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Alasdair Gunn: It’s Fun To Play Scrabble With A Linguist

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The Importance of Being Sceptical of Medicalization

I hear a lot of just this obsession with conditions like as a way out maybe and then there are parents who do that as well who are like my kids are not trans so therefore and they rest very heavily on whatever it might be. I think we need to be very skeptical of picking somebody out of one sort of pharmacological box and putting them in another when they don't need to be in any kind of box Corinna lectured me yesterday warning me against identifying as having a long COVID because long COVID is an identity and a community, she says.

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