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This is pay walled so I can’t read the whole thing, but some incredibly important context to the Cass report is that it examined 103 studies on trans youth and rejected 101 of them. Of the 50 studies on hormone blockers and 53 studies on hormone replacement therapy, miraculously the 2 they found to be ‘valid’ just happened to have inconclusive results.
Their excuse for rejecting them is that they weren’t double blind. But the thing is, it’s not always ethical or possible to do double blinds in medicine. If you have evidence that withholding medicine causes harm (guess what all those rejected studies found!!) then you’re never going to convince an ethics review board to let you withhold treatment. Even if it momentarily answers the “concerns” of terminally online transphobic freaks before they start hauling the goal post off somewhere else.
Anyway, Helen Lewis is a well known member of the terminally online transphobic freak club and has no background in any field of science to comment on any aspect of the Cass report, so here’s a breakdown of why the report sucks ass from someone who is qualified: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/26895269.2024.2328249
State Democrat Rep. Rui Xu (D) has demanded to know if the bill could censor a site listing the “top 10 most gay-friendly cities.” He claims the bill is written vaguely, and that Republican lawmakers did not consider the unintentional and sizable consequences that the bill would put into action.
Sigh
No, dumbass. You're either living under a rock or you're an idiot who should be barred from holding office because you're too naive to see it for what it is.
They know it's vague.
They know it'd have a widespread impact on the internet.
That's the whole point.
The intent is to make LGBT topics too toxic for anyone to engage with voluntarily, thereby silencing the community.
Stop letting the slack out. Stop giving them an inch because they always, always will take it a mile. Stop pretending that there isn't darkness hiding under their pleasant demeanor.
MOSCOW, March 22 (Reuters) - Russia said on Friday that if the United States knew for sure that Ukraine was not involved in a mass shooting incident at a concert hall near Moscow Washington should share any information it had....
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Thursday that Putin had merely been answering a journalist's questions on the subject and restating the already well known circumstances in which Russia would theoretically be forced to use nuclear weapons....
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Clenching fists ( files.catbox.moe )
Britain Is Leaving the U.S. Gender-Medicine Debate Behind ( www.theatlantic.com )
As bans spread, fluoride in drinking water divides communities across the US ( kffhealthnews.org )
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Florida blocks heat protections for workers right before summer ( www.npr.org )
New [Kansas] bill would censor all LGBTQ+ websites for as “harmful” to minors ( www.lgbtqnation.com )
Russia says United States must share any information it has on attack near Moscow ( www.reuters.com )
MOSCOW, March 22 (Reuters) - Russia said on Friday that if the United States knew for sure that Ukraine was not involved in a mass shooting incident at a concert hall near Moscow Washington should share any information it had....
"How to help someone use a computer.", a guide from 1996 ( pages.gseis.ucla.edu )
A friend shared a post from someone else that was talking about this article. I've quoted the text from that post below:...
Kremlin says Putin didn't threaten to use nuclear weapons, U.S. took him out of context ( www.reuters.com )
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Thursday that Putin had merely been answering a journalist's questions on the subject and restating the already well known circumstances in which Russia would theoretically be forced to use nuclear weapons....
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