ArjinFerman
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Unless the Finnish system is unique and just prescribes medicine for years without any followup needed, I can say pretty confidently that they are receiving constant checkups.
You know very well from the other part of my sentence, that this is not the scenario I was bringing up.
For what? They aren't receiving a treatment then so what checks up would they be having?
Psychological assessment and/or therapy. Even WPATH guidelines call for addressing other mental health concerns before proceeding with hormones and surgeries. While they aren't followed very rigorously in the US, it's not difficult to imagine there might be a country that exercises a little bit more caution.
Now hold up, read that again. They can not be both pre and post system.
They're not pre- and post system. They're both post-system, but one is pre-gender-reassignment (hormones and/or surgeries) and the other is post-. They are both compared to controls, which are the pre-system group (or more accurately, are sampled from the general population, which contains vast swathes of people who didn't interact with the system)
That's not true. Plenty of people believe in greater medical autonomy under the condition that it is conducted under medical supervision.
Plenty of people also believe in medical licensing boards and the FDA having the power to stop particular types of treatments, and penalize doctors who provide them.
Now this does change with one major factor, insurance. It is the bill payer who will demand things be "necessary" after all, regardless of beliefs in autonomy. But if someone pays their own way, why not?
Sure, that definitely sounds more reasonable than our current system, and it's a compromise I could get behind. But this scenario is not relevant to transgender healthcare, at the moment.
ArjinFerman
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17hr ago
build robust privacy safeguards into technology and platforms used by children and teenagers, such as age verification or identity checks
I agree that social media is an issue, but this sentence is giving me a stroke. Collecting data on your age and identity isn't what I'd call a "privacy safeguard".
Look, the second sentence — and by the way, I know more about sentences than anybody, I went to Wharton, very good school, the best school, and they said "Arjin, you have the best sentences" — totally contradicts the first one, okay? It's like, and people don't talk about this, but I talked about it first, years ago, everyone knows it — the same thing, the SAME EXACT THING that these people, and we know who they are, want to use to take away your privacy, your beautiful privacy that our Founders fought for — did you know I was compared to Andrew Jackson? Very strong comparison, very flattering — that same thing can be used to PROTECT it! It's called turning the tables, I do it all the time in business, very successfully I might add. I could easily, SO easily, ask one of these AI things, these LLMs — and by the way, Elon is a friend of mine, great guy, we talk — I could say "rewrite this in the style of Donald J. Trump" and BOOM. Safe. Totally safe. The fake news won't tell you that, but it's true!
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