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This research looks at regret related to transition surgery for all ages. Do you have research that focuses exclusively on the post transition suicide...

Yea, I'm such a prevaricator.

Absolutely. If she's suicidal, she needs to be in therapy. There is growing evidence that transitioning is not a solution to any mental health issues.

I'm not trying to win. To some extent, what happened was a failure of philosophers. They abandoned common sense.

Wait and see.

A person will have to be an adult to transition. I'm not arguing for that. It's a fact. That's where we're headed.

In the clinics in the US and the UK, kids 13.5 years old would receive 2 therapy sessions, and then be approved for puberty blockers, gender affirming...

No, every male who takes puberty blockers will be permanently infertile and will never have an orgasm. Puberty blockers will eventually be illegal eve...

They give them in early puberty and the consequences are permanent infertility and sexual dysfunction. That's not a decision an adolescent, still work...

A quick history of racism in S Africa

I wouldn't jump to that conclusion. Find out the facts first.

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The homicide rate in S. Africa is 45 per 100,000. The homicide rate for whites specifically is 3.3 per 100,000. The homicide rate for blacks in the So...

It's concerning. It doesn't look very organized, though.

Where did you find this info? I can't find it.

How many were actually killed?

Imagine that we have a university that wants to make sure it's providing opportunities to women. To that end, they select students based on a quota. S...

.. The way this is related to women's rights has to do with a Scottish law that required a certain number of women on local councils. This law was sup...

I guess that makes two of us. :grin:

I actually don't understand how biological absolutism has anything to do with the struggles of blacks and gays. How is it even vaguely related?

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Thanks.

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Apparently it came up in the UK due to Scottish women not wanting trans-women in their loos. This led to the UK government declaring that "woman" refe...

Definitely simpler.

I guess the "other folk" think they can make whatever laws they like, and up to a point, they can. In the US, the SCOTUS said the right of trans peopl...

Maybe so. You can definitely work on raising awareness of that issue.

In a democracy, it just comes down to what the community wants. You can argue against the prevailing view, but I would pick something more persuasive ...

We could say that everybody who has an identified biological sex goes to the restroom that aligns with that. People who don't have a biological sex go...

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You're a genius Harry. Sorry we ever doubted you.

That is something more people are realizing. It's ok to be a butch woman. It's ok to be a feminine guy. What activists were doing in both the US and t...

Trans activists wanted to say that gender is about roles people play in society. A biological male can dress and behave in a typically feminine way. T...

I think the point trans activists were making was that gender and biological sex are not necessarily the same the thing. There's no reason we couldn't...

Good. So you admit that biological sex is a very important and meaningful distinction. :up:

I think your question was an attempt to undermine the concept of biological sex. That's a non-starter.

I would say a. I'm thinking of it from a healthcare provider's point of view. Biological male = XY, but not XX. Biological female = XX, but not XY. Al...

I don't know why it's important to work that out. It remains true that a biological male has XY AND no-XX. A biological female has XY AND no-XY. Simpl...

A man has XY & lacks XX.

She seems like a really cool person.

What? For real?

Yes, but they generally learn about God's will from religious teachers, not through direct contact with the divine. If we're both Muslims and you tell...

Oh, I think I confused you with someone else. :grimace: I just got through reading about a person called Dr Helen Joyce, a former mathematician/journa...

So if you don't call them trans-women, what do you call them?

I don't think many view it that way. Maybe a few crazy Mormons.

A friend said "I wish I had always just lived in the moment." :roll:

I'm not oppressing you Stan. You don't have a womb.

The idea that biological sex is not a meaningful concept or ambiguous in any way is complete boneheaded nonsense. The existence of rare cases of a per...

Likewise energy is a number. It's a physical construct. It's not a thing.

Neither. With the overwhelming majority of humans, there's no ambiguity.