The middle ground fallacy

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The middle ground position when it comes to the holocaust is only killing 3 million jews, that would still be insanity. Another position is not killing jews at all but that is also the incorrect position, the correct policy would have been to use the jews for breeding (forced pregnancies, etc) but this is a very rare position and not even radial anti-nazis hold that frequently.

The correct transgender position isn't "let's let people transition if they have severe dysphoria". The correct transgender position is involuntary HRT.

The correct position with regard to teen pregnancies is to push for more teen pregnancies and consider forced breeding.

In the case of psychiatric drugs you are best off avoiding them completely considering they at best only help short term. The correct position with regard to psychiatry is complete abolition, there is nothing there worth preserving.

 

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Commercial products
Often a company screw up really badly resulting in their product being a complete disaster and there is no real way to defend it in any way.

Of course in some cases their are legitimate reasons to buy either product (such as PS4 pro vs one X or ps3 vs 360) but often there really isn't but then if you point that out you will be accused of being a fanboy of their competitor even if you do not even own any product from said competitor.

 

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The median voter theorem
If everyone is voting then candidate closest to the middle (even when it isn't popular) will be more likely to win

In the real world however not everyone will bother to vote so you might actually get more votes taking on a more radical position and thus getting your base fired up (to they will vote and convince others to also vote).

 

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Puberty blockers
Puberty blockers are sometimes used to medically 'treat' precocious puberty in cis people, this is however very questionable

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00044/full#B8

There is no good medical reason for delaying puberty (cis or trans), its done for social reasons. It's against christian moral dogma for young teens to be sexually active and people having early puberty may also be teased by peers.
It was only when puberty blockers started to be used to delay puberty in trans people (for no good reason) that they finally came under scrutiny and results are bad.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5694455/

If children could get on HRT earlier there wouldn't be any need to use puberty blockers at all. Instead we would have the following 3 option

A: start full HRT before puberty. This has the advantage of allowing the individual to pass better as a female but the price is very high, the child will become sterilized for life and SRS will be significantly more difficult since there isn't enough tissue to work with.

B: have the child undergo enough male puberty such that sperm can be banked, after that full HRT is quickly introduced.

C: have the child undergo puberty and delay HRT.

The following study does seem to show puberty blockers to be better than C but even then it can be strongly argued A or B would have been a far better option.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7073269/

The methodology used was very poor so its not in any way a convincing result.

It is worth noting that its very rare for children that started on puberty blockers to desist, almost without exception they will proceed with cross-sex hormones meaning they will be infertile for life unless some medical advancement is made allowing them to somehow have biological children.

Spack has, he says, put “about 200 children” on to hormone blockers at the onset of puberty. Of these, 100% have gone on to take cross-sex hormones.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/nov/13/transgender-children-the-parents-and-doctors-on-the-frontline

No adolescent withdrew from puberty suppression, and all started cross-sex hormone treatment, the first step of actual gender reassignment.” These were out of 70 children put on hormone blockers.

http://www.pinktherapy.com/Portals/0/CourseResources/de_Vries_Puberty_Suppression_in_Adolescents_with_GD.pdf
What was the point in delaying puberty if they all ended up on cross-sex hormones anyway?