@marilynmaupin @genadoesthings @AWolfeful Patients are allowed to make decisions about risk and benefits of a given treatment. There being side effects to treatment isn't what is controversial about her claim. Hope this helps!
@RottenInDenmark Even if you believe that this somehow discredits them or requires a disclaimer, the burden of proof is still on the lady making huge claims about medical misconduct! *No* additional support has come out for her account.
@genadoesthings @AWolfeful If it were nearly any other group of people, the media would understand that the burden of proof is on the woman making the bold claims, not the families refuting them.
@coherentstates One thing that really gets my goat about this bit is that you can literally ask trans women why they left these jobs after they transition. Hint: it's not that they can't hack it anymore.
@Iron_Spike I remember being shocked when i first read calvin and hobbes collections as a kid because I couldn't comprehend that newspapers would run things that could actually make me laugh.
@shaun_vids My conservative dad literally won't believe me when I tell him Biden kept or enhanced every trump immigration policy except a boondoggle wall no matter how many times I share him articles about it.
@jaythenerdkid I feel like there's a corollary to this where it makes attention from older people feel less weird at the time. "of course that old man thinks teen girls are hot, because they are super hot", when uhhhhhh no. That's not normal.