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Willfully Horn

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  1. @Anastasis, I get that narcissists demean others due to their own insecurities. So, I hope you get help with that. I take offense at being indirectly characterized as spreading medical misinformation. I have offered numerous studies that support the contention that GA medical care lead to improved mental health outcomes, and I will link to yet another, more extensive study that reaches the same conclusion. A study that seemingly, to me, though I will yet again admit I am not adept at medical analysis, meets the complex controls you require. (Eschew informing in favor of contempt, if you so wish). Feel free to dig into this study, though you seemed disinterested in doing so with the last bevy of studies I linked that were easily obtained through a quick search. I will again point out that the authors of the studies have the same qualifications you esteem above the ability to comprehend a summary, but I get where you are coming from. It must be difficult for a layman to challenge your expertise. Expecting others to value your conclusions over other conclusions, from equally qualified sources, is a function of your narcissism. I get that. As you have admitted, long term mental health descriptions are complex. You ignored the link that described societal pressure affecting outcomes that were initially 100% positive. You also ignored my contention that fascistic suppression is ongoing in ways that could improve the future of our neighbors who face these difficult circumstances. Under the premise that you are Catholic, I will remind you that the Pope proclaimed Catholics must, must, do all they can to defeat such political oppression. So, it falls upon you to refute each study that concludes that GA medical care improves the lives of transgendered human beings. You chose that role. I acknowledge you linked a study that agrees with doubts you have, but I have yet to discover a peer reviewed study that shows GA care does not do what the consensus believes. Without further ado: https://www.jahonline.org/article/S1054-139X(21)00568-1/fulltext
  2. Following up on societal stigmatization, a two minute video can inform, and enlighten, and conceivably improve mental health for the most at risk demographic among us. I’m sure the contrarian posters on this board would support this approach, don’t you think? It is fair to say Republican politicians would say that this is “grooming.” Effect of a Brief Social Contact Video on Transphobia and Depression-Related Stigma Among Adolescents Findings In this randomized clinical trial of 1098 adolescents, a significant change in attitudes was found toward transgender youth only in the intervention groups, especially among participants who self-identified as cisgender and/or of heterosexual orientation. As anticipated, a significant reduction in depression-related stigma was also found across all study groups. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2789426
  3. This Dutch study examines the issues you raise regarding stigmatization affecting quality of life post transition. This was a small study, comprised of 20 individuals, ten trans men and ten trans women. Notably, and I will have to summarize as the format does not copy and paste easily, in that all the participants reported feeling happier psychologically, post transition. They were less depressed, had more peace of mind, and fewer suicidal thoughts. And, the more support and acceptance they received, the more lasting these improvements were. Their headwinds came at the blowback of a segment of society. Almost as if stigmatization makes human beings depressed, steals one’s peace of mind, and can lead to despondency. So, the mental improvements gained were abraded over time by the blowhards of intolerance. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/340678902_Experiences_with_stigmatization_among_transgender_individuals_after_transition_A_qualitative_study_in_the_Netherlands
  4. Coincidence? Right-wing nationalism comes to ... Sweden? https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2022/9/21/23364936/right-wing-nationalism-sweden-fascism-democracy-column-se-cupp
