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  7. Correct. All men are born male and all women are born female with exactly ZERO exceptions and neither are a social construct, feeling, fetish, preference or a costume. Gender: The status of being either male or female. The entire purpose of the gender/sex division in most species of animal life is to facilitate procreation, the sexual identity of an individual is best classified according to the gametes produced by the person in question. There is no extant third gamete. An extremely minute percentage of humans are either “intersex” (typically referring to those who are anatomical hermaphrodites) or of indeterminate gender (that is, not easily determined by a cursory inspection of the external genitalia), but that does not negate the incontrovertible scientific fact that there are only two genders. As far as we know, there has never existed a single human being with the ability to BOTH conceive a child in his/her womb and, simultaneously, successfully inseminate a woman (or in more disturbing terms, for a hermaphrodite to inseminate him/herself). And even if such an individual has existed, that person would be a combination of BOTH male and female, and not some imaginary, novel third gender. Cf. “sex”. Both terms (“gender” and “sex”) originate from Latin words: “genus” (meaning “begin”; “birth”; “kind”; “race”; “gender”) and “sexus” (meaning “sex”; “division”; “gender”). So, essentially, the only significant distinction between the two terms is that the etymology of “gender” pertains to the beginning of things, as can be plainly seen by the other English words that originate from "genus", such as “generic”, “genetic”, and “generate”, whilst “sex” is a scrupulously-literal translation of the Latin cognate “sexus”. The mere fact that the word “genitals” (referring to reproductive organs) is very closely related to the Latin “genus” is further evidence of the assertion that the term “gender” refers to the binary division of human (and of course, many non-human) sexual identity, and NOT to any taxonomy based on emotion, feelings, psychology, or any other non-biological categorization schema. ;) Way too many inappropriately and incorrectly conflate gender/sex (There are only 2-- male/female... That's it) with personality traits and temperament (There are a ton and none are gender exclusive-- hence effeminate males, butch females and tomboys), and again with gender roles (without exception refer to the roles of males and females in society) as though they're synonymous and they are not. Science has already proven that the binary dichotomy of all mammals is male/female. A man in a dress is still a man A man with anxiety about his sex/gender-- still a man A man calling himself a woman-- still a man A man with an effeminate personality--still a man
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  11. Why should a subjective, unverifiable gender identity matter at all, in areas designated by biological sex? There's no hate involved in recognizing that a male in women's clothes is a male in women's clothes. Get Real The arguments just don't withstand scrutiny, because life is based in objective reality, and the trans imagination just doesn't override people's capacity for discernment. A man believing he's a woman, doesn't make him one. Take your time to process reality, for a change. Believing there is some "essence" specific to males or female as far as feelings go, that can manifest "in the wrong body", is akin to a religious belief, having faith in something that is impossible to prove or disprove. The thing is though, that no one on the "trans" side can actually even explain what this "essence" is, they can't even explain it to themselves yet have convinced themselves that the feeling they have means they "are in the wrong body" - without realizing that their discomfort simply stems from not realizing that they view conforming to sexist stereotypes as legitimate measures of manhood or womanhood. That is why every explanation given of WHY a male "can't be a man, but is instead woman" etc. relies upon listing stereotypical stuff, or, in some cases is completely abstract and refuses to actually provide any explanation of what they mean, simply stating they "know" that what they feel means what they say it does, even though they can't actually provide a definition of it. "It's hard to explain but I know I'm right" is an attitude one constantly comes up against - a religious faith in something they can't define. This idea that the terms "man" and "woman" carry all this baggage, sexist stereotypes, that people need to live up to or feel comfortable with is a complete fabrication coming from the "trans" side. You lot want a term to reflect aspects of your personality as well, you want to create more boxes to put people in, as you won't accept simply just being a man or a woman based on being born male or female (and reaching adulthood, obviously people are boys and girls before becoming men or women), but believe you need this "freedom of expression" to broadcast what sexist stereotypes you feel more comfortable with - thinking the world needs to adopt the sexist view you lot have (you fail to see just how much you have in common with Conservatives). Replacing objective definitions which are based in physical reality, with entirely subjective metaphysical claims, is not logical in any way, is not morally superior, and is demonstrably harmful, not least to female rights and protections, but also to practically anyone that buys into it as it warps people's perception of the underlying issues. It hinders people in their quest for individuation, creating this false narrative of them becoming more "authentic" when the total opposite is true, they believe they need validation from others in order to be happy etc. instead of being encouraged to find more inner strength and resilience with less reliance on how people see them. Demanding to be legally recognized as the opposite sex of what one is, is in no way shape or form more authentic than accepting the physical reality one is born into. To believe we as individuals can have 100% control over our identity in society, what we are seen as by others, in interaction with, and in relation to, society/the world/physical existence is a fool's errand, it is a delusional understanding of reality and existence. Now you know better
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  49. Nope... Subjective gender identities and gender roles are social constructs-- People are not. Cf. “sex”. Both terms (“gender” and “sex”) originate from Latin words: “genus” (meaning “begin”; “birth”; “kind”; “race”; “gender”) and “sexus” (meaning “sex”; “division”; “gender”). So, essentially, the only significant distinction between the two terms is that the etymology of “gender” pertains to the beginning of things, as can be plainly seen by the other English words that originate from "genus", such as “generic”, “genetic”, and “generate”, whilst “sex” is a scrupulously-literal translation of the Latin cognate “sexus”. The mere fact that the word “genitals” (referring to reproductive organs) is very closely related to the Latin “genus” is further evidence of the assertion that the term “gender” refers to the binary division of human (and of course, many non-human) sexual identity, and NOT to any taxonomy based on emotion, feelings, psychology, or any other non-biological categorization schema. ;) You/Pro trans activists seem to want a term to reflect aspects of your personality-- as well, you want to create more boxes to put people in, as you won't accept simply just being a man or a woman based on being born male or female (and reaching adulthood, obviously people are boys and girls before becoming men or women), but believe you need this "freedom of expression" to broadcast what sexist stereotypes you feel more comfortable with - thinking the world needs to adopt the sexist view you have. Replacing objective definitions, which are based in physical reality, with entirely subjective metaphysical claims, is not logical in any way, is not morally superior, and is demonstrably harmful, not least to female rights and protections, but also to practically anyone that buys into it as it warps people's perception of the underlying issues. It hinders people in their quest for individuation, creating this false narrative of them becoming more "authentic" when the total opposite is true, they believe they need validation from others in order to be happy etc. instead of being encouraged to find more inner strength and resilience with less reliance on how people see them. Demanding to be legally recognized as the opposite sex of what one is, is in no way shape or form more authentic than accepting the physical reality one is born into. To believe we as individuals can have 100% control over our identity or self-perceptions in society, what we are seen as by others, in interaction with, and in relation to, society/the world/physical existence is a fool's errand, it is a delusional understanding of reality and existence. You're wrong
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  66.  @dariocarraresi1823  I didn't... You did, so I responded to your claim about decreases in assaults on trans people, by showing you the increase in assaults on women, who you seem to think are in no way in need of protecting from violent offenders, who by the vast majority are men-- including those who you refer to as trans women, where in Canada they released some stats about that and another interesting article which addresses it further stating, "In 2017, Trudeau government allowed inmates to transfer from men's to women's prisons based on their self-described gender identity. Unbeknownst to many Canadians, such a policy is already standard practice in Canada ever since it was introduced by the Trudeau government in 2018 — and has indeed resulted in criminals with lengthy histories of sexual vi0lence against women being housed alongside female inmates. The government of Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon is facing down a major scandal over revelations that her government OK-ed the ability for transgender inmates to transfer to women’s prisons. The policy soon resulted in several high-profile examples of women’s prison transfers being requested by transgender inmates incarcerated for s3xu@l violence against women. Most notably, this included Isla Bryson, a convicted grapist who attacked two women under the name Adam Graham before changing gender in prison. “The last few days have exposed Nicola Sturgeon as being completely out of touch with public opinion,” Russell Findlay, Scotland’s shadow community safety minister, said this week. And so, in a dramatic about-face this week, Sturgeon announced that transgender criminals with “any history” of violence against women could no longer transfer from a men’s to a women’s prison based on their gender self-identification." You've been wrecked-- just stop the nonsense
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  80.  @TransHippie  No, I'm not confused at all dude. Gender: The status of being either male or female. The entire purpose of the gender/sex division in most species of animal life is to facilitate procreation, the sexual identity of an individual is best classified according to the gametes produced by the person in question. There is no extant third gamete. Cf. “sex”. Both terms (“gender” and “sex”) originate from Latin words: “genus” (meaning “begin”; “birth”; “kind”; “race”; “gender”) and “sexus” (meaning “sex”; “division”; “gender”). So, essentially, the only significant distinction between the two terms is that the etymology of “gender” pertains to the beginning of things, as can be plainly seen by the other English words that originate from "genus", such as “generic”, “genetic”, and “generate”, whilst “sex” is a scrupulously-literal translation of the Latin cognate “sexus”. The mere fact that the word “genitals” (referring to reproductive organs) is very closely related to the Latin “genus” is further evidence of the assertion that the term “gender” refers to the binary division of human (and of course, many non-human) sexual identity, and NOT to any taxonomy based on emotion, feelings, psychology, or any other non-biological categorization schema. ;) Way too many inappropriately and incorrectly conflate gender/sex (There are only 2-- male/female... That's it) with personality traits and temperament (There are a ton and none are gender exclusive-- hence effeminate males, butch females and tomboys), and again with gender roles (without exception refer to the roles of males and females in society) as though they're synonymous and they are not. Science has already proven that the binary dichotomy of all mammals is male/female. A man in a dress is still a man A man with anxiety about his sex/gender- due to GD- still a man A man calling himself a woman-- still a man A man with an effeminate personality--still a man Now you know better
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  114.  @TransHippie  Well, according to the analysis, data and conclusions of the studies I've seen, Happy people aren't overwhelmingly sui~*d@l, and those who are have a psych issue at play. Swedish study: Persons with transsexualism, after sex reassignment, have considerably higher risks for mortality, suicidal behaviour, and psychiatric morbidity than the general population. Our findings suggest that sex reassignment, although alleviating gender dysphoria, may not suffice as treatment for transsexualism, and should inspire improved psychiatric and somatic care after sex reassignment for this patient group. A 2020 academic study with a sample size of 372 respondents found that 40 percent of transgender people had attempted suicide. Similarly, in 2016, the National Transgender Discrimination Survey found that 41 percent of 6,450 respondents said they had previously attempted suicide. By comparison, the CDC found that in 2020, 0.36 percent of the population had attempted suicide. According to a 2022 survey by The Trevor Project, an LGBTQ+ suicide prevention organization, nearly 1 in 5 young people who identified as transgender or non-binary have attempted suicide. According to a 2019 UCLA School of Law- Williams Institute report on the thoughts and attempts of self deleting-- the Reports shows that The 2015 U.S. Transgender Survey (USTS), which is the largest survey of transgender people in the U.S. to date, found that 81.7 percent of respondents reported ever seriously thinking about suicide in their lifetimes, while 48.3 percent had done so in the past year. In regard to suicide attempts, 40.4 percent reported attempting suicide at some point in their lifetimes. Although the research literature to date agrees that transgender people are at an elevated risk of suicide thoughts and attempts, there is still much to learn about why transgender people are particularly at risk. Also, the conclusion of the Swedish study, which concluded that persons with transsexualism, after sex reassignment, have considerably higher risks for mortality, suicidal behaviour, and psychiatric morbidity-- than the general population. The findings suggest that sex reassignment, although alleviating gender dysphoria, may not suffice as treatment for transsexualism, and should inspire improved psychiatric and somatic care after sex reassignment for this patient group. When the rate of self deletes among the general population is 10x's lower, and when studies showing that up to 90% desist and end up gay, with only a 4% self delete rate by contrast, the results of affirmation-based treatment protocols are horrible by contrast, making it's justification questionable at best. Dr. Miriam Grossman, MD delivers a good dose of truth, regarding so-called "gender-affirming care" during a recent U.S. House Committee hearing. She speaks clearly, as a medical professional and debunks the notion that sex is "assigned at birth", clarifying that it's established at conception, and observed and documented at birth, or before. Dr. Grossman is board certified in child, adolescent, and adult psychiatry. The author of five books, her work has been translated into eleven languages. "Lost in Trans Nation: A Child Psychiatrist's Guide Out of the Madness" is her most recent book that explains the widespread devastation caused by transgenderism. Her medical practice focuses on gender-distressed young people and their parents. She believes that every child is born in the right body. Dr Grossman has been vocal about the capture of her profession by ideologues, leading to dangerous and experimental treatments on children and betrayal of parents. She has testified in Congress and lectured at the British House of Lords and the United Nations.
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  118.  @TransHippie  Prove it... because, according to the analysis, data and conclusions of the studies I've seen, Happy people aren't overwhelmingly sui~*d@l, and those who are have a psych issue at play. Swedish study: Persons with transsexualism, after sex reassignment, have considerably higher risks for mortality, suicidal behaviour, and psychiatric morbidity than the general population. Our findings suggest that sex reassignment, although alleviating gender dysphoria, may not suffice as treatment for transsexualism, and should inspire improved psychiatric and somatic care after sex reassignment for this patient group. A 2020 academic study with a sample size of 372 respondents found that 40 percent of transgender people had attempted suicide. Similarly, in 2016, the National Transgender Discrimination Survey found that 41 percent of 6,450 respondents said they had previously attempted suicide. By comparison, the CDC found that in 2020, 0.36 percent of the population had attempted suicide. According to a 2022 survey by The Trevor Project, an LGBTQ+ suicide prevention organization, nearly 1 in 5 young people who identified as transgender or non-binary have attempted suicide. According to a 2019 UCLA School of Law- Williams Institute report on the thoughts and attempts of self deleting-- the Reports shows that The 2015 U.S. Transgender Survey (USTS), which is the largest survey of transgender people in the U.S. to date, found that 81.7 percent of respondents reported ever seriously thinking about suicide in their lifetimes, while 48.3 percent had done so in the past year. In regard to suicide attempts, 40.4 percent reported attempting suicide at some point in their lifetimes. Although the research literature to date agrees that transgender people are at an elevated risk of suicide thoughts and attempts, there is still much to learn about why transgender people are particularly at risk. Also, the conclusion of the Swedish study, which concluded that persons with transsexualism, after sex reassignment, have considerably higher risks for mortality, suicidal behaviour, and psychiatric morbidity-- than the general population. The findings suggest that sex reassignment, although alleviating gender dysphoria, may not suffice as treatment for transsexualism, and should inspire improved psychiatric and somatic care after sex reassignment for this patient group. When the rate of self deletes among the general population is 10x's lower, and when studies showing that up to 90% desist and end up gay, with only a 4% self delete rate by contrast, the results of affirmation-based treatment protocols are horrible by contrast, making it's justification questionable at best. It's the trans community which proclaims it's desire to integrate into society, and to achieve affirmation, validation, and acceptance. Your interactions, snarky and obnoxious as they are, fail to motivate the very people with whom the trans community says it wishes to integrate, and they certainly fail to persuade. Not only have you failed to make a case in the face of scrutiny, you've failed to prove anything I've written is inaccurate or incorrect. Congratulations!!! You played yourself. Seethe if you must, then just cope harder. The world isn't your therapist, and doesn't owe you participation in the LARP or cosplay If as you believe, gender and sex are truly independent, why are trans people subscribing to a sexual stereotypical caricature of biological sex as their blueprint for how they present themselves???
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  135. Your subjective gender identity doesn't make anyone a man or a woman-- it's biology. Incoherent, obsessive cult arguments promoting that they do-- are invalid, and change nothing. I think it's humorous when someone says sex and gender are different, as if that doesn't make the narrative even more absurd. People aren't social constructs. Trans however, is a social construct, and doesn't alter anyone's gender/sex, so the saying trans women are women is just wrong. Science has already proven that the binary dichotomy of all mammals is male/female. Science has already established that All men are born male, all women are born female and neither are a social construct, feeling, fetish, preference, or costume, and that state is fixed and permanent as it is with every other mammalian species. This idea that the terms "man" and "woman" carry all this baggage, sexist stereotypes, that people need to live up to or feel comfortable with is a complete fabrication coming from the "trans" side. Pro trans activists seem to want a term to reflect aspects of your personality-- as well, they want to create more boxes to put people in, as you won't accept simply just being a man or a woman based on being born male or female (and reaching adulthood, obviously people are boys and girls before becoming men or women), but believe you need this "freedom of expression" to broadcast what sexist stereotypes you feel more comfortable with - thinking the world needs to adopt the sexist view they have. Replacing objective definitions, which are based in physical reality, with entirely subjective metaphysical claims, is not logical in any way, is not morally superior, and is demonstrably harmful, not least to female rights and protections, but also to practically anyone that buys into it as it warps people's perception of the underlying issues. It hinders people in their quest for individuation, creating this false narrative of them becoming more "authentic" when the total opposite is true, they believe they need validation from others in order to be happy etc. instead of being encouraged to find more inner strength and resilience with less reliance on how people see them. Demanding to be legally recognized as the opposite sex of what one is, is in no way shape or form more authentic than accepting the physical reality one is born into. To believe we as individuals can have 100% control over our identity or self-perceptions in society, what we are seen as by others, in interaction with, and in relation to, society/the world/physical existence is a fool's errand, it is a delusional understanding of reality and existence.
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  138.  @TransHippie  No, gender is not an internal experience. The other things you listed, like masculinity/femininity/body language (Personality and Temperament), Fashion, voice (Neither are gender exclusive) Gender: The status of being either male or female. The entire purpose of the gender/sex division in most species of animal life is to facilitate procreation, the sexual identity of an individual is best classified according to the gametes produced by the person in question. There is no extant third gamete. An extremely minute percentage of humans are either “intersex” (typically referring to those who are anatomical hermaphrodites) or of indeterminate gender (that is, not easily determined by a cursory inspection of the external genitalia), but that does not negate the incontrovertible scientific fact that there are only two genders. As far as we know, there has never existed a single human being with the ability to BOTH conceive a child in his/her womb and, simultaneously, successfully inseminate a woman (or in more disturbing terms, for a hermaphrodite to inseminate him/herself). And even if such an individual has existed, that person would be a combination of BOTH male and female, and not some imaginary, novel third gender. Cf. “sex”. Both terms (“gender” and “sex”) originate from Latin words: “genus” (meaning “begin”; “birth”; “kind”; “race”; “gender”) and “sexus” (meaning “sex”; “division”; “gender”). So, essentially, the only significant distinction between the two terms is that the etymology of “gender” pertains to the beginning of things, as can be plainly seen by the other English words that originate from "genus", such as “generic”, “genetic”, and “generate”, whilst “sex” is a scrupulously-literal translation of the Latin cognate “sexus”. The mere fact that the word “genitals” (referring to reproductive organs) is very closely related to the Latin “genus” is further evidence of the assertion that the term “gender” refers to the binary division of human (and of course, many non-human) sexual identity, and NOT to any taxonomy based on emotion, feelings, psychology, or any other non-biological categorization schema. ;) You're wrong
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  139.  @LucasZiats  I posted the definition which is literally posted right above your post. Way too many inappropriately and incorrectly conflate gender/sex (Biology) with gender roles (Social constructs referring to the roles of males and females is society), and again w/ personality traits (Neither of which are gender exclusive-- hence effeminate males, butch females and tomboys), as though they're synonymous-- and they're Not Also, there was a study showing the brain scan results of trans men vs cis women and the results were identical, showing no differences, indicating your conclusion is valid-- quite the contrary. This idea that the terms "man" and "woman" carry all this baggage, sexist stereotypes, that people need to live up to or feel comfortable with is a complete fabrication coming from the "trans" side. The activists want a term to reflect aspects of your personality as well, you want to create more boxes to put people in, as you won't accept simply just being a man or a woman based on being born male or female (and reaching adulthood, obviously people are boys and girls before becoming men or women), but believe you need this "freedom of expression" to broadcast what sexist stereotypes you feel more comfortable with - thinking the world needs to adopt the sexist view you lot have. Replacing objective definitions, which are based in physical reality, with entirely subjective metaphysical claims, is not logical in any way, is not morally superior, and is demonstrably harmful, not least to female rights and protections, but also to practically anyone that buys into it as it warps people's perception of the underlying issues. It hinders people in their quest for individuation, creating this false narrative of them becoming more "authentic" when the total opposite is true, they believe they need validation from others in order to be happy etc. instead of being encouraged to find more inner strength and resilience with less reliance on how people see them. Demanding to be legally recognized as the opposite sex of what one is, is in no way shape or form more authentic than accepting the physical reality one is born into. To believe we as individuals can have 100% control over our identity or self-perceptions in society, what we are seen as by others, in interaction with, and in relation to, society/the world/physical existence is a fool's errand, it is a delusional understanding of reality and existence.
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  176.  @dariocarraresi1823  No one has proven that a man with severe anxiety about reality and wishing his biology were different is anything other than a man. Got anything? Feel free to post any peer reviewed studies which you believe invalidate the data and conclusions Suicidality Among Transgender Youth: Elucidating the Role of Interpersonal Risk Factors: "Data indicate that 82% of transgender individuals have considered killing themselves and 40% have attempted suicide, with suicidality highest among transgender youth. Using minority stress theory and the interpersonal theory of suicide, this study aims to better understand suicide risk among transgender youth. The present study examines the influence of intervenable risk factors: interpersonal and environmental microaggressions, internalized self-stigma, and adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), and protective factors: school belonging, family support, and peer support on both lifetime suicide attempts and past 6-month suicidality in a sample of transgender youth (n = 372). SPSS 22 was utilized to examine the impact of the independent variables on both suicidality and lifetime suicide attempt through two separate logistic regressions. Fifty six percent of youth reported a previous suicide attempt and 86% reported suicidality. Logistic regressions indicated that models for both lifetime suicide attempts and suicidality were significant." Long-term follow-up of transsexual persons undergoing sex reassignment surgery: cohort study in Sweden: “Conclusions: Persons with transsexualism, after sex reassignment, have considerably higher risks for mortality, suicidal behaviour, and psychiatric morbidity than the general population. Our findings suggest that sex reassignment, although alleviating gender dysphoria, may not suffice as treatment for transsexualism, and should inspire improved psychiatric and somatic care after sex reassignment for this patient group.” THAT is what I would consider an issue, and if you do not-- then you do you, while failing to realize that the supposedly efficacious claims, of affirmation-based treatment protocol advocates are entirely unjustified.
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  207. Believing there is some "essence" specific to males or female as far as feelings go, that can manifest "in the wrong body", is akin to a religious belief, having faith in something that is impossible to prove or disprove. The thing is though, that no one on the "trans" side can actually even explain what this "essence" is, they can't even explain it to themselves yet have convinced themselves that the feeling they have means they "are in the wrong body" - without realizing that their discomfort simply stems from not realizing that they view conforming to sexist stereotypes as legitimate measures of manhood or womanhood. That is why every explanation given of WHY a male "can't be a man, but is instead woman" etc. relies upon listing stereotypical stuff, or, in some cases is completely abstract and refuses to actually provide any explanation of what they mean, simply stating they "know" that what they feel means what they say it does, even though they can't actually provide a definition of it. "It's hard to explain but I know I'm right" is an attitude one constantly comes up against - a religious faith in something they can't define. This idea that the terms "man" and "woman" carry all this baggage, sexist stereotypes, that people need to live up to or feel comfortable with is a complete fabrication coming from the "trans" side. You lot want a term to reflect aspects of your personality as well, you want to create more boxes to put people in, as you won't accept simply just being a man or a woman based on being born male or female (and reaching adulthood, obviously people are boys and girls before becoming men or women), but believe you need this "freedom of expression" to broadcast what sexist stereotypes you feel more comfortable with - thinking the world needs to adopt the sexist view you lot have (you fail to see just how much you have in common with Conservatives). Replacing objective definitions which are based in physical reality, with entirely subjective metaphysical claims, is not logical in any way, is not morally superior, and is demonstrably harmful, not least to female rights and protections, but also to practically anyone that buys into it as it warps people's perception of the underlying issues. It hinders people in their quest for individuation, creating this false narrative of them becoming more "authentic" when the total opposite is true, they believe they need validation from others in order to be happy etc. instead of being encouraged to find more inner strength and resilience with less reliance on how people see them. Demanding to be legally recognized as the opposite sex of what one is, is in no way shape or form more authentic than accepting the physical reality one is born into. To believe we as individuals can have 100% control over our identity in society, what we are seen as by others, in interaction with, and in relation to, society/the world/physical existence is a fool's errand, it is a delusional understanding of reality and existence. A dude in a dress, who's chosen to surgically alter his anatomy, is still a dude-- He's just a dude who's chosen to remove himself from the gene pool, and have properly functioning organs rendered no longer functioning. They're only kidding themselves when they don't acknowledge that the trans activist narratives include the notion that a trans woman is a woman, is objectively just false/wrong. The problem with the trans activist's narratives are that life is based in objective reality, and the vast majority of people don't have difficulty deciphering the differences between reality and the trans imagination, and they aren't willing to participate in the LARP and cosplay, as though it's based in reality
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  213.  @dariocarraresi1823  I did. If you didn't comprehend the answer, that's a You problem. It's the trans community which proclaims it's desire to integrate into society, and to achieve affirmation, validation, and acceptance. Your interactions, snarky and obnoxious as they are, fail to motivate the very people with whom the trans community says it wishes to integrate, and they certainly fail to persuade. Congratulations!!! You played yourself You're triggered and seeking attention because you Don't care about what I think right? Uh huh-- Get a friend If as you believe, gender and sex are truly independent, why are trans people subscribing to a sexual stereotypical caricature of biological sex as their blueprint for how they present themselves??? No, sorry not sorry. The cult narratives are incoherent madness. The main problem that the trans activist ideological narratives have is that life is based in objective reality and most don't have difficulty deciphering the difference between reality and the trans imagination. You're only fooling yourself, if you don't acknowledge the trans activists saying trans women are women. They're dudes with issues, prancing around as though they're women without issues-- Still men. ALL women are born female, all men are born male and neither are a social construct, feeling, fetish, preference or costume. A dude with a psych issue who believes he's a woman, is still a dude. That just how it is. Seethe if you must, then just cope harder... You're only fooling yourselves and you aren't persuading me, so you ought to move on
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  214.  @peomaster6914  LOL... Wrong. Gender: The status of being either male or female. The entire purpose of the gender/sex division in most species of animal life is to facilitate procreation, the sexual identity of an individual is best classified according to the gametes produced by the person in question. There is no extant third gamete. An extremely minute percentage of humans are either “intersex” (typically referring to those who are anatomical hermaphrodites) or of indeterminate gender (that is, not easily determined by a cursory inspection of the external genitalia), but that does not negate the incontrovertible scientific fact that there are only two genders. As far as we know, there has never existed a single human being with the ability to BOTH conceive a child in his/her womb and, simultaneously, successfully inseminate a woman (or in more disturbing terms, for a hermaphrodite to inseminate him/herself). And even if such an individual has existed, that person would be a combination of BOTH male and female, and not some imaginary, novel third gender. Cf. “sex”. Both terms (“gender” and “sex”) originate from Latin words: “genus” (meaning “begin”; “birth”; “kind”; “race”; “gender”) and “sexus” (meaning “sex”; “division”; “gender”). So, essentially, the only significant distinction between the two terms is that the etymology of “gender” pertains to the beginning of things, as can be plainly seen by the other English words that originate from "genus", such as “generic”, “genetic”, and “generate”, whilst “sex” is a scrupulously-literal translation of the Latin cognate “sexus”. The mere fact that the word “genitals” (referring to reproductive organs) is very closely related to the Latin “genus” is further evidence of the assertion that the term “gender” refers to the binary division of human (and of course, many non-human) sexual identity, and NOT to any taxonomy based on emotion, feelings, psychology, or any other non-biological categorization schema. ;) Way too many inappropriately and incorrectly conflate gender/sex (There are only 2-- male/female... That's it) with personality traits and temperament (There are a ton and none are gender exclusive-- hence effeminate males, butch females and tomboys), and again with gender roles (without exception refer to the roles of males and females in society) as though they're synonymous and they are not. Science has already proven that the binary dichotomy of all mammals is male/female. A man in a dress is still a man A man with anxiety about his sex/gender-- still a man A man calling himself a woman-- still a man A man with an effeminate personality--still a man
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  229.  @TransHippie  Ahh, you're going to pretend I didn't cover this for you already... Okay, Gender is established at conception, and observed at birth or before. No, gender is not an internal experience. Masculinity/femininity/body language (Personality and Temperament), Fashion, voice (Neither are gender exclusive). Neither your demeanor, nor your internal feelings are what define your gender nor do they make you a woman or a man-- it's your biology Gender: The status of being either male or female. The entire purpose of the gender/sex division in most species of animal life is to facilitate procreation, the sexual identity of an individual is best classified according to the gametes produced by the person in question. There is no extant third gamete. An extremely minute percentage of humans are either “intersex” (typically referring to those who are anatomical hermaphrodites) or of indeterminate gender (that is, not easily determined by a cursory inspection of the external genitalia), but that does not negate the incontrovertible scientific fact that there are only two genders. As far as we know, there has never existed a single human being with the ability to BOTH conceive a child in his/her womb and, simultaneously, successfully inseminate a woman (or in more disturbing terms, for a hermaphrodite to inseminate him/herself). And even if such an individual has existed, that person would be a combination of BOTH male and female, and not some imaginary, novel third gender. Cf. “sex”. Both terms (“gender” and “sex”) originate from Latin words: “genus” (meaning “begin”; “birth”; “kind”; “race”; “gender”) and “sexus” (meaning “sex”; “division”; “gender”). So, essentially, the only significant distinction between the two terms is that the etymology of “gender” pertains to the beginning of things, as can be plainly seen by the other English words that originate from "genus", such as “generic”, “genetic”, and “generate”, whilst “sex” is a scrupulously-literal translation of the Latin cognate “sexus”. The mere fact that the word “genitals” (referring to reproductive organs) is very closely related to the Latin “genus” is further evidence of the assertion that the term “gender” refers to the binary division of human (and of course, many non-human) sexual identity, and NOT to any taxonomy based on emotion, feelings, psychology, or any other non-biological categorization schema. ;) Way too many inappropriately and incorrectly conflate gender/sex (There are only 2-- male/female... That's it) with personality traits and temperament (There are a ton and none are gender exclusive-- hence effeminate males, butch females and tomboys), and again with gender roles (without exception refer to the roles of males and females in society) as though they're synonymous and they are not. Science has already proven that the binary dichotomy of all mammals is male/female. A man in a dress is still a man A man with anxiety about his sex/gender- due to GD- still a man A man calling himself a woman-- still a man A man with an effeminate personality--still a man You/They haven't put forth any reasoning that withstands scrutiny, rendering your/their narratives and opinions as less than useless and therefore invalid. Reality isn't an anti-trans ideology. Trans is an anti-reality ideology, and they're the ones seeking affirmation, validation, and the participation of everyone in their larp and cosplay, based on the belief that their subjective delusions are based in reality. Newsflash: They aren't
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  231.  @literallyinflames  This idea that the terms "man" and "woman" are referring to subjective gender identity claims is demonstrably false dude, and carries all this baggage, sexist stereotypes, that people need to live up to or feel comfortable with is a complete fabrication coming from the "trans" side. Pro trans activists seem to want a term to reflect aspects of their personality-- as well. They want to create more boxes to put people in, as they won't accept simply just being a man or a woman based on being born male or female (and reaching adulthood, obviously people are boys and girls before becoming men or women), but believe they need this "freedom of expression", to broadcast what the sexist stereotypes they feel more comfortable with - thinking the world needs to adopt the sexist view they have. Replacing objective definitions, which are based in physical reality, with entirely subjective metaphysical claims, is not logical in any way, is not morally superior, and is demonstrably harmful, not least to female rights and protections, but also to practically anyone that buys into it as it warps people's perception of the underlying issues. It hinders people in their quest for individuation, creating this false narrative of them becoming more "authentic" when the total opposite is true, they believe they need validation from others in order to be happy etc. instead of being encouraged to find more inner strength and resilience with less reliance on how people see them. Demanding to be legally recognized as the opposite sex of what one is, is in no way shape or form more "authentic" than accepting the physical reality one is born into. To believe we as individuals can have 100% control over our identity or self-perceptions in society, how and what we are seen as by others, in interaction with, and in relation to, society/the world/physical existence is a fool's errand, it is a delusional understanding of reality and existence.
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  255. I was too low--What we found Eighty-two percent of gender diverse offenders with sexual offence histories were trans-women and the remaining 17% were in the "other" group.Footnote 2 On average, these offenders were 42 years at the time of the study. Two-thirds were serving their first federal sentence and about half (46%) were serving indeterminate sentences. The risk and needs characteristics of these offenders indicates that they had high static risk (91%) and dynamic need (94%) but almost half (42%) were low criminal riskFootnote 3 based on the Criminal Risk Index (CRI). Although three-quarters (78%) have a moderate to high motivation and two-thirds (64%) have a moderate to high accountability, a little over half (58%) are considered engaged in their correctional plan. Two-thirds (66%) had a low reintegration potential. Finally, responsivity issues were identified for a third (36%) of these offenders. Almost two-thirds (64%) of these offenders committed a current sexual offence while 88% were convicted for prior sex offences. Almost all (94%) had committed their offences while living as their biological sex. The majority (85%) committed offences that caused death or serious harm to their victim(s) while 70% inflicted psychological harm on their victim(s). Examination of the victimology shows that over half were children (58%) or female (55%). One-third (33%) of the offences committed had multiple victims. File review indicated that 70% of the offenders with sex offence histories had experienced childhood abuse and 27% were abused in adulthood. Childhood sexual (64%) and physical (52%) abuse were most commonly experienced by these offenders. Two-thirds (64%) had experienced trauma. For offenders with DFIA-R information, 60% had a history of childhood abuse. What it means Over 80% of gender diverse offenders with sexual offence histories were trans-women. Sexual offending indicators showed that the majority of these offences were committed while living as their biological sex, and that the highest proportion of victims were children or female. In addition, a majority of this sub-group caused death or serious harm to their victim(s). Most of these offenders also had a history of abuse and trauma. Due to these factors, gender diverse offenders with sex offence histories present unique operational considerations for institutional placement and correctional programming.
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  261.  @dariocarraresi1823  You have preexisting unanswered questions, which I've posed to you which you've in a cowardly fashion, avoided answering like the plague, because they expose the absurdity of your ideological narratives and bad faith interactions, and in no way provide you any moral ground to stand on and complain when you get what you give. The problem you have with your virtue signaling, is the total absence of any actual virtue in any of your unproven, unhinged rants or whinging. How do you figure trans women are women, being that all women are human females, who've reached the age of adulthood, not some subjective social construct, identity, feeling, fetish, preference, or costume? You seem quite unclear on the definition of 'woman', and the scientific classification of human development that is unique to the female half of the binary sexual dichotomy of male and female for all mammals. The justification for separating men and women in prison, showers, locker rooms, changing rooms, the draft, and sports teams/leagues seems to only be confusing to you. Whats your issue with women having a right to privacy??? Well.... ??? Justify and explain how eliminating women's private spaces and allowing men to encroach isn't misogyny on your part? Anything??? Why should everyone pretend that a man is anything other than a man, regardless of his attire, or feelings to the contrary? Well?? ANYTHING to justify it? What DO they do, to justify being treated as though they're entitled to infiltrate areas segregated by sex? Answer: Not a thing Seethe if you must, then remember-- I don't care about your incoherent and inane sophistry or opinions. I've rejected the notion that men should ever be treated as though they're women. Rationalize it in whatever way you like. I don't care. You fail to persuade, or justify why they ought to be. Well??? Make your case a good one, or the expectation that you ought to be taken seriously and consider your arguments valid just don't exist. Ready? GO!!!
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  262.  @dariocarraresi1823  "How do you figure trans women are women..." - Their gender identity. Women aren't a social construct. That's not an answer "You seem quite unclear on the definition of 'woman', and the scientific classification..." - Words can have more than just one definition. --In this case there isn't. All women are born female. "The justification for separating men and women in prison..." - Most of your justifications are bull and should be eliminated. For example, pro-trans policies decrease the rates of physical/sexual assaults; anti-trans policies increase them. That's a good reason to allow trans women in women's prisons. I asked you for evidence re: that BS claim of yours, and you ran like a coward, providing none. Got anything yet? (Pro trans policies are to blame for female inmates being assaulted and impregnated). Couldn't have happened otherwise. Good thinking 😵😵‍💫🤕🤒🙄 "Whats your issue with women having a right to privacy?" - "Right to privacy" doesn't extend to "kicking out people you don't like from public spaces, or from spaces that are privately owned by other people". YES, it does, when they're in places they're not authorized to be "Justify and explain how eliminating women's private spaces..." - Strawman. Nobody is trying to eliminate women's private spaces. You just did with your previous comment re: prisons. You're FOS "Why should everyone pretend that a man is..." - Nobody is asking you to pretend that people with XY chromosomes have XX chromosomes. Another strawman. You use it as an excuse to infiltrate women's only spaces, so AGAIN, you're FOS "What DO they do, to justify being treated as though they're entitled to infiltrate areas segregated by sex?" - Your sex segregation is bull, and is not a valid argument for anything. You've failed to prove anything you've written. Got anything yet?
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  263.  @TransHippie  Fun Facts: Words have meanings and for all of history, the words man and woman have referred to biological human beings. All women are human, and born female and represent 1 half of the binary sexual dichotomy of all mammalian species, the other being male. Believing there is some "essence" specific to males or female as far as feelings go, that can manifest "in the wrong body", is akin to a religious belief, having faith in something that is impossible to prove or disprove. The thing is though, that no one on the "trans" side can actually even explain what this "essence" is, they can't even explain it to themselves yet have convinced themselves that the feeling they have means they "are in the wrong body" - without realizing that their discomfort simply stems from not realizing that they view conforming to sexist stereotypes as legitimate measures of manhood or womanhood. That is why every explanation given of WHY a male "can't be a man, but is instead woman" etc. relies upon listing stereotypical stuff, or, in some cases is completely abstract and refuses to actually provide any explanation of what they mean, simply stating they "know" that what they feel means what they say it does, even though they can't actually provide a definition of it. "It's hard to explain but I know I'm right" is an attitude one constantly comes up against - a religious faith in something they can't define. This idea that the terms "man" and "woman" carry all this baggage, sexist stereotypes, that people need to live up to or feel comfortable with is a complete fabrication coming from the "trans" side. You lot want a term to reflect aspects of your personality as well, you want to create more boxes to put people in, as you won't accept simply just being a man or a woman based on being born male or female (and reaching adulthood, obviously people are boys and girls before becoming men or women), but believe you need this "freedom of expression" to broadcast what sexist stereotypes you feel more comfortable with - thinking the world needs to adopt the sexist view you lot have (you fail to see just how much you have in common with Conservatives). Replacing objective definitions which are based in physical reality, with entirely subjective metaphysical claims, is not logical in any way, is not morally superior, and is demonstrably harmful, not least to female rights and protections, but also to practically anyone that buys into it as it warps people's perception of the underlying issues. It hinders people in their quest for individuation, creating this false narrative of them becoming more "authentic" when the total opposite is true, they believe they need validation from others in order to be happy etc. instead of being encouraged to find more inner strength and resilience with less reliance on how people see them. Demanding to be legally recognized as the opposite sex of what one is, is in no way shape or form more authentic than accepting the physical reality one is born into. To believe we as individuals can have 100% control over our identity in society, what we are seen as by others, in interaction with, and in relation to, society/the world/physical existence is a fool's errand, it is a delusional understanding of reality and existence. Now you know better
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  271.  @TransHippie  No, however-- I do have contempt for liars, and intellectually vacant ideological cult claims, which I see as nothing more than propaganda that can't be justified when scrutinized (That includes those horrible uncontrolled survey's you refer to, which don't rise to the level of actual science, but more closely resembles science-fiction and pseudo-science), and NONE of the trans advocates accepting your claims as accurate, seem to be capable or willing to address the peer reviewed medical studies I referred to, which challenge your survey's conclusions and claims. You have failed to make your case stand up to scrutiny, and say I'm irrational, despite numerous posts making my case by citing my reasoning, and debunking your claims in the process. You advocate adult entertainment as appropriate for children. You advocate encroaching on women's privacy rights-- and call my lifestyle choice vile and question my morality. People like you, who live in glass snow globes, shouldn't throw stones. Here's the thing-- I'm neither seeking your affirmation, nor acceptance to establish validation for who I am, and neither is the rest of the majority of the world. THAT would be YOU, doing that and getting triggered whenever someone identifies as someone who doesn't have to participate in your cosplay and LARP, as though it's based in reality. I'm not judging you. I am however, discerning and challenging the validity of your claims, and no one on the pro trans activist side (including you) seems able to handle discussing it openly or with integrity. Your entire world view is based in moral relativism, so I really don't care about your thoughts about my morality either, as you have nothing justifying your positions on morality as being valid. I comment here, to see if I can find any signs of integrity among those of you who subscribe to and advocate your cult claims, to answer my challenges, or questions and so far-- NOPE, not one.
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  288.  @dariocarraresi1823  I've addressed every point you brought up, and debunked your every assertion. Are YOU capable of answering my questions? I'll repost it, for you The English language has been well-established and well-defined, including pronouns of which the appropriate grammatically correct pronouns for a male (adult or minor) are he/him/his. Men ARE adult, human males-- so you can choose to call yourself a helicopter, but it doesn't alter your nature, as a male/man being your physical description. What's the problem/confusion?? How is that insane? If you're born with a vagina, you ARE a female. If you're an adult female, then you ARE a woman. What's the confusion? It's a primary biological sex characteristic of all female mammals-- including humans, not slur, a suggestion, preference, personality, or anything else. How is that insane? Gay men aren't trans, and they're not attracted to vaginas by definition as I understand it, and they don't seem to have difficulty deciphering the differences between males and females. Why do the trans community seemed so confused about it?? How is that insane? Your problem is, words already in use, have long established meanings. Another problem you have is you don't seem to recognize that personality traits and temperament aren't gender exclusive. (There are a ton and none alter your gender) How is acknowledging that insane? If you're a male identifying as a 'she', you're incorrectly using the language, and you're lying, portraying yourself as a caricature of a woman by mimicking her primary physical attributes, doesn't make a male a female. The definitions already exist, so how is using grammar properly, insane??
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  289.  @dariocarraresi1823  No, they correctly note that those who you refer to as trans women-- are men, and their desire to be women is irrelevant. They also correctly note that men don't have vaginas-- whether they want them or not is irrelevant. Cite the source of the stat you refer to re: 50% of trans women seek any form of medical transition, and the percentage who wants genital surgery is WAY smaller. All people are human and part of the binary sexual dichotomy regardless of their appearance or feelings about their sexual biology. Your framing of the narrative re: drag queens/dudes presenting as the sexual stereotypical caricature of women being predators and wanting to be women is intellectually disingenuous and false. Their feelings about not being women are irrelevant-- they're simply not women, and neither are any other males-- regardless of their feelings or attire. Re: your narrative about gay men (or straight men for all that matter)-- they simply note their sexual preferences don't alter their gender/sex. Re: your narrative that 'cis gay men would eventually become trans women'-- wrong again, you're horrible at this. I've already point out to you that ALL men are born male, all women are born female and neither are a social construct, feeling, fetish, preference, personality, nor a costume, making the cis/trans distinction entirely useless and intellectually vacant. So, there you are-- and YOU still haven't debunked anything I've clarified for you and corrected you on your incorrect conclusions about your claims. You seem to be looking for an argument, to displace your denial over a topic that's settled, where you've been proven wrong and dismissed with cause-- by reality. Seethe if you must, but it doesn't change anything. You lost this debate before it started. A man performing as a woman doesn't then become a woman, is a reality that your 'because you said so' arguments can't escape. Gender: The status of being either male or female. The entire purpose of the gender/sex division in most species of animal life is to facilitate procreation, the sexual identity of an individual is best classified according to the gametes produced by the person in question. There is no extant third gamete. Cf. “Sex”. Both terms (“gender” and “sex”) originate from Latin words: “genus” (meaning “begin”; “birth”; “kind”; “race”; “gender”) and “sexus” (meaning “sex”; “division”; “gender”). So, essentially, the only significant distinction between the two terms is that the etymology of “gender” pertains to the beginning of things, as can be plainly seen by the other English words that originate from "genus", such as “generic”, “genetic”, and “generate”, whilst “sex” is a scrupulously-literal translation of the Latin cognate “sexus”. The mere fact that the word “genitals” (referring to reproductive organs) is very closely related to the Latin “genus” is further evidence of the assertion that the term “gender” refers to the binary division of human (and of course, many non-human) sexual identity, and NOT to any taxonomy based on emotion, feelings, psychology, or any other non-biological categorization schema. ;) Way too many inappropriately and incorrectly conflate gender/sex (There are only 2-- male/female... That's it) with personality traits and temperament (There are a ton and none are gender exclusive-- hence effeminate males, butch females and tomboys), and again with gender roles (without exception refer to the roles of males and females in society) as though they're synonymous and they are not. Science has already proven that the binary dichotomy of all mammals is male/female. A man in a dress is still a man A man with anxiety about his sex/gender-- still a man A man calling himself a woman-- still a man A man with an effeminate personality--still a man Seethe if you must, then just cope harder You/They haven't put forth no reasoning that withstands scrutiny, rendering your/their narratives and opinions as less than useless and therefore invalid. Your incoherent rants and claims of legitimacy, are figments of your imagination. Reality isn't an anti-trans ideology. Trans is an anti-reality ideology, and they're the ones seeking affirmation, validation, and the participation of everyone in their larp and cosplay, based on the belief that their subjective delusions are based in reality. Newsflash: They aren't
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  303.  @dariocarraresi1823  A major UK report says trans kids are being let down by toxic… “Dr. Hilary Cass said there is “no good evidence on the long-term outcomes of interventions to manage gender-related distress,” and young people have been caught up in a “stormy social discourse” about the issue.” Cass’ report, which runs to almost 400 pages, said that “for most young people, a medical pathway” is not the best way to deal with gender-related issues. “Cass said young people questioning their gender identity should be given “a holistic assessment” including screening for neurodevelopmental conditions such as autism, and a mental health assessment.” In her report, Cass said there was “no clear evidence” that social transition in childhood — such as changing names or pronouns — has any positive or negative mental health outcomes. “The report also concluded that there is no simple explanation for why the number of young people identifying as transgender has shot up in recent years in the U.K. and other countries.” There are no trans people. All people are male or female, respectively- and neither are a social construct, feeling, preference, fetish or a costume. All men are born male, all women are born female and one cannot become the other. Psych issues don't transform males into females or vice versa, and neither do costumes or plastic surgery. You can't change your gender. You can only reject traditional gender roles by engaging in various levels of cosplay and LARPing. You could have a surgeon alter your appearance to look like a Klingon, and it wouldn't make you a Klingon either. A dude with top and bottom surgery and wearing a dress is still a dude, regardless of his desire to be a woman-- he's not and can't ever be, is the point they can't ever escape. There's no hatred involved in recognizing that a man in a dress is a man. That's just an observation of a fact. The only "ableism" being shown is yours, by affirming the delusions of the emotionally, mentally and spiritually impaired-- as being based in reality and therefore valid. So you say... However; No one has proven that a man with severe anxiety about reality, his biology or wishing it were different is anything other than a man. Got Anything??? Answer: No, you don't You have put forth no reasoning that withstands scrutiny, rendering your narratives and opinions as less than useless and therefore invalid. Reality isn't an anti-trans ideology. Trans is an anti-reality ideology, and you're the one seeking affirmation, validation, and the participation of everyone in your larp and cosplay, based on the belief that your subjective delusions are based in reality. Newsflash: They aren't Believing there is some "essence" specific to males or female as far as feelings go, that can manifest "in the wrong body", is akin to a religious belief, having faith in something that is impossible to prove or disprove. The thing is though, that no one on the "trans" side can actually even explain what this "essence" is, they can't even explain it to themselves yet have convinced themselves that the feeling they have means they "are in the wrong body" - without realizing that their discomfort simply stems from not realizing that they view conforming to sexist stereotypes as legitimate measures of manhood or womanhood. Seethe if you must, then cope harder-- because I don't care how you feel about the reality the majority of the world is not interested in participating in your LARP and cosplay, or entertaining your ideological gibberish, because they aren't confused about the differences between reality and your imagination and recognize you hedonistic world view for what it is.
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  304.  @dariocarraresi1823  The thing is, it was proven that: 1. Up to 90% desist and turn out gay without affirmation-based treatment 2. That puts them in the self delete rate of around 4% vs 40%+ with GAC, making me wonder how anyone can argue that affirmation-based treatment protocols are appropriate or justified in any way whatsoever, let alone 'necessary'. No one has proven that a man who wishes he were, or believes he's a woman is anything other than a man. Got anything??? Feel free to post the medical counter to the following, which proves these to be incorrect: Suicidality Among Transgender Youth: Elucidating the Role of Interpersonal Risk Factors: "Data indicate that 82% of transgender individuals have considered killing themselves and 40% have attempted suicide, with suicidality highest among transgender youth. Using minority stress theory and the interpersonal theory of suicide, this study aims to better understand suicide risk among transgender youth. The present study examines the influence of intervenable risk factors: interpersonal and environmental microaggressions, internalized self-stigma, and adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), and protective factors: school belonging, family support, and peer support on both lifetime suicide attempts and past 6-month suicidality in a sample of transgender youth (n = 372). SPSS 22 was utilized to examine the impact of the independent variables on both suicidality and lifetime suicide attempt through two separate logistic regressions. Fifty six percent of youth reported a previous suicide attempt and 86% reported suicidality. Logistic regressions indicated that models for both lifetime suicide attempts and suicidality were significant." Long-term follow-up of transsexual persons undergoing sex reassignment surgery: cohort study in Sweden: “Conclusions: Persons with transsexualism, after sex reassignment, have considerably higher risks for mortality, suicidal behaviour, and psychiatric morbidity than the general population. Our findings suggest that sex reassignment, although alleviating gender dysphoria, may not suffice as treatment for transsexualism, and should inspire improved psychiatric and somatic care after sex reassignment for this patient group.” ”A study from researchers in the Netherlands found that nearly two-thirds of children who had wished that they belonged to the opposite sex as adolescents ultimately became comfortable with their biological sex in early adulthood. The 15-year study, which was conducted by researchers at the Netherlands’ University of Groningen, tracked the gender unhappiness rates of 2,772 study participants from ages 11 through 26.” Kenneth Zucker et Al 2021: 88 percent of trans women desisted after 20 years. 93% resorted to homosexuality vs affirmation treatment with a self delete rate nearly 10x's higher than the general population at nearly 40% (looks like a huge net loss to me, being that gays have a self-delete rate closer to the general population, at around 4% comparatively)-- in NO way justifies claims of affirmation-based treatment protocols as efficacious. ”All-cause and suicide mortalities among adolescents and young adults who contacted specialised gender identity services in Finland in 1996–2019: a register study “ They found zero significant difference in mental health while taking hormones or blockers Thomas Steensma, a gender clinician and researcher at the Center of Expertise on Gender Dysphoria, VU University Medical Center, in Amsterdam found, the phenomenon of transgender children "growing out of" their transgender identity by the time they are adolescents or adults is called “desistance” by gender researchers. For decades, follow-up studies of transgender kids have shown that a substantial majority -- anywhere from 65 to 94 percent -- eventually ceased to identify as transgender. Suicidality Among Transgender Youth: Elucidating the Role of Interpersonal Risk Factors: "Data indicate that 82% of transgender individuals have considered killing themselves and 40% have attempted suicide, with suicidality highest among transgender youth. Using minority stress theory and the interpersonal theory of suicide, this study aims to better understand suicide risk among transgender youth. The present study examines the influence of intervenable risk factors: interpersonal and environmental microaggressions, internalized self-stigma, and adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), and protective factors: school belonging, family support, and peer support on both lifetime suicide attempts and past 6-month suicidality in a sample of transgender youth (n = 372). SPSS 22 was utilized to examine the impact of the independent variables on both suicidality and lifetime suicide attempt through two separate logistic regressions. Fifty six percent of youth reported a previous suicide attempt and 86% reported suicidality. Logistic regressions indicated that models for both lifetime suicide attempts and suicidality were significant." Long-term follow-up of transsexual persons undergoing sex reassignment surgery: cohort study in Sweden: “Conclusions: Persons with transsexualism, after sex reassignment, have considerably higher risks for mortality, suicidal behaviour, and psychiatric morbidity than the general population. Our findings suggest that sex reassignment, although alleviating gender dysphoria, may not suffice as treatment for transsexualism, and should inspire improved psychiatric and somatic care after sex reassignment for this patient group.” THAT is what I would consider an issue, and if you do not-- then you do you, while failing to realize that the supposedly efficacious claims, of affirmation-based treatment protocol advocates are entirely unjustified.
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  361.  @dariocarraresi1823  Kenneth Zucker et Al 2021 Followed trans woman for 20 years and 88 percent desisted. It was just confirmed in another 15 year study. This is directly from the writer and tenured board member at WPATH, Ken Zucker: Not to mention the leaked wpath files showing doctors themselves do not think these kids are mentally mature enough to consent to the surgeries. Kenneth Zucker et Al 2021: 88 percent of trans women desisted after 20 years. 93% resorted to homosexuality vs affirmation treatment with a self delete rate nearly 10x's higher than the general population at nearly 40%, doesn't appear to be validating the 1% 'regret rate' claim-- as accurate (looks like a huge net loss to me, being that gays have a self-delete rate closer to the general population, at around 4% comparatively)-- in NO way justifies claims of affirmation-based treatment protocols as efficacious. In case anyone reading is actually interested: If sex and gender identity are truly independent, then why do trans women and trans men go through so many hoops to change their primary sex characteristics??? Well, according to the analysis, data and conclusions of the studies I've seen, Happy people aren't overwhelmingly sui~*d@l, and those who are have a psych issue at play. Swedish study: Persons with transsexualism, after sex reassignment, have considerably higher risks for mortality, suicidal behaviour, and psychiatric morbidity than the general population. Our findings suggest that sex reassignment, although alleviating gender dysphoria, may not suffice as treatment for transsexualism, and should inspire improved psychiatric and somatic care after sex reassignment for this patient group. A 2020 academic study with a sample size of 372 respondents found that 40 percent of transgender people had attempted suicide. Similarly, in 2016, the National Transgender Discrimination Survey found that 41 percent of 6,450 respondents said they had previously attempted suicide. By comparison, the CDC found that in 2020, 0.36 percent of the population had attempted suicide. According to a 2022 survey by The Trevor Project, an LGBTQ+ suicide prevention organization, nearly 1 in 5 young people who identified as transgender or non-binary have attempted suicide. According to a 2019 UCLA School of Law- Williams Institute report on the thoughts and attempts of self deleting-- the Reports shows that The 2015 U.S. Transgender Survey (USTS), which is the largest survey of transgender people in the U.S. to date, found that 81.7 percent of respondents reported ever seriously thinking about suicide in their lifetimes, while 48.3 percent had done so in the past year. In regard to suicide attempts, 40.4 percent reported attempting suicide at some point in their lifetimes. Although the research literature to date agrees that transgender people are at an elevated risk of suicide thoughts and attempts, there is still much to learn about why transgender people are particularly at risk. Also, the conclusion of the Swedish study, which concluded that persons with transsexualism, after sex reassignment, have considerably higher risks for mortality, suicidal behaviour, and psychiatric morbidity-- than the general population. The findings suggest that sex reassignment, although alleviating gender dysphoria, may not suffice as treatment for transsexualism, and should inspire improved psychiatric and somatic care after sex reassignment for this patient group. When the rate of self deletes among the general population is 10x's lower, and when studies showing that up to 90% desist and end up gay, with only a 4% self delete rate by contrast, the results of affirmation-based treatment protocols are horrible by contrast, making it's justification questionable at best. Quit whining about preferred pronouns usage, and acting like anyone should care at all, about how you identify subjectively. The truth is, you're wrong and you hate us knowing it, pointing it out and proving your claims false, and it upsets you that we don't buy your narratives. Your addiction to confirmation biased info is clear, and your inability to prove us wrong haunts you Why would they? They don't care, because they identify as people who don't have to indulge, much less affirm, accept, or validate the intellectual pablum of the mentally, and intellectually disenfranchised, as though it's based in substance, logic, or reason. As far as the majority of the people of the world and I are concerned, your entire 'trans gender' identity is an performance, and your ideological narratives remain hollow and less than compelling or persuasive. The thing is, the world doesn't care about appealing to you for Your acceptance, validation, feelings etc., and it doesn't owe you it's participation in the LARP and cosplay either. You may believe wearing your Halloween princess costume makes you an actual princess, but you're only fooling yourself. It doesn't Your ideology is rejected as intellectual pablum, as objective reality proves it to be nonsense. Feel free to believe in your cult ideology, and cosplay and LARP to your heart's content, just know that the world doesn't owe you it's participation in your dress up fantasy. Carry on, you have the right to be wrong. You're only fooling yourselves Bro.. here’s a funny fact If you look at your 1 percent surgical rejection rate meta analysis, you’ll see not one study actually analysis SRS (surgical regret rate) or top surgery in trans men Did you see the Hillary Cass report? She is against early social transition because it puts the kids down a path of confusion … Why don’t trans activists listen ? Lol... YouTube “gender identity services in England - a cass review”. Cass called out the hypocrisy in the old diagnostic criteria … She asked for increased diagnostic criteria, she asked for the removal of the old pink/ blue system She wants increased treatment range to not include gender affirming care. AP- A major UK report says trans kids are being let down by toxic… “Dr. Hilary Cass said there is “no good evidence on the long-term outcomes of interventions to manage gender-related distress,” and young people have been caught up in a “stormy social discourse” about the issue.” Cass’ report, which runs to almost 400 pages, said that “for most young people, a medical pathway” is not the best way to deal with gender-related issues. “Cass said young people questioning their gender identity should be given “a holistic assessment” including screening for neurodevelopmental conditions such as autism, and a mental health assessment.” In her report, Cass said there was “no clear evidence” that social transition in childhood — such as changing names or pronouns — has any positive or negative mental health outcomes. “The report also concluded that there is no simple explanation for why the number of young people identifying as transgender has shot up in recent years in the U.K. and other countries.” 13:27 - conversation is about hormones. She says early social transition and medicalization greatly influence one into a path of surgical transition …. Just listen to her for a few minutes. Listen to 16:00 specifically for social transition. I agree with her This new study just published last month “Risk of Suicide and Self-Harm Following Gender-Affirmation Surgery” Individuals who underwent gender-affirming surgery had a 12.12-fold higher suicide attempt risk than those who did not (3.47% vs. 0.29%, RR 95% CI 9.20-15.96, p < 0.0001). “Gender-affirming surgery is significantly associated with elevated suicide attempt risks, underlining the necessity for comprehensive post-procedure psychiatric support.”
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  365.  @TransHippie  Seething and triggered with ZERO integrity are a terrible look for you. Gender: The status of being either male or female. The entire purpose of the gender/sex division in most species of animal life is to facilitate procreation, the sexual identity of an individual is best classified according to the gametes produced by the person in question. There is no extant third gamete. An extremely minute percentage of humans are either “intersex” (typically referring to those who are anatomical hermaphrodites) or of indeterminate gender (that is, not easily determined by a cursory inspection of the external genitalia), but that does not negate the incontrovertible scientific fact that there are only two genders. As far as we know, there has never existed a single human being with the ability to BOTH conceive a child in his/her womb and, simultaneously, successfully inseminate a woman (or in more disturbing terms, for a hermaphrodite to inseminate him/herself). And even if such an individual has existed, that person would be a combination of BOTH male and female, and not some imaginary, novel third gender. Cf. “sex”. Both terms (“gender” and “sex”) originate from Latin words: “genus” (meaning “begin”; “birth”; “kind”; “race”; “gender”) and “sexus” (meaning “sex”; “division”; “gender”). So, essentially, the only significant distinction between the two terms is that the etymology of “gender” pertains to the beginning of things, as can be plainly seen by the other English words that originate from "genus", such as “generic”, “genetic”, and “generate”, whilst “sex” is a scrupulously-literal translation of the Latin cognate “sexus”. The mere fact that the word “genitals” (referring to reproductive organs) is very closely related to the Latin “genus” is further evidence of the assertion that the term “gender” refers to the binary division of human (and of course, many non-human) sexual identity, and NOT to any taxonomy based on emotion, feelings, psychology, or any other non-biological categorization schema. ;) Way too many inappropriately and incorrectly conflate gender/sex (There are only 2-- male/female... That's it) with personality traits and temperament (There are a ton and none are gender exclusive-- hence effeminate males, butch females and tomboys), and again with gender roles (without exception refer to the roles of males and females in society) as though they're synonymous and they are not. Science has already proven that the binary dichotomy of all mammals is male/female. A man in a dress is still a man A man with anxiety about his sex/gender-- still a man A man calling himself a woman-- still a man A man with an effeminate personality--still a man Seethe if you must, then just cope harder You/They haven't put forth no reasoning that withstands scrutiny, rendering your/their narratives and opinions as less than useless and therefore invalid. Your incoherent rants and claims of legitimacy, are figments of your imagination. Reality isn't an anti-trans ideology. Trans is an anti-reality ideology, and they're the ones seeking affirmation, validation, and the participation of everyone in their larp and cosplay, based on the belief that their subjective delusions are based in reality. Newsflash: They aren't
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  374. People aren't social constructs. All men are born male, all women are born female, and neither are a social construct, feeling, fetish, preference, personality or a costume Gender: The status of being either male or female. The entire purpose of the gender/sex division in most species of animal life is to facilitate procreation, the sexual identity of an individual is best classified according to the gametes produced by the person in question. There is no extant third gamete. An extremely minute percentage of humans are either “intersex” (typically referring to those who are anatomical hermaphrodites) or of indeterminate gender (that is, not easily determined by a cursory inspection of the external genitalia), but that does not negate the incontrovertible scientific fact that there are only two genders. As far as we know, there has never existed a single human being with the ability to BOTH conceive a child in his/her womb and, simultaneously, successfully inseminate a woman (or in more disturbing terms, for a hermaphrodite to inseminate him/herself). And even if such an individual has existed, that person would be a combination of BOTH male and female, and not some imaginary, novel third gender. Cf. “sex”. Both terms (“gender” and “sex”) originate from Latin words: “genus” (meaning “begin”; “birth”; “kind”; “race”; “gender”) and “sexus” (meaning “sex”; “division”; “gender”). So, essentially, the only significant distinction between the two terms is that the etymology of “gender” pertains to the beginning of things, as can be plainly seen by the other English words that originate from "genus", such as “generic”, “genetic”, and “generate”, whilst “sex” is a scrupulously-literal translation of the Latin cognate “sexus”. The mere fact that the word “genitals” (referring to reproductive organs) is very closely related to the Latin “genus” is further evidence of the assertion that the term “gender” refers to the binary division of human (and of course, many non-human) sexual identity, and NOT to any taxonomy based on emotion, feelings, psychology, or any other non-biological categorization schema. ;) Way too many inappropriately and incorrectly conflate gender/sex (There are only 2-- male/female... That's it) with personality traits and temperament (There are a ton and none are gender exclusive-- hence effeminate males, butch females and tomboys), and again with gender roles (without exception refer to the roles of males and females in society) as though they're synonymous and they are not. Science has already proven that the binary dichotomy of all mammals is male/female. A man in a dress is still a man A man with anxiety about his sex/gender-- still a man A man calling himself a woman-- still a man A man with an effeminate personality--still a man
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  375.  @tadonplane8265  First, intersex individuals are not asexual, but have clear sex biomarkers that makes their sex epistemically uncertain. The biological constitution of intersex individuals involves at least some typically male/female biological sex features in their genotype, phenotype, et cetera. Should we place biomarkers aside, it would not be clear what sex could mean??? Second, intersex individuals are not hermaphrodites. There are two misunderstandings to be warded off, the first in terms of there being no cases of hermaphroditism in the sense of individuals who are fully biological males and females, and the second in terms of embryonic development. Beginning with the former, the reason why “hermaphroditism” is no longer used in medical nomenclature is that there are, simply speaking, no hermaphrodites. While having both XX and XY chromosomes is possible, this is not identical to hermaphroditism—for reasons we shall see later in the discussion of the definition of “sex.” 2 With respect to the latter, Orr's (2020) quotation of Intersex Genital Mutilations: Human Rights Violations of Persons with Variations of Sex Anatomy (2016), the NGO report to the 7th periodic report of France on the Convention Against Torture (CAT). In it, we find the following: Everybody started out as a hermaphrodite: Until the 7th week of gestation, every fetus has “indeterminate” genitals, two sets of basic reproductive duct structures, and bipotential gonads. Only after the 7th week of gestation, fetuses undergo sexual differentiation mostly resulting in typically male or female sex anatomy and reproductive organs. (p. 32). However, the potential, i.e., hence the use of “ bipotential”, to be male or female is not the same as actually being “between” (intersex) male and female. Bipotential gonads presexual differentiation are different than actual bigonads post-sexual differentiation. Consequently, bipotential gonads do not entail a period of hermaphroditism in prenatal human beings. Third and finally, Tudela et al. (2020) cite Arcelus et al. (2015) for a prevalence statistic for intersex conditions. The problem is that they cite a prevalence statistic of transsexual individuals, not intersex individuals—and they are different. Arcelus et al. (2015) defines “transsexual” as “individuals who experience discomfort or distress caused by the discrepancy between their gender identity and the sex they were assigned at birth.” (p. 3). This definition excludes at least two categories of intersex individuals, and consequently cannot be a reliable intersex prevalence statistic. First, it would exclude prenatal intersex individuals, e.g., through genetic screening can reveal whether a child has congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH) or androgen insensitivity syndrome (AIS), or during infancy. Second, it would exclude non-gender-dysphoric intersex individuals, and non-gender-dysphoric intersex individuals who did not receive surgery to change sexes. Consequently, even if intersex individuals met the definition of “transsexual” later in life, this prevalence statistic is unreliable. However, I hold that Tuleda et al.'s (2020) point still stands unscathed. Consider Sax's (2010) more reliable prevalence statistic of 0.018 percent. Sax's (2010) estimate carefully corrects Anne Fausto-Sterling's (and others’) statistic of intersex's prevalence being around 1.7 percent. Fausto-Sterling's statistic was based on a mistaken definition of intersex which would include Turner syndrome, Klinefelter syndrome, and late-onset adrenal hyperplasia. In none of these cases is their true intersex in which there is sexual uncertainty, i.e., these are not cases of genuine sexual ambiguity. As Sax (2010) points out in the 0.018 percent figure, the prevalence is nearly one hundred times lower than Fausto-Sterling suggested. Fourth (and relatedly), there are misunderstandings regarding the difference between being “sexually atypical” and being “intersex.” Consider Feder's (2014) remark that “the issue of “incidence” of atypical sex has been a vexed one, as it concerns not only the frequency with which children are born with atypical sex anatomies but also what counts as atypical sex.” (p. 211ff1, my italics). The idea here is that what it means to be intersex just is to have an atypical sex anatomy. There is a plausible case that “intersex” and “atypical sex anatomies” are not synonymous. Having an atypical sex anatomy might refer to the broader category of a difference in one's sexual anatomy, but it does not highlight the heterogeneous property of all intersex conditions: uncertainty with regard to one's sex. As Feder (2014) herself admits, the atypical sex anatomy of “hypospadias” (p. 211ff1) involve children “who are usually regarded as unquestionably male” (p. 211ff1). 3 However, if atypical sex anatomy does not make a sex-specific claim, i.e., saying something about sex identification, then it should not be used either as a placeholder for, or as a description of, intersex. Having warded off misunderstandings of “intersex”, I will now provide four arguments that “intersex” does not violate the sex binary. cais (intersex deformity) comes along with hermaphroditism btw Gender: The status of being either male or female. The entire purpose of the gender/sex division in most species of animal life is to facilitate procreation, the sexual identity of an individual is best classified according to the gametes produced by the person in question. There is no extant third gamete. An extremely minute percentage of humans are either “intersex” (typically referring to those who are anatomical hermaphrodites) or of indeterminate gender (that is, not easily determined by a cursory inspection of the external genitalia), but that does not negate the incontrovertible scientific fact that there are only two genders. As far as we know, there has never existed a single human being with the ability to BOTH conceive a child in his/her womb and, simultaneously, successfully inseminate a woman (or in more disturbing terms, for a hermaphrodite to inseminate him/herself). And even if such an individual has existed, that person would be a combination of BOTH male and female, and not some imaginary, novel third gender.
