Youtube comments of Snuzzle (@Snuzzled).

  1. But not telling the mom why he's being arrested? Not letting her ride with her child? He is a MINOR and that means the laws are different with him. The officer is the one free to make a judgement call about what the situation entails, depending on the severity of the infraction and how reasonable the child and their parent/guardian are being. The child and his mom here seemed very reasonable and polite, she was angry and he was scared but they just wanted to do what they needed to do to resolve the matter. The officers didn't seem to want to provide any help or assistance to make this easy for either of them... and that IS something they can do even if they have to make the arrest.
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  2. The problem is, when prices rise too high, they're essentially "out of stock" anyway because they're unaffordable. There's such a large disparity currently between the average wage and the most common wage that, say, toilet paper might still be flying off the shelves at $50 a package, but to a person making $7 an hour, it might as well be put of stock because they can't afford it anyway.
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  3. ​ @ribbrascal  What is the "ideology" that trans people are "demanding" that you "submit" to? Please, be specific.
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  4.  @woodynorris8224  thank you for proving the point.
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  5.  @nickthepostpunk5766  Autogynephilia is not a thing. Did you know that over 90 percent of cis women would be considered autogynephilic if they were held to the same standards as trans women? Also, the idea that "most trans people would be gay" isn't true either. Only about 1/4 of trans people identify as straight, ie, trans men attracted to women or trans women attracted to men. You seem to have a lot of incorrect information about trans people. It's no wonder you have all these "concerns" when you don't have accurate knowledge.
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  6.  @trevorcook3129  Respecting how someone wants to be addressed is not "forced language." If Johnathan says "Please call me John," you're not being forced. You're just kind of a jerk if you say, "NO. YOUR LEGAL NAME IS JONATHAN."
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  7.  @nickthepostpunk5766  Autogynephilia is a proposed typology wherein a person is aroused by the thought of themselves as a woman. The original paper by Blanchard was only studied in trans women, but was never compared to cis women. This was a mistake, as it meant that it was never shown to be something unique to trans women. And when cis women were held to the same standards, of ever having erotic arousal to the thought or image of oneself as a woman, 93 percent of cis women were autogynephilic according to a 2009 study One cannot declare that a condition is unique to a certain group without testing other groups, right? The relevance is, that if cis women are overwhelmingly autogynephilic, then it's just a natural part of women's sexuality. And therefore, it shouldn't be shocking or seen as a negative that trans women also experience this. It's not a condition, it's just human sexuality. Some children who are referred to gender clinics are simply gay. Those children do not get diagnosed with gender dysphoria. The criteria for gender dysphoria diagnosis in youth is extremely strict. Autism and "difficult family backgrounds" have nothing whatsoever to do with gender incongruence. Stating such is a bit like the old myth that being gay is caused by lack of a father figure in a young boy's life, or a smothering mother. Gender clinics, as I said, are very thorough in ensuring that medical steps are right for a patient before allowing them to happen. That's why the regret rate for medical transition remains the lowest of any medical procedure, at less than two percent.
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  8.  @davetkd666  Are you suggesting that trans people are somehow infringing on people's "right to privacy, right to safety, right of children for appropriate medical care, and right of fair and equal opportunities"? Those are some extraordinary claims for which I hope you have equally extraordinary evidence to back them up.
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  9.  @paulhammond6978    It's an oft-cited statistic by transphobes: that there was a 400 percent increase in afab adolescents being referred to NHS gender clinics. But it's important to note a few things here. First, it wasn't that long ago that the general society at large didn't even know trans men or afab trans people existed; this significantly impacts these people's ability to communicate their experiences and reality to the adults in their life, or even to understand that they're trans in the first place. Second, being referred to the clinic does not mean the patient will be diagnosed with gender dysphoria. Third, gender non-conforming behavior is much more socially acceptable among perceived girls than perceived boys. A girl who wants a short haircut, eschews dresses, plays with "boy things," etc, is far more likely to have adults just shrug it off than a boy who wants to grow out his hair, wears makeup, wants to wear a dress, etc. This ability to help alleviate social dysphoria to a degree can help explain why fewer afab adolescents see an immediate need to transition. There's much more wiggle room to say "Well, I can tolerate this, for now. Maybe forever. We'll see."
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  10.  @trevorcook3129  No, they don't. Pronouns have always been about one's perceived gender. You yourself said it: pronouns are obvious for most people. You observe what gender you believe the person to be, and that's what you base the pronoun on. We don't go around inspecting people's chromosomes before we call them "he" or "she". Jonathan asking you to call him "John" is every bit as much of a "lie" as it is to call him "he" when he was assigned female at birth. You just only have a problem with one, but not the other. No one is demanding you to wear a pronoun badge. You're free to do so, or not to. However, you are in fact being rude if you refuse to call someone by the name, or pronouns, they've asked to be called. Bigot and transphobe aren't slurs lmao. And the Canadian bill is only for caregivers or those in positions of power who repeatedly, consistently, refuse to address someone respectfully and won't change their behavior. They ought not to be in a job where they are interacting with people if they cannot respect them.
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  11.  @trevorcook3129  Yes. I'm pointing out that there's no difference between calling someone a name they prefer and calling someone a pronoun they prefer. Neither is "forced speech." It's all just basic respect and politeness.
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  12. ​ @paulhammond6978  It's not true that there are more trans men than trans women. Simply that people now know trans men exist. We've always existed, and always been about the same level as trans women.
