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it was never about children’s health or well being. It was always about getting rich or die trying. Mutilating children for money. More far left Marxist lies peddled as “science”
You're contending that an atheist is incapable of having a moral compass?The majority if not all of the far left don’t believe in God. How would they recognize evil when they have no basis in morality to stand upon? They believe they are just animals evolved from apes. So thy live by the law of the jungle. Only the strong survive. Get rich anyway you can because truth is whatever you decide it is. The material world is all that exists to them. Science and stuff
The majority if not all of the far left don’t believe in God. How would they recognize evil when they have no basis in morality to stand upon? They believe they are just animals evolved from apes. So thy live by the law of the jungle. Only the strong survive. Get rich anyway you can because truth is whatever you decide it is. The material world is all that exists to them. Science and stuff
I dont believe in god.The majority if not all of the far left don’t believe in God. How would they recognize evil when they have no basis in morality to stand upon? They believe they are just animals evolved from apes. So thy live by the law of the jungle. Only the strong survive. Get rich anyway you can because truth is whatever you decide it is. The material world is all that exists to them. Science and stuff
This is pure garbage. The belief you can only be a good moral person if you believe in god is atrocious and extremely condescending.The majority if not all of the far left don’t believe in God. How would they recognize evil when they have no basis in morality to stand upon? They believe they are just animals evolved from apes. So thy live by the law of the jungle. Only the strong survive. Get rich anyway you can because truth is whatever you decide it is. The material world is all that exists to them. Science and stuff
So the right wing state of Tennessee is apparently going to use this social media Matt Walsh nonsense to bully Vanderbilt into dropping its program. The American Medical Association has asked these states not to do this , as once again you’ve got ignorant politicians trying to interfere with private and personal health decisions:
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AMA to states: Stop interfering in health care of transgender children
AMA to governors: forgoing gender-affirming care can have tragic health consequences, both mental and physical.www.ama-assn.org
This is the other reason, after abortion, that I came out in support of Elevated Access yesterday: so that when these states ban these procedures out of fear and misinformation, at least a few of these poor kids can fly elsewhere to those of us still living in the 21st century.
You accuse me in this post of “absolute hatred of everything right wing”, “irrational trust” and getting “emotionally spun up”. And in the exact same post you use phrases like “butchering children”, “gender ideological loons”, “chopping off healthy breasts” etc.So the right wing state of Tennessee is apparently going to use this social media Matt Walsh nonsense to bully Vanderbilt into dropping its program. The American Medical Association has asked these states not to do this , as once again you’ve got ignorant politicians trying to interfere with private and personal health decisions:
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AMA to states: Stop interfering in health care of transgender children
AMA to governors: forgoing gender-affirming care can have tragic health consequences, both mental and physical.www.ama-assn.org
This is the other reason, after abortion, that I came out in support of Elevated Access yesterday: so that when these states ban these procedures out of fear and misinformation, at least a few of these poor kids can fly elsewhere to those of us still living in the 21st century.
And by nonsense, you mean videos that Vanderbilt posted on their website? So what you call 'nonsense' means facts that Vanderbilt was inadvertently sharing with the public until yesterday when they took down their website?
Before butchering children and destroying any hope they have of ever having a real sex life (you know, with actual orgasms) and being able to reproduce, should there not be complete transparency of these institutions. Should we not have access to:
1. How many kids they are treating and what type of treatments they are given.
2. Real medical research with controlled clinical trails establishing the benefits of such procedures and treatments.
3. Details of the risks and long-term consequences of such treatments, instead of outright lies such as these treatments are completely reversible.
4. The process of how these children are diagnosis with gender dysphoria and if other possible conditions such as depression or ADHD or autism have been eliminated
5. How much money they are making on these children
That is what I am demanding and you should be too. But instead you are driven by your absolute hatred of everything rightwing and your irrational trust in these far-left gender ideological loons who have taken over major university departments and are spreading absolute lies. You are not moved by the fact that gender dysphoria has somehow skyrocketed over the last decade to the tune of about 50X in adolescence girls. We are just suppose keep chopping off healthy breasts, removing their uteruses, removing large portions of their arms to create some odd appendage that is suppose to represent a penis without any facts or data to support such insane procedures.
You are getting emotionally spun up on this based on total lies about how wonderful these treatments are. Sorry to tell you, but far more enlightened societies who are far more liberal than the US in both the UK and Sweden have discovered what huge lies these are and are shutting down these butcher centers and are tossing out these asinine 'medical' standards and are created new methods and guidelines to evaluate and treat children which address the questions I have raised above, I would think you would favor that instead of trafficking kids to other states to get destroyed.
