The study you and many fundy christians quoted is old (the previous century), and only has a total of 17 subjects. Here's one from 2012 with 889 subjects. It shows that suicidal ideation is mostly caused by rejection and lack of support before transition.
The study found that trans people are most at risk prior to social and/or medical transition and that, in many cases, trans people who require access to hormones and surgery can be left unsupported for dangerously long periods of time. The paper highlights the devastating impact that delaying or denying gender reassignment treatment can have and urges commissioners and practitioners to prioritise timely intervention and support.
There are plenty more that all say the same thing - hormones and surgery lower the individual's risk, as does social acceptance. It's assholes like you who are the cause of the high risk pre-transition.
Also, you don't think that voters and taxpayers should have a say in how their tax dollars are spent, and they shouldn't be allowed to vote for a public health carfe service. So much for democracy. Every other OECD country disagrees with you.
I am the rare exception - it's bound to happen statistically - where things just keep going wrong. Most people never have to deal with a murder, or flesh-eating disease. Half of all women have to deal with sexual assault - and that is the same in the US - so I'd say society is failing women in general.
And the benefits of a public health care system that covers everyone is pretty self-evident when you look at the stats
Here’s a fact most Canadians probably don’t know: Canadians live longer than people in the United States. Specifically, women in Canada live an average of 83 years, compared to 80 in the U.S.; men live more than 78 years on average compared to 75 in the United States. Why is this the case? There are clear links between mortality rates and the way countries invest in health care and improving social conditions.
Recently, we published a study in the American Journal of Public Health on the efficiency of health care systems at extending lives over the past two decades – and it’s good news for Canadians. For every additional hundred dollars spent on health care in Canada, per capita, life expectancy was extended by nearly two months. The same expenditures were only associated with less than half a month of increased life expectancy in the United States.
As you can see, public health care dollars go much further in extending lifespan than private healthcare dollars. So, why shouldn't people be allowed to vote to have their tax dollars spent more effectively via a public health care system that has been proven to be better than the US private health care system?
The study assessed the gains in life expectancy from health spending in 27 countries, as well as across genders within each nation. After controlling for economic development, social expenditures, and behavior, we found significant differences in international levels of efficiency. Canada ranked 8th of 27 countries, while the U.S. came in at 22nd.
Your system just doesn't deliver the bang for the buck. That's a fact. Sometimes the government CAN do things more efficiently than the private sector, and when it comes to people's health, it should. Profit shouldn't come first.
A restaurant and a BIG tip to the wait staff, as well as buying more than just coffee, works okay. It's more than a few bucks, but hey, you've got to eat anyway, might as well treat yourself.:-)
When I was a kid we had to either go outside to play until suppertime, or do homework. You can guess what we chose. Today, kids sit in front of screens instead, and recent studies have shown the long-term impact on their skeletal system (reduced bone density) that will bite them in spades later in life. Plus there's the whole screentime-obesity link.
So we played. Sometimes had fun, sometimes got beaten up, but at least we weren't isolating ourselves. We knew all the other kids in the neighborhood, and their parents knew us.
There's no reason a one-person start-up has to be isolating. There's this thing called the Internet, where you can post ads looking for other people who might want to share your place for the same fee and free coffee (unlike Staples). You get to choose who you work around, and they can improve their workspace by setting up a second, larger screen so they're not struggling with the laptop screens lack of real estate. They could even park a desktop there for the duration - not something you can do at a co-working space.
Or, better yet, budget your time properly so that you take screen breaks of 15 minutes to 2 hours to get out of the house, away from work, and let stuff gel in the back of your mind. Your increased efficiency will hopefully more than make up for fewer hours in front of the keyboard, because sometimes you can look at something all day and not see the problem when it's obvious to a fresh set of eyes (and that fresh set can be yours 2 hours later).
Doesn't work unless I'm wearing headphones too. And I don't want to, and shouldn't have to. That's why it's better to have an office with a door. Improved productivity, and more importantly, fewer errors caused by distractions, which more than makes up for the cost of a real office with a real door, unless you're working on something of no consequence that, if it screws up, nothing of value was lost.
You're so full of shit again. That study has been completely disproven. Come on - they cite sources from 1975. Subsequently, it's been established that the public's attitude played a huge role back then. Acceptance wasn't like it is today. The vast majority of studies show that post-transition, people's suicide rates are just slightly higher than the average population.
