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Brown University is in Denial About Transgender Reality

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Brown University, perhaps the quirkiest of the Ivy League schools, recently removed from its website information about a peer-reviewed study on gender confusion. The study is called “Rapid-onset gender dysphoria in adolescents and young adults.” It looks at hundreds of cases of young people with a condition that appears during or after puberty in individuals who have not previously experienced gender dysphoria. Why the censorship? University officials couldn’t point fingers at the source. The peer-reviewed descriptive study was done by Lisa Littman, a faculty member in Brown’s own School of Public Health. It recently appeared published in the well-respected scientific journal PLOS ONE. They pointed fingers at the content, which did not, it seems, sufficiently support the transgender cause. There’s an alarming trend of adolescents suddenly announcing they’re in the wrong body. We should all want to know why. Dean of the School of Public Health Bess H. Marcus defended its removal. S...