Swedish health authorities are limiting access to puberty blockers and hormone treatments for minors, citing the presence of adolescent mental health problems that may be driving their gender and body dysphoria.

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[–]RedEyedWarriorThe Evil Cishomo 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (8 children)

Super based. My respect for Sweden shot up exponentially in 2020 and 2021. The government did consider vaccine mandates but then abandoned that idea.

[–]Haylstorm 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (7 children)

Yeah the only thing that I can think of when I was there was stopping some events, but even then saying they 'stopped' them is kind of an exaggeration. From memory is was mostly super reduced capacity for venues which was a bit sad for hockey watching plans lol.

[–]RedEyedWarriorThe Evil Cishomo 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (6 children)

I don't mind reducing capacity for large scale events during pandemics, but they do suck. But at least there were no lockdowns or mandates. That's saner than any other country in the world.

[–]Haylstorm 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

Yeah like it was disappointing but TV exists, not the end of the world. Plus it was a sensible measure, just annoying that they only started that right when I got there. Fun to joke they just didn't want me there.

[–]RedEyedWarriorThe Evil Cishomo 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

At least you made it to Sweden just before the rest of the world went to shit.

[–]Haylstorm 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

This was actually about a year in I think. From memory there was a spike at about that time so they did that as a measure. Was not the most fun time to travel though so many extra checks combined with staff shortages was an...interesting experience.

[–]RedEyedWarriorThe Evil Cishomo 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

True. Even without the restrictions, life still sucked during the pandemic because everybody was panicking. Even now my parents take antigen tests whenever they get sick and Ireland lifted the last of our covid restrictions last March.

[–]Haylstorm 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I tend to take tests but that's more because i'm part of a study for it and they pay me lol. If I didn't I probably wouldn't bother unless I needed to prove I'm negative. I'm so happy about that change, some of the tests needed to travel were fairly expensive for the fit to fly ones as well as the 'test when you get back' one because ofc the free ones weren't good enough. Which was actually kind of funny because if you're telling me that test isn't good enough why're you providing them?

[–]RedEyedWarriorThe Evil Cishomo 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

It's all about the money. And not money for hardworking middle and working class families, not money for hardworking millionaires - money for billionaires who do nothing.