Data indicates that it is. Gender affirming care, including transition, leads to improvement in quality-of-life indicators and a reduction in self-harm. Whereas your approach-- denial, proscription and repression-- has a long track record of the opposite, driving suicide and misery. You're talking horseshit, and you have no actual interest in the wellbeing of these people; you're using it as a veil to hide religious/political prejudice and personal dislike of people who aren't like you.
It was. I was responding to Brawlman criticising Black for condemning Gass.
This might be the singular most horrible thing I've read on these forums. To quote Stephen A. Smith: "the audacity, the temerity, the unmitigated gall" to attempt to pass off your complete and total lack of awareness of other's life experience as complete awareness and an innate understanding of their situation and how it's ultimately their problem is fucking disgusting. Check yourself; your chosen political/ideological leanings give you no expertise in the matters of the myriad immutable human conditions which have existed since long before there were parties lines.
We have had this argument, you are wrong. You unironically point to people in the past who acted like people today without realizing those people a) didn't even describe themselves the way people are now and b) weren't killing themselves over it.
No, you all spread beliefs that encourage and propagate self-harm, and think it's progress only because it challenges the status quo. You all need to see the horrors you defend.
Agreed.
Yeah, let's deny the tales of people who've transitioned or identified as other than what their birth certificate mandated and been, finally, perfectly happy, and focus on how the government should have the right to deny them that and equal rights because conservatives who don't understand don't think they should have the rights to their individual happiness. Fuck off. Self-harm is living in a constant state of misery because people like YOU who have no idea feel the need to legislate what rights and privileges others should be afforded when they don't align with what people like YOU think they should.
made the biatch all humbled now. This will last for about a week. Or two and then it's back to work as usual.
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The historical existence of gender as a distinct characteristic from sex isn't even relevant to the point I made there.
Firstly, you're asking why a population that's subject to violent prejudice and legal discrimination have a higher suicide rate?
The lack of self-awareness here is incredible: to complain that data "doesn't exist" for my position, and then to come out with such a hysterical claim like that for which you can provide zero evidence whatsoever.
Could you elaborate on this?
Example of politics as a religion. It'll also be a week or 2 until the democrats call Trump a threat to democracy and fascist again. Neither side cares about uniting people because none of them want that. You should point out every time it happens vs just when the other side does it.Getting shot in the
Trump urges unity after assassination attempt while proposing sweeping populist agenda in RNC finale
Donald Trump, somber and bandaged, has accepted his party’s presidential nomination at the Republican National Convention.
You are advocating for the same thing. You are advocating for the same thing.
In lefty world right now, you can identify as a bunch of things and define them by your own perspective. But if someone else identifies as the same thing, they are equally right, even if it is flatly contradictory. This, you can define yourself, but you can't actually tie it to anyone else. There cannot be a socially accepted definition of a woman, because any definition would deny others the right of self-determination. So now those words mean nothing, which in many ways was always the case, knowing a person is a women should say very little about who they are, but if you've committed the larger portion of your identity, potentially even restructuring your genitals to match, that identity having no clear meaning and no firm connection to others means your self-image is unstable at best. Imagine rearranging your whole life and your personal relationships to identify as a single word and then waking up one day to realize the word means nothing.
People like to reference the "right side of history". You all are going down in history with the phrenologists.
That's not what gender affirmation is. It doesn't surprise me that you don't even grasp the basics of what the care involves or what it's for. You are the only person here involved in forcing people to fit an external social expectation.
And yet we've already seen data & research showing gender affirmation improves wellbeing and reduces self-harm. So they do have good results.
You do not have that. You have short term self-reported data with no control to compare to. "We asked people who made major life changes if they think they made a terrible mistake, and they mostly said no" isn't data and research.
