StringJunky

They are too rare and they aren't a distinct class, just as males and females are not binarily distinct. They are all some related variation of the human condition.

Garbage.

This is only the case because of cultural indoctrination, of which you are victim too, especially in your era as a youth when gender roles were even more markedly defined culturally.

Phenomena that is descibed in a quantum manner has a particle mediating it/associated with it, like light has the photon. The gravitational force of GR doesn't yet have a workable particle theory associated with it. The 'graviton' is the proposed particle to join the Standard Model of particles but it doesn't yet work mathematically as it produces infinities, which are not allowed. It also hasn't been discovered experimentally. This leaves scientists with two theories, which are applied depending on what's being studied.

A child without cultural pressures will just be who they are. It can start as early as three that I've read. I remember a six year old trans-girl behaving and choosing traditionally female ways and attire being asked how long they had felt that way: "All my life". They were too young to learn that behaviour.

Categories and rules in general should adapt as we learn more about ourselves as a species.

Yes, If he's in Russia, he's not going to see open-minded news.

The only area where Russia is the same militarily as the USSR is in nuclear weapons. Conventionally it's falling to bits. It's not a superpower anymore. That illusion was shattered with this war.

Where is the West materially weaker? You can say that about Russia.

But if being 100 pounds heavier is a specified class division requirement, you aren't going to be competing there.

Cuz history.

But it's still being used in complete form, not like the UK's Magna Carta, which only has three still active.

There isn't enough people with them... apparently. The Constitution is equivalent to the tablet of the ten commandments. It belongs in a museum as a curiosity.

It's happened 27 times in US schools this year. It seems like wasted energy to feel affected by it anymore. Fuck the GOP, NRA and the 2nd.

"I resemble that remark."

They need to stop thinking in binary. Rome wasn't built in day. For the large part, it will probably be the children born now that should start experiencing the benefits of these policy changes with lower levels of prejudice that prevail today. Evolution, not revolution is the pace in human terms of time.

Diff'rent strokes... I actually meant all the different physical forms they take... with their clothes on.

Not in those exact words but as a paraphrase I've read something about him recently to the same effect. Sabre-rattling by the Chinese, Kim and Putin is all it is, and Biden is just suggesting he knows this, I think. Those despots don't have the conventional means to worry NATO, so they wave the biggest sticks they've got, even though they know that would be game over.

I think there might be too much emphasis on testosterone by trans-opponents because they persistently visualize the classic masculine proportions in a drag-like feminine presentation , but not all gender-dysphorics are like that. This person below is the other extreme, and then there's all the gender-dysphorics inbetween. There is as much diversity in this group as there is in cis-genders. Just as with them, you can't monolithically describe gender-dysphorics. The only way to judge eligibility with fairness is by what a person can do and their physical ability put into the appropriate sporting class. Picture this person thrashing sporting cis-women at 100m because they were a cis-man. Not likely, is it? I think people need to go out there, and the internet is a good resource for this, and actually look at trans-people.... the whole gamut. It's pretty obvious to me that human gender is not binary and people can be born with mismatched personal identities to which they sense they belong. Then there's those individuals who identify with neither... they are in a state of gender equilibrium. As iNow has already suggested the solution, it's a practical method to properly accomodate this diversity in a fair and equitable way in sporting competition.

Physical skill is a brain and muscle memory thing, so there's no biological reason women can't have it with the same frequency and competence level as men.

I notice the GOP likes to legislate social matters but not so much fiscal ones... hmmm. "Share it fairly but don't take a slice of my pie." - Pink Floyd

They were just given money and they did the rest.

Yes, but the difference is they are existent in the present moment and Anglo-Saxons are skeletal in the ground or in museums. Progressivism is nearly always alien to Luddites, obviously, as your silly photo implies. If you take that personally, I don't mind. We shouldn't deny as a society what we have learned since your time as youngster.

Like I said, it's a way of distinguishing themselves as a more 'legitimate' inhabitant because they have been in a place far longer.