TranscendentalEmpire

That’s not accurate. Germany had a strict top-down chain of military command, hence the Nuremberg trials defense of “just following orders.”

The Nuremberg trials, like most international laws were an invention of convenience. If someone attempted to apply them to US action in a foreign intervention today, they would not be successful. In fact the US has stated that they would sooner invade a system like the ICC than allow them to prosecute anyone in the military.

After the trials, the US military was redesigned with a break above the Commanding Officer. The CO must verify the legality and constitutionality of orders before giving orders to the troops, just as it’s the responsibility of the troops to refuse to follow illegal or unconstitutional orders.

This may be a fact in doctrine, but in practice the military has historically has failed to fulfill this particular commitment. There have been several examples of US troops committing illegal actions commanded by officers without legal retribution.

You can refuse to follow orders you think are illegal, but more often than not it's a career ending action or punishable offense if not proven in court.....and military court is not exactly a non biased apparatus of justice.

This system depends on young soldiers with minimal educations and rights to stand up to a system that has an immencse amount of control over their lives. A system that has proven to defend higher command and officers in most cases, and to defend its overall image over anything.

Even higher commands ability to stand up to the commander in chief is limited, we can see this in the news today with active duty military members being deployed state side to conduct what is fairly obvious policing actions in LA and on the US border in a direct violation of posse comitatus.

Yep, my faith in any established political party has been worn thin since the bush era. Right now I'm just working on teaching my LGBT friends how to maintain and shoot a rifle and how to properly stock a go bag.

Trump has also failed to obtain abject loyalty of the military, which will prevent him from control by force.

The problem is that also mimics hitler's ascent to totalitarian control. Even at the height of his power lots of career soldiers and especially sailors were never really ideologically aligned with Hitler. Unfortunately, at the end of the day people in the military follow orders.

Yeap, it's being diagnosed more every year, especially in young women. I think there are theories about hormone influencing chemicals in the environment, but it may just be a case of better diagnosis in the medical community.

My main point is just that hormone therapy in pediatrics is super common, and the vast majority of it has nothing to do with gender affirming care. Yet we don't really see any parents or politicians harping concerns about these prescriptions even though they have the same mechanism of action and risk.

In that scenario it's safest to split payment, 400 in Bitcoin and 400 in meth. You gotta diversify your portfolio.

Given the prevalence of forced mutilation of intersex babies as well as medically unnecessary circumcisions, I humbly disagree that these procedures are "weighted on total outcomes".

As I said, it's not a perfect system. However, a lot of the times the flawed treatments of their times were influenced by how physicians perceived cultural norms.

As cultural mores are adjusted and education within the medical community improves, treatment options are usually re-aligned to fit the science. For example circumcisions are becoming a thing of the past and intersex operations nare usually conducted after secondary sex organs develop.

Every doctor who has performed that procedure was fully aware that it was medically unnecessary and did not have reason to believe the baby would not come to regret not being given a choice years down the road. I'd argue these procedures are institutionalized medical malpractice.

Eh.... Doctors are a slave to social mores as much as anyone is. They are unfortunately just as susceptible to belief as lawyers or politicians. There were beliefs that spouted about hygiene etc, but in reality those were just to validate belief systems held by the vast majority of the population. In the end they believed that the harm was not very significant to the pts overall health.

but I think it's critical to acknowledge that the field of medicine still has very strong biases in these matters and is not nearly as Cartesian as it is sometimes made out to be.

I think it's fairly obvious that the medical system has failed several minority groups, most recently trans people. I am proclaiming how medical providers should behave and how we were trained to treat all patients. Unfortunately, as you have stated, beliefs systems unjustly often interjects itself in medical care. Whether that be in prescribing birth control or administrating gender affirming care.

Precocious puberty is one of the many reasons kids are put on hormone therapy, its quite common nowadays.

Yep, a higher percentage of Americans support trump than weimar republic Germans ever supported Hitler. Fascist don't have to engage in electoralism once they securely seize the power of the pulpit.

I'm done caring about America as a whole, I'm creating my mutual defense/support networks with friends and family and preparing for the worse. Democrats are still stuck in thirdway politics as the Reichstag burns to the ground.

An easier way to avoid taxes while I collect my bribes......don't mind if I do!

The rats are stealing the cargo as they abandon ship, what a bunch of enterprising rodents we have.

While I don't agree that medical providers shouldn't be involved in important healthcare decisions. Unfortunately, at this point I agree the American healthcare system has largely failed the trans community, among others.

I think medical providers should be doing their jobs and keeping their personal beliefs to themselves. If a patient is wanting to transition they should have access to a provider who can make that transition as easy and safe as possible.

there is no medication without side effects. ADHD meds can have bad consequences, but we should still allow people to take them based on informed consent. apply the same logic to kids on HRT.

People aren't put on ADHD medications or on hormone therapy because of any ability of informed consent. They are prescribed because a medical professional has evaluated that the outcome of their overall health with treatment is improved when compared to not being treated. The parents and the patient have a say....to a point. However a medical professional can be empowered by the courts to supercede the consent of the PT or the parent if and when deemed necessary.

Medications have the potential of negative side effects, it's not guaranteed. Those potential side effects are weighted against the potential negative effect of inaction.

The thing is.....hormone replacement therapy isn't really a drastic intervention. If the outcomes are not aligning with the treatment plan you simply stop taking the medication.

There are virtually no long lasting repercussions for temporarily delaying puberty. Really the only notable side effects are that you may be a bit taller than you were going to be.