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  13.  @nickthepostpunk5766  Quite sure. As I said, if you hold cis women to the same standards of autogynephilia, they are also autogynephilic. The fact that you think it "makes no sense" says a lot about your beliefs. I read what you wrote. You said, quote, "The medicalisation of children (often actually gay, autistic, with mental health problems, difficult family backgrounds, ..." Do you not stand by your words? I am aware you think trans women who are only attracted to men are gay. However, your opinion of their orientation me and exactly squat. I can assure you these women are not into other women.
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  14.  @nikobellic570  I'm very sorry trans people having legal recognition is so hard for you. Best wishes to get over it soon.
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  15. She has, in fact, legally changed her sex. What about that isn't true?
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  16.  @trevorcook3129  Well, no. Those two words were synonymous for less of their etymological life than they were not. For most of history, gender just meant "a type of kind." Wasn't until Victorian prudes who didn't like the word "sex" decided to try to make "gender" mean "sex." We don't associate adjectives or verbs with gender as we do pronouns. The only "incorrect pronoun" is if you use one the person told you not to use. It really is that simple. You keep going back to "force" because you really want to be the victim here when really, it's just rudeness. 🤷 Having a boundary isn't disrespectful, and it says a lot that you think it is.
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  17.  @trevorcook3129  What is "trans ideology"? You said sex and gender were synonymous "until two seconds ago." I was pointing out that no, for most of history, they weren't. You were wrong. The dictionary does not say "male as in the biological scientific term." You said that. Merriam-Webster actually defines "male" as "(a) of, relating to, or being the sex that typically has the capacity to produce relatively small, usually motile gametes which fertilize the eggs of a female (b) having a gender identity that is the opposite of female." So, no. It's not solely "the biological scientific term."
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  18.  @chrisbfreelance  It is, though.
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  19.  @trevorcook3129  Bro, it's literally just basic respect but ok.
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  20.  @robertmarshall2502  What? No. Is that what you think social dysphoria is? Social dysphoria is a specific type of gender dysphoria. There's physical dysphoria, which is the discomfort with one's physical body. And there's social dysphoria, which is discomfort with the gendered ways in which a person is seen and treated. It's nothing to do with "reinforcing sexist stereotypes," unless you think calling a person "she" when you perceive them to be a woman is a sexist stereotype.
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  21. Preventing trans kids from accessing medical care is the opposite of "saving them from self deletion."
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  22. *Citation needed
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  23. ​ @chrisbfreelance  How is it not misogyny to define a woman by her body parts?
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  24.  @robertmarshall2502  No, I absolutely do not think gender dysphoria is caused by a lack of acceptance for gender non-conformity and frankly I'm not sure where you got that impression.
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  25.  @chrisbfreelance  What, objectively, biologically, defines all women and only women?
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  26.  @johncasey5594  I'm not going eww, I just think that's kind of a waste of water and that not everyone has time to take a full shower after every time they have a wee or have to change a tampon.
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  27. No one mentioned a fetish but you. Why do you associate trans people with sexual fetishes?
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  28.  @trevorcook3129  Yes, I know you think that. Fortunately, your opinion doesn't matter here.
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  29. "More people can afford Starbucks now that there's a $15 minimum wage, so the line is longer! Damn you Bernie!"
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  30. The detransition rate is actually less than one percent.... Far from "the vast majority."
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  31. So, you don't know the difference between "forcing surgery on kids" and "consensual health care for kids"? Because this bans ALL transition related care for anyone under 18, including puberty blockers for 15 year olds, or HRT for 16 year olds. If it just banned surgery, fine, but it doesn't.
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  32. Well, yes, everything you said is, in fact, what being on the wrong side of history looks like. Transphobia is the wrong side of history.
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  33. Where did you get that definition?
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  34. My dude, 200 years ago people thought depression in women was caused by their uterus drifting around inside their abdomen instead of all the oppression, and that tiny little fully formed humans lived in men's testicles and were shot into the woman's uterus to make a baby. I don't think you want to gesture to history to define the sexes.
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  35.  @johncasey5594  Okay but then that doesn't make you smarter, just lucky...
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  36.  @nikobellic570  It would be nice if every trans person didn't have to be an advocate.
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  37.  @saje239  It's not being forced. That's consequences for you disrespecting your coworkers, same as you may be fired if you continually call Jonathan Jonny, or if you refuse to call Mrs Robinson her new name because you don't recognize her marriage. It's not a religion, so your analogy doesn't apply. 🤷
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  38.  @saje239  So, according to you, if we cut out all the fluff and repetition (1, 2, 3, 4, and 6 are just the same point slightly reworded) "gender ideology" is the belief that trans people exist as the gender they say they are. Then, would anti-trans beliefs not also be an ideology? The belief that sex should supercede gender, that birth sex is somehow an objective truth that has nothing at all to do with what superficial genitals the doctor observes, that biological sex isn't a spectrum, etc.
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  39.  @cgpcgp3239  "Gender, late Middle English: from Old French gendre (modern genre ), based on Latin genus ‘birth, family, nation’. The earliest meanings were ‘kind, sort, genus’ and ‘type or class of noun, etc.’ (which was also a sense of Latin genus )."
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  40. Dr Cass herself said she believes in puberty blockers and HRT for trans minors. What's your point?
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  41. I understand your rage, as a fellow trans person, but this is why we need cis allies. They have more power, and are more likely to be listened to, and less likely to be targeted for it.
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  42. It's not just fear though, even in the literal sense. Are hydrophobic substances literally afraid of water? Phobia means fear of, aversion to, or dislike of. If you look up transphobia or homophobia in the dictionary, it won't say "fear of trans people." It says "prejudice or dislike of transgender people." There's nothing inherently wrong with being afraid of a concept or idea that's new to you, but simply being afraid of trans people won't make you transphobic. It's what you do with that fear that matters. "Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to suffering." If you allow your fear to lead to anger and hate, that's transphobia. If you allow your fear to lead towards knowledge and growth, it isn't.
