I know I sure can’t. Oh hey, my insulin pump is beeping – time to change out the reservoir. (Or to take my Synthroid, etc.)
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… And my ADHD med*. and my allergy medication. Hold on, I need to swap my CGM sensor out, too. /sarcasm
(I may have stated as such elsewhere, but I am literally a different person if I’m off that medication, and I don’t like that person- he’s a brittle jackass.)
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I’m operating at my (current) best and I’m still a jackass so you’re doing great
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Here’s another “funny” aspect to this discussion. So of course, all of the conditions y’all are listing, as well as innumerable others, require lifetime ongoing medication. I’m actually no longer taking any medicine for gender affirming care. I had surgery, I’m 56, and I just decided I was good. I tapered off the estrogen, no dysphoria returned. Most people in my life, as well as most strangers I come across, accept me as a woman and treat me as such, so I’m . . . good. So in my case, being trans did not mean a lifetime of ongoing medical treatment. I may be the minority, but I’d bet I’m not alone.
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Yep. There’s a significant number of more mature trans women who stop estrogen.
And hundreds of millions of cis people who take supplements every day, for the rest of their lives.
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I’ve been on a statin for high cholesterol for almost 20 years now. I imagine that will be a lifetime medication for me.
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I understand that British roller derby has stated that if the government bans trans people from competing in the women’s leagues they will focus on the open leagues instead.
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Same sex marriage was radical.
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Without reading the article (no subscription + don’t want to), I’m assuming “radicalized” means “still fighting for what’s right instead of pulling up the ladder, either out of general decency or the knowledge that once other marginalized groups begin having their rights stripped away, gays aren’t far down the list.”
They simply cannot fathom the idea that, once they’ve very reluctantly begun to treat a vulnerable group as fellow human beings, that group doesn’t fall at their feet in fawning gratitude and immediately abandon their values, empathy and morality now that their immediate personal needs have been met. Anyone who isn’t “fuck you, got mine” is a terrifying radical to them. Integrity frightens and confuses those who lack it.
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I couldn’t make it through the whole article. It’s pretty disgusting. But this paragraph early on says everything:
But a funny thing happened in the wake of these triumphs. Far from celebrating victory, defending the gains, staying vigilant, but winding down as a movement that had achieved its core objectives — including the end of H.I.V. in the United States as an unstoppable plague — gay and lesbian rights groups did the opposite. Swayed by the broader liberal shift to the “social justice” left, they radicalized. (emphasis mine)
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Sullivan gonna Sullivan.
He’s always been a festering asshole. A very few immigrants really are deplorables who should be deported.
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The “end of HIV?” Is that like “the end of covid?” Assholes are gonna asshole. I have lost any hope for them to regain sanity, if they ever had it to begin with. The idea that certain humans are undeserving of human rights is disgusting at it’s core and needs to be called out and marginalized as much as we possibly can. Chasing after these jerks to try to “win them back” is a waste of time and energy. The only fix i see is to make a society where these ideas are embarrassing and shameful. Maybe it won’t eliminate the assholes, but it might get them to shut the fuck up.
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TIL that Andrew Sullivan was in the same school year as Keir Starmer at Reigate Grammar School.
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Ugh. Reminds me of the people who got all righteously indignant about Black Lives Matter because they thought racism was “over” the moment Obama was elected.
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