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  420. The reported reduction in gender dysphoria can't be reconciled with the self delete rates of clearly unstable individuals, being so much higher than the reported regret rates, as happy, well-adjusted people don't tend to self delete. The Williams Institute "More than 40% of transgender adults in the US have attempted su*c*de A new study from the Williams Institute at UCLA School of Law finds that 81% of transgender adults in the U.S. have thought about su*c*de, 42% of transgender adults have attempted it, and 56% have engaged in non-su*c*dal self-injury over their lifetimes. While transgender and cisgender adults reported similar rates of hazardous drinking and problematic drug use, transgender people were significantly more likely to experience poor mental health during their lifetimes. Compared to cisgender adults, transgender adults were seven times more likely to contemplate su*c*de, four times more likely to attempt it, and eight times more likely to engage in non-su*c*dal self-injury. Notably, transgender nonbinary adults reported higher rates of harmful substance use and poor mental health than transgender men and women. “The rates of su*c*dal ideation and self-injury among transgender people are alarming—particularly for transgender nonbinary adults,” said study author Ilan H. Meyer, Distinguished Senior Scholar of Public Policy at the Williams Institute. Conclusions from "Risk of Su*c*de and Self-Harm Following Gender-Affirmation Surgery" 4/2024 "The results of this study indicate that patients who have undergone gender affirmation surgery are associated with significantly higher risks of su*c*de, self-harm, and PTSD compared to general population control groups in this real-world database. With su*c*de being one of the most common causes of d3ath for adolescent and middle-aged individuals, it is clear that we must work to prevent these unfortunate outcomes. This further reinforces the need for comprehensive psychiatric care in the years that follow gender-affirmation surgery." Doesn't look like acceptable, efficacious results to me
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  457.  @dariocarraresi1823  • In Brazil, 6-foot-4 Tiffany Abreu became the first male-to-female transgender athlete to play in the Brazilian Women’s Volleyball Superliga in 2017, five years after she retired from an international volleyball career as a male. • Rachel McKinnon, a 6-foot-2, 200-pound biological male, won a gold medal at the 2018 Masters World Track Cycling World Championship in Los Angeles. • Nattaphon Wangyot, a biological male, placed fifth and third in the 100- and 200-meter dashes, respectively, in the 2016 Alaska state high school track championships, outraging athletes and parents. Since the Alaska School Activities Association had no transgender sports policy, Wangyot was allowed to compete against the girls without undergoing hormone therapy. • Fallon Fox, another male-to-female transgender athlete, competes in women’s mixed martial arts fights. During a bout in 2014, she left her opponent with a broken eye socket and a concussion two minutes into the fight. Her injured opponent, Tamikka Brents, said afterward, “I’ve fought a lot of women and have never felt the strength that I felt in a fight as I did that night. I can’t answer whether it’s because (Fox) was born a man or not, because I’m not a doctor. I can only say, I’ve never felt so overpowered in my life, and I am an abnormally strong female in my own right.” • Mary Gregory, a male-to-female transgender athlete, set multiple world records while winning weightlifting titles in the women’s squat, bench press and deadlift at the 100% Raw Competition in 2016. The 100% Raw Powerlifting Federation says it learned that Gregory was “actually a male in the process of becoming a transgender female” only after seeing the results of a routine post-competition urine test. She was stripped of her titles and banned from women’s competition. “Our rules, and the basis of separating genders for competition, are based on physiological classification rather than identification,” the federation said in a statement. • JayCee Cooper, another male-to-female transgender athlete, set a Minnesota state powerlifting record by bench-pressing 214 pounds after taking up the sport only a year earlier. USA Powerlifting has barred her from competition; the federation subsequently banned all male-to-female transgender athletes from its events because they have “a direct competitive advantage.” • Hannah Mouncey, who was a member of the Australian men’s handball team before transitioning to a woman, played in the women’s competition of Australian Rules Football, specifically the Victorian Football League. Mouncey is 6-foot-2, 220 pounds. She was nominated for the Australian Football League Women’s draft, the top professional league and the sport’s governing body, but the AFL prohibited her inclusion. The AFL has mandated limits on testosterone levels for male-to-female transgender athletes who wish to play in the AFLW, and Mouncey withdrew from competition. According to The Australian, “The AFL’s principal reason for excluding Ms. Mouncey from (the draft) is the residual strength and physical size she has from her previous life as a male athlete. Before transitioning to female two years ago, Ms. Mouncey represented Australia in men’s handball. Although her testosterone levels are below the International Olympic Committee limit for transgender athletes, she is muscular (6-foot-2, 220 pounds).” • Kelly Morgan, a 6-foot male-to-female transgender athlete nicknamed “Beast” by teammates, plays rugby for the Porth Harlequins Ladies in Wales. According to the BBC, one teammate recalled that Morgan once “folded an opponent ‘like a deckchair.’” Morgan told the paper, “I do feel guilty, but what can you do? I don’t go out to hurt anybody.”
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  474.  @TransHippie  Open Letter in Support of Dr. Kenneth Zucker and the Need to Promote Robust Scientific Debate Sponsored by FAIR in Medicine May 5, 2023 We, the undersigned signatories, are expressing our support for Dr. Kenneth Zucker, an academically robust and unbiased editorial process at the Archives of Sexual Behavior, and uninterrupted publication of “Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria: Parent Reports on 1655 Possible Cases” by Diaz and Bailey. We condemn and reject the censorious demands being directed at Springer Nature, the company that publishes Archives of Sexual Behavior, that this paper be retracted, and that the editor of the journal, Dr. Zucker, be sanctioned for allowing the paper’s publication. The appropriate action is to have an open debate about the paper—not to silence those whose views one finds disagreeable. Currently as many as one in 10–20 youth report gender dysphoria. The paper by Diaz and Bailey adds to the growing body of knowledge about the various factors contributing to the rapid rise of adolescent-onset gender dysphoria–a phenomenon that was exceedingly rare in the past. Specifically, the paper engages with parental reports of the cases of “Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria,” or ROGD. The ROGD hypothesis posits that in some cases, gender dysphoria in adolescence may be mediated by social factors. The potential viability of the ROGD hypothesis has been endorsed not only by the parents, as described by Diaz and Bailey, but also by the clinicians working with this patient population, and the affected patients themselves. If it proves to be correct, then the treatment approaches to this novel population of adolescents may need to be different, including the possibility that such cases may benefit from less invasive interventions that do not carry the irreversible effects of hormonal and surgical interventions known as “gender-affirming care.” The concern that the currently-presenting gender dysphoric youth are different from the originally-studied cases, and that they may be better helped by psychotherapy, has also been expressed by the originators of the “Dutch” protocol for gender-transitioning minors. We are particularly disappointed that among the signatories demanding that the research be retracted is the current President of WPATH. WPATH recently acknowledged the role of social influence as a possible contributing factor to gender dysphoria in adolescents, saying: “For a select subgroup of young people, susceptibility to social influence impacting gender may be an important differential to consider.” (Coleman et al., 2022, p. 45) Signing a demand to retract one of the very few papers examining the possible influence of social factors is inconsistent with WPATH’s own statements. We are aware of the allegation that a lack of an Institutional Review Board approval of this publication warrants a retraction. However, this is demonstrably false. Springer’s policies explicitly allow the Editor-in-Chief the discretion to accept a publication that has not sought IRB approval. The first author of this study was not affiliated with a university and did not need to seek IRB approval. Further, we are aware that the activists are alleging that the paper’s methodology was biased by only relying on parental reports. However, parental reports are commonly used to gather information about children and adolescents. A highly influential paper in the field that is often cited to support social transition for youth also relied on parental reports. However, in this case the methodology was not criticized. The difference appears to be that in this example, the parents supported their children’s gender transition, whereas in the Diaz and Bailey paper, the parents were concerned with the risks of inappropriate medicalization of their children. Unfortunately, this is not the first time journals and researchers who dare explore the subject of ROGD have been targeted for cancellation. What is currently happening to the Diaz and Bailey paper bears a marked resemblance to the prior attempt to silence the original “ROGD” paper by Lisa Littman, MD. Under tremendous pressure from critics, PLOS ONE subjected the paper to a second round of peer review post-publication. The paper withstood this unprecedented scrutiny, with its results unchanged. To quote Jeffrey S. Flier, MD, the 21st Dean of Harvard Medical School, who wrote eloquently about the the attempts to silence research into ROGD, “Many papers face questions after they have been published, which is well and proper: the systematic assessment and scrutiny of published work is a core method by which the scientific community corrects errors, and builds upon imperfect preliminary observations…But that is not what has happened…. [the] critics have not performed any systematic analysis of her findings, but seem principally motivated by ideological opposition to [the] conclusions. We fear that just like in the case of the original ROGD paper, the demands for retraction and sanctioning of Dr. Zucker, the Editor-in-Chief are principally motivated by the ideological opposition to Diaz and Bailey’s conclusion. Because of Dr. Zucker’s unique experience in the field and his role as the Editor-in-Chief, the journal, Archives of Sexual Behavior, has become a formidable force in the growing debate about how to best care for the rapidly growing numbers of gender-diverse youth. Dr. Zucker has demonstrated neutrality by routinely publishing articles on both sides of this contentious issue. While the paper by Diaz and Bailey–like all research–has limitations, it is vital to continue to study the ROGD hypothesis. Ongoing attempts to silence any research into the explosion of teens who are now identifying as transgender only stands to hurt the very patients the activists are claiming to help–young gender nonconforming people. We, the undersigned signatories, ask that Springer Nature, the company that publishes Archives of Sexual Behavior, takes a nuanced view of this situation, examines the context in which these complaints have been leveled, and chooses to uphold the principles and practice of scientific discussion, debate, and freedom of expression by rejecting calls to retract the paper “Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria: Parent Reports on 1655 Possible Cases” by Diaz and Bailey and refusing to sanction Dr. Kenneth Zucker for his decision to publish the paper.
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  498.  @TransHippie  The problem you have with your virtue signaling is the total absence of any actual virtue in any of that unhinged whinging. Because you can't, won't, and don't justify the expectation that spaces and organizations designated not for males with subjective gender identity claims, rather for females based on biology-- Don't be surprised that you face rejection. There's no hate involved in recognizing that a dude in a dress is a dude in a dress-- That's just being observant. Existing as yourself doesn't require others to participate in your cosplay and LARP. Societies and the people who established them, aren't obligated to abandon their culture, morality, powers of discernment, or traditions to accommodate the counter-culture lunatic fringe minority, who seek affirmation, acceptance and validation from the very people and societies which they apparently detest, yet seek to integrate into expecting (Irrationally) to find acceptance, Affirmation and validation. Better learn to cope harder. The world doesn't owe you anything Don't conflate gender with gender roles as though they're synonymous-- that's an error. Seems like you view conforming to sexist stereotypes, as legitimate measures of manhood or womanhood. Bottom line is: spaces, and organizations focused on being designated for females, are done so, because of biology-- Not feelings or perceptions about it. Replacing objective definitions which are based in physical reality, with entirely subjective metaphysical claims, is not logical in any way, it is not morally superior, and it is demonstrably harmful, not least of which to female rights and protections, but also to practically anyone that buys into it as it warps people's perception of the underlying issues. It hinders people in their quest for individuation, creating this false narrative of them becoming more "authentic"-- when the total opposite is true. They believe they need validation from others in order to be happy etc., instead of being encouraged to find more inner strength and resilience with less reliance on how people see them. No one has justified the expectation that males w/ gender identity claims-- misappropriating womanhood unto themselves, by claiming a subjective unverifiable gender identity claim, have any sort of valid claim to access places designated for females. Got anything? Answer: No, you do not have anything other than whining. The denial, lies and cope of the activist's narratives don't establish truth-- and they can't because they're false. What do you think the word 'gender' in the term gender dysphoria is referring to? It seems they go to extensive lengths to alter their appearance to resemble that of the primary biological sex characteristics of the opposite sex, which doesn't actually make anyone that sex, and then operate as though it justifies them to access to areas and organizations designated for females-- It doesn't.
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  521.  @TransHippie  Saw it... Rejected it for being intellectually stunted. That doesn't explain why. Hey there science denier-- Just saying trans women are women-- doesn't make it reality. Female is a biological category referring to one half of the sexual/reproductive binary dichotomy of ALL mammals, and Male is the other half. You seem to be looking for an argument, to displace your denial over a topic that's settled, where you've been proven wrong and dismissed with cause-- by reality. Seethe if you must, but it doesn't change anything. You lost this debate before it started. A man, presenting as, performing as, identifying as a woman doesn't then become a woman, is a reality that your arguments can't escape. Gender/sex = biology, there are only 2 male/female...that's it. Above, I posted the definition of gender/sex and dated back it's origins to help alleviate the confusion on the facts of the matter Gender roles= social constructs referring to the roles of males and females in society, which don't change anyone's gender. A dude in a dress is still a dude. I mean, a dude can dress in a fairy princess Halloween costume if he chooses, but it doesn't actually make him a fairy princess and it doesn't obligate everyone in society to pretend that he is. I think it's humorous when someone says sex and gender are different, as if that doesn't make the narrative even more absurd. People aren't social constructs. Trans however, is a social construct, and doesn't alter anyone's gender/sex, so the saying trans women are women is just wrong.
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  522.  @dariocarraresi1823  Kenneth Zucker et Al 2021 Followed trans woman for 20 years and 88 percent desisted. It was just confirmed in another 15 year study. This is directly from the writer and tenured board member at WPATH, Ken Zucker: Not to mention the leaked wpath files showing doctors themselves do not think these kids are mentally mature enough to consent to the surgeries. Kenneth Zucker et Al 2021: 88 percent of trans women desisted after 20 years. 93% resorted to homosexuality vs affirmation treatment with a self delete rate nearly 10x's higher than the general population at nearly 40%, doesn't appear to be validating the 1% 'regret rate' claim-- as accurate (looks like a huge net loss to me, being that gays have a self-delete rate closer to the general population, at around 4% comparatively)-- in NO way justifies claims of affirmation-based treatment protocols as efficacious. In case anyone reading is actually interested: If sex and gender identity are truly independent, then why do trans women and trans men go through so many hoops to change their primary sex characteristics??? Well, according to the analysis, data and conclusions of the studies I've seen, Happy people aren't overwhelmingly sui~*d@l, and those who are have a psych issue at play. Swedish study: Persons with transsexualism, after sex reassignment, have considerably higher risks for mortality, suicidal behaviour, and psychiatric morbidity than the general population. Our findings suggest that sex reassignment, although alleviating gender dysphoria, may not suffice as treatment for transsexualism, and should inspire improved psychiatric and somatic care after sex reassignment for this patient group. A 2020 academic study with a sample size of 372 respondents found that 40 percent of transgender people had attempted suicide. Similarly, in 2016, the National Transgender Discrimination Survey found that 41 percent of 6,450 respondents said they had previously attempted suicide. By comparison, the CDC found that in 2020, 0.36 percent of the population had attempted suicide. According to a 2022 survey by The Trevor Project, an LGBTQ+ suicide prevention organization, nearly 1 in 5 young people who identified as transgender or non-binary have attempted suicide. According to a 2019 UCLA School of Law- Williams Institute report on the thoughts and attempts of self deleting-- the Reports shows that The 2015 U.S. Transgender Survey (USTS), which is the largest survey of transgender people in the U.S. to date, found that 81.7 percent of respondents reported ever seriously thinking about suicide in their lifetimes, while 48.3 percent had done so in the past year. In regard to suicide attempts, 40.4 percent reported attempting suicide at some point in their lifetimes. Although the research literature to date agrees that transgender people are at an elevated risk of suicide thoughts and attempts, there is still much to learn about why transgender people are particularly at risk. Also, the conclusion of the Swedish study, which concluded that persons with transsexualism, after sex reassignment, have considerably higher risks for mortality, suicidal behaviour, and psychiatric morbidity-- than the general population. The findings suggest that sex reassignment, although alleviating gender dysphoria, may not suffice as treatment for transsexualism, and should inspire improved psychiatric and somatic care after sex reassignment for this patient group. When the rate of self deletes among the general population is 10x's lower, and when studies showing that up to 90% desist and end up gay, with only a 4% self delete rate by contrast, the results of affirmation-based treatment protocols are horrible by contrast, making it's justification questionable at best. Quit whining about preferred pronouns usage, and acting like anyone should care at all, about how you identify subjectively. The truth is, you're wrong and you hate us knowing it, pointing it out and proving your claims false, and it upsets you that we don't buy your narratives. Your addiction to confirmation biased info is clear, and your inability to prove us wrong haunts you Why would they? They don't care, because they identify as people who don't have to indulge, much less affirm, accept, or validate the intellectual pablum of the mentally, and intellectually disenfranchised, as though it's based in substance, logic, or reason. As far as the majority of the people of the world and I are concerned, your entire 'trans gender' identity is an performance, and your ideological narratives remain hollow and less than compelling or persuasive. The thing is, the world doesn't care about appealing to you for Your acceptance, validation, feelings etc., and it doesn't owe you it's participation in the LARP and cosplay either. You may believe wearing your Halloween princess costume makes you an actual princess, but you're only fooling yourself. It doesn't Your ideology is rejected as intellectual pablum, as objective reality proves it to be nonsense. Feel free to believe in your cult ideology, and cosplay and LARP to your heart's content, just know that the world doesn't owe you it's participation in your dress up fantasy. Carry on, you have the right to be wrong. You're only fooling yourselves Bro.. here’s a funny fact If you look at your 1 percent surgical rejection rate meta analysis, you’ll see not one study actually analysis SRS (surgical regret rate) or top surgery in trans men Did you see the Hillary Cass report? She is against early social transition because it puts the kids down a path of confusion … Why don’t trans activists listen ? Lol... YouTube “gender identity services in England - a cass review”. Cass called out the hypocrisy in the old diagnostic criteria … She asked for increased diagnostic criteria, she asked for the removal of the old pink/ blue system She wants increased treatment range to not include gender affirming care. AP- A major UK report says trans kids are being let down by toxic… “Dr. Hilary Cass said there is “no good evidence on the long-term outcomes of interventions to manage gender-related distress,” and young people have been caught up in a “stormy social discourse” about the issue.” Cass’ report, which runs to almost 400 pages, said that “for most young people, a medical pathway” is not the best way to deal with gender-related issues. “Cass said young people questioning their gender identity should be given “a holistic assessment” including screening for neurodevelopmental conditions such as autism, and a mental health assessment.” In her report, Cass said there was “no clear evidence” that social transition in childhood — such as changing names or pronouns — has any positive or negative mental health outcomes. “The report also concluded that there is no simple explanation for why the number of young people identifying as transgender has shot up in recent years in the U.K. and other countries.” This new study just published last month “Risk of Suicide and Self-Harm Following Gender-Affirmation Surgery” Individuals who underwent gender-affirming surgery had a 12.12-fold higher suicide attempt risk than those who did not (3.47% vs. 0.29%, RR 95% CI 9.20-15.96, p < 0.0001). “Gender-affirming surgery is significantly associated with elevated suicide attempt risks, underlining the necessity for comprehensive post-procedure psychiatric support.” There's nothing remotely close to justifying affirmation-based treatment protocols as being efficacious. The stats show clearly that it's a net loss
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  597.  @Alexandrajolie2006  I understand the narratives perfectly... and not having difficulty deciphering between reality and fantasy, I reject them as incoherent madness-- for the same reason. No one has proven that a man with severe anxiety about reality, his biology or wishing it were different is anything other than a man, yet the activists insist men claiming to be trans women-- ARE women, as if women were a social construct, rather than a biological category of the human species. That's demonstrably false. Gender: The status of being either male or female. The entire purpose of the gender/sex division in most species of animal life is to facilitate procreation, the sexual identity of an individual is best classified according to the gametes produced by the person in question. There is no extant third gamete. An extremely minute percentage of humans are either “intersex” (typically referring to those who are anatomical hermaphrodites) or of indeterminate gender (that is, not easily determined by a cursory inspection of the external genitalia), but that does not negate the incontrovertible scientific fact that there are only two genders. As far as we know, there has never existed a single human being with the ability to BOTH conceive a child in his/her womb and, simultaneously, successfully inseminate a woman (or in more disturbing terms, for a hermaphrodite to inseminate him/herself). And even if such an individual has existed, that person would be a combination of BOTH male and female, and not some imaginary, novel third gender. Cf. “sex”. Both terms (“gender” and “sex”) originate from Latin words: “genus” (meaning “begin”; “birth”; “kind”; “race”; “gender”) and “sexus” (meaning “sex”; “division”; “gender”). So, essentially, the only significant distinction between the two terms is that the etymology of “gender” pertains to the beginning of things, as can be plainly seen by the other English words that originate from "genus", such as “generic”, “genetic”, and “generate”, whilst “sex” is a scrupulously-literal translation of the Latin cognate “sexus”. The mere fact that the word “genitals” (referring to reproductive organs) is very closely related to the Latin “genus” is further evidence of the assertion that the term “gender” refers to the binary division of human (and of course, many non-human) sexual identity, and NOT to any taxonomy based on emotion, feelings, psychology, or any other non-biological categorization schema. ;) Way too many inappropriately and incorrectly conflate gender/sex (There are only 2-- male/female... That's it) with personality traits and temperament (There are a ton and none are gender exclusive-- hence effeminate males, butch females and tomboys), and again with gender roles (without exception refer to the roles of males and females in society) as though they're synonymous and they are not. Science has already proven that the binary dichotomy of all mammals is male/female. A man in a dress is still a man A man with anxiety about his sex/gender-- still a man A man calling himself a woman-- still a man A man with an effeminate personality--still a man Seethe if you must, then just cope harder They haven't put forth no reasoning that withstands scrutiny, rendering their narratives and opinions as less than useless and therefore invalid. Their incoherent rants and invalid claims as valid, are a figment of their imagination. Reality isn't an anti-trans ideology. Trans is an anti-reality ideology, and they're the ones seeking affirmation, validation, and the participation of everyone in their larp and cosplay, based on the belief that their subjective delusions are based in reality. Newsflash: They aren't
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  613.  @dariocarraresi1823  Open Letter in Support of Dr. Kenneth Zucker and the Need to Promote Robust Scientific Debate Sponsored by FAIR in Medicine May 5, 2023 We, the undersigned signatories, are expressing our support for Dr. Kenneth Zucker, an academically robust and unbiased editorial process at the Archives of Sexual Behavior, and uninterrupted publication of “Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria: Parent Reports on 1655 Possible Cases” by Diaz and Bailey. We condemn and reject the censorious demands being directed at Springer Nature, the company that publishes Archives of Sexual Behavior, that this paper be retracted, and that the editor of the journal, Dr. Zucker, be sanctioned for allowing the paper’s publication. The appropriate action is to have an open debate about the paper—not to silence those whose views one finds disagreeable. Currently as many as one in 10–20 youth report gender dysphoria. The paper by Diaz and Bailey adds to the growing body of knowledge about the various factors contributing to the rapid rise of adolescent-onset gender dysphoria–a phenomenon that was exceedingly rare in the past. Specifically, the paper engages with parental reports of the cases of “Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria,” or ROGD. The ROGD hypothesis posits that in some cases, gender dysphoria in adolescence may be mediated by social factors. The potential viability of the ROGD hypothesis has been endorsed not only by the parents, as described by Diaz and Bailey, but also by the clinicians working with this patient population, and the affected patients themselves. If it proves to be correct, then the treatment approaches to this novel population of adolescents may need to be different, including the possibility that such cases may benefit from less invasive interventions that do not carry the irreversible effects of hormonal and surgical interventions known as “gender-affirming care.” The concern that the currently-presenting gender dysphoric youth are different from the originally-studied cases, and that they may be better helped by psychotherapy, has also been expressed by the originators of the “Dutch” protocol for gender-transitioning minors. We are particularly disappointed that among the signatories demanding that the research be retracted is the current President of WPATH. WPATH recently acknowledged the role of social influence as a possible contributing factor to gender dysphoria in adolescents, saying: “For a select subgroup of young people, susceptibility to social influence impacting gender may be an important differential to consider.” (Coleman et al., 2022, p. 45) Signing a demand to retract one of the very few papers examining the possible influence of social factors is inconsistent with WPATH’s own statements. We are aware of the allegation that a lack of an Institutional Review Board approval of this publication warrants a retraction. However, this is demonstrably false. Springer’s policies explicitly allow the Editor-in-Chief the discretion to accept a publication that has not sought IRB approval. The first author of this study was not affiliated with a university and did not need to seek IRB approval. Further, we are aware that the activists are alleging that the paper’s methodology was biased by only relying on parental reports. However, parental reports are commonly used to gather information about children and adolescents. A highly influential paper in the field that is often cited to support social transition for youth also relied on parental reports. However, in this case the methodology was not criticized. The difference appears to be that in this example, the parents supported their children’s gender transition, whereas in the Diaz and Bailey paper, the parents were concerned with the risks of inappropriate medicalization of their children. Unfortunately, this is not the first time journals and researchers who dare explore the subject of ROGD have been targeted for cancellation. What is currently happening to the Diaz and Bailey paper bears a marked resemblance to the prior attempt to silence the original “ROGD” paper by Lisa Littman, MD. Under tremendous pressure from critics, PLOS ONE subjected the paper to a second round of peer review post-publication. The paper withstood this unprecedented scrutiny, with its results unchanged. To quote Jeffrey S. Flier, MD, the 21st Dean of Harvard Medical School, who wrote eloquently about the the attempts to silence research into ROGD, “Many papers face questions after they have been published, which is well and proper: the systematic assessment and scrutiny of published work is a core method by which the scientific community corrects errors, and builds upon imperfect preliminary observations…But that is not what has happened…. [the] critics have not performed any systematic analysis of her findings, but seem principally motivated by ideological opposition to [the] conclusions. We fear that just like in the case of the original ROGD paper, the demands for retraction and sanctioning of Dr. Zucker, the Editor-in-Chief are principally motivated by the ideological opposition to Diaz and Bailey’s conclusion. Because of Dr. Zucker’s unique experience in the field and his role as the Editor-in-Chief, the journal, Archives of Sexual Behavior, has become a formidable force in the growing debate about how to best care for the rapidly growing numbers of gender-diverse youth. Dr. Zucker has demonstrated neutrality by routinely publishing articles on both sides of this contentious issue. While the paper by Diaz and Bailey–like all research–has limitations, it is vital to continue to study the ROGD hypothesis. Ongoing attempts to silence any research into the explosion of teens who are now identifying as transgender only stands to hurt the very patients the activists are claiming to help–young gender nonconforming people. We, the undersigned signatories, ask that Springer Nature, the company that publishes Archives of Sexual Behavior, takes a nuanced view of this situation, examines the context in which these complaints have been leveled, and chooses to uphold the principles and practice of scientific discussion, debate, and freedom of expression by rejecting calls to retract the paper “Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria: Parent Reports on 1655 Possible Cases” by Diaz and Bailey and refusing to sanction Dr. Kenneth Zucker for his decision to publish the paper.
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  632. A woman isn't defined by a feeling, fetish, preference, persona, gender role, or her wardrobe. Believing there is some "essence" specific to males or female as far as feelings go, that can manifest "in the wrong body", is akin to a religious belief, having faith in something that is impossible to prove or disprove. The thing is though, that no one on the "trans" side can actually even explain what this "essence" is, they can't even explain it to themselves yet have convinced themselves that the feeling they have means they "are in the wrong body" - without realizing that their discomfort simply stems from not realizing that they view conforming to sexist stereotypes as legitimate measures of manhood or womanhood. That is why every explanation given of WHY a male "can't be a man, but is instead woman" etc. relies upon listing stereotypical stuff, or, in some cases is completely abstract and refuses to actually provide any explanation of what they mean, simply stating they "know" that what they feel means what they say it does, even though they can't actually provide a definition of it. "It's hard to explain but I know I'm right" is an attitude one constantly comes up against - a religious faith in something they can't define. This idea that the terms "man" and "woman" carry all this baggage, sexist stereotypes, that people need to live up to or feel comfortable with is a complete fabrication coming from the "trans" side. They want a term to reflect aspects of your personality as well, you want to create more boxes to put people in, as you won't accept simply just being a man or a woman based on being born male or female (and reaching adulthood, obviously people are boys and girls before becoming men or women), but believe you need this "freedom of expression" to broadcast what sexist stereotypes you feel more comfortable with - thinking the world needs to adopt the sexist view they have Replacing objective definitions which are based in physical reality, with entirely subjective metaphysical claims, is not logical in any way, is not morally superior, and is demonstrably harmful, not least to female rights and protections, but also to practically anyone that buys into it as it warps people's perception of the underlying issues. It hinders people in their quest for individuation, creating this false narrative of them becoming more "authentic" when the total opposite is true, they believe they need validation from others in order to be happy etc. instead of being encouraged to find more inner strength and resilience with less reliance on how people see them. Demanding to be legally recognized as the opposite sex of what one is, is in no way shape or form more authentic than accepting the physical reality one is born into. To believe we as individuals can have 100% control over our identity in society, what we are seen as by others, in interaction with, and in relation to, society/the world/physical existence is a fool's errand, it is a delusional understanding of reality and existence. Believing a subjective unverifiable gender identity claim isn't what makes a woman-- a woman. Woman refers to the sex and age of a human female, who's reached the adult stage of human development. Anti-social, counter culture ideologies and cult societies don't create an obligation for the mainstream society to accept, affirm or validate them as though it's the new norm or standard. Their feelings of self entitlement don't justify males in spaces designated for females... Appealing to society to repeal women's expectation of women's rights to privacy from the prying eyes of males in women's only spaces, or males being granted access to women's shelters, women's prisons, changing rooms, locker rooms, or the girl's showers, or women's sports divisions/leagues, teams because those males make a subjective unverifiable gender identity claim to identify as women is in no way superior, justified, rational nor reasonable. Woe to the feminists who buy into that, as in their near dystopian future, they will usher in the era of being oppressed by tyrannical males, who will claim to be women... and they don't even see it coming.
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  646.  @dariocarraresi1823  The uncontrolled survey's you tend to cling to and cite don't rise to the level of science. It's more akin to pseudo-science, and science-fiction, which in no way invalidate the controlled, peer-reviewed studies I provided. Cope Harder dude. The conclusions of the following make it pretty clear that what I've been saying is correct You have no moral ground to stand on from which to whine and complain. Looks like affirmation-based treatment protocols result in a net loss, and in no way justify claims of being efficacious. Kenneth Zucker et Al 2021 Followed trans woman for 20 years and 88 percent desisted. It was just confirmed in another 15 year study. This is directly from the writer and tenured board member at WPATH, Ken Zucker: Not to mention the leaked wpath files showing doctors themselves do not think these kids are mentally mature enough to consent to the surgeries. Kenneth Zucker et Al 2021: 88 percent of trans women desisted after 20 years. 93% resorted to homosexuality vs affirmation treatment with a self delete rate nearly 10x's higher than the general population at nearly 40%, doesn't appear to be validating the 1% 'regret rate' claim-- as accurate (looks like a huge net loss to me, being that gays have a self-delete rate closer to the general population, at around 4% comparatively)-- in NO way justifies claims of affirmation-based treatment protocols as efficacious. In case anyone reading is actually interested: If sex and gender identity are truly independent, then why do trans women and trans men go through so many hoops to change their primary sex characteristics??? Well, according to the analysis, data and conclusions of the studies I've seen, Happy people aren't overwhelmingly sui~*d@l, and those who are have a psych issue at play. Swedish study: Persons with transsexualism, after sex reassignment, have considerably higher risks for mortality, suicidal behaviour, and psychiatric morbidity than the general population. Our findings suggest that sex reassignment, although alleviating gender dysphoria, may not suffice as treatment for transsexualism, and should inspire improved psychiatric and somatic care after sex reassignment for this patient group. A 2020 academic study with a sample size of 372 respondents found that 40 percent of transgender people had attempted suicide. Similarly, in 2016, the National Transgender Discrimination Survey found that 41 percent of 6,450 respondents said they had previously attempted suicide. By comparison, the CDC found that in 2020, 0.36 percent of the population had attempted suicide. According to a 2022 survey by The Trevor Project, an LGBTQ+ suicide prevention organization, nearly 1 in 5 young people who identified as transgender or non-binary have attempted suicide. According to a 2019 UCLA School of Law- Williams Institute report on the thoughts and attempts of self deleting-- the Reports shows that The 2015 U.S. Transgender Survey (USTS), which is the largest survey of transgender people in the U.S. to date, found that 81.7 percent of respondents reported ever seriously thinking about suicide in their lifetimes, while 48.3 percent had done so in the past year. In regard to suicide attempts, 40.4 percent reported attempting suicide at some point in their lifetimes. Although the research literature to date agrees that transgender people are at an elevated risk of suicide thoughts and attempts, there is still much to learn about why transgender people are particularly at risk. Also, the conclusion of the Swedish study, which concluded that persons with transsexualism, after sex reassignment, have considerably higher risks for mortality, suicidal behaviour, and psychiatric morbidity-- than the general population. The findings suggest that sex reassignment, although alleviating gender dysphoria, may not suffice as treatment for transsexualism, and should inspire improved psychiatric and somatic care after sex reassignment for this patient group. When the rate of self deletes among the general population is 10x's lower, and when studies showing that up to 90% desist and end up gay, with only a 4% self delete rate by contrast, the results of affirmation-based treatment protocols are horrible by contrast, making it's justification questionable at best. They need to quit whining about preferred pronouns usage, and acting like anyone should care at all, about how they identify subjectively. The truth is, they're wrong and they hate us knowing it, pointing it out and proving their claims false, and it upsets them that we don't buy their narratives. Their addiction to confirmation biased info is clear, and their inability to prove us wrong haunts them. Why would they? They don't care, because they identify as people who don't have to indulge, much less affirm, accept, or validate the intellectual pablum of the mentally, and intellectually disenfranchised, as though it's based in substance, logic, or reason. As far as the majority of the people of the world are concerned, the entire 'trans gender' identity is a performance, and their ideological narratives remain hollow and less than compelling or persuasive. They may believe wearing their Halloween princess costume makes them an actual princess, but they're only fooling themselves. It doesn't Bro.. here’s a funny fact If you look at their claimed 1 percent surgical rejection rate meta analysis, you’ll see not one study actually analysis SRS (surgical regret rate) or top surgery in trans men. Did you see the Hillary Cass report? She is against early social transition because it puts the kids down a path of confusion … Why don’t trans activists listen ? Lol... YouTube “gender identity services in England - a cass review”. Cass called out the hypocrisy in the old diagnostic criteria … She asked for increased diagnostic criteria, she asked for the removal of the old pink/ blue system She wants increased treatment range to not include gender affirming care. AP- A major UK report says trans kids are being let down by toxic… “Dr. Hilary Cass said there is “no good evidence on the long-term outcomes of interventions to manage gender-related distress,” and young people have been caught up in a “stormy social discourse” about the issue.” Cass’ report, which runs to almost 400 pages, said that “for most young people, a medical pathway” is not the best way to deal with gender-related issues. “Cass said young people questioning their gender identity should be given “a holistic assessment” including screening for neurodevelopmental conditions such as autism, and a mental health assessment.” In her report, Cass said there was “no clear evidence” that social transition in childhood — such as changing names or pronouns — has any positive or negative mental health outcomes. “The report also concluded that there is no simple explanation for why the number of young people identifying as transgender has shot up in recent years in the U.K. and other countries.”
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  651.  @dariocarraresi1823  I literally cited and quoted the conclusions of the studies I posted, all of which agree with me. Your copium is over-the-top, and your failure to grasp the point and to try to paint the most ridiculous narrative as possible is rejected. "Our findings suggest that sex reassignment, although alleviating gender dysphoria, may not suffice as treatment for transsexualism, and should inspire improved psychiatric and somatic care after sex reassignment for this patient group."-- seems to be lost on you. You say, gender identity and sex are separate, but haven't been able to justify encroaching on spaces designated segregated based on sex, such as bathrooms, changing rooms, showers, prisons, sports teams/leagues, as an entitlement. Not even close You also haven't come close to being able to justify the expectation that just because you/they present and identify in a non-traditional fashion, that all of society must treat you/them as though they're the opposite sex. It's absurd Why should society change for you? You haven't made a compelling case that your prescription is preferred. That's on you, for running from answering questions, and the opportunity to justify your expectations. Not all cultures are Equal, Compatible, nor Desirable... That's why sovereign nations have borders. Just sayin.... Your acceptance, affirmation, and validation aren't required-- So, since society has already established itself, and you are failing to justify your suggestion that it should change to accommodate your claims and operate as though your claims are valid, your expectation to be taken seriously is illogical. The burden of proof remains with you, and you've failed. You can pretend that this conversation hasn't already occurred, ending with you admitting to arguing just to be argumentative, if you like-- but it doesn't justify eliminating the segregation of women's private spaces from men's.
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  674.  @dariocarraresi1823  You lie. Not your existence, but your claims of what you exist as-- are that which in question. Your sophistry is rejected as are your redefined cult terms. Gender/sex is biological and there are only 2- male/female... that's it. Take the L -- You've been denied and rejected by logic, reason, and objective reality. Your moral relativism isn't accepted. Gender roles are social constructs referring to the roles of males and females in society. Gender identity claims which are disassociated with one's biological reality don't validate one's claims as true or relevant-- as it goes to spaces and organizations segregated based on sex/gender, subjective disjointed gender identities not withstanding All women are born female, all men are born male and neither are a social construct, feeling, fetish, personality, subjective gender identity claim, or a costume, and as you pointed out-- you believe gender identity and sex are separate, so go ahead and justify encroaching on things separated based on sex, as an entitlement. You haven't come close yet, to being able to justify the expectation that just because you present and identify in a non-traditional fashion, that all of society must treat you as though you're the opposite sex. The world isn't your therapist and doesn't owe you special consideration. To expect it does is the height of narcissism and arrogance. You have nothing justifying why your whining should be taken seriously All women are born female, all men are born male and neither are a social construct, feeling, fetish, preference, personality trait nor a costume, making the cis/trans prefix entirely useless and intellectually stunted Your world view is rejected. You say gender identity and sex are separate, but haven't been able to justify encroaching on spaces designated segregated based on sex, as an entitlement, based on a subjective gender identity claim which is not validated by objective reality. Not even close
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  676.  @dariocarraresi1823  Those girls in HS, who were assaulted by HS boys claiming to be trans, are another example which don't indicate trans-policies to be a brilliant idea, and I dgaf what NBC or anyone else says about that. That's (pathetically) the best you've got, and it's why you're dismissed as less than relevant, invalid, unjustified, and dismissed, says the guy who hasn't been proven inaccurate or incorrect by you or anyone else on this topic. You want a citation for saying that the sky is dark at night too, no doubt. I cited every study I used to prove your claims false, validate my claims and analysis correct and corroborated, and you failed to provide any peer reviewed studies invalidating them. Cope Harder You want things to change, and have failed to make your appeal for consideration to the 99+% who aren't confused about the rational for segregating things in society based on sex/gender a good one, because you haven't done it yet. You justified nothing In less than 1% of cases is gender disconnected from biological sex; making your argument even less relevant or compelling. Good job Bathrooms, prisons, showers, locker rooms, changing rooms, sports teams/leagues aren't segregating based on the subjective gender identity disconnect and claims of less than 1% of the population, having disjointed gender identity anxiety about their biology and reality-- for obvious reasons. Your failure to grasp that is a YOU problem that the rest of us 99+% reject as invalid claims. sux2bu
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  715. Believing there is some "essence" specific to males or female as far as feelings go, that can manifest "in the wrong body", is akin to a religious belief, having faith in something that is impossible to prove or disprove. The thing is though, that no one on the "trans" side can actually even explain what this "essence" is, they can't even explain it to themselves yet have convinced themselves that the feeling they have means they "are in the wrong body" - without realizing that their discomfort simply stems from not realizing that they view conforming to sexist stereotypes as legitimate measures of manhood or womanhood. That is why every explanation given of WHY a male "can't be a man, but is instead woman" etc. relies upon listing stereotypical stuff, or, in some cases is completely abstract and refuses to actually provide any explanation of what they mean, simply stating they "know" that what they feel means what they say it does, even though they can't actually provide a definition of it. "It's hard to explain but I know I'm right" is an attitude one constantly comes up against - a religious faith in something they can't define. This idea that the terms "man" and "woman" carry all this baggage, sexist stereotypes, that people need to live up to or feel comfortable with is a complete fabrication coming from the "trans" side. You lot want a term to reflect aspects of your personality, as well as wanting to create more boxes to put people in, as you won't accept simply just being a man or a woman based on being born male or female (and reaching adulthood, obviously people are boys and girls before becoming men or women), but believe you need this "freedom of expression" to broadcast what sexist stereotypes you feel more comfortable with - thinking the world needs to adopt the sexist view you lot have. Replacing objective definitions which are based in physical reality, with entirely subjective metaphysical claims, is not logical in any way, is not morally superior, and is demonstrably harmful, not least to female rights and protections, but also to practically anyone that buys into it, as it warps people's perception of the underlying issues. It hinders people in their quest for individuation, creating this false narrative of them becoming more "authentic" when the total opposite is true, they believe they need validation from others in order to be happy etc., instead of being encouraged to find more inner strength and resilience with less reliance on how people see them. Demanding to be legally recognized as the opposite sex of what one is, is in no way shape or form more authentic than accepting the physical reality one is born into. To believe we as individuals can have 100% control over our identity in society, what we are seen as by others, in interaction with, and in relation to, society/the world/physical existence is a fool's errand, it is a delusional understanding of reality and existence. Now you know better
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  719.  @TransHippie  Great!! Quit whining about your preferred pronouns etc... no one cares. It doesn't justify males w/ psych issues who make unverifiable, subjective gender identity claims being granted access to the girl's showers, women's shelters, locker rooms, changing rooms, sports divisions or prisons segregated by biology-- Not some delusional metaphysical gender identity claim that's unhinged from objective reality. You certainly haven't proven that a man who wishes he were, or believes he's a woman is anything other than a man. Do you believe that spaces designated by gender/sex are referring to gender roles? Make it make sense I Don't care if you want to wear a dress, makeup, heels and a wig, get boob implants, have HRT and have your properly functioning genitalia removed surgically-- Feel free, but still a man. The justification for separating men and women in prisons, with the draft, showers, locker rooms, changing rooms, scholarships, and sports teams/leagues you deem unnecessary. Whats the issue with it??? Justify and explain how eliminating women's private spaces and allowing men to encroach isn't misogyny? You've not demonstrated how eliminating women's sports divisions is a superior way of organizing sports You've not demonstrated how eliminating women's expectation of privacy in women's only spaces is a superior way to organize society. You've also failed to demonstrate how eliminating women's only spaces as a concept from society, is a superior way of organizing society
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  790.  @dariocarraresi1823  Justify men being granted access into women's only spaces, designated segregated based on biology-- not gender identity. A dude in a dress is still allowed to utilize men's spaces, and that's not a crime anywhere that I've ever heard of in the USA, and an male with an effeminate personality, isn't illegal either, and they both can utilize the men's facilities and try out for men's sports teams/leagues because no one is trying to prevent them from participating. Gender (Biology-- there are only 2 male/female... That's it) Gender Roles (Social constructs, referring to the roles of males and females in society) You said it's false that all mammals are part of a binary sexual dichotomy of male/female. The 'because you said so' standard hasn't been issued any credibility, can you prove your claim? No, gender is not an internal experience. Personality traits and temperament aren't gender exclusive-- (hence effeminate males, butch females and tomboys) Gender: The status of being either male or female. The entire purpose of the gender/sex division in most species of animal life is to facilitate procreation, the sexual identity of an individual is best classified according to the gametes produced by the person in question. There is no extant third gamete. An extremely minute percentage of humans are either “intersex” (typically referring to those who are anatomical hermaphrodites) or of indeterminate gender (that is, not easily determined by a cursory inspection of the external genitalia), but that does not negate the incontrovertible scientific fact that there are only two genders. As far as we know, there has never existed a single human being with the ability to BOTH conceive a child in his/her womb and, simultaneously, successfully inseminate a woman (or in more disturbing terms, for a hermaphrodite to inseminate him/herself). And even if such an individual has existed, that person would be a combination of BOTH male and female, and not some imaginary, novel third gender. Cf. “sex”. Both terms (“gender” and “sex”) originate from Latin words: “genus” (meaning “begin”; “birth”; “kind”; “race”; “gender”) and “sexus” (meaning “sex”; “division”; “gender”). So, essentially, the only significant distinction between the two terms is that the etymology of “gender” pertains to the beginning of things, as can be plainly seen by the other English words that originate from "genus", such as “generic”, “genetic”, and “generate”, whilst “sex” is a scrupulously-literal translation of the Latin cognate “sexus”. The mere fact that the word “genitals” (referring to reproductive organs) is very closely related to the Latin “genus” is further evidence of the assertion that the term “gender” refers to the binary division of human (and of course, many non-human) sexual identity, and NOT to any taxonomy based on emotion, feelings, psychology, or any other non-biological categorization schema. ;)
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  791.  @dariocarraresi1823  Is "anti-trans ideology", somehow morally bad? How?? Why?? Why do you hate democracy? I don't care what your self-image is. If it strays from objective reality-- it's about as valid as a fake ID What do you mean that segregating the things like sports, which are already segregated by society and based on biology, 'make no sense' to you? What's the reason to change it? 'Dismissed' makes it sound like your approval is required by society, which has already established it's cultural and societal norms. No, gender-- I provided the definition, going back into antiquity in Latin, showing it is biology, Cf. “sex”. Both terms (“gender” and “sex”) originate from Latin words: “genus” (meaning “begin”; “birth”; “kind”; “race”; “gender”) and “sexus” (meaning “sex”; “division”; “gender”)-- So, essentially, the only significant distinction between the two terms is that the etymology of “gender” pertains to the beginning of things, as can be plainly seen by the other English words that originate from "genus", such as “generic”, “genetic”, and “generate”, whilst “sex” is a scrupulously-literal translation of the Latin cognate “sexus”, invalidating your claim and proving it wrong. Gender is established at conception and is observed and documented at birth or before -- (There are only 2 male/female... that' it, and that status is fixed and permanent), gender roles are social constructs which refer to the roles of males and females in society. 'According to anti-trans activists, a dude in a dress is a crime'. Really? It's either a crime or it isn't. Well, is it a crime anywhere in the US or not? I don't think so, and you haven't cited anything You never provided an example or evidence of there being any mammal ever, that is other than male or female. How is men being involved in men's sports and women being involved in women's sports enforcing a gender role in any way?
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  793.  @dariocarraresi1823  You said, "transgenderism: having a gender identity that doesn't conform with society's expectations". You do realize that implies that you're in the minority, by definition right? SO-- why should society change for you, and accept, participate in your LARP and cosplay as though it were based in reality, validating it as true? You haven't justified anything or made a compelling case at all. Mostly because you can't make your incoherent claims become coherent, just like you can't make a man become a woman. All men are born male, all women are born female and neither are a social construct (like a gender identity, or gender roles), personality trait nor temperament (Neither of which are gender exclusive-- hence effeminate males, butch females, and tomboys), or a feeling, fetish, preference, nor a costume. No, you are wrong because the universe is observable and the gender of all mammals is separated into a binary sexual dichotomy of male and female. Which is why I mocked your statement saying, gender is a spectrum of 2 male/female... that's it. LOL Allowing men to compete with women-- 'as' women, effectively removing women's ability to compete, is totally misogynistic of you-- not those who insist gender segregation based on sex is rational. I've notice that those like you, insisting on unjustified self-entitled claims to a right to infiltrate women's only spaces segregated based on biology (NOT subjective gender identity claims) and organizations segregated based on biology, have not justified a valid reason to expect that any such entitlement should be honored, much less taken be taken seriously and considered valid. I reject your definition of gender. Gender is not an internal experience or a feeling. It is synonymous with sex-- as shown above when I defined them both for you, not gender roles, personality traits, or disjointed, subjective gender identity claims. I already explained to you that if you identify with a subjective gender identity which is disconnected from your actual gender-- (which is biological), no one is enforcing a gender role on you by insisting you have the right to utilize the men's facility or try out for men's sports teams-- just because you have a non-traditional gender identity. I agree that misgendering can be harmful, especially to those who are affirmed as something that they are not-- via affirmation-based treatment protocols. The self delete rates are horrendous compared to the general population, and compared to those 88% who desist identifying as 'trans', choosing a gay lifestyle instead, according to peer reviewed medical studies spanning 20 years by tenured board member of WPATH, Ken Zucker and another study of 15 years which confirmed the conclusions and findings of the 1st study. It seems that an "anti-trans activists" is someone against 'trans activists'-- hence my question asking you to define 'trans activist'. N worries. Arguing with you is pointless. You know so much that just isn't so, but that's okay... you can blame your ignorance. You have the right to be wrong. How are "anti-trans activists" (Silly cult term) NOT upholding the biology-based segregation, by upholding biology-based segregation, by insisting that men use men's facilities and women use women's facilities? Make it make sense. Men and women are biological beings not a social construct or a gender role-- so No, their gender is not an internal experience; it's established at conception and observed and documented at birth or before. Your problem is, society has already democratically established this country and it's cultural and societal norms, and on that basis-- you're out voted, so apparently I do get a say about that... kind of a duh... and it appears the majority agree with me, or you wouldn't be whining about things needing to change from the 'anti-trans activists' establishments, cultures, societies and countries. LOL and pssttt... the world doesn't owe you it's acceptance, participation, or validation. Think Deeper thoughts Not all cultures are Equal, Compatible nor Desirable... That's why sovereign nations have borders. That's why asking why you hate democracy, was not a non sequitur, but is still relevant. You also seem to be very judgemental about the Palestinian culture, and most of the cultures in the Middle East and their understanding of gender. Have you always been an Islamophobic person? Hmmm... Fact: 80% of the world population is religious, and your religious bigotry doesn't scream tolerance or acceptance.
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  797.  @dariocarraresi1823  The question is, do you think women's rights are referring to subjective identity claims, or perhaps maybe it refers to the rights unique to the female half of the sexual binary dichotomy of humans-- the other half being males, being characterized by their physical characteristics?-- Because your response still doesn't make any sense and doesn't answer the question. The Big Switch is a LIE First of all, probably the biggest thing going for the Big Switch, are 2 facts: 1. Whites in the south who used to be Democrats do now, vote predominantly Republican. 2. Blacks who used to vote Republican now vote overwhelmingly Democrat. Operating on the assumption, which is reasonable that people understand where their own interests lie, many blacks currently see their identification and interests in the democrat party. When did Blacks switch from Dems switch from R to D? • The Dem party was the party of the Dixiecrats all the way through the 60’s. • If what the flawed narrative suggested were true-- that the blacks made a switch to their racial friends, it would appear the switch would have to come in the 70’s and the 80’s-- When blacks see the racists are switching, BUT—in reality blacks switched overwhelmingly in the 1930’s. • The Black Vote went from about 15% to about 75% democrat within about 4 years. • The reason blacks switched from R to D’s had everything to do with the New Deal. • Blacks in the North and the South switched to the Dem party because of New Deal Benefits N. Dems protected slavery. The civil war was about the Dem party North and South, which opposed the abolishment of slavery and the Republican party—which was only in the North. The Dems have been the party of racism and slavery for over a hundred years, and they still are.
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  798.  @dariocarraresi1823  That's just idiotic, and why you're dismissed as a fool with no credibility and no respect. This idea that the terms "man" and "woman" are referring to subjective gender identity claims is demonstrably false dude, and carries all this baggage, sexist stereotypes, that people need to live up to or feel comfortable with is a complete fabrication coming from You/the "trans" side. You/Pro trans activists seem to want a term to reflect aspects of your personality-- as well, you want to create more boxes to put people in, as you won't accept simply just being a man or a woman based on being born male or female (and reaching adulthood, obviously people are boys and girls before becoming men or women), but believe you need this "freedom of expression" to broadcast what sexist stereotypes you feel more comfortable with - thinking the world needs to adopt the sexist view you have. Replacing objective definitions, which are based in physical reality, with entirely subjective metaphysical claims, is not logical in any way, is not morally superior, and is demonstrably harmful, not least to female rights and protections, but also to practically anyone that buys into it as it warps people's perception of the underlying issues. It hinders people in their quest for individuation, creating this false narrative of them becoming more "authentic" when the total opposite is true, they believe they need validation from others in order to be happy etc. instead of being encouraged to find more inner strength and resilience with less reliance on how people see them. Demanding to be legally recognized as the opposite sex of what one is, is in no way shape or form more authentic than accepting the physical reality one is born into. To believe we as individuals can have 100% control over our identity or self-perceptions in society, what we are seen as by others, in interaction with, and in relation to, society/the world/physical existence is a fool's errand, it is a delusional understanding of reality and existence. Why then, if what you said were true, was there a need to give women the right to vote? Why did the women not just identify as men, since according to you-- it's based on subjective gender identity claims, rendering the understanding since the dawn of time what a man and a woman is, irrelevant? Your nonsense is boring already. We will agree to disagree. I just don't find your arguments rational, persuasive nor compelling to be deemed true, accepted, and validated.
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  799.  @dariocarraresi1823  You're not convincing anyone, and are doing a great job playing the contrarian antagonistic, fool. Bottom line is, you can self identify as anything you like-- that doesn't make it so. To believe your tripe, your shoe size would have to dwarf your IQ You could have a surgeon alter your appearance to look like a Klingon, you could self identify as a Klingon, and it wouldn't make you a Klingon and it wouldn't obligate anyone to pretend that you were. Cf. “sex”. Both terms (“gender” and “sex”) originate from Latin words: “genus” (meaning “begin”; “birth”; “kind”; “race”; “gender”) and “sexus” (meaning “sex”; “division”; “gender”)-- proving another of your claims demonstrably false. So, essentially, the only significant distinction between the two terms is that the etymology of “gender” pertains to the beginning of things, as can be plainly seen by the other English words that originate from "genus", such as “generic”, “genetic”, and “generate”, whilst “sex” is a scrupulously-literal translation of the Latin cognate “sexus”. The mere fact that the word “genitals” (referring to reproductive organs) is very closely related to the Latin “genus” is further evidence of the assertion that the term “gender” refers to the binary division of human (and of course, many non-human) sexual identity, and NOT to any taxonomy based on emotion, feelings, psychology, or any other non-biological categorization schema. ;) You're wrong Take the L chatterbot
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  819.  @dariocarraresi1823  You keep accusing that I want to force people to follow gender roles, and I asked you to explain how allowing a dude in a dress to use the men's room, and try out for men's sports is 'forcing a gender role', and you haven't explained that yet, Because it isn't, and NONE your Red Herring arguments, and sophistry will change that. Oh, and btw-- You Don't have to accept what society has established as societal and cultural norms; You can reject them. You can choose to live in lots of different countries, perhaps you can find one that you find acceptable. You can be counter culture all you like. You can choose to reject traditional gender roles, and choose to wear a dress as a man, and still have access to all the men's facilities and opportunities to try out for men's sports-- so no one is trying to force traditional gender roles on you. The problems for you start, when you operate with arrogant and unjustified self-entitlement, as though society owes you an explanation to justify it's long-established societal and cultural norms steeped in their traditions (who the hell do you think you are? Your arrogance is astounding!), and it's participation and acceptance of your world view as superior somehow. The thing is, society is also free to reject You. If you want to integrate into a society, it's for you to integrate. ex. You think that a country must use the language you use, just because you're there? HA! Adapt and learn the language or don't, but they're not going to change for you.
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  830.  @dariocarraresi1823  Your failure to acknowledge my examples I provided in other threads, is not my failure to provide examples. It's an example of your bad faith and lack of integrity with your character Yes, it's copy/pasted from what I posted to you previously, since you claim I never posted anything for you-- BUT it's clearly relevant. The strongest men are stronger than the strongest women. Eliminating the segregation of men's and women's sports, means the end of women's sports (Tennis, Weight lifting, Wrestling, Running, etc...) NO chance for women to get in the running against the most competitively athletic of men competing, so they came up with women's divisions-- DUH. 2nd claim, Yes- you did. You said, "the latter pushes out trans and intersex athletes for no valid reason" Those dudes are free to try out against all the other dudes competing. They're not women. "Empowering girls and women through athletics is a core value of the IAAF and the sport and sits at the heart of what all of us in athletics believe the sport can offer to participants and to the world. Because of the effect of testosterone on the body from puberty onwards, men are bigger, stronger and faster on average than women. That is why the female classification is 'protected', and why individuals who identify as female but have a certain difference of sex development (DSD) (which means that they have the same advantages over women as men do over women) can pose a challenge to that protected category. This is why we introduced the eligibility regulation and why it must be defended: to ensure fair competition for all women."
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  834. I know you've engaged in no good faith interactions, instead you've lied, you gaslight, and engage in sophistry, and use Saul Alinsky's Rules for Radicals tactics, and Joseph Goebbels tactics of "If you repeat a lie often enough, people will believe it, and you will even come to believe it yourself"-- and those examples I provided aren't lies, they're documented cases-- so quit gaslighting Study finds "nearly 45% of trans-women inmates convicted of sex crimes". A shocking new Correctional Service of Canada study has revealed that 44% of male-to-female transgender inmates are behind bars for sexual offenses. Spanning the years 2017-2020, 99 gender-diverse inmates took part in the wide-ranging study designed to provide the CSC with a profile of this segment of the prison population. “We’ve known this all along,” former federal inmate and advocate Heather Mason told The Toronto Sun. “But I’m really surprised they did this study. It’s pretty damning.” Among the findings: — Of the 99 inmate sample group, 44% of the trans women convicts are sex offenders. — 82% of gender-diverse offenders were trans-women with an average age of 42 years old and almost half were serving “indeterminate” sentences. Advertisement 3 Story continues below Article content — Two-thirds (66%) had low reintegration potential. About 64% of these offenders had committed a “current sexual offense,” while 88% had previously been convicted for sexual offenses. About 94% committed their crimes while living as their biological sex.
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  851. Yes, it is binary. Birth defects aren't another subspecies. First, intersex individuals are not asexual, but have clear sex biomarkers that makes their sex epistemically uncertain. The biological constitution of intersex individuals involves at least some typically male/female biological sex features in their genotype, phenotype, et cetera. Should we place biomarkers aside, it would not be clear what sex could mean. Second, intersex individuals are not hermaphrodites. There are two misunderstandings to be warded off, the first in terms of there being no cases of hermaphroditism in the sense of individuals who are fully biological males and females, and the second in terms of embryonic development. Beginning with the former, the reason why “hermaphroditism” is no longer used in medical nomenclature is that there are, simply speaking, no hermaphrodites. While having both XX and XY chromosomes is possible, this is not identical to hermaphroditism—for reasons we shall see later in the discussion of the definition of “sex.” 2 With respect to the latter, Orr's (2020) quotation of Intersex Genital Mutilations: Human Rights Violations of Persons with Variations of Sex Anatomy (2016), the NGO report to the 7th periodic report of France on the Convention Against Torture (CAT). In it, we find the following: Everybody started out as a hermaphrodite: Until the 7th week of gestation, every fetus has “indeterminate” genitals, two sets of basic reproductive duct structures, and bipotential gonads. Only after the 7th week of gestation, fetuses undergo sexual differentiation mostly resulting in typically male or female sex anatomy and reproductive organs. (p. 32). However, the potential, i.e., hence the use of “ bipotential”, to be male or female is not the same as actually being “between” (intersex) male and female. Bipotential gonads presexual differentiation are different than actual bigonads post-sexual differentiation. Consequently, bipotential gonads do not entail a period of hermaphroditism in prenatal human beings. Third and finally, Tudela et al. (2020) cite Arcelus et al. (2015) for a prevalence statistic for intersex conditions. The problem is that they cite a prevalence statistic of transsexual individuals, not intersex individuals—and they are different. Arcelus et al. (2015) defines “transsexual” as “individuals who experience discomfort or distress caused by the discrepancy between their gender identity and the sex they were assigned at birth.” (p. 3). This definition excludes at least two categories of intersex individuals, and consequently cannot be a reliable intersex prevalence statistic. First, it would exclude prenatal intersex individuals, e.g., through genetic screening can reveal whether a child has congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH) or androgen insensitivity syndrome (AIS), or during infancy. Second, it would exclude non-gender-dysphoric intersex individuals, and non-gender-dysphoric intersex individuals who did not receive surgery to change sexes. Consequently, even if intersex individuals met the definition of “transsexual” later in life, this prevalence statistic is unreliable. However, I hold that Tuleda et al.'s (2020) point still stands unscathed. Consider Sax's (2010) more reliable prevalence statistic of 0.018 percent. Sax's (2010) estimate carefully corrects Anne Fausto-Sterling's (and others’) statistic of intersex's prevalence being around 1.7 percent. Fausto-Sterling's statistic was based on a mistaken definition of intersex which would include Turner syndrome, Klinefelter syndrome, and late-onset adrenal hyperplasia. In none of these cases is their true intersex in which there is sexual uncertainty, i.e., these are not cases of genuine sexual ambiguity. As Sax (2010) points out in the 0.018 percent figure, the prevalence is nearly one hundred times lower than Fausto-Sterling suggested. Fourth (and relatedly), there are misunderstandings regarding the difference between being “sexually atypical” and being “intersex.” Consider Feder's (2014) remark that “the issue of “incidence” of atypical sex has been a vexed one, as it concerns not only the frequency with which children are born with atypical sex anatomies but also what counts as atypical sex.” (p. 211ff1, my italics). The idea here is that what it means to be intersex just is to have an atypical sex anatomy. There is a plausible case that “intersex” and “atypical sex anatomies” are not synonymous. Having an atypical sex anatomy might refer to the broader category of a difference in one's sexual anatomy, but it does not highlight the heterogeneous property of all intersex conditions: uncertainty with regard to one's sex. As Feder (2014) herself admits, the atypical sex anatomy of “hypospadias” (p. 211ff1) involve children “who are usually regarded as unquestionably male” (p. 211ff1). 3 However, if atypical sex anatomy does not make a sex-specific claim, i.e., saying something about sex identification, then it should not be used either as a placeholder for, or as a description of, intersex. Having warded off misunderstandings of “intersex”.
