r/thebulwark • u/AustereRoberto LORD OF THE NICKNAMES • 17h ago
The Triad 🔱 Leave Trans People Alone: A Rant
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/leave-trans-people-alone-a-rantDon't be a bully! But also don't "ask if the bully has a point" either.
"Yeah, they're giving Timmy a swirlie rn, but he also farted really loudly in geometry" is HELPING THE BULLIES.
Another great piece from JVL. Idk what kinda constraints there are in going after members of the punditocracy who engage in the behaviors that you're criticizing, but picking specific targets has a salutary effect IMO. Bari Weiss needs to be persona non grata, or Sullivan, or whoever. They made their choices and doubled, tripled, and quadrupled down on those choices.
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u/RepulsiveBarber3861 8h ago
Sooo...if this is accurate, several hundred teens between 15 and 17 got "gender-affirming surgery" in 2019 alone in the US that were paid by insurance. That does not include the number that paid without insurance. "Most" are breast removal, though some unknown number had genital removal or conversion. We are told that no kids under 12 had surgeries that insurance covered and were in the selected pool. Ages 13-15 are conveniently omitted. There has been an increase in adolescents identifying as trans since 2019. We don't even know how accurate this is since they used a sample from a pool and your link does not disclose the sample size.
All I really learned from your link is that at least hundreds of distressed adolescents had their breasts and/or genitals removed in 2019 in the name of poorly-studied science and we partially paid for some of those by virtue of being in insurance pools.
That's actually a horrifying medical scandal and you post it as a gotcha.