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FtttG
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5m ago
The contradiction is that the program seems to be doing a spectacularly poor job at separating wheat from chaff, and that many of the purported signs and symptoms of "being trans" espoused by trans activists (including primary and secondary school teachers) are so broad and ill-defined that they could apply to literally anyone. A medical test which produces false positives at the same rate as true positives is a useless medical test. But when it's pointed out to trans activists that their program is producing false positives at an alarmingly high rate, their response is typically not "oh shit, we need to do better" but some variant on "that isn't happening, and it's good that it is".
Eventually people start wondering what the difference is between sufficiently advanced incompetence and malice. I don't agree that "the purpose of a system is what it does", but when trans activists are so resistant to switch up their system even when its shortcomings have been pointed out to them, it does inevitably make one wonder if their stated goal differs from their revealed one.
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12m ago
If a trans woman gets SRS and has a functional neovagina that she can have sex and orgasm with then she still has genitals that do most of what people use genitals for.
The word "functional" is doing a lot of work, here.
Female genitals are reproductive organs. If they cannot be used for reproduction or any related ancillary functions (e.g. menstruation), we would not typically say they are healthy, functioning organs. Indeed, if a female person is unable to get pregnant or suffers from amenorrhea, that constitutes a health problem. Imagine if a woman went to her GP and said that she'd missed her last three periods but didn't think she was pregnant, and he shrugged and said "but you can still fuck and come, right?" He'd likely be struck off the medical register, and rightfully so.
You can easily use contrived, tortured reasoning like this to "prove" that everyone has a vagina, in the form of their rectum. Your argument proves too much.
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20m ago
If a person desires to have a limb amputated (which does happen) we accurately assess this to be mental illness.
Not in Canada. Some medics actually were willing to bite the modus ponens (or the modus tollens, I forget which is which.)
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21m ago
The mother's version of events has not yet been established by a judiciary. I'm guessing there's a lot more to this case that hasn't come out yet.
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29m ago
phalloplasty (female-to-male) is the same but in the other direction.
This is just flat wrong, and brings your supposed expertise about "gender-affirming care" into question.
You may have noticed that female people have no flesh in between their legs which can be used to fashion a crude imitation of a penis. To accomplish this, surgeons (or "chirurgeons" as you insist on calling them, apparently for no better reason than obfuscation and misdirection) must carve out a chunk of tissue from elsewhere on the patient's body, typically the forearm or thigh. It's similar to a skin graft, except that much more flesh is required, meaning the tiny minority of trans-identified females who undergo phalloplasties have telltale scars on their thighs or forearms for months or years afterwards. Wikipedia has some NSFW photos. So much for "correcting the record".
It may have been a 'poor imitation' a century ago, but much progress has been made; the regret rate for transgender operations is less than that for knee replacements.
Even if it was the case that the majority of trans people who undergo bottom surgery don't regret doing so, that doesn't tell us anything about how poor the imitation is. Even if 100% of people who get breast implants don't regret doing so, that wouldn't tell us anything about how realistic breast implants are. Satisfaction is not perfectly correlated with realism.
the regret rate for transgender operations is less than that for knee replacements.
I've heard so many trans activists independently recite this canard, and they never provide a source. Until one is provided, I'm taking this about as seriously as "trans panic laws have enabled people to literally get away with murder!!!1!"
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41m ago
I don't think it has anything to do with "better" vs. "worse". I just think the imaginative gap that a lot of people struggle to even get their heads around the hypothetical.
The average person with a net worth of less than a million dollars does not struggle to imagine what it would be like to have a million dollars. The average person who does not live in Germany does not struggle what it would be like to live in Germany. (I'm not even saying their imaginary conceptions of these two counterfactuals are accurate: I'm just saying that most people don't struggle to imagine them, even if their imaginary conception thereof is wrong.) But waking up tomorrow morning as a member of the opposite sex is such a bizarre and alien concept that the average person struggles to get their head around it. I think the average person would have an easier time imagining what it would be like to be blind or paralysed than to imagine what it would be like to wake up as a member of the opposite sex.
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1d ago
I've heard a lot about the Subnautica games. I think the Epic Games Store was once giving away the first one for free and I missed it, still kicking myself.
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1d ago
Absolutely. It's so telling that conspiracy theorists arguing for Oswald as an innocent patsy invariably fail to mention that he had already tried and failed to murder someone (as had Jack Ruby, incidentally) long before the thought of killing JFK ever crossed his mind.
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1d ago
By my count, searches for "Cornell University" last month were 3x searches for "Gisele Pelicot" at their peak: https://trends.google.com/explore?q=%2Fg%2F11w96jzych%2Ccornell%25207%2C%2Fm%2F01w3v&date=today%205-y&geo=Worldwide
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1d ago
Was this intended as an example of a hot male standup?
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2d ago
Looking at Google Trends, Cornell 7's peak visibility was 19x that of the Pelicot case.
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2d ago
Yeah, it's weird that people can assert "relative to their share of the population, black people are underrepresented in Ivy League universities, and this is evidence of racism" and in the next breath assert "the majority of murders in the UK are perpetrated by white Britons".
I would reflexively accuse these people of doublethink, of holding two obviously contradictory ideas in their head at the same time. But actually, I think a lot of these people literally don't understand the meaning of "relative to their share of the population, X group is underrepresented in Y industry". They use it as an empty slogan, a more sophisticated-sounding way of saying "there should be more X people in Y industry". If I were to point out to them that black Britons are in fact overrepresented in British telly, that wouldn't give them pause, they wouldn't think "oh, mission accomplished". They weren't demanding that the demographics of British telly reflect the real demographics of the UK: they just want there to be more black people on the TV. They don't necessarily even understand the idea that "fairness" means that you should see a black character in a TV show set in Britain about as often as you would in real life.
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2d ago
I've heard a lot about Scanners, and of course I've seen that one GIF. May check it out.
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2d ago
Yeah, we were considering watching the show, but I'm not sure how well it could translate, especially given how much of the books are devoted to interiority.
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2d ago
Yup. Used to see it at least a few times a year, although off the top of my head I couldn't tell you the most recent time.
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2d ago
True. I can't remember ever seeing an ethnic Irishman wearing traditional Islamic dress (e.g. a thawb), a traditional beard, or a garment or adornment associated with that faith (e.g. a crescent moon pendant). But you're right that my friend officially converted to Islam without changing anything about his appearance.
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2d ago
I think it got significantly less attention than the Cornell 7, for instance.
I was about to say that I was painfully underwhelmed by White Noise, but if it's significantly better than that I might check it out. I've heard a rumour that a film adaptation of Libra was in the works until Oliver Stone torpedoed it, though Stone denies this.
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2d ago
Anecdotally, I see small but growing numbers of white British Muslim, including many in South Asian dress, around parts of east London like Stratford now (yes, there are ginger Arabs, but I know an Anglo-Celtic phenotype when I see one). One of our office security guards is one of them, from Dagenham (one of the remaining enclaves of the former cockney London working class). He has converted to Islam, grown a beard, showed me pictures on his Instagram of his wedding and wife, who I think is Syrian.
Interesting. I occasionally pass hijabi women in the street who are clearly ethnically Irish and who I assume converted at their husbands' request, but I don't remember ever encountering an Irishman in Ireland who had converted. (I have an Irish friend in London who met a Syrian girl and converted, although I think they both understood it was just a formality.) Maybe it's only a matter of time.
Well, a lot of trans activists (including people in this thread) would disagree with you that "desire" has anything to do with trans identification.
And more's the point – can't people be mistaken about their desires? Have you never thought you wanted something, then realised you didn't really?
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