knightly the Sneptaur

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Cake day: July 5th, 2023

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  • And I reject the notion that anything is settled

    This, this right here.

    if that were the case we should just stop all research about everything.

    Immediately going absurdist maximalism about it, very “I’m just making statements” sort of statement.

    What ridiculous anti scientific notion is that?Nothing is settled because science is ever evolving, especially so when social sciences are involved, because they are inherently inaccurate.

    I’m not saying we shouldn’t do research, I’m saying that our research should be oriented towards improving the quality of life, not “figuring out why queer people are that way”.

    The three questions I want answered are: what is to be done about the primary stressors that degrade trans people’s lives (I.E., transphobia), what causes hormone therapy to be such an effective treatment for gender dysphoria, and can we map the phase-space of endocrine system responses to better assist those (cis or trans) who have a need for hormone therapy?

    The available science at any moment is based on the lines of inquiry that are being investigated and very few people have investigated in the line I suggest because:

    1. conservatives are happy just erasing you entirely
    2. it is politically nuclear for liberals to fund this

    Identifying something is the first step in exterminating it, lets’ maybe not go looking for the trans equivalent of the gay gene that conspiratorial conservatives still believe to be real and instead go looking for ways to help people not be assholes to us.


  • The other point I made in my first comment is that we live in a democracy and we know that if there’s one thing that most people are still not on board with is accommodation of transgender people beyond what is already afforded by current civil rights, which is what transgender activists ask for.

    Hence the slogan “Trans rights are human rights”. We don’t need “accomodation”, we just need the same right to bodily autonomy that’s afforded to everyone else. Opposition to trans rights is just the tip of the same spear currently stabbing at women’s rights, gay folks’ rights, and minority rights in general.

    Whether or not other people are “on board” with the individual right to self-determination is entirely irrelevant. Either trans kids can get the medicine they and their doctors agree is best, or our government has pulled a China and taken the right to make your own medical decisions away from you. There is no middle ground.

    Sorry to say but in this matter you are at the mercy of the masses, so you’ll need to convince them and I think that finding the root cause of transgender identity is key to that.

    Just like how finding the gay gene was going to bring equality to gays, right?

    No, I’m afraid I can’t take you seriously. You’re “just asking questions” and about issues that were settled over 40 years ago and pretending at reasonable dissent based on nothing more substantial than 90’s talk radio talking points.

    Again, please read an actual research paper from a reputable medical or psychological association. Take your time with it and google all the $5 science words that aren’t familiar to you. You’ll learn a lot more that way.


  • You can’t refer to the fact that science progresses over time as an excuse to ignore the current state of the art, that’s asinine.

    I’m nonbinary. Actual research studies on the efficacy of hormone therapy for nonbinary people only started getting published like 8 years ago, ~20 years too late for me to get on puberty blockers.

    I had to wait decades for the medicine that saved me from dysphoria and depression, you don’t get to wield your ignorance on the topic as an argument against other people getting the care their doctors recommend.






  • Yeah, they literally had a cport rule that they had the right to fuck with primaries to make sure an establishment candidate won. Why are you acting like this isn’t a historical fact?

    The Democrats didn’t even hold a primary this time because they knew that if they allowed any actual competition then Biden wouldn’t get the nomination.

    Keep defending them all you like, I’m not going to forget how they bipartisanshipped us into this situation in the first place.


  • What progressive candidates? You mean the literal socialists on Seattle’s city council or are you talking about Democrat Progressives who get systematically shut out of the party?

    It’s almost like this is an immensely damaged country filled with low-information voters with far-right notions deeply engrained in the cultural consciousness.

    More than one thing can be true. Hell, most Americans think the Democrats are a left-wing party.



  • If the Dems can’t learn from this, just like they couldn’t learn from Hillary’s failure or Obama’s successes, then they’re going to lose the next election too.

    It’s not a matter of “deserving”, it’s a matter of PR. The only logical explanatiom for why the Dems keep throwing easy elections is that they don’t want to win.