“This kid needed mental health counseling, not a new set of pronouns.”

Solving problems requires a willingness to acknowledge and address the underlying causes of those problems. One of the problems we face here in the US is a huge increase in kids suffering from severe mental health problems during the past 10 years. These problems include severe Depression and Suicidal thoughts. Another problem is an increase in school shootings – where kids and young adults fire dozens of bullets in a school in an attempt to kill as many children and teachers as possible. A third problem has been a rapid increase in kids joining the Trans Drug Cult – under the brainwashing of extremely misguided teachers and extremely corrupt politicians. In this article, we will review the connections between these three problems.

Trans Cult young man kills two small children in Minneapolis Catholic School
On August 27, 2025, a severely mentally ill 23-year-old man fired 116 bullets into a Catholic School in Minneapolis – killing two children ages 8 and 10 – and wounding 17 others, including 14 children. The young man then committed suicide by shooting himself in the parking lot behind the church.

The man’s birth name was Robert Westman. Westman suffered through a turbulent childhood and attended several different schools. In 2013, Westman’s parents got divorced. For five years, from 2016 through 2021, his mother worked at this Catholic school – which Robert attended until graduating from 8^th Grade in 2017. He then attended an all boys Catholic school called Saint Thomas Academy.

On January 26, 2018, police were called to a townhouse in the Twin Cities suburb where Westman lived with his mother. The heavily redacted police report included a two-word description explaining why an officer was dispatched to that address: mental health.

Westman then attended a Minneapolis public school called Southwest High School where the math proficiency rate is only 42% and the reading rate is only 47% according to NCES. This high academic failure rate has led to a huge decline in enrollment. In 2021, Westman took a graduation photo but failed to appear for the graduation ceremony:

Six years before his killing spree, in 2019, Robert – who had suffered from Depression for years - decided he was really a girl. His mother helped him legally change his name from Robert to Robin.

After high school, Westman was not able to hold down any steady job. Here is an August 2025 picture of Robert with long hair and ear rings pretending to be a girl:

It is important to understand that Minnesota, like Washington state, is a leader in promoting the Trans Drug Cult. In 2024, Minnesota Governor (and former Vice Presidential candidate) Tim Walz, signed an executive order making Minnesota a “Trans Sanctuary State” meaning that kids who traveling to Minnesota from other states can be given toxic Trans drugs without the knowledge or consent of their parents. (Washington is also a Trans Sanctuary State)

Two years earlier, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey signed Executive Order 2022-04 making Minneapolis a Trans Sanctuary City. It is important to understand that there is no scientific basis for any part of the Trans Drug Cult. It is all based on lies pushed by drug corporations that make billions of dollars selling toxic drugs, like Cross Sex hormones and puberty blockers, to victims of this Trans Drug Cult. It is also important to understand that kids who fall victim to the Trans Drug Cult almost always suffered from serious untreated mental health problems prior to deciding that they wanted to be a different sex. Here is a link to an article documenting this fact:

https://washingtonparentsnetwork.com/trans-drug-cult/part-i/4-why-kids-should-be-given-counseling-instead-of-drugs

Sadly, 23 states have banned giving Counseling to Gender Confused kids. This is because corrupt politicians like Bob Ferguson and Tim Walz have falsely claimed that kids will kill themselves if you give them counseling instead of drugs. The “drugs only” states include Washington and Minnesota. The fine for providing a child with counseling to deal with their Gender Confusion in Washington is $5,000 plus loss of license!

While some claim that the motives for Westman killing kids is not clear, Westman left writings and videos that clearly explained his motives. Here are quotes from Westman:

“I have wanted this for so long. I am not well. I am not right. I am a sad person, haunted by these thoughts that do not go away. I know this is wrong but I can’t seem to stop myself. I am severely depressed and have been suicidal for years. Only recently have I lost all hope and decided to perform my final action against this world.”

“I’m tired of being trans, I wish I never brain-washed myself.”

“I think I am dying of cancer. It’s a tragic end as its entirely self-inflicted. I did this to myself as I cannot control myself and have been destroying my body through vaping and other means. I think I have lung cancer.”

“I don’t want to dress girly all the time but I guess sometimes I really like it. I know I am not a woman but I definitely don’t feel like a man.”

