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Meanwhile, actual medical professionals: https://journalofethics.ama-assn.org/article/whats-wrong-criminalizing-gender-affirming-care-transgender-adolescents/2023-06

These laws are poor public policy, as they create a significant conflict between physicians’ adherence to the law and adherence to their professional code of ethics and civil law tort duty not to commit medical malpractice. The traditional standard of care with regard to medical malpractice requires that “medical care for a given patient and health care provider is the quality of care that would be provided to any patient in a similar clinical situation, by the average provider in a similar location.”30 In some specific cases, adolescent GAC treatment, including surgery, may be necessary in order for a physician to practice in line with the legal standard of care (thus avoiding malpractice) and also to satisfy their professional ethical duty to offer safe and effective medical care that promotes the patient’s well-being.31

As Kraschel et al explain: “these statutes would transform their [physicians’] fiduciary duty into a criminal act.”10 Similarly, Lepore et al argue that the laws are untenable, as they “require that health care workers act against current evidence-based guidelines” such that they are legally mandated to violate their duty to “do no harm.”32 The same tension between professional and legal obligations is observed in new abortion laws being enforced post-Roe v Wade, wherein the professional ethical duties of physicians are put in direct conflict with criminal law, forcing physicians to choose between upholding their ethical duties or violating the law.33 Hence, these new laws prohibiting GAC treatment for minors (including gender-affirming surgery) center on the government’s unwillingness to let the medical profession self-regulate—via oversight from state medical boards—or allow civil tort law to regulate physician practice as it does in most other cases.

Criminalizing gender affirming care for minors, including surgery, is both outside the mainstream opinion of medical professionals, as well as extremely wrong from a moral and ethical standpoint. Those in the thread trying to argue that Biden is adopting a "moderate" position with this couldn't be further from the truth. His stance is harmful and extreme.

Just going to throw out that the tankies at the... uhhh... US STATE DEPARTMENT have also said officially that there isn't evidence for genocide in Xinjiang: https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/02/19/china-uighurs-genocide-us-pompeo-blinken/

If anyone calls you a genocide denier, throw out this one and see out they respond.

if you feel like you'd like to go by different pronouns or wear more fem clothes i know plenty of fairly masculine people who do that.

Much thanks for the advice. I might try the pronouns thing at some point just to see how it feels. As far wearing more fem clothes, that would be difficult in real life at the moment, I think. I have been doing a little bit of that online in VRChat and will probably keep experimenting with that since it's cheaper and easier to do virtually.

Hmmmm... Yeah I usually don't think I would be trans just because I don't feel like I have a strong desire to switch genders completely, and I don't think I have strong physical dysphoria. However, I also am (and I think always have been) uncomfortable with my "maleness" in a lot of ways, and a lot of things I'm reading here apply to me. Also kind of related I guess, yesterday I was talking in a discord chat about how in high school I'd sometimes paint my nails or wear this skirt I had, and I was thinking people probably have suspicions with me talking about that. Really I think maybe I'm a bit more non-binary than I feel like I'm allowed to be, but I'm also physically very "male" so I don't realistically know what I could possibly do with that information in the real world.

reading these comments kinda feels like

laughs awkwardly

So, for the name... I feel kinda weird directly stealing the name, but then again, "howdy" is catchy and friendly, and reminds me of that kitten wearing the cowboy hat

Let's go with /c/howdy. Also howdy for the display name I guess, unless it needs to be different?

Sure! I've never moderated anything here of course so I don't know exactly what it entails, but I'd definitely be happy to help wherever I can and especially to get this rolling.

Very much in favor as long as I'm comfortable with the person doing it.

Absolutely love this. It reminds me a lot of one of my favorite artists, Otto Dix, who was prolific around the same time and who's art had similar themes: https://www.wikiart.org/en/otto-dix

Much thanks for this!

This is a summary from Naomi on her version of the events: https://www.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/wn6qx0/what_is_going_on_with_linustechtips_and_naomi_wu/ik7r83u/

There was apparently no smoking gun of him demanding sex, but him asking her to meet at his hotel at 10 pm, and then not showing the chatlogs where all this was discussed, does seem pretty sus in light of his attempts to spin recent events.