padraig (u.s.)
a monkey that will go ape
then again since you clearly don't think trans people exist at all - Fallon Fox is a "male trans identified" not a woman - maybe for you it is simple
I understand it's a very common and tired line of attack but it's an area where I've got a lot to learn and I'll read what you say here with interest.I see I'm obligated to address the sports question too. alrite, let's get into it
Who cares about sports Padraig let's talk the important stuff! Sports becoming complicated for a couple decades isn't an argument against civil liberties, altho it's probably always true that the transition could be handled better than it inevitably is and will be.We don't tho? Maybe we should, but we definitely don't.
hey rich. I actually don't mind discussing sports, both because it's a personal interest and something I actually know a fair bit about, and because it's one of the only areas where people on both sides can and do make reasonable arguments in good faith. for example, I first learned about Laurel Hubbard when some weightlifting coaches I follow made a video about it, and their take was completely reasonable - they thought it was a bad and unfair decision based solely on the data (that Springer paper, as well as her results as a pre-transition male lifter, and then a post-transition female lifter) and they were very clear that it wasn't an attack on her personally or trans people or athletes in general. you don't usually get that kind of civility when it comes to gender-affirming care or bathrooms or, these days, drag performances. that said, I'm definitely not an expert, it's just something I've followed over the years, so I don't know how much more I can really add.I understand it's a very common and tired line of attack but it's an area where I've got a lot to learn and I'll read what you say here with interest.
I've nothing really to add but I do appreciate you taking the time to go over what is no doubt for you tired ground. So please don't feel you are wasting your time.
if you want to regulate something, there should be a good enough reason for it to curtail the individual's autonomyThis open minded, free and unbridled libertarian society *might* be an ideal, but it's definitely not the status quo, and it's not even the progressive agenda. There are a thousand cases where the left says, "Group good over individual liberty" and nobody blinks. Let's not pretend that individual self determination is this obvious, straightforward standard in our society that is uniquely violated by trans issues.
Is this true!? The right always says that parents standing in kids way can get reported to CPSteenagers aren't considered capable of making their own decisions sans guardians. they're being protected from themselves. that's exactly why gender-affirming care - at the heart of this GOP war on queer people - isn't something that a minor can procure without the consent of their guardians.