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This is pure, uninformed speculation.

These aren't new treatments. Modern medicine looks pretty confident this is the best treatment for certain patients at the current time to a degree that the opposite of your guess is true.

You should become more informed about these things before commenting like this or people would be inclined to think you're just being inflammatory.

I saw a plastic surgery doctor admit that we are in the dark ages. I think we need to be patient and assume it may take 1,000+ years to have a significant breakthrough.

Stop. I'm not going to argue your baseless and meritless comments, especially on a thread like this that's wildly unrelated.

I'm happy to hear it.

This is a normal viewpoint and it is not inflammatory. "Modern medicine" isn't a homogenous cohort and your generalizations are sweeping.

I've explained it already to another commenter, but your comments are uninformed and anecdotal at best. You have a pretty clear bias and I'm not going to entertain your efforts to hijack this post in service of legitimizing your supposed worldview.

After actually learning the science of this:

I have no idea if switching is a good idea.

I'm so so so so glad I am not making any policies. Both righties and lefties are sooo overly confident in their opinions to the point where they become unscientific and damaging.

Yes, many speakers like conviction and stand-alone facts.

Shared evidence and scientific criticism is a lost art (or fading) in the public square.

Unfortunately a lot of the science takes time and effort to dig in and understand.

Making changes to the body with mutilation and hormones increases risk of severe complications including cancer. This isn't a political question.

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