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I also don't have the expertise to answer. Regardless, I have an opinion and feelings on the matter, and I want it all battle tested. That makes sense...

@"unenlightened" Shitposting: One of my high school friends used to troll internet forums and voice hang outs as "The French Pirate". They invited me,...

I can agree it's not a good look, I'm left with a similar feeling that the significance of it not being a good look hasn't been articulated. I'm left ...

I can be quite specific about what I'd need to be convinced that concerns about pharmaceutical companies' influence were relevant. Yes. It's clearly t...

Yes. I believe there aren't many spaces in which this discussion could be had. I am grateful for it.

Is this the LGB Alliance you're talking about? Any other examples? Yes. I need to ask why though. I can see the premise: ( 1 ) We don't know enough ab...

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He'd received two warnings and not improved. He stuck around for three years after his first warning, 6 months after his second. If anything we should...

I can understand the concern with that. There's two things I want to highlight. The first is that it's worthwhile recalling the distinction between ho...

Oink.

Apologies, I'd previously construed trans identity as gender incongruence. Rather than trans identity as gender dysphoria. There's an argument there t...

Am I right in thinking that there's also a modal angle to Chalmer's argument? I vaguely recall there being a link from the inverted spectrum to concei...

I think I largely stated my position on this to @"Isaac" here. The tl;dr in our context that "based in the social" and "based in the body" are suffici...

I think there's three different concepts bleeding together here. The first is trans identity. I think broadly construed that applies to people who've ...

I'm gonna bracket away any of the legal recognition stuff for this post. Despite it being important. I'll focus on what I understand to be the medical...

Can you give me more references for these please?

Because the rule of contribution in the shoutbox permits any conversation or contribution, any posts in it are on topic. The hidden purpose of the sho...

Eh, assumes that the phenomenon can be explained with existing models. Think that's be problematised enough nowadays where it can no longer safely be ...

I think we generally agree about identity, personality and those like concepts being (to a large degree) socially constructed. I appreciated your poin...

Interesting point about conflict/mismatch as a commensuration relation. Would love to see it worked out in more detail. Think it's a similar discussio...

Thanks!

Ideally default positions have arguments for them IMO. But I doubt we need to get into it here. I think this is factually nonsense too, but rhetorical...

Can you give a reference for this please? Really want to read the paper.

:sparkle: But yes AFAIK mathjax isn't supposed to be space dependent, I'm imagining that whatever renders ( y ) into (y) passes through the text first...

I imagine it's part of how plushforums parses the math environment. test: (y) Seems to be just the math environment which has the weird parsing issue....

I shall inform the old bastards in my local. Perhaps I have missed this, but don't you need to establish that a trans person's stated need for transit...

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You rang?

You probably already know this, but GPs, therapists and the whole healthcare system violates the nice guidelines everywhere. They're guidelines and do...

Was a summary of your point, rather than an argument for it. The premise and the conclusion are actually the same thing!

Point needs arguing rather than asserting!

Stop the name calling. You are more than capable of criticism without insults. Or ignoring them.

I don't buy that argument. ( 1 ) In order to give an account of X, we need to obtain a perspective outside of X. ( 2 ) Gaining a perspective outside o...

You can probably predict my response based on this. I think you believe the same as me, that people are what people make of them. Identity isn't in th...

Not appropriate.

So my question isn't so lazy @"Joshs"- If I read right you're using scientific paradigms and their broader cultural conditions as examples of relative...

Am I right in thinking that you're drawing really heavily from Derrida for this account?

Guess there's no point going into it then. To be fair to myself, I did predict the response: Checkmate atheists.

Eh, I think having the discussion about the pre-predicative I highlighted, in an exploratory fashion, would. But maybe you disagree.

Yes.

Given-ness is a communal supposition that the world works in a certain way. The supposition is generated through collective engagement with the world....

And your father smelt of elderberries!

The thing about a lifeworld which allows someone in it to cotton onto a rule in one of its discursive practices. Then generalise that to an arbitrary ...

I think that is a plausible motivation for an individual, internalised hatred. But there's a question of which internalised hatred - is "fleeing towar...

You know that arc where the cylons entrap the Centauri and make a base on their home world?

I get those two series confused all the time.

It's worthy of analysis, yeah. Normally you'd expect therapy or pills or other lifestyle changes to help someone with a mental health condition, if it...

Aye. This is one of the hurdles. The widespread acceptance of the identity potentially perturbs a lot of norms and ways of thinking. One might be, as ...

When I grow up I'm going to have a face. If you can translate this out of Heideggerese for the purposes of this thread, I'd really appreciate it. I do...

A few things here. Firstly, forced circumcision is seen as unethical because it's forced - doesn't require consent. It inflicts a substantial harm on ...