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You seem to be coming from a liberal position where there are valid trans people and some number of bad actors that overlap. That line from OP strongly suggests they are not, so your simile doesn't work across that gap of understanding.
Jiro
1m ago
The secrets to enjoyment:
That's like saying that you don't care about people in church saying that the Jews eat babies, because as a Jew you don't go to church anyway.
Social media power is a problem because it can affect things that happen off of social media.
Hoffmeister25
American Bukelismo Enthusiast
3m ago
I’m not aware of any studies on it, but my experience is that every single time somebody tells me about a “passing” transwoman, I end up seeing the person and it’s obviously a man. Sure, it’s true in a sort of unfalsifiable way that there could be all of these undetectable transwomen walking around among us, but at that point you’ve reached a sort of Russell’s Teapot, “invisible dragon in the garage” level of claim.
Bleep
4m ago
Why is this such an issue?
Exactly, it's such non-issue you won't mind it going either way.
But of course you do mind it going one way which you frame by claiming it's about "caring" at all, except you do care also.
ToZanarkand
Some day the dream will end
4m ago
She broke rank with the squad on Israel right before the campus protests turned ugly.
Wait, she did?
dovetailing
5m ago
You... may be an outlier. (Not disagreeing that it's good to keep men out of women's bathrooms, even with stalls, though.)
ToZanarkand
Some day the dream will end
7m ago
It’s nearly always spectacularly easy to “clock” an MtF - especially once you hear the voice.
Are there studies on this or is this anecdotal? If the latter, you wouldn't be able to account for the MtFs you're missing precisely because they do pass.
Throwaway05
9m ago
If you are okay with putting a bullet in the head of anyone who uses medical care without expert opinion in any way that causes a societal cost then sure.
But we don't do that.
If you become disabled, or end up on dialysis, or increase the risk of a multi drug resistant organism other people subsidize you.
The cost with which we subsidize you is immense. Hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars per person. Society cannot afford to pay that more than necessary, and ethics prevent us from euthanizing people for their ineptitude.
Paternalism is good to some extent it's why we have building codes and financial regulations and you know....laws. Where you draw the line is a point of discussion but drug libertarians don't know anything about medicine and have zero idea what they don't know.
dovetailing
9m ago
Do you know that McBride wears fake breasts vs. being on estrogen (which produces natural breast growth; yes, even in biological males)? I couldn't discover either way from a quick search, and ... weirdly ... this seems relevant for your point.
ToZanarkand
Some day the dream will end
13m ago
I think the hate of Elon is definitely fresher than that of Trump. I'm not sure it's necessarily greater in intensity.
Stellula
22m ago
I believe this is the article I was trying to find. I found it by appending "themotte" to my query, since it was discussed here quite a bit.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/02/opinion/transgender-children-gender-dysphoria.html
AnonymousActuary
26m ago
any D appointee would have, maybe, but he was the one who actually had.
SubstantialFrivolity
I'm not even supposed to be here today
32m ago
it's purpose is to be a new home for people who are upset that moderates and conservatives are being given a voice, any early adoption is going to be centered around that.
Ditto for Mastodon. It is an absolute cesspool because it's primarily used by people who couldn't stand the idea that Elon might not let them bully people with politics they didn't like (and this was before he bought Twitter no less). It is exactly as bad as you might expect based on that.
hydroacetylene
33m ago
I think a few of them have been revealed to be EMTALA violations on the part of the hospital but I’m not sure.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
34m ago
Source for Twitter being 50/50? I assume it’d lean one way or the other.
HalloweenSnarry
34m ago
I agree with this, with the quibble that I thought the point of contracts was that either party is free to break a contract if they feel like they aren't getting what they want, they just have to deal with the consequences of breaking said contracts. Real-life contracts tend to have escape clauses and ways of dealing with breaches.
(Failing that, you can always just go the Westinghouse-Tesla route and just burn it.)
Stellula
35m ago
Has McBride done or said anything to convince you her presentation is sexualized?
Why does he wear fake breasts? Is he planning on nursing a baby with these fake breasts? Signaling his (non-existent) fertility with these fake breasts? Or is it perhaps that male sexual fixation on female breasts informs the things that he does as a part of what appears to be a crossdressing fetish?
This is about as reasonable as asking why we tolerate bondage fetishists in the police force.
Police handcuffs serve a practical function that assists the public generally. Do Sarah's fake breasts serve a similar practical function? (No).
netstack
Texas is freedom land
35m ago
Uh, no. He’s jumped pretty hard on whatever populist-right memes are floating around Twitter.
SubstantialFrivolity
I'm not even supposed to be here today
35m ago
I'm just saying, talking about the consistency of your semen and how much you masturbate is way TMI for a discussion about hair loss lol.
HalloweenSnarry
39m ago
To add onto other replies, I think it's simply "you stop giving a fuck about decorum and propriety as you get older."
ThisIsSin
The boob tube emits harmful XXX-rays
40m ago
A boy is a male of an age such that, if a Karen saw them walking into town alone, would call the cops and report it as child abuse.
Ioper
40m ago
My wife broke up with me for a few months when we were 1.5 months into our relationship. The reason for this was she though I wasn't serious about her.
I didn't realise this at all and thought I had gone to great lengths to be with her, I was just very busy, but she thought I didn't want to see her. I didn't make a big deal about the break up, continued to see her for other reasons and eventually she came back and we've been together for the past 20 years, with little to no drama.
I suppose it helped that we had some common friends helping us out but the point is that it isn't necessarily over or a sign of poor potential for the relationship that there is a "break-up" early on.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
41m ago
Right, though I don’t have information for that on the other deaths. So they could also be the % of society who can’t or won’t get to a hospital.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
43m ago
Here is what I actually think a reasonable framing of this question is: "can men with a cross dressing fetish involve non-consenting women in their crossdress-play?"
This is about as reasonable as asking why we tolerate bondage fetishists in the police force. We don’t; the handcuffs have a practical, unobjectionable, non-sexual purpose. Anyone abusing such privileges for sexual gratification can and should be punished.
Has McBride done or said anything to convince you her presentation is sexualized? Because if you’re going off base rates, I think you might have the wrong idea.
The US used to be like this, but it changed at some point during post-WW2 America. Communal showers and pools were common. When I was young (90s and 00s), we still used communal showers, but it was a dying practice. I realized in college it was a dead practice in most other parts of the US.
My great grandpa would tell me about swimming naked with other men/boys at the YMCA in the 1920s. I'm not why it changed in the US, but there are a bunch of movies made in the 70s and 80s about young adults who have anxiety about the dreaded communal showers in high schools.
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