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Luke O'Neil

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There are around 50 million children age 6-17 in this country. I'm not particularly good at math but does a couple hundred surgeries and maybe a few thousand kids on hormone therapy a year strike you as a particularly large percentage of 50 million?
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justin van wormer's avatar justin van wormer @jdvdub.bsky.social
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One of the things the right has going for it is that most people don’t really imagine that there are many more than 400 people in their town and not much more than 25,000 people in the world. They know there are more, but can’t really visualize it or comprehend it.

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FionaVakyrie's avatar FionaVakyrie @aurorasummers.bsky.social
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I know, let’s allow politicians and the church to decide what is a valid medical treatment for everyone. How can that go wrong? /s

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yazikus's avatar yazikus @yazikus.bsky.social
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All the better to moral panic with, as most folks won't know any real people in these categories.

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Helen Lawson she/they's avatar Helen Lawson she/they @helenlawson2007.bsky.social
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The advantage of the small numbers for them is they can say things like, look at this huge percentage rise, ignoring it is just a small rise in actual people. We are about 0.3% of population so by any metric a minority. What is true is trans health care is 98%+ positive for trans people.

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I wonder how many of those 56 were intersex, basically born with both a vagina and penis

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