You accuse me in this post of “absolute hatred of everything right wing”, “irrational trust” and getting “emotionally spun up”. And in the exact same post you use phrases like “butchering children”, “gender ideological loons”, “chopping off healthy breasts” etc.So the right wing state of Tennessee is apparently going to use this social media Matt Walsh nonsense to bully Vanderbilt into dropping its program. The American Medical Association has asked these states not to do this , as once again you’ve got ignorant politicians trying to interfere with private and personal health decisions:
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AMA to states: Stop interfering in health care of transgender children
AMA to governors: forgoing gender-affirming care can have tragic health consequences, both mental and physical.www.ama-assn.org
This is the other reason, after abortion, that I came out in support of Elevated Access yesterday: so that when these states ban these procedures out of fear and misinformation, at least a few of these poor kids can fly elsewhere to those of us still living in the 21st century.
And by nonsense, you mean videos that Vanderbilt posted on their website? So what you call 'nonsense' means facts that Vanderbilt was inadvertently sharing with the public until yesterday when they took down their website?
Before butchering children and destroying any hope they have of ever having a real sex life (you know, with actual orgasms) and being able to reproduce, should there not be complete transparency of these institutions. Should we not have access to:
1. How many kids they are treating and what type of treatments they are given.
2. Real medical research with controlled clinical trails establishing the benefits of such procedures and treatments.
3. Details of the risks and long-term consequences of such treatments, instead of outright lies such as these treatments are completely reversible.
4. The process of how these children are diagnosis with gender dysphoria and if other possible conditions such as depression or ADHD or autism have been eliminated
5. How much money they are making on these children
That is what I am demanding and you should be too. But instead you are driven by your absolute hatred of everything rightwing and your irrational trust in these far-left gender ideological loons who have taken over major university departments and are spreading absolute lies. You are not moved by the fact that gender dysphoria has somehow skyrocketed over the last decade to the tune of about 50X in adolescence girls. We are just suppose keep chopping off healthy breasts, removing their uteruses, removing large portions of their arms to create some odd appendage that is suppose to represent a penis without any facts or data to support such insane procedures.
You are getting emotionally spun up on this based on total lies about how wonderful these treatments are. Sorry to tell you, but far more enlightened societies who are far more liberal than the US in both the UK and Sweden have discovered what huge lies these are and are shutting down these butcher centers and are tossing out these asinine 'medical' standards and are created new methods and guidelines to evaluate and treat children which address the questions I have raised above, I would think you would favor that instead of trafficking kids to other states to get destroyed.
I suggest you may be projecting here.
@jon_mx ...
I have serious misgivings about allowing children to use puberty blockers, take hormones, and to undergo a major surgery to transition genders. My misgivings all stem from the fact that children are inexperienced and are much more likely to make a choice they later regret than an adult. I have zero misgivings about allowing adults to make these choices.
I can't ever take your side in these discussions because you of how you come off. Everything is hyperbole. You are also incredibly entrenched to the point it just seems like reasonable discussion on the topic with you is impossible. I honestly don't know why you bother posting about this stuff, because you're alienating even the people likely to agree with you about parts of this issue.
Thanks for this post. I have the exact same misgivings you do, BTW. I just don’t want the state involved. Parents are another matter.@jon_mx ...
I have serious misgivings about allowing children to use puberty blockers, take hormones, and to undergo a major surgery to transition genders. My misgivings all stem from the fact that children are inexperienced and are much more likely to make a choice they later regret than an adult. I have zero misgivings about allowing adults to make these choices.
I can't ever take your side in these discussions because you of how you come off. Everything is hyperbole. You are also incredibly entrenched to the point it just seems like reasonable discussion on the topic with you is impossible. I honestly don't know why you bother posting about this stuff, because you're alienating even the people likely to agree with you about parts of this issue.
I tend to agree with a good portion of this.I don't have an issue with adults. But these adolescents going through puberty are in the most vulnerable state and are heavily influenceable by peer pressure and are not mature enough to make such permanent decisions on destroying their bodies and unnecessarily creating a lifetime of medical headaches.
I tend to agree with a good portion of this.I don't have an issue with adults. But these adolescents going through puberty are in the most vulnerable state and are heavily influenceable by peer pressure and are not mature enough to make such permanent decisions on destroying their bodies and unnecessarily creating a lifetime of medical headaches.
What I'm trying to get my head around is the cases where a kid, even before becoming school-aged, goes to their parents and says something to the effect of "I'm a boy. I know I am" when they were born as a female. This happened to a family we know. There wasn't any peer-pressure, or contact with school influences, or anything other than the kid just "knew" it. He must have been 3 or 4 years old? (I don't know every single detail obviously) It was a unique occurrence for me, I naively had never even heard of that.
So when that happens, I'm torn on the hormones and body stuff. Part of me thinks that people need to attain adulthood to make these decisions (a lot of kids are still dumb even at 18 but that's another story), but part of me thinks it must be horribly cruel to go through the first 18 years of life as the "wrong" gender.
To address the political part of this though, is why is this even a government thing, or a politics thing? This family I'm referring to above, it seems to me the last thing they would have needed is some government ******** getting involved in their lives and decisions over this. Like, I get it, you're against this stuff. I'm not sure where I fall, as stated previously. What I am sure of is it's not up to me, and I would say it's not up to you, to decide for other people. That's the main point on politics/government, to me. The government largely needs to stay out of other people's business when it comes to their personal lives, IMO.
