trieste92

Yeah I think I'm done with this website after reading this

congrats, this was probably the most awful thing I've read this week

> I was gaslighting myself for a while that they were just busy, but when I heard about a couple of social things that I wasn't invited to, I realised that the friendships weren't on hold, they were hanging up.

I feel this. It's incredibly painful to make that kind of realization and it's hard not to be resentful about it

This happened to me and I was bitter about it for about 2 years, should've been in counseling but didn't even realize I was bitter

> I moved to the US (Bay Area) about 10 years ago after having spent much of my youth elsewhere, and to this day, I haven't been able adjust to the lack of informal social interactions compared to where I'm from. I really tried as well to see if it's me who is not able to fit

In the same boat. In HS and college, would have somewhat frequent get togethers and then COVID came and ruined it

Idk if the bay area is just like this or if I'm just going through a phase. It's probably just me

> It has very high social trust, low inequality, very low crime, affordable housing, universal healthcare, and so on.

I wonder how long these metrics will last. Social trust is definitely a new one that's been added after mid 2010s

> You can't solve a culture of pervasive government surveillance by inventing new tech, because that tech will just be outlawed or regulated to death

I call bs. New regulation moves slower that the rate at which people can find workarounds

nowhere in that thing do I see any mention of things like work life balance, it's just a bunch of claptrap about "infrastructures of oppression". Whatever that's supposed to mean

no wonder it's a small union. No economic incentives? No thanks

So at this point what's your argument? Change the subject, make up a slippery slope, and then scream about "fascism"?

What's your goal here? To be so ridiculous that any sort of compromise is impossible? Hope that works out for you

> against the wishes of both its practitioners

Because our wishes conflict with their economic motives

> the people receiving the treatment, who say it helps them

Again, children who aren't able to consent

> Why are you so invested with what choices people make for themselves, again, with the consideration of their doctors and families?

The same reason why I think the distribution of opiates should be tightly regulated. Because I see something that's inherently wrong, and I see corporations benefitting from it

> The term "transition" as used here is a euphemism that covers interfering with a child's puberty in a way that is likely to sterilize them for life if the treatment persists, and surgical destruction of breasts, and in some cases, genitals.

> I think most people, understanding the reality of this in stark terms, would be dead against children transitioning.

The only reason why this hasn't been outright banned for minors yet is because older voters don't know what's happening.

It's funny, I see a NYT article that literally just repeats these things out loud so that everyone can see what's happening, and then they get attacked for just describing what's happening

What's being done right now is so damning, no criticism is necessary. Only visibility. The people who want to hide facts from the public can only do this for so long

> why aren't experts in the field taking that evidence into account?

Money. Build your entire career around treatments for trans minors, and without them you have no career

> but then actually mean something else “kids shouldn’t be allowed to transition” and then introduce legislation to that effect.

Minors aren't capable of consent. The treatments have permanent side effects and lead to sterilization. One of the drugs used to aid in "transitioning" is lupron, which is also used to sterilize sex offenders

The only reason why any of this is allowed to happen is because the general population doesn't see what's happening. Criticism or "explanations" aren't necessary, all that's needed is visibility so that everyone can see what's being done and vote accordingly