“Unfortunately, due to my depression, anger, and twisted mind, I want to fulfill a final act that has been in the back of my head for years.”

Six Trans School shooters in the past 8 years

Historically, much less than one percent of the US population has been Transgender. However, recent surveys have shown an explosion in the percent of gender confused kids since 2016 to the point that it is currently at least 3% and perhaps as much as 5% of all kids in our middle schools and high schools. There has also been a dramatic increase in the number of Trans School Shooters. Prior to 2018, I could not find a single incident of a Trans School Shooter. However, since 2018, there have been six Trans School Shooters in the past 8 years:

 

For example, in March 2023, Audrey Hale, a severely depressed person, murdered three children and three staffers in a shooting at Covenant School in Nashville, Tennessee. Similar to Westman, Hale left behind a rambling manifesto hinting at severe depression and a desire to take her own life in an act of violence targeting innocent victims.

For years, I have written articles providing evidence and explaining why Transgenderism is a mental health problem and not a physical problem. I have warned that these kids need mental health counseling and not merely new pronouns. However, despite the above, some politicians still insist that Trans kids are no different from other kids and that with so many school shootings, some school shooters are bound to be Trans.

NBC has a website where they keep track of school shootings. According to their website, there have been 42 school shootings since 2018. Their tracker focuses on the segment of planned school shootings where an active shooter, with intent to harm, injures or kills at least one student or faculty member during school or at a school event. Here is a link to their web page:

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/school-shooting-tracker-n969951

Below is a table of these school shootings by year:

Year	# School shootings
2018	8
2019	5
2020	1
2021	4
2022	7
2023	8
2024	4
2025 thru August	5
Total	42

6 Trans School Shootings divided by 42 total school shootings equals 14% of all school shootings since 2018.

 

A child’s mental health problems are best resolved through counseling

A child’s mental health problems are best resolved through counseling to help the child understand the underlying cause of their problems.

A study of talk therapy found that 20 weeks of counseling reduced suicidal thoughts by 60 to 80%.

By contrast, giving kids drugs instead of counseling makes their problems worse

For example, a study of gender confused kids in Australia found that 89% of them suffered from mental health problems before being given Trans Drugs – and 88% still suffered from mental health problems after 4 years of being given Trans Drugs. So giving kids drugs does not solve their mental health problems. In fact, the drugs make their problems even worse!

Mental health problems need to be treated NOT normalized

Most youth swept up into the Trans Drug Cult are not violent. They are victims, turned into pawns by drug corporations that exploit their suffering. The medical establishment feeds them pseudoscience about being “born in the wrong body” and profits from irreversible interventions that do nothing to resolve their deeper mental health problems. The lesson from Minneapolis is that ideologies which separate people from reality—about changing their sex simply by changing their pronouns - and about “magic bullet” cures for their misery—are profoundly dangerous. When you take a generation of mentally depressed youth and tell them they are trapped in the wrong body, that suicide is imminent if denied access to toxic drugs, you create a powder keg. Westman’s rampage shows what happens when that powder keg explodes. The only humane path forward is to tell the truth – that it is impossible to change a person’s sex no matter how many drugs they take. If we fail to do this, we will see more tragedies like Minneapolis.

The claim by the Trans Drug Cult is that it is perfectly normal for a boy to pretend to be a girl or a girl to pretend to be a boy is ridiculous. Study after study has shown that such kids have suffered about twice as many adverse events as normal kids – and that they have much more serious mental health problems than normal kids. These gender confused kids need counseling – not toxic drugs that only make their problems worse. This is a problem in states like Washington and Minnesota – where child counseling for gender confused kids is banned.

The good news is that Washington and Minnesota laws that ban child counseling will likely be overturned by the US Supreme Court this Fall 2025 in the case called Chiles v Salazar.

Here is a link to all of the Amicus briefs that have been filed in this case:

https://www.scotusblog.com/cases/case-files/chiles-v-salazar/

Here is a link to the 72 page brief filed by Chiles:

https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/24/24-539/362492/20250606115635027_24-359%20Brief%20of%20Petitioner.pdf

In deciding this case, the Supreme Court will also overturn Catholic Services v Whitmer and Ferguson v Tingley – both laws of which blatantly violate the first amendment rights of counselors and families.

