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  • First, it all, I was supposing that cosmetic surgeries weren’t allowed in minors (except for those yk, house burned, skin melted situations).

    Secondly, how reasonable the law is depends wholly on the studies that were not explicitly quoted and whether there is a significant percentage of people who undergo these treatments during puberty and then regret it.

    And the law explicitly states “this use of puberty blockers for gender non conforming children is experimental and not FDA-approved”. Which is legalese I think for “FDA didn’t make studies checking whether those drugs are effective in treating gender dysphoria”

  • Not the most absurd law ever. It just states that minors can’t undergo life altering surgeries or take medicine with potentially irreversible effects (that apparently isn’t even approved by the FDA?). It says nothing about what children can or can’t wear. Only thing that to me makes me raise an eyebrow is the whole “children can’t be encouraged to hide this dysphoria from their parents by teachers”.

    I would also like to see the studies cited, but if they’re valid, then the law is for the most part reasonable

  • If you are ever able, come to Portugal. Beautiful country, my home. Some of the grossest mismanagement I've ever seen, and the opposition hasn't been able to put up good candidates for a while now, and despite the awful state of public services and the economy, the several scandals, there is a reasonable chance that the party that is in government will remain in power. (also a chance of a parliament deadlock)

  • And the way that the electoral college was made is very much reasonable if you consider the history of the United States. When you realise that in the beginning, the US was very much like the EU is now, a loose federation of states, the structures that are in place make a lot of sense. The problem is that the US now views itself like a single unified nation instead of a federation of states, and those structures stopped making sense.

  • Usual reason. Traditional parties for one reason or another get incompetent leaders unable to grow the economy and improve living standards, young people lose hope and stop joining the traditional parties, which means they have no new flux of talent, meaning things are ripe for populists to take over. Often times, one of the establishment parties positions itself in such a way it claims it is the final defence against populism, negating the traditional opposition (prime example: Macron). Most European countries have had a bad experience with communism more recently than with Nazis, which means the right wing parties tend to have an easier time as they are farther away from memory

  • As far as I am concerned, there was one. My grand grandparents either didn’t know how to write or at most had the 4th grade, poor farmers in the middle of nowhere. My grandparents all got high school done and ascended to low middle class. Their kids all got to uni and all got to proper middle to middle high class. Only in my generation does it look like uni and other formal education may not be available for a relevant portion of the population, thanks to the great work of the so called ”Socialist Party” (as socialist as I am a frog)

  • Wait, do you mean that the majority stakeholder in a company would try to control it? Pickachu face

    Yes, i am aware that the actual problem is that it is being done covertly and that the manoeuvring might have been to take control of the Non Profit