#multiagency

[everafter-life]

For the ponies-

Can you do multiage? Or agefluid?

Decided to make them as two different bases as to make this easier for me!

These designs are for fun, the only facts that are 100% canon is the flag they are based on! You can draw them, ship them, name them, headcanon them, whatever! I just like to make character designs

(Left) original base by AfterGlory, original flag by micro. (right) original base by donquani, original flag by dickcowmilk

[malvernsims]

Just in time for the holidays is my last group of defaults for UF outfits. This post has half the UF everyday outfits. All ages have fat morphs, adults also have preg morphs. Anything available to adults has been made available to young adults as well, and vice versa. Where applicable I’ve noted if a multiage replacement has repo’d textures.

UF Everyday Part 1 Folder (20 Defaults)

tfbodywrapskirt, afbodybohemian and efbodybohemian replaced with 4t2 Duchess of Blue Dress by Rusty by Vulrien and Vulrien’s 4t2 Rusty Duchess Of Blue for TF & EF by DeeDee (TF-EF | repo'd textures | also categorized as formalwear)

tfbodycheerleader and afbodycheerleader replaced with 4t2 Cheerleader by MDP and MDP’s 4t2 Athletic Cheerleader Outfit for TF by DeeDee (TF-AF | repo'd textures | also categorized as athleticwear)

afbodychef and efbodychef replaced with Business Button Down Suit w/ Loafers by RentedSpace with preg morph for AF by Rudhira (AF-EF | also categorized as formalwear)

tfbodycomfy and afbodycomfy replaced with 3t2 Lacey Retreat Romper by DeeDee (TF-AF | repo'd textures)

tfbodydadatankminiskirt and afbodydadatankminiskirt replaced with 3t2 Anubis360 Pure Intuition Dress by RentedSpace (TF-AF | also categorized as formalwear)

tfbodydadatopjeans and afbodydadatopjeans replaced with Rami Dress by Skell (TF-AF | repo'd textures | also categorized as formalwear)

tfbodydonnatopstinacapris and afbodydonnatopstinacapris replaced with 3t2 Foxy Lady Zip-Up Jumper by DeeDee (TF-AF | repo'd textures)

tfbodydressabovekneesuit, afbodydressabovekneesuit and efbodydressabovekneesuit replaced with MDP’s 4t2 Business Suit Medium by MDP and MDP’s 4t2 Business Suit Medium for TF & EF by DeeDee (TF-EF | repo'd textures | career outfit unhidden | also categorized as formalwear)

tfbodydressfloral and afbodydressfloral replaced with World Collide Dress by DeeDee (TF-AF | repo'd textures | also categorized as formalwear)

tfbodyflaresflowtank and afbodyflaresflowtank replaced with Romp Dress by DeeDee (TF-AF | repo'd textures)

afbodygorillasuit and efbodygorillasuit replaced with 3t2 Day In The Country Dress by DeeDee (AF-EF | repo'd textures)

tfbodyhipjacketwideflaredpants and afbodyhipjacketwideflaredpants replaced with 3t2 Can't Commit Outfit by RentedSpace (TF-AF | repo'd textures | also categorized as athleticwear)

tfbodyhipmicrominiskirt and afbodyhipmicrominiskirt replaced with 3t2 Anubis360 Pure Intuition Dress by RentedSpace (TF-AF | repo'd textures | also categorized as formalwear)

tfbodyhulaskirt, afbodyhulaskirt and efbodyhulaskirt replaced with Recolours of DeeDee's Amelia Shirt Dress by Kooli-Sims (TF-EF | repo'd textures | also categorized as formalwear | includes hula zombie outfit for AF which has been unhidden)

afbodyjackethighcollar and efbodyjackethighcollar replaced with 4t2 EF15 Cardigan Cable Knit Flats by RentedSpace (AF-EF)

tfbodyjaneoverallsboots and afbodyjaneoverallsboots replaced with Lazy Dress Mashup by DeeDee (TF-AF | repo'd textures)

tfbodyjessicadrsleggings and afbodyjessicadrsleggings replaced with Crop Sweater Dress by DeeDee (TF-AF | repo'd textures)

afbodyjournalist and efbodyjournalist replaced with Business Button Down Suit w/ Peeptoes by RentedSpace with preg morph for AF by Rudhira (AF-EF | also categorized as formalwear)

tfbodyknitdressstripes and afbodyknitdressstripes replaced with 3t2 Little Anne Dress by DeeDee (TF-AF | repo'd textures)

tfbodylaraoveralls and afbodylaraoveralls replaced with Lazy Dress Mashup by DeeDee (TF-AF | repo'd textures)

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Credits: @deedee-sims​, @kooli-sims​, @mdpthatsme​, @rented-space​, @rudhira​, @whattheskell​, @vulrien-sims​

Download @ Simfileshare: All Defaults | Individual Defaults

UF Everyday Defaults Part 2

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02/14/2024 - Added SFS folder with individual files added for easier downloading.

[mysocial8one]

MetaGPT is a framework that enables you to use natural language to create and execute meta programs for multi-agent collaboration and coordination. Meta programs are programs that can generate or modify other programs based on some input or context. In this article, you will find out how MetaGPT works, what are its key features and capabilities, and how it compares to other frameworks.

