HopeOfTheGunblade @ HopeOfTheGunblade @kbin.social

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Yes, since the early 2000s.

Incidentally also, Lia Thomas set a school record. Not a state record, not a national record, not a world record. Her performance just was not that out of line than one would expect from any other woman.

It won't help. Bigotry doesn't get better for separation, it gets worse. People need exposure to the other, to see that trans people aren't some kind of media trope monster, just people. Being an out trans person is one of the best things that people who have passing privilege can do, to reduce the stigma of being trans in society and remove trans people from the scary caricature the media loves to sell.

I can't parse this sentence as written. I predict that you actually meant, "Who are we talking about?", and to answer that, Lia Thomas, the trans swimmer who the right focused on as their primary hate figure with respect to their campaign against trans people being allowed to exist.

Really very few, I think it's only in the last few years that any have qualified. Which, again, is a pretty solid argument against, "Trans women are driving cis women out of sport!".

I've spent enough time mousing right that trying to switch would be a major pain, plus I've been using my greater dexterity with various interfaces over the years, and I really can't see trying to use an Azeron in my off hand.

Before HRT, she was a top ranked men's swimmer. After hrt, on the men's, she dropped into the 400s. When she had been on HRT long enough to compete as a woman, she was a top ranked women's swimmer, but was still beaten by several cis women. What's the issue, exactly?

Different = badwrong. See the stranger, fear the stranger, hate the stranger, kill the stranger.

Some people, for whatever reason, are unable to cope with people who don't fall into their ingroup. While this doesn't apply to racial issues, I have the sense that a lot of the anti queer stuff is a result of them being scrubs. Not 100%, probably not even the majority, but there is a certain kind of venom that comes from, "Why do you get to, when I've lived my whole life suppressing it?!" A lot of such people may not even realize it, because they've buried it so deeply.

But in my view, trans women have higher probability to be stronger than most cis female athletes. I

Given this belief, is there a reason trans women have never taken Olympic medals despite having nearly 20 years to do so? That would seem to be evidence against that perspective. If any trans women are more capable at sport than cis women shouldn't at least one have been world class?

Civil vs Criminal. Trump got a disgorgement, it's not a fine. He's been ordered to pay back his ill-gotten gains, that's not the same thing as a fine. Anyhow, a civil case can't end in jail time. That's not how civil cases work.

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Subscriptions don't work

Little confused by this one, but yeah. I can't afford subscriptions, and I also can't afford the products and services the ads are for. Ads are just pollution in my consciousness, so why should I reduce my QoL for no benefit to anyone? If a creator says that if you use adblock, don't watch me, I won't. Site blocks adblockers, I don't use it. What else am I supposed to do, when I make less than a living and don't really have better options?

Phage therapy has issues. It's generally hyperspecific, with every strain of bacteria having its own phage, most of which we don't have, and which they can become resistant to.

It's less about the specific amount and more about the comparative relation. Having a lot more money than other people fucks you up; if you're interested in the specifics, Some More News did a dive into the literature on it, and they have citations.

Every goddamn time I hear it...

So yeah, given this, in what sense is it realistic or reasonable to not vote for the person with the better chance of beating them, IE, the democrat. I don't love that I have to bet my life, and the lives of lots of others, on a keynesian beauty contest, but I'm not going to be dumb and throw the contest just because I don't like it. Why would you want to persuade people to do that?

A reference to the phrase, "don't piss on my leg and tell me it's raining," ie, I can see what is happening in front of me. And they'd implement this shit on a federal level if they could; there were 40 such provisions they tried to get into the recent budget bills. The Twitter caucus has decided that I am an abomination, that my existence as myself makes me a pedophile, and that pedophiles deserve to be killed. The rest of the party is generally apathetic towards this, and will let them run the show on such matters if they are in an unassailable position. I thought John McCain was someone who I could have voted for in 2008, but he was the last Republican who was even remotely there; even the Republicans who managed the absolute minimum bar of recognizing a coup attempt when it tried to hang them, went along with the program the vast, vast majority of the time, right up until the doors were being hammered on by an angry mob.

https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/southern-states-pushing-forward-with

https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/retaliation-texas-ag-paxton-demands

https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/republicans-issue-new-government

https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/west-virginia-bill-would-mandate

https://newrepublic.com/article/178576/republicans-reveal-end-game-fight-trans-kids

And, in advance of your reply, please don't bother telling me the yellow liquid that smells like piss running down my leg is rain. Conversion therapy kills. Getting proper treatment saved my life, and they explicitly want to take that away from me. Address this rather than trying to explain it away, or just don't waste both of our time. I'm sure you have more productive things to do than deny what I can plainly see.

The Republicans explicitly want me dead. What is my incentive to not vote against them as hard as I can?

Restored it how. Give specific, explicit steps. Don't state a goal and then assume that he can set the goal and it happens. There are specific actions he would take to do this. What are they?

Can you explain exactly how Biden could have used "exactly the same amount of energy and paper restoring women's rights"? Be explicit and specific, please.