heterodoxxed
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Comment · 5 years ago
Comment · 5 years ago
Cheap wants, expensive needs. This is our economy now.
"I love my iPhone, but I worry about health insurance." as I've heard it put here on HN.
Ironically, the Soviet system fell from opposite. Expensive wants, cheap needs. Everyone saw the West getting cheaper and cheaper consumer goods and central planning failed to keep up.
Now we get to see what happens.
Comment · 5 years ago
Simple session tokens are fine, always have been.
Comment · 5 years ago
| The WPATH standards of care also state, however, that male chest reconstruction surgery for female-to-male
patients “could be carried out earlier” than the age of majority in certain cases, and ultimately should be considered on a case-by-case basis “depending on an adolescent’s specific clinical situation and goals for gender identity expression.”
What do you think that specific clinical situation was in those situations?
Comment · 5 years ago
Mastectomies are performed for non-gender-related reasons, such as prophylactic mastectomies, so it's arguable whether that falls under the definition of SRS/GRS. For any reason, it is exceedingly, vanishingly rare in children.
It seems like an oddly small number to obsess over, especially considering over 8,000 non-trans teenagers between 13 and 19 receive breast augmentations each year.
From your link:
| the mean (SD) age was 19 (2.5) years for postsurgical participants and 17 (2.5) years for nonsurgical participants
Surgical patients would be the ones who are in the most danger of suicide or self-harm or for whom nonsurgical (hormone) treatment is not an option.
Also,
| Self-reported regret was near 0.
Here is the document that the report refers to as the standard for care for transgender patients:
https://s3.amazonaws.com/amo_hub_content/Association140/file...
You'll want to look at Section VI: . Assessment and Treatment of Children and Adolescents with Gender Dysphoria.
Comment · 5 years ago
| grounded in facts and Biblical truth
You're going to have to come up with a better source.
Comment · 5 years ago
That seems unnecessarily pedantic, since obviously it should be assumed to mean "not recommended by anyone who matters", but I've upvoted you for providing the source.
I was editing my comment with that exact link when you posted.
Comment · 5 years ago
| gender reassignment surgery
SRS/GRS is not recommended for pubescent children by anyone. At that age only hormone blockers are on the table, definitely not permanent surgery.
EDIT
Posting a reference backing up my claim since I'm getting downvoted:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/mar/05/viral-imag...
| Professional organizations such as the Endocrine Society recommend against puberty blockers for children who have not reached puberty, and recommend that patients be at least 16 years old before beginning hormone treatments for feminization or masculinization of the body. The last step in transitioning to another gender, gender reassignment surgery, is only available to those 18 and older in the United States.
Comment · 5 years ago
Of course not, it's a terrible thing.
Comment · 5 years ago
The market doesn't reward those who optimize their code.
Fastest-to-market and slow beats second-to-market and optimized every day of the week.
But before then, housing, food, clothing all were cheap and available. The food was simple, the apartments small and the clothing dull, but it was all there and for very little cost.
https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP85M00363R0006014...
But they liberalized their economy in order to compete on the consumer goods boom in the West. That desire for consumer goods had a big role in destabilizing the system.
And today, the converse desire for cheap staples and necessities in the face of intense asset inflation may be destabilizing our current system.