"If academia is full of a bunch of out-of-touch liberal elites, why do we want them debating medical treatments?! "
And yet if they have the Wrong Opinion regarding these treatments then that's terribly important and we need to make sure everyone knows about it (and punishes them for it).
Although you're right, in a sense, that this isn't debate; it's more of an excommunication for profession of heresy.
"If academia is full of a bunch of out-of-touch liberal elites, why do we want them debating medical treatments?! "
And yet if they have the Wrong Opinion regarding these treatments then that's terribly important and we need to make sure everyone knows about it (and punishes them for it).
Although you're right, in a sense, that this isn't debate; it's more of an excommunication for profession of heresy.
" Transition would imply you change when you do it, which…would have people flipping back and forth every time they took a pill? What?"
So what are the pills for, then?