Anything is better than the 40% who want to kill themselves without proper treatment. In other words, people receiving proper treatment are at less risk of suicide.
But again, you're making a false deduction because that's what you want to do. Why? Because you're an ignorant asshole. My problems with depression are from several sources - as I have already pointed out. It's common in survivors of sexual assault, and also in people with PTSD - and that's me. It also doesn't help that my current endocrinologist is NOT following standard treatment guidelines, and put me on a drug that is known to cause depression and suicidal ideation without taking any counter-measures. He's an idiot, which is why I have an appointment with another endocrinologist in a couple of weeks. The serious depressive and suicidal ideation only started after he began treating me. So, apples and oranges. You also must have missed the murder - violent crimes tend to also cause PTSD, depression, etc. That started way back long before I began transition - more than 40 years ago, long before the term PTSD was even invented. Only got therapy for it 3 years ago, partly because I didn't know how to get help. But depression has been an on-again, off-again problem for most of my life, and has nothing to do with transsexuality and much to do with the events that caused PTSD.
Then there's the whole problem with vision loss. For a couple of years, I was mostly blind. Couldn't read, couldn't work, couldn't do much of anything. Severe vision impairment a known source of depression. And the bout of flesh-eating disease. And a few other medical problems (work accidents, etc).
Anyone who's gone through what I've been through would be affected - unless they're a sociopath. I'm not.
Now, pretty much everyone has relatives who pay taxes but don't have such a high need for medical and other support services. Why isn't it right and proper for them to insist that some of the taxes they pay help others in their family? Or do you believe that taxes are a one-way street - the government taketh, and the government giveth not? Creep.
But of course creeps like you hide behind the anonymity of the internet. It's what you do.
Lack of privacy, having to pack up your things when you need to go to the bathroom or skip out for half an hour for lunch (and drag it all with you), not having your own peripherals (printer/scanner/large 2nd screen)... you might as well put the money towards a real home office.
What next - bean counters saying "You're all being moved to work bars and we'll save SOOO much money"?
Obviously you didn't RTFA or you would have seen the picture. It's exactly what they're talking about. Paying $130 a month as a "member" so you can sit at a table and work in the open.
It's not that special any more. Large sections are empty because people bought condos as investments instead of to live in, creating an urban desert. Throw in the rain, and the smog, and the drugs, and the traffic, and the sky-high cost of housing, and you're better off on the mainland.
And selling "workbar memberships" at $130 a month is going to pay the bills? I guess they're going to make it up in coffee sales or something. So what happens when you want to show stuff to a client - do you buy them a membership too?
Open layouts suck. You can't get peace and quiet, you hear everyone's phone conversations, everyone's music, everyone's nattering. And since there's no door, everyone is free to interrupt you. It's like working from home and nobody understands that you're WORKING, so call first.
And yet you admitted you googled me. Your words: "When I search for you on google". Stop lying, fool. And FYI, I've been here a lot longer than you. My first uid was 5 digits.
Type 1 diabetes is also a costly lifelong medical condition if treated, and fatal if not. Are you going to call for not treating those who can't pay the full cost for a genetic condition they were born with and did not choose? 30 years ago it cost me half my earnings. Now, we have universal mandatory pharmacare insurance here, so it's a flat fee, everyone pays, everyone's covered. Are you going to say that people who make claims against their insurance that exceed their premiums should be denied? See how hard it would be to sell an auto or house insurance policy on that basis.
How about victims of crime? I didn't ask to be sexually assaulted, I didn't ask for PTSD, anxiety disorder, or persistent depressive disorder with major depressive episodes. Should the victim be the one to bear the cost? Way to victimize someone a second time. You're a jerk.
An ignorant jerk. Gender reassignment surgery is considered an essential medical procedure. It prevents suicides. Look it up, asswipe.
Maybe google found out they're infringing a few patents and want to cya. Either by getting others who hold patents that could be used against the holders of the infringed patents to sign a cross-licensing deal, or some other scheme. Probably hoping to get some autonomous car developers to sign on.
I take him out often just as much for my own health as his - though when it's snowing or raining he refuses to go. It's a great way to meet people who share the same interests - or at least one interest. Having to retire early (which sux), it gives me something to do (that doesn't suck so much).
But every hour? We're out for up to an hour or more each time (bad weather excepted), so forget it. 4 hours a day is enough. I get my 10,000 steps in, and he (with those tiny legs) gets his 70,000 steps in.
