FtttG
Gheobhaidh mé bás ar an gcnoc seo.
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FtttG
Gheobhaidh mé bás ar an gcnoc seo.
1hr ago
Oof. I used to have a close friend who was severely anorexic, to the point of being repeatedly hospitalised. Hugging her felt like hugging a skeleton, I could feel her shoulders pressing into me. It's awful to see someone wasting away like that.
FtttG
Gheobhaidh mé bás ar an gcnoc seo.
2hr ago
I don't speak German, but ChatGPT informs me that the terms are the similar Chirurg and Chirurgin.
I don't know if he's German, but I would find it equally annoying if he insisted on using Krankenwagen rather than "ambulance" in a comment otherwise written in English.
No, I doubt she'll actually secure the nomination (my money's on Newsom or Ossoff). But even if Harris puts her name forward, we certainly haven't heard the last of her yet.
FtttG
Gheobhaidh mé bás ar an gcnoc seo.
5hr ago
Joking aside, penis enlargement procedures are a real thing.
FtttG
Gheobhaidh mé bás ar an gcnoc seo.
5hr ago
Yeah, it's hard to say. I've seen male people sitting at every point on the spectrum from "I know I'm not a woman, but I desperately want to be one" to "I may not be a 'biological' woman, but I have a woman's gender identity" to "I am literally a biological woman, and can menstruate, lactate and even suffer from PCOS". I suspect that grouping all of these people under the umbrella of "trans women" might obscure more than it illuminates.
FtttG
Gheobhaidh mé bás ar an gcnoc seo.
6hr ago
"How many times do we have to teach you this lesson, old man?!"
FtttG
Gheobhaidh mé bás ar an gcnoc seo.
7hr ago
I think it's unfair to demand that fast-food restaurants and cafés close early several times a year so that EMTs can wheel an overdoser out of the toilet on a stretcher, all to save you the hassle of stepping in shit.
FtttG
Gheobhaidh mé bás ar an gcnoc seo.
7hr ago
In Dublin, some fast food restaurants have (or had) fluorescent or blue-tinted lighting only in the toilets, as you can't see your veins under fluorescent lighting.
This worked pretty well at stopping junkies shooting up heroin in the toilets, but then the junkies stopped using heroin and started using crack and meth. That's the problem with dealing with junkies: the meta is constantly shifting.
FtttG
Gheobhaidh mé bás ar an gcnoc seo.
7hr ago
Brother, have I ever got some news for you.
FtttG
Gheobhaidh mé bás ar an gcnoc seo.
8hr ago
If the best example of a successful and conventionally attractive male standup comedian you can think of is one who achieved his appearance via extensive cosmetic surgery, I think that rather demonstrates my point.
I said that it was to the best of my knowledge. I am not an expert compared to professional chirurgeons, but compared to those who think a vagina is a lack of penis, and imagine the male-to-female operation to be something akin to the work of Lorena Bobbit, I think I'm doing fairly well, much in the same way as, while I do not claim be able to run the U. S. Defense Department better than James Mattis, I am fairly certain I could do a better job than Pete Hegseth.
And despite not being a professional "chirurgeon", I can do a better job than you. So you were obviously wrong to arrogate to yourself the responsibility of "correcting the record" on bottom surgery. (There's actually a specific Facebook group devoted to cataloguing this kind of behaviour.) If I ask someone if they can drive a car, I want to know if they can actually drive a car. Being able to drive a car better than an amputee who just drank a fifth of vodka is not a high bar to clear.
This is a common misconception held by many men, leading to an epidemic of bed-time headaches among their wives.
Har de har har. You knew perfectly well that I meant that female people have no flesh between their legs which could be used to fashion a crude facsimile of a penis. A clitoris (even a massively engorged clitoris) cannot be used to make a neopenis. We both know this. Why do you insist on wasting both our time with crude potty humour?
The same applies for cis-men, who were born biologically male in all respects, identify as men, and suffer injuries between their legs. Does this make such a man less male, or is this merely an appeal to disgust?
It's not an appeal to disgust: it's pointing out that you were mistaken. You described a phalloplasty as "the same [as a vaginoplasty] but in the other direction". You were wrong: there was a massive piece of the procedure that you were conspicuously omitting. The appropriate response to this being pointed out to you is to admit your error. The appropriate response is not to throw a strop, bring up a completely irrelevant "analogy" and say "oh whatever, stop trying to make gender-affirming care sound gross!"
I could just as easily make the same argument in the opposite direction: that by failing to accurately describe what a phalloplasty entails, you were either ignorant about what the procedure entails, or you were knowingly trying to make it sound less invasive than it really is. Neither is a great look.
I am getting just a wee bit tired of the snide insults.
I will happily desist, if you can provide me with a better explanation for why you insist on using antiquated terms that aren't even terms of art in the professions under discussion.