[dyspunktional-leviathan]

Fuck it, I’m reposting my recent fedi rant about transageness to here (I’m OTY 16 (sometimes a bit more or less but usually that), multiage/agefluid with cisage which is currently 20). Unedited bc otherwise I’ll boil my brain out

Mentions of ageism, parental fuckery, ableism, cops, internalized transagemisia.

I want to be more openly & "actively" transage.

I feel like I don't really "count" because the difference between my chrono and internal age is not as big as that of most of the transage ppl here, plus I fear "infantilizing" people whose chrono age is my internal??

I even had thoughts that my identity should be younger which is solid bullshit and I know it

But yeah like, people talk about how 16 is actually adult and I do not feel like an adult. But when I think about specific age my brain stops around 16. I think I know why that is — at that chrono age I pretty much began my individual life.

I want to call myself a teenager, I automatically think I am included when people talk about teenagers

I deal with internalized ageism re my internal age

I am socially treated the same teenagers are because of how my p*rents' p*renting and my cognitive disabilities act and interact, and with this there's actually a political part to my transage identity, I could say what the fuck treat me like an adult I am, many ageists do, fuck it.

I mean, by the way, by doctors and cops.

I am less "mature" (fuck "maturity" yes) and much much less independent from my parents than many many people whose chrono age matches my internal

This is all kinda getting away I just wanna throw some stuff that's been boiling in

****

Also, I’ve been on homeschool since I was 15, and that must have had impact too. Plus I’ll almost certainly never be able to work because of my disabilities. So I cannot get the normative adult socialization, even as far as it can go for many similarly cognitively disabled people.

[goths-make-headmates]

Hii can you do a junko enoshima fictive? But with no transharmed ids. Tyyy

Junko Enshima Fictive

CW BLOOD

Name(s): Junko , Kritanta

Gender(s): FemiNull , GoreLexic , DeathBodiment , SadiBodiment , BloodLustGender , HateBodiment

Pronouns: She/Her , Despair/Despairs , Hatred/Hatreds , Gut/Guts , Gore/Gores

Age(s): Multiage

TransID(s): Synharmful , TransDIDfaker , TransSHaddict , NullOrgan , PermaSuicidal , TransXenoSatanist , TransAntiEndo

CisID(s): ASPD , Cisharmful , No empathy , Apathetic , Abuser , Magentamian

Role(s): Persecutor , Aggressor , Melpomic , Cynic

Like(s): Torture , Bears , Despair , Horror , Pain , Gore , Meat

Dislike(s): Happy people , School , Being told what to do , Routines , Fairytales , Romance , Helping

Personality trait(s): Egoistical , Brave , Jealous , Yells a lot , Mean , Carefree , Charismatic , Unpredictable

Appearance:

[the-transid-gacha]

Name(s): guts

Gender(s): any death, blood, guts, murder, trauma, hate, anger, fear xenogenders

Orientation(s): omni

TransID(s): transadult, transdead, transpermagroomed, transMAP, rest r ur choice !!

CisID(s): ur choice !!

Pronoun(s): shx/hxr it/its ++ any death, blood, guts, murder, trauma, hate, anger, fear related prns

Species(s): demon

Age(s): multiage 7 + 7777

Source(s): brainmade

Role(s): POCD holder, trauma holder

Like(s): edgy music (punk, rock, grunge, songs that you see in vent playlists like body by mother mother), songs abt murder (like the dismemberment song by blue kid), dark vocaloid songs, art (has semi-realistic art style), true crime

Dislike(s): ur choice !!

Personality trait(s): quiet, no empathy, tired, resting bitch face ykwim

Face claim(s): ur choice !! i want hxr 2 look very unkept, messy hair, eyebags, mayb some scars ??

Para(s): ur choice !!

Emoji Signoff(s): ur choice !!

Name: guts

Genders: Xenogirl, Deercannibal, Hatebodiment, demongender, cannibagorix, cannirabiesgender, Holygorics, demonbodiment, & deathgender

Orientation: Omni

TransIDs: TransAdult, TransDead, TransPermaGroomed, TransMAP, TransASPD, TransHypersexual, TransDemonWings, TransHorns, TransSuccubus, TransIntersex, PermaInPain, & PermaTorturer

CisIDs: Half blind (her right eye is completely blind and white), scars, POC, Arsonist, Imp, Piercings lots of piercings, Red eyed, Aphantasia, & HyperMobility

Pronouns: Shx/Hxr, It/It's, Hit/Hit's, Death/Death's, Jane/Doe, John/Doe, Decomp/Decomp's, Gore/Gore's, Hate/Hate's, Demon/Demon's, & Rabies/Rabies's

Species: Demon

Ages: Multiage 7 + 7777

Source: Brainmade / N/A

Roles: POCD holder & Trauma holder

Likes: edgy music (punk, rock, grunge, songs that you see in vent playlists like body by mother mother), songs abt murder (like the dismemberment song by blue kid), dark vocaloid songs, art (has semi-realistic art style), true crime, Studying decomposition, the occult, & Cryptids

Dislikes: Rich kids, Stereotypes, Churches, People,

Personality traits: Quiet, No empathy, Tired, Resting bitch face, Insecure about her eye,

Paras: Somnophilia, Dacryphilia, Sadist, Mastigophilia, Pyrophilia, Traumaphilia, Vigiliaphilia, Cordophilia, Exhibitionist, & voyeurist

