Transgender rights discussion

What a bitch.

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What a bitch.

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Wow. I'd say that is a defamation lawsuit waiting to happen. Calling someone a rapists's rights activist and a mysogynist because they don't agree with you on a trans issue is outrageous.
 
Wow. I'd say that is a defamation lawsuit waiting to happen. Calling someone a rapists's rights activist and a mysogynist because they don't agree with you on a trans issue is outrageous.
She's Linehaned herself.
 


TORVAIANICA, Italy (AP) — Pope Francis’ recent gesture of welcome for transgender Catholics has resonated strongly in this working class, seaside town south of Rome, where a community of trans women has found help and hope through a remarkable relationship with the pontiff forged during the darkest times of the pandemic.

Thanks to the local parish priest, these women now make monthly visits to Francis’ Wednesday general audiences, where they are given VIP seats. On any given day, they receive handouts of medicine, cash and shampoo. When COVID-19 struck, the Vatican bussed them into its health facility so they could be vaccinated ahead of most Italians.

On Sunday, the women — many of whom are Latin American migrants and work as prostitutes — joined over 1,000 other poor and homeless people in the Vatican auditorium as Francis’ guests for lunch to mark the Catholic Church’s World Day of the Poor.

The menu was evidence of Francis’ belief that those most on the margins must be treated with utmost dignity: cannelloni pasta filled with spinach and ricotta to start; meatballs in a tomato-basil sauce and cauliflower puree, and tiramisu with petit fours for dessert.


or the marginalized trans community of Torvaianica, it was just the latest gesture of inclusion from a pope who has made reaching out to the LGBTQ+ community a hallmark of his papacy, in word and deed.


“Before, the church was closed to us. They didn’t see us as normal people, they saw us as the devil,” said Andrea Paola Torres Lopez, a Colombian transgender woman known as Consuelo, whose kitchen is decorated with pictures of Jesus. “Then Pope Francis arrived and the doors of the church opened for us.”
 
Brianna Ghey’s parents call for compassion for her killers’ families

Esther Ghey says teenagers who murdered her daughter have shown no remorse, but asks for empathy for their parents

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news...-to-beautful-daughter-after-pair-convicted-of

Both defendants were found guilty of Brianna's murder.

The pair showed no reaction to the verdicts, but their mothers wept in the court. Afterwards, Brianna’s mother urged “empathy and compassion” for the killers’ parents, saying they “too have lost a child and must live the rest of their lives knowing what their child has done”.

Girl X, who was fascinated by serial killers and boasted of watching torture videos on the dark web, said she was “obsessed” with Brianna. She and Brianna had been friends for a few months before she began plotting to kill her, along with Y.

Some quotes from Brianna's parents.

Her mother, Esther Ghey:

“We miss Brianna so much and our house feels empty without her laughter.

“To know how scared my usually fearless child must have been when she was alone in that park with someone that she called her friend will haunt me forever.

Please have some empathy and compassion for the families of the young people convicted of this horrific crime. They too have lost a child and must live the rest of their lives knowing what their child has done.”

Her father, Peter Spooner:

“It is impossible to put into words how the murder of my child has affected me. I never stopped loving her and never will.

“From when she was little, I remember all the faces she would pull to make me laugh, her cheeky giggle and funny dances are engraved in my memory. I knew she was going to be a star and the amount of support she has received and followers on TikTok have proved this.

“She would share her TikTok videos with me all the time and I was so proud of what she could do. Showing me how she would do her makeup, she had such an amazing talent and I enjoyed sharing that with friends and family.

“I look into her eyes, and they shine back at me, and I know she was a beautiful girl to be proud of. I hate how her life has been brutally taken away from her and she has been deprived of the life she wanted to live."
 
Brianna Ghey’s parents call for compassion for her killers’ families

Esther Ghey says teenagers who murdered her daughter have shown no remorse, but asks for empathy for their parents

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news...-to-beautful-daughter-after-pair-convicted-of

Both defendants were found guilty of Brianna's murder.

The pair showed no reaction to the verdicts, but their mothers wept in the court. Afterwards, Brianna’s mother urged “empathy and compassion” for the killers’ parents, saying they “too have lost a child and must live the rest of their lives knowing what their child has done”.

Girl X, who was fascinated by serial killers and boasted of watching torture videos on the dark web, said she was “obsessed” with Brianna. She and Brianna had been friends for a few months before she began plotting to kill her, along with Y.

Some quotes from Brianna's parents.

