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Old 10-04-2022, 06:59 PM   #1
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This isn’t both side

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-63133259

I cut and pasted the whole story it’s that disgusting and disturbing

The upcoming midterm elections for US Congress, the first nationwide vote since Trump supporters stormed the US Capitol nearly two years ago, have many Americans on edge. The BBC's Katty Kay has been finding out why.
Karen and Steve don't want to take up arms. But if Republicans lose in November this elderly Arizona couple say a civil war is coming and, yes, they will fight. They have discussed it between them, and feel that taking up arms is their best option. It was at this point that our conversation grew a little dark and my faith in the strength of American democracy grew a little shaky.
I met the Slatons at their Trump paraphernalia store in Show Low, Arizona. It was one of the first stops on a month-long road trip that I took around America this summer, a journey to understand why the upcoming elections feel so consequential, perhaps even a little ominous.
The couple were delightful hosts. They were funny and generous. They took me on a tour of their extensive stock of whacky Trump merchandise and explained that, yes, there really are people who want a $100 life-size cut-out of the former president dressed as Rambo to put in their living rooms. Quite a lot of people actually. Trump as Rambo is one of their best selling items.
We talked about history, the economy and even abortion. But it was only when I questioned their belief that the 2020 election was stolen that things got tense. Wasn't it possible, I asked, that millions of Americans just didn't like President Trump and so Joe Biden won the election?
It was Karen who responded, with a distinctly steely glint: "If you're a crazy liberal, we're just not interested. The central news, let me call them, I'm not going to call them fake news, but it is fake news to say that America doesn't like Trump. America loves Trump."

The BBC is not fake news, but I let that pass. The idea of war, however, demanded clarification.
"It will start on a small scale, it will be like town against a town, state against a state," Steve had clearly thought this through. People have been tossing this idea of a second American civil war around for a couple of years now, ever since the 2020 election, ever since the violence of the Capitol Riots on 6 January, 2021.
I find it hard to believe - maybe I lack imagination - but the idea of Americans going to war over a lost election still seems implausible. But that's Steve's take on what happened last time: "When Lincoln won, that triggered the South." That's not the only view of the origins of the American Civil War, but this wasn't the moment for a history debate; it's the present that needs attention.
As I said goodbye to the Slatons, Steve threw out a warning. It was said with a habitual American friendly smile, but it was chilling nonetheless: "This could turn really nasty." Just how nasty was what I was trying to find out.


And I am considered brainwashed.
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And I am considered brainwashed.
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your side doesn’t have lunatics who engage in violence when they don’t get their way? summer of 2020 ring a bell? do the antifa thugs speak for you? are you responsible for what they do?

The Stantons speak for all republicans?

You’re a lunatic. there are lunatics on both sides. You just put your fingers in your ears and close your eyes when it comes to any criticism of the left.

Yes, the Stantons speak for tens of millions of folks.
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your side doesn’t have lunatics who engage in violence when they don’t get their way? summer of 2020 ring a bell? do the antifa thugs speak for you? are you responsible for what they do?

The Stantons speak for all republicans?

You’re a lunatic. there are lunatics on both sides. You just put your fingers in your ears and close your eyes when it comes to any criticism of the left.

Yes, the Stantons speak for tens of millions of folks.
Isn't that your whole schtick here? Find a few Dems (Stacy A) and compare it to millions of Rs and somehow it is equal?

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Isn't that your whole schtick here? Find a few Dems (Stacy A) and compare it to millions of Rs and somehow it is equal?
No that's not my shtick. I only bring up Abrams, when you guys bash Trump for saying his loss wasn't fair. I point out, correctly, that Abrams is saying the same thing, and I note it's interesting that you all give her a free pass when she does it.

I've aid a million times, can't (and don't) believe you missed it, that there is plenty of good and bad on both sides, neither side has a monopoly on virtue, neither side has a monopoly on corruption.