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  43.  @brucewayneissober6915  Yes. Tell me, precisely how many people take her identity seriously and support her? 🤔
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  44. Cool story, but women still have the right to decide who gets to inhabit their body for nine months.
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  45.  @saje239  What is the ideology of trans people? Please explain.
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  46.  @markrussell3428  Gender can be fluid. For most people, it isn't though. Sěxuality can also be fluid and is also a social construct, but it's equally very real. Transgender identity never was a "confusion related to the binary." And plenty of people who aren't trans have all those characteristics you just mentioned, naturally or surgically. Did you know nearly every gender affirming surgery was originally created for cis people, and then merely tailored to the unique anatomy of trans people? The reason we don't "affirm" eating disorders is that harms the person, physically and emotionally. Would you agree it would make an anorexic feel better or worse to tell them "You're right, you're fat, fattie"? However, we know that affirming a person's gender helps their emotional and mental health, and not doing so hurts both of those things. The only possible argument you could make is "physical harm" but is it "harm" for someone to modify their body in a way you don't like if they are happy about it? An anorexic losing too much weight will kìll them; their organs will shut down. A trans person getting top surgery is just.... a trans person who has less brěast tissue than they did before. (And most of them retain their nìpples, lol)
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  47. A cop opening fire without making sure it was safe to do so is "just an unfortunate accident"? They killed an innocent girl so they could clear the area a few seconds faster. No. This is unacceptable. Period.
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  48. I agree. People need to just let trans people live and stop trying to put them on trial with things like "Libs of Tiktok".
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  49. ​​ @AussieObiWan  Puberty blockers are reversible. That's why we use them on cis children with precocious puberty. The only six year olds getting puberty blockers are the aforementioned cis children with precocious puberty. Tell me, why would a child who isn't going through puberty be given puberty blockers ? Take your time and think about that. In what way are so-called "trans activists" misrepresenting Dr DeJung's work? Be specific. What was misrepresented? Marci Bowers is a gynecologist. She does not perform top surgery. She does vaginoplasty and her practice does feminizing surgeries. Do you think her own website is lying? The 67 percent figure of "complications" includes things like infection, pain, and vaginal dryness. 67 percent sure sounds scary though, doesn't it? No, the real rate of regret is 1 percent. Where are you getting 16 percent? "Child suicide is a buzz word and dog whistle" is one hell of a statement and I'm just going to leave that quote here without further comment
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  50.  @priszilla7928  Big disagree. I really enjoy Tom's videos and I'm glad to see him taking a stand here. It's always good to have another ally, especially cis white men, as they definitely hold much more power to get their message across. Especially one whose platform isn't exclusive to these kinds of issues, because it's more likely to get more eyeballs on it. What is allyship if not using your platform and your privilege to speak up about injustice?
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  51.  @cgpcgp3239  ok, so you're the one who said "gender ideology in the 1990s separated gender from sex." And that's why I said, no, it's a lot older than that. And now you're saying no one believes that it's that recent. All that changes is you're now dishonest instead of ignorant.
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  52.  @brucewayneissober6915  Yes. You claimed that these things are happening. You should be able to back that up. Right?
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  53.  @needmetobethebadguyhuh2371  being trans isn't a sexuality lmao this is pretty basic stuff
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  54.  @tharwpoop  That is not what gender dysphoria is. According to the DSM5, gender dysphoria is: "the distress that may accompany the incongruence between one's experienced or expressed gender and one's assigned gender." People with gender dysphoria know exactly what their body looks like, that is why they are distressed.
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  55. I don't know how to tell you this but, human beings have value beyond reproduction.
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  56.  @needmetobethebadguyhuh2371  Bruh you literally said "there are two genders, anything else is a sexual preference." 😂 YOU said that. Not HIM. YOU.
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  57.  @brucewayneissober6915  Can you do me a favor and google how many genders are recognized in the Torah? I'll wait.
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  58.  @brucewayneissober6915  OK, let's pretend we live in a world where neither transgender people nor "transracial" people (because the term transracial actually means something else) exist. Humans will still be giving birth to babies of differing genders all the time. The baby can be a boy or a girl. Humans will not be giving birth to babies of differing races. A white couple will have a white baby. A biracial couple will have a biracial baby. Every time. Without fail. So, tell me again how the two are so irrevocably interwoven that I cannot denounce "transracial" identities without also denouncing transgender ones?
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  59.  @ribbrascal  Your problems aren't my problem, either. 🤷
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  60. What facts? 🤔
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  61.  @dennismhac23  He was born female. He's a trans man. You do know there are trans men and trans women, right?
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  62.  @ribbrascal  Sweetie that wasn't a yes or no question.
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  63.  @dennismhac23  No. Nobody wanted him in the girl's team, but he was forced to be there because of transphobic policies requiring him to compete as his birth sex. Since he was female at birth, he was forced to wrestle with girls.
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  64.  @missy3505  That's incorrect. According to Mental Health Outcomes in Transgender and Nonbinary Youths Receiving Gender-Affirming Care Diana M. Tordoff, MPH1; Jonathon W. Wanta, MD2; Arin Collin, BA3; et al 2022: "Gender-affirming care is associated with decreased rates of long-term adverse outcomes among TNB youths. Specifically, PBs, GAHs, and gender-affirming surgeries have all been found to be independently associated with decreased rates of depression, anxiety, and other adverse mental health outcomes. Access to these interventions is also associated with a decreased lifetime incidence of suicidal ideation among adults who had access to PBs during adolescence."
