Sugoi & Yokunai

Zhong said the family spent a year in discussions with University of California officials after Stanley's rejections, but nothing changed. He said the turning point came when a UC admissions director emailed him, writing that his allegation of racial discrimination was unfounded because California law bans the practice.

“As attractive as economics may be as a solution to the riddle of the growing ambivalence about having children, it is partial at best,” Berg and Wiseman write. Pakaluk observes, “Cash incentives and tax relief won’t persuade people to give up their lives. People will do that for God, for their families, and for their future children.” In other words, no amount of money or social support will inspire people to have children—not unless there is some deeper certainty that doing so makes sense.

If falling birth rates can be attributed to a loss of meaning, the question then becomes if there can be any government-based solution to fertility decline. People debating whether to have children seem to be seeking certainty that life is a good thing, that more life would thus be better, and that assistance, if needed, will arrive. 

The potential for treatment or surgical regret, and the largely unknown rate at which those who undergo gender-transition interventions as minors might experience it, is one of the larger elephants in the pediatric gender medicine exam room. Olson-Kennedy, who is currently serving as USPATH’s president, is notorious among critics of gender medicine for a one-minute clip from an undercover video, shot and published in 2018, in which she is captured responding glibly to the suggestion that minors might regret gender-transition mastectomies. “If you want breasts at a later point in your life,” she quipped, “you can go and get them.”

“It’s been fairly frequent,” she said in 2022, that youth arrived at her practice already taking blockers. This despite the fact that the parents and child often lacked even a basic understanding of the drug’s impacts, risks, and benefits. “It becomes pretty clear that those important discussions either didn’t happen or they didn’t happen in a way that they really stuck,” Berg said. “That really concerns me.” 

“People with substance use disorder reported many more deal-breakers at a higher rate than people without substance use. Top deal-breakers included drug testing, no guests, room checks, curfews, criminal record exclusions, religious requirements, housing that is difficult to get to, and/or sober/drug-free housing compared to people without substance use,” the report states.

The mice treated with the bacteria showed an approximate 30% increase in grip strength in their forelimbs compared to animals that did not receive it.

Privacy concerns are seemingly worse for non-subscribed users, the complaint alleged. Their initial prompts are shared with “a URL through which the entire conversation may be accessed by third parties like Meta and Google.”

Disturbingly, the lawsuit alleged, chats are also shared with personally identifiable information (PII), even when users who want to stay anonymous opt to use Perplexity’s “Incognito Mode.” That mode, the lawsuit charged, is a “sham.”