“The concept of growth as a surrogate for redistribution appears, in retrospect, as the great conservative idea of the last generation. By conservative I do not mean militantly right-wing, for indeed wide circles of social democracy and the left have implicitly embraced the covenant it implies. Nonetheless, in the confrontation with Marxism and socialism, conservatives had only three choices: an outworn insistence on the value of traditional elites and privileges, which had little prospect for success under conditions of universal suffrage; or a fascism requiring that all class rivalry must be submerged in the search to aggrandize national authority and territory (which emerged discredited by the war); or the non-zero-sum pursuit of economic growth in the hope that this might make the older doctrines of class conflict irrelevant. Inflation has played an important role in preserving a broad consensus around the third concept; for when growth could not keep up with expectations, inflation helped disguise the lag. But beyond a certain rate, inflation cannot play this role as social lubricant and instead aggravates the very distributional conflicts it helped assuage.”

“Cops and judges arrested and jailed people who had not stolen a car to help out Hertz. They humiliated people who had not stolen stuff to help out Walmart. They jailed cancer patients for being unable to afford the made-up price a hospital charged them to stay alive, to help out the hospital. (I didn’t even mention the judges who sign off on landlords’ arrest warrants for unpaid rent.) The reverse of this—for ordinary people to use the legal system to obtain justice from large corporations—is absurdly difficult, thanks to neat things like arbitration clauses and ‘needing money to get a lawyer.’ The truth of American inequality is not just that some people have a lot of money and a lot more have very little, in some sad natural accident. The rich are rich because other people are poor. The wealthy elite extracts their riches from the poor through schemes like this, or underpaying workers, or pure wage theft. It’s a transfer, and the logic of capitalism and ever-increasing profits dictates that they must always use every possible avenue to expand this transfer. And sitting right there is the criminal justice system, already primed to oppress the powerless and vulnerable, with the legal authority to take people’s money. It’s a loaded gun, literally.”

Darling of the “detransition” movement comes out again as transgender

She tried to "do everything to make these feelings go away," but the only thing that worked "was accepting them."

www.lgbtqnation.com|Greg Owen

“Trans people deserve access to support, and it makes no sense to shut down people’s access to medical transition just because some people end up detransitioning,” she told Slate.

The number of people reporting detransition is small. According to a study this year from UCLA’s Williams Institute, 1.3 million adults in the U.S. identify as transgender, or 0.05 % of the population. Another 300,000 youth, ages 13-17, do so, as well.

Of those who transition, about eight percent report detransitioning, according to a 2015 survey by the National Center for Transgender Equality, and most – 62 percent – of that eight percent said detransition was temporary. A 50-year survey in Sweden revealed about two percent of the trans population regretted undergoing gender-affirming surgery.

Schevers said the detransition movement she helped spark became overtly transphobic and repressive and left no room for doubt or questioning individuals.