medical trade organizations, like the AAP,
That is just fucking insulting.
But this part is right on par:
The letter leans on flawed science and previous hit pieces from far-right, anti-transgender think tanks that have struggled to gain credibility in scientific and medical communities. It criticizes the organization for describing puberty blockers as âreversible,â a stance supported by several medical and scientific organizations, backed by studies, and decades of use in treating precocious puberty and other conditions. A review by the Sax Institute found that âtwo systematic reviews reported that puberty suppression treatment is reversible,â and that the treatment is âeffective, safe, well tolerated, and reversible.â
But donât let facts get in the way of a good pogram, right? Fucking assholes.
And of course,
The letter heavily references the Cass Review.
Perfet storm of stupid. Please vote blue, up and down the ticket. These assholes donât deserve to be head garbage collectors, let alone AGs
This is what pisses me off:
On the second page, for example, it asserts that the claim puberty blockers are reversible is false, âbeyond medical debate.â
Thatâs just a blatant lie. But this is how they work. And not just these anti-trans people, but the Trumps and Tucker Carlsons of the world, too. They speak in absolute certainties, and throw these lies out there with complete, unshakeable confidence. And actual scientists never do that, because science doesnât work that way. There are rarely 100% proven things in science. Thereâs almost always room for some doubt, so actual scientists always speak in measured tones, qualifying every statement with some level of uncertainty. But the average person listens to the âexpertsâ from both sides, and one side sounds unsure and speaks in probabilities and possibilities, and the other side speaks in absolutes, with no doubt at all. And people who donât have any way to judge which side is telling the truth go with the side that sounds more confident. And I donât know how to fix that.
Gee. Too bad no one predicted that outcome. /s
That was the planned result. Extermination.
These fucking assholes. I hates them.
âThe View from the Topâ panel at The Association of LGBTQ+ Journalistsâ National Convention this year convened an array of industry leaders to discuss the current state of the news media in âone of the toughest years for the industry since the Great Recession.â The topics of discussion included âdeclining trust in the media,â and a subsequent question about mainstream media lending equal credence to right-wing detractors on transgender issues put an editor representing the New York Times on the defensive.
âWe have the ability at The Advocate to not have to both-sides certain stories, like whether or not gender-affirming care and trans women in sports are scientifically sound, and there are some mainstream outlets that try to both-sides that,â The Advocateâs former editor-in-chief Tracy Gilchrist said. âAnd I would love to hear from those folks how you are combating that in your newsrooms, because itâs misinformation.â
New York Times assistant managing editor Sam Sifton jumped at the question, saying, âAs a mainstream news organization that covers those issues and many more, I donât think weâre engaging in both-sidesism. I think what weâre doing is trying to embody an ideal of independent journalism ⌠that posits that our job, our mission in seeking the truth and helping people understand the world, is going to prove to be a disappointment to those who find our article to not match their worldview, to not match what they believe.â
Sifton then compared the Timesâ coverage of gender-affirming care to its recent coverage of the war in Gaza, for which the paper has come under fire after quantitative analysis from The Intercept found a pro-Israel bias, as well as a leaked internal memo advising against the use of the terms âgenocide,â âethnic cleansing,â and âoccupied territory.â
âIâve got to say itâs tough for those of us at the Times because itâs unsettling a little bit, itâs a lonely feeling sometimes,â Sifton said of criticism that the paperâs Gaza coverage has been anti-Palestinian. âAnd what it requires of us to do is not both-sidesism. What it requires of us to do is to go out and gather as many points of view and as many fact points as we can and, as we say, try and help people understand.â
Especially if âtheyâ believe in objective facts and demonstrable truths, rather than trying to paint as âequally validâ every opinion out there. But when the facts and truths all seem to cluster on one side of the political spectrum, how is one supposed to remain âunbiased?â
In other words, itâs working as intendedâŚ
I donât know whether to be happy for the employee or angry that she had to go through all that.
I will choose to be happy for the employee. The franchise can go fuck itself with a cactus.
Right on track with âYou send your beautiful child to school and they come home with a terrible brutal surgery!â He is trying so hard to convince his base that the schools are going to âtransâ their kids without telling them. It is unspeakably stupid, but some of them will buy it, and frighteningly, some will feel they have to do something about it. He is a danger to democracy, children, women and the country as a whole. But sure, he can run for President! 
a mass surveillance program under the prescription drug monitoring program aimed at tracking any time anyone is prescribed hormones, including birth control
HIPAA violations, muthafuckas.
