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  • Not quite. Homeopathy is a medical belief structure consisting of certain practices that attempt to cure "like with like". It has shown no benefits over placebos or other medical treatments, and on certain occasions, has been shown to have serious consequences.

    There are many parts to homeopathy that are widely criticized, such as "potentisation", a process of diluting a substance to such a degree that there contains little or none of the beginning ingredient. Additionally, since the goal is to treat symptoms by using like symptoms, the causes are never truly addressed, especially since the underlying philosophy of homeopathy is that the body can cure itself.

    Thus, if you were helped by a homeopathic medicine, it was more than statistically likely a placebo effect. Please do not rely on homeopathy for medicine.

  • So, are you suggesting that people aren't allowed to complain about things, are you suggesting that complaining about things cannot be done in tandom with works that better the lives of trans, or are you suggesting that people that actually want trans people to have better lives don't get to complain about things? Because every one of those implications are dumb as shit, especially if you have any historical knowledge of civil rights movements.

    No, instead you've taken a stance historically used to oppress civil rights movements, using a false dilemma to essentially proport that one cannot talk about the issue because that is wasting time not doing some unknown thing about it.

    And by virtue of your own post, why are you arguing with people about people arguing instead of helping trans people get the rights they deserve?

  • Authoritarianism and enforced heirarchical structures (as well as support for such regimes) are very much a right-wing philosophy. They also espouse the same "both sides" philosophy that conservatives push (which is a justification for maintaining the status quo, and another right-wing position.)

  • Because people other than the two arguing read that and learn things. If someone states factually wrong or hurtful information about, say, trans people, I would rather they be corrected than someone think that trans people are anything other than human beings being human beings from that prior comment.

  • Do you want the last word? Because you've ceased making a point, since I pointed out how bad your study was, pointed out exactly how you are transphobic, and you shifted to ad hominem attacks. I can only assume you think you looked good in this debacle or that I will get exasperated pointing out how you could be less transphobic, but you didn't and I won't because I like my trans friends and I would do anything for them.

    Do you have any trans friends, family, or coworkers? Do they know that you argue on the internet that they don't deserve the medical care they need? I could speculate, but there's no point. You are another transphobe in an insidious sea of transphobes, and I can only hope that they know of your hateful rhetoric.

  • It is exclusively about money for Bethesda. You can tell by looking at the last time they implemented paid mods, where they took a 25% cut for doing nothing. They offered no quality control, no resources, and boy howdy were a lot of paid mods stolen content, but they didn't care because they wanted that money.

    As to the modders, the only offer Bethesda can give is a wider customer base, but the assumption that you will make more money offering your mod for a price isn't founded. We will see a large amount of shitty mods clogging the store using asset flips to maximize returns, because that's what makes big money on mobile right now. Mod quality isn't going to be enhanced by this: Mods will remain the same. You will just more of the bad ones. $99 horse dicks, anyone?

  • I do. I have many trans friends whose lives depend on their care. They have to listen to this shit way more than I do, to justify their existence as if being trans is something they chose to be. They didn't.

    People use the same words you're using now to defend why trans people should not be allowed gender-affirming care that they and their doctors suggest they should have. It must only be coincidental that the words you say are the words spoken by transphobes.

    Say that trans people should get the gender-affirming care they desire, that gender-affirming care is scientifically backed, and that trans rights are human rights, and I'll take back that you're a cowardly transphobe.

  • Typical transphobic coward. You refuse to defend the study, but you won't admit it's a bad study.

    Will you argue you're not transphobic? Because that would involve admitting that gender-affirming care and all it entails should be administered to any trans person that wants it. Otherwise, you do not care about the outcomes and health of trans people, at best, or want them to suffer, at worst.

