Gender Studies I

[MissThundercat]

The cruelty is the point.

It's why I'm voting for Biden in 2024; while I'm not his biggest fan, I realize that keeping him and Dems in office is the difference between Project 2025 being a wish list and reality.

[dxmnkd316]

Better LGBT protections should be a priority for Congress in 2025.

[Jeb2020]

Better LGBT protections should be a priority for Congress in 2025.

Like what? Give an example.

[Jeb2020]

Human Rights Crimes of the highest degree.

https://x.com/leorsapir/status/17545...mrW4iah6iccUyA

UPDATE: As new whistleblower Tamara Pietzke noted her article for @TheFP, the Mary Bridge Children's Gender Health Clinic (@Mary_Bridge) in Tacoma, WA, received a $100,000 grant from the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (@PCORI) in 2022 "to study health care disparities."

PCORI was created through the Affordable Care Act and is funded by Congress. "Study health care disparities" can be coded language for "increase the provision of gender-affirming care."

The clinic at Mary Bridge increased the number of its patient by more than 700% between 2019 and 2022, when it received the PCORI grant. It's possible, therefore, that it received the grant because it already showed evidence of decreasing "disparities."

The clinic's in-house social worker, Aytch Denaor (they/them), is proud of the fact that the clinic sees more kids than ever before.

marybridge.org/blog/the-impor…

In her whistleblowing article, Pietzke describes a 13-year old patient who was severely autistic, had a history of horrific sexual abuse and exposure to pornography, and who would occasionally age-regress, suck on her thumb, and watch Teletubbies. The gender clinic at Mary Bridge nevertheless thought this vulnerable girl was a good candidate for testosterone, and Pietzke's supervisors demanded that she write a letter of support for the patient to go on hormones. Testosterone can result in irreversible changes to the body and cause vaginal atrophy, severe pain, and bleeding.

[Kepler]

Better LGBT protections should be a priority for Congress in 2025.

For the morality of it, yes.

Also, to frame the difference: this is a few unhealthy creeps against all of us. Make the jackals defend their hatred. They are only emboldened because they have no idea that the rest of America regards them as animals.

Show them just how alone they are in their bigotries and superstitions.

[Jeb2020]

Human Rights Crimes of the highest degree.

https://x.com/therabbithole84/status...mrW4iah6iccUyA

"In Washington State, that’s all it takes—a few visits with a therapist and a letter, often written using a template provided by one’s superiors—for minors to undergo the irreversible treatments that patients must take for a lifetime."

"I found that those experiencing gender dysphoria are up to six times more likely to also be autistic, and they are also more likely to suffer from schizophrenia, trauma, and abuse."

"Research also implies that the dramatic rise in these diagnoses across the West likely have a strong element of social contagion. In children ages 6 to 17, there was a 70 percent increase in diagnoses of gender dysphoria in the U.S. from 2020 to 2021. In Sweden there was a 1,500 percent increase in these diagnoses among girls 13–17 from 2008 to 2018."

[Slap Shot]

It's why I'm voting for Biden in 2024; while I'm not his biggest fan, I realize that keeping him and Dems in office is the difference between Project 2025 being a wish list and reality.

I'm praying that Project 2025 and its realities will be criticized often and loudly because that **** is no joke.

[Swansong]

Yesterday my "buddy text thread" got to whining about trans people again. It's genuinely not worth engaging, so I didn't, but good lord. The act, though, is basically "they're impacting my rights by forcing me to accept them." As if recognizing that a human is a human is such an imposition on someone. Unreal.

[Jeb2020]

Yesterday my "buddy text thread" got to whining about trans people again. It's genuinely not worth engaging, so I didn't, but good lord. The act, though, is basically "they're impacting my rights by forcing me to accept them." As if recognizing that a human is a human is such an imposition on someone. Unreal.

No one said that, Twit.

That is why you had to dress it up so stupidly.

[Swansong]

It looks like another blocked troll has infected this thread too. I'm sure they're posting interesting, thoughtful and informative things and not just spreading bile.

[MissThundercat]

Yesterday my "buddy text thread" got to whining about trans people again. It's genuinely not worth engaging, so I didn't, but good lord. The act, though, is basically "they're impacting my rights by forcing me to accept them." As if recognizing that a human is a human is such an imposition on someone. Unreal.

As a queer, being straight was pushed on me as a child. And Mom wasn't too fond of me expressing femininity either. When she discovered me wearing nail polish, she wasn't thrilled.

[MissThundercat]

(Nicolas Cage)You don't say?(/Nicolas Cage)

https://thehill.com/homenews/state-w...q-laws-survey/

[Kepler]

Half of trans people live in Nazi states?

Huh.

Don't move because your politicians are terrible. Move because your state is terrible.

[Jeb2020]

Interesting. Why would this be?

https://usafacts.org/articles/who-ha...ata-by-gender/

Transgender people experienced the highest rates of long COVID.

[LynahFan]

Interesting. Why would this be?

https://usafacts.org/articles/who-ha...ata-by-gender/

Transgender people experienced the highest rates of long COVID.

I’m going to assume that all the legal, familial, and cultural bigotry have marginalized transgender people to such a degree that they lack access to medical care, economic resources, and personal support networks that are critical to resolving chronic health issues.

in other words, it’s probably your ****ing fault.