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by akramachamarei 19 days ago
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He called for the military to use "lethal force" against migrants at the southern border. He also repeatedly demanded "Nuremberg-style trials" for medical providers who offer gender-affirming care.

Also there's this: https://www.imdb.com/news/ni63814717/

Well, being that gender "care" has been pretty much debunked, that seems fine.
Debunked in what sense?

In the sense that it doesn't work? Well it definitely works, gender affirming care like TRT helps men all the time. Breast implants help women after breast cancer related mastectomies. Vaginoplasty also commonly helps traumatic rape victims, too.

Or, do you mean debunked as in debunked in helping people with gender dysphoria? Because that's wrong too, we know that gender affirming care leads to less suicide in that population.

Even the ACLU had to admit your last line is false (U.S. v. Skrmetti). After multiple rounds of obfuscation.
This is a misunderstanding.

Because suicide is so rare and the number of people receiving gender affirming care is so low it is nearly impossible to get population sizes to demonstrate a statistically significant reduction in suicide.

We can instead show a statistically significant reduction in depression, anxiety, and suicidal thinking. In every other medical context this is used as a strong shorthand for "reduces suicides." It is completely reasonable here as well.

Well, you said it directly reduces suicides. Now you are saying it doesn't. Which is it?

At some point you need to understand this is why 95% of the population disagrees with your side.

Good luck! I will stop responding here because you seem ill-equipped to form a substantive argument.

Having “some gun deaths every single year” was a cost worth paying. The alternative, under gun control laws preventing school shootings, is not “rational”.
People who says that, never think it will happen to them. I wonder if his widow thinks that was a price worth paying?