If you claim PBs provide time to think, the onus is on you to prove this is meaningful & that PBs don't actually block the brain development required to understand the decision.
I haven't made any claims, so obviously the onus isn’t on me to prove them 🤷♂️
For clarity, my question was not whether PBs affect IQ once patients are off PBs. My question was whether they block pubertal brain development. If you claim PBs give kids time to think, you need to show blocking other maturation doesn't block the brain maturation reqd to understand what's at stake
Really pissed off that "reform" now autocorrects to "Reform"
My question was whether you think PBs don't affect brain development. Your screenshot is clear that they have cognitive effects, & goes further in saying that there is no evidence these effects are fully reversible.
You don't seem to have read your own screenshot 😏
You're probably going to miss this unless you'd been married to a sociopath like I was, but the real tell is not the expedient lie, it's the *pointless* lie. Everybody lies to protect themselves or shore up their self image; the dangerous people are the ones who embellish reflexively, for no reason.
Is your position that PBs don't block the brain development that comes with puberty?
I think the ethical issues with requiring surgery for rights are real - surgery carries real risks. On the other hand, if GRCs conferred only honorific status & not legal rights (not currently true even though the EA situation is fine) it seems overkill to require surgery.
The law as it stands reflects the position you've laid out; what do you think needs reform?
Yes - the conflation of sex & gender, of medical transition & self-ID, of gender dysphoria & sex change etc are all fundamental to their position. All their best arguments are motte & bailey.
You could probably say similar things for a lot of conditions in the DSM. Have we always had people who felt some variety of X? Yes. Was it X avant la lettre? Unanswerable; the way X is constructed shapes experiences now, & we also interpret feelings now construed as X as evidence of X in the past
We've had people who are various degrees & kinds of uncomfortable with gender norms for as long as we've had the norms. The conceit that sex doesn't exist apart from / before the norms is recent, as is the idea that you can literally change sex or that gender ID should always determine social rules
@commonmugwort.bsky.social
This claim is unsupported by the evidence & making claims like this about suicide is dangerous. Please have a look at the Samaritans guidance on discussing suicide & try to avoid alarming generalisations www.gov.uk/government/p...
Trump's decision to bomb Iran is now the greatest windfall to the Russian war effort on record. If it continues, it might save the Russian war economy.
Problem any UK government would face in this situation is that it is many years since one of them provided any kind of realistic explanation for the state of the economy. Doing so at crisis time sounds like excuses, but perhaps better late than never.
I am so serious when I say that there is a direct line to be drawn between Evangelism having no meaningful concept of the future save death and American conservatives having zero awareness of or interest in the future consequences of their actions
Britain is in a deep structural economic hole thanks to austerity, Brexit and global shocks that is nearly impossible to get out of. It is rather unfair to expect government to reverse those long-term drags on national prosperity, but it needs to start explaining to voters why we are where we are.
I remember when the USA threatened Saddam Hussein not to ignite the Kuwaiti oil wells in the same letter as threatening him not to use chemical weapons.
Such atrocities we have, and will continue, to commit so long as we leave Trump et al in power.
We are supporting the Women campaigning for an independent investigation into allegations of serious sexual misconduct by the ITF general secretary, Steve Cotton #IWD2026
📢On #InternationalWomensDay2026 read about their campaign & sign their petition ✍️
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Starmer’s position is entirely consistent with what he wrote about Iraq in 2003, a fact of enormous inconvenience to just about everybody currently criticising it. Happily for them, just like the entire bloody Chilcot Inquiry it is apparently very easy to ignore.
Yes this is my approach too. Blurbs are useless at best & contain spoilers at worst
Peace processes involving women are more likely to lead to lasting peace www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Geastrum, or Earthstar mushroom, from Anna Maria Hussey’s ‘Illustrations of British mycology’ Published in London: Reeve, Benham and Reeve, 1849-55.
I saw this at UW-Madison Special Collections.
#hernaturalhistory #Geastrum #earthstar
No legal basis. No clear objective. No exit. And much of Britain’s political class spent the week calling Starmer a coward for noticing.
Latest substack from me.
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Interesting that among the few advance plans we made are those that benefit Russia. See my longer essay on Oligarchic Corridors.
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SHOULD THE U.S BLOT OUT THE SUN AND USHER IN AN AGE OF ETERNAL DARKNESS? - Gallup 2/20/26-3/5/26
NO - 41%
YES - 38%
UNSURE - 21%
