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can scan this page alone -- one might say it takes a "matter of seconds" -- and see that the vast majority of threads involve the economy, the November elections, the border crisis, and various conor posts labeling Republicans as bad people. The vast majority. Which of those topics do you think are minor issues? I spot only one that is indicative of character and possibly psychological defect or deficiency.

Perhaps a better way of going about this is to ask you what you think are sufficiently big societal issues that should be discussed here? What would those be? You'll have to forgive me, but sometimes you give the impression of suffering from Lehigh Syndrome: "If I haven't heard of an issue, how on earth could it be important?"

Surgeries that we are discussing are almost always preceded by the prescription of puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones. If you're unaware of how commonly these are being prescribed to teens and pre-teens within this cohort, you don't understand the issue. This is also available to you in a matter seconds via Google. The youngest student I have had who was started on cross-sex hormones was 14, but she probably started on them at 13, given the middle school photo I saw. I have had several students who "identify" as "trans," and this is in what you would consider rural areas. Anyone in education understands how pervasive this is becoming, particularly among girls, where it is a social contagion. It's heartbreaking.

There are perhaps a few thousand minors who have had these surgeries. Is that insignificant? There were more school shootings 30 years ago than today. In total over those 30 years, we are talking about perhaps a few hundred children killed. Measured against the tens of millions of school-age children over that time, are school shootings a minor issue? Exponentially more have been killed in auto or other preventable accidents. Why do we talk far more about the former than the latter? If someone here found an article dealing with the latter, would you scold him for posting something that you find uninteresting and insignificant?

I see posts here about soccer, major league baseball, "Whatcha cooking tonight," TV shows that poster are binge-watching, and I could not care less about them. I find these activities to be wastes of time. However, many here do not. I don't scold people for having an interest in them. If I were to assume your attitude and persona and label them "pathetic" for being interested in these things, wouldn't it make me even more pathetic to get on here time and again, read their posts, and then tell them how pathetic they are?