Patrick Salamat

[Patrick Salamat @missingpoints]

This K-10+2 proposal is dumb. Rolling the system back to an 11-year basic ed while making college longer solves nothing while making it harder for everyone -- especially the people implementing the curriculum (schools and teachers).

[Patrick Salamat @missingpoints]

@lecanardnoir @hadjalexiou @Heather_pw @MaintenancePod ^ We do know. These are the people who tell us that they will benefit from something like this and then become happier after -- which the interviews show.

It's become increasingly clear from your replies that you're the one pushing an ideology :))

[Patrick Salamat @missingpoints]

@lecanardnoir @MaintenancePod Where in the report does it show that? :))

[Patrick Salamat @missingpoints]

@lecanardnoir @MaintenancePod Oh yeah, I agree. They were looking for any negative effects and found none. And the trans people they talked to did not express any regrets.

That means we should fund more gender affirming treatments and study them further to improve how we treat trans people.

[Patrick Salamat @missingpoints]

@lecanardnoir @MaintenancePod Wait, so if you don't know what effects they have and what the risks are then the report doesn't tell us anything. :))

You've just confirmed that the report is useless.

[Patrick Salamat @missingpoints]

@lecanardnoir @MaintenancePod And what you fail to grasp is that trans kids need those interventions now. And the interventions are working as far as the data goes - better quality or life, psychological benefits. Why would you want to stop them especially since there's no evidence that they're harmful?

[Patrick Salamat @missingpoints]

@lecanardnoir @MaintenancePod There is no evidence of bad effects. If there were, they would've found it. They didn't find any. So as far as the evidence goes, there are no bad effects.

So we continue treatments and refine the protocols. That's the logical thing to do.

[Patrick Salamat @missingpoints]

@lecanardnoir @MaintenancePod And the report found nothing that says the people treated have regretted the treatments. So we can continue those and keep refining the protocols until it gets better and better.

Trans people are the ones who are most invested in improving trans care, so listen to them.

[Patrick Salamat @missingpoints]

@lecanardnoir @MaintenancePod The "evidence base is poor" so the solution is to gather more evidence, right? How do we do this? By continuing to refine the methods. They said that in the podcast, too. :)

Not treating kids means continually having poor evidence. Ergo. nothing will improve.

[Patrick Salamat @missingpoints]

@lecanardnoir @MaintenancePod So the solution is actually to use the treatments on more people so that it can be studied further, right? We can't have "good evidence" if we don't allow people to get treated.

Or are you saying that the actual goal of all this is to stop trans people from getting treatment?

[Patrick Salamat @missingpoints]

@lecanardnoir @MaintenancePod https://t.co/zwqlT920f9

[Patrick Salamat @missingpoints]

@lecanardnoir @MaintenancePod Save their skin from what, exactly? The Cass report actually found out that the process is very, very slow and that actual medical transitions (less than 10, IIRC) happened upon reaching adulthood.

It's basically just moral panic fuel.

[Patrick Salamat @missingpoints]

@aryannejwll @garmageddon_ Yep.