Chloe Cole ⭐️ Erin Reed Calling out their bullshit is a conscious choice, not a reactive 'taking the bait.'

StandUp Erin Reed Reed hasn’t called anything out, just continuously strawmanning me

Chloe Cole ⭐️ Erin Reed Can you detail exactly which claim is a strawman and why, or do you just use it as a shorthand for invalidating anything you disagree with?

StandUp Erin Reed Yeah, so one example is that Erin says I am anti-trans. I’m not anti-trans, I just don’t think it is ethical to medicalize kids. It’s a risk that is way too high. I don’t care what adults do. I know detrans that are anti-trans, I am not one of them.

Chloe Cole ⭐️ StandUp You don't get to make that decision for other families. Your experiences are your own in this regard - I believe that families in conjunction with their medical providers are the best decisionmakers, not governments and certainly not you.

Erin Reed StandUp I believe that in absence of appropriate caution on behalf of medical providers, there are times where government needs to step in to protect individuals from undue harm. The opioid crisis is a good example of medical ethics failing. It seems to have escaped your mind.

Chloe Cole ⭐️ StandUp You don't get to determine what 'appropriate caution' is. Medical orgs, families, and their doctors are the best determinants. Even if the science were unclear (it's not), we still defer to the individual assessments of care teams.

Even Republicans have agreed in most states.

Chloe Cole ⭐️ StandUp Comparing gender affirming care to the opioid crisis is disingenuous at best and purposefully obtuse at worst on your part, as the reaction to the opioid crisis came after the medical organizations put forth recommendations AGIANST overprescription and doctors were ignoring.

Erin Reed StandUp And you don’t think that’s because they saw the writing on the wall with massive lawsuits like the ones that are still being settled to this day?

Chloe Cole ⭐️ StandUp You’re actually missing the point here - the medical organizations and their informed assessment of the literature provided the justification for changing the laws.

You’re advocating for the opposite of that - ignoring the medical orgs and their assessments of the literature.

Chloe Cole ⭐️ StandUp Chloe I get that you feel your treatment failed you and for that I am sorry. But there is NO treatment that works for everybody and sometimes, good treatments can have bad outcomes.

I had a GBS vaccine reaction years ago. I could have become an antivax activist. I did not.