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Happens on mobile, too. The software is buggy and neither proprietary to nor created by SFN (aka: folks here can’t do eff all to improve it)

I agree with others here that contraception access and elimination of poverty are both core to achieving a reduced frequency of abortion, but I came to say EDUCATION itself is even more fundamental. Not just sex education, either… Education. Period. It helps solve all of the other referenced problems concurrently.

Apologies, your question lacked precision.

Insurance markets in shared risk pools. The larger the population of subscribers, the more dilute the risks and costs become to each member. Insurance is an often a private market based system (with exceptions for government sponsored coverages), but even private coverages work by more broadly spreading and sharing risks across larger populations. It’s this shared and spread out risk which might rightly be framed as socialistic in principle. I’m happy to be corrected by the person who raised it.

Sorry, but who are you again? Can’t say I recall any exchanges with you nor anything else about you nor your posting history really, but appreciate the apology all the same. Peace to you and yours

Too bad Science doesn’t care about your feelings (since you like quoting Neil DeGrasse Tyson, that’s another quote from him) It’s hard to understand why you’re struggling with this so much, but there are more than 2 groups. At the very least, there’s male female and other. That’s 3. No physical advantage has yet been demonstrated IINM. This assertion is at the heart of your stance, yet it’s still as of yet unfounded and unsupported. Are not self aware enough to realize just how self-entitled you sound trying to demand that you have any say at all in how OTHER people are and are not allowed to identify THEMSELVES… as if you’re somehow the high arbiter of what’s allowed in context of self-identification in sex and gender? “Sorry, Fred. I know you identify as a man, but I’m here to tell you I see an ovary on your scans so GTFOH with that shit and start calling yourself Lucy, you hypocrite!” If the distinction is arbitrary and rather often inaccurate and unhelpful, why does it matter? What shrine to the past are we protecting by rigidly and steadfastly sticking to outdated categories? Do you also reject heliocentrism bc earth at the center of the universe is just “how it always was for majority of well educated people?” Why don’t you ask the people most effected by this, those who are being excluded and targeted for violence and hatred and rejection and anger for simply trying to authentically be themselves?

More precisely, these persons are reminding others that there never has been a valid definition, that those who suggest otherwise continue offering versions which don’t map on to the reality around us (they miss too many counter examples and ignore large swaths of the population), and that we have an opportunity to stop excluding people based on flawed outdated inaccurate models. Ahh, yes… victim blaming at its finest. We clearly wouldn’t have a massive surge in online hatred and right wing fascism and violence were it not for those evil pesky lefties trying to make progress for marginalized humans. Everything would be fine if they’d just shut their pissanty pie holes. 🙄

I’m gonna re-truth this rn!

Much merit found along this path, as well ✌🏼

Fairly well for some, but not for all. Specifically, not for transgender women. Perspective matters here. Einstein knew it, too. It’s all relative. Yes, the status quo was easy to upkeep. Who cares? The entire point of this thread is how to update it.

I referenced this to him earlier in the thread. It went right over his head.

All of this above, and also sometimes these “poop on the doorstep” and “toilet paper your front yard” hit and run posters have something to prove… literally. Sometimes, these wastes of pot stirring bandwidth are attempting to meet acceptance criteria and gain access to various blackhat style groups elsewhere; private “l33t!” communities where darker less legal things are discussed. Much like the greek college system of pledging fraternities and sororities, sad lonely incel souls like these must first prove they’ve been banned from at least X diff sites like these before being granted entry. So, they come rush through the open front door, shit on the carpet, yell at all the guests and call them dumb, then get told “k-bai.” Voila. Mission accomplished. Sadly, another aspect is trolls and bots being paid by state and nefarious other actors to simply keep everyone mad at each other agitated… regardless of the topic. We’re easier to control and rob from when we’re mad scared and yelling at each other. Also, some just want attention. Probably bc mommy didn’t give them enough as infants. It’s really very… infantile.

I reckon this aligns with how employees at the various companies Elon Musk takes over feel. Sadly for them, they can’t show him the door and on his merry way.

It important IMO to recall the broader context in which this discussion is taking place. Right wing populism is spreading across the world. Voters seem in greater numbers to be supporting fascist tendencies. Books are being banned from schools and neighbors are bloodying each other over simple differences in policy. Racism is up. Jewish community members are being attacked. Behavioral norms are being ignored while untraceable guns and homemade ammunition are being found at insane levels. And also, trans people are being targeted and attacked. Extreme violence. Their elected leaders are using them as scapegoats, setting mobs against them. Telling them which bathroom they are and are not allowed to use despite each of us having unisex bathrooms in each of our homes. Doctors are being attacked for caring for these patients, and schools are adding to ostracization by banning them from sports… or even TALKING about these subjects in states like mine and Florida… 1st amendment free speech rights be damned! Violence, extreme depression, lack of acceptance, and unacceptably high levels of suicide rule the day. It is this backdrop against which we’re discussing some elite sports categories, and I’m here advocating for acceptance and inclusion. Perhaps you see my position as extreme, but then again perhaps more people who think like me need to speak up in support of what’s right to counter the very one-sided nature of the conversation happening on this subject. I used to speak with similar passion in support of gay marriage, and climate change, and evolution… and thankfully I’ve been on the right side of history every time. I encourage you to join me and others here simply saying, “workable solutions to this obviously exist… let’s start with that as our premise instead of starting with bans.” You thankfully are already open to this, but please recall that you’re also not the only person participating in all of this… especially against the aforementioned societal backdrop.

I know you don’t, but I did, which is why I pointed it out. Well, that’s rather extreme. I don’t think I struggle in the way you are suggesting.

I appreciate this clarification. The source of my confusion was that I don’t equate what you’ve stated above with “forcing them to seek conversion treatments they don’t want.” What they’ve done is set a threshold. Competitors still have a choice whether or not that’s a requirement they wish to an align with. The way you kept typing it, you made it sound like they were abducting straight male boys out of middle and high school, sending them to nazi style camps, then forcing them to inject hormones all so they could go out with their hulking over muscled bodies and win some track and field events in the female categories.

Yawn

The atmosphere, and the air around us more broadly, is just another fluid and subject to similar dynamics as water and currents in the oceans. They are perpetually being disturbed and can be described with mathematical models (some more precise and powerful than others)

Who is doing that, exactly? This reads like like a strawman, but I'm reluctant to jump to this conclusion and will instead ask for clarity around this "forcing hormone treatments to win at sports" idea you keep mentioning. Even if you can come up with an example or three, it's comments like these which I believe lead others to suggest a tone of panic over nothing.

Here that's described as WAG: Wild Ass Guessing Will it be powered by unicorn farts, or maybe the tears of transgender leprechauns?

Can't help you with that, but "I have $2 and a Casio!"

So not just “do nothing,” but instead make it worse. Roger.

Someone beat you to it and did it better. It’s called Sims

My current conjecture for most probable and most accurate explanation here is trolling of an uber boring variety.

I heard it was aliens with help from the Illuminati and woke mob. None of this is philosophy. It’s just muck raking and soapboxxing, really.