Odd how many countries are gradually turning fascist. It's almost as if puberty blockers might be bad.
Bro, how do you stay around dealing with these circles without making yourself go nuts?
Wow. That is impressive. After only four months in office the Trump Terfs are coming out swinging to right Title IX wrongs. Go get ‘em and Godspeed!
Precisely. The real goal isn't to "save trans kids from suicide," because there's no evidence to support that transition appreciably reduces suicidality. No, the suicide claim is just a post-hoc justification to obfuscate their real rationale, which is that older troons live vicariously through younger troons and want them to transition as early as possible, because they erroneously believe that that will help them "pass" (which it often doesn't anyway). They know that it's a bad look to support sterilizing gay kids for what amounts to purely cosmetic results, so they fudged some numbers and started circulating myths about suicide. But there absolutely are TRAs who have gone mask-off and said that it's mostly about increasing the kid's ability to pass at the cost of damn near everything else, notably their physical health, their ability to every experience at orgasm, and the normal trajectory of their adolescent development.
The problem is that the politicization of formerly neutral institutions has kneecapped the public's ability to trust them. Additionally, there are toxic incentives in scientific publishing that discouraging people from doing the unsexy gruntwork (replications, for instance) in favor of pursuing new research and sometimes even fudging the numbers to reach a headline-grabbing conclusion. No one wants to bankroll a study that just replicates and re-tests an existing one, the entities that fund these things want to see "groundbreaking" work so that they can brag about supporting it. Then you have the file-drawer problem, which we saw an example of in the scandal involving WPATH and John's Hopkins. The institution was basically instructed not to publish research with conclusions that clashed with WPATH's agenda, which basically meant hiding anything with null or negative results in the file drawer. And all that is before you take into account the potential conflicts of interest the authors of the studies may have; many American papers with outcomes favoring medical transition have authors who serve on advisory boards or committees for Pfizer, the company with the largest market share on conjugated estrogen drugs.
My god, they keep just taking L after L, particularly since 2023. To where are the cockroaches going to scatter? The entire Anglosphere seems to be wising up to their bullshit.
"List of countries to flee to".
'only do endless gatekeeping' - that was the troon endorsed gold standard of care until fairly recently. Before the early 2010s explosion there were a series of 'steps' in transition that had to be done in order, under a doctor's supervision, with the presumption that the patient should not proceed to the next step unless s/he could demonstrate it was necessary and s/he was healthy enough to handle it. It worked way better than the current system - gatekeeping kept regret rates low and presumption of denial made doctors focus on quality of care over patient volume.Wonderful news! Troonery should be banned world wide.
That was my understanding as well. You only go to the "next level" if what you're doing to alleviate the dysphoria doesn't work. Being a zippertit or cutting your dick off was the LAST RESORT.
Yeah on paper that's how it supposedly worked, but in reality it has not been that way for far longer than the Obama era start of mass troonouts. There were consent based clinics in various cities back into the late 90s.