Emoji Signoffs: ✝️🔥

Face claim: We put two depending on the vibe you wanted

Enjoy Doll~

-Tigres

[silliest-fckindumbboy]

🪦Consider this blog a TW in & of itself🪦

🩸My coining blog is @fckindumbboy-coins Requests are always open!!!🩸

🫀This will be a mix of RQ & para stuff! Its my safe space! I will like & reblog what I choose!🫀

🪦Block/ ignore dont report, I'm just trying to find safe community & without that, so many of us are in danger!🪦

🩸If you arent harming anyone unwilling to be harmed, do it up, bby; pro-consent🩸

🦷 Im Jynx

🔪 The body is 26; Agefluid, multiage- mainly nepedage and traumatot, but I also sometimes linger around the body's age

🦷 Agender, transmasc, boycunt, periboy, offboy, bordergender

🔪 Polyromantic, hyperromantic

🦷 Polysensual, polarsensual, hypersensual [unless touch-repulsed due to fatigue, low energy, sensory overload, etc.]

🔪 Greyace, hypersexual

🦷 Ductuaffectis, Alteraffectis

🔪 It/he/pup/puppy/clown/honk/rot/ick/demon/rat; I may also use plural pronouns on occasion

🦷 Married, poly

🔪 Ask me anything about anything!

🪦My tags:

fckindumbboy - anything thats mine

boybarx - anytime I comment/post/talk about anything/share my opinions

shøwøff - my pictures

boycoins - coining/flags

Papa♡ - anything to do with my Papa or my relationship

boyIDs- my hoard/IDs or terms I like (reblogs only- not my OGs)🪦

🫀On sys: I'm [Jynx] the current host of a DID system~ Pls keep in mind that, due to the nature of plurality, I may post things or reblog things that I dont typically post, agree with, or that I forget later on. Some alters MAY make themselves known, they may not, thats up to them to decide not me.🫀

🪦Paras & Kinks: LOTS! Obsessed with everything abuse, gore, pain, blood, cannibalism, & death! 3/3, get over it, youre not the thought police. I sexualize & extort my own trauma & mental illness~ Theres wwwwaaaaayyyyyyy more! Consang🪦

🫀SickSickSick: DID, BPD, DPDR, schizoaffective bipolar type, OCD, agoraphobia, C-PTSD, substance use disorder [recovering & hating every second], BED w/ anorexic & bulimic tendencies, GAD/ panic disorder, PNES, mild TBI, CI

We got the 'tism

ICT survivor

I have so much trauma, & always happy to share & talk about it [for anyone!] (I'm cisharmed, cisgroomed, cisabused, cisICTsurvivor, cistortured, cisSA/CSA, cisraped.. etc.)

Chronically ill & physically disabled!🫀

🪦I AM a radqueer! Get outta here if you cant deal with that! Im super duper inclusive & believe everyone has a right to be themselves (even if I may not agree with them!) I have absolutely no room in my life, my heart, or my safe space for hate, drama, or discourse!!! Im also a [REDACTED]queer! I value privacy & non-disclosure of stances or other information, I think everyone has a right to discretion & safety within the community & elsewhere. My business is no one's business unless I say so- no one's business is my business unless they say so. All information, conversation, etc. with me is strictly confidential. I dont believe in call outs or other forms of non-consenual information disclosure. 🪦

🫀Identities: Transclownspecies, puppykin, trauma-born demon, irl yandere, transHoH/transDeaf, real vampire [hybrid- sang & psi], DemiDead, DemiRot, Traumatot, permapuppy, permadissociated, permalockdown, permasick, devotabled, translabrat, ratkin 🫀

🪦MUDs: Unhealthy Relation-Victim Disorder, Glitching Mind Disorder, Plural Dysphoric Disorder, Imminent Death Disorder, Temporal Perception Distortion Syndrome🪦

🩸I BLOCK FREELY🩸

Anons: ⚙️, ☀️, bitey, 🐶🎉, 🕯, :3, 🍇

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

By: Leor Sapir

Published: Aug 25, 2023

The New York Times has published a new investigative report on the pediatric gender clinic at Washington University in St. Louis, home of case-manager-turned-whistleblower Jamie Reed. Last February, Reed alleged in The Free Press that her former clinic was harming adolescents with invasive and unnecessary treatments. “What’s happening to children,” she said, “is medically and morally appalling.”

Reed tried to raise her concerns with her superiors at Washington University but was shut down. She decided to file a sworn affidavit about the medical abuses she witnessed with the Missouri attorney general, an action that triggered a multiagency investigation that remains ongoing.

The Times’s article represents the first attempt by a major left-of-center newspaper to corroborate Reed’s claims. The author, Azeen Ghorayshi, says that “some of Ms. Reed’s claims could not be confirmed” and that “at least one of her claims included factual inaccuracies.” On the whole, however, Ghorayshi corroborates much of what Reed has said about her former clinic. Most important is the clinic’s disregard for clear “red flags.” Adolescents with serious mental health problems were prescribed puberty blockers or cross-sex hormones when they should have received mental health support.

