— Orlando, Fla. —
Statistics, research, and analysis
Contact me at: lauren@laurenmcnamara.com (PGP)
My current areas of focus are literature reviews of transgender health and social research as well as critical commentary on coverage of related topics in the press, published at Gender Analysis. If you'd like to help out with these continued efforts, you can support my work on Patreon.
Work and publications
Investigating transgender health claims- New - April 2021: Study of trans youth and their parents reveals fatal flaw of "rapid onset gender dysphoria" (Published in An Injustice! Magazine)
- A "4,400% increase" in transmasculine youth presenting at UK gender clinics is due to an increase from 0.0007% to 0.03% of all AFAB youth (June 2020)
- Tracing the origin of "rapid onset gender dysphoria" to three anti-trans groups in July 2016 (June 2017)
- Co-occurrence of gender dysphoria and autism, and misrepresenting gender dysphoria as a secondary symptom of autism (January 2017)
- No evidence to support treating gender dysphoria with antipsychotics (December 2016)
- Chronic depersonalization-derealization disorder in untreated gender dysphoria and its remission with transitioning (June 2017)
- Themes of depersonalization and derealization in transgender autobiographies, 1967-2015 (September 2017)
- Photogrammetric analysis of an anti-trans bathroom hoax video (April 2016)
- American Enterprise Institute misuses linear regression for highly variable short-term COVID-19 trends (May 2020)
- The trans passing paradox: Influences on subjective perception and attribution of gender (June 2016)
- Off-by-10 errors in media coverage of transgender demography (May 2016)
- Did California state prisons perform unethical medical experiments on trans women in 1987? (December 2018)
- Review: "Galileo's Middle Finger" by Alice Dreger — Autogynephilia and the misrepresentation of trans sexualities (March 2016)
In the press
- Slate Magazine: How Lisa Littman's "rapid onset gender dysphoria" study mischaracterized the real condition of depersonalization (September 2018)
- Letter: Littman’s "rapid-onset gender dysphoria" research is academically irresponsible in the Brown Daily Herald (September 2018)
- Some advice on passing for Dara Hoffman-Fox LPC (May 2015)
- "You're so... you!" in Autostraddle (March 2013)
About me
I grew up in the south surburbs of Chicago, moved to Orlando, Florida in 2011 and live with my wife Heather and our two sons. I participated in Math Olympiad from grades 3-8 and was president of the Science Club in my sophomore year. Some of my previous positions and roles include data journalism, fact-checking, health news blogging, and managing highly effective online content marketing campaigns for Fortune 500 clients.
- Dean's list, Valencia College (spring/summer/fall 2019, spring 2020), University of Central Florida (fall 2020/spring 2021)
- Excellence in Action Award, University of Central Florida (fall 2020)
- Member, Alpha Alpha Alpha (Tri-Alpha) Honor Society, Beta Sigma chapter
Among my interests and passions are hiking, biking, making home-cooked meals, minerals, Eastern European and Baltic holidays, databases, systems analysis, severe weather, astrophysics, stationery, Zdzisław Beksiński, Robert Ryman, deep dish pizza, Norwegian, coffee, and cats.
Hiking with Heather:
Constantine (left) and Blueberry:
