Tiberius Spock

Gully Foyle is my name and Terra is my nation. Deep space is my dwelling place, the stars my destination.

Failing to self-identify for almost 6 decades.

[Tiberius Spock @CNC3P0]

The meaning of life is more life.

[Tiberius Spock @CNC3P0]

@Guy__99 @_CryMiaRiver The point isn't about what you have a right to decide for yourself, it's about what a licensed medical professional should be legally allowed to do. If you want body parts chopped off, go to a barber.

[Tiberius Spock @CNC3P0]

This is what people need to respond with when confronted by the inevitable claim that "if Trump supposts it, it must be wrong."

[Bernard Lane @Bernard_Lane]

@wesyang Yes, Trump Administration provides convenient cover to do what health & insurance folk already knew to be the prudent thing.

[Bernard Lane @Bernard_Lane]

@wesyang Yes, Trump Administration provides convenient cover to do what health & insurance folk already knew to be the prudent thing.

[Tiberius Spock @CNC3P0]

@EstaTracey So true. It's biology that decides.

[Tiberius Spock @CNC3P0]

@Glinner It's almost like they're trying to antagonize people into being violent towards them in order to prove that what they've been claiming all along is actually true.

[BScovs07 @BScovs07]

@_CryMiaRiver

[Tiberius Spock @CNC3P0]

@ZyklonBplus @_CryMiaRiver This post is an inevitable result of trans-activism. Pushing too far eventually causes people to push back. If you want to succeed, never push too far.

[Tiberius Spock @CNC3P0]

I couldn't bring myself to "like" this post, so I'm reposting it instead.

[Graham Linehan @Glinner]

@AmnestyNow Go fuck yourselves

[Tiberius Spock @CNC3P0]

@thrungepump @Glinner @AmnestyNow The bandaids are just there to keep them from falling off.

[Tiberius Spock @CNC3P0]

@Glinner @AmnestyNow As a human, I have just as much right as anyone else to find a doctor with zero morals.

[Tiberius Spock @CNC3P0]

@AmnestyNow Is this just a pithy, but slightly inaccurate, way of saying "people who think they are trans have the same human rights as every other human"?

[Tiberius Spock @CNC3P0]

@_CryMiaRiver When I was young, but old enough to start thinking about it, I was too busy being fascinated by the biological differences between boys and girls to spend any time wondering about mental differences.

[Tiberius Spock @CNC3P0]

This has been obvious to me from the very first time I encountered the idea of "trans". I tried to research myself out of my "transphobic" ways, but try as I might, I have been unable to find anything to change my mind.

[Mia Hughes @_CryMiaRiver]

A strange idea has been loose in our society for the last few decades. And it’s so pervasive and so deeply embedded in our culture that many people have lost sight of just how odd it is.

It’s the idea that some healthy people require lifelong medical intervention and body part amputation.

Or, to put it another way: It’s the idea that being transgender is a natural variation of human existence, not grounded in mental disorder or psychological challenges.

Anyone who stops to think about this even for a moment can see how nonsensical it is.

After all, how could any man of sound mind want his penis amputated? How could any woman who is balanced and thriving want her healthy breasts cut off?

It just doesn’t make any sense.

And yet, in the era of trans rights, stating the obvious — that an individual’s desire to medically alter the sex characteristics of his or her healthy body is a form of mental disorder — amounts to one of the most offensive, bigoted, harmful views a person could possibly express.

Read my first essay in @genspect's REPATH series on how this dark moment in history could have happened and why restoring truth is the only way out of the madness. Link below.

[Tiberius Spock @CNC3P0]

@UnpopularLib @erikphoel Sorry for being pedantic. That's just how I roll.

[Tiberius Spock @CNC3P0]

@SarahTheHaider @erikphoel I think you may be confusing ability to imagine possible scenarios with ability to accurately assign probabilities to them. I'm not trying to estimate the probability, I'm just suggesting that there is no way to assign a probability of zero.

[Leor Sapir @LeorSapir]

I don't like the discourse about "parental rights" in the context of gender transition in youth. I understand why the term is useful given the judicialization of American policy, but it's a good example of what Mary Ann Glendon has called the "rights talk" degrading our political vocabulary.

The issue at hand is parental responsibilities.

Parents who decide not to "affirm" (socially or medically) their child do not typically do so out of any sense of "rights." They do so because they believe--correctly--that treating their child as if their sex is irrelevant and as if they can grasp the consequences of submitting to treatments where the harms outweigh the benefits is not in their best interest.

That the parents know they will pay a steep personal and social cost for holding the line is pretty good evidence that they are acting out of a sense of duty, not as individuals exercising their rights.

[Tiberius Spock @CNC3P0]

@UnpopularLib @erikphoel You used the phrase "assign enormous weight to the harms". To me, that means severity.
For probability, I would use "assign enormous weight to the likelihood of harms".

[Tiberius Spock @CNC3P0]

@UnpopularLib @erikphoel I assign a weight of 100% to the harm of human extinction. What weight would you give it?

[Tiberius Spock @CNC3P0]

@SarahTheHaider @erikphoel I think it's really just a matter of imagining the existential risks, then realizing there's no way of assigning them zero possibility.

[Jim McMurtry @JimMcMurtry01]

Judge who fined doctor for not blocking puberty for 14-year-old boy has authored papers on trans rights.