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  852. Additionally, Gender: The status of being either male or female. The entire purpose of the gender/sex division in most species of animal life is to facilitate procreation, the sexual identity of an individual is best classified according to the gametes produced by the person in question. There is no extant third gamete. An extremely minute percentage of humans are either “intersex” (typically referring to those who are anatomical hermaphrodites) or of indeterminate gender (that is, not easily determined by a cursory inspection of the external genitalia), but that does not negate the incontrovertible scientific fact that there are only two genders. As far as we know, there has never existed a single human being with the ability to BOTH conceive a child in his/her womb and, simultaneously, successfully inseminate a woman (or in more disturbing terms, for a hermaphrodite to inseminate him/herself). And even if such an individual has existed, that person would be a combination of BOTH male and female, and not some imaginary, novel third gender. Cf. “sex”. Both terms (“gender” and “sex”) originate from Latin words: “genus” (meaning “begin”; “birth”; “kind”; “race”; “gender”) and “sexus” (meaning “sex”; “division”; “gender”). So, essentially, the only significant distinction between the two terms is that the etymology of “gender” pertains to the beginning of things, as can be plainly seen by the other English words that originate from "genus", such as “generic”, “genetic”, and “generate”, whilst “sex” is a scrupulously-literal translation of the Latin cognate “sexus”. The mere fact that the word “genitals” (referring to reproductive organs) is very closely related to the Latin “genus” is further evidence of the assertion that the term “gender” refers to the binary division of human (and of course, many non-human) sexual identity, and NOT to any taxonomy based on emotion, feelings, psychology, or any other non-biological categorization schema. ;) Way too many inappropriately and incorrectly conflate gender/sex (There are only 2-- male/female... That's it) with personality traits and temperament (There are a ton and none are gender exclusive-- hence effeminate males, butch females and tomboys), and again with gender roles (without exception refer to the roles of males and females in society) as though they're synonymous and they are not. Science has already proven that the binary dichotomy of all mammals is male/female. A man in a dress is still a man A man with anxiety about his sex/gender-- still a man A man calling himself a woman-- still a man A man with an effeminate personality--still a man Seethe if you must, then just cope harder You/They haven't put forth no reasoning that withstands scrutiny, rendering your/their narratives and opinions as less than useless and therefore invalid. Your incoherent rants and claims of legitimacy, are figments of your imagination. Reality isn't an anti-trans ideology. Trans is an anti-reality ideology, and they're the ones seeking affirmation, validation, and the participation of everyone in their larp and cosplay, based on the belief that their subjective delusions are based in reality. Newsflash: They aren't
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  859. Christian jihadist agenda? What is that? You spelled Islamic incorrectly. I don't understand why 'trans' activists use the intersex argument. It doesn't prove the point they think they're making at all. Birth defects aren't another subspecies, or gender. First, intersex individuals are not asexual, but have clear sex biomarkers that makes their sex epistemically uncertain. The biological constitution of intersex individuals involves at least some typically male/female biological sex features in their genotype, phenotype, et cetera. Should we place biomarkers aside, it would not be clear what sex could mean. Second, intersex individuals are not hermaphrodites. There are two misunderstandings to be warded off, the first in terms of there being no cases of hermaphroditism in the sense of individuals who are fully biological males and females, and the second in terms of embryonic development. Beginning with the former, the reason why “hermaphroditism” is no longer used in medical nomenclature is that there are, simply speaking, no hermaphrodites. While having both XX and XY chromosomes is possible, this is not identical to hermaphroditism—for reasons we shall see later in the discussion of the definition of “sex.” 2 With respect to the latter, Orr's (2020) quotation of Intersex Genital Mutilations: Human Rights Violations of Persons with Variations of Sex Anatomy (2016), the NGO report to the 7th periodic report of France on the Convention Against Torture (CAT). In it, we find the following: Everybody started out as a hermaphrodite: Until the 7th week of gestation, every fetus has “indeterminate” genitals, two sets of basic reproductive duct structures, and bipotential gonads. Only after the 7th week of gestation, fetuses undergo sexual differentiation mostly resulting in typically male or female sex anatomy and reproductive organs. (p. 32). However, the potential, i.e., hence the use of “ bipotential”, to be male or female is not the same as actually being “between” (intersex) male and female. Bipotential gonads presexual differentiation are different than actual bigonads post-sexual differentiation. Consequently, bipotential gonads do not entail a period of hermaphroditism in prenatal human beings. Third and finally, Tudela et al. (2020) cite Arcelus et al. (2015) for a prevalence statistic for intersex conditions. The problem is that they cite a prevalence statistic of transsexual individuals, not intersex individuals—and they are different. Arcelus et al. (2015) defines “transsexual” as “individuals who experience discomfort or distress caused by the discrepancy between their gender identity and the sex they were assigned at birth.” (p. 3). This definition excludes at least two categories of intersex individuals, and consequently cannot be a reliable intersex prevalence statistic. First, it would exclude prenatal intersex individuals, e.g., through genetic screening can reveal whether a child has congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH) or androgen insensitivity syndrome (AIS), or during infancy. Second, it would exclude non-gender-dysphoric intersex individuals, and non-gender-dysphoric intersex individuals who did not receive surgery to change sexes. Consequently, even if intersex individuals met the definition of “transsexual” later in life, this prevalence statistic is unreliable. However, I hold that Tuleda et al.'s (2020) point still stands unscathed. Consider Sax's (2010) more reliable prevalence statistic of 0.018 percent. Sax's (2010) estimate carefully corrects Anne Fausto-Sterling's (and others’) statistic of intersex's prevalence being around 1.7 percent. Fausto-Sterling's statistic was based on a mistaken definition of intersex which would include Turner syndrome, Klinefelter syndrome, and late-onset adrenal hyperplasia. In none of these cases is their true intersex in which there is sexual uncertainty, i.e., these are not cases of genuine sexual ambiguity. As Sax (2010) points out in the 0.018 percent figure, the prevalence is nearly one hundred times lower than Fausto-Sterling suggested. Fourth (and relatedly), there are misunderstandings regarding the difference between being “sexually atypical” and being “intersex.” Consider Feder's (2014) remark that “the issue of “incidence” of atypical sex has been a vexed one, as it concerns not only the frequency with which children are born with atypical sex anatomies but also what counts as atypical sex.” (p. 211ff1, my italics). The idea here is that what it means to be intersex just is to have an atypical sex anatomy. There is a plausible case that “intersex” and “atypical sex anatomies” are not synonymous. Having an atypical sex anatomy might refer to the broader category of a difference in one's sexual anatomy, but it does not highlight the heterogeneous property of all intersex conditions: uncertainty with regard to one's sex. As Feder (2014) herself admits, the atypical sex anatomy of “hypospadias” (p. 211ff1) involve children “who are usually regarded as unquestionably male” (p. 211ff1). 3 However, if atypical sex anatomy does not make a sex-specific claim, i.e., saying something about sex identification, then it should not be used either as a placeholder for, or as a description of, intersex. Additionally, Gender: The status of being either male or female. The entire purpose of the gender/sex division in most species of animal life is to facilitate procreation, the sexual identity of an individual is best classified according to the gametes produced by the person in question. There is no extant third gamete. An extremely minute percentage of humans are either “intersex” (typically referring to those who are anatomical hermaphrodites) or of indeterminate gender (that is, not easily determined by a cursory inspection of the external genitalia), but that does not negate the incontrovertible scientific fact that there are only two genders. As far as we know, there has never existed a single human being with the ability to BOTH conceive a child in his/her womb and, simultaneously, successfully inseminate a woman (or in more disturbing terms, for a hermaphrodite to inseminate him/herself). And even if such an individual has existed, that person would be a combination of BOTH male and female, and not some imaginary, novel third gender. Cf. “sex”. Both terms (“gender” and “sex”) originate from Latin words: “genus” (meaning “begin”; “birth”; “kind”; “race”; “gender”) and “sexus” (meaning “sex”; “division”; “gender”). So, essentially, the only significant distinction between the two terms is that the etymology of “gender” pertains to the beginning of things, as can be plainly seen by the other English words that originate from "genus", such as “generic”, “genetic”, and “generate”, whilst “sex” is a scrupulously-literal translation of the Latin cognate “sexus”. The mere fact that the word “genitals” (referring to reproductive organs) is very closely related to the Latin “genus” is further evidence of the assertion that the term “gender” refers to the binary division of human (and of course, many non-human) sexual identity, and NOT to any taxonomy based on emotion, feelings, psychology, or any other non-biological categorization schema. ;) Way too many inappropriately and incorrectly conflate gender/sex (There are only 2-- male/female... That's it) with personality traits and temperament (There are a ton and none are gender exclusive-- hence effeminate males, butch females and tomboys), and again with gender roles (without exception refer to the roles of males and females in society) as though they're synonymous and they are not. Science has already proven that the binary dichotomy of all mammals is male/female. A man in a dress is still a man A man with anxiety about his sex/gender-- still a man A man calling himself a woman-- still a man A man with an effeminate personality--still a man
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  905.  @northparkbv  And yet, A shocking new Correctional Service of Canada study has revealed that 44% of male-to-female transgender inmates are behind bars for s3xu@l offenses. The study — entitled Gender Diverse Offenders with a History of Sexual Offending — reveals a troubling pattern of violence among the convicted. Spanning the years 2017-2020, 99 gender-diverse inmates took part in the wide-ranging study designed to provide the CSC with a profile of this segment of the prison population. “We’ve known this all along,” former federal inmate and advocate Heather Mason told The Toronto Sun. “But I’m really surprised they did this study. It’s pretty damning.” Among the findings: — The vast majority, 85%, were convicted of violent crimes that caused death “or serious harm” to their victims (58% of whom were children or women). “It’s quite shocking. The study also shows that 41% of trans-women are in for homicide-related crimes while with male inmates it’s only 21%,” Mason said, adding that the study also revealed that in just four years, the number of trans inmates almost doubled. — Of the 99 inmate sample group, 44% of the trans women convicts are sex offenders. — 82% of gender-diverse offenders were trans-women with an average age of 42 years old and almost half were serving “indeterminate” sentences. — Two-thirds (66%) had low reintegration potential. About 64% of these offenders had committed a “current sexual offence,” while 88% had previously been convicted for sexual offences. About 94% committed their crimes while living as their biological sex. The study also found that 70% of the trans offenders with sex crime jackets were themselves the victims of childhood abuse. The study added: “Over 80% of gender-diverse offenders with sexual offence histories were trans-women. Sexual offending indicators showed that the majority of these offences were committed while living as their biological sex, and that the highest proportion of victims were children or female.” In addition, the majority of the “sub-group caused death or serious harm to their victim(s).”
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  958.  @martind2520  That fruit loop is a radical gender ideologue with zero credibility and a proclivity to spout NPC propaganda/garbage, and pretend it's meaningful. I went and looked it up. It's crap and he knows it. I've posted long term peer reviewed medical studies showing the increase of self deletes post surgery, and he ignores the inconvenient truth. There's no truth, honor nor integrity in this fool's narratives. “Gender-affirming surgery is significantly associated with elevated su~c~de attempt risks, underlining the necessity for comprehensive post-procedure psychiatric support.”. I also posted a whole bunch of other studies showing the attempt rate at 40%. Total destruction of the ideologue's narrative. Kenneth Zucker et Al 2021: 88 percent of trans women desisted after 20 years. 93% resorted to homosexuality vs affirmation treatment with a self delete rate nearly 10x's higher than the general population at nearly 40%, doesn't appear to be validating the 1% 'regret rate' claim-- as accurate (looks like a huge net loss to me, being that gays have a self-delete rate closer to the general population, at around 4% comparatively)-- in NO way justifies claims of affirmation-based treatment protocols as efficacious. Swedish study: Persons with transsexualism, after sex reassignment, have considerably higher risks for mortality, suicidal behaviour, and psychiatric morbidity than the general population. Our findings suggest that sex reassignment, although alleviating gender dysphoria, may not suffice as treatment for transsexualism, and should inspire improved psychiatric and somatic care after sex reassignment for this patient group. A 2020 academic study with a sample size of 372 respondents found that 40 percent of transgender people had attempted suicide. Similarly, in 2016, the National Transgender Discrimination Survey found that 41 percent of 6,450 respondents said they had previously attempted suicide. By comparison, the CDC found that in 2020, 0.36 percent of the population had attempted suicide. According to a 2022 survey by The Trevor Project, an LGBTQ+ suicide prevention organization, nearly 1 in 5 young people who identified as transgender or non-binary have attempted suicide. According to a 2019 UCLA School of Law- Williams Institute report on the thoughts and attempts of self deleting-- the Reports shows that The 2015 U.S. Transgender Survey (USTS), which is the largest survey of transgender people in the U.S. to date, found that 81.7 percent of respondents reported ever seriously thinking about suicide in their lifetimes, while 48.3 percent had done so in the past year. In regard to suicide attempts, 40.4 percent reported attempting suicide at some point in their lifetimes. Although the research literature to date agrees that transgender people are at an elevated risk of suicide thoughts and attempts, there is still much to learn about why transgender people are particularly at risk. Also, the conclusion of the Swedish study, which concluded that persons with transsexualism, after sex reassignment, have considerably higher risks for mortality, suicidal behaviour, and psychiatric morbidity-- than the general population. The findings suggest that sex reassignment, although alleviating gender dysphoria, may not suffice as treatment for transsexualism, and should inspire improved psychiatric and somatic care after sex reassignment for this patient group. When the rate of self deletes among the general population is 10x's lower, and when studies showing that up to 90% desist and end up gay, with only a 4% self delete rate by contrast, the results of affirmation-based treatment protocols are horrible by contrast, making it's justification questionable at best. He may believe wearing his Halloween princess costume makes him an actual princess, but he's only fooling himself. It doesn't Did you see the Hillary Cass report? She is against early social transition because it puts the kids down a path of confusion … Why don’t trans activists listen ? Lol... YouTube “gender identity services in England - a cass review”. Cass called out the hypocrisy in the old diagnostic criteria … She asked for increased diagnostic criteria, she asked for the removal of the old pink/ blue system She wants increased treatment range to not include gender affirming care. AP- A major UK report says trans kids are being let down by toxic… “Dr. Hilary Cass said there is “no good evidence on the long-term outcomes of interventions to manage gender-related distress,” and young people have been caught up in a “stormy social discourse” about the issue.” Cass’ report, which runs to almost 400 pages, said that “for most young people, a medical pathway” is not the best way to deal with gender-related issues. “Cass said young people questioning their gender identity should be given “a holistic assessment” including screening for neurodevelopmental conditions such as autism, and a mental health assessment.” In her report, Cass said there was “no clear evidence” that social transition in childhood — such as changing names or pronouns — has any positive or negative mental health outcomes. “The report also concluded that there is no simple explanation for why the number of young people identifying as transgender has shot up in recent years in the U.K. and other countries.” 13:27 - conversation is about hormones. She says early social transition and medicalization greatly influence one into a path of surgical transition …. Just listen to her for a few minutes. Listen to 16:00 specifically for social transition. I agree with her This new study that I already listed Conclusion: “Risk of Suicide and Self-Harm Following Gender-Affirmation Surgery” Individuals who underwent gender-affirming surgery had a 12.12-fold higher suicide attempt risk than those who did not “Gender-affirming surgery is significantly associated with elevated suicide attempt risks, underlining the necessity for comprehensive post-procedure psychiatric support.” Doesn't look like efficacious results to me. It seems quite inadequate and unacceptable.
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  983. Open Letter in Support of Dr. Kenneth Zucker and the Need to Promote Robust Scientific Debate Sponsored by FAIR in Medicine May 5, 2023 We, the undersigned signatories, are expressing our support for Dr. Kenneth Zucker, an academically robust and unbiased editorial process at the Archives of Sexual Behavior, and uninterrupted publication of “Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria: Parent Reports on 1655 Possible Cases” by Diaz and Bailey. We condemn and reject the censorious demands being directed at Springer Nature, the company that publishes Archives of Sexual Behavior, that this paper be retracted, and that the editor of the journal, Dr. Zucker, be sanctioned for allowing the paper’s publication. The appropriate action is to have an open debate about the paper—not to silence those whose views one finds disagreeable. Currently as many as one in 10–20 youth report gender dysphoria. The paper by Diaz and Bailey adds to the growing body of knowledge about the various factors contributing to the rapid rise of adolescent-onset gender dysphoria–a phenomenon that was exceedingly rare in the past. Specifically, the paper engages with parental reports of the cases of “Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria,” or ROGD. The ROGD hypothesis posits that in some cases, gender dysphoria in adolescence may be mediated by social factors. The potential viability of the ROGD hypothesis has been endorsed not only by the parents, as described by Diaz and Bailey, but also by the clinicians working with this patient population, and the affected patients themselves. If it proves to be correct, then the treatment approaches to this novel population of adolescents may need to be different, including the possibility that such cases may benefit from less invasive interventions that do not carry the irreversible effects of hormonal and surgical interventions known as “gender-affirming care.” The concern that the currently-presenting gender dysphoric youth are different from the originally-studied cases, and that they may be better helped by psychotherapy, has also been expressed by the originators of the “Dutch” protocol for gender-transitioning minors. We are particularly disappointed that among the signatories demanding that the research be retracted is the current President of WPATH. WPATH recently acknowledged the role of social influence as a possible contributing factor to gender dysphoria in adolescents, saying: “For a select subgroup of young people, susceptibility to social influence impacting gender may be an important differential to consider.” (Coleman et al., 2022, p. 45) Signing a demand to retract one of the very few papers examining the possible influence of social factors is inconsistent with WPATH’s own statements. We are aware of the allegation that a lack of an Institutional Review Board approval of this publication warrants a retraction. However, this is demonstrably false. Springer’s policies explicitly allow the Editor-in-Chief the discretion to accept a publication that has not sought IRB approval. The first author of this study was not affiliated with a university and did not need to seek IRB approval. Further, we are aware that the activists are alleging that the paper’s methodology was biased by only relying on parental reports. However, parental reports are commonly used to gather information about children and adolescents. A highly influential paper in the field that is often cited to support social transition for youth also relied on parental reports. However, in this case the methodology was not criticized. The difference appears to be that in this example, the parents supported their children’s gender transition, whereas in the Diaz and Bailey paper, the parents were concerned with the risks of inappropriate medicalization of their children. Unfortunately, this is not the first time journals and researchers who dare explore the subject of ROGD have been targeted for cancellation. What is currently happening to the Diaz and Bailey paper bears a marked resemblance to the prior attempt to silence the original “ROGD” paper by Lisa Littman, MD. Under tremendous pressure from critics, PLOS ONE subjected the paper to a second round of peer review post-publication. The paper withstood this unprecedented scrutiny, with its results unchanged. To quote Jeffrey S. Flier, MD, the 21st Dean of Harvard Medical School, who wrote eloquently about the the attempts to silence research into ROGD, “Many papers face questions after they have been published, which is well and proper: the systematic assessment and scrutiny of published work is a core method by which the scientific community corrects errors, and builds upon imperfect preliminary observations…But that is not what has happened…. [the] critics have not performed any systematic analysis of her findings, but seem principally motivated by ideological opposition to [the] conclusions. We fear that just like in the case of the original ROGD paper, the demands for retraction and sanctioning of Dr. Zucker, the Editor-in-Chief are principally motivated by the ideological opposition to Diaz and Bailey’s conclusion. Because of Dr. Zucker’s unique experience in the field and his role as the Editor-in-Chief, the journal, Archives of Sexual Behavior, has become a formidable force in the growing debate about how to best care for the rapidly growing numbers of gender-diverse youth. Dr. Zucker has demonstrated neutrality by routinely publishing articles on both sides of this contentious issue. While the paper by Diaz and Bailey–like all research–has limitations, it is vital to continue to study the ROGD hypothesis. Ongoing attempts to silence any research into the explosion of teens who are now identifying as transgender only stands to hurt the very patients the activists are claiming to help–young gender nonconforming people. We, the undersigned signatories, ask that Springer Nature, the company that publishes Archives of Sexual Behavior, takes a nuanced view of this situation, examines the context in which these complaints have been leveled, and chooses to uphold the principles and practice of scientific discussion, debate, and freedom of expression by rejecting calls to retract the paper “Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria: Parent Reports on 1655 Possible Cases” by Diaz and Bailey and refusing to sanction Dr. Kenneth Zucker for his decision to publish the paper.
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  986.  @dariocarraresi1823  Truth: Thomas Steensma, a gender clinician and researcher at the Center of Expertise on Gender Dysphoria, VU University Medical Center, in Amsterdam found, the phenomenon of transgender children "growing out of" their transgender identity by the time they are adolescents or adults is called “desistance” by gender researchers. For decades, follow-up studies of transgender kids have shown that a substantial majority -- anywhere from 65 to 94 percent -- eventually ceased to identify as transgender. Contrast that against the 40-50% self termination rate currently measured (Compared to the rate associated with gays and lesbians @ around 4%) with the implementation of affirmation therapy, and it looks like affirmation therapy is a net loss, and is not justifiable as efficacious in any meaningful way. It begs the questioning of affirmation-based treatment protocols and the questioning of the ethics and judgement of those who endorse and perform those procedures. Why should a man, regardless of his anxiety about his gender (which was established at conception and was observed and documented at his birth), or his desire that reality were different, be treated as anything other than a man?? The inability to cope with things as they are in reality, rather than as you/they wished they were in your/their subjective imaginations, doesn't change reality. That's a major area that affirmation-based treatment fails because it fails to provide coping mechanisms to effectively contend with the adversity in life, which is inevitable. The main problem the trans activist's narratives have is that life is based in objective reality, and most people don't have difficulty deciphering reality from the trans imagination. What you exist as, is a matter of objective reality, and wishing you were something else doesn't affect that in the slightest. All men are born male, all women are born female and neither are social constructs, feelings, costumes, fetishes or preferences. That you/they can't accept that, is at the root of the problem w/ GD. It's the inability to cope with things as they are in reality, rather than as you/they wished things were-- while failing to realize that your imagination doesn't impact the capacity for discernment of the vast majority to decipher reality from the trans imagination.
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  988.  @dariocarraresi1823  I already have. Would you like me to copy/paste it here for you-- Again? Okay... Since you asked so nicely Doctors and clinical leaders have called on the BMA to abandon its plan to “publicly critique” Hilary Cass’s review of gender identity services for children and teenagers and to retract its demand to allow puberty blockers to be given to children with gender related distress while this evaluation takes place.12 A total of 870 doctors, including 557 BMA members, have signed the letter addressed to Philip Banfield, the BMA’s chair of council, saying that they are “extremely disappointed” that BMA council members took part in an “opaque and secretive” vote on the Cass review last month.3 It was this vote that led the BMA to announce last week that it was setting up its own “task and finish” inquiry to “publicly critique” what the letter described as the “most comprehensive review into healthcare for children with gender related distress ever conducted.” “Risk of Suicide and Self-Harm Following Gender-Affirmation Surgery” Individuals who underwent gender-affirming surgery had a 12.12-fold higher suicide attempt risk than those who did not (3.47% vs. 0.29%, RR 95% CI 9.20-15.96, p < 0.0001). “Gender-affirming surgery is significantly associated with elevated suicide attempt risks, underlining the necessity for comprehensive post-procedure psychiatric support.” Your subjective gender identity doesn't make anyone a man or a woman-- it's biology. Incoherent, obsessive cult arguments promoting that they do-- are invalid, and change nothing. I think it's humorous when someone says sex and gender are different, as if that doesn't make the narrative even more absurd. People aren't social constructs. Trans however, is a social construct, and doesn't alter anyone's gender/sex, so the saying trans women are women is just wrong. Science has already proven that the binary dichotomy of all mammals is male/female. Science has already established that All men are born male, all women are born female and neither are a social construct, feeling, fetish, preference, or costume, and that state is fixed and permanent as it is with every other mammalian species. You have no moral ground to stand on from which to whine and complain. Looks like affirmation-based treatment protocols result in a net loss, and in no way justify claims of being efficacious. Kenneth Zucker et Al 2021 Followed trans woman for 20 years and 88 percent desisted. It was just confirmed in another 15 year study. This is directly from the writer and tenured member at WPATH, Ken Zucker: Not to mention the leaked wpath files showing doctors themselves do not think these kids are mentally mature enough to consent to the surgeries. Kenneth Zucker et Al 2021: 88 percent of trans women desisted after 20 years. 93% resorted to homosexuality vs affirmation treatment with a self delete rate nearly 10x's higher than the general population at nearly 40%, doesn't appear to be validating the 1% 'regret rate' claim-- as accurate (looks like a huge net loss to me, being that gays have a self-delete rate closer to the general population, at around 4% comparatively)-- in NO way justifies claims of affirmation-based treatment protocols as efficacious. In case anyone reading is actually interested: If sex and gender identity are truly independent, then why do trans women and trans men go through so many hoops to change their primary sex characteristics??? Well, according to the analysis, data and conclusions of the studies I've seen, Happy people aren't overwhelmingly sui~*d@l, and those who are have a psych issue at play. Swedish study: Persons with transsexualism, after sex reassignment, have considerably higher risks for mortality, suicidal behaviour, and psychiatric morbidity than the general population. Our findings suggest that sex reassignment, although alleviating gender dysphoria, may not suffice as treatment for transsexualism, and should inspire improved psychiatric and somatic care after sex reassignment for this patient group. A 2020 academic study with a sample size of 372 respondents found that 40 percent of transgender people had attempted suicide. Similarly, in 2016, the National Transgender Discrimination Survey found that 41 percent of 6,450 respondents said they had previously attempted suicide. By comparison, the CDC found that in 2020, 0.36 percent of the population had attempted suicide. According to a 2022 survey by The Trevor Project, an LGBTQ+ suicide prevention organization, nearly 1 in 5 young people who identified as transgender or non-binary have attempted suicide. According to a 2019 UCLA School of Law- Williams Institute report on the thoughts and attempts of self deleting-- the Reports shows that The 2015 U.S. Transgender Survey (USTS), which is the largest survey of transgender people in the U.S. to date, found that 81.7 percent of respondents reported ever seriously thinking about suicide in their lifetimes, while 48.3 percent had done so in the past year. In regard to suicide attempts, 40.4 percent reported attempting suicide at some point in their lifetimes. Although the research literature to date agrees that transgender people are at an elevated risk of suicide thoughts and attempts, there is still much to learn about why transgender people are particularly at risk. Also, the conclusion of the Swedish study, which concluded that persons with transsexualism, after sex reassignment, have considerably higher risks for mortality, suicidal behaviour, and psychiatric morbidity-- than the general population. The findings suggest that sex reassignment, although alleviating gender dysphoria, may not suffice as treatment for transsexualism, and should inspire improved psychiatric and somatic care after sex reassignment for this patient group. When the rate of self deletes among the general population is 10x's lower, and when studies showing that up to 90% desist and end up gay, with only a 4% self delete rate by contrast, the results of affirmation-based treatment protocols are horrible by contrast, making it's justification questionable at best. They need to quit whining about preferred pronouns usage, and acting like anyone should care at all, about how they identify subjectively. The truth is, they're wrong and they hate us knowing it, pointing it out and proving their claims false, and it upsets them that we don't buy their narratives. Their addiction to confirmation biased info is clear, and their inability to prove us wrong haunts them. Why would they? They don't care, because they identify as people who don't have to indulge, much less affirm, accept, or validate the intellectual pablum of the mentally, and intellectually disenfranchised, as though it's based in substance, logic, or reason. As far as the majority of the people of the world are concerned, the entire 'trans gender' identity is a performance, and their ideological narratives remain hollow and less than compelling or persuasive. They may believe wearing their Halloween princess costume makes them an actual princess, but they're only fooling themselves. It doesn't Bro.. here’s a funny fact If you look at their claimed 1 percent surgical rejection rate meta analysis, you’ll see not one study actually analysis SRS (surgical regret rate) or top surgery in trans men. Did you see the Hillary Cass report? She is against early social transition because it puts the kids down a path of confusion … Why don’t trans activists listen ? Lol... YouTube “gender identity services in England - a cass review”. Cass called out the hypocrisy in the old diagnostic criteria … She asked for increased diagnostic criteria, she asked for the removal of the old pink/ blue system She wants increased treatment range to not include gender affirming care. AP- A major UK report says trans kids are being let down by toxic… “Dr. Hilary Cass said there is “no good evidence on the long-term outcomes of interventions to manage gender-related distress,” and young people have been caught up in a “stormy social discourse” about the issue.” Cass’ report, which runs to almost 400 pages, said that “for most young people, a medical pathway” is not the best way to deal with gender-related issues. “Cass said young people questioning their gender identity should be given “a holistic assessment” including screening for neurodevelopmental conditions such as autism, and a mental health assessment.” In her report, Cass said there was “no clear evidence” that social transition in childhood — such as changing names or pronouns — has any positive or negative mental health outcomes. “The report also concluded that there is no simple explanation for why the number of young people identifying as transgender has shot up in recent years in the U.K. and other countries.”
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  1006.  @TransHippie  Believing there is some "essence" specific to males or female as far as feelings go, that can manifest "in the wrong body", is akin to a religious belief, having faith in something that is impossible to prove or disprove. The thing is though, that no one on the "trans" side can actually even explain what this "essence" is, they can't even explain it to themselves yet have convinced themselves that the feeling they have means they "are in the wrong body" - without realizing that their discomfort simply stems from not realizing that they view conforming to sexist stereotypes as legitimate measures of manhood or womanhood. That is why every explanation given of WHY a male "can't be a man, but is instead woman" etc. relies upon listing stereotypical stuff, or, in some cases is completely abstract and refuses to actually provide any explanation of what they mean, simply stating they "know" that what they feel means what they say it does, even though they can't actually provide a definition of it. "It's hard to explain but I know I'm right" is an attitude one constantly comes up against - a religious faith in something they can't define. This idea that the terms "man" and "woman" carry all this baggage, sexist stereotypes, that people need to live up to or feel comfortable with is a complete fabrication coming from the "trans" side. You lot want a term to reflect aspects of your personality as well, you want to create more boxes to put people in, as you won't accept simply just being a man or a woman based on being born male or female (and reaching adulthood, obviously people are boys and girls before becoming men or women), but believe you need this "freedom of expression" to broadcast what sexist stereotypes you feel more comfortable with - thinking the world needs to adopt the sexist view you lot have (you fail to see just how much you have in common with Conservatives). Replacing objective definitions which are based in physical reality, with entirely subjective metaphysical claims, is not logical in any way, is not morally superior, and is demonstrably harmful, not least to female rights and protections, but also to practically anyone that buys into it as it warps people's perception of the underlying issues. It hinders people in their quest for individuation, creating this false narrative of them becoming more "authentic" when the total opposite is true, they believe they need validation from others in order to be happy etc. instead of being encouraged to find more inner strength and resilience with less reliance on how people see them. Demanding to be legally recognized as the opposite sex of what one is, is in no way shape or form more authentic than accepting the physical reality one is born into. To believe we as individuals can have 100% control over our identity in society, what we are seen as by others, in interaction with, and in relation to, society/the world/physical existence is a fool's errand, it is a delusional understanding of reality and existence. A dude in a dress, who's chosen to surgically alter his anatomy, is still a dude-- He's just a dude who's chosen to remove himself from the gene pool, and have properly functioning organs rendered no longer functioning. They're only kidding themselves when they don't acknowledge that the trans activist narratives include the notion that a trans woman is a woman, is objectively just false/wrong. The problem with the trans activist's narratives are that life is based in objective reality, and the vast majority of people don't have difficulty deciphering the differences between reality and the trans imagination, and they aren't willing to participate in the LARP and cosplay, as though it's based in reality
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  1025.  @dariocarraresi1823  Good, then I shouldn't hear you whining about my participation in your larp, cosplay and pronoun nonsense. FANTASTIC!! Look, Tell yourself whatever you like. There's no need to argue about objective reality. Your narratives simply don't withstand scrutiny According to the various peer-reviewed studies I've read, there is, and I hate to break it to you-- the truth can sting, BUT the 'because you said so' standard has been issued exactly ZERO credibility You certainly haven't proven that a man who wishes he were, or believes he's a woman is anything other than a man. Got anything??? Answer: No, you do not. A man believing he's a woman, doesn't make him one. Take your time to process reality, for a change No worries... I'm not seeking your approval, acceptance, or validation In case anyone reading is actually interested: If sex and gender are truly independent, then why do trans women and trans men go through so many hoops to change their primary sex characteristics??? Well, according to the analysis, data and conclusions of the studies I've seen, Happy people aren't overwhelmingly sui~*d@l, and those who are have a psych issue at play. Swedish study: Persons with transsexualism, after sex reassignment, have considerably higher risks for mortality, suicidal behaviour, and psychiatric morbidity than the general population. Our findings suggest that sex reassignment, although alleviating gender dysphoria, may not suffice as treatment for transsexualism, and should inspire improved psychiatric and somatic care after sex reassignment for this patient group. A 2020 academic study with a sample size of 372 respondents found that 40 percent of transgender people had attempted suicide. Similarly, in 2016, the National Transgender Discrimination Survey found that 41 percent of 6,450 respondents said they had previously attempted suicide. By comparison, the CDC found that in 2020, 0.36 percent of the population had attempted suicide. According to a 2022 survey by The Trevor Project, an LGBTQ+ suicide prevention organization, nearly 1 in 5 young people who identified as transgender or non-binary have attempted suicide. According to a 2019 UCLA School of Law- Williams Institute report on the thoughts and attempts of self deleting-- the Reports shows that The 2015 U.S. Transgender Survey (USTS), which is the largest survey of transgender people in the U.S. to date, found that 81.7 percent of respondents reported ever seriously thinking about suicide in their lifetimes, while 48.3 percent had done so in the past year. In regard to suicide attempts, 40.4 percent reported attempting suicide at some point in their lifetimes. Although the research literature to date agrees that transgender people are at an elevated risk of suicide thoughts and attempts, there is still much to learn about why transgender people are particularly at risk. Also, the conclusion of the Swedish study, which concluded that persons with transsexualism, after sex reassignment, have considerably higher risks for mortality, suicidal behaviour, and psychiatric morbidity-- than the general population. The findings suggest that sex reassignment, although alleviating gender dysphoria, may not suffice as treatment for transsexualism, and should inspire improved psychiatric and somatic care after sex reassignment for this patient group. When the rate of self deletes among the general population is 10x's lower, and when studies showing that up to 90% desist and end up gay, with only a 4% self delete rate by contrast, the results of affirmation-based treatment protocols are horrible by contrast, making it's justification questionable at best. Dr. Miriam Grossman, MD delivers a good dose of truth, regarding so-called "gender-affirming care" during a recent U.S. House Committee hearing. She speaks clearly, as a medical professional and debunks the notion that sex is "assigned at birth", clarifying that it's established at conception, and observed and documented at birth, or before. Dr. Grossman is board certified in child, adolescent, and adult psychiatry. The author of five books, her work has been translated into eleven languages. "Lost in Trans Nation: A Child Psychiatrist's Guide Out of the Madness" is her most recent book that explains the widespread devastation caused by transgenderism. Her medical practice focuses on gender-distressed young people and their parents. She believes that every child is born in the right body. Dr Grossman has been vocal about the capture of her profession by ideologues, leading to dangerous and experimental treatments on children and betrayal of parents. She has testified in Congress and lectured at the British House of Lords and the United Nations.
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  1032. Really??? A panhandler named James Tubbs entered a women’s restroom at a Denny’s restaurant in Palmdale, California and lay in wait, and m0lested a 10 year old girl. Canada called and said you need to update your info Canada's stats show the findings: — Of the inmate sample group, 44% of the trans women convicts are sex offenders. — 82% of gender-diverse offenders were trans-women with an average age of 42 years old and almost half were serving “indeterminate” sentences. — Two-thirds (66%) had low reintegration potential. About 64% of these offenders had committed a “current sexual offense,” while 88% had previously been convicted for sexual offenses. — The vast majority, 85%, were convicted of violent crimes that caused death “or serious harm” to their victims (58% of whom were children or women). “It’s quite shocking. The study also shows that 41% of trans-women are in for h0mic*de-related crimes while with male inmates it’s only 21%,” Mason said, adding that the study also revealed that in just four years, the number of trans inmates almost doubled. The study added: “Over 80% of gender-diverse offenders with s3xu@l offense histories were trans-women. Sexual offending indicators showed that the majority of these offenses were committed while living as their biological sex, and that the highest proportion of victims were children or female.” In addition, the majority of the “sub-group caused d3ath or serious harm to their victim(s).” The study also found that of the gender-diverse offenders, 47% of whom were Indigenous. Why should the males, who you refer to as "trans women" have a higher priority, than the safety of females (both girls and women)???
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  1097. Is it okay? I don't think so, and neither do the following and for the following reasons: Kenneth Zucker et Al 2021 Followed trans woman for 20 years and 88 percent desisted. It was just confirmed in another 15 year study. This is directly from the writer and tenured board member at WPATH, Ken Zucker: Not to mention the leaked wpath files showing doctors themselves do not think these kids are mentally mature enough to consent to the surgeries. Kenneth Zucker et Al 2021: 88 percent of trans women desisted after 20 years. 93% resorted to homosexuality vs affirmation treatment with a self delete rate nearly 10x's higher than the general population at nearly 40%, doesn't appear to be validating the 1% 'regret rate' claim-- as accurate (looks like a huge net loss to me, being that gays have a self-delete rate closer to the general population, at around 4% comparatively)-- in NO way justifies claims of affirmation-based treatment protocols as efficacious. In case anyone reading is actually interested: If sex and gender identity are truly independent, then why do trans women and trans men go through so many hoops to change their primary sex characteristics??? Well, according to the analysis, data and conclusions of the studies I've seen, Happy people aren't overwhelmingly sui~*d@l, and those who are have a psych issue at play. Swedish study: Persons with transsexualism, after sex reassignment, have considerably higher risks for mortality, suicidal behaviour, and psychiatric morbidity than the general population. Our findings suggest that sex reassignment, although alleviating gender dysphoria, may not suffice as treatment for transsexualism, and should inspire improved psychiatric and somatic care after sex reassignment for this patient group. A 2020 academic study with a sample size of 372 respondents found that 40 percent of transgender people had attempted suicide. Similarly, in 2016, the National Transgender Discrimination Survey found that 41 percent of 6,450 respondents said they had previously attempted suicide. By comparison, the CDC found that in 2020, 0.36 percent of the population had attempted suicide. According to a 2022 survey by The Trevor Project, an LGBTQ+ suicide prevention organization, nearly 1 in 5 young people who identified as transgender or non-binary have attempted suicide. According to a 2019 UCLA School of Law- Williams Institute report on the thoughts and attempts of self deleting-- the Reports shows that The 2015 U.S. Transgender Survey (USTS), which is the largest survey of transgender people in the U.S. to date, found that 81.7 percent of respondents reported ever seriously thinking about suicide in their lifetimes, while 48.3 percent had done so in the past year. In regard to suicide attempts, 40.4 percent reported attempting suicide at some point in their lifetimes. Although the research literature to date agrees that transgender people are at an elevated risk of suicide thoughts and attempts, there is still much to learn about why transgender people are particularly at risk. Also, the conclusion of the Swedish study, which concluded that persons with transsexualism, after sex reassignment, have considerably higher risks for mortality, suicidal behaviour, and psychiatric morbidity-- than the general population. The findings suggest that sex reassignment, although alleviating gender dysphoria, may not suffice as treatment for transsexualism, and should inspire improved psychiatric and somatic care after sex reassignment for this patient group. When the rate of self deletes among the general population is 10x's lower, and when studies showing that up to 90% desist and end up gay, with only a 4% self delete rate by contrast, the results of affirmation-based treatment protocols are horrible by contrast, making it's justification questionable at best. They need to quit whining about preferred pronouns usage, and acting like anyone should care at all, about how they identify subjectively. The truth is, they're wrong and they hate us knowing it, pointing it out and proving their claims false, and it upsets them that we don't buy their narratives. Their addiction to confirmation biased info is clear, and their inability to prove us wrong haunts them. Why would they? They don't care, because they identify as people who don't have to indulge, much less affirm, accept, or validate the intellectual pablum of the mentally, and intellectually disenfranchised, as though it's based in substance, logic, or reason. As far as the majority of the people of the world are concerned, the entire 'trans gender' identity is a performance, and their ideological narratives remain hollow and less than compelling or persuasive. They may believe wearing their Halloween princess costume makes them an actual princess, but they're only fooling themselves. It doesn't Bro.. here’s a funny fact If you look at their claimed 1 percent surgical rejection rate meta analysis, you’ll see not one study actually analysis SRS (surgical regret rate) or top surgery in trans men. Did you see the Hillary Cass report? She is against early social transition because it puts the kids down a path of confusion … Why don’t trans activists listen ? Lol... YouTube “gender identity services in England - a cass review”. Cass called out the hypocrisy in the old diagnostic criteria … She asked for increased diagnostic criteria, she asked for the removal of the old pink/ blue system She wants increased treatment range to not include gender affirming care. AP- A major UK report says trans kids are being let down by toxic… “Dr. Hilary Cass said there is “no good evidence on the long-term outcomes of interventions to manage gender-related distress,” and young people have been caught up in a “stormy social discourse” about the issue.” Cass’ report, which runs to almost 400 pages, said that “for most young people, a medical pathway” is not the best way to deal with gender-related issues. “Cass said young people questioning their gender identity should be given “a holistic assessment” including screening for neurodevelopmental conditions such as autism, and a mental health assessment.” In her report, Cass said there was “no clear evidence” that social transition in childhood — such as changing names or pronouns — has any positive or negative mental health outcomes. “The report also concluded that there is no simple explanation for why the number of young people identifying as transgender has shot up in recent years in the U.K. and other countries.” This new study just published last month “Risk of Suicide and Self-Harm Following Gender-Affirmation Surgery” Individuals who underwent gender-affirming surgery had a 12.12-fold higher suicide attempt risk than those who did not (3.47% vs. 0.29%, RR 95% CI 9.20-15.96, p < 0.0001). “Gender-affirming surgery is significantly associated with elevated suicide attempt risks, underlining the necessity for comprehensive post-procedure psychiatric support.”
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  1106.  @dariocarraresi1823  My definition??? Go ahead... Women, ALL of them are born female and they aren't a social construct, feeling, fetish, preference or a fashion statement-- anyway you look at it; and you haven't shown how their private spaces, designated by biology-- are unjustified, or how a man's gender identity justifies his expectation to be treated as though he's a woman of any sort. Got Anything? You ran away and failed to answer any of the following: Got anything yet? You said, "Bottom line is: gender identities are valid (AS What???, is the question), gender dysphoria is a real condition, patients with GD deserve access to effective healthcare (We disagree on the definition of effective health care, and the claims of efficacy being justified or not), and transphobes constantly lie (What lies??) about "women's only spaces" because they want to impose gender roles on society." How is that not you, conflating gender roles and biology???, and what is your justification for the elimination of men and women's private spaces and organizations? Do you think those organizations and places segregated based on biology, are done so because the intent is to enforce gender roles, rather than to create private spaces based on objective biology?-- Okay... Make it make sense... A man with a gender identity/role of a woman in a dress, can still utilize the men's facilities, and try out for men's sports, and sports teams, so how is that trying to impose a gender role on anyone? Hmmm??? You're conflating gender with gender roles again What's the justification for a man with a gender identity of a woman being granted access to women's private space? You still haven't provided a rational answer. I get it... You want to argue for sport, and I'm fine with continually crushing your narratives and exposing the narratives as being intellectually vacant and incoherent madness with your cooperation, and willingness to play the part of the triggered, fool displaying an anti-social personality disorder by feeding an attention-seeking behavior, showing you desperately looking for negative attention to paint a negative picture of the trans-activist's ideological narratives, and their appeal to the masses for acceptance, affirmation and validation, by failing to substantiate anything other than the justification for being dismissed as the whinging of the unhinged. It's just so unoriginal of you. Respect is earned, not owed 🤡
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  1113.  @dariocarraresi1823  There are no trans humans. All humans are of the binary sexual dichotomy of male and female as are all mammals, and their feelings of anxiety about reality don't change reality at all. Kenneth Zucker et Al 2021 Followed trans woman for 20 years and 88 percent desisted. It was just confirmed in another 15 year study. This is directly from the writer and tenured board member at WPATH, Ken Zucker: Not to mention the leaked wpath files showing doctors themselves do not think these kids are mentally mature enough to consent to the surgeries. Kenneth Zucker et Al 2021: 88 percent of trans women desisted after 20 years. 93% resorted to homosexuality vs affirmation treatment with a self delete rate nearly 10x's higher than the general population at nearly 40%, doesn't appear to be validating the 1% 'regret rate' claim-- as accurate (looks like a huge net loss to me, being that gays have a self-delete rate closer to the general population, at around 4% comparatively)-- in NO way justifies claims of affirmation-based treatment protocols as efficacious. In case anyone reading is actually interested: If sex and gender identity are truly independent, then why do trans women and trans men go through so many hoops to change their primary sex characteristics??? Well, according to the analysis, data and conclusions of the studies I've seen, Happy people aren't overwhelmingly sui~*d@l, and those who are have a psych issue at play. Swedish study: Persons with transsexualism, after sex reassignment, have considerably higher risks for mortality, suicidal behaviour, and psychiatric morbidity than the general population. Our findings suggest that sex reassignment, although alleviating gender dysphoria, may not suffice as treatment for transsexualism, and should inspire improved psychiatric and somatic care after sex reassignment for this patient group. A 2020 academic study with a sample size of 372 respondents found that 40 percent of transgender people had attempted suicide. Similarly, in 2016, the National Transgender Discrimination Survey found that 41 percent of 6,450 respondents said they had previously attempted suicide. By comparison, the CDC found that in 2020, 0.36 percent of the population had attempted suicide. According to a 2022 survey by The Trevor Project, an LGBTQ+ suicide prevention organization, nearly 1 in 5 young people who identified as transgender or non-binary have attempted suicide. According to a 2019 UCLA School of Law- Williams Institute report on the thoughts and attempts of self deleting-- the Reports shows that The 2015 U.S. Transgender Survey (USTS), which is the largest survey of transgender people in the U.S. to date, found that 81.7 percent of respondents reported ever seriously thinking about suicide in their lifetimes, while 48.3 percent had done so in the past year. In regard to suicide attempts, 40.4 percent reported attempting suicide at some point in their lifetimes. Although the research literature to date agrees that transgender people are at an elevated risk of suicide thoughts and attempts, there is still much to learn about why transgender people are particularly at risk. Also, the conclusion of the Swedish study, which concluded that persons with transsexualism, after sex reassignment, have considerably higher risks for mortality, suicidal behaviour, and psychiatric morbidity-- than the general population. The findings suggest that sex reassignment, although alleviating gender dysphoria, may not suffice as treatment for transsexualism, and should inspire improved psychiatric and somatic care after sex reassignment for this patient group. When the rate of self deletes among the general population is 10x's lower, and when studies showing that up to 90% desist and end up gay, with only a 4% self delete rate by contrast, the results of affirmation-based treatment protocols are horrible by contrast, making it's justification questionable at best. They need to quit whining about preferred pronouns usage, and acting like anyone should care at all, about how they identify subjectively. The truth is, they're wrong and they hate us knowing it, pointing it out and proving their claims false, and it upsets them that we don't buy their narratives. Their addiction to confirmation biased info is clear, and their inability to prove us wrong haunts them. Why would they? They don't care, because they identify as people who don't have to indulge, much less affirm, accept, or validate the intellectual pablum of the mentally, and intellectually disenfranchised, as though it's based in substance, logic, or reason. As far as the majority of the people of the world are concerned, the entire 'trans gender' identity is a performance, and their ideological narratives remain hollow and less than compelling or persuasive. They may believe wearing their Halloween princess costume makes them an actual princess, but they're only fooling themselves. It doesn't Bro.. here’s a funny fact If you look at their claimed 1 percent surgical rejection rate meta analysis, you’ll see not one study actually analysis SRS (surgical regret rate) or top surgery in trans men. Did you see the Hillary Cass report? She is against early social transition because it puts the kids down a path of confusion … Why don’t trans activists listen ? Lol... YouTube “gender identity services in England - a cass review”. Cass called out the hypocrisy in the old diagnostic criteria … She asked for increased diagnostic criteria, she asked for the removal of the old pink/ blue system She wants increased treatment range to not include gender affirming care. AP- A major UK report says trans kids are being let down by toxic… “Dr. Hilary Cass said there is “no good evidence on the long-term outcomes of interventions to manage gender-related distress,” and young people have been caught up in a “stormy social discourse” about the issue.” Cass’ report, which runs to almost 400 pages, said that “for most young people, a medical pathway” is not the best way to deal with gender-related issues. “Cass said young people questioning their gender identity should be given “a holistic assessment” including screening for neurodevelopmental conditions such as autism, and a mental health assessment.” In her report, Cass said there was “no clear evidence” that social transition in childhood — such as changing names or pronouns — has any positive or negative mental health outcomes. “The report also concluded that there is no simple explanation for why the number of young people identifying as transgender has shot up in recent years in the U.K. and other countries.” This new study just published last month “Risk of Suicide and Self-Harm Following Gender-Affirmation Surgery” Individuals who underwent gender-affirming surgery had a 12.12-fold higher suicide attempt risk than those who did not (3.47% vs. 0.29%, RR 95% CI 9.20-15.96, p < 0.0001). “Gender-affirming surgery is significantly associated with elevated suicide attempt risks, underlining the necessity for comprehensive post-procedure psychiatric support.”
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  1126.  @LucasZiats  I am merely pointing out all of the incoherent nonsense, misinformation and disinformation going on in the peanut gallery. At the end of the day, No one can justify men being granted access, because of a subjective identity claim- removed from reality-- into women's only spaces, designated segregated based on biology-- not gender identity. A dude in a dress is still allowed to utilize men's spaces, and that's not a crime anywhere that I've ever heard of in the USA, and an male with an effeminate personality, isn't illegal either, and they both can utilize the men's facilities and try out for men's sports teams/leagues because no one is trying to prevent them from participating. Gender (Biology-- there are only 2 male/female... That's it) Gender Roles (Social constructs, referring to the roles of males and females in society) No, gender is not an internal experience. Personality traits and temperament aren't gender exclusive-- (hence effeminate males, butch females and tomboys) Gender: The status of being either male or female. The entire purpose of the gender/sex division in most species of animal life is to facilitate procreation, the sexual identity of an individual is best classified according to the gametes produced by the person in question. There is no extant third gamete. Cf. “sex”. Both terms (“gender” and “sex”) originate from Latin words: “genus” (meaning “begin”; “birth”; “kind”; “race”; “gender”) and “sexus” (meaning “sex”; “division”; “gender”). So, essentially, the only significant distinction between the two terms is that the etymology of “gender” pertains to the beginning of things, as can be plainly seen by the other English words that originate from "genus", such as “generic”, “genetic”, and “generate”, whilst “sex” is a scrupulously-literal translation of the Latin cognate “sexus”. The mere fact that the word “genitals” (referring to reproductive organs) is very closely related to the Latin “genus” is further evidence of the assertion that the term “gender” refers to the binary division of human (and of course, many non-human) sexual identity, and NOT to any taxonomy based on emotion, feelings, psychology, or any other non-biological categorization schema. ;)
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  1181.  @TransHippie  Look, I don't care how you choose to dress or identify. If you're a dude in a fairy princess costume, you use the men's room, you can try out for the men's sports teams, and use the men's locker rooms, showers, changing rooms and prisons. Simple... See?? Not trying to enforce a traditional gender role. Your subjective identity, and preferred gender identity/role are irrelevant to me. I just see a dude in a dress. You keep getting it WAY Wrong Dudes can dress like women in the men's room if they have to use it, and there's nothing preventing it. What's the problem? I told you, gender is biology (there are only 2 male/female... that's it). Gender roles are social constructs that refer to the roles of males and females in society, and assuming the gender role of the opposite sex doesn't make you the opposite sex- so your issue, which apparently has you triggered is unclear. You can choose to have a surgeon alter your appearance to look like a Klingon if you want to, and I really couldn't care less-- but it doesn't make you an actual Klingon, or obligate anyone to pretend that you are-- and anyone who suggests that it does needs a psych evaluation I can recognize the differences between gender and gender roles- even if you can't, and I can decipher the differences between women from men, regardless of whether or not those men are engaging in gender non-conforming roles (Still men)-- because I'm not confused about recognizing the differences between men and women. All the hysterical crap you've been whining about only exists in your imagination
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  1201.  @dariocarraresi1823  All men are born male, all women are born female and gender/sex is established at conception and is observed and documented at birth and before. You wouldn't use pronouns when communicating in the 1st person, so factor that in before you start screeching about your pronouns. Nobody gives a crap. People will describe you how they describe you and you can't force them you do it in a manner that meets your satisfaction. Calling a male a female is misgendering. Get it straight. There are no trans humans. All humans are male or female, and that status is fixed and permanent. One cannot become the other. Prancing around acting like a sexist stereotype of a woman, by altering your body to mimic the primary sex characteristics of women doesn't make you women, regardless of the level of anxiety you perceive about reality, and wishing it were different... Still men Gender: The status of being either male or female. The entire purpose of the gender/sex and there is no extant third gamete. An extremely minute percentage of humans are either “intersex” (typically referring to those who are anatomical hermaphrodites) or of indeterminate gender (that is, not easily determined by a cursory inspection of the external genitalia), but that does not negate the incontrovertible scientific fact that there are only two genders. As far as we know, there has never existed a single human being with the ability to BOTH conceive a child in his/her womb and, simultaneously, successfully inseminate a woman (or in more disturbing terms, for a hermaphrodite to inseminate him/herself). And even if such an individual has existed, that person would be a combination of BOTH male and female, and not some imaginary, novel third gender. Cf. “sex”. Both terms (“gender” and “sex”) originate from Latin words: “genus” (meaning “begin”; “birth”; “kind”; “race”; “gender”) and “sexus” (meaning “sex”; “division”; “gender”). So, essentially, the only significant distinction between the two terms is that the etymology of “gender” pertains to the beginning of things, as can be plainly seen by the other English words that originate from "genus", such as “generic”, “genetic”, and “generate”, whilst “sex” is a scrupulously-literal translation of the Latin cognate “sexus”. The mere fact that the word “genitals” (referring to reproductive organs) is very closely related to the Latin “genus” is further evidence of the assertion that the term “gender” refers to the binary division of human (and of course, many non-human) sexual identity, and NOT to any taxonomy based on emotion, feelings, psychology, or any other non-biological categorization schema. ;) Way too many inappropriately and incorrectly conflate gender/sex (There are only 2-- male/female... That's it) with personality traits and temperament (There are a ton and none are gender exclusive-- hence effeminate males, butch females and tomboys), and again with gender roles (without exception refer to the roles of males and females in society) as though they're synonymous and they are not. Science has already proven that the binary dichotomy of all mammals is male/female. A man in a dress is still a man A man with anxiety about his sex/gender-- still a man A man calling himself a woman-- still a man A man with an effeminate personality--still a man
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  1211.  @phaneros8180  Societies and the people who established them, aren't obligated to abandon their culture, morality, powers of discernment, or traditions to accommodate the counter-culture lunatic fringe minority, who seek affirmation, acceptance and validation from the very people and societies which they apparently detest, yet seek to integrate into expecting (Irrationally) to find acceptance, affirmation and validation. The problem you have with your virtue signaling is the total absence of any actual virtue in any of that unhinged whinging. Because you can't, won't, and don't justify the expectation that spaces and organizations designated not for males with subjective gender identity claims, rather for females based on biology-- Don't be surprised that you face rejection. There's no hate involved in recognizing that a dude in a dress is a dude in a dress-- That's just being observant. Existing as yourself doesn't require others to participate in your cosplay and LARP. Societies and the people who established them, aren't obligated to abandon their culture, morality, powers of discernment, or traditions to accommodate the counter-culture lunatic fringe minority, who seek affirmation, acceptance and validation from the very people and societies which they apparently detest, yet seek to integrate into expecting (Irrationally) to find acceptance, Affirmation and validation. Better learn to cope harder. The world doesn't owe you anything Don't conflate gender with gender roles as though they're synonymous-- that's an error. Seems like you view conforming to sexist stereotypes, as legitimate measures of manhood or womanhood. Bottom line is: spaces, and organizations focused on being designated for females, are done so, because of biology-- Not feelings or perceptions about it. Replacing objective definitions which are based in physical reality, with entirely subjective metaphysical claims, is not logical in any way, it is not morally superior, and it is demonstrably harmful, not least of which to female rights and protections, but also to practically anyone that buys into it as it warps people's perception of the underlying issues. It hinders people in their quest for individuation, creating this false narrative of them becoming more "authentic"-- when the total opposite is true. They believe they need validation from others in order to be happy etc., instead of being encouraged to find more inner strength and resilience with less reliance on how people see them. No one has justified the expectation that males w/ gender identity claims-- misappropriating womanhood unto themselves, by claiming a subjective unverifiable gender identity claim, have any sort of valid claim to access places designated for females. Got anything? Answer: No, you do not have anything other than whining. The denial, lies and cope of the activist's narratives don't establish truth-- and they can't because they're false. What do you think the word 'gender' in the term gender dysphoria is referring to? It seems they go to extensive lengths to alter their appearance to resemble that of the primary biological sex characteristics of the opposite sex, which doesn't actually make anyone that sex, and then operate as though it justifies them to access to areas and organizations designated for females-- It doesn't. Better learn to cope harder. The world doesn't owe you anything
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  1229.  @literallyinflames  DNA dictates the production of objective biological differences between males and females. 100% of the population is either male or female, even intersex people. If they have a Y chromosome, they are heterogametic and male. If not, they are homogametic and female. But you knew that because you've actually educated yourself on these conditions, right? Check out: “Intersex” Does not Violate the Sex Binary Rashad Rehman, PhD First, intersex individuals are not asexual, but have clear sex biomarkers that makes their sex epistemically uncertain. The biological constitution of intersex individuals involves at least some typically male/female biological sex features in their genotype, phenotype, et cetera. Should we place biomarkers aside, it would not be clear what sex could mean. Second, intersex individuals are not hermaphrodites. There are two misunderstandings to be warded off, the first in terms of there being no cases of hermaphroditism in the sense of individuals who are fully biological males and females, and the second in terms of embryonic development. Beginning with the former, the reason why “hermaphroditism” is no longer used in medical nomenclature is that there are, simply speaking, no hermaphrodites. While having both XX and XY chromosomes is possible, this is not identical to hermaphroditism—for reasons we shall see later in the discussion of the definition of “sex.” 2 With respect to the latter, Orr's (2020) quotation of Intersex Genital Mutilations: Human Rights Violations of Persons with Variations of Sex Anatomy (2016), the NGO report to the 7th periodic report of France on the Convention Against Torture (CAT). In it, we find the following: Everybody started out as a hermaphrodite: Until the 7th week of gestation, every fetus has “indeterminate” genitals, two sets of basic reproductive duct structures, and bipotential gonads. Only after the 7th week of gestation, fetuses undergo sexual differentiation mostly resulting in typically male or female sex anatomy and reproductive organs. (p. 32). However, the potential, i.e., hence the use of “ bipotential”, to be male or female is not the same as actually being “between” (intersex) male and female. Bipotential gonads presexual differentiation are different than actual bigonads post-sexual differentiation. Consequently, bipotential gonads do not entail a period of hermaphroditism in prenatal human beings. Third and finally, Tudela et al. (2020) cite Arcelus et al. (2015) for a prevalence statistic for intersex conditions. The problem is that they cite a prevalence statistic of transsexual individuals, not intersex individuals—and they are different. Arcelus et al. (2015) defines “transsexual” as “individuals who experience discomfort or distress caused by the discrepancy between their gender identity and the sex they were assigned at birth.” (p. 3). This definition excludes at least two categories of intersex individuals, and consequently cannot be a reliable intersex prevalence statistic. First, it would exclude prenatal intersex individuals, e.g., through genetic screening can reveal whether a child has congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH) or androgen insensitivity syndrome (AIS), or during infancy. Second, it would exclude non-gender-dysphoric intersex individuals, and non-gender-dysphoric intersex individuals who did not receive surgery to change sexes. Consequently, even if intersex individuals met the definition of “transsexual” later in life, this prevalence statistic is unreliable. However, I hold that Tuleda et al.'s (2020) point still stands unscathed. Consider Sax's (2010) more reliable prevalence statistic of 0.018 percent. Sax's (2010) estimate carefully corrects Anne Fausto-Sterling's (and others’) statistic of intersex's prevalence being around 1.7 percent. Fausto-Sterling's statistic was based on a mistaken definition of intersex which would include Turner syndrome, Klinefelter syndrome, and late-onset adrenal hyperplasia. In none of these cases is their true intersex in which there is sexual uncertainty, i.e., these are not cases of genuine sexual ambiguity. As Sax (2010) points out in the 0.018 percent figure, the prevalence is nearly one hundred times lower than Fausto-Sterling suggested. Fourth (and relatedly), there are misunderstandings regarding the difference between being “sexually atypical” and being “intersex.” Consider Feder's (2014) remark that “the issue of “incidence” of atypical sex has been a vexed one, as it concerns not only the frequency with which children are born with atypical sex anatomies but also what counts as atypical sex.” (p. 211ff1, my italics). The idea here is that what it means to be intersex just is to have an atypical sex anatomy. There is a plausible case that “intersex” and “atypical sex anatomies” are not synonymous. Having an atypical sex anatomy might refer to the broader category of a difference in one's sexual anatomy, but it does not highlight the heterogeneous property of all intersex conditions: uncertainty with regard to one's sex. As Feder (2014) herself admits, the atypical sex anatomy of “hypospadias” (p. 211ff1) involve children “who are usually regarded as unquestionably male” (p. 211ff1). 3 However, if atypical sex anatomy does not make a sex-specific claim, i.e., saying something about sex identification, then it should not be used either as a placeholder for, or as a description of, intersex. Having warded off misunderstandings of “intersex”, I will now provide four arguments that “intersex” does not violate the sex binary. cais (intersex deformity) comes along with hermaphroditism btw
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  1234.  @catsmom5m0r  If genitals don't define gender, how does removing/adding them, and/or presenting as a caricature using the stereotypical biological primary sex characteristics of the opposite sex, as the goal post -- affirm it? A woman isn't a social construct, so saying 'gender identity' (Which is a social construct) is separate from biology or saying trans women are women, in response to the question "how do you figure trans women are women being that all women are born female (A biological status)?", is just intellectually bankrupt. Trans women are not women. They're dudes by another name, pretending that they're women... Still men The thing is, It's you who are expecting the world and everyone in it to operate as though you're owed something. That's wrong! It is for you to make your case a compelling one, if you expect the participation and cooperation of others, and so far-- You fail to persuade. Science has already established that All men are born male, all women are born female and neither are a social construct, feeling, fetish, preference, or costume, and that state is fixed and permanent as it is with every other mammalian species. Way too many (You included) conflate Gender/Sex (= Biology, there are only 2 male/female... That's it) with Gender Roles (Social Constructs referring to the roles of males and females in society). and again with personality traits and temperament (Neither of which is gender exclusive-- hence effeminate males, butch females and tomboys) as though they're synonymous and they are Not. Male/Female are categories of the binary dichotomy of all mammalian species, which is fixed and permanent. That you aren't aware, is a YOU problem.
