There's a scenario you can imagine where Cass found kids in the UK were being rushed into transition without assessment, leading to high regret. That would have required us all to backpedal or be discredited... it just didn't happen and the GCs are playacting like it did.

it’s wild that coastal cities have spent years debating if YIMBY policies will lower rents, and Austin just… did it

they streamlined permitting, upzoned most of the city, and eliminated parking mandates. Tons of housing is going up and rents are plummeting.

YIMBY policies work

Can we crowdfund a way to stop this?

Middle East Eye Here’s Emory University economics professor Caroline Fohlin knocked to the ground with her head on the concrete. Her glasses are thrown off. She shouts “I’m a professor”
#Gaza #Protesters

“how do you distinguish between someone who’s actually bi and someone who’s saying they are for clout” how about you worry about how to distinguish your business from other people’s

Singal having an old-school forums meltdown

lmao this is egregious

This is a masterclass in deceptive statistics, using one of the most common deceptive techniques: relative change across unequal groups.

Note the legend on the top left, and that teenage girls in 2020 (post 'sudden change') still have the *lowest rate* of all groups...

The 'Freedom Convoy' was less sympathetic and a lot less effective, but they also generated basically none of this kind of pushback over tactics. Instead, you got lengthy think pieces on the importance of understanding their grievances.

archive.is/BgcVu

One thing that seems to get lost in the reporting on this is that these sort of protests happen on campus all the time and the cops aren’t called in because they genuinely don’t disrupt anything. If anything, they’re mocked as ineffectual b/c they’re easy to ignore.

The piece is a bunch of whiny ad hominems. It’s devastating only to its author.

Cass says 100 appointments must be evidence of 'therapeutic input' in §11.30, but this seems much more like an indication that patients were being given the runaround.

Likewise, an average of 7 appointments seems less like evidence of assessment than of systematic stalling.

Cass has released a 'FAQ/Clarification' today for the Cass Review where she gets some major things wrong. Chief among them is the idea that 'most children will desist,' which has been so thoroughly debunked that it should be discrediting.

Jonathan Chait This is embarrassing. It's extremely telling that Singal has no one in his life who will take him aside and tell him not to post stuff like this

Remember that the alternative that anti-trans obsessives offer here is not a different treatment better supported by the evidence, it is quite literally 'get over it'

Jonathan Chait Michael Hobbes Let’s assume Singal is right about the studies Hobbes and others cite and they aren’t nearly comprehensive. Ok. What about Hobbes’ central question in response: where is the evidence GAC including blockers is harmful and being given out Willy nilly? Where are the detransitioners?

Jesse constantly accuses ppl who disagree with his interpretation of the data of being 'liars' who treat others as 'enemies' and who don't understand the 'tricky science stuff.' he cannot admit that his interpretation is just that: an interpretation...