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The linked Missouri Independent articles mention that the Missouri Attorney General belives that transgender therapies are "experimental." I'd like to point out that hormone replacement for trans people is older than heart transplants, LASIK, and Viagra, but we don't consider these three to be "experimental" treatments.

The ban on those with depression is a catch-22. Gender dysphoria CAUSES depression. If you have gender dysphoria and depression, then the emergency ruling means you can't get care. If you have gender dysphoria but not depression, a doctor could take that as your condition being "not that bad" and decide not to risk treating you. In my experience doctors are already extremely hesitant to treat trans patients with HRT.




The common ground, IMO, is getting government the fuck out of people's personal business. I support anyone's right to do what they want in life, as long as that individual doesn't impinge on another individual's liberty to make their own choices in life.


So… abolish the whole process by which we ok drugs as valid treatments?


Or abolish the whole process that enforces certain rules are followed in construction and operations - after all, anyone can "vote with their walley", do their own building and fire inspections, and just not go to the hotels/bars/clubs/appartement buildings/roads that are hazardously build.

I swear, libertarians' whole shtick falls appart if you think about it seriously for more than a few minutes in a wider context, yet still so many of them are everywhere.


Apartments, hotels, bars, and roads are not personal; they're public spaces and as such are rightfully subject to a public regulation.

If I want to pierce my ears, alter my genitals, collect pokemon cards, or drink 8 cups of coffee in the morning, that's none of your business.




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