re: "Gender affirming healthcare"

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I've yet to see a coherent and logical reason that altering the contents is a better response than altering the packaging.

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Perhaps you should look up the health risks that accompany long term "transition" dose estrogen therapy for men and testosterone therapy for women.

Huge increase in risk of heart attacks, strokes, pulmonary embolisms, etc. Stuff that can kill you or leave you disabled for life.

In exchange for what? A very modest decrease in the likelihood of suicide.

Medicine is a risk-reward game. Anybody who was looking at the facts objectively would not conclude that the medical potential rewards here outweigh the risks, but no one in this game (including you, apparently) are regarding the data objectively.

This is from the Mayo Clinic website:

Complications can include:

Blood clots in a deep vein or in the lungs
Heart problems
High levels of triglycerides, a type of fat, in the blood
High levels of potassium in the blood
High levels of the hormone prolactin in the blood
Nipple discharge
Weight gain
Infertility
High blood pressure
Type 2 diabetes
Stroke

This is right after they say "gender affirming care can be 'safe and effective.'"

I'm not aware of any study in the world that shows any more than a modest decrease in likelihood of suicide following "gender affirming care" when the long term is considered (or even medium term, for that matter...the longest studies I've seen on it only carry out the study for a year or so).

So I call bullshite on "effective."

Safe? Transgender women have been found to be twice as likely as biological women to have a thromboembolism and 80%-90% more likely to have a stroke or heart attack.

So that's another bullshite moment from the Mayo Clinic. And you.