Ghorayshi and the Times deserve credit for a well-researched article. Ghorayshi does a good job allowing different sides in the controversy to be heard. Her discussion of the medical research, though not the focus of her article, is refreshingly honest and accurate. Considering the pressure exerted on the Times and its reporters by transgender advocacy organizations like GLAAD to toe the ideological line, it takes courage to write a piece as rigorous and as thoughtful as this one.

And yet, the article has problems. Two in particular stand out. The first concerns the question of satisfaction and regret, and the second involves the role of mental-health interventions in pediatric gender medicine.

If the reader comes away from the Times piece feeling ambivalent about the St. Louis clinic, that is because Ghorayshi contrasts Reed’s allegations of wrongdoing with stories of families who say they are satisfied with the treatment their children received there. “It’s clear the St. Louis clinic benefited many adolescents,” says Ghorayshi.

But is it?

As a matter of principle, it is wrong to use satisfaction and regret as the benchmark for judging whether pediatric sex trait modification (PSTM) is a medically necessary and ethical practice. If medicine is to retain its authoritative role in human affairs, patient satisfaction alone cannot determine when interventions are medically necessary. Self-reported satisfaction is how we judge cosmetic procedures, not medically necessary ones. The role of the doctor is to heal, not please. Pleasing, though not unimportant, is secondary and subordinate to healing. Bitter pills are coated with sugar to make pleasing to patients, but it doesn’t follow that sugar is good for you or that doctors should encourage patients to eat it to their heart’s desire. Failure to distinguish the pleasant from the good can result in serious iatrogenic harm. More broadly, it can corrupt medicine and reduce it to mere consumerism.

Ghorayshi is right to take interest in the satisfaction of patients and families who attended the St. Louis clinic. But to leave it at that and to imply that patient satisfaction is a valid counterargument to Reed’s allegations is to miss the far deeper and more significant ethical issues involved. Worse, it’s to take a side in that ethical debate without presenting the competing arguments in a serious way.

I’ve written in the past about the vital importance of providing readers with context about the satisfaction/regret question, especially when it comes to how we think about the St. Louis clinic. If journalists contribute to the public’s (misguided) belief that short-term satisfaction of distressed teenagers with drugs and surgeries is ultimately what matters, they should at least mention that the validity of this framing is itself a key part, if not the heart, of the scientific and medical debate over PSTM.  

Research in gender medicine has found no necessary relationship between subjective satisfaction and more objective measurements of mental health and psychosocial functioning. One of the first follow-up papers on gender medicine published by Dutch clinicians in 1988, right around the time they began experimenting with hormonal interventions in adolescents, reflected on the question of subjective versus objective measurements of improvement. The paper acknowledged “a trend” in existing research on adult transsexuals at the time: “the subjective well-being of the transsexuals has increased, whereas an ‘improvement’ in their actual life situation is not always observed.”

A 2020 study by Finnish gender clinicians in the Nordic Journal of Psychiatry did look at more objective outcome measures. To assess whether hormonal interventions are beneficial, the authors used “proxies for adolescent development” including “age-appropriate living arrangements, peer relationships, school/work participation, romantic involvement, competence in managing everyday matters and need for psychiatric treatment.” The researchers found that patients “who did well in terms of psychiatric symptoms and functioning before cross-sex hormones mainly did well during real-life. Those who had psychiatric treatment needs or problems in school, peer relationships and managing everyday matters outside of home continued to have problems during real-life.” Thus, “Medical gender reassignment is not enough to improve functioning and relieve psychiatric comorbidities among adolescents with gender dysphoria.” Presumably, most of the patients were satisfied with their treatment.

The pivot in PSTM research from objective to subjective metrics may reflect an exasperation of the field with trying to find good, causal evidence of improvement in mental health and psychosocial functioning. It may also reflect the true but rarely acknowledged purpose of sex-trait modification, which is to achieve “embodiment goals,” i.e., desired cosmetic outcomes.

Let’s assume, however, that satisfaction/regret is the appropriate benchmark for evaluating the ethics of PSTM. What does the empirical literature tell us about satisfaction and regret from hormonal or surgical interventions? “The number of people who detransition or discontinue gender treatments is not precisely known,” Ghorayshi observes. “Small studies with differing definitions and methodologies have found rates ranging from 2 to 30 percent.”

Ghorayshi is correct. Given the poor quality of research in this field, we do not currently know the true rates of satisfaction and regret among adults who transitioned as adults. Still less do we know about regret and satisfaction in those who transitioned as adolescents. Another problem with relying on satisfaction—especially when, as is often the case in this field of research, follow-up happens mere months after procedures—is that it may be confounded by placebo and Hawthorne effects. (The latter term refers to “the phenomenon where clinical trial patients’ improvements may occur because they are being observed and given special attention.”)  Rigorous long-term data, which is more important than short-term data when it comes to adolescent decisions, will take at least another decade to collect and analyze.

Also missing from the Times piece is any serious treatment of the question of harms. Ghorayshi implies that detransitioners were harmed, but in her sworn affidavit Reed documents several instances of harm suffered by patients receiving gender-transitioning care that go unmentioned in the Times piece. These include a teenage girl who experienced bleeding vaginal lacerations following testosterone injections (a known side-effect) and another girl whose clitoris got so large from taking the androgenizing hormone that it painfully chafed against her underwear when she walked.

After conducting an internal investigation, in which it never bothered to interview Reed, Washington University reported that it did not find evidence of any “adverse physical reactions” among those treated at the gender clinic. Not a single case.