Wayne never stops finding some obscure republican somewhere who misbehaved, and claims they speak for the whole GOP. His shtick, not mine. It's an asinine shtick.
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No that's not my shtick. I only bring up Abrams, when you guys bash Trump for saying his loss wasn't fair. I point out, correctly, that Abrams is saying the same thing, and I note it's interesting that you all give her a free pass when she does it.She was not the President, didn't try to prevent the newly elected Pres. from being sworn in, doesn't to this day deny the Pres. won, 70% of the D party don't believe some crazy theory about election fraud, etc etc etc.

I've aid a million times, can't (and don't) believe you missed it, that there is plenty of good and bad on both sides, neither side has a monopoly on virtue, neither side has a monopoly on corruption. Big deal, most people use to feel the same way. Now according to the many Rs in congress, the Dems are the mortal enemy.

Wayne never stops finding some obscure republican somewhere who misbehaved, and claims they speak for the whole GOP. His shtick, not mine. It's an asinine shtick.
You do the same as Wayne. You try to link Antifa w/the Ds.
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You do the same as Wayne. You try to link Antifa w/the Ds.
ok. so it’s wrong for the president to make fake claims of election cheating, but no problem when a governor does it. If you’d care to take a shot at explaining why that is, i’m all
ears.

when a president does that, it means he’s unfit to be president. But it doesn’t make one unfit to be governor?

Abrams is debuting to this day that her election. wasn’t fair. because of, wait for it, racism. GA is racist even though voting requirements are less restrictive than what’s in some blue states.

Sorry, that makes zero sense.
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You do the same as Wayne. You try to link Antifa w/the Ds.
you’re saying it’s wrong to paint the other side as the enemy. Trump us the only one doing this? Hilary didn’t do it, Obama didn’t do it, Biden doesn’t do it?

It only bothers you when the right does it.
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You do the same as Wayne. You try to link Antifa w/the Ds.
no i don’t. I tell wayne that the left is as responsible for antifa actions, as the right is responsible for the actions of kooks in our side. I’m consistent. He’s say the left is in no way responsible for antifa, but everyone in the right is responsible for everything bad that any republican does.

just pointing out the hypocrisy.

Antifa does not speak for anyone but themselves. Got it?
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your side doesn’t have lunatics who engage in violence when they don’t get their way? summer of 2020 ring a bell? do the antifa thugs speak for you? are you responsible for what they do?

The Stantons speak for all republicans?

You’re a lunatic. there are lunatics on both sides. You just put your fingers in your ears and close your eyes when it comes to any criticism of the left.

Yes, the Stantons speak for tens of millions of folks.
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Not both sides, Wayne? Tell that to Antifa.
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Not both sides, Wayne? Tell that to Antifa.
Oddly enough no Antifa organization has been found to exist, other than in right wing media

What is it you like so much about fascism?
Should someone tell them to stand back and stand by?
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Denial runs deep with our 3 resident monkeys. see No evil hear no evil and speak no evil

Joe Biden has declared every freedom-loving American an enemy of the state,” Greene added.

And Jim can’t respond with out some false equivalence example

summer of 2020 Get back to me Jim when their plan was civil war

FYI which party wanted Trump to use the military against those people


President Donald Trump threatened to deploy the military if states and cities failed to quell the demonstrations sparked by the killing of George Floyd, an unarmed black man, by police last week.
"If a city or state refuses to take the actions necessary to defend the life and property of their residents, then I will deploy the United States military and quickly solve the problem for them," Trump said

MAGA leaders call for the troops to keep Trump in office
A growing call to invoke the Insurrection Act shows how hard-edged MAGA ideology has become in the wake of Trump’s election loss.

But he had no such thoughts to use the military when the capital was under attack with both houses in session . Funny how that works
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Denial runs deep with our 3 resident monkeys. see No evil hear no evil and speak no evil

Joe Biden has declared every freedom-loving American an enemy of the state,” Greene added.

And Jim can’t respond with out some false equivalence example

summer of 2020 Get back to me Jim when their plan was civil war

FYI which party wanted Trump to use the military against those people


President Donald Trump threatened to deploy the military if states and cities failed to quell the demonstrations sparked by the killing of George Floyd, an unarmed black man, by police last week.
"If a city or state refuses to take the actions necessary to defend the life and property of their residents, then I will deploy the United States military and quickly solve the problem for them," Trump said

MAGA leaders call for the troops to keep Trump in office
A growing call to invoke the Insurrection Act shows how hard-edged MAGA ideology has become in the wake of Trump’s election loss.

