{"id":506366,"date":"2021-03-30T19:48:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-30T19:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glaad.logalt.net\/tap\/debra-soh\/"},"modified":"2023-04-21T22:29:39","modified_gmt":"2023-04-21T22:29:39","slug":"debra-soh","status":"publish","type":"gap","link":"https:\/\/glaad.org\/gap\/debra-soh\/","title":{"rendered":"Debra Soh"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u2014Wrote<\/a> a column opposing conversion therapy bans, suggesting that gender-affirmative care in young people is \u201cgoing down a path of sterilization and irreversible surgery.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014Misrepresented desistance <\/a>to Joe Rogan, saying, \u201call of the research actually shows that most of these kids\u2014the vast majority of them are more likely to be gay in adulthood, they\u2019re not going to be transgender.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u2014Wrote a column<\/a> promoting the idea of rapid-onset gender dysphoria (ROGD), citing a flawed study. The study examined a hypothesized condition of social contagion, but upon review following its initial publication, journal editors determined that ROGD has not yet been \u201cclinically validated<\/a>\u201d and that the research was marred by \u201cgoals, methodology, and conclusions\u201d\u2026 \u201cnot adequately framed in the published version\u201d of the study and which \u201cneeded to be corrected.\u201d The column, without evidence, suggests that parents would erroneously find a \u201csolution\u201d \u201cby allowing a child to transition, a feminine boy now presents as a feminine girl.\u201d The column suggests that homophobia among parents, not support for trans children, is the reason for parents seeking gender-affirmative care. <\/p>\n

\u2014Told Ben Shapiro<\/a> that the disproportionate number of men to women in STEM careers \u201cis not due to sexism,\u201d but rather differences in \u201cexposure to prenatal testosterone\u201d that drive different interests in careers.<\/p>\n

\u2014Authored the 2020 book The End of Gender<\/em><\/a>, in which Soh claims that nonbinary biological sex diversity, gender as a social construct, and gender dysphoria in children necessitating transition are \u201cmyths.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":435,"featured_media":0,"template":"","categories":[138754],"tags":[],"region":[138565],"hashtag":[138636,138635],"class_list":{"0":"post-506366","1":"gap","2":"type-gap","3":"status-publish","5":"category-gaps","6":"region-national","7":"hashtag-anti-transgender","8":"hashtag-commentator"},"aioseo_notices":[],"apple_news_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t