An Exploding Rocket is a Success, But Trans People Can’t Get Hormones?
The existence of trans people is a danger only to fragile egos
4 min readApr 21, 2023
Today, April 20, Elon Musk sent up a SpaceX rocket and it exploded in midair.
The CBS newscaster says kindly: “it’s maybe a ‘successful failure,’ is one way to put it.” (1:08–1:14)
SpaceX called it a “rapid unscheduled disassembly.” More “data” analysis is needed, of course, and they’ll try again. “Success comes from what we learn,” they said on Twitter. The goal: “to make life multi-planetary.” The whole team gets a “congratulations!”
Good News About Science That Does Work
Let’s talk about something we’ve all heard of that’s not at all new:
Hormones.