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Vice President JD Vance’s Bluesky account was suspended within minutes of him joining the platform. His posts criticized medical treatments for transgender youth and claimed pharmaceutical influence over healthcare decisions.

https://www.timesnownews.com/world/us/us-news/jd-vance-suspended-from-bluesky-minutes-after-joining-what-was-his-first-post-article-152105999

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

What a pos. nobody is "pushing" these medicines on kids. it's ultimately the kid's decision about whether they want these medications or not and I'm not aware of any cases to the contrary. also these medications have been used for literal decades so how can they be experimental? how do you expect people to trust you when you lie so blatantly? glad he got banned.

Happy Pride Month ❤️

[–] [email protected] 2 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

also these medications have been used for literal decades so how can they be experimental?

Honest answer: the drugs are being used off-label. It's not even experimental, it's basically a wildcat way of using them. An experiment would involve control groups and a double-blind trial, among other things.

I'm saying this because this is what rightoids are saying as criticism and you need to be able to counter that with facts. Right now, there just isn't enough information and that's what they're capitalizing on.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

there just isn't enough information and that's what they're capitalizing on.

40 years of using hormone blockers for precocious puberty. "Not enough info." Fuck the whole way off.

double-blind trial

No. The data is fine. It doesn't need to be perfect.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

This is the exact opposite of what the reports out of the UK, Netherlands, Sweden, etc. are saying. They're all very seriously restricting their youth transitioning clinics because the quality of the available data is so poor it cannot be relied on. Beyond the replicability crisis, there are ideological actors on both sides making absolutely junk studies.

Hence the need for proper experimental data.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 hours ago

What's the regret rate for gender affirming care?