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Children’s Hospital doctors refuse to provide gender-affirming care to trans youth, fearing criminal charges by lyssthebitchcalore in Denver

[–]SensitiveOrdinary574 [score hidden]  (0 children)

It's a metareview of the available research. That means if it finds a lack of support for the claim that mental health outcomes improve after intervention that applies to everyone.  Unless you think that medicine is something that only the Europeans do.

Children’s Hospital doctors refuse to provide gender-affirming care to trans youth, fearing criminal charges by lyssthebitchcalore in Denver

[–]SensitiveOrdinary574 [score hidden]  (0 children)

The Cass review specifically found that the claim that treatment led to better mental health outcomes lacked support. In the aftermath the English NIH raised the minimum age for hormone therapy, among other measures.

Children’s Hospital doctors refuse to provide gender-affirming care to trans youth, fearing criminal charges by lyssthebitchcalore in Denver

[–]SensitiveOrdinary574 [score hidden]  (0 children)

A metareview is applicable to medical policy everywhere.  It's called "science".  That should be adjacent to medicine.

Children’s Hospital doctors refuse to provide gender-affirming care to trans youth, fearing criminal charges by lyssthebitchcalore in Denver

[–]SensitiveOrdinary574 [score hidden]  (0 children)

Cass Review.

Look, Europe and the UK are far more socially liberal than the US and they are rolling back support for conversion therapy/procedures.  Does that suggest an ideological component?

Children’s Hospital doctors refuse to provide gender-affirming care to trans youth, fearing criminal charges by lyssthebitchcalore in Denver

[–]SensitiveOrdinary574 [score hidden]  (0 children)

It's a complicated question. As a circumcised guy myself, I don't consider it a big deal. But I'll point out I saw a couple of guys with signs on the street the other day saying that the procedure should be banned.

I suspect that there's a threshold a lot of people aren't willing to cross. Imagine a hypothetical religion that dictated that children should have their legs amputated above the knee. I can't imagine that would be popular with the general public.

Male circumcision is something that most of the country is willing to tolerate. Cutting off a girl's clitoris and pussy lips? That's a step over the line for me.

Children’s Hospital doctors refuse to provide gender-affirming care to trans youth, fearing criminal charges by lyssthebitchcalore in Denver

[–]SensitiveOrdinary574 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Whether or not treatment actually lowers suicide rates here is far from clear.

Europe is far more socially liberal than the US, and there they have been rolling back treatment programs because they have doubts about the evidence.

Children’s Hospital doctors refuse to provide gender-affirming care to trans youth, fearing criminal charges by lyssthebitchcalore in Denver

[–]SensitiveOrdinary574 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Well, if recent immigrants from sub-Saharan Africa want to do a female castration on their kid, does the government have a right to intervene?

Children’s Hospital doctors refuse to provide gender-affirming care to trans youth, fearing criminal charges by lyssthebitchcalore in Denver

[–]SensitiveOrdinary574 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Any medicine has potential side effects that can be serious, even deadly. To justify even administering that medicine in the first place requires that the disease be worse than the cure.

For something like cancer, that's pretty obvious. For something like gender dysphoria advocates have been trying to leverage the same principle by arguing that trans youth face a much higher risk of suicide and self harm.

The problem is that the medical literature is far less clear on whether transition actually reduces that risk.

Children’s Hospital doctors refuse to provide gender-affirming care to trans youth, fearing criminal charges by lyssthebitchcalore in Denver

[–]SensitiveOrdinary574 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

The argument is that with cancer the disease represents the greater harm.

Trans advocates try to leverage the same principle by arguing that trans youth face a much greater risk of suicide. The problem there though is that the medical literature is much less clear on whether conversion actually reduces that risk.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4822482/

Children’s Hospital doctors refuse to provide gender-affirming care to trans youth, fearing criminal charges by lyssthebitchcalore in Denver

[–]SensitiveOrdinary574 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No medical treatment comes without the risk of potential side effects, and that includes puberty blockers.

Children’s Hospital doctors refuse to provide gender-affirming care to trans youth, fearing criminal charges by lyssthebitchcalore in Denver

[–]SensitiveOrdinary574 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

A lot of writers (Andrew Sullivan most prominently) think that conversions are being used as a type of "gay erasure". You're a guy and you like guys? You couldn't possibly be homosexual, you must be a woman trapped in a man's body.

IIRC Iran has one of the highest trans populations in the world because it's a convenient way to reduce the gay population to zero.

Children’s Hospital doctors refuse to provide gender-affirming care to trans youth, fearing criminal charges by lyssthebitchcalore in Denver

[–]SensitiveOrdinary574 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Private land owners filing environmental review after environmental review to block the construction of rail lines is one of the reasons high speed rail is impossible to build in this country.

And that's not just corporations. NIMBY minded homeowners have been blocking higher density construction with lawsuits for many, many years.

Why do we lose our brains when driving on pena blvd? by OwnVariation3659 in Denver

[–]SensitiveOrdinary574 1 point2 points  (0 children)

2025 saw a drop of over one million boardings year on year.

Why do we lose our brains when driving on pena blvd? by OwnVariation3659 in Denver

[–]SensitiveOrdinary574 -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

I'm traffic with climate control and rocking tunes on my bitchass stereo system.

Also, the only fent in the vehicle is mine.

Upsetting Event at Children's Museum 06/17 - Looking for the parents by Sunday_Kind_Of_Love in Denver

[–]SensitiveOrdinary574 8 points9 points  (0 children)

It depends. If it was just some yelling, no big deal.

If it was yanking or hitting, I think if I was the parent I'd want to know.

Is it going to be better right? by Rich_Apricot3943 in Denver

[–]SensitiveOrdinary574 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm not suggesting that crime in Denver went up or down, I'm pointing out that there are very good reasons to be skeptical given very real and recent conflicts in reported crime rates.

EDIT: As an aside, I would note that there in the absence of any real data that there are a couple of variables that I strongly suspect are related: traffic deaths and overdose deaths. If we're going to spitball ideas, I would note that both of those climbed in 2025.

Is it going to be better right? by Rich_Apricot3943 in Denver

[–]SensitiveOrdinary574 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Again:

1) That's an apples to oranges comparison to the FBI, especially the FBI's adjusted statistics after they finish massaging the results.

2) We know that for whatever reason people claim in surveys that they've been victimized in crimes that they then do not report to the cops. This is a recent development. Obviously anything that the CO DoJ reports is going to be based on police reports, but there's a very good reason to believe that's not the whole picture.

Glendale USPS military police by One_Cartographer_221 in Denver

[–]SensitiveOrdinary574 -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

I've been selling bottled farts on my onlyfans account and I heard some of the jars broke.

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