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Not surprised to see The Economist join the list of major publications cave to conservative concern trolling around gender-affirming care. These have done far m
by jdgoesmarching 2y ago
Not surprised to see The Economist join the list of major publications cave to conservative concern trolling around gender-affirming care. These have done far more damage to the trans community and trans youth than any of these purported risks combined.
Case in point, plucking out this single instance of weird behavior and slapping on this clickbait title that implies a much more widespread problem. Journalism has completely given over to feeding “well-actually” transphobia for clicks.
- 1234554321a 2y ago[flagged]
- dang 2y agoYour account has already posted quite a few flamewar comments. We have to ban accounts that break HN's rules like this*, so if you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and use HN as intended from now on, we'd appreciate it. * (regardless of $topic or your or anyone else's views on $topic)
- decremental 2y ago[dead]
- drekk 2y agoWhy don't you educate us, then?
- BoingBoomTschak 2y ago[flagged]
- AlexeyBelov 2y agoWhy is it always the relatively new accounts saying this stuff? And zero instances of productive discussion, just "shit in the comments and make a new account in 6 months".
- sp1ro 2y agoAstroturfing
- jdgoesmarching 2y agoYou caught me, I’m more emotionally invested in the actual human beings in my life than either the outlets throwing them under the bus for clicks or devil’s advocates engaging in some abstract debate that doesn’t impact them.
- Unbefleckt 2y agoI'm glad to see something that doesn't read like it was written by someone afraid of being punished as an apostate. Not everyone believes in this stuff.
- jdgoesmarching 2y agoTell me more about your beliefs regarding the private medical issues of people who don’t concern you.
- ciiio 2y agoI would've hoped that most people oppose the idea of preventing children from properly developing into adults solely on the basis of them expressing a desire to be the opposite sex. It's medical child abuse.
- Unbefleckt 2y agoI think a self diagnosed mental disorder that is treated as anything but private, which every impressionable child is made aware of during their developing years in public education, using insidious language and cultish tactics, providing gendered (ie social) care in the form of real sexual surgical solutions that are permanently damaging, concerns me greatly not only as a parent but as a human being. That's before we even get into my own history of gender dysphoria which would have been wildly different had I been born 10 years later.
- seethedeaduu 2y agoBeing trans, just like having autism, is not a mental disorder. The rest of the post is just repeating propaganda. Some empathy would go a long way.