It's been nearly five years since psychology Prof. Michael Bailey's "The Man Who Would be Queen" was published, but it is still generating a steady stream of controversy. Earlier tussles have dissected the book's content, research methods and the methods transsexual activists employed to discredit the professor. Now there is a dispute over an article originally published online last year in the Archives of Sexual Behavior by NU visiting Prof. Alice Dreger that examined the methods the transsexual activists used in opposition.
Last month, Robin Mathy filed ethics complaints against both Dreger and Bailey with the American Psychological Association, which accredits NU's psychology department. Unlike the most vocal opponents of Dreger and Bailey's work, Mathy is an accredited psychologist and a clinical research fellow at the University of Minnesota's Medical School. She also filed a charge with the Illinois Board of Examiners of Psychology for Bailey's alleged misrepresentation of himself as psychologist.
Mathy's charges focus on the professional connections between the board of the Archives of Sexual Behavior and Bailey. In the article, Bailey and Dreger both expressed that having sex with a research subject is not inherently wrong.
Mathy said Dreger was wrong to submit her article to the ASB, which is edited by Kenneth Zucker, who has had contact with Bailey and has similar views on transsexuality. By doing this, she said Dreger sought to bypass the peer review process, which ensures research remains unbiased.
"This is a blatant conflict of interest," Mathy said. "(Dreger) exploited a key network friendship with Michael Bailey to get a truly horrible paper published."
While Bailey was accused of having sex with the research subject known as "Juanita", the charge was never proven conclusively. Meanwhile the research subject Dreger admitted to having sex with was her husband.
This did not matter to Mathy, nor did Bailey's alleged sexual activity.
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Alice Dreger
posted 2/27/08 @ 11:40 AM CST
I would have expected Mr. Gsovski (who seems to me, from previous experience, a fine reporter) to look into Ms. Mathy's claims and thus to see they had no merit before giving her a public forum to try to damage my reputation. (Continued…)
Curtis Hinkle
posted 2/27/08 @ 3:34 PM CST
I think that Alice Dreger did get things wrong in her article defending J Michael Bailey.
I feel that this article should have explored what appeared to many to be alleged defamation and Abuse of Research Subjects/Case Studies at Northwestern University
I have spent hours speaking with Anjelica Kieltyka and reading the interview transcripts that Dreger had. (Continued…)
Aron Sousa, MD
posted 2/27/08 @ 4:44 PM CST
I have been referenced in Mr. Gsovski's article as a research subject with whom Dr. Dreger had sex. Let me say that I think both the research and the sex were/are excellent. (Continued…)
Curtis Hinkle
posted 2/27/08 @ 6:17 PM CST
Some factual challenges to Dreger's article defending Bailey:
Please read the following paragraph on Alice Dreger's blog in response to Joan Roughgarden:
"Prof. (Continued…)
Boo
posted 2/28/08 @ 6:56 AM CST
Since Dreger has showed up to defend herself here, perhaps she could answer some questions:
Why did you uncritically repeat the claim that Andrea James attacks any transwoman who won't say they were or are a woman trapped in a man's body, when quick use of the search engine on Andrea's website reveals that she believes gender is a social construction and the only places she uses the phrase "woman trapped in a man's body" is to ridicule it?
Do you truly believe there is nothing, shall we say, askew about publishing this paper in ASB, when the ASB editorial board is packed with members of CAMH, whose work Bailey lionizes in his book, not to mention Bailey cheerleader Anne Lawrence, not to mention Bailey himself?
If Angelica Kieltyka is as disturbed as you claim, was it not unethical of Bailey to use her as a research subject? Or was Bailey simply incapable of recognizing that his "open and honest" research subject was actually a lying psychotic until she began to disagree with h
Rupunzel
posted 2/28/08 @ 10:17 AM CST
Dreger, Bailey, Blanchard, Zucker and others sharing similar beliefs are the "self proclaimed" experts in their chosen field. They support each other by reinforcement within their own belief system and refuse to believe or respect the fact they could be wrong. (Continued…)
Diane
posted 2/28/08 @ 6:33 PM CST
I agree that Bailey as well as Dreger should be admonished for their faulty and demeaning attitude against those who once suffered as having been diagnosed as transsexuals but now feel born with Harry Benjamin Syndrome (HBS) better fits what and who they really were before physical correction. (Continued…)
ronnie
posted 2/29/08 @ 1:36 PM CST
Thank you Curtis for clarifying this further and dismantling Dreger's nonsense. Just by reading the other commentaries on Conway's, James, sites and more of the e-mails than Dreger let's us see in the articles, we can see how Dreger's "selective edit" mentality
is at work when we read her article. (Continued…)
Lisanne Anderson
posted 3/01/08 @ 1:33 AM CST
Attempts to discredit the Bailey using the "article" "written" for SPLC's Intelligencer are absurd. No attempt was made to check the veracity of the charges made, no concerns was given to balance the story with information known to those close to the events whose perspective was different. (Continued…)
Willow Arune
posted 3/01/08 @ 10:08 AM CST
Ye Gawds! Will this nonsense ever end? The same case of characters - Curtis Hinkle, Boo, Rupunzel, Diane and others attacking Bailey and now Dreger. (Continued…)
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