"what purports to be an 'assessment' [is] in fact an exercise in bringing very significant pressure... on trans youth and their families to cease private treatment, backed up with a threat of a safeguarding referral to social services if they do not..."
@iaruffell When it comes to trans-related health care in the UK, I think the intent is to make the waitlist so long that everyone has to give up. Except for when it comes to conversion therapy.
"The Cass Review seems to have emulated the Florida Review... Notably, Hilary Cass met with Patrick Hunter... who played a significant role in the development of the Florida Review... [which] was purportedly designed and manipulated with the intention of having 'care effectively banned' from the outset..."
Saying that ChatGPT "can't yet provide reliably correct answers to questions" is like saying your cat can't yet provide reliable services as a paralegal. You can't solve that task mismatch with a better cat
@amydentata Yes, but that's because cats are too smart to do labour for us lowly humans. You'd have to look for a cat with lower standards, and good luck on that.
"The ruling declared that state laws protecting 'unborn children' also apply to those 'located outside of a biological uterus.' This means that doctors who mishandle embryos or make a mistake that leads one to be destroyed could be charged with murder..."
@GhostOnTheHalfShell I know you're engaging in reductio ad absurdum, but policing pregnancy, miscarriage and even sex are not a bug but a feature for these people.
Today in "parental rights," yet another example of how laws sanctioning discrimination never stop at only their intended targets - this time from Danielle Smith's inspiration, Ron Desantis. #ableg#abpoli
@3dogcouch It's probably more a case of fear. The way the law is written, it opens up risk to the school if they invite anyone that parents might object to. These kinds of laws always result in overbroad and arbitrary application, to "be on the safe side."
"A Republican elected official in Utah has endangered the safety of a cisgender... basketball player after falsely implying.. that the player was transgender... resulted in police having to protect the girl from people angered by the social media post..."
Anti-trans policies silence LGBTQIA2S+ teachers and faculty too:
"This is why I’m so shaken by this... I am not allowed to defend myself and my instinct is to defend, both myself and others, especially LGBTQ+ students, in all aspects of my life..."
"It claims that the treatments Carlan pursued over many years for his gender dysphoria amounted to conversion therapy, because the provider... should have known Carlan would later come to believe he was motivated by internalized homophobia..."
@tygerprints Putting aside that gender identity and sexual orientation are different questions (i.e. a trans woman isn't necessarily automatically attracted to men), I would have to say it's possible but extremely rare, given the length of time transition takes, the counselling involved, the proximity and exposure to collective 2SLGBTQIA+ communities... and rarer still as stigmas evaporate.
@tygerprints Very generally speaking, there is probably more stigma about being trans, though the stigmas are different in some ways, and not always neatly comparable. It's only in recent years that it's become socially unacceptable to use us as a punchline, in fact.
And then there's the bigger life disruption for coming out as trans, major surgeries, etc... not whim decisions
So, I'd guess that it would be more likely that trans people would hide in gay and lesbian communities than vice versa
@SocialistStan The arc of these things isn't so much about conservatives getting bored (they don't), but about the public at large either learning more / reconsidering, or else burning out from the wingnuts' rhetoric.
“At the rally that I was at yesterday, the person leading the hate march had a sign [that]... said, 'Vouchers please...' That really belies to me that there is another agenda here. The goal is taking money and privatizing our public school system...”
@e_urq Actually, it's a little bit the other way around. A significant portion of the money fueling anti-LGBTQIA2S+ hate comes from neoliberal orgs pushing privatization and voucher programs, with homeschooling and religious groups jumping on the opportunity and giving it momentum. Coinciding interest opportunism.
"An investigator with the Davis County Attorney’s Office obtained the footage and wrote detailed descriptions of it as part of a criminal investigation into Ballard and [Operation Underground Railroad]..."
@katrinakatrinka OUR has a long history of problems. It's not surprising that the filmmakers have gone down the same path trying to make heroes of them.