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  65.  @ribbrascal  So, you're going to tell me what I do and don't think? Why do you think you know my opinions and beliefs better than I do?
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  66.  @ribbrascal  I've never said your problems are my problems. I've just explicitly said the opposite. I don't care what problems you have, mate.
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  67.  @markrussell3428  I agree! My beliefs are as real as the concept of gender itself! 🤗
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  68. The best part is you can see all the dings in the wall that have clearly been painted over many times, in the exact same spot 😂
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  69.  @dennismhac23   Honey I want you to go ahead and Google Mack Beggs. He's a trans man. He was born with xx chromosomes. He's actually got his own Netflix documentary about his story, "Mack Wrestles." And he's now out of college, wrestling men. And doing quite well last I heard.
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  70.  @cgpcgp3239   @cgpcgp3239  Gender: c.1300, "kind, sort, class," from O. Fr. gendre (12c., Mod. Fr. genre), from stem of L. genus (gen. generis) "race, stock, family; kind, rank, order; species," also (male or female) "sex" (see genus) and used to translate Aristotle's Greek grammatical term genos. The grammatical sense is attested in English from late 14c.; the man-or-woman from early 15c. Sex came to mean "sexual intercourse" in the late 1800s/early 1900s, and meaning "genitalia" is attested from 1938. "Sex appeal" attested by 1904. It is around this time that gender became more meaning physical sex rather than man/woman boy/girl. So, no. You are wrong, and will continue to be wrong. Gender being separate from sex was happening as early as the 1940s, perhaps earlier (we lost quite a lot of literature from the largest transgender institute in the 1930s in Germany...) This idea that so-called "gender ideology" or in other words "trans people exist" is younger than Taylor Swift is nonsense. Gender is a social construct. That's a fact. Guess what? So is the category of sex because humans created those two boxes. So of course most humans fit into one of those two boxes, because we made the boxes to fit what we saw. If we decided to categorize every human into "blue eyes" and "brown eyes" we'd find that, hey, pretty much every human fits into those boxes too! It doesn't mean very much except that we made the boxes so we decided the rules. That's all Abigail means when she said sex is changeable through medical intervention. Many, though of course not all, of the characteristics that determine which box a person goes in can be changed. When someone fits most of the characteristics of one box, and only some of the characteristics of the other, which box ought they to go in?
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  71.  @saje239  That's a nonsense question full of buzzwords. Can you rephrase it to ask an actual question?
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  72.  @saje239  You said, quote, "We categorize these different gametes into what we call biological sexes." I'm well aware that the characteristics of the two sex categories are more than just gametes, but I am going off of what you said I asked you to rephrase the question. You seemed perplexed at what that meant. If you feel you wasted your time, you have only yourself to blame.
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  73. "He started to od again and was od'ing the whole way to the hospital." Uhhhh I'm no drug expert but is that really how it works? Like, the drug can continue to spike after the initial exposure? Because that makes no sense to me...
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  74.  @saje239  You wrote a whole paragraph, and then another one, but neither of them said anything about sex being defined by more than just gametes. I asked you to reword the question. You replied confused. So I reworded my request. Clearly you were confused as you came back with definitions as though I don't know what the subject we are discussing is about, rather than rewording the question. The fact that you still don't understand why your second reply was out of place shows that you were, in fact, perplexed; and continue to be. Of course male deer exist. The fact that you even have to ask that says a lot about what you believe about things, but let's humor you.
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  75.  @cgpcgp3239  My friend, I was responding to someone who literally said that "gender ideology" came into being in the 90s. So, go talk to that person about the thing that "no one believes." 😂
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  76. Not even, because this legislation forces trans men to use the ladies' room. Therefore, she's going to be uncomfortable either way, but without the law at least she wouldn't be sharing the room with actual, self-identified men. Ironically, with the law, she would.
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  77. "Black goes with any build" is why I'm having such a difficult time finding a nice GPU for my all white build 😭 Really want a 4070 super but it looks like the best I can get is silver, or something with black accents.
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  78.  @needmetobethebadguyhuh2371  You did. You said "everything else is sexual preference." In what way is one's gender a sexuality?
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  79.  @cgpcgp3239  When did we speak Middle English?
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  80. Your "help" is conversion therapy. 🏳️‍🌈You can take your condescending "consern" and shove it ❤️
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  81. Trans what?
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  82. Thank you! So sick of people using "millennial" as a catchall for "young adults and teens." Millennials have grown up! We're in our late 20s to late 30s.
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  83. ​ @ReckluseMusic  On the 17th April, The Kite Trust and other LGBTQ+ support organisations met with Dr Hilary Cass and her team to get answers to the questions raised by trans young people and their families in the wake of the report release. Here are her answers: "In the data the Cass Review examined, the most common age that trans young people were being initially prescribed puberty suppressing hormones was 15. Dr. Cass’s view is that this is too late to have the intended benefits of suppressing the effects of puberty and was caused by the previous NHS policy of requiring a trans young person to be on puberty suppressing hormones for a year before accessing gender affirming hormones. The Cass Review Report recommends that a different approach is needed, with puberty suppressing hormones and gender affirming hormones being available to young people at different ages and developmental stages alongside a wider range of gender affirming healthcare based on individual need.”
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  84.  @ribbrascal  That's not a trans "ideology," that's something every human being expects. Do people generally demand you prove that you're a bloke before calling you "sir"? Or do they just believe you are because you said you are and you look like a bloke?
