Medical transition—no matter how it turns out for individuals—is a win-win as far as powerful industries are concerned, opening up new markets for pharmaceutical products, cosmetic surgeries, fertility treatments, surrogacy, and more. Meanwhile, woke activism seals off lines of criticism as stigmatizing, ableist, and cisheteronormative.
I read you for the way your mind somehow captures fresh camera angles on the intersections of gender ideology, marketing, ethics (or the lack thereof), and sophistry — and then from out of your mental darkroom you craft a vignette that perfectly develops those original images and relations. Your process seems to go the entire distance from analysis to synthesis. With an appearance of effortlessness. What you are able to do in writing is a thing of beauty. Thank you for your writing behavior.
If you were implicating any industry other than Big Pharma I'd be wondering if your suspicions are too cynical. Sadly, if the industries in question are responsible for human health and wellbeing, there probably is no bar too low.
My favorite line is your parenthetical remark, "Tell me this doesn’t sound like Purdue Pharma’s opioid playbook... hook patients on addictive drugs and then sell more drugs to manage opiate addiction." I've been thinking for some time that the rise of the medicalization of trans ideology is suspiciously parallel to the projected decline in income generated from opioid addiction.
Increasing profit margins may be sufficiently attractive to account for the increasing multiples of millions going into TRA lobby coffers, but when you couple that incentive with the financial pain confronting most of the biggest pharma companies as they are gradually forced into accountability for their crimes, it strikes me as highly likely that the highest-level executives have been really busy trying to find ways to reassure their shareholders that they don't need to sell.
I read you for the way your mind somehow captures fresh camera angles on the intersections of gender ideology, marketing, ethics (or the lack thereof), and sophistry — and then from out of your mental darkroom you craft a vignette that perfectly develops those original images and relations. Your process seems to go the entire distance from analysis to synthesis. With an appearance of effortlessness. What you are able to do in writing is a thing of beauty. Thank you for your writing behavior.
If you were implicating any industry other than Big Pharma I'd be wondering if your suspicions are too cynical. Sadly, if the industries in question are responsible for human health and wellbeing, there probably is no bar too low.
My favorite line is your parenthetical remark, "Tell me this doesn’t sound like Purdue Pharma’s opioid playbook... hook patients on addictive drugs and then sell more drugs to manage opiate addiction." I've been thinking for some time that the rise of the medicalization of trans ideology is suspiciously parallel to the projected decline in income generated from opioid addiction.
Increasing profit margins may be sufficiently attractive to account for the increasing multiples of millions going into TRA lobby coffers, but when you couple that incentive with the financial pain confronting most of the biggest pharma companies as they are gradually forced into accountability for their crimes, it strikes me as highly likely that the highest-level executives have been really busy trying to find ways to reassure their shareholders that they don't need to sell.
Very good points!
Its a horrid future ahead
Very well stated, clear and concise!
I really wonder what is next? Multiple limb amputation?
Blisteringly accurate.