I think it’s easy to have a critical opinion of the trans community or this idea of allowing a child to change their gender or move from one gender identity to another before they are an adult. But until you have a child who has such bad gender dysphoria they are suicidal, you completely change your mindset, as long as your child is happy and healthy you support them always.

It’s sweet and he has a big heart, but it’s beyond sad that this has to be done vs reforming our healthcare system to ensure pediatric oncology patients can get treatment without parents losing their house to medical debt

I lived in China for two years and have taken mandarin for 8, the best experience of my life was getting to go to university there and then visit many more times. I was treated with kindness and love as I fumbled through getting a firm grasp of the language and culture, the people were beyond kind and welcoming to me, but there was this underlying pervasive rule of “do not comment a negative word about the government”, even exchange students in the US I went to school with were terrified to criticize or comment on anything PRC related or about Tibet. First time I went to China you could go on Facebook, access american sites, two years later you needed a VPN and stuff got crazy. The way Xi is acting, it just feels like wind power is not really top priority right now.

Cool but I’m pretty sure the citizens would prefer basic human rights and free and open elections instead