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  85. ​ @mandyharewood886  Plenty of women find gay people a threat to their privacy and safety.... plenty of women find other races a threat to their safety and rights as athletes.... ought their demands to be treated as valid the same way you demand yours to be? You say that simply because you are afraid, it makes your fears factual. I reject that. Trans people do not deny you have the right to safety, comfort, dignity, and fairness. Merely that your rights to these things are not infringed upon by trans women occupying the same public spaces as cis women. No one denies that there is a difference between cis women and trans women. That's the entire reason trans people transition. You are not being "bullied" for "speaking your truth". You are being rightly argued with because your fears do not trump the rights of trans women to access the same rights you currently enjoy. They are women's spaces, not "female" spaces. Trans men do not belong in women's bathrooms and changing rooms, nor would most women feel safe sharing those spaces with them. The science and data do not agree with your opinions, regardless of how much you stamp your feet and bluster about it.
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  86.  @markrussell3428  Most people's gender never changes. It can be fluid. It typically isn't. There isn't a rush with children. It takes years and years to even get puberty blockers, and they're on those for several years to give everyone time to think and decide. "Gender will resolve with time" is demonstrably untrue. An incongruent gender identity that persists after puberty begins does not change in the overwhelming majority of people. Children are not being "căstrated." There is not a single case of a person under 17 getting bottom surgery, and that was a German woman who fought for years with debilitating dysphoria. No one is "affirming a delusion." Gender incongruence isn't a mental illness nor a delusion. It's interesting you bring up "high school girls getting brěast reconstruction." Most people don't acknowledge that the number of cis kids getting these surgeries is many times greater than trans kids, but you did. Good for you. Thousands of cis girls get brěast augmentation or reduction as teens. Hundreds of cis boys get brěast removal and reduction (gynecomastia). But a few dozen trans boys get the same surgery, and it's an issue? Why is that?
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  87.  @robertmarshall2502  Sure thing! You can look on the DSM5 and see the criteria for gender dysphoria. It includes features of both physical and social dysphoria. Yeah, i do admit, if people didn't base someone's pronouns and presumed gender off of appearance, a lot of social dysphoria would go away. But unfortunately, people are fighting back against that quite hard. You, in fact, are fighting back against that. You can see the problem. I do not have the "general idea that dysphoria is affected by society." Stop misinterpreting my statements and then going on as if I believe things I don't. The DSM does not consider dysphoria and dysmorphia to be even in the same category. Why do you think you know more than the experts who wrote it? You can take whatever I say as whatever you like. Clearly you already have as you continue to barrel boldly forward with things I've never said as if I stated them.
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  88. Good god man, you type painfully slowly!
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  89. Now go listen to Space Doggity by Jonathan Coulton (written about Laika) and try not to cry.
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  90.  @saje239  Do all of those statements not stem from my assertion? A reasonable person would say yes. Biologists don't agree with you. Gender isn't souls. If gametes were what determined sex, why do doctors not do gamete tests before assigning male or female? Gametes correlate to one's sex category, but not everyone born with a vulva produces ova, not everyone born with a penis produces sperm. What you call "rare birth defects" are, in fact, natural variations in human anatomy. If sex was binary, there would not be such thing as any "rare defect" or exception. There's never a 3 in binary code. Nature does not do binaries, humans do.
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  91. If only there was something we could do about this unprecedented CHANGE in our CLIMATE 🤔
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  92.  @CJ-wh3zy  If you want some good information on sports, I can recommend Jangles Sciencelad's video on trans women in sports, as well as Jessie Gender's video on the topic. Jangles has a degree in kinesthology and has been a personal trainer and he sources everything he talks about in the video description, and Jessie is a trans woman who routinely puts out very good informative content. She actually just did a pretty good (albeit very long) take down on Matt Walsh's video, but it's something like four hours long, so I cant really recommend it because it's a big commitment to watch the whole thing lol
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  93.  @CJ-wh3zy   You're seriously saying it's normal for people to misrepresent a film's purpose and hide the true makers when seeking out folks to interview for a film? That.... seems very unlikely and if that's true, it needs to change. Shady practices shouldn't be the norm. People typically have to disclose things such as the book's title, author, and publisher when interviewing someone for a book. Why is the same not true for a movie? I don't think it's morally ok to basically trick people into a film with a false pretense, and then point to the fact that they left when they realized what the film was actually about as a "win". Not saying you did this, but a lot of Matt Walsh fans definitely feel quite pleased with themselves when they saw the interviewers get up and leave, as though they simply couldn't answer Matt's simple questions. However, in context, I think it's pretty clear that's not the reason they left. These people should have been given the opportunity to give honest consent, and they got mad when they found out they weren't. That's understandable and reasonable. If no pro-trans people agree to be in his film when he honestly told them what it is about, well, that says a lot. He could still use quotes from pro-trans people, their articles, their research documents, etc. It wouldn't necessarily make the film more one sided by not being able to interview them in person. He used one trans teen boy's top surgery photos in his film (without the boy's consent, by the way) as well as clips from multiple trans peoples' tiktok and YouTube videos. And while it's true that these people put their videos online, and it may be legally fair use, I'm not sure, it shows that he's not shy about bringing people into the conversation without having them personally there to be interviewed. The words I would use to describe puberty blockers, aside from "puberty blockers," is medication, or more specifically a GnRH agonist. Hormone agonist, perhaps, for short, as that's what they do. I might use the brand name, Lupron. I wouldn't say "I'm having my morning drugs" when I drink my morning cup of coffee, even though caffeine is a drug and a stimulant. I'm glad you can agree that Matt was using deliberately emotive language there. As far as a way we can talk, I'm not sure. I don't really use other social media like Twitter. YouTube doesn't really have a direct message system as far as I know. I do want to thank you for listening and keeping an open mind. For what it's worth, if you want some more accurate data (though again, it will have a decidedly pro trans bias) I can recommend Cass Eris' channel. She did a wonderful breakdown on Abigail Shrier's book about trans youth, and you'll find a lot of the same statistics and papers Matt Walsh used. There's really a common theme with a lot of these anti-trans folks using the same data points over and over, so the nice part about that is that when someone brings actual data to the table it handily addresses dozens of videos and articles at once. Cass is a cognitive psychologist so she has the educational background necessary to really go in depth into the papers and break them down into layperson speech.
