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.
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.