Here's an experiment for liberals to try...
Head to Mexico, or really any country of your choosing
Sneak in then demand a free phone, free food, free housing, free healthcare and education
THEN burn their flag in the street while jumping up and down on a car
And when you get out of prison come back and let us all know how it went
Teens in Oregon are being diagnosed with gender dysphoria at 10x the prevalence of Type 2 diabetes.
Puberty blockers were used 5x the national average at age 14.
25% of minors who are diagnosed with gender dysphoria are given hormone disrupting medication.
Get children out of Oregon.
Life Before Barack Obama hits different when you actually remember it.
No ISIS carving up the Middle East.
No BLM turning cities into war zones.
No Antifa burning down businesses while cops were told to stand down.
No “war on police” narrative.
No Russia Hoax witch hunt.
No expensive Obamacare disaster.
No full-blown Trump Derangement Syndrome.
We had problems, sure. But we weren’t drowning in manufactured chaos and identity politics.
Obama didn’t “inherit” this mess — a whole lot of it bloomed on his watch.
‼️This is deeply troubling... Please read and share the information published by City Journal…
Oregon has become a national leader in transgender diagnoses and medical intervention. Not coincidentally, Oregon is the only state in the country to have formally adopted the World Professional Association for Transgender Health’s recommendations as the basis for its Medicaid benefits. And it did so despite its own health regulatory body acknowledging the absence of supportive evidence.
Using insurance data for minors ages 8 to 17 between 2016 and 2023, the authors of the recent Research Connections study found that about one in 240 girls and one in 630 boys in Oregon were on hormones by age 17. In addition, 0.98 percent of minors—1.51 percent of girls and 0.46 percent of boys—received a “transgender-related diagnosis” (typically “gender dysphoria”) during these years. In other words, about one in every 65 adolescent girls in Oregon is a potential candidate for medical “sex reassignment.”
To put these figures into context, when the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM-5) was published in 2013, it reported a diagnostic prevalence of gender dysphoria among adults as 0.002 percent to 0.003 percent for females and 0.005 percent to 0.014 percent for males. Even if we assume (incorrectly) that gender dysphoria is a single clinical entity, this means that diagnosed teen girls and boys in contemporary Oregon thus represent a rise of, respectively, more than 500 and 30 times the prevalence of pre-2013 figures.
Hormonal prescriptions in Oregon have also outpaced the already-rising national average. Last year, a study published in JAMA Pediatrics reported that approximately one in 1,000 American teens was prescribed cross-sex hormones by age 17. The Oregon rate was two to three times higher than that. Indeed, a closer look at the data revealed that hormone prescriptions in Oregon were four to five times the national rate among 14- and 15-year-olds, while puberty-blocker uptake was up to six times the national rate at age 14. Thus, teens in Oregon are not only being medicalized more, but also at earlier ages.
In 2023, Oregon Democrats passed HB 2002, which made Medicaid coverage of gender transition services for minors and adults mandatory, i.e., no longer dependent on HERC assessment. HERC was advised to endorse WPATH’s recommendations (SOC-8) as the minimal coverage standard. HERC assessed the evidence again, and again found it wanting. But intervention by gender clinicians at the Oregon Health and Science University ensured that HERC’s reluctance would not be a barrier. OHSU has been at the forefront of eliminating barriers to gender interventions and pioneering novel techniques designed to help young patients achieve body configurations “beyond the binary.”
In short, by any reasonable reading, Oregon, which received billions of dollars annually in Medicaid funding, is in violation of its Section 1115 Medicaid waiver, leaving it vulnerable to termination by CMS. HERC’s acknowledgment of the poor quality of evidence is not a matter of opinion. There is documented evidence for it, obtained through freedom of information requests.
(Entire article by @CityJournal is in the comments- these are just snips from it)
Eat a mouthful of grass and you get nothing. It goes in green and comes out green.
Eat straw and you get nothing. Your gut cannot touch cellulose.
Eat acorns and you get tannins, and a very bad afternoon.
Eat bracken and you get a carcinogen.
Eat nettles, thistles, brambles, rushes and moorland heather and you get a mouth full of blood and no calories.
Eat the beet pulp, the oat husks and the spent brewer's grain and you get the waste the factory couldn't sell.
Now feed the lot of it to a cow.
She turns every one of them into steak, butter, cream, milk and a hide, on land that will never grow a vegetable, using four stomachs and a fermentation vat you do not have.
The grass she eats grew on rain and sunlight, for free, on a hillside nobody can plough.
She is the only creature on earth that can take a field of inedible fibre and hand you back the most nutrient-dense food there is.
The cow is not competing with you for food. She eats the ninety percent you cannot.
Best plant-based diet ever invented. It just has a cow in the middle doing the hard part.