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  94.  @CJ-wh3zy   Here is the thing, though. You agree that, when he set out to make the video, he had a preconceived notion, yes? Would it also be fair, then, to state that his audience also had a preconceived notion going in to the film? Why, then, would it not be a better idea to leave in more of the answers that challenge that notion, if the object of the piece was truly to explore what a woman is, and what it means to different people? I think you're being a little disengenuous if you can't admit that he chose to portray the pro-trans side in a decidedly negative light. The people "just got up and left" because of the way he was deliberately phrasing his statements and questions. You may not be aware, but he was actually intentionally deceitful with the way he got a lot of these people in to be interviewed. When he was looking for people on the pro-trans side, he set up a website for a fake organization called the Gender Unity Project, with the actual people behind the project hidden under layers upon layers of registered agents and fake names (the person who contacted Eli Erlick, for example, used her first and middle name, because if you Google her first and last name it immediately comes up that she works with Matt Walsh.) Matt Walsh also, quote, in his own words, "declare(d) an all out war on gender ideology" in regards to the creation of this film. You don't think that's transphobic? These people were told, if we go by the email that Eli got, that the film would be quote "an independent documentary" "exploring the real lives of people in the lgbtqia+ community, and to shed some light on the topics of gender identity, and gender fluidity." I think a reasonable person would agree that is not an accurate description of the film that was produced. It sounds very neutral, positive even, and I believe you did agree that Matt Walsh's opinion of trans people is not neutral, and the film is not neutral. When these people realized that they were not being interviewed in good faith, they left. In one case, the person was a medical professional, and she simply asked Matt to stop using inflammatory phrases like I believe it was "giving drugs to children" (it's been a while since I've watched the thing, and I don't plan on watching it again so I don't recall the exact quote) and he refused. So she left. I agree that bias in creating an informative documentary is inevitable, but that doesn't mean that it can't be handled in a responsible way. When you know you are walking into a topic with a bias, you have even more responsibility to ensure you're not misrepresentating the other side (which I'd argue Matt did intentionally), and to ensuring your facts are correct (which his were not, not even close; he asserts that phalloplasty has a 67 percent complication rate when the reality is it is about thirty percent for both cis and trans men). Matt is not shy about stating exactly what he believes, directly inside the film. Quote: "You are all child abusers. You prey upon impressionable children and indoctrinate them into your insane ideological cult, a cult which holds many fanatical views but none so deranged as the idea that boys are girls and girls are boys." He then calls it "vile nonsense" and "poison." Is it really not transphobic to call trans people "deranged predators"?
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  95.  @saje239  What do you mean by "biological sex" and what do you mean by "a referent in reality"?
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  96.  @saje239  Yes and no. I now understand that when you say "biological sex" you think it only applies to gametes, and that the gametes themselves are somehow the categories? However, you seem to have difficulty discerning the difference between a category as an abstract and the definition of said category. Gametes can be what we use to categorize individuals, but the category itself is not the same thing as the definition of the category. Furthermore, if gametes are what we use to define one's sex, then what sex are humans who naturally produce no gametes? I know what the definition of the words you use mean, I was asking you to rephrase your question. I don't know why you went off into a blustery diatribe.
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  97.  @CJ-wh3zy  Asking the question is legitimate, but he didn't ask it in a legitimate way. It's fine to ask questions, gather data, and try to use these things to form your world view. Matt Walsh went in with a preconceived notion (that trans people aren't the gender they say they are) and then worked backwards from there to justify that. For example, when he shows the interviews with the gender studies experts, he chops them up into pieces, at one point even fading in and out to give the viewer the impression that it's a long and complicated answer that doesn't mean anything. But if that's the case, why not leave that whole answer in so we can decide for ourselves? Why cut it out? Because he doesn't want us to hear it. He doesn't want us to say "Huh, that makes sense." A documentary just exploring what it means to be a woman would not be transphobic, but that's not what Matt Walsh made. He made a propoganda piece trying to affirm his world view, that trans people are delusional and harmful, and that's transphobic.
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  98.  @SamanthaIreneYTube  Don't tell me how to handle transphobes. Thanks.
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  99.  @saje239  Which, you said, was based on gametes. You simply are looking to backpeddle. That question was me rephrasing my question because you didn't understand what I said when I asked you the first time. Blaming others for your misunderstandings may work in other areas of your life but it won't work with me. The question sounds ridiculous because you know it's a ridiculous question. The category and concept of male does not exist without humans, but the physical attributes certainly do exist. As I said before.
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  100.  @saje239  I asked that because you didn't understand what I meant when I simply asked you to rephrase the question. I agree that most people can read your initial response and see why I said you were back peddling. If you are trying to find out what I mean when I say "sex is a social construct" and did not understand what I meant when I expanded upon that, you could simply have asked instead of asking roundabout, nonsense questions. I'm not sure where you're reading hostility but that's on you, not me. As I said: the categories are socially constructed. The physical attributes we attribute to maleness are not. I am not sure I can explain it more simply than that.