But he had no such thoughts to use the military when the capital was under attack with both houses in session . Funny how that works
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'Denial runs deep with our 3 resident monkeys. see No evil hear no evil and speak no evil '

Except I told Paul 5 seconds ago (and have said constantly), there's plenty of bad on the right.

You are the one in denial. You can't admit evil on the left. In your mind, it can only exist on the right.

"And Jim can’t respond with out some false equivalence example"

Just because I post something that makes you look like a hypocrite and a dimwit, that doesn't make ut a false equivalence. Yuo have to show WHY it's a false equivalence, which you never do.

Antifa doesn't engage in violence to advocate for the left? What happened in the summer of 2020 Wayne?

"Get back to me Jim when their plan was civil war"

WHat civil war wayne? Look at the violence that has actually been waged by the left and the right. There's no comparison. The right didn't murder anybody on January 6th, several were murdered in the summer of 2020. Go ahead and make that wrong.

Saying "false equivalence" isn't a response. It's an admission that I'm right.
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A growing call to invoke the Insurrection Act shows how hard-edged MAGA ideology has become in the wake of Trump’s election loss.


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wdmso, are you familiar with the recent story of a democrat who murdered a trump supoorting teenager after a political argument? ran him over with his car? that actually happened. Are all democrats responsible for what he did? does his actions speak for you? or is he some lunatic who speaks only for himself? He murdered a teenager because he liked trump. and no one is saying all democrats are responsible. But that’s what you do. Constantly.

This is a lunatic whose actions say nothing about anyone but himself.

https://freebeacon.com/latest-news/m...e-on-bail/amp/
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wdmso, are you familiar with the recent story of a democrat who murdered a trump supoorting teenager after a political argument? ran him over with his car? that actually happened. Are all democrats responsible for what he did? does his actions speak for you? or is he some lunatic who speaks only for himself? He murdered a teenager because he liked trump. and no one is saying all democrats are responsible. But that’s what you do. Constantly.

This is a lunatic whose actions say nothing about anyone but himself.

https://freebeacon.com/latest-news/m...e-on-bail/amp/

https://drgnews.com/2022/09/30/nd-dr...d-teens-death/

Do you ever read anything not spoon fed to you


There is little indication that an 18-year-old who died after being struck by an SUV in North Dakota was a political extremist like the driver claimed. Investigators say none of the witnesses they have interviewed support the idea that there was a political argument beforehand. Shannon Brandt struck Cayler Ellingson with his vehicle on Sept. 18, 2022, in McHenry. A family friend said the teen wasn’t active in politics


Many conservatives took to social media to decry the alleged motive in Ellingson’s death. But investigators have said the case was not political in nature and that there is no evidence to support Brandt’s claim that Ellingson was a Republican extremist.


family friend said the teen wasn’t active in politics


But the story on all right wing sites are

A North Dakota man was arrested after a political argument he had with a "Republican extremist" teenager that ended in the man fatally hitting him with his car.
Or claiming the kid was a trump supporter

Jim how did you miss this one

Texas man has been arrested and charged in connection with a reported explosion at Northeastern University in Boston last month.

U.S. Attorney Rachael Rollins announced Tuesday that 45-year-old Jason Duhaime is accused of fabricating the incident and giving false information to law enforcement officials.

No idea of his political leanings but like the other guy. He made up the story as a defense … but the North Dakota guy made up the lie of why he ran over the kid .. both need to do time

Also how do you know his political leanings ? Because the far right speculate his political leanings


And Trumps kid chimed in. In response to Elingson's killing, Donald Trump Jr. tweeted and implied that anti-republican violence was being facilitated by the Biden administration.

