"Trans youth medicine is gearing up to be the next opioid crisis"
Can you explain what you mean by this? Tens of thousands of people die of opioid overdose in the United States every year and opioid addicts have a greatly diminished quality of life and the ones that fall hardest into addiction tend to congregate in one neighborhood and completely ruin it (Kensington in my own Philadelphia, for instance.)
As someone who has been directly affected by the opioid crisis I find your comparison misleading and offensive. Hundreds of thousands of dead people and the destabilization of entire neighborhoods and towns is not the same thing as perhaps a hundred thousand people across the entire country receiving puberty blockers.
If anything drives me off Substack it is going to be this insistence at every turn of shoehorning obsession with trans people into every single issue.
"Trans youth medicine is gearing up to be the next opioid crisis"
Can you explain what you mean by this? Tens of thousands of people die of opioid overdose in the United States every year and opioid addicts have a greatly diminished quality of life and the ones that fall hardest into addiction tend to congregate in one neighborhood and completely ruin it (Kensington in my own Philadelphia, for instance.)
Yes, I'm aware. But how is that the next opioid crisis, which has killed hundreds of thousands of people and destabilized entire communities?
Okay, so not at all comparable, then.
As someone who has been directly affected by the opioid crisis I find your comparison misleading and offensive. Hundreds of thousands of dead people and the destabilization of entire neighborhoods and towns is not the same thing as perhaps a hundred thousand people across the entire country receiving puberty blockers.
If anything drives me off Substack it is going to be this insistence at every turn of shoehorning obsession with trans people into every single issue.
The scale is indeed much smaller: thousands of people getting affirmative gender care per year vs many millions getting opiod prescriptions.
You had one job.
The word "marketed" is key here. That word is used multiple times.
One, good lord.
Two, the best available evidence at the time showed that they did indeed block those things! Until the virus mutated.