"high decoupling" is my new favorite euphemism for premature ejaculation

that's fabulously on topic

This is what happens when you read the orange site too much, and try to ape engineering style without actually knowing any engineering yourself.

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being cited in arguments used to ban internationally accepted standards of care, a consensus shared by practitioners and researchers from multiple fields of medicine, psychology etc, supported by clinical observations.. a ban directly leading to at least 4 suicide attempts in a week.. bans that are part of a wave of bans.. that are done against the recommendation of any major medical org, only supported by astroterfed and astroturfed groups of people who have no qualifications, no licence or have produced results that are wildly discredited and designated dangerous torture by qualified medical professionals.. I wouldn't call this not harming. outing a trans kid by lying about the contents of the Atlantic article, misrepresentation of studies and what certain terms mean /how treatment actually works.. organising mailing lists where he actively blocked far more qualified people from getting space to talk.. trying bad faith bullshit and underhanded crap incl hounding employers to get shit he doesn't like removed, i. e doing the exact shit he falsely accuses his critics of.. excusing horrible behaviour like smearing sbdy a pedo or mealy mouthed weak admission that this is wrong, but obsessively demanding the most friendly good faith critic of his multiple fuck ups showing that again, he projects about trans critics not being objective. because those critics have a far better rep sheet re: not doing harm. I'm sure he'll be appalled and accuse me of emotional manipulation and weaponizing suicide bc I don't ignore that his stuff led to the horrible anti trans laws by making bad science and polite bigotry acceptable which directly led to harmed children

[Obligatory reading](http://juliaserano.blogspot.com/2017/12/my-jesse-singal-story_11.html) whenever anyone claims that Jesse Singal is just this poor innocent boy who never lies. >my Twitter notifications were suddenly flooded with social conservatives, [TERFs](http://www.juliaserano.com/terminology.html#TERF), and (to a lesser degree) people who have detransitioned, all of whom were virtual-yelling at me for supposedly denying the existence of people who detransition. Even though I never said or insinuated either of those things in my *Medium* essay or *Vox* interview (this is plainly obvious if you read the actual pieces). Turns out that this backlash was largely attributable to an alarmist tweet (or tweets, I don’t remember if it was more than one, and I cannot access them now that he shut his Twitter account down) Singal posted wherein he falsely claimed that this was what I was saying. In other words, he *flat-out spread lies about me*. 

maybe this is a main advantage of rationalism, adhering to it makes lying impossible, or at least irrelevant

He's an insufferable cis journalist who loooves to insert himself into conversations about trans issues, stirs up faux-controversy about our medical treatment and communities, and is generally transphobic beneath the airs of "just having reasonable concerns" and "wanting to make sure that only 'real' trans people are allowed to transition". Naturally, because he presents himself as a dispassionate truth-teller who just asks hard questions, IDW-type internet intellectuals love to cover for him. There's also more apocryphal accounts of his being a creep to trans women - and I believe them myself - but he's only as bad as he is because he can drum up so much support and legitimacy in the aforementioned ways.