Here is a link to a June 6, 2025 article I wrote explaining why this Supreme Court ruling will be the beginning of the end for the Ferguson Trans Drug Cult.

https://washingtonparentsnetwork.com/family-rights/us-supreme-court-set-to-overturn-bob-ferguson-scam

It is time to prepare for the 2028 election here in Washington state
There is only one way to end the Trans Cult lies to our kids and parents. We need to work hard to organize parents, grandparents and other concerned citizens. We need to set up community news websites to get the truth out to Independent voters. The US Supreme Court can and will help us by overturning Tingley v Ferguson by the end of 2025. But we also need to do our part.

Ferguson and Reykdal are both currently ignoring the 2023 US Supreme Court decision in Students v Harvard and the 2024 US Supreme Court decision in Tennessee v Cardona. If we do not have a way of reaching Independent voters, they will also just ignore the coming Supreme Court decision in Chiles v Salazar. Our plan is to submit a comprehensive Family Rights Initiative to the People in either 2026 or 2028 that among many other goals, restores the right of gender confused kids to the child counseling they urgently need.

We hope you will take the time to join us and work with us to protect our kids and our families from the Trans Drug War being waged against them by Reykdal and Ferguson. We will review our next steps at our Washington Parents Network meeting this coming Sunday, August 31st from 4 to 5 pm. For a link to our meeting, send us an email.

As always, we look forward to your questions and comments.

Regards,

David Spring M. Ed.

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For the past 5 years, both Chris Reykdal and Bob Ferguson have falsely claimed that a 2020 US Supreme Court Employment Law case called Bostock applied to a federal Education Law called Title IX. Reykdal and Ferguson repeatedly used Bostock to support their ridiculous claim that Title IX required allowing boys to compete in girls sports – when in fact Title IX is about protecting the right of biological girls to their own sports leagues and private spaces and thus prohibits boys from competing in girls sports. Based on their upside down interpretation of Title IX, boys pretending to be girls have been allowed to win Girls State Track Championships in Washington, Oregon, California, Maine, New Hampshire and Connecticut. Now, their Bostock “House of Cards” is about to come crashing down. The truth is about to come out and their past 5 years of lies is about to be exposed.

On July 3, 2025, the US Supreme Court announced that, in October, they will decide two cases - both of which prohibited states from protecting female sports from domination by male athletes. But the Supreme Court will also decide much more than that. Their ruling will also decide once and for all the meaning of Title IX and whether boys can be allowed in girls locker rooms and bathrooms. Their ruling will also clarify the meaning of the 14^th Amendment and whether boys pretending to be girls are a “protected class” under the 14^th Amendment. In this article, we will look at each of these two cases and explain why this coming US Supreme Court session could be the beginning of the end of the Trans Drug Cult here in Washington state.

Background
Both Idaho and West Virginia passed laws prohibiting boys from competing in girls sports and entering girls private spaces. However, controversial circuit court rulings stopped enforcement of those both of those laws. Ironically, the Fourth Circuit court in the West Virginia case, called West Virginia V. B.P.J., ruled that Title IX allowed boys to compete in girls sports. By contrast, the Ninth Circuit court in the Idaho case, called Little v Hecox, ruled that the 14^th Amendment allowed boys to compete in girls sports. Several other Circuit Courts found that Title IX prohibited boys from competing in girls sports. In addition, the US Supreme Court in August 2024 in the case of Tennessee v Cardona ruled that Title IX protected the right of girls to their own sports leagues and private spaces. So it is highly likely that the Supreme Court will overturn both the Fourth and Ninth Circuit decisions in October. We will review both the West Virginia and Idaho case to better understand their similarities and differences.

West Virginia v B.P.J.
In this case, the Supreme Court will answer two legal questions:

(1) Whether Title IX prevents a state from consistently designating girls and boys sports teams based on biological sex determined at birth?

(2) Whether the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment prevents a state from offering separate boys and girls sports teams based on biological sex determined at birth?

Here is the link to the case files for this Petition:
https://www.scotusblog.com/cases/case-files/west-virginia-v-b-p-j-2-2/

This case file includes links to a dozen Amicus briefs filed in this case.