I was thinking maybe a hunter illegally killed the mother, then lured the cubs into the outhouse (maybe by throwing his lunch in there) before making off with the body. The cubs have to be hand-fed, they're that young.
No, Canadian building codes don't require any such thing. Don't know where you got that from. Maybe because the city of Vancouver (known as La-la land to the rest of the country) banned door knobs in new construction in 2014, but then again, it's Vancouver. They live in a different world.
Never said Medicare and Medicade were free - just that some people would not see a doctor if it weren't for them.
Now as to your personal attacks on me - I'm retired, bozo. Here people have the right to retire at 60, and given the state of my health, it was inevitable. Or are you going to characterize everyone who's retired as "out-of-work"? Same as you tried to characterize us as "practically wards of the state"?
I'll "chime in on US politics" as much as I damn well please. You see, freedom of speech isn't an American invention - and isn't being upheld too well in the US, what with FISA warrants, 100-mile border search zones where probable cause isn't needed for a search, etc. That "zone" covers 2/3 of the population. You need other countries that rank higher on freedom to remind you of what you've lost. In that respect, Canada has a freedom score of 99, and the US 89. That means 43 countries are more free than the US. No doubt it will get worse when next year's ratings come out. Or if you want something that makes the US look better, there's the 2016 rankings by the Cato Institute, where you're "only" 23rd.
Now as to my being a transsexual, that should be irrelevant, but it obviously is to you or you wouldn't have mentioned it. But why would you bother when my.sig makes it obvious and I haven't hidden it since I was outed here in 2006? Obviously, from the work you put into googling me and reviewing my posting history, I've struck multiple nerves.:-) Cry-baby.
It's so easy to troll libertarian-leaning retards - feels almost like te turn of the century again.
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The study you and many fundy christians quoted is old (the previous century), and only has a total of 17 subjects. Here's one from 2012 with 889 subjects. It shows that suicidal ideation is mostly caused by rejection and lack of support before transition.
The study found that trans people are most at risk prior to social and/or medical transition and that, in many cases, trans people who require access to hormones and surgery can be left unsupported for dangerously long periods of time. The paper highlights the devastating impact that delaying or denying gender reassignment treatment can have and urges commissioners and practitioners to prioritise timely intervention and support.
There are plenty more that all say the same thing - hormones and surgery lower the individual's risk, as does social acceptance. It's assholes like you who are the cause of the high risk pre-transition.
Also, you don't think that voters and taxpayers should have a say in how their tax dollars are spent, and they shouldn't be allowed to vote for a public health carfe service. So much for democracy. Every other OECD country disagrees with you.
I am the rare exception - it's bound to happen statistically - where things just keep going wrong. Most people never have to deal with a murder, or flesh-eating disease. Half of all women have to deal with sexual assault - and that is the same in the US - so I'd say society is failing women in general.
And the benefits of a public health care system that covers everyone is pretty self-evident when you look at the stats
Here’s a fact most Canadians probably don’t know: Canadians live longer than people in the United States. Specifically, women in Canada live an average of 83 years, compared to 80 in the U.S.; men live more than 78 years on average compared to 75 in the United States. Why is this the case? There are clear links between mortality rates and the way countries invest in health care and improving social conditions.
Recently, we published a study in the American Journal of Public Health on the efficiency of health care systems at extending lives over the past two decades – and it’s good news for Canadians. For every additional hundred dollars spent on health care in Canada, per capita, life expectancy was extended by nearly two months. The same expenditures were only associated with less than half a month of increased life expectancy in the United States.
As you can see, public health care dollars go much further in extending lifespan than private healthcare dollars. So, why shouldn't people be allowed to vote to have their tax dollars spent more effectively via a public health care system that has been proven to be better than the US private health care system?
The study assessed the gains in life expectancy from health spending in 27 countries, as well as across genders within each nation. After controlling for economic development, social expenditures, and behavior, we found significant differences in international levels of efficiency. Canada ranked 8th of 27 countries, while the U.S. came in at 22nd.
Your system just doesn't deliver the bang for the buck. That's a fact. Sometimes the government CAN do things more efficiently than the private sector, and when it comes to people's health, it should. Profit shouldn't come first.