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  1235.  @catsmom5m0r  Gender: The status of being either male or female. The entire purpose of the gender/sex division in most species of animal life is to facilitate procreation, the sexual identity of an individual is best classified according to the gametes produced by the person in question. There is no extant third gamete. Cf. “sex”. Both terms (“gender” and “sex”) originate from Latin words: “genus” (meaning “begin”; “birth”; “kind”; “race”; “gender”) and “sexus” (meaning “sex”; “division”; “gender”). So, essentially, the only significant distinction between the two terms is that the etymology of “gender” pertains to the beginning of things, as can be plainly seen by the other English words that originate from "genus", such as “generic”, “genetic”, and “generate”, whilst “sex” is a scrupulously-literal translation of the Latin cognate “sexus”. The mere fact that the word “genitals” (referring to reproductive organs) is very closely related to the Latin “genus” is further evidence of the assertion that the term “gender” refers to the binary division of human (and of course, many non-human) sexual identity, and NOT to any taxonomy based on emotion, feelings, psychology, or any other non-biological categorization schema. ;) Way too many inappropriately and incorrectly conflate gender/sex (There are only 2-- male/female... That's it) with personality traits and temperament (There are a ton and none are gender exclusive-- hence effeminate males, butch females and tomboys), and again with gender roles (without exception refer to the roles of males and females in society) as though they're synonymous and they are not. Science has already proven that the binary dichotomy of all mammals is male/female. A man in a dress is still a man A man with anxiety about his sex/gender- due to GD- still a man A man calling himself a woman-- still a man A man with an effeminate personality--still a man Now you know better
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  1237.  @catsmom5m0r  Sorry that doesn't do it. Not your existence, but your claims of what you exist as are in question. All women are born female, all men are born male and neither are a social construct, feeling, fetish, preference, personality trait nor a costume, making the cis/trans prefix entirely useless and intellectually stunted. Gender: The status of being either male or female. The entire purpose of the gender/sex division in most species of animal life is to facilitate procreation, the sexual identity of an individual is best classified according to the gametes produced by the person in question. There is no extant third gamete. An extremely minute percentage of humans are either “intersex” (typically referring to those who are anatomical hermaphrodites) or of indeterminate gender (that is, not easily determined by a cursory inspection of the external genitalia), but that does not negate the incontrovertible scientific fact that there are only two genders. As far as we know, there has never existed a single human being with the ability to BOTH conceive a child in his/her womb and, simultaneously, successfully inseminate a woman (or in more disturbing terms, for a hermaphrodite to inseminate him/herself). And even if such an individual has existed, that person would be a combination of BOTH male and female, and not some imaginary, novel third gender. Cf. “sex”. Both terms (“gender” and “sex”) originate from Latin words: “genus” (meaning “begin”; “birth”; “kind”; “race”; “gender”) and “sexus” (meaning “sex”; “division”; “gender”). So, essentially, the only significant distinction between the two terms is that the etymology of “gender” pertains to the beginning of things, as can be plainly seen by the other English words that originate from "genus", such as “generic”, “genetic”, and “generate”, whilst “sex” is a scrupulously-literal translation of the Latin cognate “sexus”. The mere fact that the word “genitals” (referring to reproductive organs) is very closely related to the Latin “genus” is further evidence of the assertion that the term “gender” refers to the binary division of human (and of course, many non-human) sexual identity, and NOT to any taxonomy based on emotion, feelings, psychology, or any other non-biological categorization schema. ;) Way too many inappropriately and incorrectly conflate gender/sex (There are only 2-- male/female... That's it) with personality traits and temperament (There are a ton and none are gender exclusive-- hence effeminate males, butch females and tomboys), and again with gender roles (without exception refer to the roles of males and females in society) as though they're synonymous and they are not. Science has already proven that the binary dichotomy of all mammals is male/female. A man in a dress is still a man A man with anxiety about his sex/gender- due to GD- still a man A man calling himself a woman-- still a man A man with an effeminate personality--still a man You/They haven't put forth any reasoning that withstands scrutiny, rendering your/their narratives and opinions as less than useless and therefore invalid. Reality isn't an anti-trans ideology. Trans is an anti-reality ideology, and they're the ones seeking affirmation, validation, and the participation of everyone in their larp and cosplay, based on the belief that their subjective delusions are based in reality. Newsflash: They aren't
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  1239.  @jeffbelanger9877  Not as what they claim to exist as they don't. I think it's humorous when someone says sex and gender are different, as if that doesn't make the narrative even more absurd. People aren't social constructs. Trans however, is a social construct, and doesn't alter anyone's gender/sex, so the saying trans women are women is just wrong. Science has already proven that the binary dichotomy of all mammals is male/female. Science has already established that All men are born male, all women are born female and neither are a social construct, feeling, fetish, preference, or costume, and that state is fixed and permanent as it is with every other mammalian species. This idea that the terms "man" and "woman" carry all this baggage, sexist stereotypes, that people need to live up to or feel comfortable with is a complete fabrication coming from the "trans" side. You lot want a term to reflect aspects of your personality as well, you want to create more boxes to put people in, as you won't accept simply just being a man or a woman based on being born male or female (and reaching adulthood, obviously people are boys and girls before becoming men or women), but believe you need this "freedom of expression" to broadcast what sexist stereotypes you feel more comfortable with - thinking the world needs to adopt the sexist view you lot have. Replacing objective definitions, which are based in physical reality, with entirely subjective metaphysical claims, is not logical in any way, is not morally superior, and is demonstrably harmful, not least to female rights and protections, but also to practically anyone that buys into it as it warps people's perception of the underlying issues. It hinders people in their quest for individuation, creating this false narrative of them becoming more "authentic" when the total opposite is true, they believe they need validation from others in order to be happy etc. instead of being encouraged to find more inner strength and resilience with less reliance on how people see them. Demanding to be legally recognized as the opposite sex of what one is, is in no way shape or form more authentic than accepting the physical reality one is born into. To believe we as individuals can have 100% control over our identity or self-perceptions in society, what we are seen as by others, in interaction with, and in relation to, society/the world/physical existence is a fool's errand, it is a delusional understanding of reality and existence. Now you know better
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  1240.  @catsmom5m0r  Humans are mammals and all mammals are of a binary sexual dichotomy of male and female and their personalities, and anxiety about their gender doesn't change it. Your subjective gender identity doesn't make anyone a man or a woman-- it's biology. Incoherent, obsessive cult arguments promoting that they do-- are invalid, and change nothing. I think it's humorous when someone says sex and gender are different, as if that doesn't make the narrative even more absurd. People aren't social constructs. Trans however, is a social construct, and doesn't alter anyone's gender/sex, so the saying trans women are women is just wrong. Science has already proven that the binary dichotomy of all mammals is male/female. Science has already established that All men are born male, all women are born female and neither are a social construct, feeling, fetish, preference, or costume, and that state is fixed and permanent as it is with every other mammalian species. This idea that the terms "man" and "woman" carry all this baggage, sexist stereotypes, that people need to live up to or feel comfortable with is a complete fabrication coming from the "trans" side. Pro trans activists seem to want a term to reflect aspects of your personality-- as well, they want to create more boxes to put people in, as you won't accept simply just being a man or a woman based on being born male or female (and reaching adulthood, obviously people are boys and girls before becoming men or women), but believe you need this "freedom of expression" to broadcast what sexist stereotypes you feel more comfortable with - thinking the world needs to adopt the sexist view they have. Replacing objective definitions, which are based in physical reality, with entirely subjective metaphysical claims, is not logical in any way, is not morally superior, and is demonstrably harmful, not least to female rights and protections, but also to practically anyone that buys into it as it warps people's perception of the underlying issues. It hinders people in their quest for individuation, creating this false narrative of them becoming more "authentic" when the total opposite is true, they believe they need validation from others in order to be happy etc. instead of being encouraged to find more inner strength and resilience with less reliance on how people see them. Demanding to be legally recognized as the opposite sex of what one is, is in no way shape or form more authentic than accepting the physical reality one is born into. To believe we as individuals can have 100% control over our identity or self-perceptions in society, what we are seen as by others, in interaction with, and in relation to, society/the world/physical existence is a fool's errand, it is a delusional understanding of reality and existence.
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  1244.  @literallyinflames  Cf. “sex”. Both terms (“gender” and “sex”) originate from Latin words: “genus” (meaning “begin”; “birth”; “kind”; “race”; “gender”) and “sexus” (meaning “sex”; “division”; “gender”). Gender: The status of being either male or female. The entire purpose of the gender/sex division in most species of animal life is to facilitate procreation, the sexual identity of an individual is best classified according to the gametes produced by the person in question. There is no extant third gamete. So, essentially, the only significant distinction between the two terms is that the etymology of “gender” pertains to the beginning of things, as can be plainly seen by the other English words that originate from "genus", such as “generic”, “genetic”, and “generate”, whilst “sex” is a scrupulously-literal translation of the Latin cognate “sexus”. The mere fact that the word “genitals” (referring to reproductive organs) is very closely related to the Latin “genus” is further evidence of the assertion that the term “gender” refers to the binary division of human (and of course, many non-human) sexual identity, and NOT to any taxonomy based on emotion, feelings, psychology, or any other non-biological categorization schema. ;) An extremely minute percentage of humans are either “intersex” (typically referring to those who are anatomical hermaphrodites) or of indeterminate gender (that is, not easily determined by a cursory inspection of the external genitalia), but that does not negate the incontrovertible scientific fact that there are only two genders. Way too many inappropriately conflate gender (There are only 2 male/female... That's it) with gender roles (Social constructs referring to the roles of males and females in society), and again with personality traits and temperament (Neither of which is gender exclusive-- hence effeminate males, butch females and tomboys) as though they're synonymous and they aren't.
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  1247.  @literallyinflames  Nope-- eunuch (n.) "castrated man," late 14c., eunuk, from Latin eunuchus, from Greek eunoukhos "castrated man," originally "guard of the bedchamber or harem," from euno-, combining form of eune "bed," a word of unknown origin, + okhos, from stem of ekhein "to have, hold" (from PIE root *segh "to hold"). Don't conflate gender/sex with gender roles. Gender is biological and there are only 2 male/female... that's it, gender roles are social constructs referring to the roles of males and females in society. Re: Intersex-- DNA dictates the production of objective biological differences between males and females. 100% of the population is either male or female, even intersex people. If they have a Y chromosome, they are heterogametic and male. If not, they are homogametic and female. But you knew that because you've actually educated yourself on these conditions, right? Check out: “Intersex” Does not Violate the Sex Binary Rashad Rehman, PhD First, intersex individuals are not asexual, but have clear sex biomarkers that makes their sex epistemically uncertain. The biological constitution of intersex individuals involves at least some typically male/female biological sex features in their genotype, phenotype, et cetera. Should we place biomarkers aside, it would not be clear what sex could mean. Second, intersex individuals are not hermaphrodites. There are two misunderstandings to be warded off, the first in terms of there being no cases of hermaphroditism in the sense of individuals who are fully biological males and females, and the second in terms of embryonic development. Beginning with the former, the reason why “hermaphroditism” is no longer used in medical nomenclature is that there are, simply speaking, no hermaphrodites. While having both XX and XY chromosomes is possible, this is not identical to hermaphroditism—for reasons we shall see later in the discussion of the definition of “sex.” 2 With respect to the latter, Orr's (2020) quotation of Intersex Genital Mutilations: Human Rights Violations of Persons with Variations of Sex Anatomy (2016), the NGO report to the 7th periodic report of France on the Convention Against Torture (CAT). In it, we find the following: Everybody started out as a hermaphrodite: Until the 7th week of gestation, every fetus has “indeterminate” genitals, two sets of basic reproductive duct structures, and bipotential gonads. Only after the 7th week of gestation, fetuses undergo sexual differentiation mostly resulting in typically male or female sex anatomy and reproductive organs. (p. 32). However, the potential, i.e., hence the use of “ bipotential”, to be male or female is not the same as actually being “between” (intersex) male and female. Bipotential gonads presexual differentiation are different than actual bigonads post-sexual differentiation. Consequently, bipotential gonads do not entail a period of hermaphroditism in prenatal human beings. Third and finally, Tudela et al. (2020) cite Arcelus et al. (2015) for a prevalence statistic for intersex conditions. The problem is that they cite a prevalence statistic of transsexual individuals, not intersex individuals—and they are different. Arcelus et al. (2015) defines “transsexual” as “individuals who experience discomfort or distress caused by the discrepancy between their gender identity and the sex they were assigned at birth.” (p. 3). This definition excludes at least two categories of intersex individuals, and consequently cannot be a reliable intersex prevalence statistic. First, it would exclude prenatal intersex individuals, e.g., through genetic screening can reveal whether a child has congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH) or androgen insensitivity syndrome (AIS), or during infancy. Second, it would exclude non-gender-dysphoric intersex individuals, and non-gender-dysphoric intersex individuals who did not receive surgery to change sexes. Consequently, even if intersex individuals met the definition of “transsexual” later in life, this prevalence statistic is unreliable. However, I hold that Tuleda et al.'s (2020) point still stands unscathed. Consider Sax's (2010) more reliable prevalence statistic of 0.018 percent. Sax's (2010) estimate carefully corrects Anne Fausto-Sterling's (and others’) statistic of intersex's prevalence being around 1.7 percent. Fausto-Sterling's statistic was based on a mistaken definition of intersex which would include Turner syndrome, Klinefelter syndrome, and late-onset adrenal hyperplasia. In none of these cases is their true intersex in which there is sexual uncertainty, i.e., these are not cases of genuine sexual ambiguity. As Sax (2010) points out in the 0.018 percent figure, the prevalence is nearly one hundred times lower than Fausto-Sterling suggested. Fourth (and relatedly), there are misunderstandings regarding the difference between being “sexually atypical” and being “intersex.” Consider Feder's (2014) remark that “the issue of “incidence” of atypical sex has been a vexed one, as it concerns not only the frequency with which children are born with atypical sex anatomies but also what counts as atypical sex.” (p. 211ff1, my italics). The idea here is that what it means to be intersex just is to have an atypical sex anatomy. There is a plausible case that “intersex” and “atypical sex anatomies” are not synonymous. Having an atypical sex anatomy might refer to the broader category of a difference in one's sexual anatomy, but it does not highlight the heterogeneous property of all intersex conditions: uncertainty with regard to one's sex. As Feder (2014) herself admits, the atypical sex anatomy of “hypospadias” (p. 211ff1) involve children “who are usually regarded as unquestionably male” (p. 211ff1). 3 However, if atypical sex anatomy does not make a sex-specific claim, i.e., saying something about sex identification, then it should not be used either as a placeholder for, or as a description of, intersex. Having warded off misunderstandings of “intersex”, I will now provide four arguments that “intersex” does not violate the sex binary. cais (intersex deformity) comes along with hermaphroditism btw
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  1274.  @phaneros8180  Societies and the people who established them, aren't obligated to abandon their culture, morality, powers of discernment, or traditions to accommodate the counter-culture lunatic fringe minority, who seek affirmation, acceptance and validation from the very people and societies which they apparently detest, yet seek to integrate into expecting (Irrationally) to find acceptance, affirmation and validation. The problem you have with your virtue signaling is the total absence of any actual virtue in any of that unhinged whinging. Because you can't, won't, and don't justify the expectation that spaces and organizations designated not for males with subjective gender identity claims, rather for females based on biology-- Don't be surprised that you face rejection. There's no hate involved in recognizing that a dude in a dress is a dude in a dress-- That's just being observant. Existing as yourself doesn't require others to participate in your cosplay and LARP. Societies and the people who established them, aren't obligated to abandon their culture, morality, powers of discernment, or traditions to accommodate the counter-culture lunatic fringe minority, who seek affirmation, acceptance and validation from the very people and societies which they apparently detest, yet seek to integrate into expecting (Irrationally) to find acceptance, Affirmation and validation. Better learn to cope harder. The world doesn't owe you anything Don't conflate gender with gender roles as though they're synonymous-- that's an error. Seems like you view conforming to sexist stereotypes, as legitimate measures of manhood or womanhood. Bottom line is: spaces, and organizations focused on being designated for females, are done so, because of biology-- Not feelings or perceptions about it. Replacing objective definitions which are based in physical reality, with entirely subjective metaphysical claims, is not logical in any way, it is not morally superior, and it is demonstrably harmful, not least of which to female rights and protections, but also to practically anyone that buys into it as it warps people's perception of the underlying issues. It hinders people in their quest for individuation, creating this false narrative of them becoming more "authentic"-- when the total opposite is true. They believe they need validation from others in order to be happy etc., instead of being encouraged to find more inner strength and resilience with less reliance on how people see them. No one has justified the expectation that males w/ gender identity claims-- misappropriating womanhood unto themselves, by claiming a subjective unverifiable gender identity claim, have any sort of valid claim to access places designated for females. Got anything? Answer: No, you do not have anything other than whining. The denial, lies and cope of the activist's narratives don't establish truth-- and they can't because they're false. What do you think the word 'gender' in the term gender dysphoria is referring to? It seems they go to extensive lengths to alter their appearance to resemble that of the primary biological sex characteristics of the opposite sex, which doesn't actually make anyone that sex, and then operate as though it justifies them to access to areas and organizations designated for females-- It doesn't. Better learn to cope harder. The world doesn't owe you anything
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  1283.  @dariocarraresi1823  Great!! Quit whining about your preferred pronouns etc... no one cares, it doesn't justify males w/ psych issues who make unverifiable, subjective gender identity claims being granted access to the girl's showers, women's shelters, locker rooms, changing rooms, sports divisions or prisons segregated by biology-- Not some delusional metaphysical gender identity claim that's unhinged from objective reality. You certainly haven't proven that a man who wishes he were, or believes he's a woman is anything other than a man. Do you believe that spaces designated by gender/sex are referring to gender roles? Make it make sense I Don't care if you want to wear a dress, makeup, heels and a wig, get boob implants, have HRT and have your properly functioning genitalia removed surgically-- Feel free, but still a man. The justification for separating men and women in prisons, with the draft, showers, locker rooms, changing rooms, scholarships, and sports teams/leagues you deem unnecessary. Whats the issue with it??? Justify and explain how eliminating women's private spaces and allowing men to encroach isn't misogyny? You've not demonstrated how eliminating women's sports divisions is a superior way of organizing sports You've not demonstrated how eliminating women's expectation of privacy in women's only spaces is a superior way to organize society. You've also failed to demonstrate how eliminating women's only spaces as a concept from society, is a superior way of organizing society
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  1285.  @dariocarraresi1823  Great!! Quit whining about your preferred pronouns etc... no one cares, it doesn't justify males w/ psych issues who make unverifiable, subjective gender identity claims being granted access to the girl's showers, women's shelters, locker rooms, changing rooms, sports divisions or prisons segregated by biology-- Not some delusional metaphysical gender identity claim that's unhinged from objective reality. You certainly haven't proven that a man who wishes he were, or believes he's a woman is anything other than a man. Do you believe that spaces designated by gender/sex are referring to gender roles? Make it make sense I Don't care if you want to wear a dress, makeup, heels and a wig, get boob implants, have HRT and have your properly functioning genitalia removed surgically-- Feel free, but still a man. The justification for separating men and women in prisons, with the draft, showers, locker rooms, changing rooms, scholarships, and sports teams/leagues you deem unnecessary. Whats the issue with it??? Justify and explain how eliminating women's private spaces and allowing men to encroach isn't misogyny? You've not demonstrated how eliminating women's sports divisions is a superior way of organizing sports You've not demonstrated how eliminating women's expectation of privacy in women's only spaces is a superior way to organize society. You've also failed to demonstrate how eliminating women's only spaces as a concept from society, is a superior way of organizing society
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  1292.  @dariocarraresi1823  The government of Canada said: What we found Eighty-two percent of gender diverse offenders with sexual offence histories were trans-women and the remaining 17% were in the "other" group.Footnote 2 On average, these offenders were 42 years at the time of the study. Two-thirds were serving their first federal sentence and about half (46%) were serving indeterminate sentences. The risk and needs characteristics of these offenders indicates that they had high static risk (91%) and dynamic need (94%) but almost half (42%) were low criminal riskFootnote 3 based on the Criminal Risk Index (CRI). Although three-quarters (78%) have a moderate to high motivation and two-thirds (64%) have a moderate to high accountability, a little over half (58%) are considered engaged in their correctional plan. Two-thirds (66%) had a low reintegration potential. Finally, responsivity issues were identified for a third (36%) of these offenders. Almost two-thirds (64%) of these offenders committed a current sexual offence while 88% were convicted for prior sex offences. Almost all (94%) had committed their offences while living as their biological sex. The majority (85%) committed offences that caused death or serious harm to their victim(s) while 70% inflicted psychological harm on their victim(s). Examination of the victimology shows that over half were children (58%) or female (55%). One-third (33%) of the offences committed had multiple victims. File review indicated that 70% of the offenders with sex offence histories had experienced childhood abuse and 27% were abused in adulthood. Childhood sexual (64%) and physical (52%) abuse were most commonly experienced by these offenders. Two-thirds (64%) had experienced trauma. For offenders with DFIA-R information, 60% had a history of childhood abuse. What it means Over 80% of gender diverse offenders with sexual offence histories were trans-women. Sexual offending indicators showed that the majority of these offences were committed while living as their biological sex, and that the highest proportion of victims were children or female. In addition, a majority of this sub-group caused death or serious harm to their victim(s). Most of these offenders also had a history of abuse and trauma. Due to these factors, gender diverse offenders with sex offence histories present unique operational considerations for institutional placement and correctional programming.
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  1396.  @dariocarraresi1823  Also, Kenneth Zucker et Al 2021: 88 percent of trans women desisted after 20 years. 93% resorted to homosexuality vs affirmation treatment with a self delete rate nearly 10x's higher than the general population at nearly 40%, doesn't appear to be validating the 1% 'regret rate' claim-- as accurate (looks like a huge net loss to me, being that gays have a self-delete rate closer to the general population, at around 4% comparatively)-- in NO way justifies claims of affirmation-based treatment protocols as efficacious. Swedish study: Persons with transsexualism, after sex reassignment, have considerably higher risks for mortality, suicidal behaviour, and psychiatric morbidity than the general population. Our findings suggest that sex reassignment, although alleviating gender dysphoria, may not suffice as treatment for transsexualism, and should inspire improved psychiatric and somatic care after sex reassignment for this patient group. A 2020 academic study with a sample size of 372 respondents found that 40 percent of transgender people had attempted suicide. Similarly, in 2016, the National Transgender Discrimination Survey found that 41 percent of 6,450 respondents said they had previously attempted suicide. By comparison, the CDC found that in 2020, 0.36 percent of the population had attempted suicide. According to a 2022 survey by The Trevor Project, an LGBTQ+ suicide prevention organization, nearly 1 in 5 young people who identified as transgender or non-binary have attempted suicide. According to a 2019 UCLA School of Law- Williams Institute report on the thoughts and attempts of self deleting-- the Reports shows that The 2015 U.S. Transgender Survey (USTS), which is the largest survey of transgender people in the U.S. to date, found that 81.7 percent of respondents reported ever seriously thinking about suicide in their lifetimes, while 48.3 percent had done so in the past year. In regard to suicide attempts, 40.4 percent reported attempting suicide at some point in their lifetimes. Although the research literature to date agrees that transgender people are at an elevated risk of suicide thoughts and attempts, there is still much to learn about why transgender people are particularly at risk. Also, the conclusion of the Swedish study, which concluded that persons with transsexualism, after sex reassignment, have considerably higher risks for mortality, suicidal behaviour, and psychiatric morbidity-- than the general population. The findings suggest that sex reassignment, although alleviating gender dysphoria, may not suffice as treatment for transsexualism, and should inspire improved psychiatric and somatic care after sex reassignment for this patient group. When the rate of self deletes among the general population is 10x's lower, and when studies showing that up to 90% desist and end up gay, with only a 4% self delete rate by contrast, the results of affirmation-based treatment protocols are horrible by contrast, making it's justification questionable at best. You may believe wearing your Halloween princess costume makes you an actual princess, but you're only fooling yourself. It doesn't Re: the Hillary Cass report... She is against early social transition because it puts the kids down a path of confusion … Why don’t trans activists listen ? Lol... YouTube “gender identity services in England - a cass review”. Cass called out the hypocrisy in the old diagnostic criteria … She asked for increased diagnostic criteria, she asked for the removal of the old pink/ blue system She wants increased treatment range to not include gender affirming care. AP- A major UK report says trans kids are being let down by toxic… “Dr. Hilary Cass said there is “no good evidence on the long-term outcomes of interventions to manage gender-related distress,” and young people have been caught up in a “stormy social discourse” about the issue.” Cass’ report, which runs to almost 400 pages, said that “for most young people, a medical pathway” is not the best way to deal with gender-related issues. “Cass said young people questioning their gender identity should be given “a holistic assessment” including screening for neurodevelopmental conditions such as autism, and a mental health assessment.” In her report, Cass said there was “no clear evidence” that social transition in childhood — such as changing names or pronouns — has any positive or negative mental health outcomes. “The report also concluded that there is no simple explanation for why the number of young people identifying as transgender has shot up in recent years in the U.K. and other countries.” 13:27 - conversation is about hormones. She says early social transition and medicalization greatly influence one into a path of surgical transition …. Just listen to her for a few minutes. Listen to 16:00 specifically for social transition. I agree with her This new study just published last month that I already listed “Risk of Suicide and Self-Harm Following Gender-Affirmation Surgery” Individuals who underwent gender-affirming surgery had a 12.12-fold higher suicide attempt risk than those who did not (3.47% vs. 0.29%, RR 95% CI 9.20-15.96, p < 0.0001). “Gender-affirming surgery is significantly associated with elevated suicide attempt risks, underlining the necessity for comprehensive post-procedure psychiatric support.” Doesn't look like efficacious results to me. It seems quite inadequate and unacceptable. Your argument is demolished and you have no credibility
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  1416.  @PerryScanlon  This idea that the terms "man" and "woman" are referring to subjective gender identity claims is demonstrably false dude, and carries all this baggage, sexist stereotypes, that people need to live up to or feel comfortable with is a complete fabrication coming from the "trans" side. Pro trans activists seem to want a term to reflect aspects of their personality-- as well. They want to create more boxes to put people in, as they won't accept simply just being a man or a woman based on being born male or female (and reaching adulthood, obviously people are boys and girls before becoming men or women), but believe they need this "freedom of expression", to broadcast what the sexist stereotypes they feel more comfortable with - thinking the world needs to adopt the sexist view they have. Replacing objective definitions, which are based in physical reality, with entirely subjective metaphysical claims, is not logical in any way, is not morally superior, and is demonstrably harmful, not least to female rights and protections, but also to practically anyone that buys into it as it warps people's perception of the underlying issues. It hinders people in their quest for individuation, creating this false narrative of them becoming more "authentic" when the total opposite is true, they believe they need validation from others in order to be happy etc. instead of being encouraged to find more inner strength and resilience with less reliance on how people see them. Demanding to be legally recognized as the opposite sex of what one is, is in no way shape or form more "authentic" than accepting the physical reality one is born into. To believe we as individuals can have 100% control over our identity or self-perceptions in society, how and what we are seen as by others, in interaction with, and in relation to, society/the world/physical existence is a fool's errand, it is a delusional understanding of reality and existence.
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  1421.  @dariocarraresi1823  "What we found Eighty-two percent of gender diverse offenders with sexual offence histories were trans-women and the remaining 17% were in the "other" group.Footnote 2 On average, these offenders were 42 years at the time of the study. Two-thirds were serving their first federal sentence and about half (46%) were serving indeterminate sentences. The risk and needs characteristics of these offenders indicates that they had high static risk (91%) and dynamic need (94%) but almost half (42%) were low criminal riskFootnote 3 based on the Criminal Risk Index (CRI). Although three-quarters (78%) have a moderate to high motivation and two-thirds (64%) have a moderate to high accountability, a little over half (58%) are considered engaged in their correctional plan. Two-thirds (66%) had a low reintegration potential. Finally, responsivity issues were identified for a third (36%) of these offenders. Almost two-thirds (64%) of these offenders committed a current sexual offence while 88% were convicted for prior sex offences. Almost all (94%) had committed their offences while living as their biological sex. The majority (85%) committed offences that caused death or serious harm to their victim(s) while 70% inflicted psychological harm on their victim(s). Examination of the victimology shows that over half were children (58%) or female (55%). One-third (33%) of the offences committed had multiple victims. File review indicated that 70% of the offenders with sex offence histories had experienced childhood abuse and 27% were abused in adulthood. Childhood sexual (64%) and physical (52%) abuse were most commonly experienced by these offenders. Two-thirds (64%) had experienced trauma. For offenders with DFIA-R information, 60% had a history of childhood abuse. What it means Over 80% of gender diverse offenders with sexual offence histories were trans-women. Sexual offending indicators showed that the majority of these offences were committed while living as their biological sex, and that the highest proportion of victims were children or female. In addition, a majority of this sub-group caused death or serious harm to their victim(s). Most of these offenders also had a history of abuse and trauma. Due to these factors, gender diverse offenders with sex offence histories present unique operational considerations for institutional placement and correctional programming." For more information Farrell MacDonald, S., Smeth, A., Cram, S., Garrel, S. & Derkzen, D. Examination of gender diverse offenders (Research Report R-442).Ottawa, Ontario: CSC.
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  1434.  @dariocarraresi1823  It doesn't appear to reduce the assault rates in women's prisons, and NO-- your psych disability, or gender identity claims don't mean you're a woman or should be treated as though you are. According to a December 2016 report from the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics, about 2.2 million adults were living behind bars. According to the Biden administration-- there are currently approximately 1,300 transgender people in custody. You're talking about .00059% of the prison population, just to put your cringe anti-woman narrative in perspective, the sentence and offense information for federal gender diverse offenders show of them- 40% are sex offenders, and 40% are serving a second or subsequent sentence, demonstrating an established criminal history for these offenders-- Also-- Almost two-thirds (64%) of these offenders committed a current sexual offense while 88% were convicted for prior sex offenses. Almost all (94%) had committed their offenses while living as their biological sex. The majority (85%) committed offenses that caused death or serious harm to their victim(s) while 70% inflicted psychological harm on their victim(s). Examination of the victimology shows that over half were children (58%) or female (55%). One-third (33%) of the offenses committed had multiple victims. I have ZERO sympathy for those people So, pro trans policies can't be reducing the amount of violence by much, and it's my understanding that in general, sex offenders aren't treated well by prison inmates, regardless of their self perceived gender identity claims.
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  1436.  @dariocarraresi1823  "If transwomen prisoners, as a category, retain what might be called ‘male pattern offending’ (i.e.: committing more violent and sexual offenses than women), this would introduce three interrelated problems into women’s prisons: the need for increased security to deal with higher risk prisoners; the increased risk of sexual violence against female inmates; and the de-prioritisation of biologically female prisoners’ needs with respect to safety, security and possible re-traumatization – particularly among those who have previously experienced domestic or sexual violence. Hence, knowing the offending profile of transwomen is critical for the safety of both female prisoners and female prison staff. This report outlines exactly this. More than 90% (55 of 61) of transwomen prisoners were incarcerated for violent offences. Of the group, nearly half (25) had a most serious offence that was homicide related and a third (18) had a most serious offense that was sexual in nature. In comparison, fewer than three-in-10 (6 of 21) transmen were convicted of homicide related offences. This proportion of transwomen incarcerated for sexual and homicide-related offences is extraordinarily high compared to the general female prison population. This raises a number of serious questions about the relationship between gender diversity for women, violence and criminalisation. One telling insight provided by the report is that 27 transwomen prisoners (44%) have a history of sexual offenses compared to 0 transmen. It is worth noting that 6 of the 17 ‘other’ category also had a history of sexual offenses; 10 of whom were either biologically male or legally changed their gender to male. Alarmingly, nearly all gender diverse prisoners with a history of sexual offences committed those sexual offences before identifying as trans or non-binary (31 of 33). 85% (28) committed a schedule 1 offence (that is caused death or serious harm to their victims). Over half (18) had exclusively victimized women, slightly less than half (16) committed sexual offences against minors. Just 2 had exclusively victimized men. Earlier in this article, I noted that 22 transwomen prisoners were accommodated in women’s federal prisons in Canada. 26 transwomen had no history of sexual offending. Strictly on numbers, it is conceivable that none of the transwomen with histories of sexual offending have been sent to the women’s federal prisons. This, however, is unlikely given the anecdotal stories that have come to light since CSC introduced its self-identification policy (see rights and wrongs)."-- Jo Phoenix, the author is professor of Criminology at the University of Reading, where she researches sex, gender, sexualities and justice, youth justice and punishment, the production of criminological knowledge and research ethics. She has studied and written about a wide variety of subjects including managerialism and ethics in the production of criminological knowledge, prostitution, prostitution policy reform, child sexual exploitation, youth penality and youth justice practice and policy. Her most recent research concerns academic freedom, politics ethics and research and sex, gender, gender identity and criminal justice policy.
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  1525.  @dariocarraresi1823  Your failure to realize or acknowledge that it's merely another facet of your narrative that I've refuted showing your claims to be total BS, is noted. The govt of Canada called and said you're wrong... What we found Eighty-two percent of gender diverse offenders with sexual offence histories were trans-women and the remaining 17% were in the "other" group.Footnote 2 On average, these offenders were 42 years at the time of the study. Two-thirds were serving their first federal sentence and about half (46%) were serving indeterminate sentences. The risk and needs characteristics of these offenders indicates that they had high static risk (91%) and dynamic need (94%) but almost half (42%) were low criminal riskFootnote 3 based on the Criminal Risk Index (CRI). Although three-quarters (78%) have a moderate to high motivation and two-thirds (64%) have a moderate to high accountability, a little over half (58%) are considered engaged in their correctional plan. Two-thirds (66%) had a low reintegration potential. Finally, responsivity issues were identified for a third (36%) of these offenders. Almost two-thirds (64%) of these offenders committed a current sexual offence while 88% were convicted for prior sex offences. Almost all (94%) had committed their offences while living as their biological sex. The majority (85%) committed offences that caused death or serious harm to their victim(s) while 70% inflicted psychological harm on their victim(s). Examination of the victimology shows that over half were children (58%) or female (55%). One-third (33%) of the offences committed had multiple victims. File review indicated that 70% of the offenders with sex offence histories had experienced childhood abuse and 27% were abused in adulthood. Childhood sexual (64%) and physical (52%) abuse were most commonly experienced by these offenders. Two-thirds (64%) had experienced trauma. For offenders with DFIA-R information, 60% had a history of childhood abuse. What it means Over 80% of gender diverse offenders with sexual offence histories were trans-women. Sexual offending indicators showed that the majority of these offences were committed while living as their biological sex, and that the highest proportion of victims were children or female. In addition, a majority of this sub-group caused death or serious harm to their victim(s). Most of these offenders also had a history of abuse and trauma. Due to these factors, gender diverse offenders with sex offence histories present unique operational considerations for institutional placement and correctional programming. Get a clue... You have none. Those people aren't justified at all being anywhere near the girl's showers, etc...
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  1586.  @dariocarraresi1823  No, he argues that the actual switch for blacks from R to D didn't happen in the 60's, but in the 30's. 1932 Hoover got over 2/3's majority of the black vote, and in 1936 the Dem candidate FDR got over 70% of the black vote, during the time when it was the D's who were the party of segregation, and the klan, pointing out that the black switch had nothing to do with civil rights, it had to do w/ the economic benefits of the new deal, pointing out that the real switch happened not in the Reagan era, but in the 30's and was not over civil rights. 2:50 in the video he discusses why the south moved out of the democratic party that's the 2nd bogus leg of the Big Switch. The argument from the left is because the racist Dixiecrats moved into the Republican party, and he describes how that is empirically false, that the Republican party got all the racists of the Democratic party. He explains that the Dixiecrats of the Dixiecrat party led by Strom Thurman and refers to the congressman and senators and governors who opposed and voted against the Civil rights act of 1964, and the Voting rights Act. He then says if you count the number of racist Dixiecrats who moved into the Republican camp, the number is precisely 2. Strom Thurman in the Senate, and Watson-- in the House, which destroys the notion that the racist Dixiecrats became Republicans. He then points out that the historians on the left, who are cover up artists, try to do is they try to obfuscate those waters, to redefine Dixiecrats. He gives the ex. that Kevin Cruise (The historian), Jessie Helm, John Tower, and Trent Lot and D'Souza points out that those people who weren't Dixiecrats at all to muddy the waters by moving away from the simple fact that the Dixiecrats stayed, and remained and died and were lionized in the Democratic Party. He concludes the reason the south became Republican during the Reagan years and then in the 1990's, pointing out Reagan's platform which were anti-communism, pro life, family values, free markets, and patriotism, so as the Democrats moved left on those issues-- it turned out that non-racists conservatives in the south, began to move into the Republican party. Concluding that as the south became less racist, it became more republican
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  1630.  @dariocarraresi1823  Kenneth Zucker et Al 2021 Followed trans women for 20 years and 88% desisted It was just confirmed in another 15 year study Many European health agencies are saying that using gender affirming care for minors as preventive for suicide is not founded and is lacking. Even the studies from the CDC/NIH is showing that, long term, gender affirming care for minors does not reduce suicide. Compare annual youth suicide rates in states that allow minors to access care without parental consent to states that do not. The data clearly show no difference in youth suicide rates between these two groups of states for over a decade before 2010, when this use of puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones begins. Around that time, a difference in suicide rates emerges and the gap accelerates after 2015 when cross-sex treatments become more common. There is a 14% increase in suicide rates among young people by 2020 in states that have a provision allowing minors to access care without parental consent relative to states that do not. Easier access to puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones by minors actually exacerbated suicide rates. You can't change your gender. You can only reject traditional gender roles by engaging in various levels of cosplay and LARPing. If sex and gender are independent, why should a male/man bother altering his primary sex characteristics to mimic the primary sex characteristics of a woman? if gender is merely a social construct, why not identify as a girl without going out of the way to alter their appearance to present as the stereotypical and objective primary sex characteristics of a female?????
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  1645.  @dariocarraresi1823  You can say that with perfect utility, but you certainly proven anything I've written incorrect here, in the face of scrutiny, where it counts. You haven't answered any of my questions because they expose your nonsense for the nonsense that it is. Bottom line, your narratives fail because reality proves them ridiculous. Why not just make your affirmative case as to what your position is, for clarity? Answer If biology is independent of gender, why choose the biological primary sex characteristics of the opposite sex? Make it make sense Do you think trans women are women? Explain Do you think trans men are men? Explain Do you think men and women are social constructs? Explain Do you think gender and sex are independent of one another? Explain How do you differentiate gender from gender roles? Explain How do you differentiate gender identity from personality traits and temperament sprinkled with fashion? Explain Why do you think calling a man 'trans' woman' makes him a woman? Do you think renaming an apple 'orange' would alter the nature of an apple or an orange? Explain Why do you think a man who chops off his bits surgically is anything other than a man who's chopped off his bits? Explain Do you think you should affirm an anorexic's claim that they need to lose more weight? Explain Now answer my questions for a change. Why do you operate from a position as though I am seeking validation and affirmation and therefore owe you a defense of objective reality, against your assertions which are not persuasive at all? Try to focus. You don't want rejection, then make a compelling case... that you shouldn't be mocked as a antagonistic clown, sputtering gibberish Prove your affirmative case, or acknowledge that the notion of the trans activist cult ideological narratives are rejected for good reasons.
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  1651.  @dariocarraresi1823  Reality shows your claims to be Totally without merit and FOS! Why should anyone care about your subjective sense of self, which strays from objective reality--w/your insistence on grammatically incorrect pronouns, while insisting that the participation of others in your LARP and cosplay is necessary for you to be validated and affirmed as what you feel rather than what you are, as if the world owed it to you?? Trans advocates saying trans women are women, are conflating social constructs with biology thinking it's clever... It's not a persuasive, well-reasoned response. You can't change your gender. You can only reject traditional gender roles by engaging in various levels of cosplay and LARPing. If sex and gender are independent, why should a male/man bother altering his primary sex characteristics to mimic the primary sex characteristics of a woman? if gender is merely a social construct, why not identify as a girl without going out of the way to alter their appearance to present as the stereotypical and objective primary sex characteristics of a female????? Believing there is some "essence" specific to males or female as far as feelings go, that can manifest "in the wrong body", is akin to a religious belief, having faith in something that is impossible to prove or disprove. The thing is though, that no one on the "trans" side can actually even explain what this "essence" is, they can't even explain it to themselves yet have convinced themselves that the feeling they have means they "are in the wrong body" - without realizing that their discomfort simply stems from not realizing that they view conforming to sexist stereotypes, as legitimate measures of manhood or womanhood.
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  1662.  @dariocarraresi1823  No, I calmly stated that affirming and validating a delusion as though it's based in reality doesn't provide a means to develop a coping mechanism to address the adversity that is inevitable in life. Gender/sex (There are only 2 male/female... That's it)is established at conception and is observed and documented at birth or before. Way too many conflate gender (There are only 2 male/female... That's it), with gender roles (refer to the roles of males and females in society), and again with personality traits and temperament (Neither of which are gender exclusive-- hence effeminate males, butch females and tomboys) as though they're synonymous, BUT they are NOT. All men are born male, all women are born female and neither are a social construct, feeling, preference, fetish or a costume. A man who presents with the gender identity of a woman is still a man. What's your issue? You may believe wearing your Halloween princess costume makes you an actual princess, but you're only fooling yourself. It doesn't. Your ideology is rejected as intellectual pablum, as objective reality proves it to be nonsense. Feel free to believe in your cult ideology, cosplay and LARP to your heart's content, just know that the world doesn't owe you it's participation in your dress up fantasy. So, because you have nothing else, you find yourself facing rejection for failing to make your case, and for failing to fool a man into thinking you're a woman. It's a futile effort on your part, as reality proves all of your narratives invalid
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  1698.  @dariocarraresi1823  It said, "What we found Eighty-two percent of gender diverse offenders with sexual offence histories were trans-women and the remaining 17% were in the "other" group.Footnote 2 On average, these offenders were 42 years at the time of the study. Two-thirds were serving their first federal sentence and about half (46%) were serving indeterminate sentences. The risk and needs characteristics of these offenders indicates that they had high static risk (91%) and dynamic need (94%) but almost half (42%) were low criminal riskFootnote 3 based on the Criminal Risk Index (CRI). Although three-quarters (78%) have a moderate to high motivation and two-thirds (64%) have a moderate to high accountability, a little over half (58%) are considered engaged in their correctional plan. Two-thirds (66%) had a low reintegration potential. Finally, responsivity issues were identified for a third (36%) of these offenders. Almost two-thirds (64%) of these offenders committed a current sexual offence while 88% were convicted for prior sex offences. Almost all (94%) had committed their offences while living as their biological sex. The majority (85%) committed offences that caused death or serious harm to their victim(s) while 70% inflicted psychological harm on their victim(s). Examination of the victimology shows that over half were children (58%) or female (55%). One-third (33%) of the offences committed had multiple victims. File review indicated that 70% of the offenders with sex offence histories had experienced childhood abuse and 27% were abused in adulthood. Childhood sexual (64%) and physical (52%) abuse were most commonly experienced by these offenders. Two-thirds (64%) had experienced trauma. For offenders with DFIA-R information, 60% had a history of childhood abuse. What it means Over 80% of gender diverse offenders with sexual offence histories were trans-women. Sexual offending indicators showed that the majority of these offences were committed while living as their biological sex, and that the highest proportion of victims were children or female. In addition, a majority of this sub-group caused death or serious harm to their victim(s). Most of these offenders also had a history of abuse and trauma. Due to these factors, gender diverse offenders with sex offence histories present unique operational considerations for institutional placement and correctional programming." Ya, I copy/pasted this from the govt of Canada's website
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  1741.  @TransHippie  Not much of a refutation or rebuttal. Your problem is-- You know so much, that just isn't so Your trolling and incoherent, obsessive, and unjustifiable cult arguments against reality are invalid, and change nothing. I've noticed that about you. I think it's humorous when someone says sex and gender are different, as if that doesn't make the narrative even more absurd. People aren't social constructs. Trans however, is a social construct, and doesn't alter anyone's gender/sex, so the saying trans women are women is just wrong. Science has already proven that the binary dichotomy of all mammals is male/female. Science has already established that All men are born male, all women are born female and neither are a social construct, feeling, fetish, preference, or costume, and that state is fixed and permanent as it is with every other mammalian species. This idea that the terms "man" and "woman" carry all this baggage, sexist stereotypes, that people need to live up to or feel comfortable with is a complete fabrication coming from the "trans" side. You lot want a term to reflect aspects of your personality as well, you want to create more boxes to put people in, as you won't accept simply just being a man or a woman based on being born male or female (and reaching adulthood, obviously people are boys and girls before becoming men or women), but believe you need this "freedom of expression" to broadcast what sexist stereotypes you feel more comfortable with - thinking the world needs to adopt the sexist view you lot have. Replacing objective definitions, which are based in physical reality, with entirely subjective metaphysical claims, is not logical in any way, is not morally superior, and is demonstrably harmful, not least to female rights and protections, but also to practically anyone that buys into it as it warps people's perception of the underlying issues. It hinders people in their quest for individuation, creating this false narrative of them becoming more "authentic" when the total opposite is true, they believe they need validation from others in order to be happy etc. instead of being encouraged to find more inner strength and resilience with less reliance on how people see them. Demanding to be legally recognized as the opposite sex of what one is, is in no way shape or form more authentic than accepting the physical reality one is born into. To believe we as individuals can have 100% control over our identity or self-perceptions in society, what we are seen as by others, in interaction with, and in relation to, society/the world/physical existence is a fool's errand, it is a delusional understanding of reality and existence. Now you know better
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  1743. Replacing objective definitions which are based in physical reality, with entirely subjective metaphysical claims, is not logical in any way, is not morally superior, and is demonstrably harmful, not least to female rights and protections, but also to practically anyone that buys into it, as it warps people's perception of the underlying issues. Your denial is either total ignorance, or intentional deception. Look-- Believing there is some "essence" specific to males or female as far as feelings go, that can manifest "in the wrong body", is akin to a religious belief, having faith in something that is impossible to prove or disprove. The thing is though, that no one on the "trans" side can actually even explain what this "essence" is, you can't even explain it to yourselves yet have convinced yourselves that the feeling you have means you "are in the wrong body" - without realizing that your discomfort simply stems from not realizing that you view conforming to sexist stereotypes as legitimate measures of manhood or womanhood. That is why every explanation given of WHY a male "can't be a man, but is instead woman" etc. relies upon listing stereotypical stuff, or, in some cases is completely abstract and refuses to actually provide any explanation of what you mean, simply stating you "know" that what you feel means what you say it does, even though you can't actually provide a definition of it. "It's hard to explain but I know I'm right" is an attitude one constantly comes up against - a religious faith in something they can't define. This idea that the terms "man" and "woman" carry all this baggage, sexist stereotypes, that people need to live up to, or feel comfortable with is a complete fabrication coming from the "trans" side. You lot want a term to reflect aspects of your personality, as well as wanting to create more boxes to put people in, as you won't accept simply just being a man or a woman based on being born male or female (and reaching adulthood, obviously people are boys and girls before becoming men or women), but believe you need this "freedom of expression" to broadcast what sexist stereotypes you feel more comfortable with - thinking the world needs to adopt the sexist view you lot have. Replacing objective definitions which are based in physical reality, with entirely subjective metaphysical claims, is not logical in any way, is not morally superior, and is demonstrably harmful, not least to female rights and protections, but also to practically anyone that buys into it, as it warps people's perception of the underlying issues. It hinders people in their quest for individuation, creating this false narrative of them becoming more "authentic" when the total opposite is true, they believe they need validation from others in order to be happy etc., instead of being encouraged to find more inner strength and resilience with less reliance on how people see them. Demanding to be legally recognized as the opposite sex of what one is, is in no way shape or form more authentic than accepting the physical reality one is born into. To believe we as individuals can have 100% control over our identity in society, what we are seen as by others, in interaction with, and in relation to, society/the world/physical existence is a fool's errand, it is a delusional understanding of reality and existence.
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  1744.  @HansLemurson  Believing there is some "essence" specific to males or female as far as feelings go, that can manifest "in the wrong body", is akin to a religious belief, having faith in something that is impossible to prove or disprove. The thing is though, that no one on the "trans" side can actually even explain what this "essence" is, they can't even explain it to themselves yet have convinced themselves that the feeling they have means they "are in the wrong body" - without realizing that their discomfort simply stems from not realizing that they view conforming to sexist stereotypes as legitimate measures of manhood or womanhood. That is why every explanation given of WHY a male "can't be a man, but is instead woman" etc. relies upon listing stereotypical stuff, or, in some cases is completely abstract and refuses to actually provide any explanation of what they mean, simply stating they "know" that what they feel means what they say it does, even though they can't actually provide a definition of it. "It's hard to explain but I know I'm right" is an attitude one constantly comes up against - a religious faith in something they can't define. This idea that the terms "man" and "woman" carry all this baggage, sexist stereotypes, that people need to live up to or feel comfortable with is a complete fabrication coming from the "trans" side. You lot want a term to reflect aspects of your personality, as well as wanting to create more boxes to put people in, as you won't accept simply just being a man or a woman based on being born male or female (and reaching adulthood, obviously people are boys and girls before becoming men or women), but believe you need this "freedom of expression" to broadcast what sexist stereotypes you feel more comfortable with - thinking the world needs to adopt the sexist view you lot have. Replacing objective definitions which are based in physical reality, with entirely subjective metaphysical claims, is not logical in any way, is not morally superior, and is demonstrably harmful, not least to female rights and protections, but also to practically anyone that buys into it, as it warps people's perception of the underlying issues. It hinders people in their quest for individuation, creating this false narrative of them becoming more "authentic" when the total opposite is true, they believe they need validation from others in order to be happy etc., instead of being encouraged to find more inner strength and resilience with less reliance on how people see them. Demanding to be legally recognized as the opposite sex of what one is, is in no way shape or form more authentic than accepting the physical reality one is born into. To believe we as individuals can have 100% control over our identity in society, what we are seen as by others, in interaction with, and in relation to, society/the world/physical existence is a fool's errand, it is a delusional understanding of reality and existence. Now you know my take
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  1760.  @dariocarraresi1823  I did address your point, seeking specific clarification from you. You keep saying that I want to force people to follow gender roles, and I asked you to explain how allowing a dude in a dress to use the men's room, and try out for men's sports is 'forcing a gender role', and you haven't explained that yet. Is the task too difficult for you? Oh, and btw-- Your argument is a red herring. You Don't have to accept what society has established as societal and cultural norms; You can reject them. You can choose to live in lots of different countries, perhaps you can find one that you find acceptable. You can be counter culture all you like. You can choose to reject traditional gender roles, and choose to wear a dress as a man, and still have access to all the men's facilities and opportunities to try out for men's sports-- so no one is trying to force traditional gender roles on you. I never used the term mortal sin-- that's a Catholic term that I don't use, but to your point, in the west countries aren't governed by religious church law, so you're again making another red herring argument, because you don't have to accept Biblical teachings, or Torah teachings, or Islamic teachings, or Scientology, or Mormon teachings, or any other religious sect's teachings etc...but you will accept the consequences and there's nothing you can do about it, when facing God. You will have no more arrogance. But ya-- you do you. The problems for you start when you operate as though society owes you an explanation to justify it's long-established societal and cultural norms steeped in their traditions (who the hell do you think you are? The arrogance is astounding!), and it's participation and acceptance of your world view as superior somehow. The thing is, society is also free to reject You. If you want to integrate into a society, it's for you to integrate. ex. You think that a country must use the language you use, just because you're there? HA! Adapt and learn the language or don't, but they're not going to change for you. Rejection, get used to it
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  1782.  @dariocarraresi1823  What truth are you speaking about? Kenneth Zucker et Al 2021 Followed trans woman for 20 years and 88 percent desisted. It was just confirmed in another 15 year study. This is directly from the writer and tenured board member at WPATH, Ken Zucker: Not to mention the leaked wpath files showing doctors themselves do not think these kids are mentally mature enough to consent to the surgeries. Kenneth Zucker et Al 2021: 88 percent of trans women desisted after 20 years. 93% resorted to homosexuality vs affirmation treatment with a self delete rate nearly 10x's higher than the general population at nearly 40%, doesn't appear to be validating the 1% 'regret rate' claim-- as accurate (looks like a huge net loss to me, being that gays have a self-delete rate closer to the general population, at around 4% comparatively)-- in NO way justifies claims of affirmation-based treatment protocols as efficacious. In case anyone reading is actually interested: If sex and gender identity are truly independent, then why do trans women and trans men go through so many hoops to change their primary sex characteristics??? Well, according to the analysis, data and conclusions of the studies I've seen, Happy people aren't overwhelmingly sui~*d@l, and those who are have a psych issue at play. Swedish study: Persons with transsexualism, after sex reassignment, have considerably higher risks for mortality, suicidal behaviour, and psychiatric morbidity than the general population. Our findings suggest that sex reassignment, although alleviating gender dysphoria, may not suffice as treatment for transsexualism, and should inspire improved psychiatric and somatic care after sex reassignment for this patient group. A 2020 academic study with a sample size of 372 respondents found that 40 percent of transgender people had attempted suicide. Similarly, in 2016, the National Transgender Discrimination Survey found that 41 percent of 6,450 respondents said they had previously attempted suicide. By comparison, the CDC found that in 2020, 0.36 percent of the population had attempted suicide. According to a 2022 survey by The Trevor Project, an LGBTQ+ suicide prevention organization, nearly 1 in 5 young people who identified as transgender or non-binary have attempted suicide. According to a 2019 UCLA School of Law- Williams Institute report on the thoughts and attempts of self deleting-- the Reports shows that The 2015 U.S. Transgender Survey (USTS), which is the largest survey of transgender people in the U.S. to date, found that 81.7 percent of respondents reported ever seriously thinking about suicide in their lifetimes, while 48.3 percent had done so in the past year. In regard to suicide attempts, 40.4 percent reported attempting suicide at some point in their lifetimes. Although the research literature to date agrees that transgender people are at an elevated risk of suicide thoughts and attempts, there is still much to learn about why transgender people are particularly at risk. Also, the conclusion of the Swedish study, which concluded that persons with transsexualism, after sex reassignment, have considerably higher risks for mortality, suicidal behaviour, and psychiatric morbidity-- than the general population. The findings suggest that sex reassignment, although alleviating gender dysphoria, may not suffice as treatment for transsexualism, and should inspire improved psychiatric and somatic care after sex reassignment for this patient group. When the rate of self deletes among the general population is 10x's lower, and when studies showing that up to 90% desist and end up gay, with only a 4% self delete rate by contrast, the results of affirmation-based treatment protocols are horrible by contrast, making it's justification questionable at best. Quit whining about preferred pronouns usage, and acting like anyone should care at all, about how you identify subjectively. The truth is, you're wrong and you hate us knowing it, pointing it out and proving your claims false, and it upsets you that we don't buy your narratives. Your addiction to confirmation biased info is clear, and your inability to prove us wrong haunts you Why would they? They don't care, because they identify as people who don't have to indulge, much less affirm, accept, or validate the intellectual pablum of the mentally, and intellectually disenfranchised, as though it's based in substance, logic, or reason. As far as the majority of the people of the world and I are concerned, your entire 'trans gender' identity is an performance, and your ideological narratives remain hollow and less than compelling or persuasive. The thing is, the world doesn't care about appealing to you for Your acceptance, validation, feelings etc., and it doesn't owe you it's participation in the LARP and cosplay either. You may believe wearing your Halloween princess costume makes you an actual princess, but you're only fooling yourself. It doesn't Your ideology is rejected as intellectual pablum, as objective reality proves it to be nonsense. Feel free to believe in your cult ideology, and cosplay and LARP to your heart's content, just know that the world doesn't owe you it's participation in your dress up fantasy. Carry on, you have the right to be wrong. You're only fooling yourselves Bro.. here’s a funny fact If you look at your 1 percent surgical rejection rate meta analysis, you’ll see not one study actually analysis SRS (surgical regret rate) or top surgery in trans men Did you see the Hillary Cass report? She is against early social transition because it puts the kids down a path of confusion … Why don’t trans activists listen ? Lol... YouTube “gender identity services in England - a cass review”. Cass called out the hypocrisy in the old diagnostic criteria … She asked for increased diagnostic criteria, she asked for the removal of the old pink/ blue system She wants increased treatment range to not include gender affirming care. AP- A major UK report says trans kids are being let down by toxic… “Dr. Hilary Cass said there is “no good evidence on the long-term outcomes of interventions to manage gender-related distress,” and young people have been caught up in a “stormy social discourse” about the issue.” Cass’ report, which runs to almost 400 pages, said that “for most young people, a medical pathway” is not the best way to deal with gender-related issues. “Cass said young people questioning their gender identity should be given “a holistic assessment” including screening for neurodevelopmental conditions such as autism, and a mental health assessment.” In her report, Cass said there was “no clear evidence” that social transition in childhood — such as changing names or pronouns — has any positive or negative mental health outcomes. “The report also concluded that there is no simple explanation for why the number of young people identifying as transgender has shot up in recent years in the U.K. and other countries.” This new study just published last month “Risk of Suicide and Self-Harm Following Gender-Affirmation Surgery” Individuals who underwent gender-affirming surgery had a 12.12-fold higher suicide attempt risk than those who did not (3.47% vs. 0.29%, RR 95% CI 9.20-15.96, p < 0.0001). “Gender-affirming surgery is significantly associated with elevated suicide attempt risks, underlining the necessity for comprehensive post-procedure psychiatric support.”
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  1790.  @dariocarraresi1823  I don't need to convince you. Did you think otherwise? lol You said, "Bottom line is: gender identities are valid (AS What???, is the question), gender dysphoria is a real condition, patients with GD deserve access to effective healthcare (We disagree on the definition of effective health care, and the claims of efficacy being justified or not), and transphobes constantly lie (What lies??) about "women's only spaces" because they want to impose gender roles on society." How is that not you, conflating gender roles and biology???, and what is your justification for the elimination of men and women's private spaces and organizations? Do you think those organizations and places segregated based on biology, are done so because the intent is to enforce gender roles, rather than to create private spaces based on objective biology?-- Okay... Make it make sense... A man with a gender identity/role of a woman in a dress, can still utilize the men's facilities, and try out for men's sports, and sports teams, so how is that trying to impose a gender role on anyone? Hmmm??? You're conflating gender with gender roles again What's the justification for a man with a gender identity of a woman being granted access to women's private space? You still haven't provided a rational answer. I get it... You want to argue for sport, and I'm fine with continually crushing your narratives and exposing the narratives as being intellectually vacant and incoherent madness with your cooperation, and willingness to play the part of the triggered, fool displaying an anti-social personality disorder by feeding an attention-seeking behavior, showing you desperately looking for negative attention to paint a negative picture of the trans-activist's ideological narratives, and their appeal to the masses for acceptance, affirmation and validation, by failing to substantiate anything other than the justification for being dismissed as the whinging of the unhinged. It's just so unoriginal of you. Respect is earned, not owed
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  1806.  @TransHippie  No, it doesn't. The govt of Canada called and said you're wrong... What we found Eighty-two percent of gender diverse offenders with sexual offence histories were trans-women and the remaining 17% were in the "other" group.Footnote 2 On average, these offenders were 42 years at the time of the study. Two-thirds were serving their first federal sentence and about half (46%) were serving indeterminate sentences. The risk and needs characteristics of these offenders indicates that they had high static risk (91%) and dynamic need (94%) but almost half (42%) were low criminal riskFootnote 3 based on the Criminal Risk Index (CRI). Although three-quarters (78%) have a moderate to high motivation and two-thirds (64%) have a moderate to high accountability, a little over half (58%) are considered engaged in their correctional plan. Two-thirds (66%) had a low reintegration potential. Finally, responsivity issues were identified for a third (36%) of these offenders. Almost two-thirds (64%) of these offenders committed a current sexual offence while 88% were convicted for prior sex offences. Almost all (94%) had committed their offences while living as their biological sex. The majority (85%) committed offences that caused death or serious harm to their victim(s) while 70% inflicted psychological harm on their victim(s). Examination of the victimology shows that over half were children (58%) or female (55%). One-third (33%) of the offences committed had multiple victims. File review indicated that 70% of the offenders with sex offence histories had experienced childhood abuse and 27% were abused in adulthood. Childhood sexual (64%) and physical (52%) abuse were most commonly experienced by these offenders. Two-thirds (64%) had experienced trauma. For offenders with DFIA-R information, 60% had a history of childhood abuse. What it means Over 80% of gender diverse offenders with sexual offence histories were trans-women. Sexual offending indicators showed that the majority of these offences were committed while living as their biological sex, and that the highest proportion of victims were children or female. In addition, a majority of this sub-group caused death or serious harm to their victim(s). Most of these offenders also had a history of abuse and trauma. Due to these factors, gender diverse offenders with sex offence histories present unique operational considerations for institutional placement and correctional programming. Get a clue... You have none
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  1831.  @Fre3r  I appreciate your perspective, however; I disagree with your assessment. WAY too many inappropriately conflate gender/sex (Biology--there are only 2male/female...That's it), with Gender Roles (Social constructs referring to the roles of males and females in society), and Personality traits and temperament (There are a ton, and none are gender exclusive-hence effeminate males, butch females and tomboys)-as though they're all synonymous, and they're not. People aren't social constructs. All men are born male, all women are born female, and neither are a social construct, feeling, fetish, preference, personality or a costume Gender: The status of being either male or female. The entire purpose of the gender/sex division in most species of animal life is to facilitate procreation, the sexual identity of an individual is best classified according to the gametes produced by the person in question. There is no extant third gamete. An extremely minute percentage of humans are either “intersex” (typically referring to those who are anatomical hermaphrodites) or of indeterminate gender (that is, not easily determined by a cursory inspection of the external genitalia), but that does not negate the incontrovertible scientific fact that there are only two genders. As far as we know, there has never existed a single human being with the ability to BOTH conceive a child in his/her womb and, simultaneously, successfully inseminate a woman (or in more disturbing terms, for a hermaphrodite to inseminate him/herself). And even if such an individual has existed, that person would be a combination of BOTH male and female, and not some imaginary, novel third gender. Cf. “sex”. Both terms (“gender” and “sex”) originate from Latin words: “genus” (meaning “begin”; “birth”; “kind”; “race”; “gender”) and “sexus” (meaning “sex”; “division”; “gender”). So, essentially, the only significant distinction between the two terms is that the etymology of “gender” pertains to the beginning of things, as can be plainly seen by the other English words that originate from "genus", such as “generic”, “genetic”, and “generate”, whilst “sex” is a scrupulously-literal translation of the Latin cognate “sexus”. The mere fact that the word “genitals” (referring to reproductive organs) is very closely related to the Latin “genus” is further evidence of the assertion that the term “gender” refers to the binary division of human (and of course, many non-human) sexual identity, and NOT to any taxonomy based on emotion, feelings, psychology, or any other non-biological categorization schema. ;) Way too many inappropriately and incorrectly conflate gender/sex (There are only 2-- male/female... That's it) with personality traits and temperament (There are a ton and none are gender exclusive-- hence effeminate males, butch females and tomboys), and again with gender roles (without exception refer to the roles of males and females in society) as though they're synonymous and they are not. Science has already proven that the binary dichotomy of all mammals is male/female. A man in a dress is still a man A man with anxiety about his sex/gender-- still a man A man calling himself a woman-- still a man A man with an effeminate personality--still a man
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  1855.  @dariocarraresi1823  You haven't mentioned that Canada's stats show a study Among the findings, showing: — Of the 99 inmate sample group, 44% of the trans women convicts are sex offenders. — 82% of gender-diverse offenders were trans-women with an average age of 42 years old and almost half were serving “indeterminate” sentences. — Two-thirds (66%) had low reintegration potential. About 64% of these offenders had committed a “current sexual offense,” while 88% had previously been convicted for sexual offenses. — The vast majority, 85%, were convicted of violent crimes that caused death “or serious harm” to their victims (58% of whom were children or women). “It’s quite shocking. The study also shows that 41% of trans-women are in for homicide-related crimes while with male inmates it’s only 21%,” Mason said, adding that the study also revealed that in just four years, the number of trans inmates almost doubled. The study added: “Over 80% of gender-diverse offenders with sexual offense histories were trans-women. Sexual offending indicators showed that the majority of these offenses were committed while living as their biological sex, and that the highest proportion of victims were children or female.” In addition, the majority of the “sub-group caused death or serious harm to their victim(s).” The study also found that of the 99 gender-diverse offenders, 47% of whom were Indigenous. Why should the males, who you refer to as "trans women" have a higher priority, than the safety of females (both girls and women)???
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  1871.  @TransHippie  Not in reality they aren't, only in your warped fantasy world view that pretends women aren't a biological category representing one half of the binary dichotomy of humans, the other half being men. A woman isn't a social construct, feeling, preference, fetish or a costume. Believing there is some "essence" specific to males or female as far as feelings go, that can manifest "in the wrong body", is akin to a religious belief, having faith in something that is impossible to prove or disprove. The thing is though, that no one on the "trans" side can actually even explain what this "essence" is, you can't even explain it to yourselves yet have convinced yourselves that the feeling you have means you "are in the wrong body" - without realizing that your discomfort simply stems from not realizing that you view conforming to sexist stereotypes as legitimate measures of manhood or womanhood. That is why every explanation given of WHY a male "can't be a man, but is instead woman" etc. relies upon listing stereotypical stuff, or, in some cases is completely abstract and refuses to actually provide any explanation of what you mean, simply stating you "know" that what you feel means what you say it does, even though you can't actually provide a definition of it. "It's hard to explain but I know I'm right" is an attitude one constantly comes up against - a religious faith in something they can't define. This idea that the terms "man" and "woman" carry all this baggage, sexist stereotypes, that people need to live up to, or feel comfortable with is a complete fabrication coming from the "trans" side. You lot want a term to reflect aspects of your personality, as well as wanting to create more boxes to put people in, as you won't accept simply just being a man or a woman based on being born male or female (and reaching adulthood, obviously people are boys and girls before becoming men or women), but believe you need this "freedom of expression" to broadcast what sexist stereotypes you feel more comfortable with - thinking the world needs to adopt the sexist view you lot have. Replacing objective definitions which are based in physical reality, with entirely subjective metaphysical claims, is not logical in any way, is not morally superior, and is demonstrably harmful, not least to female rights and protections, but also to practically anyone that buys into it, as it warps people's perception of the underlying issues. It hinders people in their quest for individuation, creating this false narrative of them becoming more "authentic" when the total opposite is true, they believe they need validation from others in order to be happy etc., instead of being encouraged to find more inner strength and resilience with less reliance on how people see them. Demanding to be legally recognized as the opposite sex of what one is, is in no way shape or form more authentic than accepting the physical reality one is born into. To believe we as individuals can have 100% control over our identity in society, what we are seen as by others, in interaction with, and in relation to, society/the world/physical existence is a fool's errand, it is a delusional understanding of reality and existence.