West Virginia Governor Patrick Morrisey thanked the Supreme Court for taking up the state’s case: “I am pleased that the Supreme Court is taking up West Virginia V. B.P.J., a case I worked tirelessly on as Attorney General. I am optimistic that after hearing the case, the Supreme Court will restore sanity to athletics and allow West Virginia to enforce its common sense law that prevents boys from competing in girl’s sports.”

Here is a brief history of this case
West Virginia schools offer separate sports teams for boys and girls. The West Virginia Legislature concluded that biological boys should compete on boys and co-ed teams but not girls teams. This separation made sense, the Legislature found, because of the "inherent physical differences between biological males and biological females."

A parent sued on behalf of her child, B.P.J., arguing that the State must allow biological boys who identify as girls to compete on girls' teams. The district court disagreed, entering summary judgment for the State under both the Equal Protection Clause of the 14^th Amendment and Title IX. Sadly, a divided Fourth Circuit panel reversed the District Court and found in favor of B.P.J. who then beat and displaced hundreds of girls in track and field.

One of the Fourth Circuit judges, Judge Agee dissented, criticizing the majority for "inappropriately expanding the scope of the Equal Protection Clause of the 14^th Amendment and upending the essence of Title IX." He hoped this Supreme Court would "take the opportunity with all deliberate speed to resolve these questions of national importance."

Here is a link to the most recent brief filed by West Virginia on June 23, 2025 and explaining why the Supreme Court should take up this case:

https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/24/24-43/363722/20250623141402813_BPJ%20Supplemental%20Brief.pdf

Here are quotes from this brief:

“The State of West Virginia and 26 other States have confronted a serious social debate and concluded that biological boys should not compete on girls’ athletics teams.”

“The Fourth Circuit’s decision here relied in part on circuit precedent from outside the athletics context that mistakenly invoked Bostock to justify an onerous standard under Title IX. “

(My note: Bostock was a 2020 Employment Law case that has also been mistakenly applied to Title IX by Chris Reykdal and Bob Ferguson. Title IX is an Education law and not an Employment law).

“The decision below has since been used to justify the same misguided approach elsewhere. See California v. DOJ filed June 9, 2025).”

(My note: California v DOJ is a lawsuit challenging the Trump DOJ Taskforce attempt to enforce Title IX. The California Attorney General, like Chris Reykdal and Bob Ferguson mistakenly claims that Bostock applies to Title IX – despite the fact that more than a dozen federal courts have stated that Bostock does not apply to Title IX. Once the Supreme Court clarifies Bostock, that will be the end of Chris Reykdal and Bob Ferguson’s ridiculous legal argument for allowing boys to take over girls sports.)

“Skrmetti leaves open a further question affecting the equal-protection analysis: whether transgender persons constitute a quasi-suspect class.”

(My note: Skrmetti is a recent Supreme Court decision ruling that Tennessee can ban toxic Trans drugs from being given to minors. While three Supreme Court Justices wrote that Transgenderism is not a protected class, it was not part of the Skrmetti decision but it will have to be answered this Fall because both cases involve the 14^th Amendment protected class issue. It has been more than 70 years since the Supreme Court has created a new protected class. It is likely that the Court will rule that Transgenderism is not a protected class).

“Girls deserve a safe, fair playing field today—not years from now—and the ruling’s present harm to women and girls is stark. When biological males compete on women’s teams, female athletes lose championships, opportunities, and scholarships and suffer serious harms and safety risks.”

Little v Hecox
In this case, the Supreme Court will answer one legal question:

Whether laws that seek to protect women's and girls' sports by limiting participation to women and girls based on sex violate the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment?

Here is the link to the case files for this Petition:
https://www.supremecourt.gov/docket/docketfiles/html/public/24-38.html

This case file includes links to several Amicus briefs filed in this case.

Here is a brief history of this case
Women and girls have overcome decades of discrimination to achieve a more equal playing field in many arenas of American life-including sports. Yet in some competitions, female athletes have become bystanders in their own sports as male athletes who identify as female have taken the place of their female competitors-on the field and on the winners' podium.