A restaurant and a BIG tip to the wait staff, as well as buying more than just coffee, works okay. It's more than a few bucks, but hey, you've got to eat anyway, might as well treat yourself. :-)
When I was a kid we had to either go outside to play until suppertime, or do homework. You can guess what we chose. Today, kids sit in front of screens instead, and recent studies have shown the long-term impact on their skeletal system (reduced bone density) that will bite them in spades later in life. Plus there's the whole screentime-obesity link.
So we played. Sometimes had fun, sometimes got beaten up, but at least we weren't isolating ourselves. We knew all the other kids in the neighborhood, and their parents knew us.
There's no reason a one-person start-up has to be isolating. There's this thing called the Internet, where you can post ads looking for other people who might want to share your place for the same fee and free coffee (unlike Staples). You get to choose who you work around, and they can improve their workspace by setting up a second, larger screen so they're not struggling with the laptop screens lack of real estate. They could even park a desktop there for the duration - not something you can do at a co-working space.
Or, better yet, budget your time properly so that you take screen breaks of 15 minutes to 2 hours to get out of the house, away from work, and let stuff gel in the back of your mind. Your increased efficiency will hopefully more than make up for fewer hours in front of the keyboard, because sometimes you can look at something all day and not see the problem when it's obvious to a fresh set of eyes (and that fresh set can be yours 2 hours later).
It's Staples. Even the coffee won't be free. For many coders, that's a deal breaker AND a ball breaker. :-)
Doesn't work unless I'm wearing headphones too. And I don't want to, and shouldn't have to. That's why it's better to have an office with a door. Improved productivity, and more importantly, fewer errors caused by distractions, which more than makes up for the cost of a real office with a real door, unless you're working on something of no consequence that, if it screws up, nothing of value was lost.
You're so full of shit again. That study has been completely disproven. Come on - they cite sources from 1975. Subsequently, it's been established that the public's attitude played a huge role back then. Acceptance wasn't like it is today. The vast majority of studies show that post-transition, people's suicide rates are just slightly higher than the average population.
Anything is better than the 40% who want to kill themselves without proper treatment. In other words, people receiving proper treatment are at less risk of suicide.
But again, you're making a false deduction because that's what you want to do. Why? Because you're an ignorant asshole. My problems with depression are from several sources - as I have already pointed out. It's common in survivors of sexual assault, and also in people with PTSD - and that's me. It also doesn't help that my current endocrinologist is NOT following standard treatment guidelines, and put me on a drug that is known to cause depression and suicidal ideation without taking any counter-measures. He's an idiot, which is why I have an appointment with another endocrinologist in a couple of weeks. The serious depressive and suicidal ideation only started after he began treating me. So, apples and oranges. You also must have missed the murder - violent crimes tend to also cause PTSD, depression, etc. That started way back long before I began transition - more than 40 years ago, long before the term PTSD was even invented. Only got therapy for it 3 years ago, partly because I didn't know how to get help. But depression has been an on-again, off-again problem for most of my life, and has nothing to do with transsexuality and much to do with the events that caused PTSD.
Then there's the whole problem with vision loss. For a couple of years, I was mostly blind. Couldn't read, couldn't work, couldn't do much of anything. Severe vision impairment a known source of depression. And the bout of flesh-eating disease. And a few other medical problems (work accidents, etc).
Anyone who's gone through what I've been through would be affected - unless they're a sociopath. I'm not.
Now, pretty much everyone has relatives who pay taxes but don't have such a high need for medical and other support services. Why isn't it right and proper for them to insist that some of the taxes they pay help others in their family? Or do you believe that taxes are a one-way street - the government taketh, and the government giveth not? Creep.
But of course creeps like you hide behind the anonymity of the internet. It's what you do.
Lack of privacy, having to pack up your things when you need to go to the bathroom or skip out for half an hour for lunch (and drag it all with you), not having your own peripherals (printer/scanner/large 2nd screen) ... you might as well put the money towards a real home office.
What next - bean counters saying "You're all being moved to work bars and we'll save SOOO much money"?
Obviously you didn't RTFA or you would have seen the picture. It's exactly what they're talking about. Paying $130 a month as a "member" so you can sit at a table and work in the open.
At least it keeps others from screen surfing.
It's not that special any more. Large sections are empty because people bought condos as investments instead of to live in, creating an urban desert. Throw in the rain, and the smog, and the drugs, and the traffic, and the sky-high cost of housing, and you're better off on the mainland.
And selling "workbar memberships" at $130 a month is going to pay the bills? I guess they're going to make it up in coffee sales or something. So what happens when you want to show stuff to a client - do you buy them a membership too?
