood Sociologist: - ALT3 has a bunch of information not from the source, you really should be more careful not to go beyond what the source says. (a) Source says 18, not "over 18". (b) Source says "gender-affirming care ... even restricting transgender and gender-diverse adults’ access to care", not "gender-affirming care for minors". (c) Source is from 2023, but it doesn't say "in 2023", so maybe the bans could be in 2022 or earlier. (d) Source says "30 percent of the nation’s transgender and gender-diverse youth", not "30% of trans children". (e) Source attributes 30% figure to Human Rights Campaign, so it's not the source's own voice, but you used Wikivoice. (f) Source doesn't explicitly say that the 30% come from the 18 states, logically there could be more states that banned, maybe not from misinformation, but your "encompassing over 30%" directly links the 18 states to the 30%. Having six issues in only one sentence really does not spark confidence (is the rest of the article of the same quality?!) - and should really spark reflection on why this happened. Even more concerning that this came about after I pointed out inaccuracies in the original hook compared to the source! starship.paint (talk / cont) 08:18, 29 January 2025 (UTC)
  • If I were to write ALT3, I would avoid the part attributed to Human Rights Campaign ALT3A ... that due to transgender health care misinformation, 18 states in the United States had banned gender-affirming care by 2023? [7] starship.paint (talk / cont) 08:18, 29 January 2025 (UTC)