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@LiamMurray @LaneyGB80 @mart_brooks

[Masih Alinejad @AlinejadMasih]

Here’s a sentence that should shock anyone who still thinks the Islamic Republic has a justice system.

Arghavan Fallahi is 24 years old. She is sitting in Evin Prison under a death sentence.

She formally asked the judiciary to reopen her case and spare her life.

Today, reports say that request was rejected. Which means she can now be executed at any moment. It just brakes my heart that she did everything to save her life.

And this is the part where the Islamic Republic wants the world to look away and say, “Well, it’s an internal legal matter.”

No. It isn’t.

When a 24-year-old woman can be sentenced to death after a political prosecution, and the same system that arrested her, interrogated her, tried her and condemned her also gets to decide whether she deserves another hearing, that is not justice.

That is the government acting as police, prosecutor, judge and executioner and then calling the whole thing due process.

I wrote about Arghavan before because I did not want the world to learn her name after she was hanged.

She is alive right now. And this is exactly when governments, journalists and human-rights organizations should speak before the execution, not after the obituary.

Stop the execution of Arghavan Fallahi.
#StopExecutionInIran

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@Andrews1850 @yvonne83417362 @jk_rowling No, apparently just a male who’s created a rather banal origin story to explain has AGPism.

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@JaneDoentLie @DoNoHarm79 Sunflower = hidden disability, I believe.

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@CareyBrian @Ooops_I_said_it @kenoflynnTD The point of screening is to detect clinically silent cases of a disease.

Preventing the disease from developing in the first instance is still preferable.

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@togive12466 @CoreyT1221 @SamarB14 @9onghyun It is political: when the DSM V was being compiled there was pressure to depathologise trans IDty; but also a need to ensure insurance coverage for GAC. Hence ‘trans’ became normal, no longer an ‘identity disorder’ and at the same time ‘DG‘ was introduced to ensure insurance $$

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@CoreyT1221 @togive12466 @SamarB14 @9onghyun https://t.co/MNInoBBako

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@togive12466 @CoreyT1221 @SamarB14 @9onghyun Again, you are attempting to have your cake and eat it too. The distinction is political

I’d like to say this has been enjoyable, but the truth is I regret allowing myself to continue posting in this discussion, as it was always going to go as it has.

I’m off now. Go well.

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@togive12466 @CoreyT1221 @SamarB14 @9onghyun You need to be able to explain how trans identification is simultaneously both a healthy variant of human experience but also requires med/surgical interventions, the withholding of which is likely to result in the person k1ll1ng themselves?

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@togive12466 @CoreyT1221 @SamarB14 @9onghyun You missed the part where I address the argument that they are necessary for MH reasons:
Either trans identity is a MH disorder which requires med/surgical treatment in order to prevent su1cide, OR it is a healthy, normal variant of the human experience.

Only one can be true.

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@togive12466 @CoreyT1221 @SamarB14 @9onghyun GAC recipients often report they are happier post surgery. Yet objective measures of success (employment rates, rates of long-term relationships, MH care use, suicide rates) all either fail to improve or get worse.

(Impress me: do ur own PubMed search instead of asking me to.)

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@CoreyT1221 @togive12466 @SamarB14 @9onghyun I have professional opinions, and I have personal opinions.

And at the risk of becoming repetitive… SM is downtime for me. I don’t owe you or anyone else on this platform a professional persona.

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@togive12466 @CoreyT1221 @SamarB14 @9onghyun It’s *not medically indicated*. There is no disease or disorder in the tissue being cut.
Any claim that w/o it people will kil themselves suggests that trans identity is an MH disorder, which is at odds w the assertion that trans IDty is a normal variant of the human condition.

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@togive12466 @CoreyT1221 @SamarB14 @9onghyun I don’t accept some lives are more worthy than others.

The suicide claim is particularly pernicious. The Finns (whose health system means studies w no loss to f/u) showed in 2024 that suicide rates in trans IDing teens related to comorbid MH issues, not trans ID per se.

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@togive12466 @CoreyT1221 @SamarB14 @9onghyun 2/2
to pay for surgeries they want, (even when there is little or no evidence to show such surgeries improve outcomes) provided they understand the risks/limitations.

That’s where I stand on the issue of all surgeries which are not medically indicated.

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@togive12466 @CoreyT1221 @SamarB14 @9onghyun As someone in a country w a public health system, the cost of *medically unnecessary surgeries being paid for by taxpayers when elderly people sit on waiting lists for joint replacements for years... sits uncomfortably w me. But I accept that adults should have the right
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@togive12466 @9onghyun @CoreyT1221 @SamarB14 On the one hand if I encountered u in a work setting + u requested a reference for somthg I’d claimed, I’d go to the effort of ensuring I followed up.

OTOH, this is X, and I am not claiming to be acting in a professional capacity here.

Do u understand the difference?

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@CoreyT1221 @togive12466 @SamarB14 @9onghyun (This is why I tried not to engage w ur challenges. U r wedded to ur beliefs, absolutely nothing I could post would change ur mind.)

I posted to for the benefit of those who are not aware that claims that regret is only 1% are unreliable and unrealistic.

Go well.

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@CoreyT1221 @togive12466 @SamarB14 @9onghyun See “considerations”. They apply to gender interventions generally.

(Re the paediatric data: we’re asked to accept that trans identity is innate and that ‘trans kids’ know who they are. If this is true there would be no detransition/regret, even in the kids.)

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@togive12466 @CoreyT1221 @SamarB14 @9onghyun Here are 2 reasons why it‘s reasonable to doubt that 1% rate: two studies where ‘regret’ might be said to be as high as 25%.

Considerations:
- How do you define what constitutes ‘regret’?
-How do you measure it?
- When* do you measure it?

(*regret can take 7-10yrs to manifest)