Yep both side don’t do it
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I tell wayne that the left is as responsible for antifa actions

Yep that’s how a cult member sees it. That Antifa is politically attached to the Democratic Party and influences party races across the nation .. who shows up at Biden rallys still haven’t seen an Antifa store in my Town ? just another lie one of many in the land of false equivalence

How ever MAGA movement is a political movement clearly attached to the Republicans and Donald Trump
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I tell wayne that the left is as responsible for antifa actions

Yep that’s how a cult member sees it. That Antifa is politically attached to the Democratic Party and influences party races across the nation .. who shows up at Biden rallys still haven’t seen an Antifa store in my Town ? just another lie one of many in the land of false equivalence

How ever MAGA movement is a political movement clearly attached to the Republicans and Donald Trump
my god man what i said is that fringe kooks, regardless of side, don’t speak for the whole party.

you need pop up books. you’re completely wrong on what i said.
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my god man what i said is that fringe kooks, regardless of side, don’t speak for the whole party.

you need pop up books. you’re completely wrong on what i said.
The people you claim are right wing fringe kooks are standing next to the top Republican leaders.
MTG and the GOP leader of the house is the most recent of many.

You can murder dogs.
You can threaten to kill your wife, abandon your kids, and lie about paying for an abortion.
You can even storm the Capitol.
But the one thing you cannot do in today’s Republican Party, is tell the truth.

Just ask Liz Cheney.
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The people you claim are right wing fringe kooks are standing next to the top Republican leaders.
MTG and the GOP leader of the house is the most recent of many.

You can murder dogs.
You can threaten to kill your wife, abandon your kids, and lie about paying for an abortion.
You can even storm the Capitol.
But the one thing you cannot do in today’s Republican Party, is tell the truth.

Just ask Liz Cheney.
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WDMSO started this thread pointing to what may have been said by "an elderly couple in Arizona", Karen and Steve SLaton, who no one has ever heard of.

Maxine Waters went on national TV and told the world to hound members of Trumps cabinet "so they know they're not welcome anywhere". Congresswomen Pressley called for "unrest in the streets". Those things are OK.

I don't like extremist talk either Pete and Wayne. But if you measure each side by the actual political violence over any time horizon, it's not even close. There's no comparison. January 6th was the first politically-motivated riot i can remember in my life, carried out by the right. The left does it constantly, Occupy Wall Street, BLM, Antifa, etc...these groups aren't just talking, they're actually hurting people and doing damage. The right has a long, long way to go, to catch up to the left, in terms of political violence and property damage. I guess it's fair to throw in abortion clinic bombings too for violence on the right...

"Just ask Liz Cheney." Ask her yourself, she'll be a registered Democrats tell the truth, yes yes, it's "truth" that republicans want to enslave women and pout blacks back in chains and that we hate everybody. All truth. They're all telling the truth about Hunter's laptop, and the influence-peddling the Bidens were almost certainly engaged in. Trump didn't pay his taxes, he colluded with Russia, stories about Russian prostitutes, no untruths there, absolutely none.

If the right is so demented, why do they control a decent majority of state governorships and state legislatures?

Why are people predominantly moving to red states? CA has nice weather, why aren't people moving there? Why are they choosing TX and FL and NC and TN?
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WDMSO started this thread pointing to what may have been said by "an elderly couple in Arizona", Karen and Steve SLaton, who no one has ever heard of.

Maxine Waters went on national TV and told the world to hound members of Trumps cabinet "so they know they're not welcome anywhere". Congresswomen Pressley called for "unrest in the streets". Those things are OK.

I don't like extremist talk either Pete and Wayne. But if you measure each side by the actual political violence over any time horizon, it's not even close. There's no comparison. January 6th was the first politically-motivated riot i can remember in my life, carried out by the right. The left does it constantly, Occupy Wall Street, BLM, Antifa, etc...these groups aren't just talking, they're actually hurting people and doing damage. The right has a long, long way to go, to catch up to the left, in terms of political violence and property damage. I guess it's fair to throw in abortion clinic bombings too for violence on the right...

"Just ask Liz Cheney." Ask her yourself, she'll be a registered Democrats tell the truth, yes yes, it's "truth" that republicans want to enslave women and pout blacks back in chains and that we hate everybody. All truth. They're all telling the truth about Hunter's laptop, and the influence-peddling the Bidens were almost certainly engaged in. Trump didn't pay his taxes, he colluded with Russia, stories about Russian prostitutes, no untruths there, absolutely none.

