Greg Drobny

Member of St. Spyridon's Orthodox Church.
External Relations Manager for Do No Harm.
OIF Veteran.
Trying to be a good father and husband, sometimes succeeding.

[Greg Drobny @GregoryOfSpyr]

@PeerReReview .Supposedly impartial social scientists who can engineer society towards a brighter future.

Hmmm, now where have I heard this theme before...

[Greg Drobny @GregoryOfSpyr]

@FocoGrohs24 This is why untrained police officers have zero excuses. I've been saying this for ~30 years since I learned it from people like Miculek; spend 10 minutes every day dry-firing before you take your gear off or when you put it on. Within 6 months you'll be better than most.

[Do No Harm @donoharm]

“Gender-affirming care” doesn’t mean what you think…

It’s a euphemism, and a dangerous one as it softens what is actually being done to minors.

But here’s what the language hides:

🚩 “Top surgery” means removing healthy breast tissue. Once it’s gone, the ability to breastfeed is gone forever.

🚩 “Bottom surgery” means removing and reconstructing the genitals, often using skin grafted from other parts of the body. It carries long-term risks of infection, numbness, and loss of sensation.

And yes, these surgeries are happening to young people!  🚨

A 2023 study in JAMA Network Open estimated that 3,678 patients ages 12 to 18 underwent gender-affirming surgeries from 2016 to 2020, including 3,215 breast/chest surgeries and 405 genital surgeries.

Puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones aren’t minor interventions either. ➡️

The 2025 HHS review of pediatric gender medicine found they carry risks including infertility, sexual dysfunction, impaired bone density, cardiovascular and metabolic disease, and adverse cognitive effects.

Minors can’t fully grasp risks like these, let alone consent to losing their fertility before adulthood. ‼️

Yet these procedures are regularly discussed, and normalized from a young age for the gender-confused child. 

The euphemisms hide the grisly reality of what these procedures mean. And the affirm-only approach means children are never given another option or way to solve their gender distress.

Children deserve the chance to grow up whole, before anyone makes permanent decisions about their bodies. ❤️‍🩹

[Greg Drobny @GregoryOfSpyr]

@d_bahler This particular debate is way easier than most make it, but ultimately I agree; we need far fewer young Orthodox men thinking they're going to be some intellectual heavyweight who "saves" Orthodoxy via X or YouTube.

[Michael Malice @michaelmalice]

They would sooner kill their family members--and yours--than kill the worst criminals in society

[Greg Drobny @GregoryOfSpyr]

@thaddeusthought @ThyPaddyDaddy HA!

[Greg Drobny @GregoryOfSpyr]

@Fuzzard23 @citchmook So edgy and tough and cool. I aspire to be as well spoken and articulate as you one day.

Pro tip: learn what the @ symbol and "reply" means, as it will help you in your future endeavors. Now run along and play with the other kids.

[Greg Drobny @GregoryOfSpyr]

@Fuzzard23 @citchmook Ahh, yes. Clearly the one who gets set off to the point that they've descended into vulgarity and name calling is in the right.

That's generally how it works, so I've obviously lost this highly intellectual debate!

[Greg Drobny @GregoryOfSpyr]

@Fuzzard23 @citchmook Do you understand what the word "reply" or phrase "replying to" means? Google should help here.

[Greg Drobny @GregoryOfSpyr]

@JimJatras Lord, have mercy.

[Greg Drobny @GregoryOfSpyr]

@TheLuciusODell Alex tells me good things about that. Curious to hear your thoughts.

[Greg Drobny @GregoryOfSpyr]

@the_primuspilus The only time Mark is right it's because he stole the ideas from others (and one of them was from an Orthodox Christian scholar, interestingly enough).

[Greg Drobny @GregoryOfSpyr]

@JimJatras Solid point.

[Do No Harm @donoharm]

It takes years of hard work to become a physician. There are countless skills to learn and clinical hours to complete. Medical school isn’t for the faint of heart. 👨‍⚕️

And there’s no time to waste. 

According to a 2017 study in the Journal of Graduate Medical Education, residency program directors assessed that only 38% of first-year residents were adequately prepared in patient safety.

Meanwhile, medical schools have been making room for other priorities. 🚩

➡️ The Association of American Medical Colleges reports that the number of schools covering climate change in required courses doubled between 2019 and 2022, from 27% to 55%. 

➡️ Even a Harvard climate-curriculum advocate admitted to the Scientific American that the challenge is adding content without taking other content away.

Climate change and political activism may be well and good in their proper place, but when these become a priority over real clinical training, something has gone wrong...

Future doctors aren’t in school to become politicians, social workers, or climate experts. They’re there to learn the art and science of medicine, and they have precious few years to do it. 

They need curriculums built around the skills their patients will depend on. 🩺

[Greg Drobny @GregoryOfSpyr]

@HockeyGirlTalk @citchmook Fair. It's frustrating. But I'd rather have them be bipolar now than, say, March.

[Greg Drobny @GregoryOfSpyr]

@Fuzzard23 @citchmook So, I guess good job on making an argument for something I never argued against...?

[Greg Drobny @GregoryOfSpyr]

@Fuzzard23 @citchmook Note that I never sad Bouchard was bad. You stated that Makar "can't generate offense on his own," something that isn't even true from this past *week* let alone his career.

I, unlike many (apparently), can recognize talent among all of these guys without disparaging others.