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But a strategy may succeed or fail for all sorts of reasons beyond the control of the government. A healthy government is flexible enough to deal with...

I dreamed sewed buttons all over my clothes, like totally covered. It felt kind of radical.

Volcanoes smell like rotten eggs because of the sulphur.

Would you rather make mistakes and learn? Or be told what to do and learn nothing?

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You're getting a little speculative there.

The Fed says we're heading into stagflation. :sad:

True.

I've come to the same conclusion. Being trans does not change a person into the opposite sex. It's just a person behaving as if they're the opposite s...

We now know that gender dysphoria can be transient. This quote is from Dr David Bell, the psychiatrist who worked with trans kids and eventually was i...

And that's another reason transitioning should only be for mature adults. A fair number of detransitioned youths say they thought they could actually ...

There's a popular subreddit called r/transpassing. People put their pictures up and ask for advice about how well they're passing, and what they mean ...

The UK Supreme Court overturned that Scottish law. Only biological women can fill the 50% quota for seats on the public boards.

I do too. It's when the trans activist says biology should be ignored that the community balks. A transgender man could have taken a man's seat. Post ...

I agree. I think the trans activists were thinking of a quasi-philosophical view of gender that didn't make it out to the population at large.

In the West, would you say most people are thinking of biology when they say "woman?"

I am, I just don't have the hyper-literal thing. You seem to.

Autism spectrum?

Do you see this as the most common view in your community?

So only biological women can satisfy the 50% rule, right?

So the outcome is that transgender women can't take the place of biological women for the purposes of the 50% women rule. Right?

Could you explain why you think so?

Did you mean "excludes" there?

Well on behalf of the Scottish women, thanks for at least acknowledging the nature of their complaint. Other participants have made it clear they coul...

The recent UK ruling didn't start with concern over bathrooms. That's just the issue that took over this thread. It was about public boards, which adm...

That's a despicable thing to say.

The ruling was about seats on public boards. Should seats that were guaranteed to women be given to trans women? The women in Scotland said no. Why do...

I honestly don't get it.

What about women's rights? Nobody even wants to mention the issue that brought on the recent UK ruling. Aren't women's rights enough of a concern to e...

Right. I get the feeling you don't really want to face the consequences of this ruling.

I guess I don't understand how transgender people could be restricted wrt restaurants, shops, hospitals, or shelters, but that this wouldn't apply to ...

1. UK law does not guarantee access to bathrooms based on gender. 2. Trans people can be excluded from use of bathrooms that align with their gender (...

The BBC and the Guardian say biology dictates use of gender designated bathrooms in the UK. US hospitals also have unisex toilets.

It's the law in the UK, isn't it?

Sure. I don't have a problem with that. I don't see gender as being all that significant in the way I treat people though. Biology does make a big dif...

I was just thinking about what Malcolm said. I don't treat women differently than men for the most part. The only time it really shows up is in dating...

I think you're probably rare.

Could you see it just happening with a trans woman?

How do you get laid?

I don't doubt it. I just ignore it.

Would you ask a transwoman out on a date?

A black person isn't trying to escape either kind of recognition. A black person says: 1. recognize the biological truth that I'm human, just like you...

I don't think there's a white genocide going on in S. Africa. I already said that. It's my experience with insidious violence that makes me just stop ...

The white supremacist replacement thing is at least 100 years old. It was part of the motive for the Jim Crow laws. There actually has been violence a...

This is the part you're not getting. Trans activists fucked up. They went too fast without research to show their approach was beneficial. They did mo...

If it's not approved, it's against the law.

Dude. It's already against the law in the UK. 27 US states have outlawed it. A federal ban is coming in the US. It's against the law in freaking Swede...

I agree. They basically transitioned a lot of kids who weren't actually transgender. That will not be happening in the future because it will be again...

CASS review You're right. Puberty blockers alone don't cause infertility. In combination with gender affirming hormones they're more likely to, but It...

The suicide rate for post transitioners is a lot higher than for the non-trans population of the same age. I'll have to go back and find it if you're ...