uhhh, yeah I’m not gonna click on that…

If trump does go to prison the 48% of Republicans who would vote for him anyhow are going to cause a LOT of trouble for the government.

There’s easier ways to make a buck than surgery, but it probably plays into a larger strategy.

For one, they’d rather get you hooked on pills which have a higher ROI and are easier to sell at scale. So, keep doing those puberty blockers for 10 years before you’re old enough for surgery, then keep guzzling artificial hormones etc for the rest of your life after.

Even still, I think we’re talking about small enough numbers of people that it’s not going to motivate a whole lot of effort just to get those patients’ money. But as a precedent for forcing insurance companies and/or the government to spend millions of dollars per patient, it’s a good long term play. Why not spend that much per patient on weight loss pills, ADHD medication, etc?

Cool, you’re an MIT grad. Put that degree to work by making a better AI.

Well, I can think of this story from a couple years ago: https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/02/27/517491492/17-year-old-transgender-boy-wins-texas-girls-wrestling-championship

Tl;dr; biological girl gets jacked up on testosterone and destroys girls at wrestling. Kid wanted to play in the boys league, but state rules didn’t allow it.

we all know that dude

Well of course I know him. He’s me.

Transition clearly didn’t work if she’s talking about her regret instead of just bottling it up like a real man.

I went looking for an instance that wasn’t a left wing echo chamber after a mod on one of the big instances started getting power-crazy in a thread about the affirmative action SCOTUS ruling.

Content here is a little further right than I’m usually looking for, but I don’t have to tiptoe around on eggshells fearing a ban, and that’s what matters.

Nah, that same guy is the one trying to change the gun laws. He was just letting us know why he wants to change them so bad.

Al who? Gore?

Isn’t that pretty typical when an incumbent President is running for re-election?