  5. This is badass! Researchers have successfully split seawater without pre-treatment to produce green hydrogen. The international team was led by the University of Adelaide’s Professor Shizhang Qiao and Associate Professor Yao Zheng from the School of Chemical Engineering. “We have split natural seawater into oxygen and hydrogen with nearly 100 per cent efficiency, to produce green hydrogen by electrolysis, using a non-precious and cheap catalyst in a commercial electrolyser,” said Professor Qiao. A typical non-precious catalyst is cobalt oxide with chromium oxide on its surface. “We used seawater as a feedstock without the need for any pre-treatment processes like reverse osmosis desolation, purification, or alkalisation,” said Associate Professor Zheng. “The performance of a commercial electrolyser with our catalysts running in seawater is close to the performance of platinum/iridium catalysts running in a feedstock of highly purified deionised water. The team published their research in the journal Nature Energy. “Current electrolysers are operated with highly purified water electrolyte. Increased demand for hydrogen to partially or totally replace energy generated by fossil fuels will significantly increase scarcity of increasingly limited freshwater resources,” said Associate Professor Zheng. Seawater is an almost infinite resource and is considered a natural feedstock electrolyte. This is more practical for regions with long coastlines and abundant sunlight. However, it isn’t practical for regions where seawater is scarce. Seawater electrolysis is still in early development compared with pure water electrolysis because of electrode side reactions, and corrosion arising from the complexities of using seawater. “It is always necessary to treat impure water to a level of water purity for conventional electrolysers including desalination and deionisation, which increases the operation and maintenance cost of the processes,” said Associate Professor Zheng. “Our work provides a solution to directly utilise seawater without pre-treatment systems and alkali addition, which shows similar performance as that of existing metal-based mature pure water electrolyser.” The team will work on scaling up the system by using a larger electrolyser so that it can be used in commercial processes such as hydrogen generation for fuel cells and ammonia synthesis. https://www.adelaide.edu.au/newsroom/news/list/2023/01/30/seawater-split-to-produce-green-hydrogen
  6. Were progressives as extreme, and as contemptuous of religious freedom, as what poses as conservative these days, they’d be passing laws about the non supportive parents of LBGTQ kids being child abusers, and deserving of jail time. https://www.metroweekly.com/2022/10/michigan-bill-would-jail-parents-for-allowing-trans-children-to-transition/ https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/idaho-trans-health-care-youth-bill-rcna19287 https://www.reuters.com/world/us/texas-investigating-parents-transgender-youth-child-abuse-2022-03-02/
  7. I agreed the murderer you linked was racist. Racism is bad. That’s one reason I vote D. We talk on a message board. So, the difference you mention is unclear. Are these words not directed at you? Perhaps you think I don’t speak my mind to folks face to face? You are mistaken.
  8. It means that, if your political point about racism is that racist black people kill white people, your point will be buried in the avalanche of racism that is how Republican politicians appeal to the Republican base, in addition to the racist voter suppression strategy instrumental to their winning elections. I am the guy, who, if I have something to say about someone, I say it to them directly.
  9. Looks like he has a case here. Not because he had a justifiable excuse against culpable homicide, but because the definition of mass murder is: “A mass murder is defined as the killing of three or more people at one time” He murdered two people.. The justifiable excuse is irrelevant.
  10. Looks like he has a case here. Not because he had a justifiable excuse against culpable homicide, but because the definition of mass murder is: “A mass murder is defined as the killing of three or more people at one time” He murdered only two people (the justifiable excuse is likely relevant.)
  11. This thread is overdue. @fattyflattie has his work cut out for him. Excuse me for a second while I peruse the news. Incredibly grateful that the first appropriate report I happened across was this: . Edit. Another link, as Reddit reddits. US reunites nearly 700 kids taken from parents under Trump https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/us-reunites-700-kids-parents-trump-96861198
  12. Parents who experience “persistent, consistent, and insistent” declarations, you meant to say. And, please note, these same parents likely know that their kids have around a 1% probability of later deciding to detransition. Why should your issues, invoked from a distance, that conceivably could be valid for one child in a hundred, outweigh the decisions of parents, who are overwhelmingly, statistically, correct that transition is the best possible future for their child, in terms of recorded outcomes judged by decisions of those most affected?