Also I'm interested in discussion on this, but just in advance if someone responds with a "whataboutism" I probably won't address that type of discussion.
That percentage makes sense to me. Without having done much research admittedly, I always assumed or somehow else inferred that this type of case must be extremely, extremely rare. I could see how the raw numbers may be increasing as more awareness and acceptance of this is recognized, but generally speaking the percentages shouldn't be increasing that much because the denominator in this equation is a huge number. That's just math.See that is the 0.04 percent of the population who were treated 20 years ago by phycologists who did actual diagnosis of their condition. Bug that is not what 98% of the current children being medically treated for gender dysphoria actually have. It is medically insane to rubber stamp self-diagnosis of children, but that is exactly the standard that is being practiced today.
That percentage makes sense to me. Without having done much research admittedly, I always assumed or somehow else inferred that this type of case must be extremely, extremely rare. I could see how the raw numbers may be increasing as more awareness and acceptance of this is recognized, but generally speaking the percentages shouldn't be increasing that much because the denominator in this equation is a huge number. That's just math.See that is the 0.04 percent of the population who were treated 20 years ago by phycologists who did actual diagnosis of their condition. Bug that is not what 98% of the current children being medically treated for gender dysphoria actually have. It is medically insane to rubber stamp self-diagnosis of children, but that is exactly the standard that is being practiced today.
I'll use a crude example. Let's say 20 years ago, 3,000 kids in a state that has 20 million residents were properly diagnosed with this condition. If 20 years later, 4,500 kids were diagnosed, that would be a 50% increase in the raw numbers, but as an overall percentage that increase would be barely noticeable because of the large denominator.
What raises a red flag for me is the age of the kid. You pointed out the influence of peer pressure, etc. I understand that concern. What seems off to me is if a kid goes though the first 10 years of life let's say, and never mentions an issue once. Then one day, comes home and says something? That would seem fishy to me, like in a "where did you get that from?" kind of way. So I think we probably agree that a kid shouldn't be making big medical decisions in a case like that.
I'm still against the government getting involved.
I'll add that for-profit medicine, including doing these types of treatments, is an anathema on our country. I certainly oppose the for-profit motives of these medical institutions. Shame on them if they are overstepping medicine for profit in these cases, but also in every other aspect of medicine and procedures. Let's not kid ourselves into thinking it's only these procedures where profit motive is coming into play.
Looking at similar threads and it has Woodrow's 2005 Mock Draft Final edition. What the hell were they mock drafting?![]()
It’s par for the course. Earlier in another thread he accuse me of not knowing history. I majored in history. After women, it’s my favorite subject.You accuse me in this post of “absolute hatred of everything right wing”, “irrational trust” and getting “emotionally spun up”. And in the exact same post you use phrases like “butchering children”, “gender ideological loons”, “chopping off healthy breasts” etc.So the right wing state of Tennessee is apparently going to use this social media Matt Walsh nonsense to bully Vanderbilt into dropping its program. The American Medical Association has asked these states not to do this , as once again you’ve got ignorant politicians trying to interfere with private and personal health decisions:
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AMA to states: Stop interfering in health care of transgender children
AMA to governors: forgoing gender-affirming care can have tragic health consequences, both mental and physical.www.ama-assn.org
This is the other reason, after abortion, that I came out in support of Elevated Access yesterday: so that when these states ban these procedures out of fear and misinformation, at least a few of these poor kids can fly elsewhere to those of us still living in the 21st century.
And by nonsense, you mean videos that Vanderbilt posted on their website? So what you call 'nonsense' means facts that Vanderbilt was inadvertently sharing with the public until yesterday when they took down their website?
Before butchering children and destroying any hope they have of ever having a real sex life (you know, with actual orgasms) and being able to reproduce, should there not be complete transparency of these institutions. Should we not have access to:
1. How many kids they are treating and what type of treatments they are given.
2. Real medical research with controlled clinical trails establishing the benefits of such procedures and treatments.
3. Details of the risks and long-term consequences of such treatments, instead of outright lies such as these treatments are completely reversible.
4. The process of how these children are diagnosis with gender dysphoria and if other possible conditions such as depression or ADHD or autism have been eliminated
5. How much money they are making on these children
That is what I am demanding and you should be too. But instead you are driven by your absolute hatred of everything rightwing and your irrational trust in these far-left gender ideological loons who have taken over major university departments and are spreading absolute lies. You are not moved by the fact that gender dysphoria has somehow skyrocketed over the last decade to the tune of about 50X in adolescence girls. We are just suppose keep chopping off healthy breasts, removing their uteruses, removing large portions of their arms to create some odd appendage that is suppose to represent a penis without any facts or data to support such insane procedures.
You are getting emotionally spun up on this based on total lies about how wonderful these treatments are. Sorry to tell you, but far more enlightened societies who are far more liberal than the US in both the UK and Sweden have discovered what huge lies these are and are shutting down these butcher centers and are tossing out these asinine 'medical' standards and are created new methods and guidelines to evaluate and treat children which address the questions I have raised above, I would think you would favor that instead of trafficking kids to other states to get destroyed.
