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Ajay

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More than 20 percent of trans youth lost access to gender-affirming care under new state laws (msn.com)

This is going to go so well. /s

Roughly 75000 transgender kids lost access to previously provided care. The Trevor project estimated roughly 45% of transgender youth attempted suicide last year. Yes, talk is going to get us out of this.

BTW, I have been working with a family with a transgender child in Utah. For several years, this child has stated they are a boy. By every anatomical study, including ultrasounds and puberty, they are female. They have been ridiculed and criticized. As you can imagine, this child has attempted suicide several times in the past. Just a week ago, they got the results of a whole genome sequence study. Turns out he is XY.

For all the deniers out there, I want you to wrap your brain around that one. An anatomical female with XY chromosomes. This child has a menstraul cycle and has ovaries, in other words, he can get pregnant. I helped analyze the genome and I have a perfectly logical medical explanation by the way. But go ahead and try, I would love to see some people's brain cells explode a little trying to work this one out.

This family got all the sham stupid answers. "Oh, he's watching Tik Tok too much." "His friends are doing it, therefore, he has to as well." "Counseling will fix this" "He will grow out of it" "You guys are woke" "The Bible says otherwise"

I told this child's mom, you are welcome to rub the results of this study in as many faces as you feel it necessary, because this is the exact reason why gender affirming care exists. This child was not, and clearly not, intersex at birth. However, their genetics clearly scream otherwise. Guess what, there are a lot more kids like this than we think. So, how many more kids do we feel like losing before people's minds are changed?

By the way, the crisis is already starting and it isn't even a month out. Medical and mental health professionals have already changed their practices. Insurance companies are also denying coverage for gender affirming health care.

Lisa Hansen: Mental health professionals see the danger in Utah’s anti-transgender law (sltrib.com)
Thank you so much for bringing to light the some of medical issues related to transgender/intersex persons. I don’t think the vast majority of people, let alone Christians, understand any of this. I didn’t understand most of the medical science until recently (still working on it). This post has led me to learn some more this morning (one of the few perks of waking up 2 hours early is having time to quietly read). It’s nice to move away from slogans and partisan positions and have actual facts with which one can inform their conscience. The psychological aspects remain as mystifying as ever (as with those who are gay). Hopefully, bit by bit, researchers will better understand of all the contours of these complex issues.

Who knew P&N could actually be useful 😉.
 
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brandonbull

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Tiresome Tucker is now shocked, SHOCKED that NPR is reporting that queer people are arming themselves so they'll be prepared to defend themselves against his audience. Like we WANT to have to defend ourselves against his deranged fanbase. "NPR says guns are BAD, but they're GOOD for trans people for self-defense", he says, without a hint of self-awareness, while lambasting NPR for not having self-awareness.
I guess guns are good and should be used for self defense. I wonder who is responsible for most deaths of trans people?
 

kitkat22

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Thank you so much for bringing to light the some of medical issues related to transgender/intersex persons. I don’t think the vast majority of people, let alone Christians, understand any of this. I didn’t understand most of the medical science until recently (still working on it). This post has led me to learn some more this morning (one of the few perks of waking up 2 hours early is having time to quietly read). It’s nice to move away from slogans and partisan positions and have actual facts with which one can inform their conscience. The psychological aspects remain as mystifying as ever (as with those who are gay). Hopefully, bit by bit, researchers will better understand of all the contours of these complex issues.

Who knew P&N could actually be useful 😉.

I am glad I can at least be somewhat useful. :) It is definitely a rough road for sure. We face decades of various degrees of education. Most of the older generation will have some identification with the discovery of DNA with watson and crick in 1953. Sex chromosomes were discovered in 1905. The human genome project started in 1990 and finished in 2003 with the first human genome sequences performed. We subsequently went from billions of dollars expended on that project alone to getting your genome sequenced for $500 now. In 2008, the "1000 genomes project" was started to initiate tracking of genomes and variants. That finished in 2015, a mere 8 years ago. This explosion of understanding of our genetics has kinda turned our basic understanding of genetics upside down a bit. Most people have not had a chance to catch up.

We have seen an explosion of understanding of gestational and pubertal development, and, really, we are only at the beginning. It used to be we suspected there were millions of genes that made up the human genome. Turns out it is only 20000. We have identified all of the genes, now comes the understanding of how variants and epigenetics work.

I am a physician. I love reading the literature about this. It helps me appreciate and have compassion, not just for LGBTQ, but for developmental delay and autism. we are looking at seizures and heart disease differently. We see potential therapeutic interventions that are designed to help an individual and not just a group. It's amazingly cool.

