I think about this a lot.

You suggest that Finns’ attitudes towards trans identity in young people improved during the study period, undermining the minority stress theory. Do you have any documentation of that? This can be concluded for example from public discussions in the media and social media, rise of and great support to Pride movement across organizations, legal initiatives, visibility of sexual and gender minority issues in various contexts, students’ movements, adolescents’ increasing diversity of self-expression and their testimony in contexts where they meet (school, health and social care) professionals.

And this is also pretty dumb.

There’s been a documented rise in gender critical speech in Finland in recent years.

unstats.un.org/unsd/demogra...

Is it possible that some of the specialist psych care that GR+ patients accessed was related to stress from a long delay in obtaining GR treatment? No, life stress alone is not a reason to be treated in specialist level psychiatric services.

This, from Dr K, is not a serious answer!

Stress isn‘t sufficient to warrant a referral, but it is a major contributor to:

* depression
* anxiety disorders
* self-harm

Especially in adolescents

Association of mental health and behavioral disorders with health care and service utilization in children before and after diagnosis Mental health is one of the most important contributors to the global burden of disease in children and adolescents. Mental health conditions are associated with lower quality of life in adulthood. Th...

Consider this study which showed that referral to specialist level psychiatric care (and all gender care in Finland is under this umbrella) is associated with elevated use of specialist level psychiatric care up to 2 years later:

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

T/F: The index date, when the study starts the 2 year clock is the first clinic contact, not when treatment started

T/F: Gender care in Finland requires an extensive process that can take years

T/F: Surveillance bias is a valid methodological concern in scientific research

T/F: Patients in specialist psychiatric care are seen by specialist psychiatrists

T/F: A patient under active treatment is going to have more assessments than one not in active treatment

T/F: Specialist psychiatrists are better at identifying psychiatric issues than a GP

Dr. Kaltiala doesn’t deal with several criticisms of her study.

Let me demonstrate what I think is one of the biggest with some Qs:

T/F: Gender care in Finland is centralized in two university clinics - Helsinki and Tampare?

T/F: Both clinics are considered specialist psychiatric services

Also, googling suggests it also applies to defendants as well.

iei.ncsu.edu/2023/05/22/t...

I would have thought the term applied to currently incarcerated, people on parole, and felons dealing with employment issues after parole (like the “ban the box” movement.)

Footnotes 6-10 in Eastman’s disbarment opinion. It lists the various experts he tried to call about the facts of the 2020 election.

Kind of seems like an important issue in the case, given the number of witnesses Eastman tried to call about it.

At my law school, we read the cases we discussed in class. Do they do it differently at Lash’s school?

How does he plan on teaching the case in his 1A class if he hasn’t read the case?

Because he clearly has zero clue about the facts of the case.

IOC's proposed gender test not fit for purpose, says man who discovered it The scientist who discovered the SRY gene test that the International Olympic Committee is now relying on to determine athletes' eligibility for women's events says it should not be used in such a fas...

The scientist who discovered the SRY gene, Dr Andrew Sinclair, also objects to his gene test in sports.

www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...

The guy who discovered the Barr body, Dr Murray Barr, wrote to the Canadian Olympic Committee that the use of his test is sports “has been an embarrassment to me.”

Here's Debbie Brill again. I knew a couple of women who were, um, XY women, so. Did those women find out that they were X, Y because of these sex tests? Wow. So they found out because of this. Wow, what was that like for them? It was life-changing. It was it was awful. It was horrible.

To find out that, oh. Not only can you not compete, you're not actually female, is how it was, you know, that's what they were told. It was a terrible thing. And so those women, they couldn't compete anymore once they found out about this through the sex test? No, couldn't compete. In women's sport? And they certainly couldn't compete in man's sport because they were women.

That app has an AI generated transcript, but it won’t let me copy/paste it. Here I’ve screenshotted the transcript.

Here’s an interesting clip from the CBC’s podcast, “tested” about sex testing in sports.

This is about the older “Barr body” tests, but the issue isn’t any different under the new SRY testing. Women are going to find out they’re not “not really women” for the first time in these tests.

JUST IN: John Eastman, the conservative attorney who helped devise President Trump's last ditch strategy to overturn the 2020 presidential election, has officially been disbarred, per the California Supreme Court:

Why Does Dragon Age: Origins' Fade Suck So Much? I'm just a support Mage, I can't do this alone.

This actually seems fair. If you’re going to do multiple play throughs before reviewing, you might want to skip the slog that doesn’t play differently if you’re a fighter or mage.

www.thegamer.com/why-does-dra...

A Gallup poll history - “do you approve of the way Congress is handling its job?” There’s a spike around 9/11, but the 1979 data is selected and shows a 19% approval rating.

Also, the Gallup poll shows approval of Congress was at 19% in June 1979.

That’s basically the same number (statistically) as today’s approval.

If it rained after I washed my car, whose fault is the rain?

CSPAN first aired March 1979.

ABSCAM became public knowledge in February 1980.

I think there might be other causes of Congress’s declining popularity.

You’d think after all these years, you would understand the meaning of the term “low quality.”

The evidence for a treatment can be simultaneously “strong” and “low quality.”

Anti-depressants and suicidality in adolescents - strong evidence, “low quality.”

I have less than an hour in the game - the graphics and ambiance gave me a visceral feeling of loneliness.

My wife has dozens to hundreds of hours in it.

GameFAQs - Wikipedia

When I worked at Gateway 2000, the computer company, Myst was in one of the bundles we sold with the computers. That was around ‘95-97.

I think game guides, like at GameFAQs (founded 1995), played an under-studied part of internet development.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GameFAQs

Picture of the Myst official strategy guide from Prima.

You went to the bookstore and bought this. Or checked it out from the library. Or, more likely, you went to the bookstore and perused the section on the part where you got stuck.

a bald man is talking about death and says `` never go in against a sicilian when death is on the line '' . ALT: a bald man is talking about death and says `` never go in against a sicilian when death is on the line '' .

You don’t have to play this out to infinite levels (you’d know I know that you’d never put the poison in front of me, so it must be in front of you) but think it out ONE level at least!

If a Democrat ran a campaign focused on bread and butter issues, what would Republicans do in response?

Wherever can we find evidence of what they would do?

Maybe the very last election?

bsky.app/profile/mich...

You don’t have to get deep into “game theory” to understand what’s wrong with the advice like this (looking at you, Matt Yglesias, Nate Silver, et al).

You just have to recognize that there ARE two players in the game!

No, see, what will be different is that, this time, Republicans will agree to only fight about the issues that Democrats raise!

Seriously, this has some real “buy low, sell high,” or “just don’t bet on losing poker hands” energy.

A picture looking out my windshield at a foggy intersection. You can see a bow made of fog over the intersection.

Fogbow!

1973 - Support for laws requiring fair housing is down precipitously in the past decade from 49% to 31%. If we don’t let sellers discriminate against Black people it will set back the Black movement!

Just remember, if there’s not an unbroken upward trend in popularity, civil rights don’t work!

Jesse in 1967 - In almost 20 years since the first case overturning an interracial marriage ban popularity is STILL wildly underwater. At this rate it’ll the 1990s before 50% support it. Loving v Virginia endangers the civil rights movement.