I suggest you may be projecting here.
I have researched this issue far far far far far more than you have. The difference between you and me, I laid out arguments and facts to support my position. You offer nothing but emotions.
Your statements in that thread indicate that you don’t know much about African American history since you seem to have accepted the revisionist right wing talk show version of it. But I could be wrong about this.It’s par for the course. Earlier in another thread he accuse me of not knowing history. I majored in history. After women, it’s my favorite subject.You accuse me in this post of “absolute hatred of everything right wing”, “irrational trust” and getting “emotionally spun up”. And in the exact same post you use phrases like “butchering children”, “gender ideological loons”, “chopping off healthy breasts” etc.So the right wing state of Tennessee is apparently going to use this social media Matt Walsh nonsense to bully Vanderbilt into dropping its program. The American Medical Association has asked these states not to do this , as once again you’ve got ignorant politicians trying to interfere with private and personal health decisions:
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AMA to states: Stop interfering in health care of transgender children
AMA to governors: forgoing gender-affirming care can have tragic health consequences, both mental and physical.www.ama-assn.org
This is the other reason, after abortion, that I came out in support of Elevated Access yesterday: so that when these states ban these procedures out of fear and misinformation, at least a few of these poor kids can fly elsewhere to those of us still living in the 21st century.
And by nonsense, you mean videos that Vanderbilt posted on their website? So what you call 'nonsense' means facts that Vanderbilt was inadvertently sharing with the public until yesterday when they took down their website?
Before butchering children and destroying any hope they have of ever having a real sex life (you know, with actual orgasms) and being able to reproduce, should there not be complete transparency of these institutions. Should we not have access to:
1. How many kids they are treating and what type of treatments they are given.
2. Real medical research with controlled clinical trails establishing the benefits of such procedures and treatments.
3. Details of the risks and long-term consequences of such treatments, instead of outright lies such as these treatments are completely reversible.
4. The process of how these children are diagnosis with gender dysphoria and if other possible conditions such as depression or ADHD or autism have been eliminated
5. How much money they are making on these children
That is what I am demanding and you should be too. But instead you are driven by your absolute hatred of everything rightwing and your irrational trust in these far-left gender ideological loons who have taken over major university departments and are spreading absolute lies. You are not moved by the fact that gender dysphoria has somehow skyrocketed over the last decade to the tune of about 50X in adolescence girls. We are just suppose keep chopping off healthy breasts, removing their uteruses, removing large portions of their arms to create some odd appendage that is suppose to represent a penis without any facts or data to support such insane procedures.
You are getting emotionally spun up on this based on total lies about how wonderful these treatments are. Sorry to tell you, but far more enlightened societies who are far more liberal than the US in both the UK and Sweden have discovered what huge lies these are and are shutting down these butcher centers and are tossing out these asinine 'medical' standards and are created new methods and guidelines to evaluate and treat children which address the questions I have raised above, I would think you would favor that instead of trafficking kids to other states to get destroyed.
I suggest you may be projecting here.
I have researched this issue far far far far far more than you have. The difference between you and me, I laid out arguments and facts to support my position. You offer nothing but emotions.
Do you notice that you very often say this? You say something dumb and then you say you could be wrong or admit you’re wrong again and again and again.Your statements in that thread indicate that you don’t know much about African American history since you seem to have accepted the revisionist right wing talk show version of it. But I could be wrong about this.It’s par for the course. Earlier in another thread he accuse me of not knowing history. I majored in history. After women, it’s my favorite subject.You accuse me in this post of “absolute hatred of everything right wing”, “irrational trust” and getting “emotionally spun up”. And in the exact same post you use phrases like “butchering children”, “gender ideological loons”, “chopping off healthy breasts” etc.So the right wing state of Tennessee is apparently going to use this social media Matt Walsh nonsense to bully Vanderbilt into dropping its program. The American Medical Association has asked these states not to do this , as once again you’ve got ignorant politicians trying to interfere with private and personal health decisions:
![]()
AMA to states: Stop interfering in health care of transgender children
AMA to governors: forgoing gender-affirming care can have tragic health consequences, both mental and physical.www.ama-assn.org
This is the other reason, after abortion, that I came out in support of Elevated Access yesterday: so that when these states ban these procedures out of fear and misinformation, at least a few of these poor kids can fly elsewhere to those of us still living in the 21st century.
And by nonsense, you mean videos that Vanderbilt posted on their website? So what you call 'nonsense' means facts that Vanderbilt was inadvertently sharing with the public until yesterday when they took down their website?
Before butchering children and destroying any hope they have of ever having a real sex life (you know, with actual orgasms) and being able to reproduce, should there not be complete transparency of these institutions. Should we not have access to:
1. How many kids they are treating and what type of treatments they are given.
2. Real medical research with controlled clinical trails establishing the benefits of such procedures and treatments.
3. Details of the risks and long-term consequences of such treatments, instead of outright lies such as these treatments are completely reversible.
