Shot in the Dark

End Of The Beginning

Coming in the wake of the celebrations of the 90th anniversary of D-Day, it’d be easy to get hypoerbolic about this.

But in today’s academic culture, making an announcement like this is a little like running off a Higgins boat with a BAR and running toward the muzzle flashes:

“But they’re a small conservative group! They’re not the big pediatrics group!”

Abolitionists were a tiny minority too.

And if you want to go on from there and say the national healthcare authorities of the UK, Norway, Germany and – this is kinda big – Sweden are “little conservative groups”, we need to talk.

I’m predicting the entire “transing kids” social contagion ends in a tsunami of medical malpractice cases.

I’m no expert, but this seems like an important step.

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3 responses to “End Of The Beginning”

  1. Greg Avatar
    Greg

    I can hear it now:

    You may be entitled to compensation

  2. bikebubba Avatar
    bikebubba

    The key thing that needs to be done, IMO, is to extend the statute of limitations for this kind of case. I believe it’s just two years in Minnesota, which means that by the time the kid realizes they’ve been had, it’s too late. It needs to be 20 years at least–life long consequences means you need long term liability.

    And it is worth noting that as insurers price that in, premiums will go through the roof. In the same way, social workers need civil and criminal liability for their roles here–too often, it seems that somebody coming out of the “easiest major in college” with a 2.5 GPA is mindlessly repeating the mantra “better a live daughter than a dead son” on the way to puberty blockers and worse.

  3. SecondRow Avatar
    SecondRow

    Small point, but this was the 80th anniversary of D-Day (not the 90th), correct?

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