  • I pointed out the studies flaws because you didn't read it, can't interpret it yourself, and are not a doctor. Here is a list of actual major medical organizations that suggest gender-affirming care for trans youth:

     
            American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
    
        American Academy of Dermatology
    
        American Academy of Family Physicians
    
        American Academy of Nursing
    
        American Academy of Pediatrics
    
        American Academy of Physician Assistants
    
        American College Health Association
    
        American College of Nurse-Midwives
    
        American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
    
        American College of Physicians
    
        American Counseling Association
    
        American Heart Association
    
        American Medical Association
    
        American Medical Student Association
    
        American Nurses Association
    
        American Osteopathic Association
    
        American Psychiatric Association
    
        American Psychological Association
    
        American Public Health Association
    
        American Society of Plastic Surgeons
    
        Endocrine Society
    
        Federation of Pediatric Organizations
    
        GLMA: Health Professionals Advancing LGBTQ Equality
    
        National Association of Nurse Practitioners in Women's Health
    
        National Association of Social Workers
    
        National Commission on Correctional Health Care
    
        Pediatric Endocrine Society
    
        Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine
    
        World Medical Association
    
        World Professional Association for Transgender Health
    
    
      

    And if the WPATH didn't find actual health benefits that outweighed the actual downsides for puberty blockers and hormonal treatments, then they fucking wouldn't recommend them. This would be obvious to anyone that knew anything.

  • I did read the thing, and explained how they pointed out the bone density in the data, but obviously, you only read the second paragraph.

    But, you're right, I didn't read the entire thing, so could you quote section 3.5 under Results for me, since I'm obviously unable to read? It's the one that might be labeled "Bone health outcomes" if I could read. Assuming that I can't read, and looking at the studies examined, it appears that the loss of bone density is pretty inconclusive, especially when hormones are taken earlier, but there were two studies that showed a minor decrease in bone density in transwomen when using puberty blockers, by a smaller margin than I had previously thought (you can read studies 21 and 22 so my illiteracy doesn't affect you.)

    Or would you like to quote the portion about Psychosocial and mental health under section 3.3? What the study shows seems to be that 4 of the 6 studies had some improvement (14, 15, 16, 17), though it should be noted that study 19 was about testing fucking brain activations (no decline in that!) and not about mental health, and study 18 was about initial reduction in symptoms from their first appointment, so really, 4 out of 4 studies showed an improvement.

    Dipshit.

  • Imagine being this stupid. Well, I suppose you don't have to.

    Consider talking to a trans person and how they found their identity, or learning more about the ways gender identity is expressed or how gender influences society, or maybe just touch grass every once in a while instead of being a shitty person pretending to know something you clearly don't.

  • Yes really. Your study suggests doing more studies, not that the effects were negative (because if they were, the conclusion would be no further studies.) At the end of the paper, it also pointed out newer studies not included in the 196 studies out of the 10,000 it pretends to have looked it that found the benefits did exist (nd even then, it really only looked at a couple dozen studies exhaustively).

    The biases that your study shows are known, and fucking obvious to anyone that has talked to a trans person once in their lifetime: There aren't many long-term studies. This is due to obvious reasons, like discrimination, lack of support, and higher chance of being murdered, which most people don't want. The study also seemed to show that the bone density issue wasn't as pronounced as some nay-sayers seem to think, but they bury that in the data analysis and hide behind a more hardline in the synopsis. Additionally, you can't really do a randomized approach in this case because of fucking ethical concerns! Obviously!!! Randomly giving out hormones seems like a bad idea, both to people that want it and people that don't!

    But, you don't really give a shit because you didn't read the study, and also you hate trans people, and that's what you actually care about.

  • Bethesda's goal, as usual, is rent-seeking. They can't penetrate more markets, so they need to make new ones, and what better way to do this then to hire what amounts to contractors doing gig work. They don't even have to pay them except in commission, which is a really scummy thing to do.

    Some people see this as a way for mod-makers to make money, but mod-makers already have those! Every mod I've seen and every modder I've talked to has a donation link you can send money to, and the ones who didn't had organizations and charities you could send your money to instead.

  • Fuck off, liar. Transgender ban in the military against the advice of generals in easily the most obvious one.

    The best you could say is that he let several states set up ways to systematically genocide LGBT people, (cough cough Don't Say Gay) but he also actively fought to take away several of their rights, so that would still be a mischaracterization.

    Trump wouldn't give a shit if every LGBT person on earth was dead, he'd just find new minorities to go after.