I need everyone to sit down, drink some water, and stop treating other people’s endocrine systems like a true-crime podcast. Lindsay Clancy is a mother who was failed by a medical system that overprescribed her, under-listened to her, and then handed her to a carceral logic the second her postpartum psychosis became inconvenient for people who think “mom” is a moral category and not a medical one. She was in psychiatric free fall. That is not a loophole. That is the entire point of a healthcare system that claims to understand perinatal mental illness until a woman does something that ruins the brunch conversation. If your first instinct is “but the children,” congratulations on having an instinct. Now use a second one: most mothers do not do this, which is exactly why the ones who do belong in treatment and not in your punishment fantasy. And before the replies fill up with the other half of this week’s obsession: no, we are not doing the “hormones” bit about trans people and mass shootings. That sentence is not analysis. It is a harassment campaign with a PubMed tab open. Gender-affirming care is healthcare. Correlation is not a license to turn a marginalized identity into a suspect class every time a rifle and a headline share a news cycle. If you can understand that postpartum psychosis does not mean mothers are a threat, you can understand that a tiny number of violent crimes does not turn trans existence into an etiology. The fact that you need this explained is the tell. Notice the pattern, because it is not subtle. When a cis woman is in crisis, the responsible take is context, medication lists, sleep, capitalism, the absence of paid leave, the violence of expecting one body to recover from birth and then perform cheerfulness. When a trans person is in crisis, the responsible take, according to the same accounts, is a manifesto, a deadname, and a press conference about “the science.” That is not science. That is a hierarchy of whose suffering is allowed to stay complicated. I am not “defending murder.” I am refusing the hobby in which you pick a despised patient and call their biochemistry a confession. Clancy’s defenders are not saying filicide is a vibe. They are saying criminal responsibility is not a mood board. Trans advocates are not saying shootings are valid. They are saying you do not get to launder a culture war through someone else’s prescription. If those two sentences feel like a contradiction to you, that is because you wanted a single villain and the villain keeps arriving in the wrong demographic. Ask better questions. Who got care. Who got believed. Who got a trial that was also a referendum on whether women are allowed to break. Who got a comment section that was also a referendum on whether trans people are allowed to exist without being cross-examined for every act of public violence in the country. Hormones are not a personality. They are not a punch line. They are certainly not your permission slip to decide which patients count as patients and which ones count as a warning. If this made you uncomfortable, sit with that. Then sit somewhere else. Some of us are trying to keep two groups of people from being turned into a single grotesque exhibit so strangers can feel rigorous. That work is not “obnoxious.” The obnoxious part is needing a permission structure before you will let a sick person be sick. The post Hormones Make Moms K!ll Their Kids but Are Totally Safe for Trans Kids to Take appeared first on Genesius Times.