TransActual also noted the high potential for bias in the study, headed by researchers at King’s College London, due to its senior personnel. The group noted that Deputy Chief Investigator Dr. Michael Absoud has links to The Society for Evidence-Based Gender Medicine (SEGM), a Southern Poverty Law Center-designated anti-LGBTQ+ hate group.

“We fear this study is designed from the outset to arrive at a specific conclusion, and so will not generate good scientific evidence. Indeed, it cannot while it operates in such a coercive manner, inducing desperate trans people to perform whichever version of trans-ness a panel of doctors will accept,” TransActual’s press release reads.