4. The process of how these children are diagnosis with gender dysphoria and if other possible conditions such as depression or ADHD or autism have been eliminated
5. How much money they are making on these children
That is what I am demanding and you should be too. But instead you are driven by your absolute hatred of everything rightwing and your irrational trust in these far-left gender ideological loons who have taken over major university departments and are spreading absolute lies. You are not moved by the fact that gender dysphoria has somehow skyrocketed over the last decade to the tune of about 50X in adolescence girls. We are just suppose keep chopping off healthy breasts, removing their uteruses, removing large portions of their arms to create some odd appendage that is suppose to represent a penis without any facts or data to support such insane procedures.
You are getting emotionally spun up on this based on total lies about how wonderful these treatments are. Sorry to tell you, but far more enlightened societies who are far more liberal than the US in both the UK and Sweden have discovered what huge lies these are and are shutting down these butcher centers and are tossing out these asinine 'medical' standards and are created new methods and guidelines to evaluate and treat children which address the questions I have raised above, I would think you would favor that instead of trafficking kids to other states to get destroyed.
I suggest you may be projecting here.
I have researched this issue far far far far far more than you have. The difference between you and me, I laid out arguments and facts to support my position. You offer nothing but emotions.
I’m often wrong. Not so much on black history though.Do you notice that you very often say this? You say something dumb and then you say you could be wrong or admit you’re wrong again and again and again.Your statements in that thread indicate that you don’t know much about African American history since you seem to have accepted the revisionist right wing talk show version of it. But I could be wrong about this.It’s par for the course. Earlier in another thread he accuse me of not knowing history. I majored in history. After women, it’s my favorite subject.You accuse me in this post of “absolute hatred of everything right wing”, “irrational trust” and getting “emotionally spun up”. And in the exact same post you use phrases like “butchering children”, “gender ideological loons”, “chopping off healthy breasts” etc.So the right wing state of Tennessee is apparently going to use this social media Matt Walsh nonsense to bully Vanderbilt into dropping its program. The American Medical Association has asked these states not to do this , as once again you’ve got ignorant politicians trying to interfere with private and personal health decisions:
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AMA to states: Stop interfering in health care of transgender children
AMA to governors: forgoing gender-affirming care can have tragic health consequences, both mental and physical.www.ama-assn.org
This is the other reason, after abortion, that I came out in support of Elevated Access yesterday: so that when these states ban these procedures out of fear and misinformation, at least a few of these poor kids can fly elsewhere to those of us still living in the 21st century.
And by nonsense, you mean videos that Vanderbilt posted on their website? So what you call 'nonsense' means facts that Vanderbilt was inadvertently sharing with the public until yesterday when they took down their website?
Before butchering children and destroying any hope they have of ever having a real sex life (you know, with actual orgasms) and being able to reproduce, should there not be complete transparency of these institutions. Should we not have access to:
1. How many kids they are treating and what type of treatments they are given.
2. Real medical research with controlled clinical trails establishing the benefits of such procedures and treatments.
3. Details of the risks and long-term consequences of such treatments, instead of outright lies such as these treatments are completely reversible.
4. The process of how these children are diagnosis with gender dysphoria and if other possible conditions such as depression or ADHD or autism have been eliminated
5. How much money they are making on these children
That is what I am demanding and you should be too. But instead you are driven by your absolute hatred of everything rightwing and your irrational trust in these far-left gender ideological loons who have taken over major university departments and are spreading absolute lies. You are not moved by the fact that gender dysphoria has somehow skyrocketed over the last decade to the tune of about 50X in adolescence girls. We are just suppose keep chopping off healthy breasts, removing their uteruses, removing large portions of their arms to create some odd appendage that is suppose to represent a penis without any facts or data to support such insane procedures.
You are getting emotionally spun up on this based on total lies about how wonderful these treatments are. Sorry to tell you, but far more enlightened societies who are far more liberal than the US in both the UK and Sweden have discovered what huge lies these are and are shutting down these butcher centers and are tossing out these asinine 'medical' standards and are created new methods and guidelines to evaluate and treat children which address the questions I have raised above, I would think you would favor that instead of trafficking kids to other states to get destroyed.
I suggest you may be projecting here.
I have researched this issue far far far far far more than you have. The difference between you and me, I laid out arguments and facts to support my position. You offer nothing but emotions.
You’re always wrong, Timothy.
Not to mention thousands of years of evidence of believers committing atrocities across the globe in the name of their chosen god(s).This is pure garbage. The belief you can only be a good moral person if you believe in god is atrocious and extremely condescending.The majority if not all of the far left don’t believe in God. How would they recognize evil when they have no basis in morality to stand upon? They believe they are just animals evolved from apes. So thy live by the law of the jungle. Only the strong survive. Get rich anyway you can because truth is whatever you decide it is. The material world is all that exists to them. Science and stuff
This scenario is actually very common and is not a good indicator that it’s just a phase. For a lot of trans people, it’s their reaction to the physical changes of puberty that causes them to question their gender for the first time.What seems off to me is if a kid goes though the first 10 years of life let's say, and never mentions an issue once. Then one day, comes home and says something? That would seem fishy to me, like in a "where did you get that from?" kind of way.
