Daniel Keys MoranNicely written.
Charlie Stross@fatsam Funny, isn't it, how conservative bans on "gender affirming healthcare" never seem to touch their Viagra and Cialis prescriptions.
@cstross that point about the sports that kids get pushed into is pretty goddamn serious as well. I've played basketball my entire life until last year, I finally had to give it up, but I loved sports, still do. Basketball, baseball, a dozen others. Things I wouldn't let my kids do when they were young? Football, boxing -- I played football, I boxed 13 amateur fights and quit after my last knockout. Ears rang for 3 days.
The rotten shit conservative parents do to their kids goes on and on.
@fatsam That's American football, yes? (As opposed to real football, aka soccer.)
@cstross right, the one where you get CTE.
I boxed, played CTEball for years, and grew up in the worst lead filled air the world had ever seen. My sons are way calmer than I am, and while I think that's in large measure due to their mother, Amy Stout, breathing clean air and not getting their brains rattled probably helped.