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🇺🇸🇰🇷 | Converse retira una campaña con la estrella del K-pop Karina tras ser relacionada con el Ku Klux Klan.
Converse ha tenido que retirar una fotografía y pedir disculpas públicas después de que un anuncio protagonizado por la artista asiática Karina desatara una fuerte polémica en redes sociales.
En la imagen de la campaña Chuck 70, la cantante surcoreana del grupo Aespa aparece sujetando unas zapatillas bajo un foco con forma de estrella mientras viste una falda blanca. Varios usuarios criticaron que el juego de sombras proyectaba una silueta puntiaguda similar a las capuchas del Ku Klux Klan, además de interpretar la posición del calzado como una alusión a los linchamientos históricos.
El revuelo llegó incluso al Congreso estadounidense, donde el congresista Troy Carter exigió explicaciones a la marca y a su matriz, Nike. Ante la oleada de críticas y la resurgelta de otro anuncio anterior en Malasia, la compañía ha eliminado la imagen.
A landmark Finnish study has found a sharp rise in psychiatric illness among adolescents following sex-alteration procedures.
The peer-reviewed study, published in Acta Paediatrica, tracked every young person under 23 who contacted Finland's gender clinics between 1996 and 2019.
A total 2,083 individuals were studied, with 16,643 matched controls. They were followed for up to 25 years.
Finland's health registers are mandatory, which means no one opts out — this is the complete national picture.
The numbers: psychiatric morbidity rose from 9.8% to 60.7% in adolescents who underwent feminising reassignment, and from 21.6% to 54.5% in masculinising reassignment.
Even after adjusting for prior psychiatric history, gender-referred adolescents faced five times the risk of male population controls, and three times the risk of female controls.
"Psychiatric needs do not subside after medical gender reassignment," the authors concluded.
Referrals after 2010 arrived sicker. 47.9% had already needed psychiatric treatment before their first clinic visit, against 15.3% among controls.
The authors' read: for some adolescents, gender distress may be secondary to other mental health challenges.
The evidence keeps mounting. The silencing continues anyway.
How many more adolescents will be told this is "care"?
@Joeinblack Thanks, @Steven_Ballmer. @LAClippers are no longer my Los Angeles Basketball team. I am officially denouncing any loyalty to the team due to the shenanigans with Kawaii and your donation to this initiative.
I find it incredibly ironic that the very people whose solution to every problem involves government intervention and regulation have no trust in Donald Trump to run the government.