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  1918.  @phaneros8180  Societies and the people who established them, aren't obligated to abandon their culture, morality, powers of discernment, or traditions to accommodate the counter-culture lunatic fringe minority, who seek affirmation, acceptance and validation from the very people and societies which they apparently detest, yet seek to integrate into expecting (Irrationally) to find acceptance, affirmation and validation. The problem you have with your virtue signaling is the total absence of any actual virtue in any of that unhinged whinging. Because you can't, won't, and don't justify the expectation that spaces and organizations designated not for males with subjective gender identity claims, rather for females based on biology-- Don't be surprised that you face rejection. There's no hate involved in recognizing that a dude in a dress is a dude in a dress-- That's just being observant. Existing as yourself doesn't require others to participate in your cosplay and LARP. Societies and the people who established them, aren't obligated to abandon their culture, morality, powers of discernment, or traditions to accommodate the counter-culture lunatic fringe minority, who seek affirmation, acceptance and validation from the very people and societies which they apparently detest, yet seek to integrate into expecting (Irrationally) to find acceptance, Affirmation and validation. Better learn to cope harder. The world doesn't owe you anything Don't conflate gender with gender roles as though they're synonymous-- that's an error. Seems like you view conforming to sexist stereotypes, as legitimate measures of manhood or womanhood. Bottom line is: spaces, and organizations focused on being designated for females, are done so, because of biology-- Not feelings or perceptions about it. Replacing objective definitions which are based in physical reality, with entirely subjective metaphysical claims, is not logical in any way, it is not morally superior, and it is demonstrably harmful, not least of which to female rights and protections, but also to practically anyone that buys into it as it warps people's perception of the underlying issues. It hinders people in their quest for individuation, creating this false narrative of them becoming more "authentic"-- when the total opposite is true. They believe they need validation from others in order to be happy etc., instead of being encouraged to find more inner strength and resilience with less reliance on how people see them. No one has justified the expectation that males w/ gender identity claims-- misappropriating womanhood unto themselves, by claiming a subjective unverifiable gender identity claim, have any sort of valid claim to access places designated for females. Got anything? Answer: No, you do not have anything other than whining. The denial, lies and cope of the activist's narratives don't establish truth-- and they can't because they're false. What do you think the word 'gender' in the term gender dysphoria is referring to? It seems they go to extensive lengths to alter their appearance to resemble that of the primary biological sex characteristics of the opposite sex, which doesn't actually make anyone that sex, and then operate as though it justifies them to access to areas and organizations designated for females-- It doesn't. Better learn to cope harder. The world doesn't owe you anything
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  1931.  @diogenesofseattle2344  Kenneth Zucker et Al 2021 Followed trans woman for 20 years and 88 percent desisted. It was just confirmed in another 15 year study. This is directly from the writer and tenured board member at WPATH, Ken Zucker: Not to mention the leaked wpath files showing doctors themselves do not think these kids are mentally mature enough to consent to the surgeries. Kenneth Zucker et Al 2021: 88 percent of trans women desisted after 20 years. 93% resorted to homosexuality vs affirmation treatment with a self delete rate nearly 10x's higher than the general population at nearly 40%, doesn't appear to be validating the 1% 'regret rate' claim-- as accurate (looks like a huge net loss to me, being that gays have a self-delete rate closer to the general population, at around 4% comparatively)-- in NO way justifies claims of affirmation-based treatment protocols as efficacious. In case anyone reading is actually interested: If sex and gender identity are truly independent, then why do trans women and trans men go through so many hoops to change their primary sex characteristics??? Well, according to the analysis, data and conclusions of the studies I've seen, Happy people aren't overwhelmingly sui~*d@l, and those who are have a psych issue at play. Swedish study: Persons with transsexualism, after sex reassignment, have considerably higher risks for mortality, suicidal behaviour, and psychiatric morbidity than the general population. Our findings suggest that sex reassignment, although alleviating gender dysphoria, may not suffice as treatment for transsexualism, and should inspire improved psychiatric and somatic care after sex reassignment for this patient group. A 2020 academic study with a sample size of 372 respondents found that 40 percent of transgender people had attempted suicide. Similarly, in 2016, the National Transgender Discrimination Survey found that 41 percent of 6,450 respondents said they had previously attempted suicide. By comparison, the CDC found that in 2020, 0.36 percent of the population had attempted suicide. According to a 2022 survey by The Trevor Project, an LGBTQ+ suicide prevention organization, nearly 1 in 5 young people who identified as transgender or non-binary have attempted suicide. According to a 2019 UCLA School of Law- Williams Institute report on the thoughts and attempts of self deleting-- the Reports shows that The 2015 U.S. Transgender Survey (USTS), which is the largest survey of transgender people in the U.S. to date, found that 81.7 percent of respondents reported ever seriously thinking about suicide in their lifetimes, while 48.3 percent had done so in the past year. In regard to suicide attempts, 40.4 percent reported attempting suicide at some point in their lifetimes. Although the research literature to date agrees that transgender people are at an elevated risk of suicide thoughts and attempts, there is still much to learn about why transgender people are particularly at risk. Also, the conclusion of the Swedish study, which concluded that persons with transsexualism, after sex reassignment, have considerably higher risks for mortality, suicidal behaviour, and psychiatric morbidity-- than the general population. The findings suggest that sex reassignment, although alleviating gender dysphoria, may not suffice as treatment for transsexualism, and should inspire improved psychiatric and somatic care after sex reassignment for this patient group. When the rate of self deletes among the general population is 10x's lower, and when studies showing that up to 90% desist and end up gay, with only a 4% self delete rate by contrast, the results of affirmation-based treatment protocols are horrible by contrast, making it's justification questionable at best. Quit whining about preferred pronouns usage, and acting like anyone should care at all, about how you identify subjectively. The truth is, you're wrong and you hate us knowing it, pointing it out and proving your claims false, and it upsets you that we don't buy your narratives. Your addiction to confirmation biased info is clear, and your inability to prove us wrong haunts you Why would they? They don't care, because they identify as people who don't have to indulge, much less affirm, accept, or validate the intellectual pablum of the mentally, and intellectually disenfranchised, as though it's based in substance, logic, or reason. As far as the majority of the people of the world and I are concerned, your entire 'trans gender' identity is an performance, and your ideological narratives remain hollow and less than compelling or persuasive. The thing is, the world doesn't care about appealing to you for Your acceptance, validation, feelings etc., and it doesn't owe you it's participation in the LARP and cosplay either. You may believe wearing your Halloween princess costume makes you an actual princess, but you're only fooling yourself. It doesn't Your ideology is rejected as intellectual pablum, as objective reality proves it to be nonsense. Feel free to believe in your cult ideology, and cosplay and LARP to your heart's content, just know that the world doesn't owe you it's participation in your dress up fantasy. Carry on, you have the right to be wrong. You're only fooling yourselves Bro.. here’s a funny fact If you look at your 1 percent surgical rejection rate meta analysis, you’ll see not one study actually analysis SRS (surgical regret rate) or top surgery in trans men Did you see the Hillary Cass report? She is against early social transition because it puts the kids down a path of confusion … Why don’t trans activists listen ? Lol... YouTube “gender identity services in England - a cass review”. Cass called out the hypocrisy in the old diagnostic criteria … She asked for increased diagnostic criteria, she asked for the removal of the old pink/ blue system She wants increased treatment range to not include gender affirming care. AP- A major UK report says trans kids are being let down by toxic… “Dr. Hilary Cass said there is “no good evidence on the long-term outcomes of interventions to manage gender-related distress,” and young people have been caught up in a “stormy social discourse” about the issue.” Cass’ report, which runs to almost 400 pages, said that “for most young people, a medical pathway” is not the best way to deal with gender-related issues. “Cass said young people questioning their gender identity should be given “a holistic assessment” including screening for neurodevelopmental conditions such as autism, and a mental health assessment.” In her report, Cass said there was “no clear evidence” that social transition in childhood — such as changing names or pronouns — has any positive or negative mental health outcomes. “The report also concluded that there is no simple explanation for why the number of young people identifying as transgender has shot up in recent years in the U.K. and other countries.” 13:27 - conversation is about hormones. She says early social transition and medicalization greatly influence one into a path of surgical transition …. Just listen to her for a few minutes. Listen to 16:00 specifically for social transition. I agree with her This new study just published last month “Risk of Suicide and Self-Harm Following Gender-Affirmation Surgery” Individuals who underwent gender-affirming surgery had a 12.12-fold higher suicide attempt risk than those who did not (3.47% vs. 0.29%, RR 95% CI 9.20-15.96, p < 0.0001). “Gender-affirming surgery is significantly associated with elevated suicide attempt risks, underlining the necessity for comprehensive post-procedure psychiatric support.”
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  1934.  @dariocarraresi1823  Last thing, unless you would like to continue with answers to my questions... Look kid, your personality and disconnect with reality don't make you a woman any more than a fairy princess Halloween costume transforms anyone into an actual fairy princess. You can cosplay and LARP to your heart's content, and use whatever pronouns you like. I REALLY couldn't possibly care any less than I do, which is not at all. You can't choose the pronouns others choose to use when describing some dude in a dress, as a dude in a dress, and using grammatically correct pronouns for a male as he/his, because objective reality isn't a matter of opinion. I typically refer to people by their names though. I typically would only use pronouns if talking about you to someone else, while not in your presence, anyway-- so you'd have no idea, making the notion even more absurd than it already is. It's when you try to compel the participation of others in your cosplay and LARP, where your problems manifest-- highlighting your self-centered sense of self-entitlement that incorrectly suggests that the world owes you something, out of obligation. THAT'S Wrong Objective reality isn't something you'll persuade most to reject, to participate in the LARP and cosplay, as though it's based in reality. Seethe if you must... It won't change anything. An individual's psych condition really doesn't affect the ability of others to perceive reality at all, or the discernment of others to recognize the objectively absurd and false claims of the trans activists ideological cult claims and narratives.
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  1942.  @dariocarraresi1823  Yes, No one has proven that a man w/ anxiety about his gender (there are only 2 male/female... that's it), is anything other than a man. Got anything? No, you don't so... Let me help clear things up for you. You haven't justified your expectations that girls and women should be okay showering, sharing restrooms, competing against, and sharing prisons with boys and men-- if they claim to identify as girls/women, and you seem to have difficulty coping with their push back against that, when they're citing their right to privacy. Your careless disregard of their considerations, is unchecked misogyny running rampant There are no trans people... There are only males and females in the binary dichotomy of all mammals-- including humans. All men are born male, all women are born female and neither are a subjective gender identity, a social construct, feeling, preference, persona nor a costume. In that category you call trans women, are males w/ unresolved psych issues, not too dissimilar to a male cross dresser in appearance, resembling a caricature of the opposite sex. Not their existence, but your expectation that women should be okay showering with, changing in changing rooms, competing against in sports, for scholarships, employment opportunities, and being imprisoned with men, provided they claim a subjective gender identity of a woman, impacting their right to privacy-- when implemented IS totally unjustifiably, invalid, and ridiculously narcissistic, to act entitled to oppress them in such a way. The inconvenient truth of objective reality just destroys your delusional abstract cult ideology and irrational claims as invalid, and ignoring reality doesn't establish the truth, no matter how many stars you wish upon.
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  2003.  @dariocarraresi1823  No, I quoted the peer reviewed study's conclusion which determined that "Individuals who underwent gender-affirming surgery had a 12-fold higher su~ci~de attempt risk, than those who did not" “Gender-affirming surgery is significantly associated with elevated su~c~de attempt risks, underlining the necessity for comprehensive post-procedure psychiatric support.”. I also posted a whole bunch of other studies showing the attempt rate at 40%. Of course, you dismissed it as "copy pasta" to avoid dealing with the total destruction of your narrative. Kenneth Zucker et Al 2021: 88 percent of trans women desisted after 20 years. 93% resorted to homosexuality vs affirmation treatment with a self delete rate nearly 10x's higher than the general population at nearly 40%, doesn't appear to be validating the 1% 'regret rate' claim-- as accurate (looks like a huge net loss to me, being that gays have a self-delete rate closer to the general population, at around 4% comparatively)-- in NO way justifies claims of affirmation-based treatment protocols as efficacious. Swedish study: Persons with transsexualism, after sex reassignment, have considerably higher risks for mortality, suicidal behaviour, and psychiatric morbidity than the general population. Our findings suggest that sex reassignment, although alleviating gender dysphoria, may not suffice as treatment for transsexualism, and should inspire improved psychiatric and somatic care after sex reassignment for this patient group. A 2020 academic study with a sample size of 372 respondents found that 40 percent of transgender people had attempted suicide. Similarly, in 2016, the National Transgender Discrimination Survey found that 41 percent of 6,450 respondents said they had previously attempted suicide. By comparison, the CDC found that in 2020, 0.36 percent of the population had attempted suicide. According to a 2022 survey by The Trevor Project, an LGBTQ+ suicide prevention organization, nearly 1 in 5 young people who identified as transgender or non-binary have attempted suicide. According to a 2019 UCLA School of Law- Williams Institute report on the thoughts and attempts of self deleting-- the Reports shows that The 2015 U.S. Transgender Survey (USTS), which is the largest survey of transgender people in the U.S. to date, found that 81.7 percent of respondents reported ever seriously thinking about suicide in their lifetimes, while 48.3 percent had done so in the past year. In regard to suicide attempts, 40.4 percent reported attempting suicide at some point in their lifetimes. Although the research literature to date agrees that transgender people are at an elevated risk of suicide thoughts and attempts, there is still much to learn about why transgender people are particularly at risk. Also, the conclusion of the Swedish study, which concluded that persons with transsexualism, after sex reassignment, have considerably higher risks for mortality, suicidal behaviour, and psychiatric morbidity-- than the general population. The findings suggest that sex reassignment, although alleviating gender dysphoria, may not suffice as treatment for transsexualism, and should inspire improved psychiatric and somatic care after sex reassignment for this patient group. When the rate of self deletes among the general population is 10x's lower, and when studies showing that up to 90% desist and end up gay, with only a 4% self delete rate by contrast, the results of affirmation-based treatment protocols are horrible by contrast, making it's justification questionable at best. You may believe wearing your Halloween princess costume makes you an actual princess, but you're only fooling yourself. It doesn't Did you see the Hillary Cass report? She is against early social transition because it puts the kids down a path of confusion … Why don’t trans activists listen ? Lol... YouTube “gender identity services in England - a cass review”. Cass called out the hypocrisy in the old diagnostic criteria … She asked for increased diagnostic criteria, she asked for the removal of the old pink/ blue system She wants increased treatment range to not include gender affirming care. AP- A major UK report says trans kids are being let down by toxic… “Dr. Hilary Cass said there is “no good evidence on the long-term outcomes of interventions to manage gender-related distress,” and young people have been caught up in a “stormy social discourse” about the issue.” Cass’ report, which runs to almost 400 pages, said that “for most young people, a medical pathway” is not the best way to deal with gender-related issues. “Cass said young people questioning their gender identity should be given “a holistic assessment” including screening for neurodevelopmental conditions such as autism, and a mental health assessment.” In her report, Cass said there was “no clear evidence” that social transition in childhood — such as changing names or pronouns — has any positive or negative mental health outcomes. “The report also concluded that there is no simple explanation for why the number of young people identifying as transgender has shot up in recent years in the U.K. and other countries.” 13:27 - conversation is about hormones. She says early social transition and medicalization greatly influence one into a path of surgical transition …. Just listen to her for a few minutes. Listen to 16:00 specifically for social transition. I agree with her This new study just published last month that I already listed “Risk of Suicide and Self-Harm Following Gender-Affirmation Surgery” Individuals who underwent gender-affirming surgery had a 12.12-fold higher suicide attempt risk than those who did not (3.47% vs. 0.29%, RR 95% CI 9.20-15.96, p < 0.0001). “Gender-affirming surgery is significantly associated with elevated suicide attempt risks, underlining the necessity for comprehensive post-procedure psychiatric support.” Doesn't look like efficacious results to me. It seems quite inadequate and unacceptable. You've already lost this debate troll.
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  2006.  @dariocarraresi1823  I literally posted the conclusion which states that the rates are higher post surgery. You seem upset Gotcha detected. Should taken the time to cure your ignorance. The peer reviewed study's conclusion which determined that "Individuals who underwent gender-affirming surgery had a 12-fold higher su~ci~de attempt risk, than those who did not" “Gender-affirming surgery is significantly associated with elevated su~c~de attempt risks, underlining the necessity for comprehensive post-procedure psychiatric support.”. I also posted a whole bunch of other studies showing the attempt rate at 40%. Of course, you dismissed it as "copy pasta" to avoid dealing with the total destruction of your narrative. Kenneth Zucker et Al 2021: 88 percent of trans women desisted after 20 years. 93% resorted to homosexuality vs affirmation treatment with a self delete rate nearly 10x's higher than the general population at nearly 40%, doesn't appear to be validating the 1% 'regret rate' claim-- as accurate (looks like a huge net loss to me, being that gays have a self-delete rate closer to the general population, at around 4% comparatively)-- in NO way justifies claims of affirmation-based treatment protocols as efficacious. Swedish study: Persons with transsexualism, after sex reassignment, have considerably higher risks for mortality, suicidal behaviour, and psychiatric morbidity than the general population. Our findings suggest that sex reassignment, although alleviating gender dysphoria, may not suffice as treatment for transsexualism, and should inspire improved psychiatric and somatic care after sex reassignment for this patient group. A 2020 academic study with a sample size of 372 respondents found that 40 percent of transgender people had attempted suicide. Similarly, in 2016, the National Transgender Discrimination Survey found that 41 percent of 6,450 respondents said they had previously attempted suicide. By comparison, the CDC found that in 2020, 0.36 percent of the population had attempted suicide. According to a 2022 survey by The Trevor Project, an LGBTQ+ suicide prevention organization, nearly 1 in 5 young people who identified as transgender or non-binary have attempted suicide. According to a 2019 UCLA School of Law- Williams Institute report on the thoughts and attempts of self deleting-- the Reports shows that The 2015 U.S. Transgender Survey (USTS), which is the largest survey of transgender people in the U.S. to date, found that 81.7 percent of respondents reported ever seriously thinking about suicide in their lifetimes, while 48.3 percent had done so in the past year. In regard to suicide attempts, 40.4 percent reported attempting suicide at some point in their lifetimes. Although the research literature to date agrees that transgender people are at an elevated risk of suicide thoughts and attempts, there is still much to learn about why transgender people are particularly at risk. Also, the conclusion of the Swedish study, which concluded that persons with transsexualism, after sex reassignment, have considerably higher risks for mortality, suicidal behaviour, and psychiatric morbidity-- than the general population. The findings suggest that sex reassignment, although alleviating gender dysphoria, may not suffice as treatment for transsexualism, and should inspire improved psychiatric and somatic care after sex reassignment for this patient group. When the rate of self deletes among the general population is 10x's lower, and when studies showing that up to 90% desist and end up gay, with only a 4% self delete rate by contrast, the results of affirmation-based treatment protocols are horrible by contrast, making it's justification questionable at best. You may believe wearing your Halloween princess costume makes you an actual princess, but you're only fooling yourself. It doesn't Did you see the Hillary Cass report? She is against early social transition because it puts the kids down a path of confusion … Why don’t trans activists listen ? Lol... YouTube “gender identity services in England - a cass review”. Cass called out the hypocrisy in the old diagnostic criteria … She asked for increased diagnostic criteria, she asked for the removal of the old pink/ blue system She wants increased treatment range to not include gender affirming care. AP- A major UK report says trans kids are being let down by toxic… “Dr. Hilary Cass said there is “no good evidence on the long-term outcomes of interventions to manage gender-related distress,” and young people have been caught up in a “stormy social discourse” about the issue.” Cass’ report, which runs to almost 400 pages, said that “for most young people, a medical pathway” is not the best way to deal with gender-related issues. “Cass said young people questioning their gender identity should be given “a holistic assessment” including screening for neurodevelopmental conditions such as autism, and a mental health assessment.” In her report, Cass said there was “no clear evidence” that social transition in childhood — such as changing names or pronouns — has any positive or negative mental health outcomes. “The report also concluded that there is no simple explanation for why the number of young people identifying as transgender has shot up in recent years in the U.K. and other countries.” 13:27 - conversation is about hormones. She says early social transition and medicalization greatly influence one into a path of surgical transition …. Just listen to her for a few minutes. Listen to 16:00 specifically for social transition. I agree with her This new study just published last month that I already listed “Risk of Suicide and Self-Harm Following Gender-Affirmation Surgery” "Individuals who underwent gender-affirming surgery had a 12.12-fold higher suicide attempt risk than those who did not" “Gender-affirming surgery is significantly associated with elevated suicide attempt risks, underlining the necessity for comprehensive post-procedure psychiatric support.” Doesn't look like efficacious results to me. It seems quite inadequate and unacceptable. You've already lost this debate troll. These are seriously disturbed individuals who suffer multiple comorbidities like depression, drug abuse, homelessness, etc... none of it making it possible for a man to become a woman or justifying the expectation that everyone is obligated to pretend otherwise
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  2007.  @dariocarraresi1823  These are CLEARLY VERY disturbed individuals who suffer multiple comorbidities including depression, autism, homelessness, drug addiction, etc... You clearly missed it when I explained it previously, so try reading slower this time so you don't miss the big picture again. “Gender-affirming surgery is significantly associated with elevated su~c~de attempt risks, underlining the necessity for comprehensive post-procedure psychiatric support.”. I also posted a whole bunch of other studies showing the attempt rate at 40% of trans people and showing their need for continued post surgical psych care. Of course, you dismissed it as "copy pasta" to avoid dealing with the total destruction of your narrative. Kenneth Zucker et Al 2021: 88 percent of trans women desisted after 20 years. 93% resorted to homosexuality vs affirmation treatment with a self delete rate nearly 10x's higher than the general population at nearly 40%, doesn't appear to be validating the 1% 'regret rate' claim-- as accurate (looks like a huge net loss to me, being that gays have a self-delete rate closer to the general population, at around 4% comparatively)-- in NO way justifies claims of affirmation-based treatment protocols as efficacious. Swedish study: Persons with transsexualism, after sex reassignment, have considerably higher risks for mortality, suicidal behaviour, and psychiatric morbidity than the general population. Our findings suggest that sex reassignment, although alleviating gender dysphoria, may not suffice as treatment for transsexualism, and should inspire improved psychiatric and somatic care after sex reassignment for this patient group. A 2020 academic study with a sample size of 372 respondents found that 40 percent of transgender people had attempted suicide. Similarly, in 2016, the National Transgender Discrimination Survey found that 41 percent of 6,450 respondents said they had previously attempted suicide. By comparison, the CDC found that in 2020, 0.36 percent of the population had attempted suicide. According to a 2022 survey by The Trevor Project, an LGBTQ+ suicide prevention organization, nearly 1 in 5 young people who identified as transgender or non-binary have attempted suicide. According to a 2019 UCLA School of Law- Williams Institute report on the thoughts and attempts of self deleting-- the Reports shows that The 2015 U.S. Transgender Survey (USTS), which is the largest survey of transgender people in the U.S. to date, found that 81.7 percent of respondents reported ever seriously thinking about suicide in their lifetimes, while 48.3 percent had done so in the past year. In regard to suicide attempts, 40.4 percent reported attempting suicide at some point in their lifetimes. Although the research literature to date agrees that transgender people are at an elevated risk of suicide thoughts and attempts, there is still much to learn about why transgender people are particularly at risk. Also, the conclusion of the Swedish study, which concluded that persons with transsexualism, after sex reassignment, have considerably higher risks for mortality, suicidal behaviour, and psychiatric morbidity-- than the general population. The findings suggest that sex reassignment, although alleviating gender dysphoria, may not suffice as treatment for transsexualism, and should inspire improved psychiatric and somatic care after sex reassignment for this patient group. When the rate of self deletes among the general population is 10x's lower, and when studies showing that up to 90% desist and end up gay, with only a 4% self delete rate by contrast, the results of affirmation-based treatment protocols are horrible by contrast, making it's justification questionable at best. You may believe wearing your Halloween princess costume makes you an actual princess, but you're only fooling yourself. It doesn't Did you see the Hillary Cass report? She is against early social transition because it puts the kids down a path of confusion … Why don’t trans activists listen ? Lol... YouTube “gender identity services in England - a cass review”. Cass called out the hypocrisy in the old diagnostic criteria … She asked for increased diagnostic criteria, she asked for the removal of the old pink/ blue system She wants increased treatment range to not include gender affirming care. AP- A major UK report says trans kids are being let down by toxic… “Dr. Hilary Cass said there is “no good evidence on the long-term outcomes of interventions to manage gender-related distress,” and young people have been caught up in a “stormy social discourse” about the issue.” Cass’ report, which runs to almost 400 pages, said that “for most young people, a medical pathway” is not the best way to deal with gender-related issues. “Cass said young people questioning their gender identity should be given “a holistic assessment” including screening for neurodevelopmental conditions such as autism, and a mental health assessment.” In her report, Cass said there was “no clear evidence” that social transition in childhood — such as changing names or pronouns — has any positive or negative mental health outcomes. “The report also concluded that there is no simple explanation for why the number of young people identifying as transgender has shot up in recent years in the U.K. and other countries.” 13:27 - conversation is about hormones. She says early social transition and medicalization greatly influence one into a path of surgical transition …. Just listen to her for a few minutes. Listen to 16:00 specifically for social transition. I agree with her This new study just published last month that I already listed “Risk of Sui~ide and Self-Harm Following Gender-Affirmation Surgery” Individuals who underwent gender-affirming surgery had a 12.12-fold higher suicide attempt risk than those who did not compared to others who had traumatic ex breast removal surgery for cancer etc... In other words they're WAY more susceptible to self delete than the general population with affirmation treatment than without ot according to Zucker's 20 year peer reviewed study showing they mostly desist being trans “Gender-affirming surgery is significantly associated with elevated sui~ide attempt risks, underlining the necessity for comprehensive post-procedure psychiatric support.”
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  2033.  @dariocarraresi1823  Projection is all you've done... You need to be in a psych ward, if the amount of coddling you require involves everyone in society catering to your treatment plan under the threat of you self-deleting because you're not fooling anyone about the fact that a dude in a dress is still a dude in a dress, entitling you to exactly ZERO consideration for entry into spaces designated not for males, but for females. Clearly, your goal isn't to be correct... It's to disagree and virtue signal about your disagreement, as though it was a valid objection to maintain your incoherent delusional claims and narratives as valid. They're not It's worthy of ridicule for being so ridiculous, and mockery for being intellectually disingenuous and nothing more than the incoherent push of the woke rainbow cult agenda and narratives-- which are in no way acceptable, or valid, and in no way superior to the long-established historical, cultural and societal norms established in the countries in which you seek to occupy and find acceptance, affirmation and validation, while maintaining your disdain for the very cultures, countries, and people from whom you seek approval. It's not rational, logical or likely. Not all cultures are Equal, Compatible, nor Desirable... That's why nations have borders. You can choose to wear a fairy princess costume if you like, but it doesn't make you a fairy princess and those who think it does are delusional too. Feel free to dress like a woman Feel free to act as effeminate as it gets Feel free be straight or gay Just know that none of that entitles you to occupy the girl's showers, sports etc... because you're pretending you're one of them, or presenting as a stereotypical sexist caricature of a woman you're not. Hopefully, that clears it up for you... So again, what (to you) makes a trans woman a 'woman, and do you have anything to justify your expectation that everyone in society is obligated to pretend you're a woman yet???
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  2096.  @dariocarraresi1823  Transphobe is a toothless and useless cult term used to pretend there are other types of women, other than those born female (There isn't) and to shut down speech. A phobia is an irrational fear, and there's nothing irrational about recognizing that a dude in a dress is a dude in a dress. That's just being observant. There are no transhumans. All men are born male, all women are born female, and that state is fixed and permanent. A psych disconnect with biology, or reality, and wishing it was different, doesn't make it possible for a male to become a female. This negates all of your nonsense all by itself, established in reality. People aren't social constructs, and until you quit pretending they are like in the case of trans people saying trans women are women-- you're going to remain extremely confused and have a difficult time communicating effectively That reality poses you and so many others such a challenge, that you/they have difficulty deciphering the differences between males and females, thinking one can become the other-- is tragic Seethe if you must, but it doesn't change anything. You lost this debate before it started. A man, presenting as, performing as, and/or identifying as a woman doesn't then become a woman, is a reality that your arguments can't escape. Dude, your arguments are anti-science and are rejected. Cope with that You seem triggered that the majority of people aren't interested in participating in the cosplay and LARP, and reject your intellectual prattle. Cope harder
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  2098.  @dariocarraresi1823  Uh huh... Are you trying to illustrate why those biological men shouldn't be allowed in places reserved for biological females, and that your subjective identity doesn't affect your gender, which is established at conception via biology as shown in your example of a female/woman seeking gynecological medical services, Is not a social construct in any way, and that renaming a woman a trans man doesn't impact her biology, and proving that a change of wardrobe doesn't alter her gender/sex either?? That's what you did. I negated all the other points too. All rejected as nonsense People aren't social constructs, and a dude-- in a dress, with an effeminate personality, and a quirky fashion sense akin to a drag queen, - is still a dude aka cross dresser, but a dude nonetheless. #3. So you say... That's rejected. You can dress and act however you like, with whatever sexual preferences, and it doesn't change your gender. Couldn't care less You can choose to operate outside of what is typically considered traditional gender roles of the gender of your choice (Male/Female... That's it), and it doesn't change your gender. Couldn't care less Quit conflating gender with gender roles as though they're synonymous. They aren't. Gender is biological, and gender roles are social constructs and if you keep conflating them you'll continue to be confused. #4 Personality and temperament aren't gender exclusive-- hence effeminate males, butch females and tomboys, and they don't change your gender either. You can identify any way you like. You can't tell the rest of the world how they must identify You. You can choose to prance around in a Fairy princess or Cinderella Halloween costume if you like, but it doesn't make you a fairy princess and it doesn't make you Cinderella either. Couldn't care less, just know that the world isn't obligated to participate in your subjective socially constructed identity focus, and for the most part-- choose not to, and reject your counter-culture proposition to engage, and play along as though objective reality doesn't exist. Why should women be disenfranchised, and have their expectations of privacy from the eyes of men-- be negated, with career opportunity, scholarships, student grants, showers, changing rooms, locker rooms, restrooms, and prisons-- by men (a biological category), who identify as other than the men they are??? #5 Yes, there is ample evidence that people with such severe psych issues exist, and that they commit self harm. And? #6 & 7. Sex is in fact binary. The ignorance of others regarding the meaning of the words they're choosing to use is astoundingly high. Gender: The status of being either male or female. The entire purpose of the gender/sex division in most species of animal life is to facilitate procreation, the sexual identity of an individual is best classified according to the gametes produced by the person in question. There is no extant third gamete. An extremely minute percentage of humans are either “intersex” (typically referring to those who are anatomical hermaphrodites) or of indeterminate gender (that is, not easily determined by a cursory inspection of the external genitalia), but that does not negate the incontrovertible scientific fact that there are only two genders. As far as we know, there has never existed a single human being with the ability to BOTH conceive a child in his/her womb and, simultaneously, successfully inseminate a woman (or in more disturbing terms, for a hermaphrodite to inseminate him/herself). And even if such an individual has existed, that person would be a combination of BOTH male and female, and not some imaginary, novel third gender. Cf. “sex”. Both terms (“gender” and “sex”) originate from Latin words: “genus” (meaning “begin”; “birth”; “kind”; “race”; “gender”) and “sexus” (meaning “sex”; “division”; “gender”). So, essentially, the only significant distinction between the two terms is that the etymology of “gender” pertains to the beginning of things, as can be plainly seen by the other English words that originate from "genus", such as “generic”, “genetic”, and “generate”, whilst “sex” is a scrupulously-literal translation of the Latin cognate “sexus”. The mere fact that the word “genitals” (referring to reproductive organs) is very closely related to the Latin “genus” is further evidence of the assertion that the term “gender” refers to the binary division of human (and of course, many non-human) sexual identity, and NOT to any taxonomy based on emotion, feelings, psychology, or any other non-biological categorization schema. ;) Way too many inappropriately and incorrectly conflate gender/sex (There are only 2-- male/female... That's it) with personality traits and temperament (There are a ton and none are gender exclusive-- hence effeminate males, butch females and tomboys), and again with gender roles (without exception refer to the roles of males and females in society) as though they're synonymous and they are not. Science has already proven that the binary dichotomy of all mammals is male/female. A man in a dress is still a man A man with anxiety about his sex/gender-- still a man A man calling himself a woman-- still a man A man with an effeminate personality--still a man #8 Reject the cult terminology. See Above #9. Couldn't be less interesting or relevant #10 I'm aware that the majority of those who you refer to as trans, don't suffer with GD. I refer to them as trans trenders akin to Goth 2.0 cosplay and LARP. Don't care, it doesn't validate their claims, or create an obligation for everyone to abandon well-established cultural, and societal norms to embrace their 'preferred' alternative, and to operate as though somehow it does is the height of self-entitled narcissism.
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  2116.  @dariocarraresi1823  When you have them saying trans women are women-- they are in fact denying biology. You look ridiculous, as you try so hard to garner negative attention for making embarrassingly ignorant and inane comments which are easily proven to be demonstrably false. You should get a comfort pet and perhaps maybe even one day, make a friend. Your desperate attempts to get attention are only showing your lack of integrity, and bad faith character. If that's the look you're going for, you nailed it. If you want to dress in a counter-culture manner, or in what is generally accepted and appropriate attire for the opposite sex--go for it. That doesn't justify insisting on the participation of others, to use grammatically incorrect pronouns to describe you as you appear to the person describing you, and it doesn't justify encroaching on women's rights to privacy from the prying eyes and presence of men, in changing rooms, locker rooms, showers, bathrooms, or women's prisons- where trans women (men) have impregnated female inmates, or having their opportunities for scholarships, grants, sports, sports teams, and jobs. You do you, just know that a dude in a dress is a dude in a dress- not a woman, and his sexual preferences don't change that either. Still a man No worries. Rejection, get used to it, if you can't, won't, or don't substantiate your claims as valid, when you're questioned about them, don't expect others to participate in your cosplay, as though it's based in reality
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  2117.  @dariocarraresi1823  Sure brah... those who you refer to as trans women-- are men, and their claims of feeling like women trapped in men's bodies, and/or desire to be perceived as women is irrelevant. Cite the source of the stat you refer to re: 50% of trans women seek any form of medical transition, and the percentage who wants genital surgery is WAY smaller. All people are human and part of the binary sexual dichotomy regardless of their appearance or feelings about their sexual biology. Your framing of the narrative re: drag queens/dudes presenting as the sexual stereotypical caricature of women being predators and wanting to be women is intellectually disingenuous and false. Their feelings about not being women are irrelevant-- they're simply not women, and neither are any other males-- regardless of their feelings or attire. Re: your narrative about gay men (or straight men for all that matter)-- they simply note their sexual preferences don't alter their gender/sex. Re: your narrative that 'cis gay men would eventually become trans women'-- wrong again, you're horrible at this. I've already point out to you that ALL men are born male, all women are born female and neither are a social construct, feeling, fetish, preference, personality, nor a costume, making the cis/trans distinction entirely useless and intellectually vacant. So, there you are-- and YOU still haven't debunked anything I've clarified for you and corrected you on your incorrect conclusions about your claims. You seem to be looking for an argument, to displace your denial over a topic that's settled, where you've been proven wrong and dismissed with cause-- by reality. Seethe if you must, but it doesn't change anything. You lost this debate before it started. A man performing as a woman doesn't then become a woman, is a reality that your 'because you said so' arguments can't escape. Gender: The status of being either male or female. The entire purpose of the gender/sex division in most species of animal life is to facilitate procreation, the sexual identity of an individual is best classified according to the gametes produced by the person in question. There is no extant third gamete. Cf. “Sex”. Both terms (“gender” and “sex”) originate from Latin words: “genus” (meaning “begin”; “birth”; “kind”; “race”; “gender”) and “sexus” (meaning “sex”; “division”; “gender”). So, essentially, the only significant distinction between the two terms is that the etymology of “gender” pertains to the beginning of things, as can be plainly seen by the other English words that originate from "genus", such as “generic”, “genetic”, and “generate”, whilst “sex” is a scrupulously-literal translation of the Latin cognate “sexus”. The mere fact that the word “genitals” (referring to reproductive organs) is very closely related to the Latin “genus” is further evidence of the assertion that the term “gender” refers to the binary division of human (and of course, many non-human) sexual identity, and NOT to any taxonomy based on emotion, feelings, psychology, or any other non-biological categorization schema. ;) Way too many inappropriately and incorrectly conflate gender/sex (There are only 2-- male/female... That's it) with personality traits and temperament (There are a ton and none are gender exclusive-- hence effeminate males, butch females and tomboys), and again with gender roles (without exception refer to the roles of males and females in society) as though they're synonymous and they are not. Science has already proven that the binary dichotomy of all mammals is male/female. A man in a dress is still a man A man with anxiety about his sex/gender-- still a man A man calling himself a woman-- still a man A man with an effeminate personality--still a man Seethe if you must, then just cope harder You/They haven't put forth no reasoning that withstands scrutiny, rendering your/their narratives and opinions as less than useless and therefore invalid. Your incoherent rants and claims of legitimacy, are figments of your imagination. Reality isn't an anti-trans ideology. Trans is an anti-reality ideology, and they're the ones seeking affirmation, validation, and the participation of everyone in their larp and cosplay, based on the belief that their subjective delusions are based in reality. Newsflash: They aren't
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  2128.  @dariocarraresi1823  Not changing the topic. I am exposing that the foundation of your narratives are as solid as quick sand. My side is saying that men aren't women, because it's a fact that they're not women-- and you agree. It's really not more complicated than that. You seem to have a problem with that, and you've come up with some creative explanations as to what you believe their motivation is, BUT haven't justified the expectation that just because you identify in a non-traditional fashion, that all of society must treat you as though you're the opposite sex. What you claim to exist as is what's in dispute, not your right to exist, or that you do exist. If you were worried about your dignity, credibility, or making your case-- You'd prove your claims (ANY of them) and disprove those who oppose you-- but NOPE, just continually making baseless claims, and getting owned again and again only to end up deleting your comments and start over with the same baseless nonsense which has been thoroughly debunked. Someone with integrity would substantiate their claims and disprove the arguments of those who's scrutinize them You can't prove your nonsense is correct, because it isn't. Seethe if you must, but your triggered hysteria and delusions of grandeur don't change anything. You lost this debate before it started. A man, presenting as, performing as, and/or identifying as a woman doesn't then become a woman, is a reality that your arguments can't escape. You can't prove me wrong, because I'm correct. Quit while you're still behind. Take the L and move on. I appreciate that you just want to argue, but you should at least make an effort to make them compelling arguments.
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  2130.  @Viral9  I would only clarify and correct 1 thing: Gender: The status of being either male or female. The entire purpose of the gender/sex division in most species of animal life is to facilitate procreation, the sexual identity of an individual is best classified according to the gametes produced by the person in question. There is no extant third gamete. Cf. “sex”. Both terms (“gender” and “sex”) originate from Latin words: “genus” (meaning “begin”; “birth”; “kind”; “race”; “gender”) and “sexus” (meaning “sex”; “division”; “gender”)-- SO, they are in fact synonymous. So, essentially, the only significant distinction between the two terms is that the etymology of “gender” pertains to the beginning of things, as can be plainly seen by the other English words that originate from "genus", such as “generic”, “genetic”, and “generate”, whilst “sex” is a scrupulously-literal translation of the Latin cognate “sexus”. The mere fact that the word “genitals” (referring to reproductive organs) is very closely related to the Latin “genus” is further evidence of the assertion that the term “gender” refers to the binary division of human (and of course, many non-human) sexual identity, and NOT to any taxonomy based on emotion, feelings, psychology, or any other non-biological categorization schema. ;) Way too many inappropriately and incorrectly conflate gender/sex (There are only 2-- male/female... That's it) with personality traits and temperament (There are a ton and none are gender exclusive-- hence effeminate males, butch females and tomboys), and again with gender roles (without exception refer to the roles of males and females in society) as though they're synonymous and they are not.
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  2133.  @dariocarraresi1823  No worries... Your acceptance, approval and validation were never required here dude. You failed to make a coherent well-reasoned argument that withstands scrutiny. That's all on you I identify as correct on these issues, and identify you as incorrect on the issues- and have proven it to my satisfaction. It's the trans activists who insist that trans people as you call them-- want to be accepted, and validated by society. If you don't wish to facilitate that-- just keep doing what you're doing. I already told you. I'm not trying to persuade you. I am enjoying exposing you and your nonsense for the nonsense that it is. You don't have to admit it. It's clearly seen by those without reading comprehension deficits. All women are born female, and they're not social constructs (like a 'gender identity'), so the idiocy you are you talking is irrelevant and is dismissed as such. You fail to persuade that your narratives are valid. You haven't and can't Justify encroaching on women's only spaces (sports, sports teams, scholarships, grants, locker rooms, showers, changing rooms, prisons, etc.), segregated based on sex-- as an entitlement, and You haven't even come close yet. You also haven't and can't Justify the expectation that just because you present and identify in a non-traditional fashion, that all of society must treat you as though you're the opposite sex, so quit your whining. You haven't come close yet, and until you do, don't be surprised if you're dismissed as irrelevant and foolish
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  2147.  @dariocarraresi1823  Your obtuse and intentional mischaracterizations are rejected. You pretend to act as though something other than biology, in the context of our debate-- is relevant. I say it isn't. You insist I think something else. You're wrong, I'm right so-- that's good enough for me. You can choose to invent phantoms to rage against, if you choose. I couldn't possibly care less than not at all, about your incoherent assertions. You've proven yourself to be a creepy dude who is willing to implement mental gymnastics to try unsuccessfully, to justify being accepted as women-- and you're not fooling anyone but yourselves. You have no integrity, and your bad faith responses, avoiding answering questions, renders you and your thoughts irrelevant. Your counter culture, non-traditional and preferred gender roles don't grant you justification to operate as though the world must grant you access to gender-segregated and designated women's only institutions or designations, because you're not a woman. It's really that simple. Nobody cares that you identify as something other than a man. It doesn't make you something other than a man, so just stay in your own biological lane. No-- your fashion choices are irrelevant, you can wear whatever you like, regardless of traditional gender associations-- it doesn't mean you should be treated like a woman, or that you should expect everyone to treat you as a woman because you're not a woman. Women aren't social constructs like gender roles.
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  2149.  @dariocarraresi1823  No, I don't care how you choose to dress or identify. If you're a dude in a fairy princess costume, you use the men's room, you can try out for the men's sports teams, and use the men's locker rooms, showers, changing rooms and prisons. Simple... See?? Not trying to enforce a traditional gender role. Your subjective identity, and preferred gender identity/role are irrelevant to me. I just see a dude in a dress. You keep getting it WAY Wrong Dudes can dress like women in the men's room if they have to use it, and there's nothing preventing it. What's the problem? I told you, gender is biology (there are only 2 male/female... that's it). Gender roles are social constructs that refer to the roles of males and females in society, and assuming the gender role of the opposite sex doesn't make you the opposite sex- so your issue, which apparently has you triggered is unclear. You can choose to have a surgeon alter your appearance to look like a Klingon if you want to, and I really couldn't care less-- but it doesn't make you an actual Klingon, or obligate anyone to pretend that you are-- and anyone who suggests that it does needs a psych evaluation I can recognize the differences between gender and gender roles- even if you can't, and I can decipher the differences between women from men, regardless of whether or not those men are engaging in gender non-conforming roles (Still men)-- because I'm not confused about recognizing the differences between men and women. All the hysterical crap you've been whining about only exists in your imagination
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  2154.  @dariocarraresi1823  Last thing, unless you would like to continue with answers to my questions... Look kid, your personality and disconnect with reality don't make you a woman any more than a fairy princess Halloween costume transforms anyone into an actual fairy princess. You can cosplay and LARP to your heart's content, and use whatever pronouns you like. I REALLY couldn't possibly care any less than I do, which is not at all. You can't choose the pronouns others choose to use when describing some dude in a dress, as a dude in a dress, and using grammatically correct pronouns for a male as he/his, because objective reality isn't a matter of opinion. I typically refer to people by their names though. I typically would only use pronouns if talking about you to someone else, while not in your presence, anyway-- so you'd have no idea, making the notion even more absurd than it already is. It's when you try to compel the participation of others in your cosplay and LARP, where your problems manifest-- highlighting your self-centered sense of self-entitlement that incorrectly suggests that the world owes you something, out of obligation. THAT'S Wrong Objective reality isn't something you'll persuade most to reject, to participate in the LARP and cosplay, as though it's based in reality. Seethe if you must... It won't change anything. An individual's psych condition really doesn't affect the ability of others to perceive reality at all, or the discernment of others to recognize the objectively absurd and false claims of the trans activists ideological cult claims and narratives.
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  2162.  @dariocarraresi1823  Not focusing on 1 single study. ;) Kenneth Zucker et Al 2021 Followed trans woman for 20 years and 88 percent desisted. It was just confirmed in another 15 year study. This is directly from the writer and tenured board member at WPATH, Ken Zucker: Not to mention the leaked wpath files showing doctors themselves do not think these kids are mentally mature enough to consent to the surgeries. Kenneth Zucker et Al 2021: 88 percent of trans women desisted after 20 years. 93% resorted to homosexuality vs affirmation treatment with a self delete rate nearly 10x's higher than the general population at nearly 40%, doesn't appear to be validating the 1% 'regret rate' claim-- as accurate (looks like a huge net loss to me, being that gays have a self-delete rate closer to the general population, at around 4% comparatively)-- in NO way justifies claims of affirmation-based treatment protocols as efficacious. Swedish study: Persons with transsexualism, after sex reassignment, have considerably higher risks for mortality, suicidal behaviour, and psychiatric morbidity than the general population. Our findings suggest that sex reassignment, although alleviating gender dysphoria, may not suffice as treatment for transsexualism, and should inspire improved psychiatric and somatic care after sex reassignment for this patient group. A 2020 academic study with a sample size of 372 respondents found that 40 percent of transgender people had attempted suicide. Similarly, in 2016, the National Transgender Discrimination Survey found that 41 percent of 6,450 respondents said they had previously attempted suicide. By comparison, the CDC found that in 2020, 0.36 percent of the population had attempted suicide. According to a 2022 survey by The Trevor Project, an LGBTQ+ suicide prevention organization, nearly 1 in 5 young people who identified as transgender or non-binary have attempted suicide. According to a 2019 UCLA School of Law- Williams Institute report on the thoughts and attempts of self deleting-- the Reports shows that The 2015 U.S. Transgender Survey (USTS), which is the largest survey of transgender people in the U.S. to date, found that 81.7 percent of respondents reported ever seriously thinking about suicide in their lifetimes, while 48.3 percent had done so in the past year. In regard to suicide attempts, 40.4 percent reported attempting suicide at some point in their lifetimes. Although the research literature to date agrees that transgender people are at an elevated risk of suicide thoughts and attempts, there is still much to learn about why transgender people are particularly at risk. Also, the conclusion of the Swedish study, which concluded that persons with transsexualism, after sex reassignment, have considerably higher risks for mortality, suicidal behaviour, and psychiatric morbidity-- than the general population. The findings suggest that sex reassignment, although alleviating gender dysphoria, may not suffice as treatment for transsexualism, and should inspire improved psychiatric and somatic care after sex reassignment for this patient group. When the rate of self deletes among the general population is 10x's lower, and when studies showing that up to 90% desist and end up gay, with only a 4% self delete rate by contrast, the results of affirmation-based treatment protocols are horrible by contrast, making it's justification questionable at best. You may believe wearing your Halloween princess costume makes you an actual princess, but you're only fooling yourself. It doesn't Did you see the Hillary Cass report? She is against early social transition because it puts the kids down a path of confusion … Why don’t trans activists listen ? Lol... YouTube “gender identity services in England - a cass review”. Cass called out the hypocrisy in the old diagnostic criteria … She asked for increased diagnostic criteria, she asked for the removal of the old pink/ blue system She wants increased treatment range to not include gender affirming care. AP- A major UK report says trans kids are being let down by toxic… “Dr. Hilary Cass said there is “no good evidence on the long-term outcomes of interventions to manage gender-related distress,” and young people have been caught up in a “stormy social discourse” about the issue.” Cass’ report, which runs to almost 400 pages, said that “for most young people, a medical pathway” is not the best way to deal with gender-related issues. “Cass said young people questioning their gender identity should be given “a holistic assessment” including screening for neurodevelopmental conditions such as autism, and a mental health assessment.” In her report, Cass said there was “no clear evidence” that social transition in childhood — such as changing names or pronouns — has any positive or negative mental health outcomes. “The report also concluded that there is no simple explanation for why the number of young people identifying as transgender has shot up in recent years in the U.K. and other countries.” 13:27 - conversation is about hormones. She says early social transition and medicalization greatly influence one into a path of surgical transition …. Just listen to her for a few minutes. Listen to 16:00 specifically for social transition. I agree with her This new study just published last month that I already listed “Risk of Suicide and Self-Harm Following Gender-Affirmation Surgery” Individuals who underwent gender-affirming surgery had a 12.12-fold higher suicide attempt risk than those who did not (3.47% vs. 0.29%, RR 95% CI 9.20-15.96, p < 0.0001). “Gender-affirming surgery is significantly associated with elevated suicide attempt risks, underlining the necessity for comprehensive post-procedure psychiatric support.” Doesn't look like efficacious results to me. It seems quite inadequate and unacceptable
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  2164.  @dariocarraresi1823  Oh-- I only get one attempt huh? Hilarious! It's not me looking for your approval, acceptance, compassion, consideration, or affirmation to establish a sense of validation-- that would be you and yours and those who advocate in favor of the trans activist ideological agenda and narratives making that appeal. You have the opportunity to make a compelling case, BUT you seem to be going out of your way not to answer the only questions I asked, which doesn't seem like a logical approach, making you the wrench in your own spokes. Congratulations, you played yourself I couldn't care less if you want to have a surgeon alter your appearance to look like a Klingon-- Go for it, but it doesn't make you a Klingon or obligate everyone to treat you as though you are, OR you can choose to prance around in a fairy princess costume for all I care (which is not at all) and it wouldn't make you a fairy princess either nor would it obligate everyone to treat you as though you were... You'd still be a man, and as such-- you're not justified in women's only designated areas, segregated by sex as any sort of entitlement. To advocate for infiltrating on women's rights like that is totally creepy. It doesn't take into account those who've self deleted in that regret rate stat you're so fond of, so I'm not buying your assertion. Nonetheless-- You still haven't been able to justify encroaching on spaces designated segregated based on sex, as an entitlement (Not even close). You/They also haven't come anywhere near close yet, to being able to justify the expectation that just because you/they present and identify in a non-traditional fashion, that all of society must treat you/them as though you're/they're the opposite sex-- especially after you made such a point and made a big deal about insisting that sex and gender identity are separate. It's incoherent Such fragile people who are driven to such anxiety and nihilism by the adversity in life, can't expect all of society to accept responsibility for and agreeing to participate in their treatment, while maintaining that their affirmation based treatment is effective, AND the expectation that random strangers in society should deny objective reality to participate in the cosplay and LARP, as though it's based in objective reality is unreasonable anyway you slice it.
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  2170.  @dariocarraresi1823  If they need THAT amount of care, that all of society needs to be involved in their treatment plan, they belong in protective custody. All the hysterical crap you've been whining about, only exists in your imagination. You probably didn't intend to demonstrate that affirmation treatment protocols have failed to provide a means to develop effective coping mechanisms to potentially s~i*dal people, who threaten to off themselves if you don't let them remove themselves from the gene pool or otherwise permanently mutilate their normally functioning anatomy-- BUT that is exactly what you did. How do you figure trans women are women, being that all women are human females, who've reached the age of adulthood, not some subjective social construct, identity, feeling, fetish, preference, or costume? You seem quite unclear on the definition of 'woman', and the scientific classification of human development that is unique to the female half of the binary sexual dichotomy of male and female for all mammals. The justification for separating men and women in prison, showers, locker rooms, changing rooms, the draft, and sports teams/leagues seems to only be confusing to you. Whats your issue with women having a right to privacy??? Well.... ??? Justify and explain how eliminating women's private spaces and allowing men to encroach isn't misogyny on your part? Anything??? Why should everyone pretend that a man is anything other than a man, regardless of his attire, or feelings to the contrary?
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  2185. Hmmm... "Open Letter in Support of Dr. Kenneth Zucker and the Need to Promote Robust Scientific Debate" Sponsored by FAIR in Medicine May 5, 2023 "We, the undersigned signatories, are expressing our support for Dr. Kenneth Zucker, an academically robust and unbiased editorial process at the Archives of Sexual Behavior, and uninterrupted publication of “Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria: Parent Reports on 1655 Possible Cases” by Diaz and Bailey. We condemn and reject the censorious demands being directed at Springer Nature, the company that publishes Archives of Sexual Behavior, that this paper be retracted, and that the editor of the journal, Dr. Zucker, be sanctioned for allowing the paper’s publication. The appropriate action is to have an open debate about the paper—not to silence those whose views one finds disagreeable. Currently as many as one in 10–20 youth report gender dysphoria. The paper by Diaz and Bailey adds to the growing body of knowledge about the various factors contributing to the rapid rise of adolescent-onset gender dysphoria–a phenomenon that was exceedingly rare in the past. Specifically, the paper engages with parental reports of the cases of “Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria,” or ROGD. The ROGD hypothesis posits that in some cases, gender dysphoria in adolescence may be mediated by social factors. The potential viability of the ROGD hypothesis has been endorsed not only by the parents, as described by Diaz and Bailey, but also by the clinicians working with this patient population, and the affected patients themselves. If it proves to be correct, then the treatment approaches to this novel population of adolescents may need to be different, including the possibility that such cases may benefit from less invasive interventions that do not carry the irreversible effects of hormonal and surgical interventions known as “gender-affirming care.” The concern that the currently-presenting gender dysphoric youth are different from the originally-studied cases, and that they may be better helped by psychotherapy, has also been expressed by the originators of the “Dutch” protocol for gender-transitioning minors. We are particularly disappointed that among the signatories demanding that the research be retracted is the current President of WPATH. WPATH recently acknowledged the role of social influence as a possible contributing factor to gender dysphoria in adolescents, saying: “For a select subgroup of young people, susceptibility to social influence impacting gender may be an important differential to consider.” (Coleman et al., 2022, p. 45) Signing a demand to retract one of the very few papers examining the possible influence of social factors is inconsistent with WPATH’s own statements. We are aware of the allegation that a lack of an Institutional Review Board approval of this publication warrants a retraction. However, this is demonstrably false. Springer’s policies explicitly allow the Editor-in-Chief the discretion to accept a publication that has not sought IRB approval. The first author of this study was not affiliated with a university and did not need to seek IRB approval. Further, we are aware that the activists are alleging that the paper’s methodology was biased by only relying on parental reports. However, parental reports are commonly used to gather information about children and adolescents. A highly influential paper in the field that is often cited to support social transition for youth also relied on parental reports. However, in this case the methodology was not criticized. The difference appears to be that in this example, the parents supported their children’s gender transition, whereas in the Diaz and Bailey paper, the parents were concerned with the risks of inappropriate medicalization of their children. Unfortunately, this is not the first time journals and researchers who dare explore the subject of ROGD have been targeted for cancellation. What is currently happening to the Diaz and Bailey paper bears a marked resemblance to the prior attempt to silence the original “ROGD” paper by Lisa Littman, MD. Under tremendous pressure from critics, PLOS ONE subjected the paper to a second round of peer review post-publication. The paper withstood this unprecedented scrutiny, with its results unchanged. To quote Jeffrey S. Flier, MD, the 21st Dean of Harvard Medical School, who wrote eloquently about the the attempts to silence research into ROGD, “Many papers face questions after they have been published, which is well and proper: the systematic assessment and scrutiny of published work is a core method by which the scientific community corrects errors, and builds upon imperfect preliminary observations…But that is not what has happened…. [the] critics have not performed any systematic analysis of her findings, but seem principally motivated by ideological opposition to [the] conclusions. We fear that just like in the case of the original ROGD paper, the demands for retraction and sanctioning of Dr. Zucker, the Editor-in-Chief are principally motivated by the ideological opposition to Diaz and Bailey’s conclusion. Because of Dr. Zucker’s unique experience in the field and his role as the Editor-in-Chief, the journal, Archives of Sexual Behavior, has become a formidable force in the growing debate about how to best care for the rapidly growing numbers of gender-diverse youth. Dr. Zucker has demonstrated neutrality by routinely publishing articles on both sides of this contentious issue. While the paper by Diaz and Bailey–like all research–has limitations, it is vital to continue to study the ROGD hypothesis. Ongoing attempts to silence any research into the explosion of teens who are now identifying as transgender only stands to hurt the very patients the activists are claiming to help–young gender nonconforming people. We, the undersigned signatories, ask that Springer Nature, the company that publishes Archives of Sexual Behavior, takes a nuanced view of this situation, examines the context in which these complaints have been leveled, and chooses to uphold the principles and practice of scientific discussion, debate, and freedom of expression by rejecting calls to retract the paper “Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria: Parent Reports on 1655 Possible Cases” by Diaz and Bailey and refusing to sanction Dr. Kenneth Zucker for his decision to publish the paper." What were you saying???
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  2189.  @diogenesofseattle2344  Kenneth Zucker et Al 2021: 88 percent of trans women desisted after 20 years. 93% resorted to homosexuality vs affirmation treatment with a self delete rate nearly 10x's higher than the general population at nearly 40%, doesn't appear to be validating the 1% 'regret rate' claim-- as accurate (looks like a huge net loss to me, being that gays have a self-delete rate closer to the general population, at around 4% comparatively)-- in NO way justifies claims of affirmation-based treatment protocols as efficacious. Swedish study: Persons with transsexualism, after sex reassignment, have considerably higher risks for mortality, suicidal behaviour, and psychiatric morbidity than the general population. Our findings suggest that sex reassignment, although alleviating gender dysphoria, may not suffice as treatment for transsexualism, and should inspire improved psychiatric and somatic care after sex reassignment for this patient group. A 2020 academic study with a sample size of 372 respondents found that 40 percent of transgender people had attempted suicide. Similarly, in 2016, the National Transgender Discrimination Survey found that 41 percent of 6,450 respondents said they had previously attempted suicide. By comparison, the CDC found that in 2020, 0.36 percent of the population had attempted suicide. According to a 2022 survey by The Trevor Project, an LGBTQ+ suicide prevention organization, nearly 1 in 5 young people who identified as transgender or non-binary have attempted suicide. According to a 2019 UCLA School of Law- Williams Institute report on the thoughts and attempts of self deleting-- the Reports shows that The 2015 U.S. Transgender Survey (USTS), which is the largest survey of transgender people in the U.S. to date, found that 81.7 percent of respondents reported ever seriously thinking about suicide in their lifetimes, while 48.3 percent had done so in the past year. In regard to suicide attempts, 40.4 percent reported attempting suicide at some point in their lifetimes. Although the research literature to date agrees that transgender people are at an elevated risk of suicide thoughts and attempts, there is still much to learn about why transgender people are particularly at risk. Also, the conclusion of the Swedish study, which concluded that persons with transsexualism, after sex reassignment, have considerably higher risks for mortality, suicidal behaviour, and psychiatric morbidity-- than the general population. The findings suggest that sex reassignment, although alleviating gender dysphoria, may not suffice as treatment for transsexualism, and should inspire improved psychiatric and somatic care after sex reassignment for this patient group. When the rate of self deletes among the general population is 10x's lower, and when studies showing that up to 90% desist and end up gay, with only a 4% self delete rate by contrast, the results of affirmation-based treatment protocols are horrible by contrast, making it's justification questionable at best. You may believe wearing your Halloween princess costume makes you an actual princess, but you're only fooling yourself. It doesn't Did you see the Hillary Cass report? She is against early social transition because it puts the kids down a path of confusion … Why don’t trans activists listen ? Lol... YouTube “gender identity services in England - a cass review”. Cass called out the hypocrisy in the old diagnostic criteria … She asked for increased diagnostic criteria, she asked for the removal of the old pink/ blue system She wants increased treatment range to not include gender affirming care. AP- A major UK report says trans kids are being let down by toxic… “Dr. Hilary Cass said there is “no good evidence on the long-term outcomes of interventions to manage gender-related distress,” and young people have been caught up in a “stormy social discourse” about the issue.” Cass’ report, which runs to almost 400 pages, said that “for most young people, a medical pathway” is not the best way to deal with gender-related issues. “Cass said young people questioning their gender identity should be given “a holistic assessment” including screening for neurodevelopmental conditions such as autism, and a mental health assessment.” In her report, Cass said there was “no clear evidence” that social transition in childhood — such as changing names or pronouns — has any positive or negative mental health outcomes. “The report also concluded that there is no simple explanation for why the number of young people identifying as transgender has shot up in recent years in the U.K. and other countries.” 13:27 - conversation is about hormones. She says early social transition and medicalization greatly influence one into a path of surgical transition …. Just listen to her for a few minutes. Listen to 16:00 specifically for social transition. I agree with her This new study just published last month that I already listed “Risk of Suicide and Self-Harm Following Gender-Affirmation Surgery” Individuals who underwent gender-affirming surgery had a 12.12-fold higher suicide attempt risk than those who did not (3.47% vs. 0.29%, RR 95% CI 9.20-15.96, p < 0.0001). “Gender-affirming surgery is significantly associated with elevated suicide attempt risks, underlining the necessity for comprehensive post-procedure psychiatric support.” Doesn't look like efficacious results to me. It seems quite inadequate and unacceptable. You've already lost this debate troll.
