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Re: Federal Prisons Are Beginning to Force Trans Inmates Off Hormone Therapy

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zendejo <zd@no.here> wrote:
> On 5/23/26 10:37 AM, Brock McNuggets wrote:
>> He’s tacitly admitting he does not understand the very points he brings up.
> 
> 
> Finally, it might seem churlish to pick on a single mainstream media 
> RCP8.5 nonsense story, but there is one that is your correspondent’s 
> favourite. This article not only reported RCP8.5 fantasies but climbed 
> even further heights, going where no other story has gone before. In May 
> last year, Mark Poynting of the BBC claimed that “scientists say” 
> coastal land and beyond could be overwhelmed with several metres of sea 
> level rise if global temperature moves by three-tenths of a degree 
> centigrade. This claim was arrived at by pushing the boundaries well 
> beyond what even SSP5-8.5 (a newer version of RCP8.5) predicted. Based 
> on a paper looking at polar ice melt, which gave a high emissions 
> projected rise by 2100 of between 12 and 52 centimetres, Poynting 
> chanced on a suggestion that the IPCC said it could not rule out 
> (admittedly with “low confidence”) that the pathway could point to a sea 
> level rise of over 15 metres by 2300. So Poynting got his several metres 
> of inundation story, “even if ambitious targets of limiting global 
> warming to 1.5°C is met”.
> 
> Purely anecdotal, but the BBC seems to have moderated its wilder climate 
> stories of late with the “Climate” topic on its News site relegated to 
> the second tier of subjects. This might be considered a bit of a status 
> drop for a subject whose authors had past pretentions to provide an 
> essential core for all reporting. Now it finds itself rubbing shoulders 
> with the picture gallery and the dumbed-down “Newsbeat” offering.
> 
> 
> But we must avoid the temptation to intrude on private grief. It is to 
> be hoped that this move does not spell the end of the highly imaginative 
> claptrap classics that have added to the gaiety of the nation over so 
> many years. Regular readers will recall climate change could make beer 
> taste worse and the Gulf Stream could collapse by 2025 – how we shall 
> miss all this copy aimed at the idiot short of a village.
> 
> 
> 

Your white flag is tattered. 

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cannot use reason to show the message to be wrong so they try to feel
somehow superior by attacking the messenger.

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Re: Federal Prisons Are Beginning to Force Trans Inmates Off Hormone Therapy zendejo <zd@no.here> - 2026-05-22 16:29 -0600
  Re: Federal Prisons Are Beginning to Force Trans Inmates Off Hormone Therapy Brock McNuggets <brock.mcnuggets@gmail.com> - 2026-05-22 22:42 +0000
    Re: Federal Prisons Are Beginning to Force Trans Inmates Off Hormone Therapy zendejo <zd@no.here> - 2026-05-23 09:14 -0600
      Re: Federal Prisons Are Beginning to Force Trans Inmates Off Hormone Therapy phoenix <j63840576@gmail.com> - 2026-05-23 10:32 -0600
        Re: Federal Prisons Are Beginning to Force Trans Inmates Off Hormone Therapy Brock McNuggets <Brock.McNuggets@gmail.com> - 2026-05-23 16:37 +0000
          Re: Federal Prisons Are Beginning to Force Trans Inmates Off Hormone Therapy zendejo <zd@no.here> - 2026-05-23 10:47 -0600
            Re: Federal Prisons Are Beginning to Force Trans Inmates Off Hormone Therapy Brock McNuggets <Brock.McNuggets@gmail.com> - 2026-05-23 16:55 +0000
              Re: Federal Prisons Are Beginning to Force Trans Inmates Off Hormone Therapy zendejo <zd@no.here> - 2026-05-23 12:28 -0600
                Re: Federal Prisons Are Beginning to Force Trans Inmates Off Hormone Therapy Brock McNuggets <brock.mcnuggets@gmail.com> - 2026-05-23 18:53 +0000
                Re: Federal Prisons Are Beginning to Force Trans Inmates Off Hormone Therapy zendejo <zd@no.here> - 2026-05-23 14:08 -0600
                Re: Federal Prisons Are Beginning to Force Trans Inmates Off Hormone Therapy Brock McNuggets <brock.mcnuggets@gmail.com> - 2026-05-24 01:05 +0000
                Re: Federal Prisons Are Beginning to Force Trans Inmates Off Hormone Therapy Dietrich Von GassenHousen <Dietrich@ZyklonB.org> - 2026-05-24 01:58 +0000
                Re: Federal Prisons Are Beginning to Force Trans Inmates Off Hormone Therapy zendejo <zd@no.here> - 2026-05-24 11:13 -0600
                Re: Federal Prisons Are Beginning to Force Trans Inmates Off Hormone Therapy Brock McNuggets <brock.mcnuggets@gmail.com> - 2026-05-24 17:51 +0000
                Re: Federal Prisons Are Beginning to Force Trans Inmates Off Hormone Therapy zendejo <zd@no.here> - 2026-05-24 13:13 -0600
            Re: Federal Prisons Are Beginning to Force Trans Inmates Off Hormone Therapy phoenix <j63840576@gmail.com> - 2026-05-23 11:00 -0600
              Re: Federal Prisons Are Beginning to Force Trans Inmates Off Hormone Therapy Brock McNuggets <brock.mcnuggets@gmail.com> - 2026-05-23 18:14 +0000
                Re: Federal Prisons Are Beginning to Force Trans Inmates Off Hormone Therapy zendejo <zd@no.here> - 2026-05-23 12:32 -0600
              Re: Federal Prisons Are Beginning to Force Trans Inmates Off Hormone Therapy zendejo <zd@no.here> - 2026-05-23 12:31 -0600
        Re: Federal Prisons Are Beginning to Force Trans Inmates Off Hormone Therapy zendejo <zd@no.here> - 2026-05-23 10:41 -0600
          Re: Federal Prisons Are Beginning to Force Trans Inmates Off Hormone Therapy Brock McNuggets <Brock.McNuggets@gmail.com> - 2026-05-23 16:54 +0000
            Re: Federal Prisons Are Beginning to Force Trans Inmates Off Hormone Therapy zendejo <zd@no.here> - 2026-05-23 12:27 -0600

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