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by DanBC 6y ago
They're referring to protest by Extinction Rebellion. Some people superglued themselves, or climbed on tube trains. https://www.ft.com/content/0f1bbf6e-1baa-11ea-97df-cc63de1d7... https://www.bbc.co.uk&
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by DanBC 6y ago
https://twitter.com/Cox_A_R/status/1371485854846320640?s=20 > I don’t know anyone in pharmacovigilance who thinks what is happening now in EU states is rational based on known information. > EMA had this rig
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There's a few things that might be happening. Germany has high rates of vaccine hesitancy. One way to tackle that is to be extra cautious. So, as soon as there's information about problems the vaccination programme is halted, an i
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Most of those countries were part of the British Commonwealth. https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/countries...
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by DanBC 6y ago
If you don't understand the language it's easy to see how you miss it, but stuff like this is pure hate. It's based on lies. It's pushing a narrative ("my kid isn't really trans, it's just a fad pushed on
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by DanBC 6y ago
I'm struggling with recentism. Google appears to strongly prefer new content. I wish there were some options to exclude certain domains. I find myself using "" or inurl a lot. I often find myself trying to ask a natural langu
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It's hateful and it's child abuse. There's nothing humble about parents who hate their LGBT+ children.
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Perhaps it's because the vinegars can settle out, so you want to shake the bottle? You can't do that with a tube.
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by DanBC 6y ago
> it should have occured to me that combining ketchup with thickeners might be a well-researched topic in food science already. There were articles during the Gulf War about armed forces being unhappy with thin ketchup, so they brought i
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by DanBC 6y ago
I know you think you're making some amazing points here, but really you're just showing that you have no idea what modern science and medicine has to say about healthcare for trans people. You're also saying stuff which I kn
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The UK has public and private provision of healthcare, and adults are free to leave the UK and buy healthcare from other countries if they can afford to do so.
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by DanBC 6y ago
Your post is really confusing. S230 says that a company won't be held responsible for some (but not all) user generated speech on their website. But it also says they do not lose those protections if they moderate that speech. The peop
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> 2. Private wiretapping would land you in jail, and required covert access to someone's house, making it riskier to pull off Or people could just access the pole outside the house, or the cab on the street.
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It links to Quillette and spreads disinfo. That's not objective.
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> For other patients, this is a temporary discomfort with their identity that passes or can be resolved otherwise (e..g by accepting sexual identity etc). <--- This is the controversial part. Trans right activists see this position as
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by DanBC 6y ago
You've got quite a lot wrong. That's understandable: the UK press frequently prints misinformation about trans people. Tavistock and Portman is hated by transphobes simply because it provides healthcare to trans children. It'
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None of these links say what you're claiming they say. Your courthouse link: > “For me, the important lesson is that single payer can re-direct huge resources – about $700 billion per year in the U.S. – from insurance paperwork and
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by DanBC 6y ago
Maybe the UK just has a more developed market, but places like John Lewis almost certainly sell a kettle that meets all those points. It'll be pricey. But places like Argos will too. This one is only £20 and hits all their points: htt
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It's a mistake to think this is a left vs right thing. Increased numbers of people seeking treatment just means more people understand gender incongruence and are prepared to seek treatment for it.
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In the UK context it very much matters because people are seeking to deny access to healthcare by calling it mental illness.
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Yes, but it's important because the direction of travel is de-pathologisation . Being trans is not a disorder. Trans people sometimes have an underlying condition. In ICD10 that's Gender dysphoria , which is classed as a mental
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Yes. Anything about trans people on HN is always fucking terrible. Partly because people expect some kind of truthiness from the UK press, and they're unprepared to deal with the levels of misinformation coming from the UK about trans
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> but why are we talking about a lot of kids doing this then Because you've been lied to. You've been duped by hate groups, and now you're happily spreading their disinfo. > Also: is there any indication that this is (i
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You're basing your argument on a lie. Children do not get GCS nor cross-sex hormones.
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Where do children get cross sex hormones or surgery? (If you can't answer this question without googling it shows that maybe you need to slow down before posting, to avoid spreading misinformation.)
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Weird that you link to an article about tavi. 1) Trans people hate tavi, and want the contract taken off them. 2) Tavi's child services don't provide access to surgery or cross sex hormones 3) Most of tavi's child patients do
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Non invasive techniques are used -- people socially transition before they get access to hormones and surgery. For some people social transition is all they need, but ofr a small group of people hormones and surgery are life saving inter
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The protections are routinely upheld in UK courts.
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Being trans is not a mental health issue. Gender dysphoria is a mental health issue, but gender dysphoria is being taken out of ICD 11 and the new classification - gender incongruence - will not be under mental disorders but under sexual he
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by DanBC 6y ago
> so that the service quality degrades and the private sector can swoop in as the saviour. This is controversial because: There are a couple of other reasons: The Lansley reforms were about increasing non-NHS provision. They mostly fail

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