A collection of 168 posts
Until recently, those seeking transition generally were subject to extensive assessment by mental health practitioners.
The fact is, no child is actually born in the wrong body.
Experimentation is usually impossible for ethical and practical reasons—subjects cannot be sacrificed and dissected to see the physiological effects of different food regimens.
My primary goal—and Dr. Tyson’s if I read his tweet correctly—is to provide context. It is perhaps inevitable that our biases will continue to inform the responses of the general public on social media.
A birth away from hospital can be seen as a feminist act of resistance. But it’s not a form of resistance I want to join.
Value judgments seem inevitable in trying to establish the relative comparisons between drugs, and any attempt to compare apples and oranges will inevitably fall short of the scientist’s objective goals.
There was—and will always be—promiscuity, homosexuality, prostitution, fetish culture and adultery—because sex is human.
There are many false hopes out there that claim to be treatments and cures.
The same is true of happiness and positivity. They’re not mere feelings. They are behaviors.
In the months leading up to the news, I was in a bad place. Nothing in life felt right, and every day was a fight against hopelessness—to the point that even when good things happened, I would remain afraid or numb.
Men have been dying at higher rates than women over time, and the gap appears to be constant.
The more rapid and intense the brain reward they imparted, the likelier they were to foster pathological learning and craving, particularly among socially and genetically vulnerable consumers.
Sending millions more people to clinicians, creating a society even more fearful of lurking diseases, and systematically robbing people of the normal arc of life and death–this, I am afraid, is where the digital health expansion is heading.
Unfortunately for some activists, gravity wasn’t invented by white settlers.
"This monster isn’t David. It’s a parasite of some kind. You see, another consciousness inside him. This thing burrowed into David’s brain … and has been there, feeding off him ever since." - Loudermilk, FX Legion.