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I certainly agree with that. unlikely to change at this point, tho.

that's essentially the story of American politics - and globally, to the degree that both geopolitics and the domestic politics of other countries follow American politics - over the last 15 years it began with Fox News, astroturfing the Tea Party, etc - conscious, directed, ideological efforts...

it predates online discussion, actually. was firmly ensconced as a term in the 90s, long before social media or even Web 2.0.

there are a million of these would be Carlsons angling for a greater drip from the right-wing media money spout their spiritual forebear is someone like Lee Atwater tho one difference is that now a strategist can be a big deal in their own right, rather than just operating behind the scenes...

ah yes that was unclear, I completely misunderstand. I thought you were complaining about seeing it in your newsfeed. I hear stuff like that a lot, out in the world, and it's pretty insufferable. my bad. obviously this I do agree with. it isn't recent - the culture war has been manufactured...

like, if people don't want to pay attention that's fine, I can't make them but no one is forcing you to read any articles or links or threads you're not interested in so the idea it's being "pushed down your throat" is preposterous there a million threads here about any number of topics I...

tell us what's a legimitate, non-boring issue then? since the struggles of trans and Black people to simply live their lives freely and be safe are by your standards boring what qualifies as a legitimate, interesting issue in the world of @wild greens I assume if lawmakers were regularly...

trying to restrain my anger here, because I think asking about the mechanics of how an issue rises to prominence in the self-curated, post-truth media environment is a good and reasonable question, even if I doubt anyone here has enough inside knowledge to give a real answer but the rest of...

another consequence, which I see every day across social media and talking to friends, is the enormous strain on mental health and well-being for trans people and anyone else under this relentless onslaught. can't overstate the stress this puts onto people, on top of the regular life stress...

100% the U.S. is going to wind up with two countries, one where you can express your identity and retain autonomy over your own body, and one where you can't, some real Handmaid's Tale lite shit. many people with the means to get the hell out of evangelical sharia states will do so ASAP -...

back to important news: almost 1/4 of U.S. trans youth have lost access to gender-affirming care, which is pretty staggering. many of the laws being considered or passed go far beyond gender-affirming care, which once again (for like, the 100th time) gives lie to the claim that this is about...

yall, I appreciate your efforts, but please stop feeding this troll. no matter what answer you give, they'll just move the goalposts, and very likely also use it as a bad faith fallacy of composition attack (i.e. "one drag performer is a sex offender justifies outlawing all drag performance...

Also wanted note that DeSantis defended the request by essentially saying that being trans is a mental illness and that the answer is counseling, not to "hack off their body parts". Which for anyone who's followed this thread, is almost word for word what Benny said to begin with. So...

A trans pre-med student in Florida, the heart of DeSantis's assault on trans rights, speaks https://www.insider.com/trans-college-student-florida-ron-desantis-hormone-therapy-2023-3?amp I can't pull out individual quotes on my phone for some reason, but I encourage anyone interested in this...

And that's as much reconciliation as you're going to get, @Clinamenic

I sincerely hope you take it as a chance to reflect on your views and realize that trans people exist, have the right to exist and are not a threat to cis women, that their existence is not the byproduct of some fantasy, social contagion or conspiracy, that they have the right to...

Not to evoke Godwin's Law but the world's first gender care clinic, the Institut Fur Sexualwissenschaft, was in fact destroyed by the Nazis, who presumably would have approved of the TERF take on gender. This famous picture is of Stormtroopers burning its books in the street:

Sorry boss but that that ain't it at all, and I'd thank you not to gloss it over like that, even if you mean well Danny is 100% right, the anti-trans stuff is completely and totally abhorrent. There are many, many things that I can agree to disagree with someone on, or that we disagree about...

I would call those original 2nd wave anti-trans concerns both organic and hysterical. The foundational TERF text is probably Janice Raymond's Transsexual Empire: The Making of the She-Male (you'd I guess forgive that incredibly offensive title a bit since it was 1979, but it's still for sale...

I think you're perhaps overestimating the effects of hormonal treatment from what I've seen, but other than that I 100% agree with all this. Certainly it's significant enough to make continuing to compete against cis men impossible. And either way yes, let's leave it to sports science to gather...