Not to mention thousands of years of evidence of believers committing atrocities across the globe in the name of their chosen god(s).This is pure garbage. The belief you can only be a good moral person if you believe in god is atrocious and extremely condescending.The majority if not all of the far left don’t believe in God. How would they recognize evil when they have no basis in morality to stand upon? They believe they are just animals evolved from apes. So thy live by the law of the jungle. Only the strong survive. Get rich anyway you can because truth is whatever you decide it is. The material world is all that exists to them. Science and stuff
I’m often wrong. Not so much on black history though.Do you notice that you very often say this? You say something dumb and then you say you could be wrong or admit you’re wrong again and again and again.Your statements in that thread indicate that you don’t know much about African American history since you seem to have accepted the revisionist right wing talk show version of it. But I could be wrong about this.It’s par for the course. Earlier in another thread he accuse me of not knowing history. I majored in history. After women, it’s my favorite subject.You accuse me in this post of “absolute hatred of everything right wing”, “irrational trust” and getting “emotionally spun up”. And in the exact same post you use phrases like “butchering children”, “gender ideological loons”, “chopping off healthy breasts” etc.So the right wing state of Tennessee is apparently going to use this social media Matt Walsh nonsense to bully Vanderbilt into dropping its program. The American Medical Association has asked these states not to do this , as once again you’ve got ignorant politicians trying to interfere with private and personal health decisions:
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AMA to states: Stop interfering in health care of transgender children
AMA to governors: forgoing gender-affirming care can have tragic health consequences, both mental and physical.www.ama-assn.org
This is the other reason, after abortion, that I came out in support of Elevated Access yesterday: so that when these states ban these procedures out of fear and misinformation, at least a few of these poor kids can fly elsewhere to those of us still living in the 21st century.
And by nonsense, you mean videos that Vanderbilt posted on their website? So what you call 'nonsense' means facts that Vanderbilt was inadvertently sharing with the public until yesterday when they took down their website?
Before butchering children and destroying any hope they have of ever having a real sex life (you know, with actual orgasms) and being able to reproduce, should there not be complete transparency of these institutions. Should we not have access to:
1. How many kids they are treating and what type of treatments they are given.
2. Real medical research with controlled clinical trails establishing the benefits of such procedures and treatments.
3. Details of the risks and long-term consequences of such treatments, instead of outright lies such as these treatments are completely reversible.
4. The process of how these children are diagnosis with gender dysphoria and if other possible conditions such as depression or ADHD or autism have been eliminated
5. How much money they are making on these children
That is what I am demanding and you should be too. But instead you are driven by your absolute hatred of everything rightwing and your irrational trust in these far-left gender ideological loons who have taken over major university departments and are spreading absolute lies. You are not moved by the fact that gender dysphoria has somehow skyrocketed over the last decade to the tune of about 50X in adolescence girls. We are just suppose keep chopping off healthy breasts, removing their uteruses, removing large portions of their arms to create some odd appendage that is suppose to represent a penis without any facts or data to support such insane procedures.
You are getting emotionally spun up on this based on total lies about how wonderful these treatments are. Sorry to tell you, but far more enlightened societies who are far more liberal than the US in both the UK and Sweden have discovered what huge lies these are and are shutting down these butcher centers and are tossing out these asinine 'medical' standards and are created new methods and guidelines to evaluate and treat children which address the questions I have raised above, I would think you would favor that instead of trafficking kids to other states to get destroyed.
I suggest you may be projecting here.
I have researched this issue far far far far far more than you have. The difference between you and me, I laid out arguments and facts to support my position. You offer nothing but emotions.
You’re always wrong, Timothy.
Thanks, hopefully my ignorance isn’t offensive. I’m still learning about this topic.This scenario is actually very common and is not a good indicator that it’s just a phase. For a lot of trans people, it’s their reaction to the physical changes of puberty that causes them to question their gender for the first time.
Sure. But that’s not the accusation made here. According to Pink if you don’t believe in God you have “no basis in morality to stand upon”. Politics have nothing to do with that statement.Not to mention thousands of years of evidence of believers committing atrocities across the globe in the name of their chosen god(s).This is pure garbage. The belief you can only be a good moral person if you believe in god is atrocious and extremely condescending.The majority if not all of the far left don’t believe in God. How would they recognize evil when they have no basis in morality to stand upon? They believe they are just animals evolved from apes. So thy live by the law of the jungle. Only the strong survive. Get rich anyway you can because truth is whatever you decide it is. The material world is all that exists to them. Science and stuff
Uhm, yeah, sure. Also, all in the name of their chosen political ideology too.
