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It’s not just cough drops. I’ve seen schools refuse to allow teens to carry their own bleeping epipens. Have a life threatening allergic reaction and hope the nurse office is open… I am told this is for legal reasons, they don’t want unauthorized medicine use on the grounds. Yet they’ll enthusiastically end your reproductive future in secret. They’re not protecting kids, they’re harming them out of adherence to ideology. (The allergist I worked with just told the families to smuggle in the epipen and not tell the school.)

Ps contra the italicized intro, there is plenty of doubt about transitioning! As I wrote elsewhere, it is literally incoherent:

Development doesn’t just magically happen overnight, you have to go through a developmental process. The process itself changes you, mind and body, for the two are deeply connected. Of course a caterpillar doesn’t feel like a butterfly; that’s what the chrysalis is for. To avoid a process that changes you from A to B on the grounds that you don’t already feel like B going into it is incoherent. Getting you to feel like B is the whole point of going through the process! For a girl to say “I don’t want to go through puberty because I don’t feel like a woman” is, no offense, a profoundly uninformed statement. That’s not her fault, she’s a young child, she hasn’t mastered the trivium yet. For adults to encourage such puberty-blocking, however, is inexcusable.

https://gaty.substack.com/p/what-is-a-woman-review

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