Considering how hard this is to believe, it would have been appropriate for Ghorayshi to probe deeper into this matter. Medical treatment decisions by their very nature require balancing benefits against harms. At a time when Americans need to hear the truth about what is known and not yet sufficiently studied about the side effects of these powerful drugs, Ghorayshi’s piece comes across as somewhat sanitized. Ghorayshi mentions 18 patients and families who say that they had “overwhelmingly positive” experiences at the St. Louis clinic, one patient—Alex—who discontinued testosterone after “realiz[ing] she was nonbinary,” and a file compiled by Reed and her coworker that documented 16 instances of detransition. What do these numbers tell us? The answer: close to nothing. The St. Louis clinic apparently had 613 patients who were medicalized during the relevant timeframe (Ghorayshi mentions 598, a number she takes from Washington University’s internal investigation, but Reed’s documents show otherwise). Since we don’t know the fate of the other patients, it’s impossible to draw any conclusions about the overall rates of regret or satisfaction. But again, whether most patients at the St. Louis clinic are satisfied or not is no rebuttal to Reed’s allegations. Using subjective satisfaction as the sole metric is reasonable for cosmetic procedures, but not for “medically necessary” ones.

This brings us to the second problem in the article. “The turmoil in St. Louis,” Ghorayshi writes, “underscores one of the most challenging questions in gender care for young people today: How much psychological screening should adolescents receive before they begin gender treatments?”

The key word here is “before.”

Ghorayshi’s question seems to suggest that the debate between Europe and the U.S. is over how much mental-health screening and counseling to offer adolescents before putting them on a medical track. In truth, the European countries have adopted an approach that emphasizes, for most gender dysphoric adolescents, mental health support instead of hormones.

Though she notes the divergence in medical policy in Europe versus the U.S., Ghorayshi doesn’t fully explain the nature of this divergence and understates its extent. True, Europe hasn’t banned hormonal interventions altogether. But if the restrictions now in place in Finland, Sweden, and Denmark (the situation in the U.K. is more complicated) were implemented in U.S. clinics, the majority of American teenagers now being put on the medical track would receive only mental-health support. In Denmark, for instance, the rate of intake-to-medicalization at the country’s centralized gender clinic was 65 percent in 2018. After restrictions were imposed, the rate fell to 6 percent in 2022.

Ghorayshi mentions a Washington Post op-ed from 2021 by two psychologists, Laura Edwards-Leeper and Erica Anderson, who support the early medical-intervention model albeit with guardrails. According to Ghorayshi, Edwards-Leeper and Anderson “warned that American gender clinics were prescribing hormones to some children who needed mental health support first” (my emphasis). But what Edwards-Leeper and Anderson actually argue in their op-ed is that comprehensive mental-health assessment is needed to figure out whether medicalization is appropriate—a subtle but crucial difference. Such assessment is necessary for differential diagnosis and avoidance of unnecessary and potentially harmful medicalization.

Thus, it’s not just that patients referred to the St. Louis clinic were not receiving “mental health support first.” If judged by Scandinavian standards, which are far more in line with the principles of evidence-based medicine, many or most patients at the St. Louis clinics were likely being given drugs they should not have been prescribed at all. While some may believe that current restrictions in Europe are about “trying everything again from scratch,” an equally plausible explanation is that this is the first step in a bigger retrenchment that will result in firm age restrictions. Time will tell.

Ghorayshi calls Republican laws “draconian,” but the truth is that these laws reflect a view of the underlying medical research and a policy stance much closer to those of European health authorities than those held by Democrats and U.S. medical associations. Condemning Republican laws while implying that the European changes are consistent with evidence-based medicine is, to put it mildly, puzzling.

Related to this is an impression Ghorayshi gives that a root cause (or even the root cause) of dysfunction at the St. Louis clinic was the sharp surge in the number of teenagers, many with serious psychological problems. The subtitle of the article itself says that the clinic “was overwhelmed by new patients and struggled to provide them with mental health care.” The article’s first sentence describes a clinic “buckling under an unrelenting surge in demand.” Ghorayshi later mentions the U.K.’s Tavistock clinic, where long wait times created pressures on clinicians to “affirm” and refer for hormonal treatments rather than do careful mental-health assessments.

But long wait times were only one of the problems identified by physician Hilary Cass in her investigation of the U.K. Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS). The other, and arguably more important problem, was the existence of “an affirmative approach” that “originated in the USA.” GIDS clinicians, Cass wrote, “feel under pressure to adopt an unquestioning affirmative approach [that is] at odds with the standard process of clinical assessment and diagnosis that they have been trained to undertake in all other clinical encounters.” Ghorayshi mentions this pressure on the clinicians but makes it seem as though it were somehow caused by the growing waitlists.

While Ghorayshi acknowledges the “affirming” model as part of the problem, she does not grapple with the true nature of that problem: the infiltration into medicine of a novel set of ideas, including that children have an innate and infallibly knowable “gender identity” and that “a child’s sense of reality” is the “navigational beacon to orient treatment around.” Ghorayshi’s use of terms like “transgender children” and “8-year-old transgender daughter,” though probably intended as a show of respect, implies that kids can know that they have a permanent transgender identity. Current research does not support this belief. Common sense and millennia of experience contradict it. The U.S. Endocrine Society itself says: “With current knowledge, we cannot predict the psychosexual outcome for any specific child.”

