Transgender rights discussion

izak said:
Trump won me over when he talked about the Sex of humanity. Only two sex and that's male or female you're either that or you're mentally Ill.

Anyone who disagrees with that can get feck for all I care.
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I know you've been ridiculed and laughed at a lot, and I acknowledge that that's grating and I would understand if you don't want to hear about this anymore. But if you're open to discussion about the subject, I would encourage you to read this article:

https://www.nature.com/articles/518288a

Nature is the world's leading scientific journal, along with Science (sorry, I can't help it, that's what these journals are called). So this is serious stuff, not some biased hack promoting their agenda. And you'll notice in the article that the subject of human sex is much more complex than just binary male/female. Apart from the rare cases of people being born with both or neither sets of genitals, there's a world of variety in people's biological setup.

Have a look and let me know what you think.
 
Cheimoon said:
I know you've been ridiculed and laughed at a lot, and I acknowledge that that's grating and I would understand if you don't want to hear about this anymore. But if you're open to discussion about the subject, I would encourage you to read this article:

https://www.nature.com/articles/518288a

Nature is the world's leading scientific journal, along with Science (sorry, I can't help it, that's what these journals are called). So this is serious stuff, not some biased hack promoting their agenda. And you'll notice in the article that the subject of human sex is much more complex than just binary male/female. Apart from the rare cases of people being born with both or neither sets of genitals, there's a world of variety in people's biological setup.

Have a look and let me know what you think.
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Thank you for sharing this. As someone not from the US and where this is not really a topic of discussion, it’s very interesting to read about the science behind gender spectrum / fluidity. But I’ll admit that was a very technically read and there’s much more to learn.

Society generally takes decades to catch up with science anyway. The one area which I’m unsure of is transgender women competing in women’s sport and especially gender related surgery on children who are not able to consent. Otherwise, the RW noise on the topic is grating and hate fuelled and sadly it’s working on a lot of people and hindering progress.
 
amolbhatia50k said:
Thank you for sharing this. As someone not from the US and where this is not really a topic of discussion, it’s very interesting to read about the science behind gender spectrum / fluidity. But I’ll admit that was a very technically read and there’s much more to learn.

Society generally takes decades to catch up with science anyway. The one area which I’m unsure of is transgender women competing in women’s sport and especially gender related surgery on children who are not able to consent. Otherwise, the RW noise on the topic is grating and hate fuelled and sadly it’s working on a lot of people and hindering progress.
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Surgeries on minors are extremely rare, and will be almost exclusively mastectomies. Surgeries for breast implants on minors are much more common, of course.
 
Cheimoon said:
I know you've been ridiculed and laughed at a lot, and I acknowledge that that's grating and I would understand if you don't want to hear about this anymore. But if you're open to discussion about the subject, I would encourage you to read this article:

https://www.nature.com/articles/518288a

Nature is the world's leading scientific journal, along with Science (sorry, I can't help it, that's what these journals are called). So this is serious stuff, not some biased hack promoting their agenda. And you'll notice in the article that the subject of human sex is much more complex than just binary male/female. Apart from the rare cases of people being born with both or neither sets of genitals, there's a world of variety in people's biological setup.

Have a look and let me know what you think.
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Thanks for posting this.
Do you have any book recommendation to delve deeper into the subject?
Maybe not academic textbooks but more pop science stuff
 
Suv666 said:
Thanks for posting this.
Do you have any book recommendation to delve deeper into the subject?
Maybe not academic textbooks but more pop science stuff
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I don't, sorry! It's not a topic I follow in particular, I just follow Nature a bit.
amolbhatia50k said:
Thank you for sharing this. As someone not from the US and where this is not really a topic of discussion, it’s very interesting to read about the science behind gender spectrum / fluidity. But I’ll admit that was a very technically read and there’s much more to learn.

Society generally takes decades to catch up with science anyway. The one area which I’m unsure of is transgender women competing in women’s sport and especially gender related surgery on children who are not able to consent. Otherwise, the RW noise on the topic is grating and hate fuelled and sadly it’s working on a lot of people and hindering progress.
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Yeah, Nature isn't always the most accessible stuff.

It's true about society being slow catching up, but learning the facts as we currently know them is one way to help. :) I won't go into the sports thing though, there's already a whole thread of controversy on that topic! And it anyway doesn't change the reality of the diversity in biological sex.
 
I just can't wrap my mind around being so hell bent on dehumanizing a group of people you're willing to pass legislature to prove it.

Fecking cnuts.
 
Fully Fledged said:
Whatever happened to libertarian Republicans? I thought they didn't believe in controlling someone else's life.
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I think that you will find that they very much want to control the life of everyone but object to any regulation if they don't agree with it. Hypocrites basically.
 
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All men are created equal under God. As long as they're actually men. And white. And not gay. And rich. And American. And share our political beliefs.
 
Cloud7 said:
Well the hopes of his term being benign have already quickly started going out the window
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Anyone who thought this time will be different or better is an absolute fkin moron in my book. But I feel like I'm stuck on repeat. Just about any of these videos he's posted is psychotic if you have but a shred of critical thinking skills.
 
Solius said:
This is a slippery slope towards a world where nothing matters anymore. If you don’t have the literal facts and logic then what’s the bloody point.
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I'm not arguing that you shouldn't base your opinion on facts and arguments. But we have to accept that large parts of our society don't form their opinions this way. So we need to find ways to convince them.
 
WI_Red said:
There is a 90% chance someone on that attention seekers staff put that up.
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Not exactly related, but:
I follow a couple of people who follow polls and obscure special elections in the US. Learnt recently that one of her staffers used to be part of that group and was a self-described liberal who wanted Dems to win at any cost, joined Mace's staff suddenly, without any apparent change in ideology, and now, about a year later, has been RTing the most inflammatory stuff.
 
berbatrick said:
Not exactly related, but:
I follow a couple of people who follow polls and obscure special elections in the US. Learnt recently that one of her staffers used to be part of that group and was a self-described liberal who wanted Dems to win at any cost, joined Mace's staff suddenly, without any apparent change in ideology, and now, about a year later, has been RTing the most inflammatory stuff.
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I’m not at all shocked. The promise of, or proximity to, power can definitely reveal who actually believes what they say and who doesn’t.
 
https://www.themarshallproject.org/...-on-trans-health-care-like-conversion-therapy

Earlier this fall, Florida officials ordered transgender women in the state’s prisons to submit to breast exams. As part of a new policy for people with gender dysphoria, prison medical staff ranked the women’s breast size using a scale designed for adolescents. Those whose breasts were deemed big enough were allowed to keep their bras. Everyone else had to surrender theirs, along with anything else considered “female,” such as women’s underwear and toiletry items.

Under the new policy, the Department of Corrections stated that the prisons will only provide those with gender dysphoria with psychotherapy — and not cross-gender hormones — except “in rare instances … if necessary to comply with the U.S. Constitution or a court decision.” The policy argues that “unaddressed psychiatric issues and unaddressed childhood trauma could lead to a misdiagnosis of gender dysphoria,” and that cross-gender hormones “may be requested by persons experiencing short-termed delusions or beliefs which may later be changed and reversed.”
 
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