Kal-El814

The problem with being an “equal opportunity offender” is when you go “they think I’m punching down when I talk about trans people? Wait until they hear my jokes about disabled people” you just end up telling on yourself twice. “Who’s got it worse than group X,” is not fertile ground for comedy. I don’t think anyone’s out there saying that trans or disabled people are off limits in general, Dave’s just lost in the sauce and has been for a while now. The brief bits of this one I watched are just him making “the one joke” conservatives have about trans people, it’s so fucking lazy and boring.

In a situation like this I'm usually willing to give someone the benefit of the doubt when it comes to language. I don't know best all that well but I don't think he's trying to be hateful here or anything. It's not THAT long ago that, "I identify as X," was the most accepted language and that specific turn of phrase is generally out (which makes it being "the one joke" that chuds use a fairy reliable self-snitch), the way people call out their pronouns is different than the fairly recent past too, etc. Again the larger issue here is similar to pro-birth people being obsessed with very late / third trimester abortions. Despite what they are more than willing to imply or occasionally lie about outright, those types abortions are exceedingly rare, almost always in the interest of the health of the mother, and are very often medically necessary or adjacent to that. Essentially nobody's going into Planned Parenthood 36 weeks into a healthy pregnancy and saying, "you know what? Nah. Gimme an abortion." Most people, including many pro-life people, don't believe that elective, late abortions should be legal, or that they should be more severely limited than ones that happen int he first trimester. Late abortions are brought up as a foot in the door to the discussion about what they really want; the elimination of all abortions at any time. And it's the same thing here. There aren't tons of kids getting gender reassignment surgery. And let's also be clear that there's differentiation between top and bottom surgery. Last time I poked around at the numbers over a 3 year span, something like 750 top surgeries were done on minors based on gender dysphoria diagnoses. 750 seems like a lot until you realize that there are 40 million patients per year within the same age pool that number came from. When it came to bottom surgery the number is less than 60. In 2020 alone something like 3,200 girls between 13 - 19 got cosmetic breast enhancements. Close to 45,000 got cosmetic nose jobs. Will the number of kids undergoing some kind of medical intervention for trans related healthcare increase?In the short term, almost certainly yes. This doesn't mean that being trans is "trendy" or whatever other bullshit chuds like to claim; these people always existed. They were just unaware of options, unable to access them, etc.

It's fine to not know about or be informed about a topic, there's nothing wrong with that. I don't form an opinion on this based on vibes, everything I've read suggests that when it comes to gender reassignment surgery for children it's: 1) Generally not recommended 2) Very rare 3) Only happens as a last resort in cases of severe dysphoria which may lead to things like suicide attempts or repeated self-harm So in cases like this, it's not like my perspective is, "hey man, if it feels good, do it." And like I said, if it seemed like this was suddenly happening all the time, I might have a different notion. But that's not what is happening. If there's reasonable evidence to suggest that in certain cases, giving a minor access to this surgery is going to keep them from killing themselves... I don't think it should be against the law. And let's also be clear that in cases like this, it's not like the state is advocating for the improvement of access to other gender affirming care, or increased mental health services, or education on trans issues, etc. No. They think trans people are gross so they act like this is a "won't SOMEONE think of the children" issue. Their solution would be to convince trans kids that they're not trans. This is just chum for the base. As a cis, straight, white dude who is generally free of mental health issues, I can't really put myself in the shoes of someone who's trans or someone who has some kind of body dysmorphia. I've never had that experience of feeling out of place in my own skin. I don't even know if those are the right terms to use. So going through surgery does seem like "a lot" to me; I can't really imagine it. I think it's also worth remembering that for many people, though certainly not all, sexuality or gender identity are known pretty early on. A girl I was friends with in kindergarten wanted to see what kissing was like so we did a little peck. If a boy I was friends with asked me to do the same thing, I wouldn't have. Obviously none of this was sexual at that age but at 6 I wouldn't have kissed a boy. So I don't think it should be surprising that some kids who are very young know that they feel like a boy even if they're assigned female at birth. Again should we be putting kindergarteners through gender reassignment surgery or giving them puberty blockers? No. Does everyone's gender identity or sexuality crystallize that young? Absolutely not. But I think we often run into situations like these where adults think they universally know best or that the experiences of cis / straight people are not just "the norm" from a statistical standpoint, but "normal" meaning the default or correct. The later is just not accurate. So again, surgery specifically for minors, according to everything I've read, is rare and in extreme cases. I don't think it should be illegal.

Is it ethical to prevent access to a specific kind of surgery if the child, their parents, and their doctors agree it is in the child's best interest?

@Link200 have you ever flown a convertible?

@legend The irony tree bears bitter fruit, my friend.

Bruh you don't even have to read the article on this one. This is not something that happens often, it really only occurs in the case of severe dysmorphia, regret rates for gender reassignment surgery are way less than surgeries to correct things like back pain, etc. If there was some explosion in gender reassignment surgery for kids, that would be one thing. There isn't. People who like to complain about virtue signaling should be ripshit about stuff like this, since that's absolutely what it is, to say nothing of using the law as a cudgel to do so.

I think there's a fair portion of Christians that, while they might not think Catholics are "not Christian" to the same extent that Mormons "are not Christian" believe that Catholics are sufficiently weird and only count since they're grandfathered in.

lol Netflix's 'Rebel Moon' is one of the worst movies ever made WWW.SFGATE.COM SFGATE columnist Drew Magary watched "Rebel Moon," Zach Snyder's $150 million "Star Wars" copycat, and lived to tell the tale.

Texans for $25K Colts FG 2 Fins, Cowboys 3 Jets, Seahawks, Bills

You don't say.

Lots of Democrats are some flavor of Christian, many Christians don't think Mormons are Christian.

Guy just can't quit getting cucked by Jared.

Infestation 88. Really.

Banned for personal attacks.

But today you and I are great friends.

You just know his name would be something like Kohr Upshun.

Chuds also believe that the increase in people being openly trans or queer is significantly affecting birthrates.

This fucking guy leaves more evidence behind than the villain in the first case of a Phoenix Wright game, it’s incredible.

The notion of an organized, secret, child sex abuse cabal persists, I believe, because that is a more tolerable thought than the reality that child abuse is just… something some people do. There’s no need for coded messages related to pizza toppings, secret subterranean meetings, and a comprehensive network. People with relative power can get away with it, people with actual power do so borderline openly.

If you’d told me that Dave Chappelle would become a boring hack I’d never have believed you, but here we are. I can’t think of a more stunning turn in comedy that didn’t involve the person being a sex pest, or something. Just wild.

I should look at the rulebook I guess

That boss stuff seems like a weird oversight. I assume it's not a Gloomhaven situation? The first boss we saw there had what seemed like an impossible amount of HP, but once we got the rules better they were manageable. Getting wiped before you can go just seems... busted.

Imagine paying $44B to be the main character on your favorite platform only to be reminded that you’re just an NPC in the game’s starting town.