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Willfully Horn

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  1. I can’t remember if his show was before, or after, Ask Lydia Love. That’s how I became aware of him. He never held my attention. Unlike Lydia.
  2. Again, discussed. The primary obstacle to long term mental health improvement is society, and its antipathy to trans folks. For folks receiving gender affirming care, the short term results, which are documented as very positive, erode from the sand filled winds of societal opprobrium.
  3. I think it is important to repost this study, which finds that regret for undergoing gender affirming care is extremely low. Lower than any other elective surgery. Lower than getting married. Lower than having kids. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8099405/
  4. Can a human being he both mentally ill AND possess all the components of mental wellness? I do not think so, and so I have questions about your post.
  5. These side effects are no where near the worst side effects that medicines can develop. Think about those medicines for dementia, they are linked to death. Still on the market, Loss of bone density is more than concerning, I agree. The other side effects are less concerning. Fwiw, the loss of bone density is more common among patients born male. We ought respect the decision trans women make, for many trans women loss of bone is no impediment to their desired outcome.
  6. No, they made a political decision, which was not supported by the Cass Review. Further, the Cass Review is seriously flawed. This, too, has been discussed upthread. For instance, the Review is premised on the assumption that expertise in the field of transgender care makes for bias. No where else does this political slant interfere with evaluating medical research. You are disingenuous, I suspect that is common among narcissists, which is shown in how you misrepresent the Review, and the credence you give the two people, commissioned by Review, from York University, to evaluate the existing evidence on transgender care. These two people in no way say the US medical community has gone rogue. Whether or not those two folks are identified by name, I don’t know. Many of the authors of the Cass Review are unidentified. Your most egregious misrepresentation if the Cass Review is to claim it supports a ban on medical care for transgendered kids. It does not. ISpoiler has the details. How about give children the medical care they need.
  7. Narcotics can kill you, if you overdose. And, to be sure, when misused narcotics are addictive. Otoh, narcotics, when properly used, are remarkably benign in terms of ill effects on the body. Narcotics with anti-inflammatory analgesics offer the most effective pain relief. But, they’re cheap, and generic, absolutely. So, is there not a financial incentive to have them removed from treatment options?
  8. As this subject has been discussed, ad naseum, I will spoiler the Mayo Clinic’s statement on the negative effects of hormone blockers. (Hint, “unacceptable risk” is both subjective and unsupported). The UK panel is political bullshit.
  9. Probably should have posted this here.
  10. how the fuck does revoking approval of the polio vaccine play out? Will folks have to travel abroad to get their kids vaccinated? Thanks, HPD. That’s what I was wondering.
  11. After hearing the Surly tailgate was canceled, Mrs Willfully said Surly could come over to our house for the game.
  12. Nvm.
  13. Red state Montana isn’t completely fucked. The ruling reinforces the need for an Amendment guaranteeing the right to privacy. (I know that my statement presupposes that Amendments still mean something). “Earlier today, the Montana Supreme Court ruled that SB 99, a 2023 Montana law that categorically bans life-saving gender-affirming care for transgender youth, is unconstitutional under the Montana state constitution’s privacy clause, which prohibits government intrusion on private medical decisions.” https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/montana-supreme-court-rules-in-favor-of-families-doctors-blocks-ban-on-healthcare-for-transgender-youth
  14. Wife and I were hiking at Enchanted Rock, intending to circle the base of the batholith. When we saw the mountain lion laying atop a boulder, maybe seventy yards ahead, we decided to go back the way we came.
  15. “Is” firing, or “will” fire her? Turnip isn’t yet in office.
  16. If Greece attacks us, I ain’t even gonna be mad. -Stonekettle(approximately)
  17. Fuck. More evidence that the powers that be, in the leadership at UT and the state government, are not serious people.
  18. Current, and future, shit show brought to you by our Republican voting ass-sucks.
  19. Hey, cowboys get the blues.
  20. Yep. Disturbing the feds have horned their way into traffic control. If that young woman was really a threat to national security, you’d think the officer would have a partner, and that there would have been other units responding. We had a front row seat to the goings on, as we were stopped at a light. The fed’s car was in a traffic lane, as well, while the driver’s car was on the shoulder of the road. Homeland Security vehicle. Homeland Security uniform. Homeland Security Kevlar vest. Forgot to mention Game Wardens in my first post. I have been pulled over by a GW.
  21. “On Sunday, Nov. 24, at around 12:49 p.m., the ceiling of an outdoor patio at the Norman Hackerman Building suddenly collapsed. The building, which opened about 15 years ago, houses classrooms and labs for biology and chemistry.” Pretty lucky it happened on a Sunday. Infuriatingly sloppy construction, or, perhaps, engineering. “The Beck Group and CO Architects both list the building project in their online portfolios.” Video of collapse at link. https://www.kut.org/austin/2024-12-10/ut-austin-university-texas-collapse-norman-hackerman-building
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