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I think one of the biggest issues standing in the way of widespread acceptance of trans people is generally not understanding what we actually do or are like.

So like, most people completely misunderstand how hrt works. They think that you do it and only really get a better mental space. But that's not true at all. Everyone I have known on hormones get so many changes. Our hairlines can change, our bone density decreases or increases to match the gender your hormones match with, our bodies redistribute fat, our skin changes, even our body smells change, we lose or gain muscle mass to again come in line with whatever our hormones match. Our body chemicals change. Estrogen can decrease the size of your feet by a size and can literally make your hips grow and change how your weight is distributed. Testosterone can make you grow a full bushy as fuck beard and a such a deep voice you'll never know the person ever had a higher pitched one. Everything changes on hormones and cis people just don't seem to understand that at all. I've known many trans people who transition so well that other trans people don't believe they're trans and think they're cis.

Add on that they don't understand bottom surgery and it just gets annoying as fuck. The fact that cutting dicks off is still how so many cis people think femme bottom surgery works is so fucking infuriating and it happens when leftists reference it too.

I think if more cis people simply knew trans people and were willing to discuss with them about what being trans is like then there would be more general acceptance.

So the plan for this competition is having 3 scoring categories, apparently. So a "biological male", a "biological female", and a trans category. So trans men and women will compete against each other.

Or, they would, if there was any more than the one athlete that is competing. Which means she will win, even if she fucking walks. This is insane and is the bullshit "separate but equal" thing people keep talking about being the supposed "solution".

Trans people don't dominate sports and there aren't enough for them to have their own leagues. If you think they do dominate then you're obviously misinformed. Trans people have been allowed to compete in sports for a long time and there has never been a problem with it, until fucking Republicans needed a new boogeyman to galvanize their base.

Fuck Newsom. Fuck Trump. And fuck anyone who refuses to actually try to understand the reality of being trans and the reality of just wanting to play sports like everyone else.

There aren't that many trans folk who are athletes. There definitely won't be enough for a team at colleges, in communities for kids teams,and professional wise thatd be impossible. Add on that that would mean at competitions, with how few trans people are doing sports, the very few people would always get medals.

Theres also the matter of putting trans women against trans men is, if you go by the supposed rules of fairness these people argue for then, incredibly unfair (especially if it's not separated by weight class which is next to impossible since again there aren't enough trans people who do sports) and means that trans women would usually lose because they lose all their muscle mass after transition. Estrogen does that.

There's also the matter of securing funding. Women's sports are already under funded so how would q sport team that is too small and an unfair competition secure any funding?

The reality is that trans people having an unfair advantage is fucking BS. Trans women lose all advantages they might have had over cis women when they transition. Once they get in the same hormones level they only could have the same kind of genetic advantages that cis women could have. Like height and wing span and all the other shit that cis women can have just as often.

This also ignores trans men who, if being forced to compete against cis women, would dominate because they are actively taking testosterone.

The best, and only solution is to allow trans folk to compete in matching leagues to their gender identity as long as they're on hormones. Which is already a rule in every single sport trans people compete in.

Yeah, so the gaffe in this speech would just have been in the present tense instead of past tense since he had already had that skin cancer removed. Which was stated in the article but still.

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I highly doubt Biden knew he had this specific cancer back then just because it seems incredibly unlikely he would find that out and just not get any treatment for it until he was out of office. It just doesn't feel likely. You don't just get told "hey you have cancer" and then not do anything about it at all. Especially when you're rich and have the money. And when you're the fucking President and have the best medical care available to you in the entire country all for free.

Course if we find out he was on chemotherapy back then then I'm obviously wrong. But I think that's the only thing that could directly point to him knowing he had cancer back then.

Biden is known for his gaffes so it's just more likely that's what was going on in this 2022 speech.

In Highschool I took health and it was the diagrams of the different junk, pictures and videos about STDs, saying most birth control doesn't actually work very well (e.g. Condoms have a 36% success rates at prevent STDs or pregnancy) so it's best to sign a card swearing you'll be abstinent until marriage. Only one person signed the card since we were, thankfully, given a choice. No talking about being gay, since it's a red state. They spent more time on a bunch of different drugs than sex.

Before high school there wasn't really "sex" ed, just showing videos about puberty and ways to check for cancer/lumps. But I went to a Catholic school before highschool. There also might have been stuff about how Masturbation is bad in the Catholics "sex ed".

Sorta like this but with citizenship?

I was going to comment a joke saying that it must have been "Iminacult1234" only to find out that it was actually a reference to her cult. She shouldn't be anywhere near power.

