Dr. Anne Lawrence, DSM V and other agendas
Submitted to OII by someone who wishes to remain anonymous
January 2009
A few researchers are still trying to propagate the erroneous hypothesis put forward by Ray Blanchard that there are two types of M to F transsexualism: homosexual and autogynephilic transsexualism. One researcher in particular, Anne A Lawrence, continues to beat this hypothesis, milking it for all of its worthlessness, in what may be called the pay-per-view journal Archives of Sexual Behavior. Around 75% of this author's publications appear in Archives of Sexual Behavior.
Peer review publications in this field are not significant when one sees those on the board with whom Lawrence has made affiliations.
A great many peer reviewed journals have the date submitted for a manuscript, date of revision by the author(s) and date accepted. We should have seen this for Archives of Sexual Behavior, knowing the lack of credence given to sexology as a discipline by many. Yet we can read that this journal's readership and citations are up. However, how may times has the Jerry Springer Show's viewership gone up and how many cite that show?
With Dr. Anne Lawrence's career as an anesthesiologist knocked out, we can see that her attendance at the Institute for Advanced Study of Human Sexuality has made some strange bedfellows:
J Michael Bailey, Dr. Anne Lawrence's mentor (although Bailey's writing style in his "Queen" book, seems very much like that of Anne Lawrence, M.D., Ph.D., M.A.)
Ray Blanchard (Anne Lawrence's "fetish guru" who takes a backseat to Paul McHugh for concocting a heterosexual fetish vs. homosexual two-pronged theory of transsexualism) and who also is a tie-in with the Clarke-Northwestern clique
Alice Dreger (an ISNA “associate” along with Bo Laurent aka Cheryl Chase, Charlie Chase, Bonnie Sullivan, Brian Sullivan)
Bo Laurent, like Anne Lawrence, was a student at the Institute for Advanced Study of Human Sexuality and now carries the ISNA fallout into the Accord Alliance.
Dr. Alice Dreger played around with Bo Laurent's ISNA site and is a colleague with Anne Lawrence's mentor J Michael Bailey who has (not surprisingly) championed the work of Dr. Anne Lawrence.
Dr. Meredith Chivers, a student of J Michael Bailey and co-author of Anne Lawrence on the infamous (but flawed) plethysmograph work in transsexuals.
What do we get from Lawrence? What do we get from these associations which Anne Lawrence has made with J Michael Bailey, Meredith Chivers, Alice Dreger, Ray Blanchard and others?
(We still wonder about that position Lawrence has at Lethbridge in the department where Paul Vasey is. You see we heard that Bailey asked Vasey to "comission" Dr. Alice Dreger to rescue Bailey from his debacle at NU by writing some junk pseudoscience and flawed political account as well).
Well, from Dr. Anne Lawrence we do not get science. We instead get psychobabble in the form of one particular fetish (with disregard for the work in transsexuals on phantom genitalia by respectable science such as that by Dr. Ramachandran). We get erroneous information on Romantic love, autogynephilia and transsexualism (by disregarding brain research, notably the work of respectable science such as that found in comparing Helen Fisher with Dick Swaab and Ivanka Savik-Berglund) which show that gender identity and romantic love involve very different neural circuitry, and we also get outright fabrication by Lawrence of the interpretation of other research on Swaab's work. (Yes, he told her so too and we have the proof.)
But when we look at Dr. Anne Lawrence, although we do not have true science, we see that we have alliances. Dr. Anne Lawrence has teamed up with J Michael Bailey, Ray Blanchard, Alice Dreger (who unsuccessfully tried to rescue her colleague J Michael Bailey from his flawed "Queen" misadventures with an equally flawed 60 plus page comedy in Archives of Sexual Behavior), and of course as mentioned, Meredith Chivers (a J Michael Bailey student).
Dr. Bailey, Dr. Blanchard, Dr. Chivers, as well as their "club members" such as Dr. James Cantor and Dr. Paul Vasey all have their hand in Archives of Sexual Behavior, jumping high for none other than editor, whoops, I mean ring leader -in your nose- "Jewelry Queen", Dr. Kenneth J Zucker. Dr. Anne A. Lawrence of course (predictably) is now co-authoring with this one Dr. Kenneth J. Zucker, and as assistant to the "editorial "Jewelry Queen" and "DSM V troll-in-hiding" we think Anne Lawrence is now more than just a lurker to introduce fetishism as a replacement for GID and GIDNOS in the DSM V for both transsexuals and intersexed persons, having already been "captured by the Queen" in a dominating American PSYCHOLOGICAL Association (the OTHER APA) display of ignorance in the form of bulletins on transsexualism and intersex.
Always check because it may be mate?
Well, let's not talk about mate yet, because as Murray Head of "One Night in Bangkok" once said (or sung), "The Queens We Use Will Not Excite you".
But Anne Lawrence's is a bounced check, as is the "Pearl" of Canada.
Certainly, those Neverland victims are in Neverland, and have been taken out of DSM land.
That leaves those pronounced by the "Queen" as fetishists, whether they actually be autogynephilic fetishists, or non-fetishistic individuals at all, such as non-fetishistic intersexed individuals of any sexual orientation and non-fetishistic, non-autogynephilic transsexuals of various sexual orientations to bust the trolls and pseudoscientists.
Those who wear stripes have called others polka dots before. Of course we are not polka dots. We will not be labeled as polka dots.
Can we succeed? Can true science succeed against these pseudoscientists and mislabelers? Can we expose this realm's involvement with the DSM V, with their "invited" chapters, reviews, with Archives of Sexual Behavior pay per view nonsense, with HBIGDA/WPATH collusion (?), with CAMH collusion (?), with NU collusion (?)?????
YES WE CAN. We WILL defeat their "sexological terrorism" and misdeeds. YES WE CAN. YES WE CAN.... with legitimate science, much of which is already out there (despite their vociferous attempts at omitting and suppressing) and legitimate activism.
