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4th July 2022, 20:33 | #1441 |
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The context of that is pointing out that it's the marginalized sub groups that it's really effecting. Those well off in society will continue to access healthcare.
But anyway I think critics of transgender rights would still be upset if the line was women and men who give birth.
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4th July 2022, 21:29 | #1442 |
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No, they’d sit back with popcorn while the lefties started knifing each other at the suggestion that human sex is a binary. Which, of course, it is. Then they’d pass whatever laws they like.
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4th July 2022, 21:52 | #1443 |
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You make it out like it's only about ideology, rather than a genuine struggle to get needs met. Just because you lump a group of people together as lefties doesn't mean that the people you've jammed together won't have competing interests.
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The mammal species homo sapiens comes in two forms: male and female. 9998 times out of 10000 a human is instantly identifiable as one or the other. It's not a spectrum; if it were a graph with 10000 samples, there'd be a column of just under 5000 (males), a column of probably just over 5000 (females), and if you zoomed in really close, a little column of 2 (people with disorders of sexual development for whom sex is ambiguous, like people with ovotesticular disorder). The shape of that graph shows a binary. The binary basis of human sexuality has no more or less to say about the existence of the ambiguous 2 than a coin having two sides has something to say about its edge. A tossed coin can, and very very rarely does, come to rest on its edge. That doesn't mean that the position of a coin lies somewhere on a spectrum. |
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5th July 2022, 11:41 | #1448 | |
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5th July 2022, 14:27 | #1449 | |
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Of course, I have my doubts about whether this sort of information would do anything to shift your opinion. Maybe you're even already aware of it and have some other definition you're operating on to get to your figure of one or two in ten thousand. But even if it really is only one or two in 10,000, I don't see how that's a good reason to erase the identities of those people. In a country of 5 million people like NZ, that's still 500 people who you're basically declaring aren't real people. Is the binary notion of sex really so important to us that we have to do that to them? |
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That number is, simply, bollocks. For example Fausto-Sterling claims the higher number by asserting that intersex people who don't fit in a sex binary must include people who aren't chromosomally XX or XY, such as those born with Klinefelter Syndrome (aka XXY) and Turner Syndrome (aka X or X0). The problem is, Klinefelter Syndrome is only experienced by males, and Turner Syndrome is only experienced by females. There are no females with Klinefelter Syndrome; there are no males with Turner Syndrome. To experience one of those disorders of sexual development you have to be male or female. They literally prove the phenotypic binary, yet Fausto-Sterling claims them as "intersex" to get those numbers up. And here's the thing: even if that number were true, and it isn't, it would still prove that human sex is binary. 98.3% of humanity being obviously male or female is still a sex stat that any sane person would agree proves a binary. Quote:
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6th July 2022, 11:21 | #1453 | |
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They are people who have experienced some form of developmental disorder. It shouldn't be too hard a concept to grasp. Take a different aspect of biology as an example. Homo sapiens, as well as being a species that exhibits sexual anisogamy, is a species that exhibits bipedalism. A human who develops normally will be born with two legs. In very rare cases and for a variety of reasons a human may experience a disorder of physical development and be born without two legs. When that happens it neither moves the person in question out of the category "human", nor does it move homo sapiens out of the category "biped". Noting that someone has been born without the two legs that would normally be part of human development is neither a declaration that the individual is not a real person, nor is it erasing their identity, whatever the fuck that means. |
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6th July 2022, 13:26 | #1455 |
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You give me a lot more credit for caring about other people and their lives than I probably deserve.
You're also claiming that I: Am effectively trying to erase some people's identities (I'm not) Am reducing the lives they live to a medical disorder (I'm not) You're hypothesising that I: Claim that there are only men and women and nothing else (I don't) Anyone who reads just the posts on this page can see those things aren't true. Seriously. Find some words, posted by me, in which I erase some people's identities, reduce their lives, or claim that there's no such thing as people who aren't adult human males or females. It's like you've decided to be angry about something, you've chosen my posts, and in the absence of nasty things in my posts you're imagining a world in which there are nasty things in my posts and you're being angry at those imaginary things. |
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6th July 2022, 14:15 | #1458 |
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Ironically sex differences in humans is one of the scientific fields that we’ve learned more about, more recently, than just about any other. It’s one of the few fields of study in the social sciences that appears immune to the replication crisis.
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6th July 2022, 14:21 | #1459 |
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But we still know better now than to impose our empirical frameworks on people just because we're really impressed by them. Our frameworks aren't truth. They're tools.
