Admiralty Flag posted:

Yeah, I went to public school in Texas for a few years and most every teacher had their paddle on display as a "deterrent" against bad behavior. The nasty ones did have air holes for swinging faster. Don't know if they (the holes) actually worked. The paddles didn't, for the most part, as 12 year olds are going to act like 12 year olds no matter what.

VesuviusSurvivor posted:

My father used to have a spatula he kept in the visor of his car that he called "Mr. Spatula" and when I or my brother (usually me, because my brother was 5 years older than me and would silently hit me and then make me cry and my dad would get angry about me crying for no reason because he believed my brother wasn't the psychopath he was/is) made him mad he would start threatening to get out Mr. Spatula unless whatever made him angry stopped, then if that wasn't enough he'd whack whoever he was mad at with the spatula. At some point this midlly abusive behavior became a joke in my family because he had stopped with the spatula but there was a spatula-print in the padding of the car where he used to keep it. I mean, it's messed up, but funny. I think it's funny.

John Darnielle posted:

So this is a song, it's one of those songs where when I start to tell the stories about the -- this time in my life, which is my adolescence, stuff strikes me as funny and it doesn't seem to strike other people as funny except for other people who got themselves slapped around a little in their houses and stuff. And then they will laugh and then somebody next to them will give them a dirty look. And I will be like, no, no, he knows it's funny because you lived, right, so everything is funny if you manage to live to laugh about it later, right. And so this song is about, uh -- not knowing for sure that that's how it's going to turn out, but hoping nervously that it will.

”some random coworker of yours on facebook” posted:

REMEMBER BACK IN THA DAY WHEN MAMA BEAT YO rear end SO HARD U COULDNT WALK 😂 😂 😂 MAN I REALLY HAD IT COMIN 😂 😂 😹 MISS U MAMA FOREBR RIP ❤️ ❤️ ❤️

Dewgy posted:

Riot Carol Danvers posted:

I still can't believe Kelly Cadigan turned into a Blair White "pick me" chud fuckface

When I first heard about it I was hoping it was a bit but it is clearly not

NY Post posted:

Kelly Cadigan began her medical transition from male to female when she was just 15. Today, eight years later, she’s happy with her decision. But, even still, Cadigan thinks other trans kids should have to be 18 before they make irreversible medical decisions.

Read After Burning posted:

What was her claim to fame before this? The only stuff I can find on her is regarding her current, uh, "story arc".

Literally just pulling the ladder up behind her.

Read After Burning posted:

That reminds me, I keep seeing this poo poo about kids transitioning doing "PERMANENT IRREVERSIBLE DAMAGE" to their body, but...isn't the main medical thing for trans kids just, like, puberty blockers? Which, as I understand it, do NOT cause "irreversible changes", that's kinda their whole point?

I know the ultimate answer is "Transphobic fear-mongering", but I just want to make sure I'm correct before I inevitably end up arguing this point with a transphobe.

Midnight Voyager posted:

A lot of them insist "The puberty blockers are how they chemically castrated gay men!" and insane poo poo like that. It's covid/ivermectin levels of nutjobbery.

Edgar Allen Ho posted:

I did the full hog in Texas public schools.

Platystemon posted:

Puberty blockers “to give them more time to decide” is a bad policy because almost everyone who goes on puberty blockers goes forward with HRT.*

If the patient wants blockers first, let them have them, but requiring months or years on blockers isn’t medically justified. It’s a compromise with bad people and with well-meaning but misinformed people, and it doesn’t work because these people view puberty blockers as just as bad as HRT.


*Excepting the treatment of precocious puberty, which is after all the original purpose of the drugs. Every once in a while there’s some “gotcha” journalism about doctors prescribing puberty blockers to “kids as young as eight”, but if an eight-year-old is entering puberty, that’s a significant problem that deserves medical intervention.

Air Skwirl posted:

Kids are hitting puberty younger and younger these days as a general rule, anecdotal for sure, but I have a cousin that got her first period at 9.

