My god did JD Vance lie and gaslight his way through last night's VP debate. About big things. So casually. Things that are so easy to call out.
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@imperfectmd@PedsHemeDoc In my experience, an opposing girls sport team often changes in the boys locker room/bathroom. And trans kids exist. Quit being mad about things you don’t know about
@RockDaisy12 @AndreaR9Md From a small town and every time our girls volleyball team traveled we had to change in boys locker rooms and bathrooms. But what’s worse is why do you take the overwhelmingly good thing here (access to tampons) and get weird a bout it
Even if EVERY SINGLE ONE of the 32 trans athletes playing NCAA championship sports identified as women…
It means that 1 in 10,000 — or .0001416 of the 226,212 women college athletes—are trans.
For comparison, during SC’s championship run:
Cops killed 2x more UNARMED Black people.
1500x more died from gunshot wounds.
30 million kids attended underfunded schools.
Guess which issue US legislatures have passed laws to address?
Would like to see a study looking specifically at patients with #LongCovid dysautonomia, small fibre neuropathy & mast cell over-activation, & whether any of the genetic abnormalities linked to hereditary alpha tryptasemia (HaTS) exist more so in those patients than controls.
I remain hopeful that Pirola (BA.2.86) will not become a significant problem.
However, in the context of the usual statements that we see whenever a concerning new variant arises, it's important to note the following:
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