Untreated gender dysphoria is the greatest threat to automobiles. Dysphoric auto workers may make critical mistakes on the assembly line while in an agitated mental state, adversely impacting vehicle safety. It’s a BIG problem.

You’re living in the 18th century, Bippity. Just because some slave-owning weirdos in powdered wigs said bills of attainder of were bad 250 years ago doesn’t mean they’re bad today. The only reason bills of attainder were stigmatized in the first place is because snotty English kings abused them 300 years ago.

I Miss Splinter would dismiss his own mother. Even when posters agree with him he somehow discerns nefarious intent and dismisses. I just wrote a long post advocating legalization of bills of attainder which is in perfect accord with Ms. Splinter’s thinking but I know he would dismiss it anyway. That’s just how he is.

So exhausted by this ineffectual courtroom bickering. The fate of Democracy is hanging in the balance.

Why are you defending a bigot, Kylie?

Munchausen by proxy has gotten a bad reputation lately because it’s become the favorite tool of transphobes to cast doubt on the ability of transgender children to self-diagnose their gender dysphoria. That doesn’t mean we should ignore legitimate Munchausen victims like Gypsy Rose Blanchard. We just need to be aware…

Pediatric sex changes is a uniquely awful idea that will soon be a source of tremendous shame for 95% of the people who condoned it. I regret not getting in on the ground floor. It was only after I wrote some critical posts that I realized the pro position would be a lot more fun. But it’s a little late now.

I suspect I waited too long to become a pediatric sex change zealot. The tide is already turning. It’s a shame really, a missed opportunity.

I don’t understand the point of reversible treatments like hormones. Do we have faith in trans kids’ ability to self-diagnose or don’t we?   I say we skip that weakass reversible hormone crap and go straight to permanent solutions. Surgery is where it’s at.   Reversible shit is a half-measure that only makes kids…

You raise some good points but you must understand that gender dysphoria is a unique disease in that a successful treatment requires the patient to have complete faith that he/she/they is in fact suffering from the disease. That means skeptical diagnosis is harmful to the patient. Any physician who would knowingly…

Nonsense. Skeptical diagnosis of gender dysphoria fatally undercuts any treatment plan because it plants seeds of doubt in the patient’s mind. Essentially it’s sabotage. If that’s not unethical, nothing is.

This is a gross violation of medical ethics. The single most critical prerequisite for a successful transition is conviction that it was the correct decision. Sowing seeds of doubt in trans kids’ minds sets them up for a failed transition. Instead of being content with their decision to transition, they will forever…

Cis women athletes can still be competitive, but being competitive doesn’t mean what it used to. We have evolved beyond that. For individual athletes, winning and losing are outdated concepts. We win as a society now. We win as a collective. Individuals are irrelevant. If you are a cis athlete and you are still…

Many trans children are committing suicide because they are limited to reversible treatments. Anything which is reversible can be taken away. Therefore it provides no peace of mind. 

And how many times do they have to be told that nobody transitions in order to win at sports?

A couple years back, my liberal boomer parents fell down that same rabbit hole. They were all for trans rights, they said, but why did trans students “need” to play sports when it would be unfair?

It’s time for women’s sports to evolve past traditional concepts of victory and defeat, which are anachronistic relics of tyrannical patriarchy. The idea that individual athletes win or lose is stereotypical male binary thinking. It’s primitive narcissism. The correct question is not whether individuals win, but…

Secrecy is not a sustainable policy for schools. Suppose a gender-dysphoric student commits suicide. Kid’s school knew the kid was gender-dysphoric but kept it secret from the parents. Parent finds out.

Only the cruelest bigotry could motivate parents to want to know whether their child has expressed a belief that he/she was born in the wrong body. It’s not like it might be an indication of a serious psychological condition that could affect the entire family. Only a bigot would think it is.

Disqualifying Trump via 14th Amendment is not a slam dunk, even with a conviction. The 14th was passed in the aftermath of the Civil War, and was clearly intended to apply to former members of the Confederacy.