Dana Jennett Bevan holds a Ph.D. from Princeton University and a Bachelors degree from Dartmouth College both in experimental psychology. She is the author of The Transsexual Scientist which combines biology with autobiography as she came to learn about transgenderism throughout her life. Her second book The Psychobiology of Transsexualism and Transgenderism is a comprehensive analysis of TSTG research and was published in 2014 by Praeger under the pen name Thomas E. Bevan. Her third book Being Transgender was released by Praeger in November 2016. She can be reached at [email protected].
A recent report from the U.S. Surgeon General warned of significant increases in loneliness. The transgender community has been dealing with loneliness for a considerable amount of time. Dana Bevan looks at the problem and has several suggestions on how lonely trans people can move from lonely to connected.
Depression occurs throughout the population but transgender people are subject to a particular kind of depression associated with cultural rejection. Day after day hearing news reports of anti-trans legislation around the country will bring you down for sure. Dr. Dana Bevan looks at the types of depression, examines the drugs used to treat depression, and expounds on some non-drug treatments that may help.
Dana Bevan spent years trying to cover up her feminine nature and present a masculine front to the world. With the passing of her wife Dana began a serious look at herself and realized that she needed to be her true self. After transitioning she thought that the door to dating and romantic relationships was closed and locked. Being sexually attracted to women was the way she was and she had no interest in dating men. A light bulb went on when she learned about lesbians. How did visiting lesbian hangouts work out? Read this post by Dana Bevan.
What causes transgender behavior? That’s a question that has bothered many of us. What is it that makes us want to cross gender borders? Dr. Dana Bevan asked herself that question and decided to search for an answer. Her efforts have determined that it’s not one thing but a number of factors that create transgender behavior. Today she reviews the first four and adds a fifth factor.
Either by action or inaction the LGB part of GLBT is effectively dumping transgender people. The action part is currently most obvious in the UK but the inaction part is currently most obvious in the US. Dana Bevan takes a look at the situation and reports on what’s going on and suggests a solution to fix it.
A U.K. transgender website announced it was going to publish a paper by an anonymous research scientist claiming that being transgender was a “biological condition.” The press was alerted but without warning, before the date the paper was to be published the site issued a tweet canceling publication. Dana Bevan outlines the reasons why.
Many times people become separated from their families. This occurs for a variety of reasons. Oftentimes transgender people either leave their biological family rather than face coming out to them, or, more often, they do come out and are rejected by those who should offer love and support. Today Dana Bevan looks at the idea of finding home in a chosen family.
Jordan Peterson has been in the news this year with his attacks on transgender people’s right to exist. Most notably he took to Twitter to criticize Eliot Page for publishing photos of his remodeled chest, tweeting that “Remember when pride was a sin. And Ellen Page just had her breasts removed by a “criminal physician.” Where did Peterson come from and why is he so anti-trans? Dana Bevan provided his origin story with Jordan Peterson Has No Clothes.
Dr. Dana Bevan reports that schools across the country are using mass amounts of personal information that they collect in order to pathologize children. They are using unproven methods, to diagnose mental illness in students. The information they collect and retain could ruin prospects for high school, college, and jobs for students. In today’s post Dr. Bevan tells you what methods are used and why we should be concerned.
For the past few years our resident transgender scientist has attended a science fiction/fantasy convention in Atlanta called Dragoncon. She doesn’t attend to cosplay as her favorite Star Wars character. She goes to give the science about transgender issues to attendees.
Dana Bevan gives you the latest numbers relating to the transgender community. Her stats were collected in June and cover a lot of ground. From the percentage of young people declaring a trans identity to the number of genes in the DNA of trans people that are different from those in members of the general public, Dana breaks it down for you.
Dana Bevan looks at the four ways that trans kids are being treated by doctors. From affirming care to attempting to change a child’s gender through therapy or applying psychotherapy to “fix” children, the professional medical community has factions that embrace each of the treatment options. It can be confusing but Dana tries to make it easy to understand.
Today Dana Bevan posts about the banning of trans women from competing in high school and college sports. But she wants you to know that, drawing on personal experience playing and coaching amateur teams, “amateur” athletic establishments are unfair to all competitors including trans women. Read on to find out why.
Why do we have transgender desires? That’s a question so hard to answer that most of us just give up pondering it and try to enjoy life. But philosophers keep poking at the problem hoping to one day figure it out. Dr. Dana Bevan catches you up on the latest thinking in philosophy, psychology and physiology in regard to there is free will and what choices we can make.
Earlier in her life Dana Bevan was working in the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv. Today she shares memories of the city. While she was there, and still hiding her transgender nature, she attempted to contact members of the Ukrainian trans community.
Carl Sagan identified some useful tools for detection of faulty arguments that have come to be known as his “Baloney Detection Kit”. Dana Bevan has had experience with articles concerning being transgender and she borrows from Sagan to give you six tools that should be in your Transgender Science Baloney Kit.
The Abolition of Sex is a new anti-transgender book that comes from the extreme left, so-called transgender exclusionary radical feminism. Dana Bevan reviews the book and refutes the assertions the author makes about transgender people.
Dana Bevan feels that the proposed Standards of Care for transgender people concentrates heavily on care for those who are seeking to transition, and ignores a large segment of those who fall under the transgender umbrella. She also finds fault with the WPATH process for commenting on the proposed Standards and with the WPATH data gathering.
Recently, there have been indications that some in the Trans Mental Health Empire are pushing back on affirmative treatment for transgender kids as it is now practiced. In this post Dana Bevan reports on several of the things she feels bear out this concern over trans kids treatment.
Our intrepid reporter Dana Bevan traveled to Cape Cod last month to attend Fantasia Fair 2021. It’s the grand dame of transgender conferences and has been going on since 1974. First it was just for crossdressers. Over the years changes have occurred. Dana tells you all about the inclusion in this report.
Dr. Dana Bevan finds threats to transgender people from the radical right–and from the radical left. In this post she dips into “Premodern” philosophy and the origins and evolution of Modernism and Post Modernism. How does all this affect you in your everyday life? Read on.
Dana Bevan has found that there are five transgender movements: Male to Female Transsexuals, Crossdressers, Indigent Street Transgender People, Female to Male Transsexuals, and Religious Recovery Movements. In this post she gives the story on each movement.
Research into the incidence of HIV infection in trans women seemed to indicate that it was widespread. One study concluded that nearly 30% of transgender women were infected. It would be an appalling number–if it were true. Dana Bevan maintains that such high numbers are not representative of what is actually going on. And she proves it with information about how researchers went about gathering the data they used and how their methods could be tainted by bias.
Dana Bevan looks into the early research going on to determine when children begin to learn about gender and find what their gender is. Science is making a beginning to investigate this area and is the research is benefited by the rise of more transgender children who are supported by their families.
What is your best chance of getting a date? Why should you stay away from narcissists and those with borderline personality problems? Are infatuation, sex and pair-bonding different in the brain? How to succeed in the friend zone after a one-sided infatuation? Dana Bevan looks at the science of love.
Dr. Dana Bevan delves into the effect of the subconscious on the behavior of transgender people. How important are subconscious mechanisms that are built into our nervous systems and brains? While Sigmund Freud became famous by sexualizing, and then popularizing the idea of the subconscious he did not scientific research to back up his “theories” about the subconscious and those assertions are still harming people today.