The Idaho Legislature addressed that injustice by enacting the Fairness in Women's Sports Act, which ensures that women and girls do not have to compete against men and boys no matter how those men and boys identify. The Act-one of 25 such state laws around the country-is consistent with longstanding government policies preserving women's and girls' sports due to the "average real differences" between the sexes.

Breaking with this Court's precedents, its own case law, other circuit decisions, and biological reality, the Ninth Circuit panel here upheld an injunction against the Act because it prevents "transgender women and girls"-meaning males who identify as women and girls-from competing in "women's student athletics.

Here is a link to the most recent brief filed by Idaho on June 23, 2025 and explaining why the Supreme Court should take up this case:

https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/24/24-38/363712/20250623132559480_Hecox%20Supplemental%20Brief%20of%20Petitioner.pdf

Here are quotes from this brief:

“Whether designating sports teams based on biological sex violates the Equal Protection Clause is a critically important issue that has been roiling the lower courts, frustrating female student athletes, and confounding every level of government for years.”

“The movement to protect girls’ and women’s sports has kept making progress. In recent months both the federal government and the NCAA have announced policies excluding male athletes from female competitions, and the number of states with laws like Idaho’s has now reached 27… But the Ninth Circuit and many other courts still deny female athletes a level playing field, requiring them to compete against biologically male athletes. As a result, women and girls have missed out on hundreds of medals, podium spots, and opportunities to compete in their own sports.”

“This Court’s cases have long regarded sex as an “immutable characteristic,” Frontiero v. Richardson, (1973), defined by “our most basic biological differences,” Tuan Anh Nguyen v. INS, (2001). Those differences “between men and women” are “real,” “enduring,” “inherent,”and “physical.”

“Despite the clarity of the Court’s precedents on this point, the lower courts remain divided. The en banc Eleventh Circuit applies this Court’s objective, biological understanding of sex to hold that a policy that distinguishes between “biological boys” and “biological girls” is a “sex-based classification.”

“In contrast, the Fourth, Seventh, and Ninth Circuits have all held that such laws discriminate against those who identify as transgender by treating “sex” as a subjectively defined term. If sex is objective, then biological males who identify as female are not “similarly situated” with biological females “in all relevant respects” because “biological sex is the relevant respect.”

“Bottom line, when sex is defined objectively, states that assign athletic teams by sex should prevail in equal-protection challenges. Conversely, if sex is defined subjectively, such that biological males who identify as female are treated as females for equal-protection purposes, courts have concluded that these males are similarly situated with females.”

“Courts have also split over “whether gender identity or transgender identity are quasi-suspect classifications. Two circuits, the Fourth and the Ninth, have held that gender identity and transgender identity are quasi-suspect classifications. On the flip side, the Sixth and Tenth Circuits have held that they are not. “

“The women and girls who are missing out on medals, podium spots, and opportunities to compete in their own sports deserve answers sooner rather than later… By now, 27 states have passed laws to correct the injustice of male athletes competing against women and girls in their own sports. This Court should promptly grant this petition and the one in B.P.J., reverse the lower courts in both cases, and restore fair competition consistent with the recently announced policies of the NCAA and the United States. “

Evidence the US Supreme Court will rule in favor of the plain meaning of Title IX
On August 16, 2024, in an opinion combining the cases, Dept of Education v Louisiana and Cardona v Tennessee, the US Supreme Court ruled unanimously that three provisions of the Biden Final Rule were illegal. These were:
#1 The requirement that Trans Rights replace Girls Rights.
#2 That Trans males be allowed in Girls Bathrooms & Locker Rooms.
#3 Requiring the use of specific pronouns violates the First Amendment rights of teachers & students.
Here is a link to their order: https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf/24a78_f2ah.pdf

Here is a quote from this decision: “All Members of the Court accept that the plaintiffs were entitled to preliminary injunctive relief as to three provisions of the rule, including the central provision that newly defines sex discrimination to include discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity… (2) (prohibiting schools from preventing individuals from accessing certain sex-separated spaces consistent with their gender identity)... “

On January 9, 2025, Reykdal and Ferguson’s false interpretation of Title IX was rejected by a federal court ruling in Tennessee v Cardona which vacated the 2024 Biden Title IX Final Rule – returning all 50 states to the original meaning of Title IX – that the term “sex” means biological sex and not gender identity. Here is a link to this 15 page ruling: https://www.tn.gov/content/dam/tn/attorneygeneral/documents/pr/2025/2025-1-title-ix.pdf

