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Our apprehension about child's gradual growth #genx #genxparents #genxki...

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#hiroyuki sanada #shogun

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Watch: The Hunger

(1983)

Director: Tony Scott

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Followers’ Favorite Vampire Countdown

23. Miriam Blaylock - The Hunger

Humankind dies one way, we another. Their end is final. Ours is not. In the earth, in rotting wood, in the eternal darkness, we will see and hear and feel.  

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Humankind dies one way, we another. Their end is final. Ours is not. In the earth, in rotting wood, in the eternal darkness, we will see and hear and feel.

The Hunger (1983) dir. Tony Scott

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the quiet tragedy of companionship + vampires

apple tree | marika hackman

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THE HUNGER 1983 | dir. Tony Scott

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David Bowie and Catherine Deneuve in 'The Hunger', 1983

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Susan Sarandon in THE HUNGER (1983) dir. Tony Scott

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The Hunger (1983)

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IMDb: Ann Magnuson in The Hunger (1983)

IMDb: Ann Magnuson in The Hunger (1983)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085701/mediaviewer/rm2924665857

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Bauhaus performing "Bela Lugosi’s Dead" in The Hunger (1983)

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David Bowie and Catherine Deneuve on the set of The Hunger (1983). Photo by Stephen Goldblatt, 1982 | ascmag.com

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“The fear of being fat is the fear of joining an underclass that you have so readily dismissed, looked down on, looked past, or found yourself grateful not to be a part of. It is a fear of being seen as slothful, gluttonous, greedy, unambitious, unwanted, and, worst of all, unlovable. Fat has largely been weaponized by straight-size people — the very people it seems to hurt most deeply. And ultimately, thin people are terrified of being treated the way they have so often seen fat people treated or even the way they’ve treated fat people themselves. In that way, thinness isn’t just a matter of health or beauty or happiness. It is a cultural structure of power and dominance.”

— Aubrey Gordon

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No, transgender kids are not trans because of "social contagion"

The journalist Michael Hobbs writes over at X-twitter, referring to an article in Canada's National Post. He has also tweeted some other interesting arguments we are republishing here. They are relevant to the discussion about the British Cass-report, which has already done tremendous damage to British transgender kids.

[Refers to tween on how "social contagion" could be driving youth to identify as transgender]

Not only is this implausible on its face, but we have no evidence that it's the case and mountainous evidence that it's not. Years of this panic have not produced a single confirmed case of a minor being rushed into transition. Outlets like the Post focus on the narrow question of "social contagion" because it is plausible, but it's also irrelevant. Who cares if kids think they're trans for two weeks? But if trans kids growing up into happy, healthy trans adults is a *bad outcome*, it’s best to brush surveys of 20,000 people indicating high satisfaction and low regret under the carpet, surely?

Link to tweet.

From an associated thread:

This is Polite Transphobe position on gender-affirming care: We should ignore dozens of large-scale surveys, comprehensive clinic audits and observational studies showing low regret rates. Instead, we should listen to *hypothetical* data showing high regret rates.

Link to tweet.

"We have no idea what happens to them in adulthood" is straightforwardly false. We have numerous clinic-based studies with up to 6 years of follow up. We have surveys of 20,000 adult trans people. They unanimously indicate high satisfaction and low regret. When all of the data points in the same direction you can't just nitpick the methodology, you have to make an affirmative case for ignoring an entire body of research in favor of a hunch. You've had decades to produce evidence and you're still going, "Just you wait!"... The entire trans panic is based on the allegation that large numbers of children are being rushed into irreversible treatments without assessment. The Cass Report, like *all other research on this topic,* finds that's straightforwardly false....

Link to tweet.

The Cass Report includes a comprehensive audit of every patient seen by the UK gender clinic from 2018 - 2020 but transphobes are demanding more data because it didn't find what they want. We've been doing this for years. Study after study finds long wait times, comprehensive assessments and regret rates below 5%. And every time, transphobes assure us that the *next* batch of data will reveal rushed transitions and thousands of detransitioners. Right now there is simply no evidence that large numbers of kids are being rushed into transitioning without assessment. Your entire case can't be "we don't know everything!" We don't, but we do know a lot and it consistently indicates that this is not a major problem. Yet another comprehensive gender clinic audit finds miniscule regret/detransition rate. How many of these do we need before this asinine panic stops? https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38436975/

See also:

Dr. Cass Backpedals From Review: HRT, Blockers Should Be Made Available

Q&A with Cass published by TheKiteTrust

When your transgender brain is fully formed (on the Cass-report)

On why the Cass Review is heteronormative and anti-transgender

The absurdities of the British Cass-report on transgender health care