It must be tough as a cis person to be in the vicinity of trans people /s

"certainly we should allow men to take the same hormones that we allow women to take. Seems a bit bigoted that only certain genders are allowed testosterone"

Amongst the most absurd bad faith arguments I have ever read in my life

You have to look at aggregates of studies. You can find the one off studies that say crazy shit like 80% of people detransition in the same way you can find actual scientific papers that "prove" climate change isn't real. That's why it's important to look at more than one study and not cherry pick the studies that further ones particular political argument. The study you are referring to has been debunked as having very sketchy methodology and conclusions. The vast majority of studies find the complete opposite of that one study, but fox news will pick that one and ignore the rest, so that people can say "hey, my opinion is backed by research" 🙃

Here's a literature review of 27 "regret"/"detransition" studies that find the detrans rate exceptionally low, because no one has the time to read through 27 separate studies. Lol. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8099405/

It needs to be screamed from the rooftops that the detransition rate is somewhere between 1-5%, according to dozens of reputable studies. To deny all trans teen hormones to spare 5% an incorrect transition is akin to saying "I would rather 95 trans teens commit suicide if it meant 5 cis teens would survive." Or in short, the value of a trans life is valued as 20x less important than a cis life. If a trans life is equal to a cis life, than we should be doing what helps the most (95-99%) amount of people.

Even in the most liberal of cities you still have about 33% of people voting conservative. They are just drowned out more in NYC, but from a sheer population perspective, if even 10% of the population is homophobic, that's over a million people, more than most US cities. Being part of the community, I'll never fool myself into thinking that I'm truly safe from a hate crime just because I live in NYC

F off hater

Really following in the footsteps of obama

They would definitely support a dictatorship if the only people getting brutalized we're minorities, just saying.