So "X" - nothing to see here. Elon's in control - Part XXX

Is that really the best example you can come up with?

Why is The Boston Children's Hospital performing gender affirming surgeries at all?

Presumably because the children are put on the pathway to surgery when they are much younger. And you are incorrect in stating that they never perform them on children under 18. While they don't perform genital surgery on under 18s (and it's fairly horrible to think that they would/do on a child's 18th birthday) but they do perform the other surgeries mentioned on 15 year olds with parental consent. A paper was only published the other day which adds more credence to the "Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria" hypothesis and that its principles need to be incorporated in the DSM. Gender activists have done their best to thwart this effort and whether anyone likes it or not, Chaya Raichik has helped to shine a light on the practice, regardless of whatever other stuff she peddles. I used to follow her but don't any more because I think there isn't the same need for that kind exposure in 2026 as there was in 2020.

What do you think of the Irish surgeon in Florida who advertised these surgeries to teenagers on TikTok FFS? The Irish Times has run a couple of pieces about her, but they never mentioned that once. If it wasn't for social media, including X, all of these practices would be completely unquestioned.

It goes without saying that people shouldn't make bomb threats - just like they shouldn't try to shoot the US president. Leaving aside that Raichik was actually correct in this case, it can never be a justification for suppressing discussion or exposure of shady practices even if not all the discourse is 100% factual.

I usually make an effort to reply to good faith posts here, but people saying that I'm "slavishly praising" Musk (or worshipping X) or that anyone should be "compelled" to use X, I don't have the time to reply to all that nonsense.

"I'd suspect you're the same guy …" is that what you are reduced to now?

One last point. In a way I admire Helen Webberley (GP who prescribes hormones to confused kids over the internet) for sticking on X because she gets roasted like this regularly.

Some of the other counter examples like "urinal cakes" and "clothes horses" are quite amusing

So you see I get what is behind what you all are doing here (even if some of you don't get it yourselves). If that kind of mockery were normalised (again) in polite society, then none of this gender madness would be happening. And that's exactly what Chaya Raichik was doing in the early years at least. Exposing gender ideology to severe mockery by nothing more than repeating its own words back to it, albeit with a jaundiced eye and caustic comment. Because nothing that wants to be taken seriously can survive that.

The exact same thing happened with religion in this country starting 30-40 years ago. Once people felt confident enough to mock it, that was the beginning of the end. Sorry, I should add that's what happened to the Catholic religion. We're not quite so confident mocking other religions because of you know what ..

Consistently moving the bar slowly slowly each time until the N word use can be normalized without batting an eyelid.

All under the guise of 'you can't say anything anymore'.

These are the type of people who think jovial taunting of young gay people back into the closet would be an acceptable use of time. That's the end goal really.

Less freedom.

More 'our type' of freedom.

Do not do this

And no your wrong when he combined all the companies together this year that wipes all the previous milestones commitments for performance.

He's in do what he likes mode.

Also retail shares have a no sale without penalty period s your locked in and holding that bag.

Misinformation can be a matter of opinion. If anything, @eightieschewbaccy was peddling misinformation about Boston Children's Hospital doing gender surgery on children. It turns out they were advertising genital surgery for teens as young as 17, until they were exposed and they suddenly pulled all their advertising material and then claimed it was only for over 18s. So Libs of tiktok was right all along.

https://www.ewtnnews.com/world/us/boston-children-s-hospital-changes-website-denies-performing-genital-surgeries-on-17-year-olds-after-backlash

As for it being fine only when one's own side is doing it, I'm not the one calling for restrictions on people talking about this stuff. So, I don't care which "side" is doing it. There will always be disinformation from radical campaigners and ideologues of all colours and misinformation from people who buy into their bullshit like one or two on this thread.

Still wrong. Link below to where they offer chest reconstruction to 15 year olds with parental consent. I pointed this out yesterday and you didn't respond. If you are hanging your misinformation hat on the specific charge of performing genital surgery on minors then first you need to show where Raichik claimed that specifically. Even if she were wrong on that specific point, the fact that they pulled all their cutesy information videos and most other material proves fairly conclusively that they didn't have confidence in it and that it led to a reasonable view that that's what they were doing.

Vaginoplasty which they (and don't forget who are a Children's Hospital) perform on 18 year olds involves removing a boy's penis and testes and constructing an artificial neo-vagina, which requires a lifetime of care including dilation to stop it closing up. Chest reconstruction which is much more common and can be done on 15 year old girls involves removing healthy breasts, and depending whether you can afford to pay extra or not, it is with or without nipples being replaced.

Raichik and Chris Elston (aka Billboard Chris) deserve immense credit for exposing this. Reasonable people (outside the Democrat, loony left, and gender industry bubbles) can see this, whether they are prepared to admit it or not. These points being arguable at all proves beyond all doubt that she was not peddling misinformation and if anyone is, it's people like you.

https://negendercare.org/consortium-members/bch/

Amazing. Musk becomes the world's first trillionaire at a time when income inequality and the gap between rich and poor is ever widening, after he's helped the US government strip away financial supports while also using government grants to enrich himself, and the thread is currently about trans healthcare.

It was a surprise to me that US taxpayers were keeping so many of the world's poorest alive. They certainly never got any acknowledgement for it. Show me a post where you acknowledged it, and I'll take your opinion seriously.

This reads like the wikipedia entry for it. Show me where you said something positive about it and I'll take you seriously as well