[HN Gopher] Toxic workplaces can harm your physical and mental h...
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       Toxic workplaces can harm your physical and mental health, Surgeon
       General says
        
       Author : rustoo
       Score  : 38 points
       Date   : 2022-10-22 14:40 UTC (8 hours ago)
        
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       | PeterStuer wrote:
       | I can't see this was ever in question, so what is the agenda
       | here?
        
         | healthandsafety wrote:
        
           | dirtball_ wrote:
        
           | tbalsam wrote:
           | I've spent a fair bit of time engaging with these systems and
           | I feel most of the issues are in the bureaucratic elements of
           | the system, and less the medicalization. We can all pick six
           | sigma events to prove a point, but this just tends to
           | radicalize either side.
           | 
           | I'd also contend that you might want to look into the medical
           | aspects of how transgender care for children is done. It's
           | generally conservative with no physical or hormone changes
           | until puberty, and even then, getting puberty blockers
           | requires a number of hoops. Ensuring the child actually has a
           | brain different from their body is a long and arduous process
           | involving a therapist and generally a medical team.
           | 
           | When I hear "chop off penises" and "mastectomies", it tends
           | to be generally in emotional appeal fallacies that are
           | originally spread by more sensationalizing talk show hosts.
           | Sexual modification isn't a requirement for transgender
           | individuals (and considered a big risk by some in the
           | community), and I think we risk simply dividing ourselves and
           | winning the the honor of being right at the expense of
           | rigorous, diverse communal dialogue otherwise.
        
         | CharlesW wrote:
         | This seems to be answered reasonably-well: "The findings, which
         | may come as no surprise to many workers, are significant in
         | that they are first time the Surgeon General has explicitly
         | linked job factors such as low wages, discrimination,
         | harassment, overwork, long commutes and other factors to
         | chronic physical health conditions like heart disease and
         | cancer. Work-related stress can also lead to mental health
         | conditions including depression and anxiety, according to the
         | report."
        
         | klyrs wrote:
         | In the long arc of workers rights, it typically takes decades
         | of harm to establish a need for protection. Enumerating harms
         | and their root causes informs the details of legislation to
         | come.
        
           | tbalsam wrote:
           | Good point, thanks for contributing that. Helps me to
           | understand it a lot. :)
        
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       | gammawarrior wrote:
        
         | gammawarrior wrote:
        
       | timcavel wrote:
        
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