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  101.  @saje239  "I knew what you meant" but when I told you what words, you went off onto a diatribe. So. Either you didn't know, or you did but felt like talking down to me was the appropriate thing to do whilst now constantly asking if i am the one who doesn't want polite discourse. 🤷 I explained why the question was nonsense already. I'm not repeating myself. I explained my answer already. I'm not repeating myself. We're just going round and round in circles at this point with you acting absolutely baffled that I'm not indulging in "discourse" the way you feel it ought to be done.
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  102. The entire point of the film is that trans women are really men. How is that not transphobic?
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  103. Even that Italian ad is not the originator. This was a common way to advertise the "purity" or cleaning power of soaps back in the day. There was an ad for Pear's soap featuring a white child washing a black child in the tub, and the "after" picture shows the black child has white skin from the neck down--- owing, of course, to how excellent the soap was at cleaning "impurities". Another one featured a white child addressing a black child and saying "Why doesn't your momma wash you with Fairy Soap?" Implying that the innocent child saw the other's black skin as dirty. This trope is as old as time--- but that doesn't make it okay, especially in 2016.
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  104.  @cgpcgp3239  Your assertion that so-called "gender ideology" is different from being trans is as old and tired as the homophobic assertion that it's new to be gay, and prior to the 1990s people merely "claimed to be attracted to the opposite sex." Do you think trans women, prior to the 90s, did not access women's spaces? You acknowledge that they "tried to live as best they could as the opposite sex" but then just a few sentences ago, you claim it's new and "gender ideology" to allow trans women into women's spaces, or to be treated as a woman. Even you cannot completely separate this so-called, alleged new "gender ideology" from.... merely existing in society as trans.
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  105.  @itcouldbelupus2842  Posey "I think armed men should go into women's rooms and harass anyone they think doesn't belong there" Parker? Posey "I'm not a feminist" Parker? Posey "I think men should claim to identify as women and use women's toilets" Parker? Posey "any woman who stands in my way will be annihilated" Parker?
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  106. I love how one of them says "More Americans trust Hillary Clinton over Donald Trump to handle an international crisis." Clearly they're trying to skew facts to make it seem like Americans trust Hillary overall, when her negativity ratings and untrustworthiness ratings are through the roof.
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  107. Some of these are pretty silly..... like "I didn't get vaccinated, but my roommate did, and now my period is off." But yeah it does seem to be something there with people who get periods themselves having strange things happening after being vaccinated
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  108. They're missing some important data here. What did the actual servers think of the changes?
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  109. Wait, wait. I'm worried what you just heard was, "Give me a lot of RGB." What I said was, "Give me all the RGB you have." Do you understand?
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  110.  @captaintorch1238  None of that is true. If you take a child off puberty blockers, puberty proceeds as normal. We know this because we have used them for close to 40 years to treat precocious puberty. Also, I agree it would be wrong to give transition medical treatment to a three year old. That never happens. Puberty doesn't even begin until 9 or 10, so why would anyone give puberty blockers to a 3 year old? Blockers are not given until tanner stage 2 of puberty, which typically occurs around age 11 to 13, and only when the child shows extreme and debilitating distress around the changes that are happening to their body. These medications are not given lightly. For many children, yes, dysphoria does go away once puberty starts, BUT we also know that if dysphoria persists into puberty, it almost always (as in, over 95 percent of cases) persists through adulthood and the rest of their life. That's why we don't give blockers or HRT or surgery before puberty.
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  111.  @Venomonomonom  Bruh change your paste. I just changed mine on my 8-9 year old cpu and it made an amazing difference
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  112. Sorry, I'm immature and stopped to giggle at Tim's last name. Carry on.
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  113. "It's got a new fridge!" /fridge wobbles proudly
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  114. I don't mean to imply that this particular actor thought that, but for a lot of men, yes they do. They dismiss it as being not as bad as women say, or something that they could handle but women can't. It took this man actually experiencing it to realize that yes, it is really that bad.
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  115. It's really kind of sad that the only way to get some men to believe this is real, is to dress men up as women and get them to personally experience the kind of harassment and belittling and dehumanizing women go through every day. It's like they just don't believe how serious and awful it is until they experience it. Once they experience it they realize it cannot be emphasized enough: something needs to change.
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  116. Downvotes have been removed from all YouTube videos.
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  117. Well, he is. He's a trans guy
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  118. The ripped up money is still good... what's the problem? Also the pens are NOT foolproof, all they do is tell you that the paper is real money paper... not that the bill is genuine... smells like we don't have the full story here.
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  119.  @tharwpoop  No. In BIID there is a mismatch between one's mental body and the physical body. In gender dysphoria, the person is distressed by the actual physical body. There is no mismatch. They know what their body looks like. The DSM states these are two separate disorders and that there is no connection between them. Why do you think you know better than the American Psychiatric Association?
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  120.  @tharwpoop  Incorrect! BIID is a completely different diagnosis to gender dysphoria.
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  121. Cis guy doesn't understand why trans person is offended, sums up this entire video. Hopefully his views have evolved in the past four years. Interview was gross.
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  122. Isn't this literally what people want? "We can't increase the minimum wage, because people should aspire to be better than these minimum wage jobs" they shout. But now they're angry that people working these minimum wage jobs are educated so they can better themselves eventually?? Like, what?
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  123.  @nikobellic570  The feminist arguments are the pro-trans ones.