I note that this is an opinion piece, and that Valentine doesn't actually show where they got their figures from:
Of nearly 3,500 trans people attending the UK’s largest clinic in London just 16 of them – 0.47 per cent – had any regrets. And an analysis of studies from around the world found a regret rate of one per cent for gender-affirming surgeries. It is hard to compare different interventions (as I say, we’re all different) but, as a yardstick, the regret rate for knee replacements is 17 per cent and for hip replacements five per cent.
This paragraph doesn't contain any hyperlinks. I asked you for a source for the claim that knee replacement surgery has a higher regret rate than gender-affirming care, and instead you provided me with an example of someone else making the exact same unevidenced claim as you.
D. F. McLaughlin?
From the source you provided: "The jury acquitted Patnode of second-degree murder and convicted him of second-degree manslaughter".
Paris Lee?
From the source you provided: "Ward was convicted of voluntary manslaughter in May 2025." I understand a retrial is pending, but Ward certainly hasn't "gotten away with murder" yet.
I suppose technically being convicted of manslaughter rather than murder is "getting away with murder", but I'm not aware of a single person who used the "trans panic" defense and then walked, which is the affirmative claim that dozens of trans activists have independently made to me. Show me an example of that, and we can talk.
FtttG
Gheobhaidh mé bás ar an gcnoc seo.
8hr ago
Chest binders are generally considered a subset of social transition, and yet can cause serious physical damage.
Even then, I'm sure you would agree that a male child who has been wearing female clothes and referred to by female pronouns from the age of 10 onwards is far more likely to seek medical transition than a male child who has not.
As far as I can understand it, we agree on the following:
- Trans awareness campaigns lack precision in their targeting, and produce a significant number of false positives i.e. they lead children who would not otherwise identify as trans to erroneously believe themselves to be trans
- Even in jurisdictions in which gender-affirming care for minors is banned, a child who has been socially "affirmed" for years prior to the age of majority is far more likely to seek medical transition as an adult than a child who has not.
I don't really see the difference between the above and the conservative framing of "they're trying to trans my child!" It just seems like a Russell conjugation.
Maybe what you object to is the ascription of intent: that trans activists aren't setting out to make non-trans children erroneously believe that they're trans, that that's just an unfortunate byproduct of a well-intended campaign. But given trans activists' reluctance to even acknowledge the false positives, this seems like a rather pedantic objection in the scheme of things.
FtttG
Gheobhaidh mé bás ar an gcnoc seo.
9hr ago
Which seems sensible to me where adults are concerned, children are where I draw the line.
So, in other words, you agree that these "awareness campaigns" targeting children in primary and secondary school are a bad idea?
FtttG
Gheobhaidh mé bás ar an gcnoc seo.
9hr ago
New Year's resolution check-in:
- I'm several days behind schedule on my Substack posting. I think I'm a bit depressed and it's causing writer's block.
- Went to the gym three times last week. I can deadlift 1.82x my bodyweight, squat 1.33x and bench press 0.82x.
- Have not consumed any pornography since waking up on January 1st.
How goes it @self_made_human, @thejdizzler, @birb_cromble, @ThomasdelVasto and @falling-star?
FtttG
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10hr ago
Well, a lot of trans activists (including people in this thread) would disagree with you that "desire" has anything to do with trans identification.
And more's the point – can't people be mistaken about their desires? Have you never thought you wanted something, then realised you didn't really?
The contradiction is that the program seems to be doing a spectacularly poor job at separating wheat from chaff, and that many of the purported signs and symptoms of "being trans" espoused by trans activists (including primary and secondary school teachers) are so broad and ill-defined that they could apply to literally anyone. A medical test which produces false positives at the same rate as true positives is useless. But when it's pointed out to trans activists that their program is producing false positives at an alarmingly high rate, their response is typically not "oh shit, we need to do better" but some variant on "that isn't happening, and it's good that it is".
Eventually people start wondering what the difference is between sufficiently advanced incompetence and malice. I don't agree that "the purpose of a system is what it does", but when trans activists are so resistant to switch up their system even when its shortcomings have been pointed out to them, it does inevitably make one wonder if their stated goal differs from their revealed one.
If a trans woman gets SRS and has a functional neovagina that she can have sex and orgasm with then she still has genitals that do most of what people use genitals for.
The word "functional" is doing a lot of work, here.
Female genitals are reproductive organs. If they cannot be used for reproduction or any related ancillary functions (e.g. menstruation), we would not typically say they are healthy, functioning organs (prepubescent and menopausal women excepted). Indeed, if a female person is unable to get pregnant or suffers from amenorrhea, that constitutes a health problem. Imagine if a woman went to her GP and said that she'd missed her last three periods but didn't think she was pregnant, and he shrugged and said "but you can still fuck and come, right?" He'd likely be struck off the medical register, and rightfully so.
You can easily use contrived, tortured reasoning like this to "prove" that everyone has a vagina, in the form of their rectum. Your argument proves too much.
FtttG
Gheobhaidh mé bás ar an gcnoc seo.
10hr ago
If a person desires to have a limb amputated (which does happen) we accurately assess this to be mental illness.
Not in Canada. Some medics actually were willing to bite the modus ponens (or the modus tollens, I forget which is which.)
Noted.
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