  13. Ticketing and Turnout: The Participatory Consequences of Low-Level Police Contact The American criminal legal system is an important site of political socialization: scholars have shown that criminal legal contact reduces turnout and that criminalization pushes people away from public institutions more broadly. Despite this burgeoning literature, few analyses directly investigate the causal effect of lower-level police contact on voter turnout. To do so, we leverage individual-level administrative ticketing data from Hillsborough County, Florida. we show that traffic stops materially decrease (voter) participation for Black and non-Black residents alike, and we also find temporal variation in the effect for Black voters. Although stops reduce turnout more for Black voters in the short term, they are less demobilizing over a longer time horizon. Although even low-level contacts with the police can reduce political participation across the board, our results point to a unique process of political socialization vis-à-vis the carceral state for Black Americans. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/american-political-science-review/article/ticketing-and-turnout-the-participatory-consequences-of-lowlevel-police-contact/184A410DFF3DC72F4B9667C8CA3E0730
  14. You are a bundle of raw nerves, it seems. Must be difficult. In this debate, Ana, you are the only one whose argument is unsupported.
  15. I thought you voted R, too. I guess you reject the “apologist” part?
  16. Saw this on Reddit. This would scare the shit out of me.
  17. Correct. Here’s the CDC report. Reports of adverse events to VAERS following vaccination, including deaths, do not necessarily mean that a vaccine caused a health problem. More than 668 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines were administered in the United States from December 14, 2020, through January 26, 2023. During this time, VAERS received 18,977 preliminary reports of death (0.0028%) among people who received a COVID-19 vaccine. CDC and FDA clinicians review reports of death to VAERS including death certificates, autopsy, and medical records. Continued monitoring has identified nine deaths causally associated with J&J/Janssen COVID-19 vaccination. CDC and FDA continue to review reports of death following COVID-19 vaccination and update information as it becomes available. https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/safety/adverse-events.html
  18. On the DT thread, I received a timeout for mentioning Jack Reacher’s comment about why people join the army. That some do so as a way to kill people legally. Was too oblique, my post, but I think that is why KR showed up at the protest. Is the mom included in the civil suit?
  19. Deflection noted, @Anastasis. Good job on reigning in your hyperbolic rhetoric. You could spend your time arguing the long term effects of puberty blockers are unknown, which is made crystal clear to those who chose that therapy, btw. That these medications and surgeries improve mental health outcomes has been established.
  20. Yep. Add that the past several years have been rough on trees. Were the trees in better health this wouldn’t have been as bad.
  21. The outrage is over school employees (a teacher, perhaps, or a counselor,) who a child has confided in, not notifying the kid’s parents. Or worse, using whatever pronoun the child wants used. Edited to say that shitty parents never blame themselves for being so shitty their kid can’t speak honestly to them.
  22. Same. It is so very satisfying to see your kids achieve their goals. Oldest graduates this May, youngest starts with the new school year,
  23. First, thanks for expanding on what you meant by control groups; I am always grateful to learn more. That said, you are tilting at windmills, to put it kindly, and have resorted to hyperbole. Not the castration comparison, though that is a non rigorously studied and nebulous conclusion depending on the time frame involved, but your “crazy” characterization. Innovation is a species long technique, and individuals, or parents intent on protecting their kids, trying to solve life issues, using what knowledge is available, is exactly what sane humans do. The study I have posted was, at the time, current news. It is far from the only study concluding that gender affirming care leads to improvement in the lives of the transgendered community. I will link other reports that reach the same conclusion, but at some point you ought admit that you, and other like minded dissenters have no support other than Heritage level publications. IOW, you argue that your doubts are more trustworthy than the conclusions of the institutions found below, and you imply peer review suffers the same failings as the report authors. Again, to put it gently, hyperbole. Except you frame these reports in terms of popular bias. The “everyone else is wrong, is lying, and is putting out fake news for a political, or cultural, purpose” narrative is as weak an argument as I have ever heard from you. Congrats on your NEJM subscription and best of luck on your insecurity issues. https://www.columbiapsychiatry.org/news/gender-affirming-care-saves-lives https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/fullarticle/2674039 https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/what-the-science-on-gender-affirming-care-for-transgender-kids-really-shows/ https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2789433 https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2022/01/mental-health-hormone-treatment-transgender-people.html
  24. It is my sincere hope that you can ask your MIL if she thought of herself as a boy, back in her youth. Persistently, consistently, and insistently. Were that part of your family’s history, it would at least be relevant to this discussion.
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