Groucho was quite a money grubber.Nothing I hate more than Marxists who are only interested in making money
Nothing I hate more than Marxists who are only interested in making money
I’m often wrong. Not so much on black history though.Do you notice that you very often say this? You say something dumb and then you say you could be wrong or admit you’re wrong again and again and again.Your statements in that thread indicate that you don’t know much about African American history since you seem to have accepted the revisionist right wing talk show version of it. But I could be wrong about this.It’s par for the course. Earlier in another thread he accuse me of not knowing history. I majored in history. After women, it’s my favorite subject.You accuse me in this post of “absolute hatred of everything right wing”, “irrational trust” and getting “emotionally spun up”. And in the exact same post you use phrases like “butchering children”, “gender ideological loons”, “chopping off healthy breasts” etc.So the right wing state of Tennessee is apparently going to use this social media Matt Walsh nonsense to bully Vanderbilt into dropping its program. The American Medical Association has asked these states not to do this , as once again you’ve got ignorant politicians trying to interfere with private and personal health decisions:
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AMA to states: Stop interfering in health care of transgender children
AMA to governors: forgoing gender-affirming care can have tragic health consequences, both mental and physical.www.ama-assn.org
This is the other reason, after abortion, that I came out in support of Elevated Access yesterday: so that when these states ban these procedures out of fear and misinformation, at least a few of these poor kids can fly elsewhere to those of us still living in the 21st century.
And by nonsense, you mean videos that Vanderbilt posted on their website? So what you call 'nonsense' means facts that Vanderbilt was inadvertently sharing with the public until yesterday when they took down their website?
Before butchering children and destroying any hope they have of ever having a real sex life (you know, with actual orgasms) and being able to reproduce, should there not be complete transparency of these institutions. Should we not have access to:
1. How many kids they are treating and what type of treatments they are given.
2. Real medical research with controlled clinical trails establishing the benefits of such procedures and treatments.
3. Details of the risks and long-term consequences of such treatments, instead of outright lies such as these treatments are completely reversible.
4. The process of how these children are diagnosis with gender dysphoria and if other possible conditions such as depression or ADHD or autism have been eliminated
5. How much money they are making on these children
That is what I am demanding and you should be too. But instead you are driven by your absolute hatred of everything rightwing and your irrational trust in these far-left gender ideological loons who have taken over major university departments and are spreading absolute lies. You are not moved by the fact that gender dysphoria has somehow skyrocketed over the last decade to the tune of about 50X in adolescence girls. We are just suppose keep chopping off healthy breasts, removing their uteruses, removing large portions of their arms to create some odd appendage that is suppose to represent a penis without any facts or data to support such insane procedures.
You are getting emotionally spun up on this based on total lies about how wonderful these treatments are. Sorry to tell you, but far more enlightened societies who are far more liberal than the US in both the UK and Sweden have discovered what huge lies these are and are shutting down these butcher centers and are tossing out these asinine 'medical' standards and are created new methods and guidelines to evaluate and treat children which address the questions I have raised above, I would think you would favor that instead of trafficking kids to other states to get destroyed.
I suggest you may be projecting here.
I have researched this issue far far far far far more than you have. The difference between you and me, I laid out arguments and facts to support my position. You offer nothing but emotions.
You’re always wrong, Timothy.
No ****, they go through hormone changes. Both of my girls lost their ****ing minds. Then the hormone settle in and then go back to “normal.”This scenario is actually very common and is not a good indicator that it’s just a phase. For a lot of trans people, it’s their reaction to the physical changes of puberty that causes them to question their gender for the first time.What seems off to me is if a kid goes though the first 10 years of life let's say, and never mentions an issue once. Then one day, comes home and says something? That would seem fishy to me, like in a "where did you get that from?" kind of way.
I wouldn't say I hate him, but he's always left me cold. Then again, that has zero to do with how many houses he ownsNothing I hate more than Marxists who are only interested in making money
You must really hate Bernie and his 3 houses...
This scenario is actually very common and is not a good indicator that it’s just a phase. For a lot of trans people, it’s their reaction to the physical changes of puberty that causes them to question their gender for the first time.What seems off to me is if a kid goes though the first 10 years of life let's say, and never mentions an issue once. Then one day, comes home and says something? That would seem fishy to me, like in a "where did you get that from?" kind of way.
I wouldn't say I hate him, but he's always left me cold. Then again, that has zero to do with how many houses he ownsNothing I hate more than Marxists who are only interested in making money
You must really hate Bernie and his 3 houses...
It was a joke about the OP draining the word "Marxist" of all meaning by using it against people he claimed were only interested in making moneyI wouldn't say I hate him, but he's always left me cold. Then again, that has zero to do with how many houses he ownsNothing I hate more than Marxists who are only interested in making money
You must really hate Bernie and his 3 houses...
Sorry I must have read your post wrong about making money.
