Politics Woke links

Another FB thread....endless crying over illegals and fascism, every time a person gets arrested for lapsing their green card and not becoming a citizen after 10, 20 years.

An obvious immigrant (he didn't directly say it) was talking shit about these losers and saying to get them out. Some hispanic talked shit back to him about how they have a right to do seek a better life, blah blah.

I noted that he's clearly one of those immigrants who did it the legal way and he's right. The spic replied back to me, "And I'm one of those immigrants who took your job you Florida loser". I check his FB page and reply, "You took the civil engineering job I've had for years....weird how I'm still getting paid. What do you do again? Oh, hospitality".

I wonder why he never replied. Everyone looks at my picture and just assumes I'm an ignorant hick :lol:
 
Amazing that this is being published in the Atlantic (archive)

www.theatlantic.com

The Liberal Misinformation Bubble About Youth Gender Medicine

How the left ended up disbelieving the science
www.theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com

Allow children to transition, or they will kill themselves. For more than a decade, this has been the strongest argument in favor of youth gender medicine—a scenario so awful that it stifled any doubts or questions about puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones.

“We often ask parents, ‘Would you rather have a dead son than a live daughter?’” Johanna Olson-Kennedy of Children’s Hospital Los Angeles once explained to ABC News. Variations on the phrase crop up in innumerable media articles and public statements by influencers, activists, and LGBTQ groups. The same idea—that the choice is transition or death—appeared in the arguments made by Elizabeth Prelogar, the Biden administration’s solicitor general, before the Supreme Court last year. Tennessee’s law prohibiting the use of puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones to treat minors with gender dysphoria would, she said, “increase the risk of suicide.”

But there is a huge problem with this emotive formulation: It isn’t true. When Justice Samuel Alito challenged the ACLU lawyer Chase Strangio on such claims during oral arguments, Strangio made a startling admission. He conceded that there is no evidence to support the idea that medical transition reduces adolescent suicide rates.

At first, Strangio dodged the question, saying that research shows that blockers and hormones reduce “depression, anxiety, and suicidality”—that is, suicidal thoughts. (Even that is debatable, according to reviews of the research literature.) But when Alito referenced a systematic review conducted for the Cass report in England, Strangio conceded the point. “There is no evidence in some—in the studies that this treatment reduces completed suicide,” he said. “And the reason for that is completed suicide, thankfully and admittedly, is rare, and we’re talking about a very small population of individuals with studies that don’t necessarily have completed suicides within them.”

Here was the trans-rights movement’s greatest legal brain, speaking in front of the nation’s highest court. And what he was saying was that the strongest argument for a hotly debated treatment was, in fact, not supported by the evidence.

Even then, his admission did not register with the liberal justices. When the court voted 6–3 to uphold the Tennessee law, Sonia Sotomayor claimed in her dissent that “access to care can be a question of life or death.” If she meant any kind of therapeutic support, that might be defensible. But claiming that this is true of medical transition specifically—the type of care being debated in the Skrmetti case—is not supported by the current research.
Click to expand...
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top