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  2191.  @diogenesofseattle2344  Zucker is a member of WPATH and his peers don't agree with you. Open Letter in Support of Dr. Kenneth Zucker and the Need to Promote Robust Scientific Debate Sponsored by FAIR in Medicine May 5, 2023 "We, the undersigned signatories, are expressing our support for Dr. Kenneth Zucker, an academically robust and unbiased editorial process at the Archives of Sexual Behavior, and uninterrupted publication of “Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria: Parent Reports on 1655 Possible Cases” by Diaz and Bailey. We condemn and reject the censorious demands being directed at Springer Nature, the company that publishes Archives of Sexual Behavior, that this paper be retracted, and that the editor of the journal, Dr. Zucker, be sanctioned for allowing the paper’s publication. The appropriate action is to have an open debate about the paper—not to silence those whose views one finds disagreeable. Currently as many as one in 10–20 youth report gender dysphoria. The paper by Diaz and Bailey adds to the growing body of knowledge about the various factors contributing to the rapid rise of adolescent-onset gender dysphoria–a phenomenon that was exceedingly rare in the past. Specifically, the paper engages with parental reports of the cases of “Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria,” or ROGD. The ROGD hypothesis posits that in some cases, gender dysphoria in adolescence may be mediated by social factors. The potential viability of the ROGD hypothesis has been endorsed not only by the parents, as described by Diaz and Bailey, but also by the clinicians working with this patient population, and the affected patients themselves. If it proves to be correct, then the treatment approaches to this novel population of adolescents may need to be different, including the possibility that such cases may benefit from less invasive interventions that do not carry the irreversible effects of hormonal and surgical interventions known as “gender-affirming care.” The concern that the currently-presenting gender dysphoric youth are different from the originally-studied cases, and that they may be better helped by psychotherapy, has also been expressed by the originators of the “Dutch” protocol for gender-transitioning minors. We are particularly disappointed that among the signatories demanding that the research be retracted is the current President of WPATH. WPATH recently acknowledged the role of social influence as a possible contributing factor to gender dysphoria in adolescents, saying: “For a select subgroup of young people, susceptibility to social influence impacting gender may be an important differential to consider.” (Coleman et al., 2022, p. 45) Signing a demand to retract one of the very few papers examining the possible influence of social factors is inconsistent with WPATH’s own statements. We are aware of the allegation that a lack of an Institutional Review Board approval of this publication warrants a retraction. However, this is demonstrably false. Springer’s policies explicitly allow the Editor-in-Chief the discretion to accept a publication that has not sought IRB approval. The first author of this study was not affiliated with a university and did not need to seek IRB approval. Further, we are aware that the activists are alleging that the paper’s methodology was biased by only relying on parental reports. However, parental reports are commonly used to gather information about children and adolescents. A highly influential paper in the field that is often cited to support social transition for youth also relied on parental reports. However, in this case the methodology was not criticized. The difference appears to be that in this example, the parents supported their children’s gender transition, whereas in the Diaz and Bailey paper, the parents were concerned with the risks of inappropriate medicalization of their children. Unfortunately, this is not the first time journals and researchers who dare explore the subject of ROGD have been targeted for cancellation. What is currently happening to the Diaz and Bailey paper bears a marked resemblance to the prior attempt to silence the original “ROGD” paper by Lisa Littman, MD. Under tremendous pressure from critics, PLOS ONE subjected the paper to a second round of peer review post-publication. The paper withstood this unprecedented scrutiny, with its results unchanged. To quote Jeffrey S. Flier, MD, the 21st Dean of Harvard Medical School, who wrote eloquently about the the attempts to silence research into ROGD, “Many papers face questions after they have been published, which is well and proper: the systematic assessment and scrutiny of published work is a core method by which the scientific community corrects errors, and builds upon imperfect preliminary observations…But that is not what has happened…. [the] critics have not performed any systematic analysis of her findings, but seem principally motivated by ideological opposition to [the] conclusions. We fear that just like in the case of the original ROGD paper, the demands for retraction and sanctioning of Dr. Zucker, the Editor-in-Chief are principally motivated by the ideological opposition to Diaz and Bailey’s conclusion. Because of Dr. Zucker’s unique experience in the field and his role as the Editor-in-Chief, the journal, Archives of Sexual Behavior, has become a formidable force in the growing debate about how to best care for the rapidly growing numbers of gender-diverse youth. Dr. Zucker has demonstrated neutrality by routinely publishing articles on both sides of this contentious issue. While the paper by Diaz and Bailey–like all research–has limitations, it is vital to continue to study the ROGD hypothesis. Ongoing attempts to silence any research into the explosion of teens who are now identifying as transgender only stands to hurt the very patients the activists are claiming to help–young gender nonconforming people. We, the undersigned signatories, ask that Springer Nature, the company that publishes Archives of Sexual Behavior, takes a nuanced view of this situation, examines the context in which these complaints have been leveled, and chooses to uphold the principles and practice of scientific discussion, debate, and freedom of expression by rejecting calls to retract the paper “Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria: Parent Reports on 1655 Possible Cases” by Diaz and Bailey and refusing to sanction Dr. Kenneth Zucker for his decision to publish the paper." You got nothing but triggered whinging and confusion
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  2215.  @dariocarraresi1823  The actual Conclusion from the study said: "Individuals who underwent gender-affirming surgery had a 12-fold higher su~ci~de attempt risk, than those who did not". Clearly you doubt them. I've already recommended that you submit your findings to the medical professionals who peer reviewed the data of the study showing them your data which invalidates their findings and conclusions and analysis of the data gathered in their study. Those who did not have surgery is 1. are a much larger pool than those who have (and call themselves 'trans') and 2. there are studies showing that 90% of those who don't have affirmation treatment, desist and choose a gay lifestyle putting them in a different category as the stats of gays self-deleting is in line with that of the general population. Get a clue “Gender-affirming surgery is significantly associated with elevated su~c~de attempt risks, underlining the necessity for comprehensive post-procedure psychiatric support.” Why do you doubt them???? Looks like affirmation surgery is not so efficacious, if afterward the results are such as they are "a 12-fold higher su~ci~de attempt risk, than those who did not"-- at a 40% rate which is already WAY WAY higher than that of the general population. Best of luck with your therapy. It looks like you're gonna need it, and it comes highly recommended by the medical community for a reason, which you seem unable or unwilling to grasp or admit. Your schtick is boring. Don't care if a dude wants to wear a dress and is effeminate in nature, and is straight or gay... Still a dude... Still unjustified in women's showers. Still got nothing ???
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  2216.  @dariocarraresi1823  If I typed it every single time-- you'd say the same thing and the content would remain in good standing. Not buying it. Kenneth Zucker et Al 2021: 88 percent of trans women desisted after 20 years. 93% resorted to homosexuality vs affirmation treatment with a self delete rate nearly 10x's higher than the general population at nearly 40%, doesn't appear to be validating the 1% 'regret rate' claim-- as accurate (looks like a huge net loss to me, being that gays have a self-delete rate closer to the general population, at around 4% comparatively)-- in NO way justifies claims of affirmation-based treatment protocols as efficacious. Swedish study: Persons with transsexualism, after sex reassignment, have considerably higher risks for mortality, suicidal behaviour, and psychiatric morbidity than the general population. Our findings suggest that sex reassignment, although alleviating gender dysphoria, may not suffice as treatment for transsexualism, and should inspire improved psychiatric and somatic care after sex reassignment for this patient group. A 2020 academic study with a sample size of 372 respondents found that 40 percent of transgender people had attempted suicide. Similarly, in 2016, the National Transgender Discrimination Survey found that 41 percent of 6,450 respondents said they had previously attempted suicide. By comparison, the CDC found that in 2020, 0.36 percent of the population had attempted suicide. According to a 2022 survey by The Trevor Project, an LGBTQ+ suicide prevention organization, nearly 1 in 5 young people who identified as transgender or non-binary have attempted suicide. According to a 2019 UCLA School of Law- Williams Institute report on the thoughts and attempts of self deleting-- the Reports shows that The 2015 U.S. Transgender Survey (USTS), which is the largest survey of transgender people in the U.S. to date, found that 81.7 percent of respondents reported ever seriously thinking about suicide in their lifetimes, while 48.3 percent had done so in the past year. In regard to suicide attempts, 40.4 percent reported attempting suicide at some point in their lifetimes. Although the research literature to date agrees that transgender people are at an elevated risk of suicide thoughts and attempts, there is still much to learn about why transgender people are particularly at risk. Also, the conclusion of the Swedish study, which concluded that persons with transsexualism, after sex reassignment, have considerably higher risks for mortality, suicidal behaviour, and psychiatric morbidity-- than the general population. The findings suggest that sex reassignment, although alleviating gender dysphoria, may not suffice as treatment for transsexualism, and should inspire improved psychiatric and somatic care after sex reassignment for this patient group. When the rate of self deletes among the general population is 10x's lower, and when studies showing that up to 90% desist and end up gay, with only a 4% self delete rate by contrast, the results of affirmation-based treatment protocols are horrible by contrast, making it's justification questionable at best. You may believe wearing your Halloween princess costume makes you an actual princess, but you're only fooling yourself. It doesn't Did you see the Hillary Cass report? She is against early social transition because it puts the kids down a path of confusion … Why don’t trans activists listen ? Lol... YouTube “gender identity services in England - a cass review”. Cass called out the hypocrisy in the old diagnostic criteria … She asked for increased diagnostic criteria, she asked for the removal of the old pink/ blue system She wants increased treatment range to not include gender affirming care. AP- A major UK report says trans kids are being let down by toxic… “Dr. Hilary Cass said there is “no good evidence on the long-term outcomes of interventions to manage gender-related distress,” and young people have been caught up in a “stormy social discourse” about the issue.” Cass’ report, which runs to almost 400 pages, said that “for most young people, a medical pathway” is not the best way to deal with gender-related issues. “Cass said young people questioning their gender identity should be given “a holistic assessment” including screening for neurodevelopmental conditions such as autism, and a mental health assessment.” In her report, Cass said there was “no clear evidence” that social transition in childhood — such as changing names or pronouns — has any positive or negative mental health outcomes. “The report also concluded that there is no simple explanation for why the number of young people identifying as transgender has shot up in recent years in the U.K. and other countries.” 13:27 - conversation is about hormones. She says early social transition and medicalization greatly influence one into a path of surgical transition …. Just listen to her for a few minutes. Listen to 16:00 specifically for social transition. I agree with her This study just published that I already listed “Risk of Suicide and Self-Harm Following Gender-Affirmation Surgery” "Individuals who underwent gender-affirming surgery had a 12.12-fold higher suicide attempt risk than those who did not" “Gender-affirming surgery is significantly associated with elevated suicide attempt risks, underlining the necessity for comprehensive post-procedure psychiatric support.” Doesn't look like efficacious results to me. It seems quite inadequate and unacceptable. You've already lost this debate troll.
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  2220.  @dariocarraresi1823  These are CLEARLY VERY disturbed individuals who suffer multiple comorbidities including depression, autism, drug abuse, anti-social personality challenges, etc... You clearly missed it when I explained it previously, so try reading slower this time so you don't miss the big picture again. “Gender-affirming surgery is significantly associated with elevated su~c~de attempt risks, underlining the necessity for comprehensive post-procedure psychiatric support.”. I also posted a whole bunch of other studies showing the attempt rate at 40%. Of course, you dismissed it as "copy pasta" to avoid dealing with the total destruction of your narrative. Kenneth Zucker et Al 2021: 88 percent of trans women desisted after 20 years. 93% resorted to homosexuality vs affirmation treatment with a self delete rate nearly 10x's higher than the general population at nearly 40%, doesn't appear to be validating the 1% 'regret rate' claim-- as accurate (looks like a huge net loss to me, being that gays have a self-delete rate closer to the general population, at around 4% comparatively)-- in NO way justifies claims of affirmation-based treatment protocols as efficacious. Swedish study: Persons with transsexualism, after sex reassignment, have considerably higher risks for mortality, suicidal behaviour, and psychiatric morbidity than the general population. Our findings suggest that sex reassignment, although alleviating gender dysphoria, may not suffice as treatment for transsexualism, and should inspire improved psychiatric and somatic care after sex reassignment for this patient group. A 2020 academic study with a sample size of 372 respondents found that 40 percent of transgender people had attempted suicide. Similarly, in 2016, the National Transgender Discrimination Survey found that 41 percent of 6,450 respondents said they had previously attempted suicide. By comparison, the CDC found that in 2020, 0.36 percent of the population had attempted suicide. According to a 2022 survey by The Trevor Project, an LGBTQ+ suicide prevention organization, nearly 1 in 5 young people who identified as transgender or non-binary have attempted suicide. According to a 2019 UCLA School of Law- Williams Institute report on the thoughts and attempts of self deleting-- the Reports shows that The 2015 U.S. Transgender Survey (USTS), which is the largest survey of transgender people in the U.S. to date, found that 81.7 percent of respondents reported ever seriously thinking about suicide in their lifetimes, while 48.3 percent had done so in the past year. In regard to suicide attempts, 40.4 percent reported attempting suicide at some point in their lifetimes. Although the research literature to date agrees that transgender people are at an elevated risk of suicide thoughts and attempts, there is still much to learn about why transgender people are particularly at risk. Also, the conclusion of the Swedish study, which concluded that persons with transsexualism, after sex reassignment, have considerably higher risks for mortality, suicidal behaviour, and psychiatric morbidity-- than the general population. The findings suggest that sex reassignment, although alleviating gender dysphoria, may not suffice as treatment for transsexualism, and should inspire improved psychiatric and somatic care after sex reassignment for this patient group. When the rate of self deletes among the general population is 10x's lower, and when studies showing that up to 90% desist and end up gay, with only a 4% self delete rate by contrast, the results of affirmation-based treatment protocols are horrible by contrast, making it's justification questionable at best. You may believe wearing your Halloween princess costume makes you an actual princess, but you're only fooling yourself. It doesn't Did you see the Hillary Cass report? She is against early social transition because it puts the kids down a path of confusion … Why don’t trans activists listen ? Lol... YouTube “gender identity services in England - a cass review”. Cass called out the hypocrisy in the old diagnostic criteria … She asked for increased diagnostic criteria, she asked for the removal of the old pink/ blue system She wants increased treatment range to not include gender affirming care. AP- A major UK report says trans kids are being let down by toxic… “Dr. Hilary Cass said there is “no good evidence on the long-term outcomes of interventions to manage gender-related distress,” and young people have been caught up in a “stormy social discourse” about the issue.” Cass’ report, which runs to almost 400 pages, said that “for most young people, a medical pathway” is not the best way to deal with gender-related issues. “Cass said young people questioning their gender identity should be given “a holistic assessment” including screening for neurodevelopmental conditions such as autism, and a mental health assessment.” In her report, Cass said there was “no clear evidence” that social transition in childhood — such as changing names or pronouns — has any positive or negative mental health outcomes. “The report also concluded that there is no simple explanation for why the number of young people identifying as transgender has shot up in recent years in the U.K. and other countries.” 13:27 - conversation is about hormones. She says early social transition and medicalization greatly influence one into a path of surgical transition …. Just listen to her for a few minutes. Listen to 16:00 specifically for social transition. I agree with her This new study just published last month that I already listed “Risk of Suicide and Self-Harm Following Gender-Affirmation Surgery” Individuals who underwent gender-affirming surgery had a 12.12-fold higher suicide attempt risk than those who did not “Gender-affirming surgery is significantly associated with elevated suicide attempt risks, underlining the necessity for comprehensive post-procedure psychiatric support.” Doesn't look like efficacious results to me. It seems quite inadequate and unacceptable. Bottom line-- d~ckless dudes aren't women never will be
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  2289.  @martind2520  People and animals eat them because their nutritional value is recognized. I never mentioned the death penalty or my thoughts about it. You're triggered and seeking attention because you Don't care about what I think right? Uh huh-- Get a friend If gender and sex are truly independent, why are trans people subscribing to a sexual stereotypical caricature of biological sex??? No, sorry not sorry. Your cult narrative is incoherent madness. The main problem that the trans activist ideological narratives have is that life is based in objective reality and most don't have difficulty deciphering the difference between reality and the trans imagination. You're only fooling yourself, if you don't acknowledge the trans activists saying trans women are women. LOL ALL women are born female, all men are born male and neither are a mere social construct, feeling, fetish, preference or costume. A dude with a psych issue who believes he's a woman is still a dude. That just how it is. Seethe if you must, then just cope harder... You're only fooling yourselves You can't change your gender. You can only reject traditional gender roles by engaging in various levels of cosplay and LARPing, or not. You could have a surgeon alter your appearance to look like a Klingon, and it wouldn't make you a Klingon either. A dude with top and bottom surgery and wearing a dress is still a dude, regardless of his desire to be a woman-- he's not and can't ever be, is the point you can't escape.
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  2316.  @artikulv731  You can't change your gender. You can only reject traditional gender roles by engaging in various levels of cosplay and LARPing. If sex and gender are independent, why should a male/man bother altering his primary sex characteristics to mimic the primary sex characteristics of a woman? Make it make sense if gender is merely a social construct, and independent from sex-- why not identify as a girl without going out of the way to alter your appearance to present as the stereotypical and objective primary sex characteristics of a female human the target????? Make it make sense What right do trans people think they have which obligates those societies which have long established their cultural norms, to abandon their cultural norms and deny objective reality, to embrace theirs??? Looks like self entitled narcissism on the part of the trans people. Way too many inappropriately and incorrectly conflate gender/sex (There are only 2-- male/female... That's it) with personality traits and temperament (There are a ton and none are gender exclusive-- hence effeminate males, butch females and tomboys), and again with gender roles (without exception refer to the roles of males and females in society) as though they're synonymous and they are not. Science has already proven that the binary dichotomy of all mammals is male/female. A man in a dress is still a man A man with anxiety about his sex/gender-- still a man A man calling himself a woman-- still a man A man with an effeminate personality--still a man Why should women's right to privacy from the presence of men, be up for debate at the whim of misogynistic men, presenting as women?
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  2346.  @phaneros8180  Ask your mom. Is that the best you got? Cry harder I get that you want to argue for the sake of argument, but for all of human history boy/man meant boy/man and girl/woman meant girl/woman. Let's not kid ourselves here. It dates back to the earliest books of the Bible where God made 'mankind' in His image, He made them male and female. The early writers understood the meaning and wrote laws for each (males and females). It's not really a question at all, with the context of literature throughout the centuries confirming the meaning and understanding of the words man and woman, male/female. All of a sudden now, people like you are confused about reality. A man is an adult human male, woman is an adult human female and neither are a social construct, feeling, fetish, preference nor a costume. All men are born male, all women are born female as is every other mammalian species with a binary sexual dichotomy of 'male' and 'female'. DNA dictates the production of objective biological differences between males and females. 100% of the population is either male or female, even intersex people. If they have a Y chromosome, they are heterogametic and male. If not, they are homogametic and female. Believing there is some "essence" specific to males or female as far as feelings go, that can manifest "in the wrong body", is akin to a religious belief, having faith in something that is impossible to prove or disprove. The thing is though, that no one on the "trans" side can actually even explain what this "essence" is, they can't even explain it to themselves yet have convinced themselves that the feeling they have means they "are in the wrong body" - without realizing that their discomfort simply stems from not realizing that they view conforming to sexist stereotypes as legitimate measures of manhood or womanhood. That is why every explanation given of WHY a male "can't be a man, but is instead woman" etc. relies upon listing stereotypical stuff, or, in some cases is completely abstract and refuses to actually provide any explanation of what they mean, simply stating they "know" that what they feel means what they say it does, even though they can't actually provide a definition of it. "It's hard to explain but I know I'm right" is an attitude one constantly comes up against - a religious faith in something they can't define. This idea that the terms "man" and "woman" carry all this baggage, sexist stereotypes, that people need to live up to or feel comfortable with is a complete fabrication coming from the "trans" side. You lot want a term to reflect aspects of your personality as well, you want to create more boxes to put people in, as you won't accept simply just being a man or a woman based on being born male or female (and reaching adulthood, obviously people are boys and girls before becoming men or women), but believe you need this "freedom of expression" to broadcast what sexist stereotypes you feel more comfortable with - thinking the world needs to adopt the sexist view you lot have. Replacing objective definitions which are based in physical reality, with entirely subjective metaphysical claims, is not logical in any way, is not morally superior, and is demonstrably harmful, not least to female rights and protections, but also to practically anyone that buys into it as it warps people's perception of the underlying issues. It hinders people in their quest for individuation, creating this false narrative of them becoming more "authentic" when the total opposite is true, they believe they need validation from others in order to be happy etc. instead of being encouraged to find more inner strength and resilience with less reliance on how people see them. Demanding to be legally recognized as the opposite sex of what one is, is in no way shape or form more authentic than accepting the physical reality one is born into. To believe we as individuals can have 100% control over our identity in society, what we are seen as by others, in interaction with, and in relation to, society/the world/physical existence is a fool's errand, it is a delusional understanding of reality and existence.
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  2352.  @dariocarraresi1823  Do you have a scientific source? Wikipedia... Really? Cf. “sex”. Both terms (“gender” and “sex”) originate from Latin words: “genus” (meaning “begin”; “birth”; “kind”; “race”; “gender”) and “sexus” (meaning “sex”; “division”; “gender”). So, essentially, the only significant distinction between the two terms is that the etymology of “gender” pertains to the beginning of things, as can be plainly seen by the other English words that originate from "genus", such as “generic”, “genetic”, and “generate”, whilst “sex” is a scrupulously-literal translation of the Latin cognate “sexus”. The mere fact that the word “genitals” (referring to reproductive organs) is very closely related to the Latin “genus” is further evidence of the assertion that the term “gender” refers to the binary division of human (and of course, many non-human) sexual identity, and NOT to any taxonomy based on emotion, feelings, psychology, or any other non-biological categorization schema. ;) You're wrong-- Again... I know, you're just trolling and you have admitted your intentional lack of good faith or integrity but, your nonsense doesn't make you right, and it frustrates you that no matter how much mental gymnastics you do, you're wrong. Fun stuff I would normally recommend getting a clue, but you already know you're wrong and I'm right-- so you and your antagonistic approach end up meaningless-- like I've be saying all along
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  2362.  @phaneros8180  Your hysterical claims aren't valid just because you said them or believe them. PROVE them (oops, you can't). No one is suggesting robbing, starving or hunting the poor, or homeless. What's wrong with you? (Rhetorical) I already know the answer. You're nowhere near as smart or clever as you think you are, evident by you being totally wrong. LOL Now, in Revealation 18:1After these things I saw another angel coming down from heaven, having great authority, and the earth was illuminated with his glory. 2And he cried [a]mightily with a loud voice, saying, “Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and has become a dwelling place of demons, a prison for every foul spirit, and a cage for every unclean and hated bird! 3For all the nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth have become rich through the [b]abundance of her luxury.” 4And I heard another voice from heaven saying, “Come out of her, my people, lest you share in her sins, and lest you receive of her plagues. 5For her sins [c]have reached to heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities. 6Render to her just as she rendered [d]to you, and repay her double according to her works; in the cup which she has mixed, mix double for her. 7In the measure that she glorified herself and lived [e]luxuriously, in the same measure give her torment and sorrow; for she says in her heart, ‘I sit as queen, and am no widow, and will not see sorrow.’ 8Therefore her plagues will come in one day—death and mourning and famine. And she will be utterly burned with fire, for strong is the Lord God who [f]judges her. Jesus said in Matt 10:11And into whatsoever city or town ye shall enter, inquire who in it is worthy; and there abide till ye go thence. 12And when ye come into an house, salute it. 13And if the house be worthy, let your peace come upon it: but if it be not worthy, let your peace return to you. 14And whosoever shall not receive you, nor hear your words, when ye depart out of that house or city, shake off the dust of your feet. 15Verily I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrha in the day of judgment, than for that city. Be warned-- Matthew 7:15Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. 16Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles? 17Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit. 18A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. 19Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire. 20Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them. 21Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. 22Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? 23And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity. What hate is involved in recognizing that a dude in a dress is a dude in a dress? That's just being observant. There's no hate there. All that is going on is your triggered response to someone who isn't buying into your incoherent, trans activist cult claims as valid, and you're frustrated that you lack the capacity to articulate anything rational in response to the scrutiny of your claims-- showing them to be invalid. Too bad so sad... It's not a subjective gender identity claim that makes anyone a man or a woman-- it's biology. I know... you're confused and you being slow to assimilate info which crushes your narratives, is pretty evident at this point. Seethe if you must-- Then, just cope Harder
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  2378.  @dariocarraresi1823  Check out the full article titled, "“Intersex” Does not Violate the Sex Binary" on pubmed It's so simple... A male or a female with a genetic physical condition like being intersex, or infertility is still a male or a female, respectively. What evidence are you relying on to establish that the psych issues of people w/ GD, is an equivalent comparison to someone with a genetic physical anomaly like someone who's intersex? First, intersex individuals are not asexual, but have clear sex biomarkers that makes their sex epistemically uncertain. The biological constitution of intersex individuals involves at least some typically male/female biological sex features in their genotype, phenotype, et cetera. Should we place biomarkers aside, it would not be clear what sex could mean. Second, intersex individuals are not hermaphrodites. There are two misunderstandings to be warded off, the first in terms of there being no cases of hermaphroditism in the sense of individuals who are fully biological males and females, and the second in terms of embryonic development. Beginning with the former, the reason why “hermaphroditism” is no longer used in medical nomenclature is that there are, simply speaking, no hermaphrodites. While having both XX and XY chromosomes is possible, this is not identical to hermaphroditism—for reasons we shall see later in the discussion of the definition of “sex.” 2 With respect to the latter, Orr's (2020) quotation of Intersex Genital Mutilations: Human Rights Violations of Persons with Variations of Sex Anatomy (2016), the NGO report to the 7th periodic report of France on the Convention Against Torture (CAT). In it, we find the following: Everybody started out as a hermaphrodite: Until the 7th week of gestation, every fetus has “indeterminate” genitals, two sets of basic reproductive duct structures, and bipotential gonads. Only after the 7th week of gestation, fetuses undergo sexual differentiation mostly resulting in typically male or female sex anatomy and reproductive organs. (p. 32). However, the potential, i.e., hence the use of “ bipotential”, to be male or female is not the same as actually being “between” (intersex) male and female. Bipotential gonads presexual differentiation are different than actual bigonads post-sexual differentiation. Consequently, bipotential gonads do not entail a period of hermaphroditism in prenatal human beings. Third and finally, Tudela et al. (2020) cite Arcelus et al. (2015) for a prevalence statistic for intersex conditions. The problem is that they cite a prevalence statistic of transsexual individuals, not intersex individuals—and they are different. Arcelus et al. (2015) defines “transsexual” as “individuals who experience discomfort or distress caused by the discrepancy between their gender identity and the sex they were assigned at birth.” (p. 3). This definition excludes at least two categories of intersex individuals, and consequently cannot be a reliable intersex prevalence statistic. First, it would exclude prenatal intersex individuals, e.g., through genetic screening can reveal whether a child has congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH) or androgen insensitivity syndrome (AIS), or during infancy. Second, it would exclude non-gender-dysphoric intersex individuals, and non-gender-dysphoric intersex individuals who did not receive surgery to change sexes. Consequently, even if intersex individuals met the definition of “transsexual” later in life, this prevalence statistic is unreliable. However, I hold that Tuleda et al.'s (2020) point still stands unscathed. Consider Sax's (2010) more reliable prevalence statistic of 0.018 percent. Sax's (2010) estimate carefully corrects Anne Fausto-Sterling's (and others’) statistic of intersex's prevalence being around 1.7 percent. Fausto-Sterling's statistic was based on a mistaken definition of intersex which would include Turner syndrome, Klinefelter syndrome, and late-onset adrenal hyperplasia. In none of these cases is their true intersex in which there is sexual uncertainty, i.e., these are not cases of genuine sexual ambiguity. As Sax (2010) points out in the 0.018 percent figure, the prevalence is nearly one hundred times lower than Fausto-Sterling suggested. Fourth (and relatedly), there are misunderstandings regarding the difference between being “sexually atypical” and being “intersex.” Consider Feder's (2014) remark that “the issue of “incidence” of atypical sex has been a vexed one, as it concerns not only the frequency with which children are born with atypical sex anatomies but also what counts as atypical sex.” (p. 211ff1, my italics). The idea here is that what it means to be intersex just is to have an atypical sex anatomy. There is a plausible case that “intersex” and “atypical sex anatomies” are not synonymous. Having an atypical sex anatomy might refer to the broader category of a difference in one's sexual anatomy, but it does not highlight the heterogeneous property of all intersex conditions: uncertainty with regard to one's sex. As Feder (2014) herself admits, the atypical sex anatomy of “hypospadias” (p. 211ff1) involve children “who are usually regarded as unquestionably male” (p. 211ff1). 3 However, if atypical sex anatomy does not make a sex-specific claim, i.e., saying something about sex identification, then it should not be used either as a placeholder for, or as a description of, intersex. Having warded off misunderstandings of “intersex”, I will now provide four arguments that “intersex” does not violate the sex binary. Tada... If your identity is counter to objective reality, that's a You problem, when people recognize that you're not that which you present yourself as. People aren't going to deny objective reality to affirm your feelings or your subjective persona, and it's arrogant to expect that they should. The world doesn't revolve around you, so it would beneficial for you to develop some coping mechanism to be able to figure out how to fit in with the culture, as opposed to choosing a counter-culture approach and expecting everyone to participate in your cosplay cult. Gender: The status of being either male or female. The entire purpose of the gender/sex division in most species of animal life is to facilitate procreation, the sexual identity of an individual is best classified according to the gametes produced by the person in question. There is no extant third gamete. An extremely minute percentage of humans are either “intersex” (typically referring to those who are anatomical hermaphrodites) or of indeterminate gender (that is, not easily determined by a cursory inspection of the external genitalia), but that does not negate the incontrovertible scientific fact that there are only two genders. As far as we know, there has never existed a single human being with the ability to BOTH conceive a child in his/her womb and, simultaneously, successfully inseminate a woman (or in more disturbing terms, for a hermaphrodite to inseminate him/herself). And even if such an individual has existed, that person would be a combination of BOTH male and female, and not some imaginary, novel third gender. Cf. “sex”. Both terms (“gender” and “sex”) originate from Latin words: “genus” (meaning “begin”; “birth”; “kind”; “race”; “gender”) and “sexus” (meaning “sex”; “division”; “gender”). So, essentially, the only significant distinction between the two terms is that the etymology of “gender” pertains to the beginning of things, as can be plainly seen by the other English words that originate from "genus", such as “generic”, “genetic”, and “generate”, whilst “sex” is a scrupulously-literal translation of the Latin cognate “sexus”. The mere fact that the word “genitals” (referring to reproductive organs) is very closely related to the Latin “genus” is further evidence of the assertion that the term “gender” refers to the binary division of human (and of course, many non-human) sexual identity, and NOT to any taxonomy based on emotion, feelings, psychology, or any other non-biological categorization schema. ;) Way too many inappropriately and incorrectly conflate gender/sex (There are only 2-- male/female... That's it) with personality traits and temperament (There are a ton and none are gender exclusive-- hence effeminate males, butch females and tomboys), and again with gender roles (without exception refer to the roles of males and females in society) as though they're synonymous and they are not. Science has already proven that the binary dichotomy of all mammals is male/female. A man in a dress is still a man A man with anxiety about his sex/gender-- still a man A man calling himself a woman-- still a man A man with an effeminate personality--still a man
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  2388.  @dariocarraresi1823  Kenneth Zucker et Al 2021 Followed trans woman for 20 years and 88 percent desisted. It was just confirmed in another 15 year study. This is directly from the writer and tenured board member at WPATH, Ken Zucker: Not to mention the leaked wpath files showing doctors themselves do not think these kids are mentally mature enough to consent to the surgeries. Kenneth Zucker et Al 2021: 88 percent of trans women desisted after 20 years. 93% resorted to homosexuality vs affirmation treatment with a self delete rate nearly 10x's higher than the general population at nearly 40%, doesn't appear to be validating the 1% 'regret rate' claim-- as accurate (looks like a huge net loss to me, being that gays have a self-delete rate closer to the general population, at around 4% comparatively)-- in NO way justifies claims of affirmation-based treatment protocols as efficacious. In case anyone reading is actually interested: If sex and gender identity are truly independent, then why do trans women and trans men go through so many hoops to change their primary sex characteristics??? Well, according to the analysis, data and conclusions of the studies I've seen, Happy people aren't overwhelmingly sui~*d@l, and those who are have a psych issue at play. Swedish study: Persons with transsexualism, after sex reassignment, have considerably higher risks for mortality, suicidal behaviour, and psychiatric morbidity than the general population. Our findings suggest that sex reassignment, although alleviating gender dysphoria, may not suffice as treatment for transsexualism, and should inspire improved psychiatric and somatic care after sex reassignment for this patient group. A 2020 academic study with a sample size of 372 respondents found that 40 percent of transgender people had attempted suicide. Similarly, in 2016, the National Transgender Discrimination Survey found that 41 percent of 6,450 respondents said they had previously attempted suicide. By comparison, the CDC found that in 2020, 0.36 percent of the population had attempted suicide. According to a 2022 survey by The Trevor Project, an LGBTQ+ suicide prevention organization, nearly 1 in 5 young people who identified as transgender or non-binary have attempted suicide. According to a 2019 UCLA School of Law- Williams Institute report on the thoughts and attempts of self deleting-- the Reports shows that The 2015 U.S. Transgender Survey (USTS), which is the largest survey of transgender people in the U.S. to date, found that 81.7 percent of respondents reported ever seriously thinking about suicide in their lifetimes, while 48.3 percent had done so in the past year. In regard to suicide attempts, 40.4 percent reported attempting suicide at some point in their lifetimes. Although the research literature to date agrees that transgender people are at an elevated risk of suicide thoughts and attempts, there is still much to learn about why transgender people are particularly at risk. Also, the conclusion of the Swedish study, which concluded that persons with transsexualism, after sex reassignment, have considerably higher risks for mortality, suicidal behaviour, and psychiatric morbidity-- than the general population. The findings suggest that sex reassignment, although alleviating gender dysphoria, may not suffice as treatment for transsexualism, and should inspire improved psychiatric and somatic care after sex reassignment for this patient group. When the rate of self deletes among the general population is 10x's lower, and when studies showing that up to 90% desist and end up gay, with only a 4% self delete rate by contrast, the results of affirmation-based treatment protocols are horrible by contrast, making it's justification questionable at best. Quit whining about preferred pronouns usage, and acting like anyone should care at all, about how you identify subjectively. The truth is, you're wrong and you hate us knowing it, pointing it out and proving your claims false, and it upsets you that we don't buy your narratives. Your addiction to confirmation biased info is clear, and your inability to prove us wrong haunts you Why would they? They don't care, because they identify as people who don't have to indulge, much less affirm, accept, or validate the intellectual pablum of the mentally, and intellectually disenfranchised, as though it's based in substance, logic, or reason. As far as the majority of the people of the world and I are concerned, your entire 'trans gender' identity is an performance, and your ideological narratives remain hollow and less than compelling or persuasive. The thing is, the world doesn't care about appealing to you for Your acceptance, validation, feelings etc., and it doesn't owe you it's participation in the LARP and cosplay either. You may believe wearing your Halloween princess costume makes you an actual princess, but you're only fooling yourself. It doesn't Your ideology is rejected as intellectual pablum, as objective reality proves it to be nonsense. Feel free to believe in your cult ideology, and cosplay and LARP to your heart's content, just know that the world doesn't owe you it's participation in your dress up fantasy. Carry on, you have the right to be wrong. You're only fooling yourselves Bro.. here’s a funny fact If you look at your 1 percent surgical rejection rate meta analysis, you’ll see not one study actually analysis SRS (surgical regret rate) or top surgery in trans men Did you see the Hillary Cass report? She is against early social transition because it puts the kids down a path of confusion … Why don’t trans activists listen ? Lol... YouTube “gender identity services in England - a cass review”. Cass called out the hypocrisy in the old diagnostic criteria … She asked for increased diagnostic criteria, she asked for the removal of the old pink/ blue system She wants increased treatment range to not include gender affirming care. AP- A major UK report says trans kids are being let down by toxic… “Dr. Hilary Cass said there is “no good evidence on the long-term outcomes of interventions to manage gender-related distress,” and young people have been caught up in a “stormy social discourse” about the issue.” Cass’ report, which runs to almost 400 pages, said that “for most young people, a medical pathway” is not the best way to deal with gender-related issues. “Cass said young people questioning their gender identity should be given “a holistic assessment” including screening for neurodevelopmental conditions such as autism, and a mental health assessment.” In her report, Cass said there was “no clear evidence” that social transition in childhood — such as changing names or pronouns — has any positive or negative mental health outcomes. “The report also concluded that there is no simple explanation for why the number of young people identifying as transgender has shot up in recent years in the U.K. and other countries.” 13:27 - conversation is about hormones. She says early social transition and medicalization greatly influence one into a path of surgical transition …. Just listen to her for a few minutes. Listen to 16:00 specifically for social transition. I agree with her This new study just published last month “Risk of Suicide and Self-Harm Following Gender-Affirmation Surgery” Individuals who underwent gender-affirming surgery had a 12.12-fold higher suicide attempt risk than those who did not (3.47% vs. 0.29%, RR 95% CI 9.20-15.96, p < 0.0001). “Gender-affirming surgery is significantly associated with elevated suicide attempt risks, underlining the necessity for comprehensive post-procedure psychiatric support.” You're wrong, and your arguments are rejected. Cope Harder
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  2391.  @dariocarraresi1823  Your sophistry is rejected. How about that? Look kid, I told you already... Your personality and disconnect with reality don't make you a woman any more than a fairy princess Halloween costume transforms anyone into an actual fairy princess. You can cosplay and LARP to your heart's content, and use whatever pronouns you like. I REALLY couldn't possibly care any less than I do, which is not at all. You can't choose the pronouns others choose to use when describing some dude in a dress, as a dude in a dress, and using grammatically correct pronouns for a male as he/his, because objective reality isn't a matter of opinion. I typically refer to people by their names though. I typically would only use pronouns if talking about you to someone else, while not in your presence, anyway-- so you'd have no idea, making the notion even more absurd than it already is. It's when you try to compel the participation of others in your cosplay and LARP, where your problems manifest-- highlighting your self-centered sense of self-entitlement that incorrectly suggests that the world owes you something, out of obligation. THAT'S Wrong Objective reality isn't something you'll persuade most to reject, to participate in the LARP and cosplay, as though it's based in reality. Seethe if you must... It won't change anything. An individual's psych condition really doesn't affect the ability of others to perceive reality at all, or the discernment of others to recognize the objectively absurd and false claims of the trans activists ideological cult claims and narratives. So far-- You fail to persuade or compel participation
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  2395.  @dariocarraresi1823  See, the thing is this, society at large doesn't need to justify anything, as it is not society -- who is seeking your acceptance, affirmation, approval, consideration or understanding, in order to achieve a sense of validation regarding it's long-established cultural and societal norms. Try to focus. That would be YOU and yours who are seeking to integrate into the rest of society, who already have established long-standing and accepted societal norms unto themselves, so it's for you to be a hell of a lot more persuasive than you've been here with me or anyone else I've seen you converse with, to convince the world to deny objective reality and participate in your cosplay and LARP as though it's based in reality. Asking how 'men, claiming to be women', justifies those men infringing on women's rights to establish their own 'women's only' spaces, as though it's an entitlement isn't misogynistic on my part. The expectation by those men, like you, that act as though it's your entitlement however, IS. Your sophistry is rejected. Your narratives are fabricated nonsense, designed apparently to maintain the ability to paint yourself as a victim. You on the other hand, have no problem stepping on women's rights, and advocating that other males do as well. That's misogyny any way you look at it. Your bad faith is obviously intentionally planned. Now you know another reason why you're not respected, accepted, or validated as genuine-- and why your ideological claims are rejected by most. Queer people have the same right to use the appropriate restroom as straight people do, and I no one has ever suggested otherwise. If you're a male, regardless of fashion preferences, personality traits and temperament-- you have the same right to use the men's room as any other male, and the same right to try out for men's sports teams, etc. as the teams and leagues are segregated based on biological sex/gender, not feelings If you're a female, you have the same right to use the women's room, locker rooms, showers, etc., as any other woman and I don't think anyone has ever suggested otherwise. Your claim that anyone wants queer people segregated from 'society' is baseless crap. You have failed to justify Anything and EVERYTHING about why your ideological narratives suggesting biological males ought to ever be considered women, let alone taken seriously and treated as though they are women, should or would be validated. As predicted-- You have no justification for your narratives, and you have failed to prove anything I've written incorrect or inaccurate so-- you have no expectation to be taken seriously by anyone. You can have a surgeon alter your appearance to look like a Klingon if you choose (I couldn't possibly care less), but it doesn't make you an actual Klingon-- and anyone who suggests it does is intellectually bankrupt. That said, All men are born male, all women are born female and neither are a social construct, feeling, fetish, preference, personality trait or costume. Cope Harder-- You lost the argument, fail to persuade and failed use to opportunity to make your case a reasonable one. Good Job
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  2396.  @dariocarraresi1823  You're the one operating on the presumption that you're entitled to infringe on women's rights to establish women's only spaces and organizations, not me. Also, I wasn't relying on only 1 study. ;) Kenneth Zucker et Al 2021 Followed trans woman for 20 years and 88 percent desisted. It was just confirmed in another 15 year study. This is directly from the writer and tenured board member at WPATH, Ken Zucker: Not to mention the leaked wpath files showing doctors themselves do not think these kids are mentally mature enough to consent to the surgeries. Kenneth Zucker et Al 2021: 88 percent of trans women desisted after 20 years. 93% resorted to homosexuality vs affirmation treatment with a self delete rate nearly 10x's higher than the general population at nearly 40%, doesn't appear to be validating the 1% 'regret rate' claim-- as accurate (looks like a huge net loss to me, being that gays have a self-delete rate closer to the general population, at around 4% comparatively)-- in NO way justifies claims of affirmation-based treatment protocols as efficacious. Swedish study: Persons with transsexualism, after sex reassignment, have considerably higher risks for mortality, suicidal behaviour, and psychiatric morbidity than the general population. Our findings suggest that sex reassignment, although alleviating gender dysphoria, may not suffice as treatment for transsexualism, and should inspire improved psychiatric and somatic care after sex reassignment for this patient group. A 2020 academic study with a sample size of 372 respondents found that 40 percent of transgender people had attempted suicide. Similarly, in 2016, the National Transgender Discrimination Survey found that 41 percent of 6,450 respondents said they had previously attempted suicide. By comparison, the CDC found that in 2020, 0.36 percent of the population had attempted suicide. According to a 2022 survey by The Trevor Project, an LGBTQ+ suicide prevention organization, nearly 1 in 5 young people who identified as transgender or non-binary have attempted suicide. According to a 2019 UCLA School of Law- Williams Institute report on the thoughts and attempts of self deleting-- the Reports shows that The 2015 U.S. Transgender Survey (USTS), which is the largest survey of transgender people in the U.S. to date, found that 81.7 percent of respondents reported ever seriously thinking about suicide in their lifetimes, while 48.3 percent had done so in the past year. In regard to suicide attempts, 40.4 percent reported attempting suicide at some point in their lifetimes. Although the research literature to date agrees that transgender people are at an elevated risk of suicide thoughts and attempts, there is still much to learn about why transgender people are particularly at risk. Also, the conclusion of the Swedish study, which concluded that persons with transsexualism, after sex reassignment, have considerably higher risks for mortality, suicidal behaviour, and psychiatric morbidity-- than the general population. The findings suggest that sex reassignment, although alleviating gender dysphoria, may not suffice as treatment for transsexualism, and should inspire improved psychiatric and somatic care after sex reassignment for this patient group. When the rate of self deletes among the general population is 10x's lower, and when studies showing that up to 90% desist and end up gay, with only a 4% self delete rate by contrast, the results of affirmation-based treatment protocols are horrible by contrast, making it's justification questionable at best. You may believe wearing your Halloween princess costume makes you an actual princess, but you're only fooling yourself. It doesn't Did you see the Hillary Cass report? She is against early social transition because it puts the kids down a path of confusion … Why don’t trans activists listen ? Lol... YouTube “gender identity services in England - a cass review”. Cass called out the hypocrisy in the old diagnostic criteria … She asked for increased diagnostic criteria, she asked for the removal of the old pink/ blue system She wants increased treatment range to not include gender affirming care. AP- A major UK report says trans kids are being let down by toxic… “Dr. Hilary Cass said there is “no good evidence on the long-term outcomes of interventions to manage gender-related distress,” and young people have been caught up in a “stormy social discourse” about the issue.” Cass’ report, which runs to almost 400 pages, said that “for most young people, a medical pathway” is not the best way to deal with gender-related issues. “Cass said young people questioning their gender identity should be given “a holistic assessment” including screening for neurodevelopmental conditions such as autism, and a mental health assessment.” In her report, Cass said there was “no clear evidence” that social transition in childhood — such as changing names or pronouns — has any positive or negative mental health outcomes. “The report also concluded that there is no simple explanation for why the number of young people identifying as transgender has shot up in recent years in the U.K. and other countries.” 13:27 - conversation is about hormones. She says early social transition and medicalization greatly influence one into a path of surgical transition …. Just listen to her for a few minutes. Listen to 16:00 specifically for social transition. I agree with her This new study just published last month, which I already listed “Risk of Suicide and Self-Harm Following Gender-Affirmation Surgery” Individuals who underwent gender-affirming surgery had a 12.12-fold higher suicide attempt risk than those who did not (3.47% vs. 0.29%, RR 95% CI 9.20-15.96, p < 0.0001). “Gender-affirming surgery is significantly associated with elevated suicide attempt risks, underlining the necessity for comprehensive post-procedure psychiatric support.” Just sayin... The results don't seem very good from what I see
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  2397.  @GLITCHYORSOMETHINGIDK  You don't get to infringe on those women's rights to establish women's only spaces or organizations like sports teams/leagues, or insist on men being granted access to women's prisons (because that would be a problem huh?... C'mon) etc. either. Your rights end where other's rights begin. Advocating to grant males (as an entitlement) access to female only spaces like restrooms where little girls may be, showers, changing rooms, locker rooms, sports teams/leagues, and prisons-- is creepy as hell, and so far, no one including you has justified it. I never considered that... Perhaps they are misogynists-- yes, perhaps self-loathing or perhaps just short sighted. Woe to the feminists who go along with this incoherent ideology, as in their near dystopian future-- they'll be oppressed by men who will claim to be women, and they don't even see it coming. It is for you to make your case a compelling one, if you expect the participation and cooperation of others, and so far-- You fail to persuade. Science has already established that All men are born male, all women are born female and neither are a social construct, feeling, fetish, preference, or costume, and that state is fixed and permanent as it is with every other mammalian species. Way too many (You included) conflate Gender/Sex (= Biology, there are only 2 male/female... That's it) with Gender Roles (Social Constructs referring to the roles of males and females in society). and again with personality traits and temperament (Neither of which is gender exclusive-- hence effeminate males, butch females and tomboys) as though they're synonymous and they are Not. Male/Female are categories of the binary dichotomy of all mammalian species, which is fixed and permanent. That you aren't aware is a you problem.
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  2440.  @HansLemurson  Any Evidence to support your assertion? Canada's stats show a study Among the findings, showing: — Of the 99 inmate sample group, 44% of the trans women convicts are sex offenders. — 82% of gender-diverse offenders were trans-women with an average age of 42 years old and almost half were serving “indeterminate” sentences. — Two-thirds (66%) had low reintegration potential. About 64% of these offenders had committed a “current sexual offense,” while 88% had previously been convicted for sexual offenses. — The vast majority, 85%, were convicted of violent crimes that caused death “or serious harm” to their victims (58% of whom were children or women). “It’s quite shocking. The study also shows that 41% of trans-women are in for homicide-related crimes while with male inmates it’s only 21%,” Mason said, adding that the study also revealed that in just four years, the number of trans inmates almost doubled. The study added: “Over 80% of gender-diverse offenders with sexual offense histories were trans-women. Sexual offending indicators showed that the majority of these offenses were committed while living as their biological sex, and that the highest proportion of victims were children or female.” In addition, the majority of the “sub-group caused death or serious harm to their victim(s).” The study also found that of the 99 gender-diverse offenders, 47% of whom were Indigenous. Why should the males, who you refer to as "trans women" have a higher priority, than the safety of females (both girls and women)???
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  2445.  @HeathenGranny  You believe that huh? The Big Switch is a LIE First of all, probably the biggest thing going for the Big Switch, are 2 facts: 1. Whites in the south who used to be Democrats do now, vote predominantly Republican. 2. Blacks who used to vote Republican now vote overwhelmingly Democrat. Operating on the assumption, which is reasonable that people understand where their own interests lie, many blacks currently see their identification and interests in the democrat party. When did Blacks switch from Dems switch from R to D? • The Dem party was the party of the Dixiecrats all the way through the 60’s. • If what your flawed narrative suggested were true-- that the blacks made a switch to their racial friends, it would appear the switch would have to come in the 70’s and the 80’s-- When blacks see the racists are switching, BUT—in reality blacks switched overwhelmingly in the 1930’s. • The Black Vote went from about 15% to about 75% democrat within about 4 years. • The reason blacks switched from R to D’s had everything to do with the New Deal. • Blacks in the North and the South switched to the Dem party because of New Deal Benefits N. Dems protected slavery. The civil war was about the Dem party North and South, which opposed the abolishment of slavery and the Republican party—which was only in the North. The Dems have been the party of racism and slavery for over a hundred years, and they still are. You're welcome :person-turqouise-waving:
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  2474. Okay, Gender is established at conception, and observed at birth or before. No, gender is not an internal experience. Masculinity/femininity/body language (Personality and Temperament), Fashion, voice (Neither are gender exclusive). Neither your demeanor, nor your internal feelings are what define your gender nor do they make you a woman or a man-- it's your biology that does that. Gender: The status of being either male or female. The entire purpose of the gender/sex division in most species of animal life is to facilitate procreation, the sexual identity of an individual is best classified according to the gametes produced by the person in question. There is no extant third gamete. An extremely minute percentage of humans are either “intersex” (typically referring to those who are anatomical hermaphrodites) or of indeterminate gender (that is, not easily determined by a cursory inspection of the external genitalia), but that does not negate the incontrovertible scientific fact that there are only two genders. Cf. “sex”. Both terms (“gender” and “sex”) originate from Latin words: “genus” (meaning “begin”; “birth”; “kind”; “race”; “gender”) and “sexus” (meaning “sex”; “division”; “gender”). So, essentially, the only significant distinction between the two terms is that the etymology of “gender” pertains to the beginning of things, as can be plainly seen by the other English words that originate from "genus", such as “generic”, “genetic”, and “generate”, whilst “sex” is a scrupulously-literal translation of the Latin cognate “sexus”. The mere fact that the word “genitals” (referring to reproductive organs) is very closely related to the Latin “genus” is further evidence of the assertion that the term “gender” refers to the binary division of human (and of course, many non-human) sexual identity, and NOT to any taxonomy based on emotion, feelings, psychology, or any other non-biological categorization schema. ;) Way too many inappropriately and incorrectly conflate gender/sex (There are only 2-- male/female... That's it) with personality traits and temperament (There are a ton and none are gender exclusive-- hence effeminate males, butch females and tomboys), and again with gender roles (without exception refer to the roles of males and females in society) as though they're synonymous and they are not. Science has already proven that the binary dichotomy of all mammals is male/female. A man in a dress is still a man A man with anxiety about his sex/gender- due to GD- still a man A man calling himself a woman-- still a man A man with an effeminate personality--still a man No one has put forth any reasoning that withstands scrutiny, rendering their narratives and opinions as less than useless and therefore invalid. 'Trans' is an anti-reality cult ideology, and they're the ones seeking affirmation, validation, and the participation of everyone in their larp and cosplay, based on the belief that their subjective claims are based in reality. Newsflash: They aren't
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  2632.  @TransHippie  Again, demonstrating your total lack of substance. There are none so blind, as those who would not see. You're not fooling anyone, but perhaps yourself. This idea that the terms "man" and "woman" carry all this baggage, sexist stereotypes, that people need to live up to or feel comfortable with is a complete fabrication coming from the "trans" side. Pro trans activists seem to want a term to reflect aspects of your personality-- as well, they want to create more boxes to put people in, as you won't accept simply just being a man or a woman based on being born male or female (and reaching adulthood, obviously people are boys and girls before becoming men or women), but believe you need this "freedom of expression" to broadcast what sexist stereotypes you feel more comfortable with - thinking the world needs to adopt the sexist view they have. Replacing objective definitions, which are based in physical reality, with entirely subjective metaphysical claims, is not logical in any way, is not morally superior, and is demonstrably harmful, not least to female rights and protections, but also to practically anyone that buys into it as it warps people's perception of the underlying issues. It hinders people in their quest for individuation, creating this false narrative of them becoming more "authentic" when the total opposite is true, they believe they need validation from others in order to be happy etc. instead of being encouraged to find more inner strength and resilience with less reliance on how people see them. Demanding to be legally recognized as the opposite sex of what one is, is in no way shape or form more authentic than accepting the physical reality one is born into. To believe we as individuals can have 100% control over our identity or self-perceptions in society, what we are seen as by others, in interaction with, and in relation to, society/the world/physical existence is a fool's errand, it is a delusional understanding of reality and existence.
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  2663.  @dariocarraresi1823  No, I quoted the peer reviewed study's conclusion which determined that "Individuals who underwent gender-affirming surgery had a 12-fold higher su~ci~de attempt risk, than those who did not" “Gender-affirming surgery is significantly associated with elevated su~c~de attempt risks, underlining the necessity for comprehensive post-procedure psychiatric support.”. I also posted a whole bunch of other studies showing the attempt rate at 40%. Of course, you dismissed it as "copy pasta" to avoid dealing with the total destruction of your narrative. Kenneth Zucker et Al 2021: 88 percent of trans women desisted after 20 years. 93% resorted to homosexuality vs affirmation treatment with a self delete rate nearly 10x's higher than the general population at nearly 40%, doesn't appear to be validating the 1% 'regret rate' claim-- as accurate (looks like a huge net loss to me, being that gays have a self-delete rate closer to the general population, at around 4% comparatively)-- in NO way justifies claims of affirmation-based treatment protocols as efficacious. Swedish study: Persons with transsexualism, after sex reassignment, have considerably higher risks for mortality, suicidal behaviour, and psychiatric morbidity than the general population. Our findings suggest that sex reassignment, although alleviating gender dysphoria, may not suffice as treatment for transsexualism, and should inspire improved psychiatric and somatic care after sex reassignment for this patient group. A 2020 academic study with a sample size of 372 respondents found that 40 percent of transgender people had attempted suicide. Similarly, in 2016, the National Transgender Discrimination Survey found that 41 percent of 6,450 respondents said they had previously attempted suicide. By comparison, the CDC found that in 2020, 0.36 percent of the population had attempted suicide. According to a 2022 survey by The Trevor Project, an LGBTQ+ suicide prevention organization, nearly 1 in 5 young people who identified as transgender or non-binary have attempted suicide. According to a 2019 UCLA School of Law- Williams Institute report on the thoughts and attempts of self deleting-- the Reports shows that The 2015 U.S. Transgender Survey (USTS), which is the largest survey of transgender people in the U.S. to date, found that 81.7 percent of respondents reported ever seriously thinking about suicide in their lifetimes, while 48.3 percent had done so in the past year. In regard to suicide attempts, 40.4 percent reported attempting suicide at some point in their lifetimes. Although the research literature to date agrees that transgender people are at an elevated risk of suicide thoughts and attempts, there is still much to learn about why transgender people are particularly at risk. Also, the conclusion of the Swedish study, which concluded that persons with transsexualism, after sex reassignment, have considerably higher risks for mortality, suicidal behaviour, and psychiatric morbidity-- than the general population. The findings suggest that sex reassignment, although alleviating gender dysphoria, may not suffice as treatment for transsexualism, and should inspire improved psychiatric and somatic care after sex reassignment for this patient group. When the rate of self deletes among the general population is 10x's lower, and when studies showing that up to 90% desist and end up gay, with only a 4% self delete rate by contrast, the results of affirmation-based treatment protocols are horrible by contrast, making it's justification questionable at best. You may believe wearing your Halloween princess costume makes you an actual princess, but you're only fooling yourself. It doesn't Did you see the Hillary Cass report? She is against early social transition because it puts the kids down a path of confusion … Why don’t trans activists listen ? Lol... YouTube “gender identity services in England - a cass review”. Cass called out the hypocrisy in the old diagnostic criteria … She asked for increased diagnostic criteria, she asked for the removal of the old pink/ blue system She wants increased treatment range to not include gender affirming care. AP- A major UK report says trans kids are being let down by toxic… “Dr. Hilary Cass said there is “no good evidence on the long-term outcomes of interventions to manage gender-related distress,” and young people have been caught up in a “stormy social discourse” about the issue.” Cass’ report, which runs to almost 400 pages, said that “for most young people, a medical pathway” is not the best way to deal with gender-related issues. “Cass said young people questioning their gender identity should be given “a holistic assessment” including screening for neurodevelopmental conditions such as autism, and a mental health assessment.” In her report, Cass said there was “no clear evidence” that social transition in childhood — such as changing names or pronouns — has any positive or negative mental health outcomes. “The report also concluded that there is no simple explanation for why the number of young people identifying as transgender has shot up in recent years in the U.K. and other countries.” 13:27 - conversation is about hormones. She says early social transition and medicalization greatly influence one into a path of surgical transition …. Just listen to her for a few minutes. Listen to 16:00 specifically for social transition. I agree with her This new study just published last month that I already listed “Risk of Suicide and Self-Harm Following Gender-Affirmation Surgery” Individuals who underwent gender-affirming surgery had a 12.12-fold higher suicide attempt risk than those who did not (3.47% vs. 0.29%, RR 95% CI 9.20-15.96, p < 0.0001). “Gender-affirming surgery is significantly associated with elevated suicide attempt risks, underlining the necessity for comprehensive post-procedure psychiatric support.” Doesn't look like efficacious results to me. It seems quite inadequate and unacceptable. You've already lost this debate troll.
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  2666.  @dariocarraresi1823 These are CLEARLY VERY disturbed individuals who suffer multiple comorbidities including depression, autism, etc... You clearly missed it when I explained it previously, so try reading slower this time so you don't miss the big picture again. “Gender-affirming surgery is significantly associated with elevated su~c~de attempt risks, underlining the necessity for comprehensive post-procedure psychiatric support.”. I also posted a whole bunch of other studies showing the attempt rate at 40%. Of course, you dismissed it as "copy pasta" to avoid dealing with the total destruction of your narrative. Kenneth Zucker et Al 2021: 88 percent of trans women desisted after 20 years. 93% resorted to homosexuality vs affirmation treatment with a self delete rate nearly 10x's higher than the general population at nearly 40%, doesn't appear to be validating the 1% 'regret rate' claim-- as accurate (looks like a huge net loss to me, being that gays have a self-delete rate closer to the general population, at around 4% comparatively)-- in NO way justifies claims of affirmation-based treatment protocols as efficacious. Swedish study: Persons with transsexualism, after sex reassignment, have considerably higher risks for mortality, suicidal behaviour, and psychiatric morbidity than the general population. Our findings suggest that sex reassignment, although alleviating gender dysphoria, may not suffice as treatment for transsexualism, and should inspire improved psychiatric and somatic care after sex reassignment for this patient group. A 2020 academic study with a sample size of 372 respondents found that 40 percent of transgender people had attempted suicide. Similarly, in 2016, the National Transgender Discrimination Survey found that 41 percent of 6,450 respondents said they had previously attempted suicide. By comparison, the CDC found that in 2020, 0.36 percent of the population had attempted suicide. According to a 2022 survey by The Trevor Project, an LGBTQ+ suicide prevention organization, nearly 1 in 5 young people who identified as transgender or non-binary have attempted suicide. According to a 2019 UCLA School of Law- Williams Institute report on the thoughts and attempts of self deleting-- the Reports shows that The 2015 U.S. Transgender Survey (USTS), which is the largest survey of transgender people in the U.S. to date, found that 81.7 percent of respondents reported ever seriously thinking about suicide in their lifetimes, while 48.3 percent had done so in the past year. In regard to suicide attempts, 40.4 percent reported attempting suicide at some point in their lifetimes. Although the research literature to date agrees that transgender people are at an elevated risk of suicide thoughts and attempts, there is still much to learn about why transgender people are particularly at risk. Also, the conclusion of the Swedish study, which concluded that persons with transsexualism, after sex reassignment, have considerably higher risks for mortality, suicidal behaviour, and psychiatric morbidity-- than the general population. The findings suggest that sex reassignment, although alleviating gender dysphoria, may not suffice as treatment for transsexualism, and should inspire improved psychiatric and somatic care after sex reassignment for this patient group. When the rate of self deletes among the general population is 10x's lower, and when studies showing that up to 90% desist and end up gay, with only a 4% self delete rate by contrast, the results of affirmation-based treatment protocols are horrible by contrast, making it's justification questionable at best. You may believe wearing your Halloween princess costume makes you an actual princess, but you're only fooling yourself. It doesn't Did you see the Hillary Cass report? She is against early social transition because it puts the kids down a path of confusion … Why don’t trans activists listen ? Lol... YouTube “gender identity services in England - a cass review”. Cass called out the hypocrisy in the old diagnostic criteria … She asked for increased diagnostic criteria, she asked for the removal of the old pink/ blue system She wants increased treatment range to not include gender affirming care. AP- A major UK report says trans kids are being let down by toxic… “Dr. Hilary Cass said there is “no good evidence on the long-term outcomes of interventions to manage gender-related distress,” and young people have been caught up in a “stormy social discourse” about the issue.” Cass’ report, which runs to almost 400 pages, said that “for most young people, a medical pathway” is not the best way to deal with gender-related issues. “Cass said young people questioning their gender identity should be given “a holistic assessment” including screening for neurodevelopmental conditions such as autism, and a mental health assessment.” In her report, Cass said there was “no clear evidence” that social transition in childhood — such as changing names or pronouns — has any positive or negative mental health outcomes. “The report also concluded that there is no simple explanation for why the number of young people identifying as transgender has shot up in recent years in the U.K. and other countries.” 13:27 - conversation is about hormones. She says early social transition and medicalization greatly influence one into a path of surgical transition …. Just listen to her for a few minutes. Listen to 16:00 specifically for social transition. I agree with her This new study just published last month that I already listed “Risk of Suicide and Self-Harm Following Gender-Affirmation Surgery” Individuals who underwent gender-affirming surgery had a 12.12-fold higher suicide attempt risk than those who did not “Gender-affirming surgery is significantly associated with elevated suicide attempt risks, underlining the necessity for comprehensive post-procedure psychiatric support.” Doesn't look like efficacious results to me. It seems quite inadequate and unacceptable.
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  2683.  @dariocarraresi1823  "Mental Health Outcomes in Transgender and Nonbinary Youths Receiving Gender-Affirming Care" -Conclusions and relevance: This study found that gender-affirming medical interventions were associated with lower "odds" of depression and suicidality over 12 months. That's a guess, nothing more- based on 104 youths aged 13 to 20 years "Mental Health Outcomes and Receipt of Gender-affirming Care" --The charts they use showed trend increases in Moderate and Severe Depression rising/increasing approaching the 12 month mark, in addition to an increasing trend for moderate and severe anxiety. Seems sketchy and a looks like wishful thinking. "Long-term effect of gender-affirming hormone treatment on depression and anxiety symptoms in transgender people: A prospective cohort study" -- non-significantly reduced for anxiety reported, which seems to conflict with the data reported in the "Mental Health Outcomes and Receipt of Gender-affirming Care" "Long-term Outcomes After Gender-Affirming Surgery: 40-Year Follow-up Study" --Sounds impressive BUT then, you find out that Chart review identified 97 patients who were seen for gender dysphoria and Of those 97 patients, only15 agreed to participate in the phone interview and survey. 15 out of 97. If only 15 out of 97 parachutes worked who the hell in their right mind would go sky diving??? And you call that good science huh? How many desisted? How many self-deleted? They report "reduced" suicidal ideation (in other words, Admitting it's still there) and reported resolution of any mental health comorbidity secondary to gender dysphoria (Except those who's comorbidity was more severe suicidal ideation, apparently) /sarcasm
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  2693.  @dariocarraresi1823  Look, I don't buy into your narratives. Not buying it, at all. CLEARLY the peer reviewed studies of the medical professionals don't validate your claims as accurate or true. Kenneth Zucker et Al 2021: 88 percent of trans women desisted after 20 years. 93% resorted to homosexuality vs affirmation treatment with a self delete rate nearly 10x's higher than the general population at nearly 40%, doesn't appear to be validating the 1% 'regret rate' claim-- as accurate (looks like a huge net loss to me, being that gays have a self-delete rate closer to the general population, at around 4% comparatively)-- in NO way justifies claims of affirmation-based treatment protocols as efficacious. Swedish study: Persons with transsexualism, after sex reassignment, have considerably higher risks for mortality, suicidal behaviour, and psychiatric morbidity than the general population. Our findings suggest that sex reassignment, although alleviating gender dysphoria, may not suffice as treatment for transsexualism, and should inspire improved psychiatric and somatic care after sex reassignment for this patient group. A 2020 academic study with a sample size of 372 respondents found that 40 percent of transgender people had attempted suicide. Similarly, in 2016, the National Transgender Discrimination Survey found that 41 percent of 6,450 respondents said they had previously attempted suicide. By comparison, the CDC found that in 2020, 0.36 percent of the population had attempted suicide. According to a 2022 survey by The Trevor Project, an LGBTQ+ suicide prevention organization, nearly 1 in 5 young people who identified as transgender or non-binary have attempted suicide. According to a 2019 UCLA School of Law- Williams Institute report on the thoughts and attempts of self deleting-- the Reports shows that The 2015 U.S. Transgender Survey (USTS), which is the largest survey of transgender people in the U.S. to date, found that 81.7 percent of respondents reported ever seriously thinking about suicide in their lifetimes, while 48.3 percent had done so in the past year. In regard to suicide attempts, 40.4 percent reported attempting suicide at some point in their lifetimes. Although the research literature to date agrees that transgender people are at an elevated risk of suicide thoughts and attempts, there is still much to learn about why transgender people are particularly at risk. Also, the conclusion of the Swedish study, which concluded that persons with transsexualism, after sex reassignment, have considerably higher risks for mortality, suicidal behaviour, and psychiatric morbidity-- than the general population. The findings suggest that sex reassignment, although alleviating gender dysphoria, may not suffice as treatment for transsexualism, and should inspire improved psychiatric and somatic care after sex reassignment for this patient group. When the rate of self deletes among the general population is 10x's lower, and when studies showing that up to 90% desist and end up gay, with only a 4% self delete rate by contrast, the results of affirmation-based treatment protocols are horrible by contrast, making it's justification questionable at best. You may believe wearing your Halloween princess costume makes you an actual princess, but you're only fooling yourself. It doesn't Did you see the Hillary Cass report? She is against early social transition because it puts the kids down a path of confusion … Why don’t trans activists listen ? Lol... YouTube “gender identity services in England - a cass review”. Cass called out the hypocrisy in the old diagnostic criteria … She asked for increased diagnostic criteria, she asked for the removal of the old pink/ blue system She wants increased treatment range to not include gender affirming care. AP- A major UK report says trans kids are being let down by toxic… “Dr. Hilary Cass said there is “no good evidence on the long-term outcomes of interventions to manage gender-related distress,” and young people have been caught up in a “stormy social discourse” about the issue.” Cass’ report, which runs to almost 400 pages, said that “for most young people, a medical pathway” is not the best way to deal with gender-related issues. “Cass said young people questioning their gender identity should be given “a holistic assessment” including screening for neurodevelopmental conditions such as autism, and a mental health assessment.” In her report, Cass said there was “no clear evidence” that social transition in childhood — such as changing names or pronouns — has any positive or negative mental health outcomes. “The report also concluded that there is no simple explanation for why the number of young people identifying as transgender has shot up in recent years in the U.K. and other countries.” 13:27 - conversation is about hormones. She says early social transition and medicalization greatly influence one into a path of surgical transition …. Just listen to her for a few minutes. Listen to 16:00 specifically for social transition. I agree with her This new study just published last month that I already listed “Risk of Suicide and Self-Harm Following Gender-Affirmation Surgery” Individuals who underwent gender-affirming surgery had a 12.12-fold higher suicide attempt risk than those who did not (3.47% vs. 0.29%, RR 95% CI 9.20-15.96, p < 0.0001). “Gender-affirming surgery is significantly associated with elevated suicide attempt risks, underlining the necessity for comprehensive post-procedure psychiatric support.” Doesn't look like efficacious results to me. It seems quite inadequate and unacceptable. You've already lost this debate troll.