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6th July 2022, 14:55 | #1460 |
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Ah got yer tool right here
https://news.yahoo.com/trans-skatebo...175805580.html 29-year-old former serviceman and father of two defeats 13-year old girl to take 1st-place cash prize in the women's division of the Boardr Open skateboarding competition. But he identifies as a woman now and asserts that he doesn't think he has an advantage and that he wants to be happy. Of course nobody wanted to be accused of negating his identity by pointing out that fuck your feelings you dick it's not fair. |
6th July 2022, 17:28 | #1461 |
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Oh la-di-da, fair is it? That so nice for you, being privileged enough that fairness is such a consideration for you. Many of us are just trying to avoid being completely fucked.
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6th July 2022, 18:12 | #1462 |
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The correct answer is perhaps the 2nd-place getter just identifies as a 13-year-old girl.
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6th July 2022, 18:17 | #1463 |
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Problems of the privileged. We wouldn't be dealing with this is if fairness was for everyone, rather than the lucky few.
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6th July 2022, 23:10 | #1464 |
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Maya Forstater won her case, if anyone is interested:
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7th July 2022, 02:30 | #1466 | |
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7th July 2022, 03:38 | #1467 |
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You know, I think there probably are some cases in which a trans person is at an advantage or a disadvantage when they're competing against cis men or women. A woman who has transitioned to being a man is probably at a disadvantage in a weight lifting competition, just as a man who has transitioned to being a woman is probably at an advantage. The size of the advantage/disadvantage probably changes with the length of time since the transition, but it may be the case that some residual advantage/disadvantage persists indefinitely.
Part of the issue is that trans athletes aren't super common. If we had a 'trans' category, or even multiple trans categories, as I think would probably be required, then it's a possibility that there wouldn't be a large enough field of competitors for it to be described as a competition. And yet, trans athletes do want to compete with *someone*. So who are they to benchmark themselves against? Perhaps the problem is more with how we recognise achievement, rather than with whether trans people are allowed to participate. For example, perhaps there could be a category of prizes specifically for trans competitors that recognises their achievements, but does not result in the loss of prizes for cis gender people competing against them? |
7th July 2022, 06:04 | #1468 |
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Has the "Male assaults female" charge ever been challenged with regards to Trans people in either role? Or its the very existence of such a charge offensive?
Is there an issue with pay parity between Male/Female/Trans? This subject leaves me somewhat confused - and I thought I understood Alien³. |
7th July 2022, 10:00 | #1469 |
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Any law which refers to gender is likely to be challenged. “Rape” is restricted to cases of a male penetrating a female's vagina with his penis.
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7th July 2022, 13:31 | #1471 |
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There are biologists out there who literally claim that there's no difference between male and female bodies. The thing about religion is it requires you to say and believe things that aren't true. I notice that the presenter in that video specifically refers to the Klinefelter and Turner syndromes that can only be experienced by males and females respectively as somehow being evidence of nonbinary sex, so I presume he's bought into Fausto-Sterling's thesis. That said, I know nothing about this guy and some of his videos look interesting.
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7th July 2022, 14:08 | #1477 |
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There's some interesting stuff going on regarding Self-ID here in Oz this week. The Australian Bureau of Statistics has released numbers that show the Aboriginal population of Australia has increased by 25% in three years. Either there's an Aboriginal Elon Musk somewhere making babies every other day, or a lot of people who didn't previously are now deciding to identify as Aboriginal by ticking a box.
This has some Aboriginal community/political/activist groups very very concerned. Because for a lot of urban white people, the way one feels inside is a reality not open to debate. And if enough urban white people decide that they feel like they really really identify as Aboriginal people, and that can't be questioned, then that means their voices have to be included in discussions of things like reparations and treaties and native land title. And there are a lot more urban white people in Australia than there are country blak people. https://theconversation.com/aborigin...s-lives-185692 |
7th July 2022, 14:29 | #1478 |
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You mean if I suggested to my kids that perhaps they should identify as a certain group, entry into Med School would have been less stressful? But that's part of the character building! It prepares them for running up against nonsense bureaucratic decisions!
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7th July 2022, 14:49 | #1479 |
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Or we could address inequality so there weren't all these battles going on for access to resources or fairness. Or at least they wouldn't need be so pitched.
Yeah, nah, tho right?
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7th July 2022, 15:05 | #1480 |
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What's the process for qualifying for Maori scholarships in NZ? Do you have to prove bloodline affiliation to a particular Iwi, or just self report as such?
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