It is odd that in the short section of Ghorayshi’s article where she directly discusses the affirmative approach, the patients’ stories she tells all have happy endings. Indeed, she writes: “It’s clear the St. Louis clinic benefited many adolescents.” European health authorities have said the opposite: the current affirmative approach is a major cause of unsafe practices.

Moreover, the surface similarities between the St. Louis clinic and the Tavistock clinic obscure the more significant differences. As Hannah Barnes discusses in her book on Tavistock, GIDS was founded on a strong ethos of psychotherapy rather than medicalization. The story of Tavistock’s collapse is largely one of institutional mission creep: the founding ethos of 1989 was gradually replaced with a new understanding of the role of mental-health clinicians as rubber-stampers for experimental drugs.

In contrast, U.S. pediatric gender clinics were founded well after the Dutch started their experiment with puberty blockers and, it can reasonably be argued, for the purpose of offering these drugs. Endocrinologist Norman Spack, the founder of the first clinic in Boston, would later recall “salivating” at the prospect of using puberty blockers for children entering adolescence. In contrast with the Tavistock clinic, which referred patients to nearby hospitals for endocrine consultations, American gender clinics regularly employ endocrinologists like St. Louis’s Christopher Lewis, who, Ghorayshi notes, has prescribed hormones to patients after only a single visit. As the old saying goes, if you’re a hammer, every problem is a nail.

Given these important differences in the founding purpose, personnel composition, and sense of mission in American versus English clinics, it makes little sense to imply that the rush to medicalize at St. Louis was due to inadequate staffing of mental-health professionals. The surge in referrals may have been an aggravating factor, but it is not the root cause. The true root cause is the new ideology of gender and the mountain of subpar research that has been created to justify early intervention.

Ghorayshi and the Times deserve much credit for a report that is more thorough and balanced than many that we’ve seen from the newspaper of record in recent years on this issue. They are operating in a political environment in which even mere skepticism of PSTM is seen by some as complicity in “genocide.” They are challenging the received wisdom of their own political tribe, which is never easy.

On the other hand, the Times itself has promoted the narrative that PSTM is “medically necessary” and “life-saving,” and that criticism of it reeks of ignorance and bigotry. The trek back to impartiality and devotion to truth-telling will be long and arduous, but it begins with articles like Ghorayshi’s on Reed and the St. Louis clinic.

[divergeinstinx]

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Do update your character in manual way is highly appreciated. It’s still allowed if you update your character by repost from official account only

[malvernsims]

Here is the second half of the UF everyday outfits. All ages have fat morphs, adults also have preg morphs. Anything available to adults has been made available to young adults as well, and vice versa. Where applicable I’ve noted if a multiage replacement has repo’d textures.

UF Everyday Part 2 Folder (20 Defaults)

afbodyleatherjacket and efbodyleatherjacket replaced with Oxford Dress by DeeDee (AF-EF | repo'd textures | includes career outfit which has been unhidden)

afbodymascotdiver, afbodymascotdiver_ep7 and efbodymascotdiver replaced with 3t2 Dress Layered by DeeDee (AF-EF | repo'd textures | also categorized as formalwear | includes EP7 version for AF which has been unhidden)

afbodymascotknight, afbodymascotknight_ep7 and efbodymascotknight replaced with In Stride by Yuxi and Recolours of Yuxi's In Stride by Skell (AF-EF | repo'd textures | includes EP7 version for AF which has been unhidden)

tfbodynantesdrshightops and afbodynantesdrshightops replaced with Yuxi's Kick 'Em Out Skirt and Top + Converse by Allisas and Allisas’ Yuxi Knock ‘Em Out with Sneakers for TF by DeeDee (TF-AF | repo'd textures)

afbodyninja and efbodyninja replaced with 4t2 EP03 Robe by RentedSpace (AF-EF)

tfbodynyc2 and afbodynyc2 replaced with 3t2 Island Paradise Lace Boho by DeeDee (TF-AF | repo'd textures)

tfbodypleatsoutfit and afbodypleatsoutfit replaced with 4t2 SP06 Dress Layers by DeeDee (TF-AF | repo'd textures | also categorized as formalwear)

tfbodypolopants and afbodypolopants replaced with 4t2 Dress Blazer by DeeDee (TF-AF | repo'd textures)

tfbodysandrajktfitjeans and afbodysandrajktfitjeans replaced with Patterned Dress with Converse by Sanneke94 (TF-AF)

tfbodysewingmachine, afbodysewingmachine and efbodysewingmachine replaced with 3t2 Cherries on Top by DeeDee (TF-EF | also categorized as formalwear | pinned to Freetime and townie disabled | please note making the sewing machine outfit the regular way with my default results in an invisible body and floating head when the sim wears the outfit)

tfbodyshortapron, afbodyshortapron and efbodyshortapron replaced with 4t2 Retail Low by MDP and MDP’s 4t2 Retail Low for TF & EF by DeeDee (TF-EF | repo'd texures | townie disabled)

afbodyshortdressboots and efbodyshortdressboots replaced with Recolours of DeeDee's Amelia Shirt Dress of Kooli-Sims (AF-EF | repo'd textures | also categorized as formalwear)

