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lmao enlighten us

Anyway, what Benny's actually doing is cherrypicking a single outlying case - Fallon Fox - and it implicitly extending it to all of trans people in sports. The overwhelming majority of trans people playing sports are not adult MMA fighters but kids and teens. As these advantages overwhelmingly...

I see I'm obligated to address the sports question too. alrite, let's get into it first, the sports question is actually the one area where there's data suggesting that trans women should be excluded from competition with cis women under some circumstances. there was a Springer paper in 2021...

first, intersex is the term that intersex people themselves use second, tell that to Caster Semenya and any other intersex athlete of the last century or so third, stop dodging the question - are you or are you not in favor of irreversible medical procedures on intersex children?

and not to get all cyberpunk, but assuming that technological human culture lasts long enough, you'd think that eventually the "friction" of changing gender will decrease, and/or some other technology - synthetic body, virtual reality, idk - will make it easier for people to live as they please...

I would say that everyone is born in their own body and that societal, familial, etc pressures often force or make it very difficult for them to externally express who they feel like internally. so I'd frame it as the freedom to safely pursue who they think they are. I mean, I've talked to...

@Benny B I don't know why you're laughing. it gets to the very heart of your position. you say people aren't born in "the wrong bodies" - which yes @suspended is a terrible framework, give me a minute, I'll get to it - and that they're convinced of this by some fad (i.e. social contagion)...

it depends how you define "sex". if your sole criterion is production of reproductive cells, then 2. if you go by karotype (i.e., complete set of chromosomes) then 6 - X, XX, XXY, XY, XYY, XXXY.

once more into the breach it isn't. presumably you've heard of intersex people? you know, on whom doctors have often operated on as infants or children to make them fit into a binary idea of male and female. the exact kind of operations that, being both irreversible and commonly regretted...

2 is fine, as long as you make that clarification up front so it's clear you're not referring all human cultures everywhere for all of history 1 is more complicated. It's not totally untrue, but I would also argue that it's impossible to separate out those "laxer and more open norms", or...

no worries, I famously derailed the ACAB thread recently. what goes around comes around,

one thing we don't have here that I've noticed in re the UK is the expansive use of "bullying" or I guess it's just yall's version of people complaining about wokeness and getting canceled? bc I seem to see it used most commonly by someone talking about how they were bullied by leftist...

I don't really, given their track record that's why I gave you a real response instead. I think you have many terrible ideas but they're sincerely held ones.

I'm not sure about everything in the last paragraph but otherwise as incisive a quick dissection of TERFs as I've seen not that I want to get sidetracked into TERFism - tho at least it's more relevant than [sighs] incest - either, but the points about both its implied all or nothing stakes and...

seriously, leave everything else aside just give us one piece of data from anywhere, even a personal anecdote, that supports anything you've said how is that request bullying, or intimidation? I think you're just dodging the question because you can't answer

lmao you started the namecalling first my dude what else are "quack" and "whacko" but namecalling? what else are you doing besides bullying trans children?

come on benny, don't leave us hanging. you're the authority here. you're apparently the one who knows how people feel about and treat their bodies. show us the way. impart your wisdom.

cite any kind of data from anyone anywhere supporting any of your ideas

go ahead, cite any interaction you've ever had with a trans person in your entire life. just one.

do you all know how hard it is to get gender-affirming care? the wait times for HRT are insane (and especially bad in the UK, I believe). that's exactly why there's a huge black market/DIY scene for for it. the idea that medical professionals are putting these ideas in people's heads - why...