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  2695.  @dariocarraresi1823  Zucker is a member of WPATH and his medical professional peers seem to disagree with your assessment. Here's their open letter supporting Kenneth Zucker-- invalidating your claims "Open Letter in Support of Dr. Kenneth Zucker and the Need to Promote Robust Scientific Debate Sponsored by FAIR in Medicine May 5, 2023 We, the undersigned signatories, are expressing our support for Dr. Kenneth Zucker, an academically robust and unbiased editorial process at the Archives of Sexual Behavior, and uninterrupted publication of “Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria: Parent Reports on 1655 Possible Cases” by Diaz and Bailey. We condemn and reject the censorious demands being directed at Springer Nature, the company that publishes Archives of Sexual Behavior, that this paper be retracted, and that the editor of the journal, Dr. Zucker, be sanctioned for allowing the paper’s publication. The appropriate action is to have an open debate about the paper—not to silence those whose views one finds disagreeable. Currently as many as one in 10–20 youth report gender dysphoria. The paper by Diaz and Bailey adds to the growing body of knowledge about the various factors contributing to the rapid rise of adolescent-onset gender dysphoria–a phenomenon that was exceedingly rare in the past. Specifically, the paper engages with parental reports of the cases of “Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria,” or ROGD. The ROGD hypothesis posits that in some cases, gender dysphoria in adolescence may be mediated by social factors. The potential viability of the ROGD hypothesis has been endorsed not only by the parents, as described by Diaz and Bailey, but also by the clinicians working with this patient population, and the affected patients themselves. If it proves to be correct, then the treatment approaches to this novel population of adolescents may need to be different, including the possibility that such cases may benefit from less invasive interventions that do not carry the irreversible effects of hormonal and surgical interventions known as “gender-affirming care.” The concern that the currently-presenting gender dysphoric youth are different from the originally-studied cases, and that they may be better helped by psychotherapy, has also been expressed by the originators of the “Dutch” protocol for gender-transitioning minors. We are particularly disappointed that among the signatories demanding that the research be retracted is the current President of WPATH. WPATH recently acknowledged the role of social influence as a possible contributing factor to gender dysphoria in adolescents, saying: “For a select subgroup of young people, susceptibility to social influence impacting gender may be an important differential to consider.” (Coleman et al., 2022, p. 45) Signing a demand to retract one of the very few papers examining the possible influence of social factors is inconsistent with WPATH’s own statements. We are aware of the allegation that a lack of an Institutional Review Board approval of this publication warrants a retraction. However, this is demonstrably false. Springer’s policies explicitly allow the Editor-in-Chief the discretion to accept a publication that has not sought IRB approval. The first author of this study was not affiliated with a university and did not need to seek IRB approval. Further, we are aware that the activists are alleging that the paper’s methodology was biased by only relying on parental reports. However, parental reports are commonly used to gather information about children and adolescents. A highly influential paper in the field that is often cited to support social transition for youth also relied on parental reports. However, in this case the methodology was not criticized. The difference appears to be that in this example, the parents supported their children’s gender transition, whereas in the Diaz and Bailey paper, the parents were concerned with the risks of inappropriate medicalization of their children. Unfortunately, this is not the first time journals and researchers who dare explore the subject of ROGD have been targeted for cancellation. What is currently happening to the Diaz and Bailey paper bears a marked resemblance to the prior attempt to silence the original “ROGD” paper by Lisa Littman, MD. Under tremendous pressure from critics, PLOS ONE subjected the paper to a second round of peer review post-publication. The paper withstood this unprecedented scrutiny, with its results unchanged. To quote Jeffrey S. Flier, MD, the 21st Dean of Harvard Medical School, who wrote eloquently about the the attempts to silence research into ROGD, “Many papers face questions after they have been published, which is well and proper: the systematic assessment and scrutiny of published work is a core method by which the scientific community corrects errors, and builds upon imperfect preliminary observations…But that is not what has happened…. [the] critics have not performed any systematic analysis of her findings, but seem principally motivated by ideological opposition to [the] conclusions. We fear that just like in the case of the original ROGD paper, the demands for retraction and sanctioning of Dr. Zucker, the Editor-in-Chief are principally motivated by the ideological opposition to Diaz and Bailey’s conclusion. Because of Dr. Zucker’s unique experience in the field and his role as the Editor-in-Chief, the journal, Archives of Sexual Behavior, has become a formidable force in the growing debate about how to best care for the rapidly growing numbers of gender-diverse youth. Dr. Zucker has demonstrated neutrality by routinely publishing articles on both sides of this contentious issue. While the paper by Diaz and Bailey–like all research–has limitations, it is vital to continue to study the ROGD hypothesis. Ongoing attempts to silence any research into the explosion of teens who are now identifying as transgender only stands to hurt the very patients the activists are claiming to help–young gender nonconforming people. We, the undersigned signatories, ask that Springer Nature, the company that publishes Archives of Sexual Behavior, takes a nuanced view of this situation, examines the context in which these complaints have been leveled, and chooses to uphold the principles and practice of scientific discussion, debate, and freedom of expression by rejecting calls to retract the paper “Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria: Parent Reports on 1655 Possible Cases” by Diaz and Bailey and refusing to sanction Dr. Kenneth Zucker for his decision to publish the paper." Bye
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  2730.  @dariocarraresi1823  That's not a world view issue. Time will tell what he delivers, will it not? Biden delivered the war, not Trump. Putin echoes Trump’s claim that conflict in Ukraine could have been avoided had he been in office. I get why you're trying to change the topic... You've lost all the other debates on the transmania front. Reproductive rights... highlighting the difference between wait for it... the biological differences between males and females. Get a clue Biden’s assault on plentiful and reliable American energy through impossible, unnecessary, and illegal regulatory demands have driven up the cost of transportation and manufacturing. Biden’s war on energy has been a war on American consumers. American households are paying an average of $1,200 more per year in energy costs under President Biden’s policies. Since he took office, total energy costs rose by 36%, gasoline rose 41%, home energy costs rose 30%, electricity bills rose 29%, and gas bills rose 34%. After averaging just $2.77 per gallon under President Trump, and a price of $2.33 upon leaving office, the price of gasoline skyrocketed under President Biden, reaching $3.33 a year later. It went on to reach a peak at $5.00 per gallon and remains elevated today. The unlawful regulatory mandate on companies to eliminate gas-powered vehicles has resulted in artificial price increases in order to subsidize electric vehicles, largely disfavored by consumers. Your analysis is rejected, along with your narratives
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  2792.  @dariocarraresi1823  Believing there is some "essence" specific to males or female as far as feelings go, that can manifest "in the wrong body", is akin to a religious belief, having faith in something that is impossible to prove or disprove. The thing is though, that no one on the "trans" side can actually even explain what this "essence" is, they can't even explain it to themselves yet have convinced themselves that the feeling they have means they "are in the wrong body" - without realizing that their discomfort simply stems from not realizing that they view conforming to sexist stereotypes as legitimate measures of manhood or womanhood. That is why every explanation given of WHY a male "can't be a man, but is instead woman" etc. relies upon listing stereotypical stuff, or, in some cases is completely abstract and refuses to actually provide any explanation of what they mean, simply stating they "know" that what they feel means what they say it does, even though they can't actually provide a definition of it. "It's hard to explain but I know I'm right" is an attitude one constantly comes up against - a religious faith in something they can't define. This idea that the terms "man" and "woman" carry all this baggage, sexist stereotypes, that people need to live up to or feel comfortable with is a complete fabrication coming from the "trans" side. You lot want a term to reflect aspects of your personality as well, you want to create more boxes to put people in, as you won't accept simply just being a man or a woman based on being born male or female (and reaching adulthood, obviously people are boys and girls before becoming men or women), but believe you need this "freedom of expression" to broadcast what sexist stereotypes you feel more comfortable with - thinking the world needs to adopt the sexist view you lot have. Replacing objective definitions which are based in physical reality, with entirely subjective metaphysical claims, is not logical in any way, is not morally superior, and is demonstrably harmful, not least to female rights and protections, but also to practically anyone that buys into it as it warps people's perception of the underlying issues. It hinders people in their quest for individuation, creating this false narrative of them becoming more "authentic" when the total opposite is true, they believe they need validation from others in order to be happy etc. instead of being encouraged to find more inner strength and resilience with less reliance on how people see them. Demanding to be legally recognized as the opposite sex of what one is, is in no way shape or form more authentic than accepting the physical reality one is born into. To believe we as individuals can have 100% control over our identity in society, what we are seen as by others, in interaction with, and in relation to, society/the world/physical existence is a fool's errand, it is a delusional understanding of reality and existence. A dude in a dress, who's chosen to surgically alter his anatomy, is still a dude-- He's just a dude who's chosen to remove himself from the gene pool, and have properly functioning organs rendered no longer functioning. They're only kidding themselves when they don't acknowledge that the trans activist narratives include the notion that a trans woman is a woman, is objectively just false/wrong. The problem with the trans activist's narratives are that life is based in objective reality, and the vast majority of people don't have difficulty deciphering the differences between reality and the trans imagination, and they aren't willing to participate in the LARP and cosplay, as though it's based in reality
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  2800.  @dariocarraresi1823  Can't answer, and chose the cowardly route huh? Tell yourself whatever you want. My feelings are irrelevant. Your sophistry not withstanding the not so inconspicuous absence of your answer to my questions. You're exposed like the emperor with no clothes. Your integrity, and credibility is zero. You're only fooling yourself. You seem quite unclear on the definition of 'woman', and the scientific classification of human development that is unique to the female half of the binary sexual dichotomy of male and female for all mammals. The justification for separating men and women in prison, showers, locker rooms, changing rooms, the draft, and sports teams/leagues seems to only be confusing to you. Whats your issue with women having a right to privacy??? Well.... ??? Justify and explain how eliminating women's private spaces and allowing men to encroach isn't misogyny on your part? Anything??? Dodge, Duck, Dip, Dive, and... Dodge, avoid answering at all costs. If you had any integrity and were conversing in good faith, you'd answer and would have to concede that you can't justify it at all. No one, including you- has made a compelling case yet. You want, affirmation, acceptance, and validation-- Then you need to do better Your gender identification and the role you choose to play doesn't make a male a female, or justify why the expectation that he ought to be treated as though he's the opposite sex. Why should everyone pretend that a man is anything other than a man, regardless of his attire, or feelings to the contrary? No one has made a compelling case yet. You want respect, you're going to have to earn it. You want, affirmation, acceptance, and validation-- Then you need to do better. If you can't make your case, why would anyone take you seriously, and why would you expect them to?
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  2805. ​ @dariocarraresi1823  The answer to your question is literally in the comment directly above yours. Infringing on women's rights to establish for themselves, privacy from men, in gender segregated women's only spaces, that women/girls desire for themselves like: showers, bathrooms, locker rooms, changing rooms, prisons, etc. Your desire to infiltrate those areas is creepy as hell dude. The reasons for segregating based on sex are already established and clearly necessary. Women established their choice to remain outside of the prying eyes of men, and exercise their right to privacy, and in the case of prisons it's pretty damned obvious for the reasons to segregate men and women. You've not presented any reason to suggest why women should be denied their rights to establish women's only areas. Gender (There are only 2 male/female... that's it) is established at conception via DNA, and is observed and documented at birth or before, and is biological, not a social construct. Gender roles are social constructs that refer to the roles of males and females in society. Gender is synonymous with sex. They both come from the Latin. I already explained that for you. Knock it off. Your choice to argue is clear. The problem you have is you're wrong, unjustified, and your intentional sophistry doesn't/won't justify condoning men infringing on women's freedom and liberty to choose to designate and establish their own, self-segregated women's only locations, where men aren't allowed. What's wrong with you? You can rename an apple a coconut, but it doesn't alter the nature of the apple, or the coconut, and likewise renaming a man 'trans woman' doesn't alter the nature of the man either. Still a dude
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  2807.  @dariocarraresi1823  Your obtuse and intentional mischaracterizations are rejected. You pretend to act as though something other than biology, in the context of our debate-- is relevant. I say it isn't. You insist I think something else. You're wrong, I'm right so-- that's good enough for me. You can choose to invent phantoms to rage against, if you choose. I couldn't possibly care less than not at all, about your incoherent assertions. You've proven yourself to be a creepy dude who is willing to implement mental gymnastics to try unsuccessfully, to justify being accepted as women-- and you're not fooling anyone but yourselves. You have no integrity, and your bad faith responses, avoiding answering questions, renders you and your thoughts irrelevant. Your counter culture, non-traditional and preferred gender roles don't grant you justification to operate as though the world must grant you access to gender-segregated and designated women's only institutions or designations, because you're not a woman. It's really that simple. Nobody cares that you identify as something other than a man. It doesn't make you something other than a man, so just stay in your own biological lane. No-- your fashion choices are irrelevant, and you Can wear whatever you like, regardless of traditional gender associations-- it doesn't mean you should be treated like a woman, or that you should expect everyone to treat you as a woman, because you're NOT a woman. Women aren't social constructs like gender roles.
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  2842.  @phaneros8180  If that's the case, they need to be under supervised watch for their safety. It illustrates the inadequacy of affirmation-based treatment protocols, failing to provide effective coping mechanisms to cope with adversity. II get that the activists and trolls like you want to argue for sport, but for all of human history boy/man meant boy/man and girl/woman meant girl/woman. Let's not kid ourselves here. It dates back to the earliest books of the Bible God made man in His image, He made them male and female. The early writers understood the meaning and wrote laws for each. It's not really a question at all, with the context of literature throughout the centuries-- confirming the author's understanding of the meaning of the words, and differences between males and females, men/women, and boys/girls. All of a sudden, now people are confused about reality. A man is an adult human male, woman is an adult human female and neither are a social construct, feeling, fetish, preference nor a costume. All men are born male, all women are born female as is every other mammalian species with a binary sexual dichotomy of 'male' and 'female'. DNA dictates the production of objective biological differences between males and females. 100% of the population is either male or female, even intersex people. If they have a Y chromosome, they are heterogametic and male. If not, they are homogametic and female. Believing there is some "essence" specific to males or female as far as feelings go, that can manifest "in the wrong body", is akin to a religious belief, having faith in something that is impossible to prove or disprove. The thing is though, that no one on the "trans" side can actually even explain what this "essence" is, they can't even explain it to themselves yet have convinced themselves that the feeling they have means they "are in the wrong body" - without realizing that their discomfort simply stems from not realizing that they view conforming to sexist stereotypes as legitimate measures of manhood or womanhood. That is why every explanation given of WHY a male "can't be a man, but is instead woman" etc. relies upon listing stereotypical stuff, or, in some cases is completely abstract and refuses to actually provide any explanation of what they mean, simply stating they "know" that what they feel means what they say it does, even though they can't actually provide a definition of it. "It's hard to explain but I know I'm right" is an attitude one constantly comes up against - a religious faith in something they can't define. This idea that the terms "man" and "woman" carry all this baggage, sexist stereotypes, that people need to live up to or feel comfortable with is a complete fabrication coming from the "trans" side. You lot want a term to reflect aspects of your personality as well, you want to create more boxes to put people in, as you won't accept simply just being a man or a woman based on being born male or female (and reaching adulthood, obviously people are boys and girls before becoming men or women), but believe you need this "freedom of expression" to broadcast what sexist stereotypes you feel more comfortable with - thinking the world needs to adopt the sexist view you lot have. Replacing objective definitions which are based in physical reality, with entirely subjective metaphysical claims, is not logical in any way, is not morally superior, and is demonstrably harmful, not least to female rights and protections, but also to practically anyone that buys into it as it warps people's perception of the underlying issues. It hinders people in their quest for individuation, creating this false narrative of them becoming more "authentic" when the total opposite is true, they believe they need validation from others in order to be happy etc. instead of being encouraged to find more inner strength and resilience with less reliance on how people see them. Demanding to be legally recognized as the opposite sex of what one is, is in no way shape or form more authentic than accepting the physical reality one is born into. To believe we as individuals can have 100% control over our identity in society, what we are seen as by others, in interaction with, and in relation to, society/the world/physical existence is a fool's errand, it is a delusional understanding of reality and existence.
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  2843.  @phaneros8180  Here's 2: Suicidality Among Transgender Youth: Elucidating the Role of Interpersonal Risk Factors: "Data indicate that 82% of transgender individuals have considered killing themselves and 40% have attempted suicide, with suicidality highest among transgender youth. Using minority stress theory and the interpersonal theory of suicide, this study aims to better understand suicide risk among transgender youth. The present study examines the influence of intervenable risk factors: interpersonal and environmental microaggressions, internalized self-stigma, and adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), and protective factors: school belonging, family support, and peer support on both lifetime suicide attempts and past 6-month suicidality in a sample of transgender youth (n = 372). SPSS 22 was utilized to examine the impact of the independent variables on both suicidality and lifetime suicide attempt through two separate logistic regressions. Fifty six percent of youth reported a previous suicide attempt and 86% reported suicidality. Logistic regressions indicated that models for both lifetime suicide attempts and suicidality were significant." Long-term follow-up of transsexual persons undergoing sex reassignment surgery: cohort study in Sweden “Conclusions: Persons with transsexualism, after sex reassignment, have considerably higher risks for mortality, suicidal behaviour, and psychiatric morbidity than the general population. Our findings suggest that sex reassignment, although alleviating gender dysphoria, may not suffice as treatment for transsexualism, and should inspire improved psychiatric and somatic care after sex reassignment for this patient group.” THAT is what I would consider an issue, and if you do not-- then you do you, while failing to realize that the supposedly efficacious claims, of affirmation-based treatment protocol advocates are entirely unjustified. Not all 'trans people' suffer with gender dysphoria (OR, are you saying that they all do?), but they all do have a way higher risk of self deleting than the rest of the of the general population, so I see it as a more pressing underlying issue to address, than a mere matter of cosmetics. The argument in favor of affirmative care is, if you don't let them transition that they'll self-delete. Well, they seem to do that even if you do let them transition, so as far as I'm concerned it's an invalid argument.
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  2850.  @dariocarraresi1823  Bro.. “Risk of Suicide and Self-Harm Following Gender-Affirmation Surgery” Individuals who underwent gender-affirming surgery had a 12.12-fold higher suicide attempt risk than those who did not (3.47% vs. 0.29%, RR 95% CI 9.20-15.96, p < 0.0001). Compared to the tubal ligation/vasectomy controls, “Gender-affirming surgery is significantly associated with elevated suicide attempt risks, underlining the necessity for comprehensive post-procedure psychiatric support.” This is directly from the writer and tenured board member at WPATH, Ken Zucker: Not to mention the leaked wpath files showing doctors themselves do not think these kids are mentally mature enough to consent to the surgeries. ** Kenneth Zucker et Al 2021: 88 percent of trans women desisted after 20 years. 93% resorted to homosexuality vs affirmation treatment with a self delete rate nearly 10x's higher than the general population at nearly 40%, doesn't appear to be validating the 1% 'regret rate' claim-- as accurate (looks like a huge net loss to me, being that gays have a self-delete rate closer to the general population, at around 4% comparatively)-- in NO way justifies claims of affirmation-based treatment protocols as efficacious. ** Swedish study: Persons with transsexualism, after sex reassignment, have considerably higher risks for mortality, suicidal behaviour, and psychiatric morbidity than the general population. Our findings suggest that sex reassignment, although alleviating gender dysphoria, may not suffice as treatment for transsexualism, and should inspire improved psychiatric and somatic care after sex reassignment for this patient group. ** A 2020 academic study with a sample size of 372 respondents found that 40 percent of transgender people had attempted suicide. ** Similarly, in 2016, the National Transgender Discrimination Survey found that 41 percent of 6,450 respondents said they had previously attempted suicide. By comparison, the CDC found that in 2020, 0.36 percent of the population had attempted suicide. ** According to a 2022 survey by The Trevor Project, an LGBTQ+ suicide prevention organization, nearly 1 in 5 young people who identified as transgender or non-binary have attempted suicide. ** According to a 2019 UCLA School of Law- Williams Institute report on the thoughts and attempts of self deleting-- the Reports shows that The 2015 U.S. Transgender Survey (USTS), which is the largest survey of transgender people in the U.S. to date, found that 81.7 percent of respondents reported ever seriously thinking about suicide in their lifetimes, while 48.3 percent had done so in the past year. In regard to suicide attempts, 40.4 percent reported attempting suicide at some point in their lifetimes. Although the research literature to date agrees that transgender people are at an elevated risk of suicide thoughts and attempts, there is still much to learn about why transgender people are particularly at risk. Also, the conclusion of the Swedish study, which concluded that persons with transsexualism, after sex reassignment, have considerably higher risks for mortality, suicidal behaviour, and psychiatric morbidity-- than the general population. The findings suggest that sex reassignment, although alleviating gender dysphoria, may not suffice as treatment for transsexualism, and should inspire improved psychiatric and somatic care after sex reassignment for this patient group. When the rate of self deletes among the general population is 10x's lower, and when studies showing that up to 90% desist and end up gay, with only a 4% self delete rate by contrast, the results of affirmation-based treatment protocols are horrible by contrast, making it's justification questionable at best. You may believe wearing your Halloween princess costume makes you an actual princess, but you're only fooling yourself. It doesn't Did you see the Hillary Cass report? She is against early social transition because it puts the kids down a path of confusion … Why don’t trans activists listen ? Lol... YouTube “gender identity services in England - a cass review”. Cass called out the hypocrisy in the old diagnostic criteria … She asked for increased diagnostic criteria, she asked for the removal of the old pink/ blue system She wants increased treatment range to not include gender affirming care. AP- A major UK report says trans kids are being let down by toxic… “Dr. Hilary Cass said there is “no good evidence on the long-term outcomes of interventions to manage gender-related distress,” and young people have been caught up in a “stormy social discourse” about the issue.” Cass’ report, which runs to almost 400 pages, said that “for most young people, a medical pathway” is not the best way to deal with gender-related issues. “Cass said young people questioning their gender identity should be given “a holistic assessment” including screening for neurodevelopmental conditions such as autism, and a mental health assessment.” In her report, Cass said there was “no clear evidence” that social transition in childhood — such as changing names or pronouns — has any positive or negative mental health outcomes. “The report also concluded that there is no simple explanation for why the number of young people identifying as transgender has shot up in recent years in the U.K. and other countries.” 13:27 - conversation is about hormones. She says early social transition and medicalization greatly influence one into a path of surgical transition …. Just listen to her for a few minutes. Listen to 16:00 specifically for social transition. I agree with her This new study just published last month that I already listed “Risk of Suicide and Self-Harm Following Gender-Affirmation Surgery” Individuals who underwent gender-affirming surgery had a 12.12-fold higher suicide attempt risk than those who did not (3.47% vs. 0.29%, RR 95% CI 9.20-15.96, p < 0.0001). “Gender-affirming surgery is significantly associated with elevated suicide attempt risks, underlining the necessity for comprehensive post-procedure psychiatric support.” Doesn't look like efficacious results to me. It seems quite inadequate and unacceptable If genitals don't define gender, how does removing/adding them, and/or presenting as a caricature using the stereotypical biological primary sex characteristics of the opposite sex, as the goal post -- affirm it? You're out of your depths here buddy.
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  2862.  @dariocarraresi1823  "At the start of this study, the hypothesis that was proposed predicted individuals who had undergone gender-affirmation surgery would have a greater risk of suicide, death, and self-harm compared to the two controls. This was confirmed by comparing the two control groups. In the second analysis, it was determined that patients who had undergone gender affirmation had a statistically significant increase in suicide attempts, death, self-harm, and PTSD after completion of gender affirmation in comparison with those who had undergone BTL or vasectomy and had not undergone gender-affirmation before propensity matching. After propensity matching our cohorts for age at index, race, and ethnicity, we also found a statistically significant increased risk of suicide attempts, death, self-harm/suicide, and PTSD. These outcomes confirmed the hypothesis. The secondary sub-group analysis utilizing pharyngitis as a control showed results that were comparable to the BTL/vasectomy control group, validating cohort C as an appropriate control group for propensity matching. These data are supported by previous studies from multiple geographic regions of the globe, including Lebanon [3], Turkey [3], Pakistan [4], China [5], and Canada [6], as well as data from within the United States [3-4,6]. The large size of our study is an asset to our findings, which will help further our understanding of the relationship between sex change and suicide. To our knowledge, a study of this size has not been described in the literature. Using two control groups, a) those who had not experienced gender-affirmation surgery and had presented to the emergency department and b) a group that had not experienced gender-affirmation surgery, had visited the emergency department, and had a vasectomy or BTL, also helped effectively control for confounding variables utilizing propensity matching. Over the last 20 years, this study demonstrated a 12.12 times greater risk of suicide utilizing the first control group and a 4.71 to 5.03 times increased risk with the other control groups. Transgender individuals, encompassing both those seeking gender-affirming surgery and those who have undergone it, demonstrate a significantly elevated risk of developing PTSD compared to the general population [10,23]. Among those who seek access to gender-affirming surgery, the commonality of discrimination, interpersonal assault, and a lack of social support have been identified as influential factors in the development of PTSD within this group [23]. Financial stress and insufficient insurance coverage prove to be significant obstacles for those trying to access gender-affirming surgery. Additionally, the limited availability of medical professionals with expertise in gender-affirming procedures, particularly in areas of lower socioeconomic status, further exacerbates the challenges faced by individuals seeking such care [10]. However, it is important to consider PTSD development in those who have undergone gender-affirming procedures. The emergence of PTSD following surgery often stems from the pre-operative challenges (such as harassment, limited social support, etc.) in conjunction with suboptimal surgical outcomes and insufficient psychiatric assistance. This study has revealed a significantly elevated prevalence of PTSD in post-operative transgender individuals, with a 7.76-fold increase in comparison to cohort B and a 3.74-fold increased risk compared to cohort C after propensity matching. These findings were consistent with other studies investigated previously. A study conducted by Livingston et al. in 2022 used probabilistic and rule-based modeling on Veterans Health Administration (VHA) records from 1999 to 2021 to assess the differences in PTSD prevalence among 9,995 transgender and 29,985 cisgender veterans (1:3 ratio). They concluded that transgender veterans experienced PTSD at 1.5-1.8 times the rate of veterans identifying as cisgender, especially higher in recent users of VHA services [24]. There have proven to be many obstacles when comparing our findings to other studies assessing general population PTSD risk in those who have undergone gender-affirmation surgery. A 2018 systematic review conducted by Valentine et al. showed that many studies used assessment tools not particularly appropriate for evaluating mental health in transgender or gender non-conforming individuals [25]. The poor psychometric framework has led to many studies not acknowledging confounding and contextual variables, such as exposure to discrimination or minority identity when assessing PTSD in this demographic [10,25]. To avoid the repeated shortcomings of prior research, future studies should employ rigorous and reliable assessment tools such as cross-sectional studies or the collection of prospective data [25]. Improving transgender representation in emerging PTSD treatment trials is another step in improving the understanding and management of PTSD in transgender individuals [10]. In light of the examination of the relationship between gender-affirmation surgery and mental health outcomes discussed in this study, it is imperative to acknowledge the broader landscape of research on this topic. Our investigation contributes broad insight, examining real-world data over two decades and encompassing a diverse cohort. However, to further expand upon the contextual significance, it is essential to compare findings from other studies that explore multifaceted aspects of mental health post-gender-affirmation surgery. A study published in the American Journal of Psychiatry by Branstrom et al. in October 2019 drew strong conclusions regarding the positive impact of gender-affirmation surgery on mental health [11]. However, the study faced criticism of its methodology, leading to a correction/retraction by the journal's editors that stated, "the results demonstrated no advantage of surgery about subsequent mood or anxiety disorder-related health care visits or prescriptions or hospitalizations following suicide attempts” [12]. In a subsequent study conducted in 2021, Almazan et al. compared the mental health outcomes of a group of patients who were not approved for gender-affirmation surgery with a group that had undergone the surgery [13]. Their findings suggested better mental health outcomes for those who underwent surgery, but notable limitations warrant careful interpretation. First, the study conducted a comparison between two groups: one that had not been approved for surgery, a process requiring two mental health screenings as per the World Professional Association for Transgender Health's standard of care recommendations, and another group that had already undergone surgery. Therefore, it is plausible that the surgery group could inherently have been healthier, irrespective of the surgery. Second, when the analysis was broadened to include lifetime outcomes, the positive association with the surgery became insignificant [14]." The rates are up despite surgery. Your ability to play games with the interpretation of the data notwithstanding the conclusions of the studies which show the rates being much higher.
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  2933.  @dariocarraresi1823  Gotcha detected. Should taken the time to cure your ignorance. The peer reviewed study's conclusion which determined that "Individuals who underwent gender-affirming surgery had a 12-fold higher su~ci~de attempt risk, than those who did not" “Gender-affirming surgery is significantly associated with elevated su~c~de attempt risks, underlining the necessity for comprehensive post-procedure psychiatric support.”. I also posted a whole bunch of other studies showing the attempt rate at 40%. Of course, you dismissed it as "copy pasta" to avoid dealing with the total destruction of your narrative. Kenneth Zucker et Al 2021: 88 percent of trans women desisted after 20 years. 93% resorted to homosexuality vs affirmation treatment with a self delete rate nearly 10x's higher than the general population at nearly 40%, doesn't appear to be validating the 1% 'regret rate' claim-- as accurate (looks like a huge net loss to me, being that gays have a self-delete rate closer to the general population, at around 4% comparatively)-- in NO way justifies claims of affirmation-based treatment protocols as efficacious. Swedish study: Persons with transsexualism, after sex reassignment, have considerably higher risks for mortality, suicidal behaviour, and psychiatric morbidity than the general population. Our findings suggest that sex reassignment, although alleviating gender dysphoria, may not suffice as treatment for transsexualism, and should inspire improved psychiatric and somatic care after sex reassignment for this patient group. A 2020 academic study with a sample size of 372 respondents found that 40 percent of transgender people had attempted suicide. Similarly, in 2016, the National Transgender Discrimination Survey found that 41 percent of 6,450 respondents said they had previously attempted suicide. By comparison, the CDC found that in 2020, 0.36 percent of the population had attempted suicide. According to a 2022 survey by The Trevor Project, an LGBTQ+ suicide prevention organization, nearly 1 in 5 young people who identified as transgender or non-binary have attempted suicide. According to a 2019 UCLA School of Law- Williams Institute report on the thoughts and attempts of self deleting-- the Reports shows that The 2015 U.S. Transgender Survey (USTS), which is the largest survey of transgender people in the U.S. to date, found that 81.7 percent of respondents reported ever seriously thinking about suicide in their lifetimes, while 48.3 percent had done so in the past year. In regard to suicide attempts, 40.4 percent reported attempting suicide at some point in their lifetimes. Although the research literature to date agrees that transgender people are at an elevated risk of suicide thoughts and attempts, there is still much to learn about why transgender people are particularly at risk. Also, the conclusion of the Swedish study, which concluded that persons with transsexualism, after sex reassignment, have considerably higher risks for mortality, suicidal behaviour, and psychiatric morbidity-- than the general population. The findings suggest that sex reassignment, although alleviating gender dysphoria, may not suffice as treatment for transsexualism, and should inspire improved psychiatric and somatic care after sex reassignment for this patient group. When the rate of self deletes among the general population is 10x's lower, and when studies showing that up to 90% desist and end up gay, with only a 4% self delete rate by contrast, the results of affirmation-based treatment protocols are horrible by contrast, making it's justification questionable at best. You may believe wearing your Halloween princess costume makes you an actual princess, but you're only fooling yourself. It doesn't Did you see the Hillary Cass report? She is against early social transition because it puts the kids down a path of confusion … Why don’t trans activists listen ? Lol... YouTube “gender identity services in England - a cass review”. Cass called out the hypocrisy in the old diagnostic criteria … She asked for increased diagnostic criteria, she asked for the removal of the old pink/ blue system She wants increased treatment range to not include gender affirming care. AP- A major UK report says trans kids are being let down by toxic… “Dr. Hilary Cass said there is “no good evidence on the long-term outcomes of interventions to manage gender-related distress,” and young people have been caught up in a “stormy social discourse” about the issue.” Cass’ report, which runs to almost 400 pages, said that “for most young people, a medical pathway” is not the best way to deal with gender-related issues. “Cass said young people questioning their gender identity should be given “a holistic assessment” including screening for neurodevelopmental conditions such as autism, and a mental health assessment.” In her report, Cass said there was “no clear evidence” that social transition in childhood — such as changing names or pronouns — has any positive or negative mental health outcomes. “The report also concluded that there is no simple explanation for why the number of young people identifying as transgender has shot up in recent years in the U.K. and other countries.” 13:27 - conversation is about hormones. She says early social transition and medicalization greatly influence one into a path of surgical transition …. Just listen to her for a few minutes. Listen to 16:00 specifically for social transition. I agree with her This new study just published last month that I already listed “Risk of Suicide and Self-Harm Following Gender-Affirmation Surgery” "Individuals who underwent gender-affirming surgery had a 12.12-fold higher suicide attempt risk than those who did not" “Gender-affirming surgery is significantly associated with elevated suicide attempt risks, underlining the necessity for comprehensive post-procedure psychiatric support.” Doesn't look like efficacious results to me. It seems quite inadequate and unacceptable. You've already lost this debate troll.
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  2961.  @dariocarraresi1823  Cool story. Zucker is a member of WPATH and his medical professional peers seem to disagree with your assessment. Here's their open letter supporting Kenneth Zucker-- invalidating your claims "Open Letter in Support of Dr. Kenneth Zucker and the Need to Promote Robust Scientific Debate Sponsored by FAIR in Medicine May 5, 2023 We, the undersigned signatories, are expressing our support for Dr. Kenneth Zucker, an academically robust and unbiased editorial process at the Archives of Sexual Behavior, and uninterrupted publication of “Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria: Parent Reports on 1655 Possible Cases” by Diaz and Bailey. We condemn and reject the censorious demands being directed at Springer Nature, the company that publishes Archives of Sexual Behavior, that this paper be retracted, and that the editor of the journal, Dr. Zucker, be sanctioned for allowing the paper’s publication. The appropriate action is to have an open debate about the paper—not to silence those whose views one finds disagreeable. Currently as many as one in 10–20 youth report gender dysphoria. The paper by Diaz and Bailey adds to the growing body of knowledge about the various factors contributing to the rapid rise of adolescent-onset gender dysphoria–a phenomenon that was exceedingly rare in the past. Specifically, the paper engages with parental reports of the cases of “Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria,” or ROGD. The ROGD hypothesis posits that in some cases, gender dysphoria in adolescence may be mediated by social factors. The potential viability of the ROGD hypothesis has been endorsed not only by the parents, as described by Diaz and Bailey, but also by the clinicians working with this patient population, and the affected patients themselves. If it proves to be correct, then the treatment approaches to this novel population of adolescents may need to be different, including the possibility that such cases may benefit from less invasive interventions that do not carry the irreversible effects of hormonal and surgical interventions known as “gender-affirming care.” The concern that the currently-presenting gender dysphoric youth are different from the originally-studied cases, and that they may be better helped by psychotherapy, has also been expressed by the originators of the “Dutch” protocol for gender-transitioning minors. We are particularly disappointed that among the signatories demanding that the research be retracted is the current President of WPATH. WPATH recently acknowledged the role of social influence as a possible contributing factor to gender dysphoria in adolescents, saying: “For a select subgroup of young people, susceptibility to social influence impacting gender may be an important differential to consider.” (Coleman et al., 2022, p. 45) Signing a demand to retract one of the very few papers examining the possible influence of social factors is inconsistent with WPATH’s own statements. We are aware of the allegation that a lack of an Institutional Review Board approval of this publication warrants a retraction. However, this is demonstrably false. Springer’s policies explicitly allow the Editor-in-Chief the discretion to accept a publication that has not sought IRB approval. The first author of this study was not affiliated with a university and did not need to seek IRB approval. Further, we are aware that the activists are alleging that the paper’s methodology was biased by only relying on parental reports. However, parental reports are commonly used to gather information about children and adolescents. A highly influential paper in the field that is often cited to support social transition for youth also relied on parental reports. However, in this case the methodology was not criticized. The difference appears to be that in this example, the parents supported their children’s gender transition, whereas in the Diaz and Bailey paper, the parents were concerned with the risks of inappropriate medicalization of their children. Unfortunately, this is not the first time journals and researchers who dare explore the subject of ROGD have been targeted for cancellation. What is currently happening to the Diaz and Bailey paper bears a marked resemblance to the prior attempt to silence the original “ROGD” paper by Lisa Littman, MD. Under tremendous pressure from critics, PLOS ONE subjected the paper to a second round of peer review post-publication. The paper withstood this unprecedented scrutiny, with its results unchanged. To quote Jeffrey S. Flier, MD, the 21st Dean of Harvard Medical School, who wrote eloquently about the the attempts to silence research into ROGD, “Many papers face questions after they have been published, which is well and proper: the systematic assessment and scrutiny of published work is a core method by which the scientific community corrects errors, and builds upon imperfect preliminary observations…But that is not what has happened…. [the] critics have not performed any systematic analysis of her findings, but seem principally motivated by ideological opposition to [the] conclusions. We fear that just like in the case of the original ROGD paper, the demands for retraction and sanctioning of Dr. Zucker, the Editor-in-Chief are principally motivated by the ideological opposition to Diaz and Bailey’s conclusion. Because of Dr. Zucker’s unique experience in the field and his role as the Editor-in-Chief, the journal, Archives of Sexual Behavior, has become a formidable force in the growing debate about how to best care for the rapidly growing numbers of gender-diverse youth. Dr. Zucker has demonstrated neutrality by routinely publishing articles on both sides of this contentious issue. While the paper by Diaz and Bailey–like all research–has limitations, it is vital to continue to study the ROGD hypothesis. Ongoing attempts to silence any research into the explosion of teens who are now identifying as transgender only stands to hurt the very patients the activists are claiming to help–young gender nonconforming people. We, the undersigned signatories, ask that Springer Nature, the company that publishes Archives of Sexual Behavior, takes a nuanced view of this situation, examines the context in which these complaints have been leveled, and chooses to uphold the principles and practice of scientific discussion, debate, and freedom of expression by rejecting calls to retract the paper “Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria: Parent Reports on 1655 Possible Cases” by Diaz and Bailey and refusing to sanction Dr. Kenneth Zucker for his decision to publish the paper." Bye
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  2984.  @countingonstatic  You can't change your gender. You can only reject traditional gender roles by engaging in various levels of cosplay and LARPing. If sex and gender are independent, why should a male/man bother altering his primary sex characteristics to mimic the primary sex characteristics of a woman? Make it make sense if gender is merely a social construct, and independent from sex-- why not identify as a girl without going out of the way to alter your appearance to present as the stereotypical and objective primary sex characteristics of a female human the target????? Make it make sense What right do trans people think they have which obligates those societies which have long established their cultural norms, to abandon their cultural norms and deny objective reality, to embrace theirs??? Looks like self entitled narcissism on the part of the trans people. Way too many inappropriately and incorrectly conflate gender/sex (There are only 2-- male/female... That's it) with personality traits and temperament (There are a ton and none are gender exclusive-- hence effeminate males, butch females and tomboys), and again with gender roles (without exception refer to the roles of males and females in society) as though they're synonymous and they are not. Science has already proven that the binary dichotomy of all mammals is male/female. A man in a dress is still a man A man with anxiety about his sex/gender-- still a man A man calling himself a woman-- still a man A man with an effeminate personality--still a man Why should women's right to privacy from the presence of men, be up for debate at the whim of misogynistic men, presenting as women?
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  3016.  @dariocarraresi1823  Any Evidence to support your assertion? Canada's stats show a study Among the findings, showing: — Of the inmate sample group, 44% of the trans women convicts are sex offenders. — 82% of gender-diverse offenders were trans-women with an average age of 42 years old and almost half were serving “indeterminate” sentences. — Two-thirds (66%) had low reintegration potential. About 64% of these offenders had committed a “current sexual offense,” while 88% had previously been convicted for sexual offenses. — The vast majority, 85%, were convicted of violent crimes that caused death “or serious harm” to their victims (58% of whom were children or women). “It’s quite shocking. The study also shows that 41% of trans-women are in for h0mic*de-related crimes while with male inmates it’s only 21%,” Mason said, adding that the study also revealed that in just four years, the number of trans inmates almost doubled. The study added: “Over 80% of gender-diverse offenders with s3xu@l offense histories were trans-women. Sexual offending indicators showed that the majority of these offenses were committed while living as their biological sex, and that the highest proportion of victims were children or female.” In addition, the majority of the “sub-group caused d3ath or serious harm to their victim(s).” The study also found that of the gender-diverse offenders, 47% of whom were Indigenous. Why should the males, who you refer to as "trans women" have a higher priority, than the safety of females (both girls and women)???
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  3038.  @penelopermolai  That is why every explanation given of WHY a male "can't be a man, but is instead woman" etc. relies upon listing stereotypical stuff, or, in some cases is completely abstract and refuses to actually provide any explanation of what they mean, simply stating they "know" that what they feel means what they say it does, even though they can't actually provide a definition of it. "It's hard to explain but I know I'm right" is an attitude one constantly comes up against - a religious faith in something they can't define. This idea that the terms "man" and "woman" carry all this baggage, sexist stereotypes, that people need to live up to or feel comfortable with is a complete fabrication coming from the "trans" side. You lot want a term to reflect aspects of your personality as well, you want to create more boxes to put people in, as you won't accept simply just being a man or a woman based on being born male or female (and reaching adulthood, obviously people are boys and girls before becoming men or women), but believe you need this "freedom of expression" to broadcast what sexist stereotypes you feel more comfortable with - thinking the world needs to adopt the sexist view you lot have (you fail to see just how much you have in common with Conservatives). Replacing objective definitions which are based in physical reality, with entirely subjective metaphysical claims, is not logical in any way, is not morally superior, and is demonstrably harmful, not least to female rights and protections, but also to practically anyone that buys into it as it warps people's perception of the underlying issues. It hinders people in their quest for individuation, creating this false narrative of them becoming more "authentic" when the total opposite is true, they believe they need validation from others in order to be happy etc. instead of being encouraged to find more inner strength and resilience with less reliance on how people see them. Demanding to be legally recognized as the opposite sex of what one is, is in no way shape or form more authentic than accepting the physical reality one is born into. To believe we as individuals can have 100% control over our identity in society, what we are seen as by others, in interaction with, and in relation to, society/the world/physical existence is a fool's errand, it is a delusional understanding of reality and existence. A dude in a dress, who's chosen to surgically alter his anatomy, is still a dude-- He's just a dude who's chosen to remove himself from the gene pool, and have properly functioning organs rendered no longer functioning. They're only kidding themselves when they don't acknowledge that the trans activist narratives include the notion that a trans woman is a woman, is objectively just false/wrong. The problem with the trans activist's narratives are that life is based in objective reality, and the vast majority of people don't have difficulty deciphering the differences between reality and the trans imagination, and they aren't willing to participate in the LARP and cosplay, as though it's based in reality Womp
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  3076.  @dariocarraresi1823  Yes, it is a strawman argument that's been thoroughly debunked. If you have XY chromosomes, you have no business in places designated for people with XX chromosomes (Like women's shelters or the girl's showers, locker rooms, changing rooms, sports divisions/leagues/teams, or prisons) and you've still not justified the expectation to the contrary. I call BS... next time you feel like whining about it, remember, your claims are unjustified and invalid because YOU can't justify them to the society members that you wish to assimilate into, sufficiently or in your case-- AT ALL. So, that being said-- Bottom line is: restrooms, changing rooms, locker rooms, showers, sports leagues/teams/divisions, women's shelters, and prisons are designated segregated by gender for a good reason (regardless of you pretending that men and women are interchangeable widgets-- they're not, and they aren't established based on a subjective gender identity claim, rather they're based on biology). Got anything justifying the expectation that all of society must participate in your affirmation treatment, by denying objective reality, as an obligation to you? You can choose to wear a fairy princess costume if you like, but it doesn't make you a fairy princess and those who think it does are delusional too. Feel free to dress like a woman Feel free to act as effeminate as it gets Feel free be straight or gay Just know that none of that entitles you to occupy the girl's showers, sports etc... because you're pretending you're one of them, or presenting as a stereotypical sexist caricature of a woman you're not. Hopefully, that clears it up for you... I know it won't-- you're a contrarian, but again it's you and yours looking for affirmation, acceptance, and validation from the society at large-- Not the other way around. So again, got anything to justify your expectation that everyone in society is obligated to pretend you're a woman???
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  3091.  @dariocarraresi1823  Great!! Quit whining about your preferred pronouns etc... no one cares, it doesn't justify males w/ psych issues who make unverifiable, subjective gender identity claims being granted access to the girl's showers, women's shelters, locker rooms, changing rooms, sports divisions or prisons segregated by biology-- Not some delusional metaphysical gender identity claim that's unhinged from objective reality. You certainly haven't proven that a man who wishes he were, or believes he's a woman is anything other than a man. Do you believe that spaces designated by gender/sex are referring to gender roles? Make it make sense I Don't care if you want to wear a dress, makeup, heels and a wig, get boob implants, have HRT and have your properly functioning genitalia removed surgically-- Feel free, but still a man. The justification for separating men and women in prisons, with the draft, showers, locker rooms, changing rooms, scholarships, and sports teams/leagues you deem unnecessary. Whats the issue with it??? Justify and explain how eliminating women's private spaces and allowing men to encroach isn't misogyny? You've not demonstrated how eliminating women's sports divisions is a superior way of organizing sports You've not demonstrated how eliminating women's expectation of privacy in women's only spaces is a superior way to organize society. You've also failed to demonstrate how eliminating women's only spaces as a concept from society, is a superior way of organizing society. Your Lord of the flies/anarchist approach to civilization is ludicrous. Name a civilized nation without laws. You can't-- it doesn't exist, and neither does Utopia
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  3092.  @dariocarraresi1823  No, I don't care what pronouns anyone uses. I care about the fact that they're insisting on trying to control the pronouns that others choose to use. I'm an older, adult asking you or anyone here to justify the expectation that anyone supports your world view as valid, and you've come back with nothing but the petulant snark of a late teen trying to be a provocateur. The world doesn't owe you respect, affirmation, acceptance nor validation. Respect is earned and is reserved for that which is actually respectable, while you appear to thrive on stoking conflict like an adversary. You've destroyed your own integrity and credibility by acting like a petulant brat, and an abrasive a-hole, failing to engage in good faith, with questions which expose your narratives as nothing but incoherent unjustifiable and invalid nonsense, unable to withstand any scrutiny. Well, not all cultures are Equal, Compatible, nor Desirable... That's why nations have borders. Society has long established societal norms cross-culturally and internationally, and they aren't going to reorganize themselves, for some counter-culture group of people-- who are free to choose to go elsewhere, rather than act like the world owes them something. It's for them to find a way to operate and integrate into society. It's not society's role to reorganize itself for you or them, so hopefully you'll realize that you'd be better off developing some coping mechanisms to handle the fact that the majority of people reject the trans-activist ideological narratives, and to deal with reality as it is, as opposed to how you/they wished it were, which is at the root of what's lacking with GD affirmation-based treatment.
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  3097.  @dariocarraresi1823  The stats show that your claim that segregating based on sex being unnecessary to be short-sighted and wrong. The govt of Canada called and said you're wrong... What we found Eighty-two percent of gender diverse offenders with sexual offence histories were trans-women and the remaining 17% were in the "other" group.Footnote 2 On average, these offenders were 42 years at the time of the study. Two-thirds were serving their first federal sentence and about half (46%) were serving indeterminate sentences. The risk and needs characteristics of these offenders indicates that they had high static risk (91%) and dynamic need (94%) but almost half (42%) were low criminal riskFootnote 3 based on the Criminal Risk Index (CRI). Although three-quarters (78%) have a moderate to high motivation and two-thirds (64%) have a moderate to high accountability, a little over half (58%) are considered engaged in their correctional plan. Two-thirds (66%) had a low reintegration potential. Finally, responsivity issues were identified for a third (36%) of these offenders. Almost two-thirds (64%) of these offenders committed a current sexual offence while 88% were convicted for prior sex offences. Almost all (94%) had committed their offences while living as their biological sex. The majority (85%) committed offences that caused death or serious harm to their victim(s) while 70% inflicted psychological harm on their victim(s). Examination of the victimology shows that over half were children (58%) or female (55%). One-third (33%) of the offences committed had multiple victims. File review indicated that 70% of the offenders with sex offence histories had experienced childhood abuse and 27% were abused in adulthood. Childhood sexual (64%) and physical (52%) abuse were most commonly experienced by these offenders. Two-thirds (64%) had experienced trauma. For offenders with DFIA-R information, 60% had a history of childhood abuse. What it means Over 80% of gender diverse offenders with sexual offence histories were trans-women. Sexual offending indicators showed that the majority of these offences were committed while living as their biological sex, and that the highest proportion of victims were children or female. In addition, a majority of this sub-group caused death or serious harm to their victim(s). Most of these offenders also had a history of abuse and trauma. Due to these factors, gender diverse offenders with sex offence histories present unique operational considerations for institutional placement and correctional programming. Get a clue... You have none... It's not only prudent, it's necessary
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  3137. I get that the activists and trolls want to argue for sport, but for all of human history boy/man meant boy/man and girl/woman meant girl/woman. Let's not kid ourselves here. It dates back to the earliest books of the Bible God made man in His image, He made them male and female. The early writers understood the meaning and wrote laws for each. It's not really a question at all, with the context of literature throughout the centuries-- confirming the author's understanding of the meaning of the words and differences between males and females, men/women. All of a sudden, now people are confused about reality. A man is an adult human male, woman is an adult human female and neither are a social construct, feeling, fetish, preference nor a costume. All men are born male, all women are born female as is every other mammalian species with a binary sexual dichotomy of 'male' and 'female'. DNA dictates the production of objective biological differences between males and females. 100% of the population is either male or female, even intersex people. If they have a Y chromosome, they are heterogametic and male. If not, they are homogametic and female. Believing there is some "essence" specific to males or female as far as feelings go, that can manifest "in the wrong body", is akin to a religious belief, having faith in something that is impossible to prove or disprove. The thing is though, that no one on the "trans" side can actually even explain what this "essence" is, they can't even explain it to themselves yet have convinced themselves that the feeling they have means they "are in the wrong body" - without realizing that their discomfort simply stems from not realizing that they view conforming to sexist stereotypes as legitimate measures of manhood or womanhood. That is why every explanation given of WHY a male "can't be a man, but is instead woman" etc. relies upon listing stereotypical stuff, or, in some cases is completely abstract and refuses to actually provide any explanation of what they mean, simply stating they "know" that what they feel means what they say it does, even though they can't actually provide a definition of it. "It's hard to explain but I know I'm right" is an attitude one constantly comes up against - a religious faith in something they can't define. This idea that the terms "man" and "woman" carry all this baggage, sexist stereotypes, that people need to live up to or feel comfortable with is a complete fabrication coming from the "trans" side. You lot want a term to reflect aspects of your personality as well, you want to create more boxes to put people in, as you won't accept simply just being a man or a woman based on being born male or female (and reaching adulthood, obviously people are boys and girls before becoming men or women), but believe you need this "freedom of expression" to broadcast what sexist stereotypes you feel more comfortable with - thinking the world needs to adopt the sexist view you lot have. Replacing objective definitions which are based in physical reality, with entirely subjective metaphysical claims, is not logical in any way, is not morally superior, and is demonstrably harmful, not least to female rights and protections, but also to practically anyone that buys into it as it warps people's perception of the underlying issues. It hinders people in their quest for individuation, creating this false narrative of them becoming more "authentic" when the total opposite is true, they believe they need validation from others in order to be happy etc. instead of being encouraged to find more inner strength and resilience with less reliance on how people see them. Demanding to be legally recognized as the opposite sex of what one is, is in no way shape or form more authentic than accepting the physical reality one is born into. To believe we as individuals can have 100% control over our identity in society, what we are seen as by others, in interaction with, and in relation to, society/the world/physical existence is a fool's errand, it is a delusional understanding of reality and existence.
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  3140.  @phaneros8180  You say, gender identity and sex are separate, but haven't been able to justify encroaching on spaces designated segregated based on sex (Not gender identity), as an entitlement. Not even close You also haven't come close yet, to being able to justify the expectation that just because you/they present and identify in a non-traditional fashion, that all of society must treat you/them as though they're the opposite sex. It's absurd First, intersex individuals are not asexual, but have clear sex biomarkers that makes their sex epistemically uncertain. The biological constitution of intersex individuals involves at least some typically male/female biological sex features in their genotype, phenotype, et cetera. Should we place biomarkers aside, it would not be clear what sex could mean. Second, intersex individuals are not hermaphrodites. There are two misunderstandings to be warded off, the first in terms of there being no cases of hermaphroditism in the sense of individuals who are fully biological males and females, and the second in terms of embryonic development. Beginning with the former, the reason why “hermaphroditism” is no longer used in medical nomenclature is that there are, simply speaking, no hermaphrodites. While having both XX and XY chromosomes is possible, this is not identical to hermaphroditism—for reasons we shall see later in the discussion of the definition of “sex.” 2 With respect to the latter, Orr's (2020) quotation of Intersex Genital Mutilations: Human Rights Violations of Persons with Variations of Sex Anatomy (2016), the NGO report to the 7th periodic report of France on the Convention Against Torture (CAT). In it, we find the following: Everybody started out as a hermaphrodite: Until the 7th week of gestation, every fetus has “indeterminate” genitals, two sets of basic reproductive duct structures, and bipotential gonads. Only after the 7th week of gestation, fetuses undergo sexual differentiation mostly resulting in typically male or female sex anatomy and reproductive organs. (p. 32). However, the potential, i.e., hence the use of “ bipotential”, to be male or female is not the same as actually being “between” (intersex) male and female. Bipotential gonads presexual differentiation are different than actual bigonads post-sexual differentiation. Consequently, bipotential gonads do not entail a period of hermaphroditism in prenatal human beings. Third and finally, Tudela et al. (2020) cite Arcelus et al. (2015) for a prevalence statistic for intersex conditions. The problem is that they cite a prevalence statistic of transsexual individuals, not intersex individuals—and they are different. Arcelus et al. (2015) defines “transsexual” as “individuals who experience discomfort or distress caused by the discrepancy between their gender identity and the sex they were assigned at birth.” (p. 3). This definition excludes at least two categories of intersex individuals, and consequently cannot be a reliable intersex prevalence statistic. First, it would exclude prenatal intersex individuals, e.g., through genetic screening can reveal whether a child has congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH) or androgen insensitivity syndrome (AIS), or during infancy. Second, it would exclude non-gender-dysphoric intersex individuals, and non-gender-dysphoric intersex individuals who did not receive surgery to change sexes. Consequently, even if intersex individuals met the definition of “transsexual” later in life, this prevalence statistic is unreliable. However, I hold that Tuleda et al.'s (2020) point still stands unscathed. Consider Sax's (2010) more reliable prevalence statistic of 0.018 percent. Sax's (2010) estimate carefully corrects Anne Fausto-Sterling's (and others’) statistic of intersex's prevalence being around 1.7 percent. Fausto-Sterling's statistic was based on a mistaken definition of intersex which would include Turner syndrome, Klinefelter syndrome, and late-onset adrenal hyperplasia. In none of these cases is their true intersex in which there is sexual uncertainty, i.e., these are not cases of genuine sexual ambiguity. As Sax (2010) points out in the 0.018 percent figure, the prevalence is nearly one hundred times lower than Fausto-Sterling suggested. Fourth (and relatedly), there are misunderstandings regarding the difference between being “sexually atypical” and being “intersex.” Consider Feder's (2014) remark that “the issue of “incidence” of atypical sex has been a vexed one, as it concerns not only the frequency with which children are born with atypical sex anatomies but also what counts as atypical sex.” (p. 211ff1, my italics). The idea here is that what it means to be intersex just is to have an atypical sex anatomy. There is a plausible case that “intersex” and “atypical sex anatomies” are not synonymous. Having an atypical sex anatomy might refer to the broader category of a difference in one's sexual anatomy, but it does not highlight the heterogeneous property of all intersex conditions: uncertainty with regard to one's sex. As Feder (2014) herself admits, the atypical sex anatomy of “hypospadias” (p. 211ff1) involve children “who are usually regarded as unquestionably male” (p. 211ff1). 3 However, if atypical sex anatomy does not make a sex-specific claim, i.e., saying something about sex identification, then it should not be used either as a placeholder for, or as a description of, intersex. Having warded off misunderstandings of “intersex”, I will now provide four arguments that “intersex” does not violate the sex binary. cais (intersex deformity) comes along with hermaphroditism btw An extremely minute percentage of humans are either “intersex” (typically referring to those who are anatomical hermaphrodites) or of indeterminate gender (that is, not easily determined by a cursory inspection of the external genitalia), but that does not negate the incontrovertible scientific fact that there are only two genders. As far as we know, there has never existed a single human being with the ability to BOTH conceive a child in his/her womb and, simultaneously, successfully inseminate a woman (or in more disturbing terms, for a hermaphrodite to inseminate him/herself). And even if such an individual has existed, that person would be a combination of BOTH male and female, and not some imaginary, novel third gender. Cf. “sex”. Both terms (“gender” and “sex”) originate from Latin words: “genus” (meaning “begin”; “birth”; “kind”; “race”; “gender”) and “sexus” (meaning “sex”; “division”; “gender”). So, essentially, the only significant distinction between the two terms is that the etymology of “gender” pertains to the beginning of things, as can be plainly seen by the other English words that originate from "genus", such as “generic”, “genetic”, and “generate”, whilst “sex” is a scrupulously-literal translation of the Latin cognate “sexus”. Now you know better
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  3228.  @Snuzzled  You can't change your gender. You can only reject traditional gender roles by engaging in various levels of cosplay and LARPing, or not. You could have a surgeon alter your appearance to look like a Klingon, and it wouldn't make you a Klingon either. A dude with top and bottom surgery and wearing a dress is still a dude. Kenneth Zucker et Al 2021: 88 percent of trans women desisted after 20 years. 93% resorted to homosexuality vs affirmation treatment with a self delete rate nearly 10x's higher than the general population at nearly 40%, doesn't appear to be validating the 1% 'regret rate' claim-- as accurate (looks like a huge net loss to me, being that gays have a self-delete rate closer to the general population, at around 4% comparatively)-- in NO way justifies claims of affirmation-based treatment protocols as efficacious. There's no hate involved in recognizing that a man in a dress-- is a man; That's just being observant. Believing there is some "essence" specific to males or female as far as feelings go, that can manifest "in the wrong body", is akin to a religious belief, having faith in something that is impossible to prove or disprove. The thing is though, that no one on the "trans" side can actually even explain what this "essence" is, they can't even explain it to themselves yet have convinced themselves that the feeling they have means they "are in the wrong body" - without realizing that their discomfort simply stems from not realizing that they view conforming to sexist stereotypes as legitimate measures of manhood or womanhood. That is why every explanation given of WHY a male "can't be a man, but is instead woman" etc. relies upon listing stereotypical stuff, or, in some cases is completely abstract and refuses to actually provide any explanation of what they mean, simply stating they "know" that what they feel means what they say it does, even though they can't actually provide a definition of it. "It's hard to explain but I know I'm right" is an attitude one constantly comes up against - a religious faith in something they can't define. This idea that the terms "man" and "woman" carry all this baggage, sexist stereotypes, that people need to live up to or feel comfortable with is a complete fabrication coming from the "trans" side. You lot want a term to reflect aspects of your personality as well, you want to create more boxes to put people in, as you won't accept simply just being a man or a woman based on being born male or female (and reaching adulthood, obviously people are boys and girls before becoming men or women), but believe you need this "freedom of expression" to broadcast what sexist stereotypes you feel more comfortable with - thinking the world needs to adopt the sexist view you lot have. Replacing objective definitions which are based in physical reality, with entirely subjective metaphysical claims, is not logical in any way, is not morally superior, and is demonstrably harmful, not least to female rights and protections, but also to practically anyone that buys into it as it warps people's perception of the underlying issues. It hinders people in their quest for individuation, creating this false narrative of them becoming more "authentic" when the total opposite is true, they believe they need validation from others in order to be happy etc. instead of being encouraged to find more inner strength and resilience with less reliance on how people see them. Demanding to be legally recognized as the opposite sex of what one is, is in no way shape or form more authentic than accepting the physical reality one is born into. To believe we as individuals can have 100% control over our identity in society, what we are seen as by others, in interaction with, and in relation to, society/the world/physical existence is a fool's errand, it is a delusional understanding of reality and existence. A dude in a dress, who's chosen to surgically alter his anatomy, is still a dude-- He's just a dude who's chosen to remove himself from the gene pool, and have properly functioning organs rendered no longer functioning. They're only kidding themselves when they don't acknowledge that the trans activist narratives include the notion that a trans woman is a woman, is objectively just false/wrong. The problem with the trans activist's narratives are that life is based in objective reality, and the vast majority of people don't have difficulty deciphering the differences between reality and the trans imagination, and they aren't willing to participate in the LARP and cosplay, as though it's based in reality.
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  3233.  @Snuzzled  Also-- Here's 2 scientific studies for you: Suicidality Among Transgender Youth: Elucidating the Role of Interpersonal Risk Factors: "Data indicate that 82% of transgender individuals have considered killing themselves and 40% have attempted suicide, with suicidality highest among transgender youth. Using minority stress theory and the interpersonal theory of suicide, this study aims to better understand suicide risk among transgender youth. The present study examines the influence of intervenable risk factors: interpersonal and environmental microaggressions, internalized self-stigma, and adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), and protective factors: school belonging, family support, and peer support on both lifetime suicide attempts and past 6-month suicidality in a sample of transgender youth (n = 372). SPSS 22 was utilized to examine the impact of the independent variables on both suicidality and lifetime suicide attempt through two separate logistic regressions. Fifty six percent of youth reported a previous suicide attempt and 86% reported suicidality. Logistic regressions indicated that models for both lifetime suicide attempts and suicidality were significant." Long-term follow-up of transsexual persons undergoing sex reassignment surgery: cohort study in Sweden: “Conclusions: Persons with transsexualism, after sex reassignment, have considerably higher risks for mortality, suicidal behaviour, and psychiatric morbidity than the general population. Our findings suggest that sex reassignment, although alleviating gender dysphoria, may not suffice as treatment for transsexualism, and should inspire improved psychiatric and somatic care after sex reassignment for this patient group.” THAT is what I would consider an issue, and if you do not-- then you do you, while failing to realize that the supposedly efficacious claims, of affirmation-based treatment protocol advocates are entirely unjustified.
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  3234.  @Snuzzled  Since you're interested in facts and studies, here are some others: Persons with transsexualism, after sex reassignment, have considerably higher risks for mortality, self termination behavior, and psychiatric morbidity than the general population. "Our findings suggest that sex reassignment, although alleviating gender dysphoria, may not suffice as treatment for transsexualism, and should inspire improved psychiatric and somatic care after sex reassignment for this patient group." A 2020 academic study with a sample size of 372 respondents found that 40 percent of transgender people had attempted self termination. Similarly, in 2016, the National Transgender Discrimination Survey found that 41 percent of 6,450 respondents said they had previously attempted self termination. By comparison, the CDC found that in 2020, 0.36 percent of the population had attempted self termination. According to a 2022 survey by The Trevor Project, an LGBTQ+ suicide prevention organization, nearly 1 in 5 young people who identified as transgender or non-binary have attempted self termination. Also, Kenneth Zucker et Al 2021 Watched trans women, diagnosed, and after 20 years-- almost 90% desisted. Thomas Steensma, a gender clinician and researcher at the Center of Expertise on Gender Dysphoria, VU University Medical Center, in Amsterdam found, the phenomenon of transgender children "growing out of" their transgender identity by the time they are adolescents or adults is called “desistance” by gender researchers. For decades, follow-up studies of transgender kids have shown that a substantial majority -- anywhere from 65 to 94 percent -- eventually ceased to identify as transgender. Contrast that against the 40-50% self termination rate currently measured (Compared to the rate associated with gays and lesbians @ around 4%) with the implementation of affirmation therapy, and it looks like affirmation therapy is a net loss, and is not justifiable as efficacious in any meaningful way. It begs the questioning of affirmation-based treatment protocols and the questioning of the ethics and judgement of those who endorse and perform those procedures. Why should a man, regardless of his anxiety about his gender (which was established at conception and was observed and documented at his birth), or his desire that reality were different, be treated as anything other than a man?? The inability to cope with things as they are in reality, rather than as you/they wished they were in your/their subjective imaginations, doesn't change reality. That's a major area that affirmation-based treatment fails because it fails to provide coping mechanisms to effectively contend with the adversity in life, which is inevitable. The main problem the trans activist's narratives have is that life is based in objective reality, and most people don't have difficulty deciphering reality from the trans imagination. What you exist as, is a matter of objective reality, and wishing you were something else doesn't affect that in the slightest. All men are born male, all women are born female and neither are social constructs, feelings, costumes, fetishes or preferences. That you/they can't accept that, is at the root of the problem w/ GD.
