I exaggerated for comedic effect, sure, but it is true. There is a statistically significant number of people who are autistic and identify as trans/non-binary as compared to neurotypical people.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-17794-1

You don’t have to be a teenager to be featured in teen vogue. Just interesting to teenagers (and I can understand why Vivian has the spotlight on her).

Also, that’s not how genetics work. Vivian is the result of that specific egg and sperm. She never would’ve been born with XX chromosomes. Someone else would’ve been born.

If we want to laugh at Musk though, we can point out how the venn Diagramm of autistic people and trans people is practically a circle. Musk trying to select all “males” during IVF was always doomed to fail, especially the more kids he had. He’s so dumb and desparate for control he thought he could pick his kids’ identities through their very genetics.

I hope Vivian has a kick ass life just the way she is. :)

Just because Germany has free education, it doesn’t mean everyone still has equal access to it.

And for better or worse, students can stop secondary school at age 16 and go right into a trade school. The route from secondary school to university is much harder than in the US - there’s a huge exit exam and I think a thesis paper. So, if you can make it past that higher bar of academic standards to get into university, you can be educated without going into debt…

Plus they still have that divide between leftists living in the big cities with the population leaning more right wing as you get out to the countryside.

(source: Me, an American who escaped to Europe)

There’s plenty of research out there that shows educating women leads to reduced rates of teenage pregnancy and total number of children. Like its pretty damn solid evidence that educating women helps them make informed family planning decisions.

I think a bigger problem is increasing infertility rates and how many people need to use IVF to conceive in the first place. Something worldwide is disrupting our hormones and affecting our ability to reproduce. Even if someone had everything they needed and wanted to support a child, they might not physically be able to create one or carry a pregnancy to term.

It’s banned but there’s still a lot of porn on there, lol.