TB: You can read more about breast cancer genetic screening and top surgery at their recent publication: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41037762/ #ASHG25

That’s to say, please stop averaging likert scale scores. This is not meaningful

Note of course that you may still code them 1-5 in order to do calculations, like making them a variable in a regression. They just can’t be treated like they are inherently integers in your approach or interpretations

You cannot treat categorical variables as quantities in your analysis. “Strongly agree” is not inherently a number of things. There’s a diff between qual variables & qual analysis. We use qual & quant variables in quant analysis. Thanks for coming to my TED talk

I am all for safely gathered & analyzed SOGI data. But too readily is this data used nefariously or in ways that could dangerously re-identify the patient contributor. It’s critical that we advocate to prevent our erasure from datasets while protecting individual & community privacy interests.

Half the time we were writing this I was asking myself if we were paranoid. Even though I’ve always known we were not and our patients were not, scientists & clinicians have been looking at me like I have three heads for awhile now. It’s easy to gaslight yourself & say this won’t happen.

Wildly, but perhaps unsurprisingly, a data grab for #trans health data began making its way through the TN legislature shortly after this piece was accepted: HB 754 / SB 676

www.capitol.tn.gov/Bills/114/Bi...