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Re:An Existential Threat to Doing Good Science by eesmith on Wednesday November 09, 2022 @01:26AM (#33528106)
> Giving typical males with low testosterone supplemental same-sex hormones is not even settled medicine

Which is relevant to this discussion because .. why? Just because there isn't an accepted evidence-based standard of care for X doesn't mean there can't be an accepted evidence-based standard of care for Y.

(I don't know what "settled medicine" means here, given that standards of care can and do change.)

> giving postmenopausal women estrogen has many issues as well

Yes, that standard of care has changed based on evidence.

> puberty blockers

Which are reversible. As my linked-to fact sheet points out.

> they haven’t been studied long enough for my taste

I think I'm warranted in trusting the opinion of the 7 or so medical organizations I listed far over your opinion.

How long will be enough to make you happy? There's been, what, 100 years of studies on the topic? And I pointed out the relevant WPATH Standards of Care started in 1977.

How long is enough?

> there will be significant numbers of people that regret their decision

How many is "significant"?

Do significant numbers of people regret their tattoos? Their plastic surgery? Their chemotherapy? Their lottery pick? Does that justify stopping all of those activities?

And, as I pointed out, by NOT getting the standard of care, the amount of depression and suicide ideation increases. How many regret NOT being able to get the medically recognized appropriate standard of care because politicians prevented it due to transphobia?

> Because Biden has unabashedly doubled down on intersectional identity politics

Every single one of those people had a background which, had they been white straight men, would have been generally acceptable for their position.

That's a far cry from a claim that they must be incompetent and were picked only for theig "intersectional identity politics".

Re:An Existential Threat to Doing Good Science by DanBC on Wednesday November 09, 2022 @07:29AM (#33530607)
> Their chemotherapy?

This surprise lots of people, but rates of regret for patients getting chemotherapy or other cancer treatment are quite high. They're much higher than rates of regret among people getting gender affirming care.