Because “better” doesn’t always equal “more fun.”

What, you couldn’t shoehorn in a Trump joke too, you dickhead?

I believe most towns like the one I live in use municipal funds for beatification projects and repairs to city owned property.

Big difference between what barroom someone uses and using tax dollars to pay for gender reassignment surgeries. And yea, the military doesn’t pay for education, tax dollars do. Which all come from one larger pool, our tax dollars. Any way you look at it if you are going to fund more things you have to do one of two…

No, that is a completely false assumption and it is rediculous for you to attack me with that when I have said nothing along those lines. I am open minded, but you have apparently latched on to we have to pay for this. You saying we could cut back on military and fund education and these surgeries shows that as well.…

Also I read your article. I understand what you tried to accomplish, but you have to account for reported crimes per article written. Basically you pinged 500 crimes that included transgender, but only 250 of those actually had a transgender suspect. You now have to account for crimes among non transgender vs the…

I don’t think you are being combative at all, I wouldn’t be discussing this if I did.

I’m not insinuating that transition surgery is useless. As you’ve said yourself, advances in other treatments that start before and continue after reassignment are the biggest factors in success. While I’m aware of the Swedish study, I only used it for the “some studies show an increase in suicide” part of my…

Studies have shown that sex reassignment surgery does little to help those who are diagnosed with gender dysphoria. Long term studies have shown long term regret in many that get the surgery, and most troubling, the high suicide rate that often accompanies gender dysphoria remains relatively unchanged after…

I’m all for transgender people being allowed in the military, they are willing to do something that I’m not. They signed up to fight, I did not, and I respect them greatly for that. HOWEVER, I do not feel the government should have to pay for any cosmetic surgery or anything having to do with that surgery post-op. …

I’m torn here. The system is so backed up with people who need actual treatment, this person should counter their lucky stars that the VA is even working on their case, for what essentially amounts to an elective cosmetic surgery.

The Veterans Affairs is a minefield and battle zone in itself.

It’s kind of amusing, all this ‘don’t compare her to Danica’ stuff. Much as the original article referred to was lazy, shitty journalism, this article itself treats Landauer very similarly to Danica - she is a mid-field at best driver, getting far more attention/promotion/media coverage than her results could ever…

Hence ....”here we are”

The name is fine... overly sensitive people aren’t but here we are

The nurse was 100% in the right. Blood sample is covered under HIPAA with 2 exceptions: court issued subpoenas and warrants. No ifs, buts or coconuts.

Society’s status notwithstanding, Payne needs to not be in law enforcement or medical care.

Did they really want the innocent tractor-trailer driver’s blood? That’s a new twist to this story and even more appalling. Not only were these cops trying to force the nurse to bend the rules, they were trying to implicate an innocent victim who suffered horrific injuries thanks to their high speed chase.

A belief in the goodness of humanity...

No worries, he will still have his police job after being completely cleared and declared a hero cop.