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That’s dumb, because it’s the immune system doing the work whether vaccinated or not If anything, the immune systems of those vaccinated have been exposed to more variations and so are better prepared for new ones

One thing that brings us together and unites us is staying on-topic

No harm, no foul ✌️

And maybe you should actually read the articles you cite and stop acting like snotty little child when challenged... especially when those articles you're sharing DIRECTLY refute the very the claim you've been making. For convenience, here's the bit I found most relevant from your citation (emphasis mine): You can read more for yourself here: https://kinseyinstitute.org/pdf/Infidelity in hetero couples.pdf

It sounds more like you have never experienced any of these places for yourself and apparently don't know what you're talking about.

Minimal info, indeed. An opinion piece from the Daily Mail. Was it too hard finding an article in the National Inquirer or the Onion to support your claim?

Same reason there are colorful descriptions of poop Summarized: Needless shame

“Excuse me, kind sir. I couldn’t help but notice your recent infidelity. Am I correct in assuming you haven’t self-saddled the one-eyed baloney pony lately?” “No, it’s because Carol took such good care of me that I never felt the need!”

Counter proposal: Masturbation makes you MORE likely to cheat. It primes you to see others in more sexual terms, reinforces the pleasure mechanism and sense of joy from ejaculation, and leads you to seek more and more and more to overcome the desensitization and boredom from always doing it yourself. See how easy it is to make stuff up when evidence doesn’t matter? I even did it without suggesting you’re not lucky enough to be married or have no one to talk to

Right, but this isn't a biology issue. It's a political one. I'd find this more relevant if we were sitting right now in debate class or in a formal competition. Since we're not, I don't. Let me repeat how I responded to you yesterday when you shared this same feedback when I made a different comparison since the same response applies: I always love when people announce their exit from a thread. Okay, whatever... Just stop replying then.

“We are nonviolent with people who are nonviolent with us.” “I believe that there will ultimately be a clash between the oppressed and those that do the oppressing. I believe that there will be a clash between those who want freedom, justice and equality for everyone and those who want to continue the systems of exploitation.” ”I believe in treating people right, but I’m not going to waste my time trying to treat somebody right who doesn’t know how to return the treatment.” Brother Malcolm had a way with words.

Righto, and another truth is that many thousands of current female athletes also speak out in support of just letting transgendered girls play. In similar spirit, perhaps if we’d ignored the “wishful narratives” of black voices we might still have slaves on plantations actively harvesting cotton today. I’d say it’s a win historically that the rules were changed to favor them, but YMMV.

It was about many things, one of which was rather overwhelming support from thousands of current female athletes competing in existing female leagues. The idea shared was of them rejecting the entire premise that they needed protection from do-gooders seeking to exclude transgendered females, or that it even mattered if the science showed transgendered females MIGHT benefit from some minuscule advantage.

Fair point. In the article I shared most recently, the rather clear suggestion was there was practically no scientific evidence whatsoever suggesting a major or relevant difference. This aligned with another article I read just yesterday but chose not to share here given how the facts within past links kept getting ignored.

No. Despite what many online political conversations would have you think, our poop isn’t actually connected to our brains

Thank you for clarifying. Of course analogies are limited, and that's part of why I reject the premise that transgendered humans are triangles, that cis-gendered females are circles, and that cis-gendered males are squares (1950s poodle skirt and leather jacket jokes about boring nerds aside). People are NOT pegs. We are not cogs or widgets. Athletic rules also don't mandate that all pegs be exactly the same... whether round, square, or otherwise... and that's the point. Even within the round pegs, there's tremendous variability in shape, scale, size, height, weight, physical makeup, etc. As I think is obvious, that variability is a huge part of what makes sports so interesting in the first place... there are MAJOR differences in innate ability and learned expertise and capability, and that's the entire point! The rules of sports in no way imply that only ONE peg type can or should fit. The rules for ALL sports are 100% invented and arbitrary, yet are being used now to exclude a class of humans who are already facing exclusionary and violent pressures everywhere else throughout their lives. Yes, TheVat... We're often repeating ourselves, but that doesn't mean should just shutup and stop. There's a chance people reading from the sidelines might just be convinced by a post today that says the same thing a post a week ago said, even though the week old post had no impact on their thinking.

Nobody is suggesting equivalency. The suggestion is of one of similarity.

I know you aren’t consciously advocating this, but it sounds to me rather equivalent to separate, but equal. We may as well force transgendered athletes to use different water fountains while we’re at it.

If we were building and talking about widgets, perhaps. They’re not widgets, though. They’re humans just like you and me. We’re ALL different from one another in scores of ways, but we generally focus on our similarities instead. I’ve already clearly stated that I reject the framing of transgendered humans being triangular pegs being put into round holes. I personally find them just as round. I merely ran with the analogy introduced by MigL to engage him on his own terms. Your comment about precision in engineering suggests that every other female competing in female athletics are 100% equivalent, cut from a single mold, the same in all ways and tolerances. We both know they’re clearly not, so again (and with respect) I completely reject this rather comical fantasyland style framing of the issue. Humans aren’t cogs, whether cis, trans, or otherwise.

I got to hear him speak in person a few years back. Brilliant man.

I see. Classic no true Scotsman response. I’d have gone another way, myself.

So do high-profile female athletes. Soccer star Megan Rapinoe, former world No. 1 tennis player Billie Jean King and professional basketball player Candace Parker joined nearly 200 other professional, Olympic and collegiate female athletes on an amicus brief contesting the laws. Close to 1,000 collegiate athletes supported trans athletes in two letters, calling on the NCAA to move championships out of states that passed bans. WNBA players Sue Bird and Natasha Cloud, WNBA coach Cheryl Reeve, U.S. paralympian Alana Nichols and scores of other athletes signed on to a similar letter to the NCAA last year.

Very little. You may as put a sock over your mouth. Ever see a surgeon going into surgery with a sock over their mouth? Better than nothing, but not great. Use N95 or KN95 and most importantly make sure it fits correctly.

Nor is suggesting that only one hole shape and bore type is allowed