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  124.  @MorgurEdits  I.... I just explained that people who are just afraid aren't transphobic. They're not under the same definition as people who are hateful or discriminatory. And anyone can ask questions, as long ad they're actually interested in the answers. What differentiates the curious from the transphobe is, again, what they do with the information they learn.
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  125.  @Viral9  The fact that you think it's "middle school pedantry" to point out that you were wrong says everything that needs to be said, really.
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  126.  @Viral9  Yes. That "common knowledge, consensus, or authority" are the people I mentioned before: the biologists, sports scientists, and experts on the sports panels who make these decisions. That is why trans women do already compete with cis women in those sports. Do you really find that difficult to understand? Also, why do you continue to compound "trans women" into one word when you clearly understand that "cis women" is two words?
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  127.  @Viral9  I'm replying to one single claim you made, it's neither vague nor ridiculous. You said that it hadn't been decided that trans women compete in women's sports. But it has: it's been decided for decades. That's it. That's all. If new research comes out that supercedes the old research upon which they based their decision, that is another discussion. You can try to twist what I said into whatever you like. I don't frankly care.
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  128.  @albertfralinger2711  Depends on what you mean by "reasonable concerns".
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  129.  @albertfralinger2711  That doesn't answer my question. What concerns do you consider reasonable? For example, I consider it reasonable to take children to see professional doctors if they're experiencing distress or discomfort about their gender and that it's reasonable the doctor may give them blockers or hrt at appropriate ages (eg, a six year old would only socially transition, a 16 year old may receive hrt). Some others consider that very unreasonable, despite the fact that we know these treatments are safe and effective, and very few people regret medical transition. I consider it reasonable that trans women can compete in most sports with cis women after having been on testosterone suppressants for at least one to three years, depending on the sport, because we know that the advantages amab bodies have all comes from testosterone, and we know that this time period is sufficient to remove samesaid advantages. Others consider that unreasonable, despite the studies and real world evidence we have that trans women are not being overrepresented in women's sports achievements or records. So again, I ask you, what do you consider "reasonable concerns"? It's ok to have concerns if you don't have knowledge. But then you ought to gain more knowledge to either assuage or validate your concerns. Then they're no longer concerns, either way.
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  130.  @Viral9  It is true that increasing numbers of sports associations are ruling that trans women cannot compete with cis women, that's true. However, the knowledge that wd have shows that these rulings are not based in science or data, however they are based on public opinion and lobbying. Trans women do not have "options that better suit their sex." A trans woman would never have a chance in a men's league.
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  131.  @Viral9  It is true that increasing numbers of sports associations are ruling that trans women cannot compete with cis women, that's true. However, the knowledge that wd have shows that these rulings are not based in science or data, however they are based on public opinion and lobbying. Trans women do not have "options that better suit their sex." A trans woman would never have a chance in a men's league.
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  132.  @Viral9  I'm not talking about the literature. Why do you keep trying to read more into a simple statement than has been said?
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  133.  @Viral9  Yes, there was a consensus, by the folks who make those decisions: the biologists, sports scientists, and experts on the panels. I'm sorry they didn't ask you.
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  134.  @Viral9  Merely that it happens, yes. Exactly. That's all I was saying. You said "it hasn't been decided." I pointed out that yes it has. That's it and that's all.
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  135. ​ @EliTheShaman  "debate me in vc!" says the guy with no videos. What would be the point of it? 😂
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  136.  @EliTheShaman  Why can't we do that here?
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  137.  @EliTheShaman  Nobody's identity could "make it" without society. What a silly notion. There's no such thing as changing who you are? Well, yes, trans people agree. We don't want to change who we are. Who we are is trans. What does it mean to "follow your nature and purpose"? What purpose is there other than living your life to the fullest and trying to leave the world a better place than you found if?
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  138.  @EliTheShaman  That's a whole lot of words for "I don't understand trans people and it scares me." I never changed my gender.
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  139.  @EliTheShaman  lmao "alpha mindset" 😂
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  140.  @EliTheShaman  No, it just makes me laugh.
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  141.  @EliTheShaman  That's sad.
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  142.  @EliTheShaman  Ok alpha, you go right ahead with that "reality" and let me know how it works out for you. 😂
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  143.  @EliTheShaman  When I was your age, I also thought everyone else was younger than me, and wrong.
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  144.  @EliTheShaman  Very good! Gender dysphoria isnt a gender! You're learning.
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  145.  @EliTheShaman  Sweetie, if you understood mental illness and dysphoria you'd know why what you just said made no sense. 😂
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  146.  @Viral9  You said it hadn't been decided. The fact that trans women have been playing in women's sport for decades means it has been decided, for quite a while. That's all.
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  147. ​ @barryledgister4496  That's a funny way to say "I don't know what being trans means".
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  148. You don't even know what trans people believe, all you do is cite other anti-trans people, but trans people are the one who can't think critically? 😂
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  149.  @Viral9  I agree, that would be a terrible argument, if it was my argument. Try reading it again. I'm sure you can understand.
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  150. ​ @Viral9  Trans women have been in women's sports for decades. I'd say that's pretty decided, wouldn't you?
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  151. ​ @epicmode1621  He cited tons of research and statistics. I hope you actually take the time to look into some of it.
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  152. Mate I'm still wearing the same pants and shoes from high school and the same single pair of shoes from 2 years ago 😂 I just bought new underwear since you're supposed to replace that annually and I'm like, who is buying 68 items of clothing a year and why? Who has that kind of money?
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  153.  @Viral9  It has, in fact, been decided that trans women compete in women's sports, because of the science that has been done. This is a factual statement. It is not vague. Again, I'm sorry they didn't consult you.
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