SkepticThinker
Veteran Member
My view is that suddenly, everyone is interested in everyone else's psychological and medical issues?Last time I checked, we were on a debate forum. We debate on a wide range of topics.
I find it very bizarre that on this topic, suddenly supporters of GAC don't want healthy debate
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When's the last time you debated the efficacy and practically of say, blood thinning medication?
It seems people only want to inject themselves into the most personal of psychiatric and medical decisions other people are making, like abortion and GAC. It's weird to me.
My father fell victim to this, unfortunately. This is not the same discussion as the one about GAC.As for injecting ourselves, well we should have - collectively - raised a huge uproar while the opioid crisis was unfolding. The thing is, THIS topic has sadly become highly politicized and one side effect of that is that advocates spend a lot of time trying to obscure the facts and fight transparency.
Pretty much every country in the world has a more universal healthcare system. I live in Canada.European countries tend to have more centralized healthcare systems. This allows for a better distribution of true expertise. They are abandoning GAC.
"Gender-affirming health care — an approach that affirms a trans person's gender identity instead of trying to change it — is endorsed by medical associations in Canada and around the world, including the Canadian Psychological Association and the Canadian Pediatric Society."
That's your claim, anyway.One problem with the US system is that advocates often have an outsized voice in creating policies and protocols.
That's why the protocols exist in the first place. So there's an available plan to follow, created by experts who know what they're talking about.It would be nice to think that every patient would be able to see top specialists, but the reality is far from that. So it's a lot more common that a non-specialist doctor is confronted with a new situation and they're bound to just fall back on established protocols - which again are often heavily distorted by activists and oligarchs.