If the right is so demented, why do they control a decent majority of state governorships and state legislatures?

Why are people predominantly moving to red states? CA has nice weather, why aren't people moving there? Why are they choosing TX and FL and NC and TN?
Poor victim

There have been plenty of right wing riots in American history, plenty ended up with dead minorities.
Of course you’ll never learn about those because it might hurt your feelings.

The Stable Genius is still fundraising off your ilk, and we will see just what he was doing with the documents he stole. Maybe Jared’s billions and LIV exhibition matches at Trump courses mean nothing…..
If people fleeing Blue states just want Republican government
Why aren’t they choosing Mississippi and Louisiana?
Why are they going to Mexico?
We’ll see who wins the elections in Floriduh and Texas, both are getting more blue.
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WDMSO started this thread pointing to what may have been said by "an elderly couple in Arizona", Karen and Steve SLaton, who no one has ever heard of.

That’s exactly the point you don’t need to know their names the MAGA swag is usually a pretty good sign to what they believe and what they don’t and there are millions of them out there willing to do what those 2 stupidly confessed to a BBC reporter. Take up arms against the nation All awhile thinking they are some great American Patriots

That’s my problem with the MAGA universe and their dear leader Trump and other elected officials who carry his water and his lies their all faux Patriots
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Seems Jim you need a history lesson



Occupy Wall Street (OWS) was a protest movement against economic inequality and the influence of money in politics (not backed by either party)

Black Lives Matter (abbreviated BLM) is a decentralized political and social movement that seeks to highlight racism, discrimination, and racial inequality experienced by black people. When its supporters come together, they do so primarily to protest incidents of police brutality and racially motivated violence against black people

Again no political affiliation


Antifa (/ænˈtiːfə, ˈænti(ˌ)fə/) is a left-wing anti-fascist and anti-racist political movement in the United States. As a highly decentralized array of autonomous groups

Again no political affiliation

MAGA movement

After Donald Trump popularized the use of the phrase, the phrase and modifications of it were widely used in reference both to his election campaign and to his politics. Trump's primary opponents, Ted Cruz and Scott Walker, began using "Make America Great Again" in speeches, inciting Trump to send cease-and-desist letters to them

And the MAGA movement was born and Has a political affiliation

When the MAGA universe see and hear the phrase MAGA they think
that the true version of America is the America that looks like them, it’s the American fantasy I imagine existed before it was diluted with other races and other people don’t forget caravans and the invasion

FYI I added the caravans and invasion
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Okla. GOP ties hospital’s covid funds to end of gender-affirming care
Republicans threatened to withhold $108 million in federal funds if one of the state’s biggest hospital systems didn’t cease the procedures

Let me guess both sides do this
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Republicans threatened to withhold $108 million in federal funds if one of the state’s biggest hospital systems didn’t cease the procedures

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The U.K. Cracks Down While the U.S. Doubles Down on “Gender Affirming”

"American lawmakers need to follow the lead of another country and put the brakes on “gender affirming” procedures for children.

Health officials in the United Kingdom are acknowledging the damage being done by pushing puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones onto children at exactly the same time as the Biden administration is demanding that education and health professionals endorse these “affirmative” treatments or face penalties.

The contrast between the direction of gender-related policies in the United States and the U.K. could not be starker. The U.K. is shuttering its sole “gender clinic,” Tavistock, following a comprehensive review, while the U.S. is opening scores of new gender clinics, following the refusal of the American Academy of Pediatrics to conduct a review of the evidence.

The U.K., along with other European countries, started widespread use of puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones for children identifying as transgender almost a decade before clinics opened in the U.S. for the same purpose.

With that extra decade of experience, European health officials have accumulated more evidence of the long-term damage being done and have started to reverse course.

The U.K. review led by Dr. Hilary Cass, the former president of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, noted that gender clinic “staff have told us that they feel under pressure to adopt an unquestioning affirmative approach…” in which children’s claims about gender dysphoria are not carefully examined and underlying mental health issues are not properly addressed before prescribing puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones.

