When a biological man believes he is a woman, gender affirming care would be TRT & counseling to help separate his insecurity from other issues.
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No need to yell at the enemy in retreat. They lost and we’re never going back. In fact, woke is a cool word and I want it back. I’m woke to a lot of things. I’m woke to Bitcoin. I’m woke to nostr. Woke is ours now. Go be weird somewhere else weirdos.
I think you severely underestimate the level of demoralization that has already been achieved in the minds of many. I don't think the war is over.
Hard to say. My echo chamber is small. Basically if it’s not on Nostr, Zerohedge or a Bitcoin Podcast I have no idea what’s happening in the world (unless it washes up in the beach ahead of one of my daily walks with my kids). It’s wonderful, really.
Indeed! But that leaves you unaware of how to communicate to people still plugged in. Jeff makes a great point about needing to separate the concerns to be able to understand them and heal.
Also woke is still clearly defined as the pushing of victim narratives and forced DEI.
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Why should anyone change your mind? Are you a biological male who believes they're a woman? If no, what is or isn't a treatment impacts you in zero ways. Stay out of other people's business and their medical decisions.
That's what I'd like the government to do, and yet here we are.
There are lots of reasons to care. And if people don't talk about things then no one learns. I don't think drugs should be violently prohibited, but I would also generally recommend against doing them.
I talk about avoiding sugar, veg oils, grains & grain products because I like to see people get healthy & thrive. When it comes up I caution people against birth control. In addition to increasing the risk of cancer, we know it disrupts unconscious mate selection mechanisms, and I have also personally seen it make calm & rational females into irrational & emotionally volatile ones. I think screwing with people's hormones is far more dangerous than most want to admit, especially in ways that conflict rather than align with our natural biological programming. A lot of common body modifications also cause serious problems which are rarely discussed, breast implant sickness for example. Trying to play God with complex systems tends to cause problems.
The problems associated with all of the above are pretty solid proof that these things are quite literally self destructive whether anyone recognizes them as such or not. And that's all relatively mild when compared to the puberty blockers or chemical castration drugs & genital mutilation being advocated by & for "trans" people. I do not think you can help people by promoting self destruction. And the fact that so many commit suicide seems like further proof that self destruction is the path most are on.
I would like to live in a culture that doesn't socially reward people for doing self destructive things. I would like to live in a culture that builds people up & helps them to be as happy & healthy as they can be.
What are your qualifications for giving out medical advice?
I am alive & I have had a decent amount of experience with our broken healthcare system, & I pay attention. So I have figured out the solutions to many health problems the same way I figured out that Bitcoin was the solution to our broken financial system 14 years ago.
Of course, health basics are not nearly as hard to understand as bitcoin & money... farmers fatten livestock with grains & veg oils, & they produce foie gras by using sugary grains to induce fatty liver disease. Kids are getting fatty liver disease from stuffing their faces with sugary grain products. So the grain based nutritional recommendations are obviously retarded.
And more importantly free speech means I am free to speak my mind on any topic I please.
I see. So no years of study of any medical field or experience treating patients and a raging case of Dunning-Kruger effect. Got it! Thanks for clarifying.
(Also, ppl disagreeing with you or asking uncomfortable questions is in no way an infringement on your freedom of speech but, in fact, their exercise of free speech. Hope that clears things up)
Personal attacks & appeals to authority are not arguments. I do have years of study, just not in the corruot universities which taught me economics in a way that I had to unlearn in order to make sense of the world.
People who mindlessly follow others and refuse to learn about anything that isn't some "official instruction" they can memorize are very likely to bed led into suffering.
I think most trans people are those people. They are being led to self destruction by people who don't want others to reproduce & they want to sell drugs & surgeries to anyone they can exploit.
Pro-tip: Learn the meaning of words before using them. Toodles! 😘
Gender affirming care is a misnomer. The people who push "gender affirming care" are telling people they were born into the wrong body (despite physical evidence to the contrary) and that chemically or surgically castrating them will make them complete. This is the opposite of affirming their gender.
True gender affirming care is telling people they are not a mistake, but they are made in the image of a loving God who never makes mistakes and that they don't need to change anything physically. They just need to trust their Creator.