In the meantime, I have been called a murderer, stupid, slow, a pedophile and threatened. Some of this is because I'm a physician, others because I'm transgender. I promised myself, after a certain patient encounter, I would not sit idle with staying silent. I have spoken at several events now and I will continue to do so.
 

nakedfrog

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I am glad I can at least be somewhat useful. :) It is definitely a rough road for sure. We face decades of various degrees of education. Most of the older generation will have some identification with the discovery of DNA with watson and crick in 1953. Sex chromosomes were discovered in 1905. The human genome project started in 1990 and finished in 2003 with the first human genome sequences performed. We subsequently went from billions of dollars expended on that project alone to getting your genome sequenced for $500 now. In 2008, the "1000 genomes project" was started to initiate tracking of genomes and variants. That finished in 2015, a mere 8 years ago. This explosion of understanding of our genetics has kinda turned our basic understanding of genetics upside down a bit. Most people have not had a chance to catch up.

We have seen an explosion of understanding of gestational and pubertal development, and, really, we are only at the beginning. It used to be we suspected there were millions of genes that made up the human genome. Turns out it is only 20000. We have identified all of the genes, now comes the understanding of how variants and epigenetics work.

I am a physician. I love reading the literature about this. It helps me appreciate and have compassion, not just for LGBTQ, but for developmental delay and autism. we are looking at seizures and heart disease differently. We see potential therapeutic interventions that are designed to help an individual and not just a group. It's amazingly cool.

In the meantime, I have been called a murderer, stupid, slow, a pedophile and threatened. Some of this is because I'm a physician, others because I'm transgender. I promised myself, after a certain patient encounter, I would not sit idle with staying silent. I have spoken at several events now and I will continue to do so.
You're definitely much braver than I am IMO, speaking at events out where you are, compared to where I am (where you can scarcely even run errands without encountering a few trans people).
 

kitkat22

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Another rabbit hole I found very fascinating. I had this funny thought to review the history of modern genetics from Gregor Mendel and his peas to our current status. It was very enlightening. A lot of discoveries really have been made in the past 5-10 years which has exponentially expanded our understanding of genetics. We are way past the Punnett square which is really cool and interesting at the same time. I have found a love of this modern genetic info because it shows the beauty and diversity of humankind. We are individually unique and incredible!

Modern Genetics Timeline
1866 – Gregor Mendel published his findings on genetic traits of pea plants.
1905 – Punnett square devised by Reginald C Punnett
1905 – term “genetics” introduced by English biologist William Bateson who also championed the “rediscovery” of Mendel’s work.
1908 – British physician Archibald Garrod proposed the concept of hereditary diseases were caused by inborn errors of metabolism
1910 – inheritance patterns confirmed studying the fruit fly by American zoologist/geneticist - Thomas Hunt Morgan
1941 – American geneticist George Beadle and American Biochemist Edward Tatum showed genes were linked to enzyme/protein production
1953 – Watson, Crick, Wilkins use work from Rosalind Franklin to discover the helical structure of DNA marking a major milestone in our understanding in genetics
1961 – Crick and Brenner show the genetic code must be read in triplets of nucleotides called “codons”
1966 – the complete genetic code of all 64 possible codons was deduced by Marshall Nirenbert and Har Gobind Khorana
1983 – Biochemist Kary Mullis invented the polymerase chain reaction – a method for rapidly detecting and amplifying a specific DNA sequence without cloning it.
1990 – Human Genome Project starts
2001 – First complete human genome it complete
2008 – The 1000 Genomes Project starts with the intent of sequencing a large number of people from different ethnicities. This project completed in 2015.
2012 – ancestry.com first introduces genealogic DNA testing
2018 – several companies start offering commercially available “whole genome sequencing” to consumers.
 

eelw

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Republicans are all jackasses. If you are still a Republican count yourself one
I’ll lump in non right leaning gun nutters also. All are sorry excuse for human beings for being such selfish pricks to value guns over human lives.
 

Lanyap

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If you're a drag queen in Texas you better watch out. You might have a bounty on you if this law passes.
Remember: Every Accusation is a Confession

 
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hal2kilo

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If you're a drag queen in Texas you better watch out. You might have a bounty on you if this law passes.
Remember: Every Accusation is a Confession

And the list will continue to expand. First they came...
 

Fenixgoon

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nakedfrog

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Bud Light has cans with rainbows and pronouns on them, and the anti-woke snowflake mob is triggered AF. Famed fake redneck Kid Rock gave them some free publicity by shooting up a case of it.
 
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Remobz

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Bud Light has cans with rainbows and pronouns on them, and the anti-woke snowflake mob is triggered AF. Famed fake redneck Kid Rock gave them some free publicity by shooting up a case of it.
Hello. How are you?

Do Americans have a problem with the Trans people who are the female to male ones using men's toilets. I am sorry, I do not know the right word to say.

I am assuming the main issue is the male born trans people using the female toilets? And not the female to male trans people using men's toilets? I am confused where the focus is?