Here are quotes from this ruling: “When Title IX is viewed in its entirety, it is abundantly clear that discrimination on the basis of sex means discrimination on the basis of being a male or female… As this Court and others have explained, expanding the meaning of “on the basis of sex” to include “gender identity” turns Title IX on its head. While Title IX sought to level the playing field between men and women, it is rife with exceptions that allow males and females to be separated based on the enduring physical differences between the sexes… the entire point of Title IX is to prevent discrimination based on sex—throwing gender identity into the mix eviscerates the statute and renders it largely meaningless.”

How will the Supreme Court decisions this fall affect our girls here in Washington state?
Sadly, even after the Supreme Court clarifies the meaning of Title IX, it is likely that Reykdal and Ferguson will continue to dig in their heels. After all, the Supreme Court ruled against DEI in 2023 but Reykdal and Ferguson continue to ignore the important ruling in Students v Harvard. It will likely take a protracted legal battle with the US Department of Justice taking Reykdal all the way to the Supreme Court to force him into compliance.

The good news is that these Supreme Court rulings should make it more obvious to Independent voters that both Reykdal and Ferguson have been lying about Title IX for the past 8 years. Still the only way the truth will ever get to Independent voters will be if we tell them. This is one more reason we need to build our own statewide network of community news websites here in Washington state.

We will be reviewing our plan for starting community news website and the other steps we will be taking to replace Reykdal, Ferguson and their accomplices at our next Washington Parents Network meeting from 4 to 5 pm this Sunday. If you would like the link to our next meeting, send us an email to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. and we will email you the link.

Regards,

David Spring M. Ed. Director,

Washington Parents Network

In August 2024, the US Supreme Court in the case of Tennessee v Cardona, ruled against the Trans Drug Cult lie that Title IX is about protecting the rights of boys pretending to be girls (when in fact it is about protecting the rights of real girls). Today, June 18, 2025, the Supreme Court, in the case of US v Skrmetti. hammered another nail in the coffin of Chris Reykdal, Bob Ferguson, and their Trans Drug Cult, by agreeing with the state of Tennessee that there are good reasons for prohibiting minors from being given toxic Trans drugs.

The ruling is a victory for real science as the Court rejected the fake science propaganda of the Trans Drug Cult. While Washington state still requires kids to be given toxic Trans Drugs instead of counseling, the days of children being subjected to Toxic Trans Drugs are numbered as every day, the harm of Trans Drugs are becoming more obvious. This decision sets the precedent that states can and should protect children from irreversible medical procedures pushed under the banner of “gender-affirming care.” It affirms what many of us have been saying for years: kids need time to grow, mature, and develop — without being fast-tracked into a lifetime of drug addiction.

In December 2024, I posted an article that began with the following sentence: “The Trans Drug Cult is killing kids with mental health problems by the tens of thousands.” In response, a couple of readers emailed me doubting the truth of that statement. They wanted to know if I had proof that the Trans Drug Cult is killing kids by the tens of thousands.

The answer is yes, I have a lot of proof to support this claim. In fact, I have already provided this proof during the past few months in several previous articles each of which included many scientific studies on the harmful effects of puberty blockers, cross sex hormones and gender multilation surgery. These adverse effects include huge increases in cancer rates and suicide rates. Here are links to four of my past reports on this subject.

https://washingtonparentsnetwork.com/1-why-promoting-gender-mutilation-is-child-abuse

https://washingtonparentsnetwork.com/3-exposing-the-ferguson-reykdal-drug-cartel

https://washingtonparentsnetwork.com/4-why-kids-should-be-given-counseling-instead-of-drugs

https://washingtonparentsnetwork.com/8-why-states-should-ban-transgender-drugging-of-minors

After reviewing all of the evidence again, I recalculated my estimate of the number of kids being killed by the Trans Drug Cartel. It turns out that my claim that “The Trans Drug Cult is killing kids with mental health problems by the tens of thousands” is a serious understatement. In fact, I should have said “The Trans Drug Cult is killing kids with mental health problems by the hundreds of thousands.”

In this report, we will take a closer look at this research.