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Second, these facts lead inevitably to the conclusion McNamara reaches: that the government has no more right to deny trans people any necessary treatment than it does to preclude mental health care for sufferers of depression. For many, as is medically demonstrated, dysphoria manifests as a form of depression and should be treated as such in urgency.

Considering the number of openly transgender citizens in the U.S. alone, it’s clear that gender dysphoria is not some extremely rare and bizarre fluke of psychopathology. Nor, based on their overwhelmingly regret-less testimony (see page 21 of APA Task Force Report on Treatment of Gender Identity Disorder ), is this entirely or even mostly a passing phase of childhood identity fluidity. There is a genuine psychological sense in which a person’s mind can conflict with not just his or her sex, but with the mold into which family, peers, and strangers attempt to force him or her.

None of this is to say gender dysphoria is a mental illness in the stigmatized sense of the term — while no one with mental illness deserves dehumanization or disrespect, we have no reasons to believe transgender people are in any way more prone to hostile behavior in the way someone suffering from, for example, borderline personality disorder may be. In other words, “transgender” does not equal “Buffalo Bill.” This is why I prefer to use the term “gender dysphoria” over the connotative “gender identity disorder,” the latter’s persistence in the medical community notwithstanding.

Currently OOF with only an IPhone. So while waiting here, I was browsing apps and checked out of curiousity if there is a mobile app for Azure.

Although I have already moved, redirected and configured many many web front end to use SSL, I haven’t got around to implement this to my own websites. In comparison, my site is not a transactional site or doing any registration – I only use this as my portfolio site as well as a live test environment where I can experiment, learn, validate and do pretty much everything without any impact to anyone but me.

There are a lot of articles here , here ,  here , here , here and there regarding the pros and cons of having a site over HTTPS.  Basically from what I am reading now is it has an additional cost and additional load but it has to be done.

Representatives from all 193 member countries released a plan they called the Sustainable Development Goals, a list of 17 global goals that would "ensure that all people enjoy peace and prosperity" by the year 2030. Each goal was lofty in ambition: "No Poverty," "Zero Hunger," "Reduced Inequalities," and "Gender Equality." This was by design. As Ban Ki-moon, the then-secretary-general,  put it : "We don't have plan B because there is no planet B."

In June,  the latest report assessing the implementation of the goals was released. Things aren't going very well.

While the proportion of undernourished people in the world declined from 15 percent (between 2000 and 2002) to 11 percent (2014 to 2016), the worldwide rate of obesity and overweight children remained at 5 percent. While the 10 largest manufacturing countries decreased their emissions, "such promising trends are not reflected in the global emissions intensity levels." While more children than ever are going to school, "many do not acquire basic skills in reading and mathematics."

Second, these facts lead inevitably to the conclusion McNamara reaches: that the government has no more right to deny trans people any necessary treatment than it does to preclude mental health care for sufferers of depression. For many, as is medically demonstrated, dysphoria manifests as a form of depression and should be treated as such in urgency.

Considering the number of openly transgender citizens in the U.S. alone, it’s clear that gender dysphoria is not some extremely rare and bizarre fluke of psychopathology. Nor, based on their overwhelmingly regret-less testimony (see page 21 of APA Task Force Report on Treatment of Gender Identity Disorder ), is this entirely or even mostly a passing phase of childhood identity fluidity. There is a genuine psychological sense in which a person’s mind can conflict with not just his or her sex, but with the mold into which family, peers, and strangers attempt to force him or her.

None of this is to say gender dysphoria is a mental illness in the stigmatized sense of the term — while no one with mental illness deserves dehumanization or disrespect, we have no reasons to believe transgender people are in any way more prone to hostile behavior in the way someone suffering from, for example, borderline personality disorder may be. In other words, “transgender” does not equal “Buffalo Bill.” This is why I prefer to use the term “gender dysphoria” over the connotative “gender identity disorder,” the latter’s persistence in the medical community notwithstanding.

Currently OOF with only an IPhone. So while waiting here, I was browsing apps and checked out of curiousity if there is a mobile app for Azure.

Although I have already moved, redirected and configured many many web front end to use SSL, I haven’t got around to implement this to my own websites. In comparison, my site is not a transactional site or doing any registration – I only use this as my portfolio site as well as a live test environment where I can experiment, learn, validate and do pretty much everything without any impact to anyone but me.

There are a lot of articles here , here ,  here , here , here and there regarding the pros and cons of having a site over HTTPS.  Basically from what I am reading now is it has an additional cost and additional load but it has to be done.

Second, these facts lead inevitably to the conclusion McNamara reaches: that the government has no more right to deny trans people any necessary treatment than it does to preclude mental health care for sufferers of depression. For many, as is medically demonstrated, dysphoria manifests as a form of depression and should be treated as such in urgency.

Considering the number of openly transgender citizens in the U.S. alone, it’s clear that gender dysphoria is not some extremely rare and bizarre fluke of psychopathology. Nor, based on their overwhelmingly regret-less testimony (see page 21 of APA Task Force Report on Treatment of Gender Identity Disorder ), is this entirely or even mostly a passing phase of childhood identity fluidity. There is a genuine psychological sense in which a person’s mind can conflict with not just his or her sex, but with the mold into which family, peers, and strangers attempt to force him or her.

None of this is to say gender dysphoria is a mental illness in the stigmatized sense of the term — while no one with mental illness deserves dehumanization or disrespect, we have no reasons to believe transgender people are in any way more prone to hostile behavior in the way someone suffering from, for example, borderline personality disorder may be. In other words, “transgender” does not equal “Buffalo Bill.” This is why I prefer to use the term “gender dysphoria” over the connotative “gender identity disorder,” the latter’s persistence in the medical community notwithstanding.