The article leads with saying he did nothing, which is misleading because he did do things even if they didn't work. Saying he did nothing is misleading.

Just so everyone knows, this article is kinda misleading. The original source is an Israeli news organization hour long special, 60 minutes style, where they talked to people who worked in the Biden administration. The thing this article is discussing is how Biden essentially never came to BB and said "ceasefire right now". But that doesn't mean there was no pressure involved.

For instance, the same special talked to people who were aware of plans in the administration to do a speech that, they hoped, would trigger elections in Israel and force out BB so that a pro-ceasfire government could come into power and get it done. It would have been a speech about Biden telling Israelis have two choices, continue the killing or work towards lasting peace. Those plans didn't amount to what people wanted and Biden ended up giving a much more mild speech that didn't do shit. To the dismay of many in the state department and the White House.

The report also talked about how multiple times throughout the administration was talking to BB to get a ceasefire and they'd come to an agreement and then at the last minute BB would pull out to prolong the conflict past the election. It happened multiple times. Remember when Biden said they had come to an agreement several times and nothing came of it? That's because the agreement they had come to was dropped by BB and it made Biden look like a senile old man who made it up.

Edit: To be fair, this article speaks of this about 2/3rds of the way through and then addresses how Biden was also trying to broker a deal between Israel and the Saudis that would have lead to peace and international recognition of the Palestinian state. To which BB didn't want to do because it would give him a win. Gotta lead with the most sensational stuff and hide that there's much more to it than "Biden did nothing"

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BB was doing everything he could to prolong the conflict and make sure Biden and eventually Harris were not elected.

Should Biden have been more forceful and come to Israel and said "hey, ceasefire right fucking now?" Absolutely. But to say they did nothing is disingenuous.

If you don't believe what I'm saying then you should really question this article too because I'm just using the same source they are, an Israeli news special.

If anyone wants to know what subreddit, it's r/changemyview. I remember seeing a ton of similar posts about controversial opinions and even now people are questioning Am I Overreacting and AITAH a lot. AI posts in those kind of subs are seemingly pretty frequent. I'm not surprised to see it was part of a fucking experiment.

Yes because Mugshots are done in cars, outside, in hallways, and only occasionally with a flat white background. We all know this.

Seriously though, only some of these are actual mugshots, often they seem to just be pictures of accused people with no fucking names attached so there is no way to fact check it.

I think it's fair to say that the US stock exchange is officially a yo-yo market. Like going up and down constantly every couple of days just depending on the whims of the fucking fascist people decided to put in charge. So fun.

There is a way to prevent having a child with Autism and it's absolutely fool proof. Just don't have kids. Boom, you've prevented a kid from having Autism.

I think part of this is that because they "paused" the other tariffs, they still want to feel like they're punishing a ton of countries. So that means they go from a 54% tariff on China just a few weeks ago, to the 104% tariff on China for just a few days, then the 124% tariff on China, and now the 245% tariff on China. They want to feel like they're punishing other countries and this is the only way they can get that feeling, that fix. They're fucking idiots.

This is pretty close to what I have for Ramen. I started having Kimchi with mine and it's been a wonderful pairing. I have fish be my meat and chop up my green onions more and don't have a poached egg.

Do you make a Tare with Gochujang in it or is it in the ramen noodles, as it seems they're pretty red?

Edit: if this is a meal you got at a place and not something you made I hope it was good and you can ignore my question!

I've got a few problems with this article but honestly the thing that bothers me the most is saying Bill Maher is a moderate liberal commentator. He's a conservative libertarian asshole and always has been. He's never been moderate, he's never been a liberal.

Alex Jones also calls Maher a liberal, using him to represent the entire non Republican political sphere. Maher is not a moderate and I don't like seeing someone who is from the left calling him that.

A lot of my memory is based on Music. So if I hear a song I get all of my memories of both the things that have happened in my life while that song was playing, and where I first heard the song (if I heard the song in a movie or show I can say/picture what was happening in that when the song was playing as well). To the point where many have said it's a photographic memory based in song. Importantly, if there wasn't music playing then I only remember the rough details instead of pinpoint details when there is music.

Now if only it worked for studying, then I would have been able to listen to music while studying and remember all the shit I was supposed to instead of being terrible at tests.

100% agree. He's been a Russian agent from the start working towards the dismantling of the US in every way. Including, I think, trying to push the country so far that it splits up so the US is no more. Putin's revenge on the US "winning" the Cold war.

That's a good way to have foreign companies that are currently invested in the US to pull all of their investments and fire everyone working for them over here.

Everything he does is just making us more isolated from the world.