afbodyslicksuit and efbodyslicksuit replaced with MDP’s 4t2 Business Suit Medium by MDP and MDP’s 4t2 Business Suit Medium for EF by DeeDee (AF-EF | repo'd textures | also categorized as formalwear | includes career version which has been unhidden)

tfbodysundress and afbodysundress replaced with Ruffle Ballerina Dress by DeeDee (TF-AF | repo'd textures | also categorized as formalwear)

tfbodytech, afbodysweatervest and efbodysweatervest replaced with Rita Dress Mashup by Vulrien and Vulrien’s Rita Sweater Dress for TF & EF by DeeDee (TF-EF | repo'd textures)

afbodysweats and efbodysweats replaced with 3t2 Wonderfully Woven by DeeDee (AF-EF | repo'd textures | includes career version which has been unhidden)

afbodytech and efbodytech replaced with Dawn Daisies Dress by DeeDee (AF-EF | repo'd textures | also categorized as formalwear | tfbodytech is included in the replacement with ufbodysweatervest above and not this one)

tfbodytubetopsandals and afbodytubetopsandals replaced with Frilly Dress by DeeDee (TF-AF | repo'd textures | also categorized as formalwear)

afbodytweedjacket and efbodytweedjacket replaced with 4t2 HappyLifeSims Late Autumn Outfit by Vidcunds and Vidcunds’ 4t2 HappyLifeSims Late Autumn Outfit for EF by DeeDee (AF-EF | repo'd textures | also categorized as outerwear | includes career version which has been unhidden)

tfbodyyukata and afbodyyukata replaced with 4t2 EP03 Robe by RentedSpace (TF-AF)

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Credits: @allisas, @deedee-sims, @kooli-sims, @mdpthatsme, @rented-space, @sanneke94, @whattheskell, Vidcunds (deactivated), @vulrien-sims, @yuxi-downloads​

Download @ Simfileshare: All Defaults | Individual Defaults

UF Everyday Defaults Part 1

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02/14/2024 - Added SFS folder with individual files added for easier downloading.

[tinarsdgroup]

We are the Tinarsd Group.

[ pt: "We are the Tinarsd Group." End pt ]

We are part of a Plural System, we can't say our system name because they don't let us.

We are a tiny group of 22 alters that are pro transX identitys.

We can front for more than 30 minutes now, thanks to our in-sys supporters that helped us

We do requests of Transid things

Body presentation:

Autistic, Plural and minor.

Owners presentation:

Kagej/Karl: C!Karl Jacobs Fictive, Abroachillean, Demiboy, He/Time/Purple and Multiage. (17 and 25.)

No typing Quirk.

Lidiagene/Lidiane: Somtive, Unlabelled, Cis Girl, ShX/Xhe/Blie and Transage. (37, YTO.)

Blue text.

[ pt: "Blue text" end pt]

Strawybenny/George: Strawberry George Fictive, Pan gay, Bigender, He/Straw/She/Cuteself and Xenoageholder.

Text. 🍓~ and Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Text.

[ Pt: "Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Text Text" end Pt]

Little Fox/Fundy: a c!Fundy Fictive, Gay, Quoimasc, He/Tail.

Mainly do Stimboards

No typing Quirk.

Tom/Tommy: C!Tommy(from a fanfic, not wanna talk about it.) Fictive, Gay Aroace, Boy, He/Him.

Mainly do flags

No typing Quirk.

[beardedmrbean]

The body of 31-year-old man who went missing while swimming off Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, on Sunday has been found following a massive search.

Richard A. Boateng, of Savage, Maryland, was last seen in the ocean surf off the beach area of Rehoboth Avenue around 5:45 p.m. Sunday, the Rehoboth Beach Police Department said.

The area is in the town of Rehoboth Beach, where President Biden has a vacation home.

Boateng's body was found Monday morning on North Shores beach, a small community just north of Rehoboth, Rehoboth Beach Fire Company Chief Chuck Snyder told Delaware Online.

After several 911 calls on Sunday, a multiagency search and rescue effort launched to find Boateng.

Members of the Rehoboth Beach Patrol, Rehoboth Beach Volunteer Fire Department, U.S. Coast Guard, Delaware State Police and the state’s Division of Fish and Wildlife all joined the search.

A witness told WGMD that he saw somebody raise his hand out of the ocean and realized the swimmer needed help.

"Then I started shouting ‘Help! We need a lifeguard.’ We were shouting, shouting, shouting and finally when I turned to this side. I can’t see him. He just lifted his hand and he drowned," the witness said.

Officials had warned of rip currents throughout the holiday weekend.

Fox News Digital reached out to the Rehoboth Police Department but did not immediately hear back.

[light-up-nevie]

RULES

1. MUST BE ACTIVE! Please be active to interact and participate in Agency activities.

2. We only accept Gen!RP with no weird username or nickname, so it's must be related to your muse. Nick and username that not related with your muse and JFB thingy it's strictly prohibited.

3. One account per-head. We truly appreciate it if you used your main account.

4. Love wins & All Star.

10. New account is accepted with minimum 50 followers and 100 tweets.

11. Your following must be under 500.

12. No twins. Unless you're muse have a biological twins.

15. Circle in Circle, War, and any Drama are strictly prohibited.

13.. Multiagencies are allowed. Maximum 3 with us. And maximum 2 Squad (Group squad are excluded. cont: TBZ Group Squad, IVE Group Squad, etc.) equad counted such as a big squad who had a schedule and held an events.

