> 'Extremely juvenile': Labor accused of endangering US relations after senior Cabinet minister attacks Trump's gender policy for sowing division
> The Albanese government has been accused of picking a fight with Donald Trump and endangering Australia’s most important relationship after a senior cabinet minister claimed the President sowed division with his Executive Order recognising only two genders.
> Peter Dutton has shut down his Nationals counterpart's suggestion that Australia should "lean into" the gender debate, after Donald Trump's executive order rejecting recognition of transgender people in the United States.
To reflect on factors that may have led to the widespread implementation of gender affirming care (GAC) for minors by psychiatric clinical leaders despite the absence of a robust evidence base and the known risks of harm.
Conclusions
The progressive rejection of psychodynamic thinking by the profession of psychiatry may have contributed to psychiatrists failing to question key aspects of GAC for minors. Further, numerous unconscious factors potentially contribute to the foreclosure of thinking about the risks of gender medicine.
> The already beleaguered Palestinian Authority, led by ailing Mahmoud Abbas, is driven into deeper irrelevance. In an extraordinary display of what Palestinians call “Sumud”—steadfastness in resistance to Israel—Hamas lives to regroup, rearm, and carry on the armed struggle against the Jews. Its resilience will surely win it greater Iranian support. Hamas and its junior partner, Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), have also just catapulted themselves to the top of the Global Jihad Premier League, inspiring every radical Islamist movement, in Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Syria, Yemen, and beyond. If the agreement is implemented as formulated, terror is rewarded and the incentive to kidnap Israelis and Jews around the world rises sharply. Who needs nuclear weapons when you can bring Israel to its knees by kidnapping 250 of its citizens?
> That deadly dynamic, by which Israel releases large numbers of convicted terrorists only to see them return to murder on an even greater scale down the road, has just been reinforced. Having freed the mastermind of the October 7 massacre, Yahya Sinwar, as part of the Gilad Shalit deal in 2011, Israel has learned nothing and is repeating the same mistake on steroids.
> Since the full implementation of the deal signed leaves Hamas as the governing authority in Gaza—the one controlling organized violence and the distribution of essential public goods throughout the territory—it also amounts to a terrible betrayal of the population that has suffered most under Hamas’s rule: Gazans themselves. The failure to remove Hamas from power means that those who have sustained the greatest loss of life and property since Hamas took control of Gaza in 2006 can look forward to a future defined only by further violence, poverty, oppression, and hopelessness.
> A public “clarification” from Elon—not an apology, not an admission of guilt, but just an acknowledgment that he knows why sleeping dragons like Nazism shouldn’t be poked for shits and giggles, that he’ll try to be careful in the future—would be a non-negligible positive update for me about the future of the world.
> I understand exactly why he doesn’t want to do it: because he doesn’t want to grant any legitimacy to what he sees as the biased narrative of a legacy media that despises him. But granting some legitimacy to that narrative is precisely what I, a classically liberal Jewish scientist who bears the battle scars of attempted woke cancellation, am asking him to do. I’m asking him to acknowledge that he’s now by any measure one of the most powerful people on the planet, that with great power comes great responsibility, and that fascism is a well-known failure mode for powerful rightists, just like Communism is a well-known failure mode for leftists. I’m asking for reassurance that he takes that failure mode seriously, just like he correctly takes human extinction and catastrophic AI risk seriously.
@LostInCalifornia IMO this is one of the more reasonable musk quotes. The statement does not say that his problem with wokipedia is that it's out of his control
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