JK Rowling claims society is on brink of 'medical scandal' over transgender issues

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I am not an athlete anymore and have quit training and coaching, so no conflict of interest, only vast experience.

The "steroids" topic was put in here regarding ATHLETES using ANABOLICS. I was pointing out the vast difference between athletes correctly using anabolics and the very many other types of drugs and uses that are comprised in the "steroids" moniker. Which is still often the use for the word "steroids" although they are also used for corticoids. Estrogen, progesterone and their derivatives are also technically steroids but nobody's going to brag about "being on steroids" for taking progesterone.

So you are quite right that "these people" (OK we're talking about trannies transitioning now, not ATHLETES using hormones for performance, totally different topic) are fucking themselves up. But that's not what I was replying to. I was replying to the guy conflating athletes and trannies as one thing, and here you accuse me of doing the same. Sigh. Read the thread entirely.

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

You haven't read the thread correctly at all. I wasn't conflating athletes with trans people. I was remarking on how it wasn't controversial to point out it was a bad idea for women to take cross-sex hormones 20 years ago yet today doctors prescribe them to teenage girls.

You just have a weird white knight fixation on steroids and it clouds your ability to reason. The East German women's Olympic teams aren't doing too well healthwise these days, either.