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When I was 7 years old, I started going through puberty. Precocious puberty is common in my mother’s family, so she immediately recognized the signs and took me to Riley Children’s Hospital. For the next few years, I visited a pediatric endocrinologist to determine how best to halt and delay my puberty. My parents decided they wanted to pursue the standard, tried-and-true treatment: GnRH analogue therapy, more commonly known as puberty blockers.

For both my parents and my doctors, there was never any safety concern with puberty blockers. The primary side effect (potential bone thinning) was known and treatable, and my parents firmly believed that the benefits outweighed the risks. It never occurred to anyone involved to think of puberty blockers as dangerous. They have been in use since the 1980s, and they are the primary treatment for precocious puberty. There was never any doubt that this medicine was safe or that I should have access to it.

Now, under Senate Bill 480, it is illegal in Indiana to provide puberty blockers to minors to treat gender dysphoria. This ban’s language ensures that people like me, who have medical conditions that are not gender dysphoria, could access the necessary care. Here’s the catch: at 12, I came out as transgender. So, at 7, puberty blockers were the appropriate treatment for me, but five years later, they posed such a great danger to me that it was made illegal to prescribe them?

Politicians’ explanations hardly shed light on this incoherence. Rep. Joanna King, a sponsor of the bill, said that it banned treatment that is “irreversible, harmful and life-altering.” Attorney General Todd Rokita claimed that puberty blockers cause infertility. But neither statement is true. The documented infertility in trans youth who took blockers is a result of the hormone replacement therapy they later took, not the blockers themselves. The entire function of blockers is to delay the irreversible, life-altering effects of puberty. In children with precocious puberty, this delay allows them to start puberty at an appropriate age. For transgender children, this delay prevents them from having to go through permanent physical changes before they are old enough to fully understand and commit to a certain type of puberty. Blockers are the solution to delaying the very “irreversible” medical care about which Republican legislators are allegedly concerned.

Though I am relieved that Hoosier children with precocious puberty and other hormonal disorders will still have access to necessary medical treatment, I’m dumbfounded by the implications of this allowance. By permitting children without gender dysphoria to access the very medications they are banning, the legislature conceded the crux of their defense of this bill: They are admitting that blockers are safe for children; they just don’t want transgender children to have access.

Having been both the child with precocious puberty and the transgender child suffering the consequences of puberty, I find this particularly ludicrous. What about me changed so radically with my gender dysphoria diagnosis that I no longer deserved the medical care that was previously open to me? My reproductive organs would react identically to the blockers (that is, simply not developing until I stopped taking them) whether I realized I am transgender or not. For all their posturing, legislators are not actually concerned about the safety of transgender children. If they were, they would have listened to the 200 Hoosier health care professionals who opposed the ban due to the harm it will cause to the very children they claim to protect. They would have done the same research my parents did over a decade ago and come to the same conclusion.

The narrative that puberty blockers are some new, dangerous experimental drug is blatantly false. I am far from the first person in my family to be diagnosed with precocious puberty, nor am I the first to seek puberty blockers as treatment. My family history is just one story confirming what medical studies have concluded: puberty blockers are safe. They were safe for me when I was experiencing precocious puberty, and despite what the Indiana legislature and the governor claim, they are safe for today’s transgender youth. This ban is not about safety, and it is time we stop pretending otherwise.

Panfilo posted:

New record?
https://twitter.com/AidanCTweets/status/1656219402914742272?t=wbVoWYPKLoc2MBkjSKBKHA&s=19

Mak0rz posted:

"Day x of being on the right"

What is with these people and saying stuff like this? Are they being traded between political alignments like players between hockey teams?

Schubalts posted:

They think they are. They think that their (dumbass, idiotic) opinion matters so much that whatever side they are on must be the correct side because they are on it.

Platystemon posted:

X, the Everything App™

Cocaine Bear posted:

That's not fair. Hockey players stop their education in Jr high and have lots of brain trauma. They're way more mentally fit than independents.