One of the purest examples of a moral panic in our time. A clinic that had years-long waitlists and required an average of 7 appointments before providing transition care smeared and shut down for being reckless.
Numerous accusations from critical media outlets claimed the clinic was a “transing factory” that ignored “holistic” approaches to care and was recklessly prescribing puberty suppressant hormones, known as puberty blockers, to children. One article from The Times, published in 2022, claimed that at least 1,000 families were planning mass legal action against the Tavistock gender clinic for rushing youngsters into taking puberty blockers. However, a freedom of information (FOI) request to the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust, shared by Yorkshire Bylines, revealed that, between 2012 and 2022, only eight complaints over healthcare provisions had been lodged.
This entire 'debate' is so maddening. We have been promised that a groundswell of rushed, dissatisfied detransitioners was about to emerge for nearly a decade.
Not only have they never materialized, but academic research continues to show small numbers, long assessments and miniscule regret rates.
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the sheer contempt our society has for children is absolutely staggering. “kids lie constantly” is shit adults made up to justify never taking any meaningful action to support the children they so frequently claim to be protecting
kindly do not boost astroturfed MRA/father's rights homophobic campaigns, everyone
i dont talk about chainsaw man these days because im in learn to sit back and observe mode but this chapter feels like another example of fujimoto being as openly literal with the storytelling as possible with what is going on but readers are missing it because of reaction shock value 😭
i feel like all the dialogue in the latest chapters has been fujimoto using the characters to sort of spell out themes to the audience through lots of exposition. i guess we'll see
war isn't glory, it's rot and disease and hunger and pain and hatred and grief and hopelessness and ruin and fear, if listening to other people talking about it anything to go by. it's dehumanization on an incomprehensible scale, and you can't do it to someone else without also doing it to yourself
Hello, we're the Committee For Respecting And Valuing Women (Formerly: Church Marms Against Black People) and you should listen to what we have to say
I think it’s a good indicator about Blueskys age demographic that there’s posts about Candlejack, I haven’t seen Candlejack posting since
instead of vowing to take itch down with your justified anger, redirect that anger at the institutions who are directly responsible for strong arming every single platform that sells adult and/or queer art:
fuck queer censorship
and especially a big fuck you to sexual censorship that affects sex workers and porn artist. fuck you.
sharklike. ie, smooth in every direction
Thinking on this moment written by @jacobgeller.com for no particular reason today.
type shit
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good morning to gay little creeps exclusively
As a related note: if you start in with the "no kink at pride" nonsense this year, I will block you instantly.
No "but the kids" bullshit. No "I don't consent to seeing" bullshit.
Shut the fuck up and keep your whining to yourself. The cishets aren't going to pick you.
they made being killed by technofascism seem so exciting in the 90s. sleek chrome androids crushing skulls. what it actually looks like is a bunch of extras from The Office who have been pavlovian-condition'd by a website to call you slurs if you stand between them and a vending machine for blowjobs
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From The Onion: Historians: Quibbling Over Exact Definition Of Concentration Camp Sign Of Healthy Society
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there is simply no amount of child death that will move RFK to change his mind because he is a predatory narcissist who cares less about health than the gratification of his own ego
unfortunately your annoying idiot rando also exists in screenshots. maybe once his orbiters and defenders stop pretending he's worth listening to i'll finally stop seeing his bad takes
as soneone who's been unwillingly exposed to this sam guy for a while now i can definitely say he's an annoying rando
One thing I think we really need to drill down on is that these cynical weaponizations of the rhetoric of combating antisemitism and sexual violence *are themselves* antisemitic and misogynist: they mock the suffering and desire for justice of people who have experienced these.
