Transphobes Thought This Evidence-Based Medicine Guy Was Their Pal. As Usual, They Were Wrong.
Its a bitter irony that so many of those who will sneer at expertise when the experts are saying something different from what their gut is telling them also have a tendency to make full-on icons out of those who they feel do agree with them. As we saw during COVID, any doctor, regardless of their actual field of expertise, who was willing to tell people that the vaccines were bad, that they didnt need to wear masks, that they could just take Ivermectin or something to that effect, was instantly elevated to celebrity (and a whole lot of money).