>>If your main concern is teenagers being too superficial it seems weird to target transitioning rather than say... all of social media and Hollywood. Seems like the effect laws around hormone therapy have on teenagers attitude to vanity or body modifications are going to completely indetectible compared the effects of the general media.
>>If your main concern is teenagers being too superficial it seems weird to target transitioning rather than say... all of social media and Hollywood. Seems like the effect laws around hormone therapy have on teenagers attitude to vanity or body modifications are going to completely indetectible compared the effects of the general media.
Yes. And that's why I have spent my one and a half year on Substack complaining over mainstream, cis-gender superficiality. (An exaggeration. But I have written at least two posts about it: https://woodfromeden.substack.com/p/primates-of-manhattan
Complaining over transgender stuff won't become a habit, because yes, it is not the most important problem.
>>The stuff about promoting reproduction for the sake of competition between societies seems like an incredibly long term concern.
Not incredibly. The Amish were a few thousand a hundred years ago. Now they are 250 000-ish. Also, Lebanon got a few problems because the French people who drew the map in the 1920s didn't predict that Muslims would be much more fertile than Christians. And how will Israel develop with the Orthodox Jews taking over? That is not a very long-term concern.
>>Maybe you should support normalising hormone therapy so there'd be fewer incels (only half joking).
I'm only half-joking too. I'm in no way sure that the current limits for growth hormone and testosterone to boys are optimal.
>>If your main concern is teenagers being too superficial it seems weird to target transitioning rather than say... all of social media and Hollywood. Seems like the effect laws around hormone therapy have on teenagers attitude to vanity or body modifications are going to completely indetectible compared the effects of the general media.
Yes. And that's why I have spent my one and a half year on Substack complaining over mainstream, cis-gender superficiality. (An exaggeration. But I have written at least two posts about it: https://woodfromeden.substack.com/p/primates-of-manhattan
https://woodfromeden.substack.com/p/a-rational-view-of-female-modesty)
Complaining over transgender stuff won't become a habit, because yes, it is not the most important problem.
>>The stuff about promoting reproduction for the sake of competition between societies seems like an incredibly long term concern.
Not incredibly. The Amish were a few thousand a hundred years ago. Now they are 250 000-ish. Also, Lebanon got a few problems because the French people who drew the map in the 1920s didn't predict that Muslims would be much more fertile than Christians. And how will Israel develop with the Orthodox Jews taking over? That is not a very long-term concern.
>>Maybe you should support normalising hormone therapy so there'd be fewer incels (only half joking).
I'm only half-joking too. I'm in no way sure that the current limits for growth hormone and testosterone to boys are optimal.