Her mother, Esther Ghey:



Her father, Peter Spooner:
Brianna's parents are remarkable people if they can find it in their hearts to show compassion to the killers' families after sitting through what must have been a harrowing trial.
 
Nightmarish case, neither of them should be released. The girl in particular seems like a special brand of evil.
 


Honestly, the world is upside down


My field is bio but I've never worked with or studied anything bigger than a single cell. So, with the caveat that my knowledge here is basically school-level:

Pre-pubescent male and female breasts are quite similar and have the same "raw ingredients." Female hormones during puberty promote the growth of breast tissue including ducts and glands.
It seems possible that the same might happen in trans women, given that they are are on a female hormone cocktail for life. The paper @Pexbo linked is about exactly that - not sure what you meant in your reply about " 4 of the 5 were about women lactating and the other was about a trans man " - the paper was about one individual trans woman.
 
She truly is a horrible person through and through. In a functioning society, she would be ostracised.

Ostracised how? She's basically an angry old woman on twitter at this point. She just also happens to be one of the richest women in the world and nobody can take that money from her.

As far as I know she doesn't go to award shows or TV shows. The cast of the HP films don't have anything to do with her anymore either.
 
Ostracised how? She's basically an angry old woman on twitter at this point. She just also happens to be one of the richest women in the world and nobody can take that money from her.

As far as I know she doesn't go to award shows or TV shows. The cast of the HP films don't have anything to do with her anymore either.
She should be shot from a catapult.
 
Ostracised how? She's basically an angry old woman on twitter at this point. She just also happens to be one of the richest women in the world and nobody can take that money from her.

As far as I know she doesn't go to award shows or TV shows. The cast of the HP films don't have anything to do with her anymore either.
She’s the kind of person we should all carry rotten fruits for.
 
She’s the kind of person we should all carry rotten fruits for.

Would strongly support this to be fair. She's so far off the deep end now and it's seemingly become an existential issue for her.

Which just makes so little sense considering her position.
 
Genuinely curious what goes through her head when she posts stuff like that. Surely, if you have that much money, you should be able to do more interesting things than being an idiot on Twitter.

In her bigotry she has convinced herself, that she is sticking up for women. And every time someone goes after her for it, she just doubles down and claims it is a “trans mob” or “trans lobby” as if either of those things really exist.

She is too deep in the muck now. She can’t back down now without looking like a huge loser. And I suspect her neoliberal viewpoint also leads her to the conclusion that since she is wealthy, she must also be right.
 
Genuinely curious what goes through her head when she posts stuff like that. Surely, if you have that much money, you should be able to do more interesting things than being an idiot on Twitter.

Basically a conversation myself and my mates have about Graham Linehan. He could've easily said "It was a distasteful episode which I regret and will hope to do better in future." Instead the man went down a warped rabbit hole where he lost his wife, career and any self respect he could've had.
 
Basically a conversation myself and my mates have about Graham Linehan. He could've easily said "It was a distasteful episode which I regret and will hope to do better in future." Instead the man went down a warped rabbit hole where he lost his wife, career and any self respect he could've had.

It’s really fascinating. They just need to delete an app of their phone and they would instantly become significantly happier people. With much more enjoyable lives. And yet they won’t do that. A whole new form of madness that didn’t exist 30 years ago. Twitter’s capacity to melt people’s brains while stopping them from looking away is almost like witchcraft.
 
Rowling going off the deep end again. You'd think she'd have something better to do with her time.

She seems to really genuinely think that she's some revolutionary sticking it to the system with her posts.
 
I was reading that she has some creative control in terms of the HBO Harry Potter series they're making. Wonder if it will end up getting cancelled or it's pushed through and we get some TERF-y acting or dialogue.
 
I was reading that she has some creative control in terms of the HBO Harry Potter series they're making. Wonder if it will end up getting cancelled or it's pushed through and we get some TERF-y acting or dialogue.

My understanding is she has some creative control over anything to do with Harry Potter, but I don't think she actually offers much these days and it's largely just her name being tacked on as it's her IP.

Hogwarts Legacy included a trans character and had the option for the player character to be trans too.
 
Rowling going off the deep end again. You'd think she'd have something better to do with her time.

She seems to really genuinely think that she's some revolutionary sticking it to the system with her posts.
And Little Rishi unsurprisingly agreeing with her, as if you needed any more evidence that she's on the wrong side of history.
 
Rowling going off the deep end again. You'd think she'd have something better to do with her time.

She seems to really genuinely think that she's some revolutionary sticking it to the system with her posts.

Well Scotlands new hate crime bill would see her arrested.