To be honest, that is quite different from what I was expecting a fornication lab to be.
Translation: He works on Uber's app - f*cking everyone over.
Open layouts suck. You can't get peace and quiet, you hear everyone's phone conversations, everyone's music, everyone's nattering. And since there's no door, everyone is free to interrupt you. It's like working from home and nobody understands that you're WORKING, so call first.
This is in a Staples store. Do you really want to work on your stuff at an open table in a Staples store?
Just another way to hide the super cheap open office plan behind "hipster" words. Even cubicles would be an improvement.
Vancouver is to Canada as California is to the rest of the USA.
Wow, please look at a map. Vancouver is a city, not a state, territory, or province.
And yet you admitted you googled me. Your words: "When I search for you on google". Stop lying, fool. And FYI, I've been here a lot longer than you. My first uid was 5 digits.
Type 1 diabetes is also a costly lifelong medical condition if treated, and fatal if not. Are you going to call for not treating those who can't pay the full cost for a genetic condition they were born with and did not choose? 30 years ago it cost me half my earnings. Now, we have universal mandatory pharmacare insurance here, so it's a flat fee, everyone pays, everyone's covered. Are you going to say that people who make claims against their insurance that exceed their premiums should be denied? See how hard it would be to sell an auto or house insurance policy on that basis.
How about victims of crime? I didn't ask to be sexually assaulted, I didn't ask for PTSD, anxiety disorder, or persistent depressive disorder with major depressive episodes. Should the victim be the one to bear the cost? Way to victimize someone a second time. You're a jerk.
An ignorant jerk. Gender reassignment surgery is considered an essential medical procedure. It prevents suicides. Look it up, asswipe.
Trump loves Tic Tacs and sexually assaulting women. He thinks he's daughter is a hot piece of ass. I bet that makes his supporters proud.
Having seen some of his supports, I bet you're right.
Maybe google found out they're infringing a few patents and want to cya. Either by getting others who hold patents that could be used against the holders of the infringed patents to sign a cross-licensing deal, or some other scheme. Probably hoping to get some autonomous car developers to sign on.
I take him out often just as much for my own health as his - though when it's snowing or raining he refuses to go. It's a great way to meet people who share the same interests - or at least one interest. Having to retire early (which sux), it gives me something to do (that doesn't suck so much).
But every hour? We're out for up to an hour or more each time (bad weather excepted), so forget it. 4 hours a day is enough. I get my 10,000 steps in, and he (with those tiny legs) gets his 70,000 steps in.
So, the same as Purdue with Oxycontin ... public research and expenses, private profits.
I was thinking maybe a hunter illegally killed the mother, then lured the cubs into the outhouse (maybe by throwing his lunch in there) before making off with the body. The cubs have to be hand-fed, they're that young.
No, Canadian building codes don't require any such thing. Don't know where you got that from. Maybe because the city of Vancouver (known as La-la land to the rest of the country) banned door knobs in new construction in 2014, but then again, it's Vancouver. They live in a different world.
Never said Medicare and Medicade were free - just that some people would not see a doctor if it weren't for them.
Now as to your personal attacks on me - I'm retired, bozo. Here people have the right to retire at 60, and given the state of my health, it was inevitable. Or are you going to characterize everyone who's retired as "out-of-work"? Same as you tried to characterize us as "practically wards of the state"?
I'll "chime in on US politics" as much as I damn well please. You see, freedom of speech isn't an American invention - and isn't being upheld too well in the US, what with FISA warrants, 100-mile border search zones where probable cause isn't needed for a search, etc. That "zone" covers 2/3 of the population. You need other countries that rank higher on freedom to remind you of what you've lost. In that respect, Canada has a freedom score of 99, and the US 89. That means 43 countries are more free than the US. No doubt it will get worse when next year's ratings come out. Or if you want something that makes the US look better, there's the 2016 rankings by the Cato Institute, where you're "only" 23rd.
Now as to my being a transsexual, that should be irrelevant, but it obviously is to you or you wouldn't have mentioned it. But why would you bother when my .sig makes it obvious and I haven't hidden it since I was outed here in 2006? Obviously, from the work you put into googling me and reviewing my posting history, I've struck multiple nerves. :-) Cry-baby.
It's so easy to troll libertarian-leaning retards - feels almost like te turn of the century again.