The costs of trans visibility

I think they're wrong, but most people seem to care more about making more money and having less competition at their own jobs than at the benefits they get from imported labor and goods. Both unskilled and highly skilled workers.

I think there should be less health care than there is now, regardless of the cost, particularly for the elderly. People are being kept alive way too long, especially when their quality of life is not sustained.

I don't really care about the number of PhDs in psychology we have, and I think we have plenty of doctors right now, but too many specialists and too few generalists.

Stop subsidizing it then, and stop mandating procedures to insurance

Virginia does require an extra 500 payment per year if you want to register a car as uninsured and that fee provides coverage, so it actual just subsidizes people who can't get minimum limits for less than 500 a year.

The province of Alberta which some would say is run by a right wing Maga Leader is bringing in new Trans policies . They seem to pretty fair ?

https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/canada/a-...

Yeah seems pretty reasonable. "Private registry" sounds like something that will get hacked and leaked though.

then wait a solution that is very similar to my preferred take is reasonable for you as well, then why did i get attacked so much for my takes?

maybe i am mistaking you for other users though

16+ can be ok in a jurisdiction where other "adult" determinations are allowed 16+ under the same constrains.

Like if you can marry 16+ with those elements i think it's fair you can act to change your sex as well for example.

That's an "age of consent" debate though not a debate about trans-ness

Your reasonable takes are intertwined with what I consider abject ignorance.

It makes it hard to give you credit for reasonable takes or to take them at face value

Like, I have to acknowledge your preferred path forward isn't entirely unreasonable, but the reasoning behind that is "Doctors are evil and can't be trusted on this subject", and "Being Trans isn't a medical condition". I fundamentally disagree with both of those points so its hard to reconcile.

And a big point of what makes the proposed Canadian path forward reasonable is that medical care isn't being completely cut off and can be administered if everyone (patient, guardians, and healthcare providers) agrees to move forward with treatment.

Sad to see the MAGA style anti-trans laws coming to Canada, and of course Alberta has the worst ones yet. How ****ing tragic it is that if a teacher knows a student is struggling with horrible parents who reject them being trans, they are legally required to notify the parent that a trans kid wants to use a different name. Ban trans kids from sports and getting the medical care they need is just par for the course in american style anti-trans laws, but this last bit doens't at least get the attention in most states.

Why politicians feel the need to start setting up laws restricting trans people instead of leaving these decisions to medical doctors and teachers who know the students and what is best for them is beyond me.

No trans kids are ever banned from sports.

It's also interesting that you leave parents out of "who know the students and what is best for them".

No, you.

I was very curious how you would react to this proposal from the Alberta Government and it shows that there is no compromise with the extreme left lunacy from some . Amazing that people want to leave out the parent in discussing what is best for a child. That just seems like trans lunacy

I would think a vast majority would say this seems reasonable

Maga style like in famous maga land Japan or Spain

Can you tell me which sports are banned for a man who thinks he is a woman?

Or competing with men if you feel you are a woman is a ban?

It's not a Canadian path (we wish!), it's just the path taken by the most right-wing Canadian state, the rest are in a much worse condition afaik.

Btw no reread the above, puberty blockers "care" will be absolutely banned to everyone before or during puberty.

Not exactly the "care being available to everyone" thing

It's about keeping kids alive. Some trans kids are extremely afraid of transphobic parents who will reject them. Before they could safely confide in a teacher without fear of parental retaliation. Now that politicians have started butting in, they are at risk of being legally outed and instead my turn not to their teacher but to nobody. And when young trans kids have no adults in their lives that they can turn to? Well, take a look at those suicide statistics, it is scary to think.

Nobody is against parents being support, loving, and involved in the challenges of their children. That's great. But sometimes being outed to your parents is a risk trans kids aren't willing to take. Sad that this is the truth, but here we are.

And I don't even know this is the worst of it. Think of the teacher who might do an impromptu lesson that includes say an LGBT character, now terrified that parents are going to be starting some petition to get them fired because they didn't get proper consent. It's ****ing sick.

Impromptu lesson that includes an LGBT character?

Rachel has 17 apples. She gives 9 to Sarah, who is a lesbian. How many apples does Rachel have now?

I think a major reason you have people feeling the need to legislate stuff like this is because of this new constant need to introduce LGBT **** into every nook and cranny of life, regardless of whether or not its needed.

What's to legislate in your example? I don't follow

It can also be about keeping non trans kids entire.

Like you don't convince a lesbian 15y old, traumatized girl to remove her breasts so she can finally "feel whole*, just because her life till now was bad.

Does she really feel she is a man? We can discuss this.

But jfc do you really want 15y old being allowed to chop off body parts because they feel bad? Have you ever been an adolescent?

I guess "chop off" is a little better than the prior "mutilate", but what's with ya'll doing these ridiculous caricatures made to sound as silly as possible? If you need to resort so such characterizations, then your case probably isn't that strong.

This is just silly. The kind of authentic natural contexts in education when an LGBT character might come up are not a silly example of stuffing it into a math computations, it might be in, say, anything in the humanities or social sciences when a character in a book they are reading or in history etc etc etc is LGBT and this intersects with the lesson. These new Big Government (don't conservatives hate those?) rules mandating consent letters from parents is absolutely going to have a dampening effect on discussing LGBT people in the classroom - that's the point!

If genitals don't determine gender, how does surgically altering one's genitals help gender dysphoria?

I don't do either of those.