The Shocking Research On Sexuality They're Trying To Hide - Michael Bailey

What happened with your recent article?

So the short answer is that our recent article has been retracted by the publisher of the journal Archives of Sexual Behavior, where it was published. Retraction is something, uh, I've never had an article retracted before and it's something that I've associated with terrible, uh, things like fraud, plagiarism, grievous mistakes. None of that is true about our article. Uh, frankly and honestly, our article was retracted because of the ideas and the evidence it pred- presented that angered transgender activists and their allies who pressured the publisher, who either agreed with them, uh, based on politics or chickened out or were worried about business concerns. I can't read their mind, obviously. But I will say that the retraction was a sham. Um, I, I would also say that the retraction has backfired entirely from their perspective. Our article has gotten far more attention than it ever would have. The publisher, Springer Nature Group, keeps metrics on this. Our article has been downloaded almost 100,000 times which is, you know, uh, that's not perhaps a big deal for mainstream media, but for an academic article, that is extreme. Uh, we have received more news coverage. We're, we're about, um, 40, ranked 40 out of 400,000 articles of about the same age in terms of media coverage. Uh, here we are talking, you know, I'm on a big co- podcast with you, uh, and, uh, there have been articles and so on. So I'm not hurting. Uh, I just want people to download and read our article and don't pay attention to the retac- retraction notice. It, it's meaningless.

If people wanna get a hold of the now forbidden article, where are they, where should they go?

Same place they ever did. Our article was published open access. That means we actually had, um, funding from, uh, Society for Eviden- Evidence-Based Gender Medicine, uh, SEGM, to, um, uh, publish the article for free reading. You know, most articles, academic articles have a pay wall that non-academics can't get through easily. There's no pay wall. The retraction simply means, (laughs) uh, uh, for practical purposes, that Springer stamped the words "retracted article" on every single page of the article which you c- it doesn't affect your ability to read it. And frankly, I, uh, wear those words as a badge of honor now.

That makes it kinda sexy. It makes, it-

(laughs)

It feels like it's a top secret seal. So what's the, there's someone that's listening that wants to go and search, what should, what should they search for on the internet in order to get this article up in the right form?

Uh, you know, so what I search (laughs) in order to go to the site to keep track on our current metrics, you know, I'm really waiting for when we get $100,000 view, I'm sorry, 100,000 views. Uh, Diaz, D-I-A-Z, Bailey, B-A-I-L-E-Y, ROGD for rapid onset gender dysphoria which is what it's about. And then you'll have, uh, links to choose from. Choose the one that says Springer and that'll take you right to the site. You can read the article right there.