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Culture War Roundup for the week of January 30, 2023

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Okay. First, they wouldn't patent such a pill, because they know it'd be the top story on FOX for the next week and not sell. Second, they wouldn't be able to sell or distribute the pill - no FDA approval because it doesn't treat any diseases. Nor would any normal democrats or leftists (leftist generally refers to 'socialist / communist / anarchist', not 'normal democrats), give it to their kid, even the particularly gay-accepting ones, they do not think gay is better than straight. The only possible exception I can see here is maybe some gay parents would want their adopted children to be gay to for the shared experiences, but I don't think that translates to a meaningful number of uses of the pill. It would lead to interesting science on how 'being gay' works, though.

So this is just conservative fear porn? It's not any more interesting than a post about 'what would conservatives do if science discovered 20% of people are trans, and not letting them transition makes them very sad??'.

It's not any more interesting than a post about 'what would conservatives do if science discovered 20% of people are trans, and not letting them transition makes them very sad??'.

(1) Right now, the estimates are something around 1% for trans people. Hell knows if that's accurate or not, but by comparison, around 11% of Americans are baseball fans. If baseball fans got the same accommodations as trans people do, imagine that. So if 20% of people were trans, I'd be a lot more inclined to take it as a real need

(2) Boo-hoo on "very sad". A lot of things make a lot of people very sad, but we have to suck it up and get on with life. Agree that trans dysphoria is a mental illness that needs treatment, that hormones and in the most extreme cases surgery are necessary medical treatments, and okay, I'll go along with that. But right now we have "it's totally perfectly normal, you bigot; it's not a mental illness, even if there are claims about dysphoria and suicide (and a fuck-ton of sex offenders coming out as trans, imagine that) and co-morbidities of anxiety, depression, ADHD, PTSD and everything else the online snowflakes can tick off the bingo card; it's not a fetish ditto; even if we demand hormones and puberty blockers and surgery and legal enforcement of 'you have to pretend this visibly male person in a dress and bad wig is a woman, to the extent of letting him into a rape shelter', IT'S ALL NORMAL JUST LIKE BEING CIS".

So I think you can gauge my opinion here. Susie who was John who just wants to dress like a woman and get on with their life - great, no problem. Astrella Diamanté Vendetta who looks like a bodybuilder in tight leggings and clown makeup and insists they are six different kinds of neo-pronouns and orientations and disabilities can go right out the door and keep on going.

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