This is a thoughtful post. I'd like to say I agree about government not getting involved, but I'm not sure I do. In principal, I'd like to think we never should have government involved in how parents raise their kids, but of course in practice there are some things we simply have to regulate to protect kids from those outlier parents who are just too extreme in their beliefs. As an example, I think most of us would agree, as Americans, that we shouldn't allow the genital mutilation that hundreds of millions of African girls have undergone over the past decades. The people/parents who allow this to happen in Africa obviously think differently.That percentage makes sense to me. Without having done much research admittedly, I always assumed or somehow else inferred that this type of case must be extremely, extremely rare. I could see how the raw numbers may be increasing as more awareness and acceptance of this is recognized, but generally speaking the percentages shouldn't be increasing that much because the denominator in this equation is a huge number. That's just math.See that is the 0.04 percent of the population who were treated 20 years ago by phycologists who did actual diagnosis of their condition. Bug that is not what 98% of the current children being medically treated for gender dysphoria actually have. It is medically insane to rubber stamp self-diagnosis of children, but that is exactly the standard that is being practiced today.
I'll use a crude example. Let's say 20 years ago, 3,000 kids in a state that has 20 million residents were properly diagnosed with this condition. If 20 years later, 4,500 kids were diagnosed, that would be a 50% increase in the raw numbers, but as an overall percentage that increase would be barely noticeable because of the large denominator.
What raises a red flag for me is the age of the kid. You pointed out the influence of peer pressure, etc. I understand that concern. What seems off to me is if a kid goes though the first 10 years of life let's say, and never mentions an issue once. Then one day, comes home and says something? That would seem fishy to me, like in a "where did you get that from?" kind of way. So I think we probably agree that a kid shouldn't be making big medical decisions in a case like that.
I'm still against the government getting involved.
I'll add that for-profit medicine, including doing these types of treatments, is an anathema on our country. I certainly oppose the for-profit motives of these medical institutions. Shame on them if they are overstepping medicine for profit in these cases, but also in every other aspect of medicine and procedures. Let's not kid ourselves into thinking it's only these procedures where profit motive is coming into play.
I wrote that people who believe that they were animals who evolved from apes to humans are subscribing to Darwin’s theory of survival of the fittest. Basically the law of the jungle. It’s also what Mao believed as he said power comes from the barrel of a gun. These are the ways of Godless Marxists. Our schools are chock full of teachers with these beliefs. No wonder home schooling is booming. Why would anyone send kids to these thought prisons. Where truth is what you say it is. Be your own God and decide your own truth. So you ask me if non believers can have morals? I ask you what would you base them on? You shall know them by their fruits. And the fruits of this mad science is proof that the law of the jungle is indeed how many are living. There is nothing moral or upstanding about mutilating children because you can get rich running a business off them. If that’s your morals then I think you answered your own questionYou're contending that an atheist is incapable of having a moral compass?The majority if not all of the far left don’t believe in God. How would they recognize evil when they have no basis in morality to stand upon? They believe they are just animals evolved from apes. So thy live by the law of the jungle. Only the strong survive. Get rich anyway you can because truth is whatever you decide it is. The material world is all that exists to them. Science and stuff
As an atheist, I assure you I can tell good from bad, probably more effectively than you can because I don't need to use a book as a cheat sheet. Also, I find your post incredibly offensive to me personally.I wrote that people who believe that they were animals who evolved from apes to humans are subscribing to Darwin’s theory of survival of the fittest. Basically the law of the jungle. It’s also what Mao believed as he said power comes from the barrel of a gun. These are the ways of Godless Marxists. Our schools are chock full of teachers with these beliefs. No wonder home schooling is booming. Why would anyone send kids to these thought prisons. Where truth is what you say it is. Be your own God and decide your own truth. So you ask me if non believers can have morals? I ask you what would you base them on? You shall know them by their fruits. And the fruits of this mad science is proof that the law of the jungle is indeed how many are living. There is nothing moral or upstanding about mutilating children because you can get rich running a business off them. If that’s your morals then I think you answered your own questionYou're contending that an atheist is incapable of having a moral compass?The majority if not all of the far left don’t believe in God. How would they recognize evil when they have no basis in morality to stand upon? They believe they are just animals evolved from apes. So thy live by the law of the jungle. Only the strong survive. Get rich anyway you can because truth is whatever you decide it is. The material world is all that exists to them. Science and stuff
This is an interesting question. An atheist would tell you that both theists and atheists base their morals on the same thing. Atheists believe that God is a human construct therefore morals are as well. Interestingly, other animals (if humans are just animals) also have morals and beliefs. For example, elephants also have death rituals similar to humans.So you ask me if non believers can have morals? I ask you what would you base them on?
While I’m a firm believer in the right to believe whatever one wants too, I will never understand the righteous indignation some have who believe in the unprovable. The condensation and contemptuous judgement is unreal.As an atheist, I assure you I can tell good from bad, probably more effectively than you can because I don't need to use a book as a cheat sheet. Also, I find your post incredibly offensive to me personally.
It is very much the same as those obsessed with the Jan 6th committee.While I’m a firm believer in the right to believe whatever one wants too, I will never understand the righteous indignation some have who believe in the unprovable. The condensation and contemptuous judgement is unreal.As an atheist, I assure you I can tell good from bad, probably more effectively than you can because I don't need to use a book as a cheat sheet. Also, I find your post incredibly offensive to me personally.