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  3235.  @Snuzzled  Feel free to post the studies which invalidate these: Persons with transsexualism, after sex reassignment, have considerably higher risks for mortality, self termination behavior, and psychiatric morbidity than the general population. "Our findings suggest that sex reassignment, although alleviating gender dysphoria, may not suffice as treatment for transsexualism, and should inspire improved psychiatric and somatic care after sex reassignment for this patient group." A 2020 academic study with a sample size of 372 respondents found that 40 percent of transgender people had attempted self termination. Similarly, in 2016, the National Transgender Discrimination Survey found that 41 percent of 6,450 respondents said they had previously attempted self termination. By comparison, the CDC found that in 2020, 0.36 percent of the population had attempted self termination. According to a 2022 survey by The Trevor Project, an LGBTQ+ suicide prevention organization, nearly 1 in 5 young people who identified as transgender or non-binary have attempted self termination. Also, Kenneth Zucker et Al 2021 Watched trans women, diagnosed, and after 20 years-- almost 90% desisted. Thomas Steensma, a gender clinician and researcher at the Center of Expertise on Gender Dysphoria, VU University Medical Center, in Amsterdam found, the phenomenon of transgender children "growing out of" their transgender identity by the time they are adolescents or adults is called “desistance” by gender researchers. For decades, follow-up studies of transgender kids have shown that a substantial majority -- anywhere from 65 to 94 percent -- eventually ceased to identify as transgender. Contrast that against the 40-50% self termination rate currently measured (Compared to the rate associated with gays and lesbians @ around 4%) with the implementation of affirmation therapy, and it looks like affirmation therapy is a net loss, and is not justifiable as efficacious in any meaningful way. It begs the questioning of affirmation-based treatment protocols and the questioning of the ethics and judgement of those who endorse and perform those procedures. Why should a man, regardless of his anxiety about his gender (which was established at conception and was observed and documented at his birth), or his desire that reality were different, be treated as anything other than a man?? The inability to cope with things as they are in reality, rather than as you/they wished they were in your/their subjective imaginations, doesn't change reality. That's a major area that affirmation-based treatment fails because it fails to provide coping mechanisms to effectively contend with the adversity in life, which is inevitable. The main problem the trans activist's narratives have is that life is based in objective reality, and most people don't have difficulty deciphering reality from the trans imagination. What you exist as, is a matter of objective reality, and wishing you were something else doesn't affect that in the slightest. All men are born male, all women are born female and neither are social constructs, feelings, costumes, fetishes or preferences. That you/they can't accept that, is at the root of the problem w/ GD.
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  3236.  @Snuzzled  Persons with transsexualism, after sex reassignment, have considerably higher risks for mortality, self termination behavior, and psychiatric morbidity than the general population. "Our findings suggest that sex reassignment, although alleviating gender dysphoria, may not suffice as treatment for transsexualism, and should inspire improved psychiatric and somatic care after sex reassignment for this patient group." A 2020 academic study with a sample size of 372 respondents found that 40 percent of transgender people had attempted self termination. Similarly, in 2016, the National Transgender Discrimination Survey found that 41 percent of 6,450 respondents said they had previously attempted self termination. By comparison, the CDC found that in 2020, 0.36 percent of the population had attempted self termination. According to a 2022 survey by The Trevor Project, an LGBTQ+ suicide prevention organization, nearly 1 in 5 young people who identified as transgender or non-binary have attempted self termination. Also, Kenneth Zucker et Al 2021 Watched trans women, diagnosed, and after 20 years-- almost 90% desisted. Thomas Steensma, a gender clinician and researcher at the Center of Expertise on Gender Dysphoria, VU University Medical Center, in Amsterdam found, the phenomenon of transgender children "growing out of" their transgender identity by the time they are adolescents or adults is called “desistance” by gender researchers. For decades, follow-up studies of transgender kids have shown that a substantial majority -- anywhere from 65 to 94 percent -- eventually ceased to identify as transgender. Contrast that against the 40-50% self termination rate currently measured (Compared to the rate associated with gays and lesbians @ around 4%) with the implementation of affirmation therapy, and it looks like affirmation therapy is a net loss, and is not justifiable as efficacious in any meaningful way. It begs the questioning of affirmation-based treatment protocols and the questioning of the ethics and judgement of those who endorse and perform those procedures. Why should a man, regardless of his anxiety about his gender (which was established at conception and was observed and documented at his birth), or his desire that reality were different, be treated as anything other than a man?? The inability to cope with things as they are in reality, rather than as you/they wished they were in your/their subjective imaginations, doesn't change reality. That's a major area that affirmation-based treatment fails because it fails to provide coping mechanisms to effectively contend with the adversity in life, which is inevitable. The main problem the trans activist's narratives have is that life is based in objective reality, and most people don't have difficulty deciphering reality from the trans imagination. What you exist as, is a matter of objective reality, and wishing you were something else doesn't affect that in the slightest. All men are born male, all women are born female and neither are social constructs, feelings, costumes, fetishes or preferences. That you/they can't accept that, is at the root of the problem w/ GD.
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  3237. ​ @Snuzzled  Nope-- Persons with transsexualism, after sex reassignment, have considerably higher risks for mortality, self termination behavior, and psychiatric morbidity than the general population. "Our findings suggest that sex reassignment, although alleviating gender dysphoria, may not suffice as treatment for transsexualism, and should inspire improved psychiatric and somatic care after sex reassignment for this patient group." A 2020 academic study with a sample size of 372 respondents found that 40 percent of transgender people had attempted self termination. Similarly, in 2016, the National Transgender Discrimination Survey found that 41 percent of 6,450 respondents said they had previously attempted self termination. By comparison, the CDC found that in 2020, 0.36 percent of the population had attempted self termination. According to a 2022 survey by The Trevor Project, an LGBTQ+ suicide prevention organization, nearly 1 in 5 young people who identified as transgender or non-binary have attempted self termination. Also, Kenneth Zucker et Al 2021 Watched trans women, diagnosed, and after 20 years-- almost 90% desisted. Thomas Steensma, a gender clinician and researcher at the Center of Expertise on Gender Dysphoria, VU University Medical Center, in Amsterdam found, the phenomenon of transgender children "growing out of" their transgender identity by the time they are adolescents or adults is called “desistance” by gender researchers. For decades, follow-up studies of transgender kids have shown that a substantial majority -- anywhere from 65 to 94 percent -- eventually ceased to identify as transgender. Contrast that against the 40-50% self termination rate currently measured (Compared to the rate associated with gays and lesbians @ around 4%) with the implementation of affirmation therapy, and it looks like affirmation therapy is a net loss, and is not justifiable as efficacious in any meaningful way. It begs the questioning of affirmation-based treatment protocols and the questioning of the ethics and judgement of those who endorse and perform those procedures. Why should a man, regardless of his anxiety about his gender (which was established at conception and was observed and documented at his birth), or his desire that reality were different, be treated as anything other than a man?? The inability to cope with things as they are in reality, rather than as you/they wished they were in your/their subjective imaginations, doesn't change reality. That's a major area that affirmation-based treatment fails because it fails to provide coping mechanisms to effectively contend with the adversity in life, which is inevitable. The main problem the trans activist's narratives have is that life is based in objective reality, and most people don't have difficulty deciphering reality from the trans imagination. What you exist as, is a matter of objective reality, and wishing you were something else doesn't affect that in the slightest. All men are born male, all women are born female and neither are social constructs, feelings, costumes, fetishes or preferences. That you/they can't accept that, is at the root of the problem w/ GD.
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  3238.  @Snuzzled  Persons with transsexualism, after sex reassignment, have considerably higher risks for mortality, self termination behavior, and psychiatric morbidity than the general population. "Our findings suggest that sex reassignment, although alleviating gender dysphoria, may not suffice as treatment for transsexualism, and should inspire improved psychiatric and somatic care after sex reassignment for this patient group." A 2020 academic study with a sample size of 372 respondents found that 40 percent of transgender people had attempted self termination. Similarly, in 2016, the National Transgender Discrimination Survey found that 41 percent of 6,450 respondents said they had previously attempted self termination. By comparison, the CDC found that in 2020, 0.36 percent of the population had attempted self termination. According to a 2022 survey by The Trevor Project, an LGBTQ+ suicide prevention organization, nearly 1 in 5 young people who identified as transgender or non-binary have attempted self termination. Also, Kenneth Zucker et Al 2021 Watched trans women, diagnosed, and after 20 years-- almost 90% desisted. Thomas Steensma, a gender clinician and researcher at the Center of Expertise on Gender Dysphoria, VU University Medical Center, in Amsterdam found, the phenomenon of transgender children "growing out of" their transgender identity by the time they are adolescents or adults is called “desistance” by gender researchers. For decades, follow-up studies of transgender kids have shown that a substantial majority -- anywhere from 65 to 94 percent -- eventually ceased to identify as transgender.
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  3239.  @Snuzzled  You keep deleting the studies which debunk your claim. Pretty lame Persons with transsexualism, after sex reassignment, have considerably higher risks for mortality, self termination behavior, and psychiatric morbidity than the general population. "Our findings suggest that sex reassignment, although alleviating gender dysphoria, may not suffice as treatment for transsexualism, and should inspire improved psychiatric and somatic care after sex reassignment for this patient group." A 2020 academic study with a sample size of 372 respondents found that 40 percent of transgender people had attempted self termination. Similarly, in 2016, the National Transgender Discrimination Survey found that 41 percent of 6,450 respondents said they had previously attempted self termination. By comparison, the CDC found that in 2020, 0.36 percent of the population had attempted self termination. According to a 2022 survey by The Trevor Project, an LGBTQ+ suicide prevention organization, nearly 1 in 5 young people who identified as transgender or non-binary have attempted self termination. Also, Kenneth Zucker et Al 2021 Watched trans women, diagnosed, and after 20 years-- almost 90% desisted. Thomas Steensma, a gender clinician and researcher at the Center of Expertise on Gender Dysphoria, VU University Medical Center, in Amsterdam found, the phenomenon of transgender children "growing out of" their transgender identity by the time they are adolescents or adults is called “desistance” by gender researchers. For decades, follow-up studies of transgender kids have shown that a substantial majority -- anywhere from 65 to 94 percent -- eventually ceased to identify as transgender. Contrast that against the 40-50% self termination rate currently measured (Compared to the rate associated with gays and lesbians @ around 4%) with the implementation of affirmation therapy, and it looks like affirmation therapy is a net loss, and is not justifiable as efficacious in any meaningful way. It begs the questioning of affirmation-based treatment protocols and the questioning of the ethics and judgement of those who endorse and perform those procedures. Why should a man, regardless of his anxiety about his gender (which was established at conception and was observed and documented at his birth), or his desire that reality were different, be treated as anything other than a man?? The inability to cope with things as they are in reality, rather than as you/they wished they were in your/their subjective imaginations, doesn't change reality. That's a major area that affirmation-based treatment fails because it fails to provide coping mechanisms to effectively contend with the adversity in life, which is inevitable. The main problem the trans activist's narratives have is that life is based in objective reality, and most people don't have difficulty deciphering reality from the trans imagination. What you exist as, is a matter of objective reality, and wishing you were something else doesn't affect that in the slightest. All men are born male, all women are born female and neither are social constructs, feelings, costumes, fetishes or preferences. That you/they can't accept that, is at the root of the problem w/ GD.
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  3240.  @Snuzzled  Persons with transsexualism, after sex reassignment, have considerably higher risks for mortality, self termination behavior, and psychiatric morbidity than the general population. "Our findings suggest that sex reassignment, although alleviating gender dysphoria, may not suffice as treatment for transsexualism, and should inspire improved psychiatric and somatic care after sex reassignment for this patient group." A 2020 academic study with a sample size of 372 respondents found that 40 percent of transgender people had attempted self termination. Similarly, in 2016, the National Transgender Discrimination Survey found that 41 percent of 6,450 respondents said they had previously attempted self termination. By comparison, the CDC found that in 2020, 0.36 percent of the population had attempted self termination. According to a 2022 survey by The Trevor Project, an LGBTQ+ suicide prevention organization, nearly 1 in 5 young people who identified as transgender or non-binary have attempted self termination. Also, Kenneth Zucker et Al 2021 Watched trans women, diagnosed, and after 20 years-- almost 90% desisted. Thomas Steensma, a gender clinician and researcher at the Center of Expertise on Gender Dysphoria, VU University Medical Center, in Amsterdam found, the phenomenon of transgender children "growing out of" their transgender identity by the time they are adolescents or adults is called “desistance” by gender researchers. For decades, follow-up studies of transgender kids have shown that a substantial majority -- anywhere from 65 to 94 percent -- eventually ceased to identify as transgender.
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  3241.  @Snuzzled  Persons with transsexualism, after sex reassignment, have considerably higher risks for mortality, self termination behavior, and psychiatric morbidity than the general population. "Our findings suggest that sex reassignment, although alleviating gender dysphoria, may not suffice as treatment for transsexualism, and should inspire improved psychiatric and somatic care after sex reassignment for this patient group." A 2020 academic study with a sample size of 372 respondents found that 40 percent of transgender people had attempted self termination. Similarly, in 2016, the National Transgender Discrimination Survey found that 41 percent of 6,450 respondents said they had previously attempted self termination. By comparison, the CDC found that in 2020, 0.36 percent of the population had attempted self termination. According to a 2022 survey by The Trevor Project, an LGBTQ+ suicide prevention organization, nearly 1 in 5 young people who identified as transgender or non-binary have attempted self termination. Also, Kenneth Zucker et Al 2021 Watched trans women, diagnosed, and after 20 years-- almost 90% desisted. Thomas Steensma, a gender clinician and researcher at the Center of Expertise on Gender Dysphoria, VU University Medical Center, in Amsterdam found, the phenomenon of transgender children "growing out of" their transgender identity by the time they are adolescents or adults is called “desistance” by gender researchers. For decades, follow-up studies of transgender kids have shown that a substantial majority -- anywhere from 65 to 94 percent -- eventually ceased to identify as transgender. Contrast that against the 40-50% self termination rate currently measured (Compared to the rate associated with gays and lesbians @ around 4%) with the implementation of affirmation therapy, and it looks like affirmation therapy is a net loss, and is not justifiable as efficacious in any meaningful way.
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  3243.  @Snuzzled  Nope, and the coward deleting the evidence is evidence of the total lack of integrity. Persons with transsexualism, after sex reassignment, have considerably higher risks for mortality, self termination behavior, and psychiatric morbidity than the general population. "Our findings suggest that sex reassignment, although alleviating gender dysphoria, may not suffice as treatment for transsexualism, and should inspire improved psychiatric and somatic care after sex reassignment for this patient group." A 2020 academic study with a sample size of 372 respondents found that 40 percent of transgender people had attempted self termination. Similarly, in 2016, the National Transgender Discrimination Survey found that 41 percent of 6,450 respondents said they had previously attempted self termination. By comparison, the CDC found that in 2020, 0.36 percent of the population had attempted self termination. According to a 2022 survey by The Trevor Project, an LGBTQ+ suicide prevention organization, nearly 1 in 5 young people who identified as transgender or non-binary have attempted self termination. Also, Kenneth Zucker et Al 2021 Watched trans women, diagnosed, and after 20 years-- almost 90% desisted. Thomas Steensma, a gender clinician and researcher at the Center of Expertise on Gender Dysphoria, VU University Medical Center, in Amsterdam found, the phenomenon of transgender children "growing out of" their transgender identity by the time they are adolescents or adults is called “desistance” by gender researchers. For decades, follow-up studies of transgender kids have shown that a substantial majority -- anywhere from 65 to 94 percent -- eventually ceased to identify as transgender. Contrast that against the 40-50% self termination rate currently measured (Compared to the rate associated with gays and lesbians @ around 4%) with the implementation of affirmation therapy, and it looks like affirmation therapy is a net loss, and is not justifiable as efficacious in any meaningful way. It begs the questioning of affirmation-based treatment protocols and the questioning of the ethics and judgement of those who endorse and perform those procedures. Why should a man, regardless of his anxiety about his gender (which was established at conception and was observed and documented at his birth), or his desire that reality were different, be treated as anything other than a man?? The inability to cope with things as they are in reality, rather than as you/they wished they were in your/their subjective imaginations, doesn't change reality. That's a major area that affirmation-based treatment fails because it fails to provide coping mechanisms to effectively contend with the adversity in life, which is inevitable. The main problem the trans activist's narratives have is that life is based in objective reality, and most people don't have difficulty deciphering reality from the trans imagination. What you exist as, is a matter of objective reality, and wishing you were something else doesn't affect that in the slightest. All men are born male, all women are born female and neither are social constructs, feelings, costumes, fetishes or preferences. That you/they can't accept that, is at the root of the problem w/ GD.
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  3244.  @Snuzzled  Persons with transsexualism, after sex reassignment, have considerably higher risks for mortality, self termination behavior, and psychiatric morbidity than the general population. "Our findings suggest that sex reassignment, although alleviating gender dysphoria, may not suffice as treatment for transsexualism, and should inspire improved psychiatric and somatic care after sex reassignment for this patient group." A 2020 academic study with a sample size of 372 respondents found that 40 percent of transgender people had attempted self termination. Similarly, in 2016, the National Transgender Discrimination Survey found that 41 percent of 6,450 respondents said they had previously attempted self termination. By comparison, the CDC found that in 2020, 0.36 percent of the population had attempted self termination. According to a 2022 survey by The Trevor Project, an LGBTQ+ suicide prevention organization, nearly 1 in 5 young people who identified as transgender or non-binary have attempted self termination. Also, Kenneth Zucker et Al 2021 Watched trans women, diagnosed, and after 20 years-- almost 90% desisted. Thomas Steensma, a gender clinician and researcher at the Center of Expertise on Gender Dysphoria, VU University Medical Center, in Amsterdam found, the phenomenon of transgender children "growing out of" their transgender identity by the time they are adolescents or adults is called “desistance” by gender researchers. For decades, follow-up studies of transgender kids have shown that a substantial majority -- anywhere from 65 to 94 percent -- eventually ceased to identify as transgender. The main problem the trans activist's narratives have is that life is based in objective reality, and most people don't have difficulty deciphering reality from the trans imagination. What you exist as, is a matter of objective reality, and wishing you were something else doesn't affect that in the slightest. All men are born male, all women are born female and neither are social constructs, feelings, costumes, fetishes or preferences. That you/they can't accept that, is at the root of the problem w/ GD.
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  3246.  @Snuzzled  Suicidality Among Transgender Youth: Elucidating the Role of Interpersonal Risk Factors: "Data indicate that 82% of transgender individuals have considered killing themselves and 40% have attempted suicide, with suicidality highest among transgender youth. Using minority stress theory and the interpersonal theory of suicide, this study aims to better understand suicide risk among transgender youth. The present study examines the influence of intervenable risk factors: interpersonal and environmental microaggressions, internalized self-stigma, and adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), and protective factors: school belonging, family support, and peer support on both lifetime suicide attempts and past 6-month suicidality in a sample of transgender youth (n = 372). SPSS 22 was utilized to examine the impact of the independent variables on both suicidality and lifetime suicide attempt through two separate logistic regressions. Fifty six percent of youth reported a previous suicide attempt and 86% reported suicidality. Logistic regressions indicated that models for both lifetime suicide attempts and suicidality were significant." Long-term follow-up of transsexual persons undergoing sex reassignment surgery: cohort study in Sweden: “Conclusions: Persons with transsexualism, after sex reassignment, have considerably higher risks for mortality, suicidal behaviour, and psychiatric morbidity than the general population. Our findings suggest that sex reassignment, although alleviating gender dysphoria, may not suffice as treatment for transsexualism, and should inspire improved psychiatric and somatic care after sex reassignment for this patient group.” THAT is what I would consider an issue, and if you do not-- then you do you, while failing to realize that the supposedly efficacious claims, of affirmation-based treatment protocol advocates are entirely unjustified.
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  3248.  @Snuzzled  I didn't post a link. I typed out the info from various studies directly contradicting the info you posted. Here's 2-- I had several others as well: Suicidality Among Transgender Youth: Elucidating the Role of Interpersonal Risk Factors: "Data indicate that 82% of transgender individuals have considered killing themselves and 40% have attempted suicide, with suicidality highest among transgender youth. Using minority stress theory and the interpersonal theory of suicide, this study aims to better understand suicide risk among transgender youth. The present study examines the influence of intervenable risk factors: interpersonal and environmental microaggressions, internalized self-stigma, and adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), and protective factors: school belonging, family support, and peer support on both lifetime suicide attempts and past 6-month suicidality in a sample of transgender youth (n = 372). SPSS 22 was utilized to examine the impact of the independent variables on both suicidality and lifetime suicide attempt through two separate logistic regressions. Fifty six percent of youth reported a previous suicide attempt and 86% reported suicidality. Logistic regressions indicated that models for both lifetime suicide attempts and suicidality were significant." Long-term follow-up of transsexual persons undergoing sex reassignment surgery: cohort study in Sweden: “Conclusions: Persons with transsexualism, after sex reassignment, have considerably higher risks for mortality, suicidal behaviour, and psychiatric morbidity than the general population. Our findings suggest that sex reassignment, although alleviating gender dysphoria, may not suffice as treatment for transsexualism, and should inspire improved psychiatric and somatic care after sex reassignment for this patient group.”
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  3249.  @Snuzzled  I typed it out. I didn't post a link. Here's 2: Sui*idality Among Transgender Youth: Elucidating the Role of Interpersonal Risk Factors: "Data indicate that 82% of transgender individuals have considered terminating themselves and 40% have attempted sui*ide, with sui*idality highest among transgender youth. Using minority stress theory and the interpersonal theory of sui*ide, this study aims to better understand sui*ide risk among transgender youth. The present study examines the influence of intervenable risk factors: interpersonal and environmental microaggressions, internalized self-stigma, and adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), and protective factors: school belonging, family support, and peer support on both lifetime sui*ide attempts and past 6-month sui*idality in a sample of transgender youth (n = 372). SPSS 22 was utilized to examine the impact of the independent variables on both sui*idality and lifetime sui*ide attempt through two separate logistic regressions. Fifty six percent of youth reported a previous sui*ide attempt and 86% reported sui*idality. Logistic regressions indicated that models for both lifetime sui*ide attempts and sui*idality were significant." Long-term follow-up of transsexual persons undergoing sex reassignment surgery: cohort study in Sweden: “Conclusions: Persons with transsexualism, after sex reassignment, have considerably higher risks for mortality, sui*idal behaviour, and psychiatric morbidity than the general population. Our findings suggest that sex reassignment, although alleviating gender dysphoria, may not suffice as treatment for transsexualism, and should inspire improved psychiatric and somatic care after sex reassignment for this patient group.”
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  3250.  @Snuzzled  Yes... I typed it out. I didn't post a link. Sui*idality Among Transgender Youth: Elucidating the Role of Interpersonal Risk Factors: "Data indicate that 82% of transgender individuals have considered terminating themselves and 40% have attempted sui*ide, with sui*idality highest among transgender youth. Using minority stress theory and the interpersonal theory of sui*ide, this study aims to better understand sui*ide risk among transgender youth. The present study examines the influence of intervenable risk factors: interpersonal and environmental microaggressions, internalized self-stigma, and adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), and protective factors: school belonging, family support, and peer support on both lifetime sui*ide attempts and past 6-month sui*idality in a sample of transgender youth (n = 372). SPSS 22 was utilized to examine the impact of the independent variables on both sui*idality and lifetime sui*ide attempt through two separate logistic regressions. Fifty six percent of youth reported a previous sui*ide attempt and 86% reported sui*idality. Logistic regressions indicated that models for both lifetime sui*ide attempts and sui*idality were significant." Long-term follow-up of transsexual persons undergoing sex reassignment surgery: cohort study in Sweden: “Conclusions: Persons with transsexualism, after sex reassignment, have considerably higher risks for mortality, sui*idal behaviour, and psychiatric morbidity than the general population. Our findings suggest that sex reassignment, although alleviating gender dysphoria, may not suffice as treatment for transsexualism, and should inspire improved psychiatric and somatic care after sex reassignment for this patient group.”
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  3256.  @xenokyomi  No one has proven that a man with severe anxiety about reality and wishing his biology were different is anything other than a man. Got anything? Feel free to post any peer reviewed studies which you believe invalidate the data and conclusions Suicidality Among Transgender Youth: Elucidating the Role of Interpersonal Risk Factors: "Data indicate that 82% of transgender individuals have considered killing themselves and 40% have attempted suicide, with suicidality highest among transgender youth. Using minority stress theory and the interpersonal theory of suicide, this study aims to better understand suicide risk among transgender youth. The present study examines the influence of intervenable risk factors: interpersonal and environmental microaggressions, internalized self-stigma, and adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), and protective factors: school belonging, family support, and peer support on both lifetime suicide attempts and past 6-month suicidality in a sample of transgender youth (n = 372). SPSS 22 was utilized to examine the impact of the independent variables on both suicidality and lifetime suicide attempt through two separate logistic regressions. Fifty six percent of youth reported a previous suicide attempt and 86% reported suicidality. Logistic regressions indicated that models for both lifetime suicide attempts and suicidality were significant." Long-term follow-up of transsexual persons undergoing sex reassignment surgery: cohort study in Sweden: “Conclusions: Persons with transsexualism, after sex reassignment, have considerably higher risks for mortality, suicidal behaviour, and psychiatric morbidity than the general population. Our findings suggest that sex reassignment, although alleviating gender dysphoria, may not suffice as treatment for transsexualism, and should inspire improved psychiatric and somatic care after sex reassignment for this patient group.”
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  3257.  @xenokyomi  No one has proven that a man with severe anxiety about reality and wishing his biology were different is anything other than a man. Got anything? Feel free to post any peer reviewed studies which you believe invalidate the data and conclusions Suicidality Among Transgender Youth: Elucidating the Role of Interpersonal Risk Factors: "Data indicate that 82% of transgender individuals have considered killing themselves and 40% have attempted suicide, with suicidality highest among transgender youth. Using minority stress theory and the interpersonal theory of suicide, this study aims to better understand suicide risk among transgender youth. The present study examines the influence of intervenable risk factors: interpersonal and environmental microaggressions, internalized self-stigma, and adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), and protective factors: school belonging, family support, and peer support on both lifetime suicide attempts and past 6-month suicidality in a sample of transgender youth (n = 372). SPSS 22 was utilized to examine the impact of the independent variables on both suicidality and lifetime suicide attempt through two separate logistic regressions. Fifty six percent of youth reported a previous suicide attempt and 86% reported suicidality. Logistic regressions indicated that models for both lifetime suicide attempts and suicidality were significant." Long-term follow-up of transsexual persons undergoing sex reassignment surgery: cohort study in Sweden: “Conclusions: Persons with transsexualism, after sex reassignment, have considerably higher risks for mortality, suicidal behaviour, and psychiatric morbidity than the general population. Our findings suggest that sex reassignment, although alleviating gender dysphoria, may not suffice as treatment for transsexualism, and should inspire improved psychiatric and somatic care after sex reassignment for this patient group.”
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  3258.  @Snuzzled  No one has proven that a man with severe anxiety about reality and wishing his biology were different is anything other than a man. Got anything? Feel free to post any peer reviewed studies which you believe invalidate the data and conclusions Suicidality Among Transgender Youth: Elucidating the Role of Interpersonal Risk Factors: "Data indicate that 82% of transgender individuals have considered killing themselves and 40% have attempted suicide, with suicidality highest among transgender youth. Using minority stress theory and the interpersonal theory of suicide, this study aims to better understand suicide risk among transgender youth. The present study examines the influence of intervenable risk factors: interpersonal and environmental microaggressions, internalized self-stigma, and adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), and protective factors: school belonging, family support, and peer support on both lifetime suicide attempts and past 6-month suicidality in a sample of transgender youth (n = 372). SPSS 22 was utilized to examine the impact of the independent variables on both suicidality and lifetime suicide attempt through two separate logistic regressions. Fifty six percent of youth reported a previous suicide attempt and 86% reported suicidality. Logistic regressions indicated that models for both lifetime suicide attempts and suicidality were significant." Long-term follow-up of transsexual persons undergoing sex reassignment surgery: cohort study in Sweden: “Conclusions: Persons with transsexualism, after sex reassignment, have considerably higher risks for mortality, suicidal behaviour, and psychiatric morbidity than the general population. Our findings suggest that sex reassignment, although alleviating gender dysphoria, may not suffice as treatment for transsexualism, and should inspire improved psychiatric and somatic care after sex reassignment for this patient group.”
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  3259.  @Snuzzled  No one has proven that a man with severe anxiety about reality and wishing his biology were different is anything other than a man. Got anything? Feel free to post any peer reviewed studies which you believe invalidate the data and conclusions Suicidality Among Transgender Youth: Elucidating the Role of Interpersonal Risk Factors: "Data indicate that 82% of transgender individuals have considered killing themselves and 40% have attempted suicide, with suicidality highest among transgender youth. Using minority stress theory and the interpersonal theory of suicide, this study aims to better understand suicide risk among transgender youth. The present study examines the influence of intervenable risk factors: interpersonal and environmental microaggressions, internalized self-stigma, and adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), and protective factors: school belonging, family support, and peer support on both lifetime suicide attempts and past 6-month suicidality in a sample of transgender youth (n = 372). SPSS 22 was utilized to examine the impact of the independent variables on both suicidality and lifetime suicide attempt through two separate logistic regressions. Fifty six percent of youth reported a previous suicide attempt and 86% reported suicidality. Logistic regressions indicated that models for both lifetime suicide attempts and suicidality were significant." Long-term follow-up of transsexual persons undergoing sex reassignment surgery: cohort study in Sweden: “Conclusions: Persons with transsexualism, after sex reassignment, have considerably higher risks for mortality, suicidal behaviour, and psychiatric morbidity than the general population. Our findings suggest that sex reassignment, although alleviating gender dysphoria, may not suffice as treatment for transsexualism, and should inspire improved psychiatric and somatic care after sex reassignment for this patient group.”
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  3260. No one has proven that a man with severe anxiety about reality and wishing his biology were different is anything other than a man. Got anything? Feel free to post any peer reviewed studies which you believe invalidate the data and conclusions Suicidality Among Transgender Youth: Elucidating the Role of Interpersonal Risk Factors: "Data indicate that 82% of transgender individuals have considered killing themselves and 40% have attempted suicide, with suicidality highest among transgender youth. Using minority stress theory and the interpersonal theory of suicide, this study aims to better understand suicide risk among transgender youth. The present study examines the influence of intervenable risk factors: interpersonal and environmental microaggressions, internalized self-stigma, and adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), and protective factors: school belonging, family support, and peer support on both lifetime suicide attempts and past 6-month suicidality in a sample of transgender youth (n = 372). SPSS 22 was utilized to examine the impact of the independent variables on both suicidality and lifetime suicide attempt through two separate logistic regressions. Fifty six percent of youth reported a previous suicide attempt and 86% reported suicidality. Logistic regressions indicated that models for both lifetime suicide attempts and suicidality were significant." Long-term follow-up of transsexual persons undergoing sex reassignment surgery: cohort study in Sweden: “Conclusions: Persons with transsexualism, after sex reassignment, have considerably higher risks for mortality, suicidal behaviour, and psychiatric morbidity than the general population. Our findings suggest that sex reassignment, although alleviating gender dysphoria, may not suffice as treatment for transsexualism, and should inspire improved psychiatric and somatic care after sex reassignment for this patient group.”
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  3261. No one has proven that a man with severe anxiety about reality and wishing his biology were different is anything other than a man. Got anything? Feel free to post any peer reviewed studies which you believe invalidate the data and conclusions Suicidality Among Transgender Youth: Elucidating the Role of Interpersonal Risk Factors: "Data indicate that 82% of transgender individuals have considered killing themselves and 40% have attempted suicide, with suicidality highest among transgender youth. Using minority stress theory and the interpersonal theory of suicide, this study aims to better understand suicide risk among transgender youth. The present study examines the influence of intervenable risk factors: interpersonal and environmental microaggressions, internalized self-stigma, and adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), and protective factors: school belonging, family support, and peer support on both lifetime suicide attempts and past 6-month suicidality in a sample of transgender youth (n = 372). SPSS 22 was utilized to examine the impact of the independent variables on both suicidality and lifetime suicide attempt through two separate logistic regressions. Fifty six percent of youth reported a previous suicide attempt and 86% reported suicidality. Logistic regressions indicated that models for both lifetime suicide attempts and suicidality were significant." Long-term follow-up of transsexual persons undergoing sex reassignment surgery: cohort study in Sweden: “Conclusions: Persons with transsexualism, after sex reassignment, have considerably higher risks for mortality, suicidal behaviour, and psychiatric morbidity than the general population. Our findings suggest that sex reassignment, although alleviating gender dysphoria, may not suffice as treatment for transsexualism, and should inspire improved psychiatric and somatic care after sex reassignment for this patient group.”
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  3262.  @Snuzzled  No one has shown that a man with anxiety about his biological reality is anything other than a man. Got anything? Feel free to post any peer reviewed studies which you believe invalidate the data and conclusions Suicidality Among Transgender Youth: Elucidating the Role of Interpersonal Risk Factors: "Data indicate that 82% of transgender individuals have considered killing themselves and 40% have attempted suicide, with suicidality highest among transgender youth. Using minority stress theory and the interpersonal theory of suicide, this study aims to better understand suicide risk among transgender youth. The present study examines the influence of intervenable risk factors: interpersonal and environmental microaggressions, internalized self-stigma, and adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), and protective factors: school belonging, family support, and peer support on both lifetime suicide attempts and past 6-month suicidality in a sample of transgender youth (n = 372). SPSS 22 was utilized to examine the impact of the independent variables on both suicidality and lifetime suicide attempt through two separate logistic regressions. Fifty six percent of youth reported a previous suicide attempt and 86% reported suicidality. Logistic regressions indicated that models for both lifetime suicide attempts and suicidality were significant." Long-term follow-up of transsexual persons undergoing sex reassignment surgery: cohort study in Sweden: “Conclusions: Persons with transsexualism, after sex reassignment, have considerably higher risks for mortality, suicidal behaviour, and psychiatric morbidity than the general population. Our findings suggest that sex reassignment, although alleviating gender dysphoria, may not suffice as treatment for transsexualism, and should inspire improved psychiatric and somatic care after sex reassignment for this patient group.”
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  3263.  @Snuzzled  No one has proven that a man with severe anxiety about reality and wishing his biology were different is anything other than a man. Got anything? Feel free to post any peer reviewed studies which you believe invalidate the data and conclusions Suicidality Among Transgender Youth: Elucidating the Role of Interpersonal Risk Factors: "Data indicate that 82% of transgender individuals have considered killing themselves and 40% have attempted suicide, with suicidality highest among transgender youth. Using minority stress theory and the interpersonal theory of suicide, this study aims to better understand suicide risk among transgender youth. The present study examines the influence of intervenable risk factors: interpersonal and environmental microaggressions, internalized self-stigma, and adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), and protective factors: school belonging, family support, and peer support on both lifetime suicide attempts and past 6-month suicidality in a sample of transgender youth (n = 372). SPSS 22 was utilized to examine the impact of the independent variables on both suicidality and lifetime suicide attempt through two separate logistic regressions. Fifty six percent of youth reported a previous suicide attempt and 86% reported suicidality. Logistic regressions indicated that models for both lifetime suicide attempts and suicidality were significant." Long-term follow-up of transsexual persons undergoing sex reassignment surgery: cohort study in Sweden: “Conclusions: Persons with transsexualism, after sex reassignment, have considerably higher risks for mortality, suicidal behaviour, and psychiatric morbidity than the general population. Our findings suggest that sex reassignment, although alleviating gender dysphoria, may not suffice as treatment for transsexualism, and should inspire improved psychiatric and somatic care after sex reassignment for this patient group.”
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  3264.  @Snuzzled  No one has proven that a man with severe anxiety about reality and wishing his biology were different is anything other than a man. Got anything? Feel free to post any peer reviewed studies which you believe invalidate the data and conclusions Suicidality Among Transgender Youth: Elucidating the Role of Interpersonal Risk Factors: "Data indicate that 82% of transgender individuals have considered killing themselves and 40% have attempted suicide, with suicidality highest among transgender youth. Using minority stress theory and the interpersonal theory of suicide, this study aims to better understand suicide risk among transgender youth. The present study examines the influence of intervenable risk factors: interpersonal and environmental microaggressions, internalized self-stigma, and adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), and protective factors: school belonging, family support, and peer support on both lifetime suicide attempts and past 6-month suicidality in a sample of transgender youth (n = 372). SPSS 22 was utilized to examine the impact of the independent variables on both suicidality and lifetime suicide attempt through two separate logistic regressions. Fifty six percent of youth reported a previous suicide attempt and 86% reported suicidality. Logistic regressions indicated that models for both lifetime suicide attempts and suicidality were significant." Long-term follow-up of transsexual persons undergoing sex reassignment surgery: cohort study in Sweden: “Conclusions: Persons with transsexualism, after sex reassignment, have considerably higher risks for mortality, suicidal behaviour, and psychiatric morbidity than the general population. Our findings suggest that sex reassignment, although alleviating gender dysphoria, may not suffice as treatment for transsexualism, and should inspire improved psychiatric and somatic care after sex reassignment for this patient group.”
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  3265. No one has proven that a man with severe anxiety about reality and wishing his biology were different is anything other than a man. Got anything? Feel free to post any peer reviewed studies which you believe invalidate the data and conclusions Suicidality Among Transgender Youth: Elucidating the Role of Interpersonal Risk Factors: "Data indicate that 82% of transgender individuals have considered killing themselves and 40% have attempted suicide, with suicidality highest among transgender youth. Using minority stress theory and the interpersonal theory of suicide, this study aims to better understand suicide risk among transgender youth. The present study examines the influence of intervenable risk factors: interpersonal and environmental microaggressions, internalized self-stigma, and adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), and protective factors: school belonging, family support, and peer support on both lifetime suicide attempts and past 6-month suicidality in a sample of transgender youth (n = 372). SPSS 22 was utilized to examine the impact of the independent variables on both suicidality and lifetime suicide attempt through two separate logistic regressions. Fifty six percent of youth reported a previous suicide attempt and 86% reported suicidality. Logistic regressions indicated that models for both lifetime suicide attempts and suicidality were significant." Long-term follow-up of transsexual persons undergoing sex reassignment surgery: cohort study in Sweden: “Conclusions: Persons with transsexualism, after sex reassignment, have considerably higher risks for mortality, suicidal behaviour, and psychiatric morbidity than the general population. Our findings suggest that sex reassignment, although alleviating gender dysphoria, may not suffice as treatment for transsexualism, and should inspire improved psychiatric and somatic care after sex reassignment for this patient group.”
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  3266.  @Snuzzled  No one has proven that a man with severe anxiety about reality and wishing his biology were different is anything other than a man. Got anything? Feel free to post any peer reviewed studies which you believe invalidate the data and conclusions Suicidality Among Transgender Youth: Elucidating the Role of Interpersonal Risk Factors: "Data indicate that 82% of transgender individuals have considered killing themselves and 40% have attempted suicide, with suicidality highest among transgender youth. Using minority stress theory and the interpersonal theory of suicide, this study aims to better understand suicide risk among transgender youth. The present study examines the influence of intervenable risk factors: interpersonal and environmental microaggressions, internalized self-stigma, and adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), and protective factors: school belonging, family support, and peer support on both lifetime suicide attempts and past 6-month suicidality in a sample of transgender youth (n = 372). SPSS 22 was utilized to examine the impact of the independent variables on both suicidality and lifetime suicide attempt through two separate logistic regressions. Fifty six percent of youth reported a previous suicide attempt and 86% reported suicidality. Logistic regressions indicated that models for both lifetime suicide attempts and suicidality were significant." Long-term follow-up of transsexual persons undergoing sex reassignment surgery: cohort study in Sweden: “Conclusions: Persons with transsexualism, after sex reassignment, have considerably higher risks for mortality, suicidal behaviour, and psychiatric morbidity than the general population. Our findings suggest that sex reassignment, although alleviating gender dysphoria, may not suffice as treatment for transsexualism, and should inspire improved psychiatric and somatic care after sex reassignment for this patient group.”
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  3277.  @Snuzzled  Feel free to post any peer reviewed studies which you believe invalidate the data and conclusions Suicidality Among Transgender Youth: Elucidating the Role of Interpersonal Risk Factors: "Data indicate that 82% of transgender individuals have considered killing themselves and 40% have attempted suicide, with suicidality highest among transgender youth. Using minority stress theory and the interpersonal theory of suicide, this study aims to better understand suicide risk among transgender youth. The present study examines the influence of intervenable risk factors: interpersonal and environmental microaggressions, internalized self-stigma, and adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), and protective factors: school belonging, family support, and peer support on both lifetime suicide attempts and past 6-month suicidality in a sample of transgender youth (n = 372). SPSS 22 was utilized to examine the impact of the independent variables on both suicidality and lifetime suicide attempt through two separate logistic regressions. Fifty six percent of youth reported a previous suicide attempt and 86% reported suicidality. Logistic regressions indicated that models for both lifetime suicide attempts and suicidality were significant." Long-term follow-up of transsexual persons undergoing sex reassignment surgery: cohort study in Sweden: “Conclusions: Persons with transsexualism, after sex reassignment, have considerably higher risks for mortality, suicidal behaviour, and psychiatric morbidity than the general population. Our findings suggest that sex reassignment, although alleviating gender dysphoria, may not suffice as treatment for transsexualism, and should inspire improved psychiatric and somatic care after sex reassignment for this patient group.” THAT is what I would consider an issue, and if you do not-- then you do you, while failing to realize that the supposedly efficacious claims, of affirmation-based treatment protocol advocates are entirely unjustified.
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  3309.  @dariocarraresi1823  You operate as though I'm the one making an appeal to society for acceptance, affirmation and validation. Weird First, “male” and “female” do explanatory work if sex is defined by gamete production: the difference between “male” and “female” explain why binary creatures have the reproductive faculties that they possess. Second, the sex binarist holds that settling difficult cases of “sex” is not a product of human theorizing; instead, it is a matter of retrieving more information regarding a person's biology to adjudicate whether they are male or female. The social constructionist replies: while the biological features of animals are not impacted by our definitions, the distinctions we make can be evaluated along several dimensions. Granting that this is true, consider how we evaluate the distinctions we draw in nature. For example, consider geologists' rock classifications. If I observe a rock and want to distinguish between its separations on its formations and color in ordinary light, I will draw the distinction between its fracture and luster. The rock objectively (mind-independently) has separations on its formations and color in ordinary light, which is to say that “fracture” and “luster”, referring to those separations, are not socially constructed - the only relevant bit of “social construction” is our language we use to talk about those separations on the formations (what we call “fracture”) and the color in ordinary light (“luster”). This is how biological sex classification works as Byrne describes: some animals objectively (again, mind-independently) have small gametes, and some have large gametes. We then apply terms to distinction, and consequently distinguish “males” and “females” (other languages do similarly i.e., Italian, for instance, uses “maschio” and “femmina”). The only relevant bit of “social construction” is our language we used to talk about the animals who produce small gametes (what we call “male”) and large gametes (what we call “female”). We then continually refine our biological categories to ensure they reflect, accurately, what we are referring to - and if there are counterexamples, then we either refine those categories (e.g., “male” should include castrated males), or, if we cannot (e.g., if “intersex” were a third sex), then abandoning the categories altogether - or further refining the initial distinction beyond two disjuncts, if necessary. The burden of proof is on those who argue that our categories do not hold up: and I am suggesting in this chapter that that argument has not been shown through the example of individuals with intersex conditions.
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  3322.  @dariocarraresi1823  Yes, it does... The data is the same regardless of whether or not I typed each and every character and space or if it was copy/pasted. Copied from the government of Canada "What we found Eighty-two percent of gender diverse offenders with sexual offence histories were trans-women and the remaining 17% were in the "other" group.Footnote 2 On average, these offenders were 42 years at the time of the study. Two-thirds were serving their first federal sentence and about half (46%) were serving indeterminate sentences. The risk and needs characteristics of these offenders indicates that they had high static risk (91%) and dynamic need (94%) but almost half (42%) were low criminal riskFootnote 3 based on the Criminal Risk Index (CRI). Although three-quarters (78%) have a moderate to high motivation and two-thirds (64%) have a moderate to high accountability, a little over half (58%) are considered engaged in their correctional plan. Two-thirds (66%) had a low reintegration potential. Finally, responsivity issues were identified for a third (36%) of these offenders. Almost two-thirds (64%) of these offenders committed a current sexual offence while 88% were convicted for prior sex offences. Almost all (94%) had committed their offences while living as their biological sex. The majority (85%) committed offences that caused death or serious harm to their victim(s) while 70% inflicted psychological harm on their victim(s). Examination of the victimology shows that over half were children (58%) or female (55%). One-third (33%) of the offences committed had multiple victims. File review indicated that 70% of the offenders with sex offence histories had experienced childhood abuse and 27% were abused in adulthood. Childhood sexual (64%) and physical (52%) abuse were most commonly experienced by these offenders. Two-thirds (64%) had experienced trauma. For offenders with DFIA-R information, 60% had a history of childhood abuse. What it means Over 80% of gender diverse offenders with sexual offence histories were trans-women. Sexual offending indicators showed that the majority of these offences were committed while living as their biological sex, and that the highest proportion of victims were children or female. In addition, a majority of this sub-group caused death or serious harm to their victim(s). Most of these offenders also had a history of abuse and trauma. Due to these factors, gender diverse offenders with sex offence histories present unique operational considerations for institutional placement and correctional programming." You're wrong, again, Liar
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  3374.  @dariocarraresi1823  No evidence to support that theory. Considering the fact that Correctional Service of Canada study has revealed: — Of the inmate sample group, 44% of the trans women convicts are sex offenders. — 82% of gender-diverse offenders were trans-women with an average age of 42 years old and almost half were serving “indeterminate” sentences. — Two-thirds (66%) had low reintegration potential. About 64% of these offenders had committed a “current sexual offense,” while 88% had previously been convicted for sexual offenses. About 94% committed their crimes while living as their biological sex. — The vast majority, 85%, were convicted of violent crimes that caused death “or serious harm” to their victims (58% of whom were children or women). "The study also shows that 41% of trans-women are in for homicide-related crimes while with male inmates it’s only 21%,” Mason said, adding that the study also revealed that in just four years, the number of trans inmates almost doubled. The study also found that 70% of the trans offenders with sex crime jackets were themselves the victims of childhood abuse. The study added: “Over 80% of gender-diverse offenders with sexual offense histories were trans-women. Sexual offending indicators showed that the majority of these offenses were committed while living as their biological sex, and that the highest proportion of victims were children or female.” Your priority is rejected, as is your narrative. Get a clue, you have no valid argument.
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  3403.  @nondescriptcat5620  You can't change your gender. You can only reject traditional gender roles by engaging in various levels of cosplay and LARPing. If sex and gender are independent, why should a male/man bother altering his primary sex characteristics to mimic the primary sex characteristics of a woman? Make it make sense if gender is merely a social construct, and independent from sex-- why not identify as a girl without going out of the way to alter your appearance to present as the stereotypical and objective primary sex characteristics of a female human the target????? Make it make sense What right do trans people think they have which obligates those societies which have long established their cultural norms, to abandon their cultural norms and deny objective reality, to embrace theirs??? Looks like self entitled narcissism on the part of the trans people. Way too many inappropriately and incorrectly conflate gender/sex (There are only 2-- male/female... That's it) with personality traits and temperament (There are a ton and none are gender exclusive-- hence effeminate males, butch females and tomboys), and again with gender roles (without exception refer to the roles of males and females in society) as though they're synonymous and they are not. Science has already proven that the binary dichotomy of all mammals is male/female. A man in a dress is still a man A man with anxiety about his sex/gender-- still a man A man calling himself a woman-- still a man A man with an effeminate personality--still a man Why should women's right to privacy from the presence of men, be up for debate at the whim of misogynistic men, presenting as women?
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  3404. Um, A shocking new Correctional Service of Canada study has revealed that 44% of male-to-female transgender inmates are behind bars for sexual offenses. Not a fairy tale, or a conspiracy theory. Factual The study — entitled Gender Diverse Offenders with a History of Sexual Offending — reveals a troubling pattern of violence among the convicted. Spanning the years 2017-2020, gender-diverse inmates took part in the wide-ranging study designed to provide the CSC with a profile of this segment of the prison population. Among the findings: — Of the 99 inmate sample group, 44% of the trans women convicts are sex offenders. — 82% of gender-diverse offenders were trans-women with an average age of 42 years old and almost half were serving “indeterminate” sentences. — Two-thirds (66%) had low reintegration potential. About 64% of these offenders had committed a “current sexual offense,” while 88% had previously been convicted for sexual offenses. About 94% committed their crimes while living as their biological sex. — The vast majority, 85%, were convicted of violent crimes that caused death “or serious harm” to their victims (58% of whom were children or women). “It’s quite shocking. The study also shows that 41% of trans-women are in for homicide-related crimes while with male inmates it’s only 21%,” Mason said, adding that the study also revealed that in just four years, the number of trans inmates almost doubled. The study also found that 70% of the trans offenders with sex crime jackets were themselves the victims of childhood abuse. The study added: “Over 80% of gender-diverse offenders with sexual offence histories were trans-women. Sexual offending indicators showed that the majority of these offences were committed while living as their biological sex, and that the highest proportion of victims were children or female.” In addition, the majority of the “sub-group caused death or serious harm to their victim(s).”
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  3424.  @dariocarraresi1823  Your projection of cowardliness is evident, by your failure to justify your narratives, by failing to answer the questions which scrutinize them-- coward. Clearly, it doesn't cure gender dysphoria, as they still don't view themselves as the sex they are, rather they perceive themselves as a socially constructed gender identity, while some others desist, and others have regret, and others self delete. The question is, Why should society change for you? You haven't made a compelling case. That's on you, for running from answering questions, and the opportunity to justify your expectations. You said gender identity and sex were separate, so Justify encroaching on women's only spaces (locker rooms, showers, changing rooms, prisons, etc.), segregated based on sex-- as an entitlement, because, You haven't even come close yet. Justify the expectation that just because you present and identify in a non-traditional fashion, that all of society must treat you as though you're the opposite sex, or quit your whining. You haven't come close yet The other question is, IF-- according to you, nobody claims that they can become a different sex just by identifying as a different gender identity; How do you justify treating them as though they're entitled to infiltrate areas segregated by sex? Well, are YOU going to continue to be a coward and run from answering? Why do you think I have to justify enforcing gender roles?? Your sophistry is rejected, and negated. If you're a dude with a quirky fashion sense and you choose to dress in a way that is stereo typically associated as being traditionally feminine attire-- I don't care, and your sexual preferences couldn't be less relevant either, so what in the world are you trying to say? I'm not suggesting enforcing a 'gender role' on you, by saying you should kept you 'out' of the men's room, or for trying out for men's sports, or using facilities designated for males/men just because you don't conform to traditional gender roles. I'm INSISTING your rights to use the appropriate facilities is maintained. You're ridiculous and talking bubbles again. That you don't see the obvious rational, logic, need and desire in society for segregating things like medical care, or segregating prisons based on sex, or segregating men's and women's sports is all that's needed to realize that your shoe size dwarfs your IQ. Your inability to answer, shows incompetence on your part.
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  3439.  @dariocarraresi1823  Ya, your copium is rejected as baseless whinging. Your main problem is thinking anyone owes you validation, affirmation, acceptance or unearned respect. Your failure to realize that people have already established countries, their societies, cultures, established cultural and societal norms, and respect and maintain their traditions separating themselves from others who don't share their same priorities, with borders-- which you seem to believe you're entitled to change, based on nothing more than your claims and your beliefs that everyone should go along with your vision of what society ought to look like, rather than their own, because you'd prefer it to be so. Well.... That's wrong, and not very persuasive nor compelling. What's their motivation??? Your sense of self importance is way over-inflated. You can choose to dress in what's typically considered traditionally feminine attire if you like, and it doesn't mean you're banned from or can't participate by trying out for men's sports, or using the men's facilities as a means to enforce traditional gender roles on you. You're talking more nonsense again. Neither a man's anxiety about his biology, nor his gender identity being the opposite of his biology grant him women's rights, nor obligate anyone to treat him as though he's a woman. Cope Harder about that Why should those men, be granted authority to infringe on women's spaces established and segregated by women, based on biology-- just because of their subjective gender identity? The elimination of those things which are segregated based on biology, hasn't been established as a 'good' thing, by you or anyone else. Got anything??? Borders exist for a reason, so if you expect people to embrace your preferred changes, you better be able to make your case compelling, and articulate and rationalize it to justify it and absent that-- your expectation to be taken seriously, is just narcissistic, declarations of self-entitlement, and your baseless opinions. You're just not that important, and you've shown that you're also not interested in being persuasive, and without the capacity to be either, and you're definitely not. Your snark isn't getting it done, and your moral relativism isn't any more valid than anyone else's, so your expectation to be validated isn't reasonable at all, to those whom you oppose, so you have no moral ground to stand on to act like you do. The fact that 80% of the world's population are religious people, and the majority aren't motivated to embrace your preferred hedonism, as a suitable alternative to the societies, shared principles, morals and the cultures they've already established unto themselves-- because of your feelings of angst about reality, moral standards, or your baseless beliefs that your way is a better way. Now, in the USA-- you as a male, can wear a dress and walk into the men's room, or try out for men's sports teams, and utilize the men's facilities, regardless of your chosen non-traditional fashion selections -- So, there's no enforced gender roles going on there, for you to whine about. You're talking nonsense again/still
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  3445.  @dariocarraresi1823  It's your choice to be counter culture, so if that choice marginalizes you, Fine-- You've done it to yourself. The justification for separating men and women in prison, showers, locker rooms, changing rooms, the draft, and sports teams/leagues seems to only be confusing to you. You can't explain or justify and explain how eliminating women's private spaces and allowing men to encroach isn't misogyny on your part, because it is. Why should everyone pretend that a man is anything other than a man, regardless of his attire, or feelings to the contrary? Answer: They shouldn't The world doesn't share your morals or priorities. You're the one acting like an authoritarian-- acting as though the cultures you reject, should be expected to embrace your world view as an acceptable alternative, as an entitlement. The vast majority of the world say, phuq that-- you're not the center of the universe. You just want to argue. Too bad your arguments aren't persuasive, but you're fighting an up hill battle against reality, and the fact that most don't agree with you or your ideological narratives, and have no interest in indulging your fantasy by participating in your cosplay and LARP, or validating your claims or your expectations to be treated as something you are not, as justifiable. Again, you don't have to conform, but the world doesn't have to participate in, or consider your cosplay as valid either, and doesn't feel compelled to grant you authority to infiltrate organizations and spaces segregated based on biology vs subjective gender identities, so there's that. Besides, you said there were a lot of places that support your ideology, so what is preventing you from integrating into those societies?? You aren't a captive
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  3447.  @dariocarraresi1823  Your unjustifiable moral outrage is laughable, and your attempt to redefine terms is rejected. Your failure to acknowledge that I've thoroughly debunked every argument you've made is evident. No worries... You're wrong, and your version of morality and society is rejected. Too bad, so sad... Not Your opinion couldn't be less interesting or relevant. The justification for separating men and women in prison, showers, locker rooms, changing rooms, the draft, and sports teams/leagues seems to only be confusing to you. You can't explain or justify and explain how eliminating women's private spaces and allowing men to encroach isn't misogyny on your part, because it is. Why should everyone pretend that a man is anything other than a man, regardless of his attire, or feelings to the contrary? Answer: They shouldn't Your answer: Conspicuously absent. Look, You can bury your head in the sand like an ostrich and pretend no one can see you if you like-- BUT, most don't have difficulty deciphering a dude in a dress is a dude in a dress, who has no business in the women's room or in women's sports, and you haven't articulated why it's a good idea-- SO, you have nothing but whining to offer, and it's why you're dismissed and not respected or taken seriously. Your failure to acknowledge the reasons for society segregating men and women's sports, prisons, showers, locker rooms, changing rooms, and medical care doesn't negate it's purpose, or establish why your desire to eliminate that is preferable to you, and it definitely doesn't explain why others should validate your reasoning as sound. Why should society change for you? You haven't made a compelling case. That's on you, for running like a coward, from answering questions, and using the opportunity to justify your expectations to be treated by all of society as though you're a subjective gender identity, disconnected from the reality of your biology.
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  3516.  @dariocarraresi1823  Uh huh... People with gender dysphoria taking hormone replacements as part of gender affirmation therapy face a substantially increased risk of serious cardiac events, including stroke, heart attack and pulmonary embolism, according to a study presented at the American College of Cardiology's Annual Scientific Session Together With the World Congress of Cardiology. Gender dysphoria occurs when a person's gender identity conflicts with the sex they were assigned at birth. Gender affirmation therapy, part of a process known as transitioning, includes a variety of medical, psychological and behavioral interventions to help individuals, many of whom identify as transgender, acquire secondary sex characteristics that align with their gender identity. Recent data suggest about 1 million to 1.6 million people identify as transgender in the U.S. and that hormone therapy use is rising rapidly, especially among teens and young adults. The current study is the largest to date examining the cardiovascular risks of gender affirmation therapy in this historically understudied population. Previous research on hormone-modulating medications has primarily focused on younger women using hormone-based birth control or on older women following a hysterectomy or during menopause. In these populations, long-term hormone replacement therapy has been associated with an increased risk of breast cancer, stroke and blood clots. Researchers retrospectively examined rates of cardiovascular events in over 21,000 people with gender dysphoria from a national database of hospital records, of whom 1,675 had used hormone replacement therapy. Typically, people assigned male at birth receive estrogen and people assigned female at birth receive testosterone. Overall results found hormone replacements were associated with higher rates of cardiac events, mostly related to dangerous blood clots
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  3544.  @dariocarraresi1823  You definitely haven't done it in the here and now, in the face of scrutiny-- where it would actually count. You can deny the truth, but you can't escape it. Fun Facts: Words have meanings and for all of history, the words man and woman have referred to biological human beings. All women are human, and born female and represent 1 half of the binary sexual dichotomy of all mammalian species, the other being male. Believing there is some "essence" specific to males or female as far as feelings go, that can manifest "in the wrong body", is akin to a religious belief, having faith in something that is impossible to prove or disprove. The thing is though, that no one on the "trans" side can actually even explain what this "essence" is, they can't even explain it to themselves yet have convinced themselves that the feeling they have means they "are in the wrong body" - without realizing that their discomfort simply stems from not realizing that they view conforming to sexist stereotypes as legitimate measures of manhood or womanhood. That is why every explanation given of WHY a male "can't be a man, but is instead woman" etc. relies upon listing stereotypical stuff, or, in some cases is completely abstract and refuses to actually provide any explanation of what they mean, simply stating they "know" that what they feel means what they say it does, even though they can't actually provide a definition of it. "It's hard to explain but I know I'm right" is an attitude one constantly comes up against - a religious faith in something they can't define. This idea that the terms "man" and "woman" carry all this baggage, sexist stereotypes, that people need to live up to or feel comfortable with is a complete fabrication coming from the "trans" side. You lot want a term to reflect aspects of your personality as well, you want to create more boxes to put people in, as you won't accept simply just being a man or a woman based on being born male or female (and reaching adulthood, obviously people are boys and girls before becoming men or women), but believe you need this "freedom of expression" to broadcast what sexist stereotypes you feel more comfortable with - thinking the world needs to adopt the sexist view you lot have. Replacing objective definitions, which are based in objective, physical reality, with entirely subjective metaphysical claims, is not logical in any way, is not morally superior, and is demonstrably harmful, not least to female rights and protections, but also to practically anyone that buys into it, as it warps people's perception of the underlying issues. It hinders people in their quest for individuation, creating this false narrative of them becoming more "authentic" when the total opposite is true, they believe they need validation from others in order to be happy etc. instead of being encouraged to find more inner strength and resilience with less reliance on how people see them. Demanding to be legally recognized as the opposite sex of what one is, is in no way shape or form more authentic than accepting the physical reality one is born into. To believe we as individuals can have 100% control over our identity in society, what we are seen as by others, in interaction with, and in relation to, society/the world/physical existence is a fool's errand, it is a delusional understanding of reality and existence. Now you know better
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  3545.  @dariocarraresi1823  Not much of a refutation. I asked, How do you figure trans women are women, being that all women are born female? - You answered "Their gender identity". And you ran from my rebuttal that, Women aren't a social construct, then telling you That's not an answer-- and you failed to respond. I told you, You seem quite unclear on the definition of 'woman', and the scientific classification... You said, "Words can have more than just one definition", as if to prove your shoe size dwarfs your IQ... To which I responded --"In this case there isn't. All women are born female", and you failed to respond. You ran Re: the topic of "The justification for separating men and women in prison being clearly necessary" - You responded by saying, "Most of your justifications are bull and should be eliminated. For example, pro-trans policies decrease the rates of physical/sexual assaults; anti-trans policies increase them. That's a good reason to allow trans women in women's prisons". I asked you for evidence re: that BS claim of yours, and you ran like a coward, providing none. Got anything yet? I then mentioned that Pro trans policies are to blame for female inmates being assaulted and impregnated, pointing out that it Couldn't have happened otherwise-- and you failed to respond I asked you, "Whats your issue with women having a right to privacy?" - and you replied saying, "Right to privacy doesn't extend to kicking out people you don't like from public spaces, or from spaces that are privately owned by other people". I challenged your statement, pointing out that, "YES, it does, when they're in places they're not authorized to be"... And you failed to reply Then, in response to me asking you to "Justify and explain how eliminating women's private spaces isn't misogyny on your part" - and you ran from that one, saying, "Strawman. Nobody is trying to eliminate women's private spaces"-- and I pointed out that, "You just did with your previous comment re: prisons", illustrating that You're FOS-- and you failed to respond Then, I asked you- Why should everyone pretend that a man is anything other than a man - and you responded by saying, "Nobody is asking you to pretend that people with XY chromosomes have XX chromosomes. Another strawman", to which I replied-- pointing out that You use it as an excuse to infiltrate women's only spaces, illustrating AGAIN that, you're FOS-- and you failed again to respond Then, I asked you. What DO they do, to justify being treated as though they're entitled to infiltrate areas segregated by sex? - and you responded with "Your sex segregation is bull, and is not a valid argument for anything."-- and I pointed out that the 'Because you said so' standard hasn't been issued any credibility and that You've failed to prove anything you've written is true or accurate, asking you if you Got anything yet... And you had nothing. You got anything yet??? or just attention seeking proving yourself to be nothing more than an agent provocateur, who's arguments simply don't withstand even basic scrutiny
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  3546.  @dariocarraresi1823  Don't be an @ss. I wasn't quoting you that you 'wanted to abolish women's sports'. I was summarizing what your ideas result in, by allowing biological males to compete with biological females as though they should be entitled to. They're NOT. They ARE however, entitled to try out to compete with other biological men, and to use men's facilities-- regardless of their subjective sense of self ie. their gender identity differing from their biology, or their chosen fashion selections. Words have meanings, and your ideas are severely disjointed. You NEVER justified a man who claims his gender identity is a woman, being granted access to women's sports, prisons, or women's only designated spaces, as a matter of entitlement. You CAN'T I quoted you, and your feigned ignorance doesn't make you look smart or clever. Who are you trying to convince? All women are born female, all men are born male and neither are a social construct, feeling, fetish, preference, persona, personality trait or a costume-- making the use of cis/trans intellectually vacant and totally useless. Your subjective gender identity isn't what makes you a man or a woman. It's your biology. Your denial of things reported on in the main stream media, doesn't make you correct. Just saying... Thanks for allowing me to expose your incoherent world view. You don't have to do anything-- Unless you're expecting the participation of others in your LARP and cosplay, along with their affirmation, acceptance, and validation of your subjective sense of self, and the self-prescribed rights you want them to recognize and respect... Then-- you might want to try to make your case persuasive, because so far, you haven't be very persuasive, and until you do-- your expectations are irrational. No worries... The main problem you have with your ideological narratives is objective reality and the fact that most don't have difficulty with recognizing the differences between men and women Changing what you call a man ie. 'trans woman', doesn't alter the nature of a man, anymore than his choice to wear a dress, or his subjective gender identity which differs from his biology, which is not at all. Again, debunking EVERY single argument you've made has been fun. Rejection-- You better get used to it
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