Rex Kerr
1 min readNov 23, 2022

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Depending on the details, it can render one infertile, and all-cause mortality is up at least in trans women (even if you exclude suicides: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34481559/), so I wouldn't say the distinction is quite as stark as you make it. Indeed, the differences in all-cause mortality are not radically different from differences in all-cause mortality among paraplegics (see especially Figure 4 in https://www.nature.com/articles/sc201255 and contrast to the ~2-fold increase in all-cause mortality in trans women).

Caveat with trans all cause mortality: it's hard to find a representative control group.

Nonetheless, though I agree that exercise is extremely important, I think you're not doing justice to the complexity of the topic. For instance, one could go through all the neurological and stress-related risks of taking a path that is rejected by a significant portion of one's society: you're slowly killing yourself--just don't, someone might say.

There's a reason why that's the wrong thing to say.

But you don't seem to have grasped the general lesson here.

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Rex Kerr
Rex Kerr

Written by Rex Kerr

One who rejoices when everything is made as simple as possible, but no simpler. Sayer of things that may be wrong, but not so bad that they're not even wrong.

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