The review also expressed concern about the gross over-representation of girls and children on the autism spectrum being recommended for puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones. If the rise in prescribing these drugs were simply a matter of children feeling freer to express their true selves, rather than the result of social contagion and recruitment among vulnerable groups, then those treated would better reflect the broader population.

It is increasingly clear that we are witnessing a dangerous craze among children with mental health challenges rather than the liberation of the sexually oppressed."
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dear wayne....you like news from Britain

The U.K. Cracks Down While the U.S. Doubles Down on “Gender Affirming”

"American lawmakers need to follow the lead of another country and put the brakes on “gender affirming” procedures for children.

Health officials in the United Kingdom are acknowledging the damage being done by pushing puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones onto children at exactly the same time as the Biden administration is demanding that education and health professionals endorse these “affirmative” treatments or face penalties.

The contrast between the direction of gender-related policies in the United States and the U.K. could not be starker. The U.K. is shuttering its sole “gender clinic,” Tavistock, following a comprehensive review, while the U.S. is opening scores of new gender clinics, following the refusal of the American Academy of Pediatrics to conduct a review of the evidence.

The U.K., along with other European countries, started widespread use of puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones for children identifying as transgender almost a decade before clinics opened in the U.S. for the same purpose.

With that extra decade of experience, European health officials have accumulated more evidence of the long-term damage being done and have started to reverse course.

The U.K. review led by Dr. Hilary Cass, the former president of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, noted that gender clinic “staff have told us that they feel under pressure to adopt an unquestioning affirmative approach…” in which children’s claims about gender dysphoria are not carefully examined and underlying mental health issues are not properly addressed before prescribing puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones.

The review also expressed concern about the gross over-representation of girls and children on the autism spectrum being recommended for puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones. If the rise in prescribing these drugs were simply a matter of children feeling freer to express their true selves, rather than the result of social contagion and recruitment among vulnerable groups, then those treated would better reflect the broader population.

It is increasingly clear that we are witnessing a dangerous craze among children with mental health challenges rather than the liberation of the sexually oppressed."
Scott clearly you didn’t read the review you posted some ones commentary. Not news

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The U.K. is shuttering its sole “gender clinic, No they are not

The National Health Service in England announced on Thursday that it was shutting down the country's only youth gender clinic in favor of a more distributed and comprehensive network of medical care for adolescents seeking hormones and other gender treatments.


Then the story morphs into the usual pattern unrelated to the topic not in the review

the Biden administration is determined to step on the accelerator, governors and state legislatures can pump the brakes by raising minimum ages for who can receive these treatments and imposing stricter liability on practitioners who place children’s life, health, and fertility at risk.

State policymakers and school officials can also pump the brakes on “social transition” in which children change their names and pronouns, which is often the gateway to the “medical transition” of puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and eventually surgeries.

State laws should ban schools from using names or pronouns for children that differ from those listed on their birth records without the written permission of the parents. Such a ban would prevent school staff from facilitating social transition in secret from parents and without their consent.

more Christian Right nonsense posing as a News

https://cass.independent-review.uk/about-the-review/

Children and young people accessing the NHS deserve timely and supportive services, and clinical staff with the training and expertise to meet their healthcare needs.

Not all children and young people who are exploring their gender identity require clinical support from the NHS. However, some young people whose gender identity differs from their gender assigned at birth can experience extreme distress; this is referred to by clinicians as gender dysphoria. These children and young people need clinical support to help them understand the options available to them and to provide appropriate treatment.

She doesn’t sound like she is against it? But she’s all for appropriate treatment.. who could disagree. I know who. freedom loving Republicans holding money hostage in order to advance their morals on others.
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[QUOTE=wdmso;1233443]Scott clearly you didn’t read the review you posted some ones commentary. Not news



I'm sure this is news to you......
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In the above post Wayne will respond with:

A) Spoken like a true MAGA Cult member

B) Of course you bring up your False Equivalencies

C) Something you never said and has nothing to do with your post

D) TRUMP!!!

E) All of the above
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