14. NO NSFW before 11 PM and only allowed until 4 AM.

15. Circle in Circle, War, and any Drama are strictly prohibited

16. Please use brackets for mundane’s talk and out of character things.

17. Follow all the weekly schedule as possible and participate in our events, please do tell us if you unable to join.

18. Please mingle well with your agency mates and respect The Pixies and fellow member.

19. Every violation of the rules will lead to warnings.

[augustcarnival]

RULES

One account per head

We accept all star, general roleplayer, and no twin

Please use nickname, bio, and username that are related to your character

No war, circle in circle, and drama. Let’s respect each other

No JFB things, retweet upfoll or bot for uptweet

We accept new account as long as you active

Maximal following 600 including our member

Multiagencies are allowed. Maximal agencies are 3 including us and 2 squad

No NSFW hours

Please use brackets for mundane or out of character things but don’t do it too often

Please do inform us if you want to take hiatus, move account, do temporary swap, and change your face claim

If your account got suspended or locked, you have 3 days to inform us

Please be active by participating in our games and events. If you can’t, kindly inform us and tell us the reason

Temporary swap is allowed and maximal 3 days

HIATUS

You need to inform us first if you want to take hiatus

Semi hiatus maximal 3 day

Long hiatus maximal 5 days

UNVERIFICATION

Being inactive for 24 hours after verification

Being inactive for 3 days without telling us the reason

Not appearing for 3 days after your hiatus period ended

Breaking our rules for 3 times

[mikeo56]

Virginia Burkett has filed a whistle-blower complaint, asking for an investigation and better policies to protect scientists against political interference.

A climate scientist who was demoted for speaking out by the administration of former US president Donald Trump is seeking an investigation into her case and demanding changes to personnel policies to prevent similar retaliation against others in future. Her supporters say the proposed reforms could help her agency, the US Geological Survey (USGS), as well as others safeguard science in the event of a second Trump administration, which many fear will be even more efficient than the first at sidelining science and scientists.

“This is not about what happened to me, it’s about what could happen to others,” Virginia Burkett, the scientist, told Nature, emphasizing that stronger protections are needed regardless of who wins the US presidential election in November.Trump’s presidential push renews fears for US science

Burkett, whose position and salary as chief scientist for climate and land use at the USGS have been upgraded under President Joe Biden, laid out her allegations in a 200-plus-page complaint filed today with a federal watchdog agency that represents whistle-blowers. She is represented by the Climate Science Legal Defense Fund, a non-profit organization based in New York City.

After Trump took office in 2017, Burkett repeatedly opposed what she saw as harmful actions taken by his administration, including dismantling climate research programmes, cutting science budgets and attempting to water down an influential government report on global warming. Burkett says that she was demoted from her leadership post at the USGS and then removed from a prominent White House panel that manages the government’s main, multiagency climate programme. Now she is seeking an investigation into what she calls “abuse of authority and gross mismanagement” under Trump.

Current officials at relevant agencies declined to comment or did not respond to requests from Nature, and Trump’s science adviser at the time says he does not remember being involved with her case.

The Biden administration is currently rushing to put scientific-integrity rules in place ahead of the upcoming US presidential election, to protect against political interference. But if Trump wins and takes office for a second time, many question whether those rules will be enough to safeguard government science and scientists.

As a senior scientist, Burkett says that she is in a solid position to push for stronger protections. “I don’t want to be here, but if not me, who?”

Running interference

From the earliest days of Trump’s presidency, Burkett says that senior USGS officials appointed by the administration misrepresented to the US Congress the scale and impact of budget cuts that they were trying to make to climate programmes within the agency. For example, agency leaders implied in their proposed budget that they would transfer a research programme focused on carbon uptake by ecosystems to a new department, when in fact the programme was being eliminated. At the same time, senior officials were attempting to misrepresent climate research in government-issued reports, she says.

After speaking out in opposition to both, Burkett was told in June 2017 that she would be transferred out of her science post and into a policy position under a political appointee who had yet to be chosen. The way the transfer was initiated, she alleges, violated rules designed to protect career civil servants, who are hired competitively rather than being appointed by the president. She was not alone: 34 other senior climate scientists were also given unexplained reassignments. Burkett successfully fought the transfer, but says she was coerced into accepting a demotion.

[hellovancouver]

II. Rules

One account per head.

Selective following (selfoll RPs).

No nick.

JFB things, and using an unrelated nickname and display name that not related to your muse are not allowed.

All stars, but Gen-RP only.

Allowed multiagencies maximal 3 OA including Hello Vancouver and 2 SQ with base.

Twins are not allowed unless your muse has a twin in real life.

Following must be under 500.

New account accepted with minimum 200 tweets and 40 followings.

Love wins.

Be active and obey the rules.

Circle in Circle (CIC), reunions, war, drama, and any actions that make others feel excluded or uncomfortable are strictly prohibited.

Please use bracket if you want to talk OOC or muntalk.

"SeductiveSunday" and NSFW events are forbidden here. Please show respect for your muse.

Please do some character update (you can do it manually or by retweeting the official account of your muse).

Please kindly notify us (Saviors) if you want to change your character, move account, hiatus, etc.