My second grader asks questions regularly. Kids notice differences. Kids notice two women in a family photo on a desk. Kids notice who has what plumbing and who presents what way based on clothes and hair.
Do you believe he bill, as signed, allows teachers in Florida to honestly answer questions form kids about homosexual persons, transgender persons and non-binary persons in a factual and supportive tot he kids way?
Sex with non-hetero folks as a consenting adult is threatening to those clinging to outdated interpretations of the non-issue that was sex as Christ described it.
I honestly think his issue is he doesn't see these things a bad behavior, but rather the price we pay for law and order. Its a fair tradeoff as far as he's concerned.
Or you can save time and present the data demonstrating how Leah Thomas DID NOT have a distinct advantage over her female competitors.
Look at her win/loss record and her times post-transition. She's a solid competitive swimmer, but she's not got any advantage, as has been noted numerous times above.
Its a statistical nothing burger now that is being used as a kludge legislatively to keep trans people from achieving "normalcy." As long as that remains the case I want the numbers to help prove the point.
Regardless, is your point that Leah Thomas should be able to compete against women because some women could beat her in some events?
I have two points - one is that Lia Thompson's alleged dominance is overblown, and is being used as a red herring but those who want to legislate queer people out of existence and/or back into the closet.
My second point is that she is a woman, and should be allowed to compete as such. As a matter of both sports ethics and personal liberty.
Sure, she's an elite swimmer. She was before transition, a nd while she has undergone some physiological change as a result of changing her hormone balance, she remains an elite swimmer. Her wins - which I documented above, say as much.
But she's not the top of the game under either gender. She's not beating every elite female. Nor will she.
The few transpeople I know IRL, and the many more I read periodically, do not see expressing their true gender as subjective. Regardless of the "plumbing" or genetics, for a trans women to remain expressing as a man is simply not possible without overwhelming psychological damage. How that relates to their sexual reality (again as physically expressed by genetalia at birth) is not the issue they are seeking to resolve.
Which reality? The reality that human attempts to enforce two genders as a norm flies in the face of the six genders we know exist due to our DNA? That trans youth commit suicide at significant rates because they lack emotional, medical and social support? That the anti-queer backlash won't actually keep queer people from existing?
Sadly, 2021 has already seen at least 57 transgender or gender non-conforming people fatally shot or killed by other violent means. We say at least because too often these stories go unreported — or misreported. In previous years, the majority of these people were Black and Latinx transgender women.
In 2020, HRC tracked a record number of violent fatal incidents against transgender and gender non-conforming people. A total of 44 fatalities were tracked by HRC, marking 2020 as the most violent year on record since HRC began tracking these crimes in 2013.
Someone whose basic philosophy on how to address matters of race (or sex or whatever else) requires actions that are almost certainly illegal under existing federal and state law should not even be at the metaphorical table.
There's nothing in Kendi's ideaology, or his scholarship that hints at or downright suggests violating existing laws. There is a lot that pointedly says those laws are part of the problem. Its an important distinction.
When you believe you are loosing your grip on social and political dominance, you seek to preserve it. Said preservation is often done in a way that allows lashing out at the persons believed to be the greatest threat.
But individual classroom curricula built wholecloth by teachers according to their personal pedagogical notions? No. That’s not community education in any model; especially not public education.
I'm not aware of any public school system in which that happens. Or private schools for that matter. State departments of education generally take a dim view of such things.
It’s considered fine that trans activists are deceptively infiltrating and working to defund feminist groups, to deplatform individuals, filing false lawsuits to ruin people’s lives, hanging women in effigy, attempting to get people fired from their jobs and in many cases succeeding, and so forth.
Got some citations to back that up? Because all I'm seeing is transwomen, and specifically transwomen of color, being hunted and murdered quite routinely.
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My second grader asks questions regularly. Kids notice differences. Kids notice two women in a family photo on a desk. Kids notice who has what plumbing and who presents what way based on clothes and hair.
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Because then people would actually be accountable. And we don't want that do we?
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Do you believe he bill, as signed, allows teachers in Florida to honestly answer questions form kids about homosexual persons, transgender persons and non-binary persons in a factual and supportive tot he kids way?
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Sex with non-hetero folks as a consenting adult is threatening to those clinging to outdated interpretations of the non-issue that was sex as Christ described it.
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He's also a fairly well to do white man which further insulates him.
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I honestly think his issue is he doesn't see these things a bad behavior, but rather the price we pay for law and order. Its a fair tradeoff as far as he's concerned.
On “Words Have Meanings, Part Ten Thousand”
I fear you are correct (and this is the clearest thing I've seen you write in a while - well done you).
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Seconded heartily.
On “Woman, Controversial Woman”
And Lia Thompson is no exception to that rule.
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Look at her win/loss record and her times post-transition. She's a solid competitive swimmer, but she's not got any advantage, as has been noted numerous times above.
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Its a statistical nothing burger now that is being used as a kludge legislatively to keep trans people from achieving "normalcy." As long as that remains the case I want the numbers to help prove the point.
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In the last 5 years, how many records in woman's sports - any woman's sports, have been set and held by transwomen?
Again, this is not an issue. Its not a thing. Its not a "problem."
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I have two points - one is that Lia Thompson's alleged dominance is overblown, and is being used as a red herring but those who want to legislate queer people out of existence and/or back into the closet.
My second point is that she is a woman, and should be allowed to compete as such. As a matter of both sports ethics and personal liberty.
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Do you see your gender as subjective?
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Sure, she's an elite swimmer. She was before transition, a nd while she has undergone some physiological change as a result of changing her hormone balance, she remains an elite swimmer. Her wins - which I documented above, say as much.
But she's not the top of the game under either gender. She's not beating every elite female. Nor will she.
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I have no idea - like you I have always had state elections and country elections and special local taxation elections on my federal election ballots.
On “Woman, Controversial Woman”
The few transpeople I know IRL, and the many more I read periodically, do not see expressing their true gender as subjective. Regardless of the "plumbing" or genetics, for a trans women to remain expressing as a man is simply not possible without overwhelming psychological damage. How that relates to their sexual reality (again as physically expressed by genetalia at birth) is not the issue they are seeking to resolve.
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Which reality? The reality that human attempts to enforce two genders as a norm flies in the face of the six genders we know exist due to our DNA? That trans youth commit suicide at significant rates because they lack emotional, medical and social support? That the anti-queer backlash won't actually keep queer people from existing?
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On “Florida “Parental Rights in Education” Bill: Read It For Yourself”
There's nothing in Kendi's ideaology, or his scholarship that hints at or downright suggests violating existing laws. There is a lot that pointedly says those laws are part of the problem. Its an important distinction.
On “Woman, Controversial Woman”
When you believe you are loosing your grip on social and political dominance, you seek to preserve it. Said preservation is often done in a way that allows lashing out at the persons believed to be the greatest threat.
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That's commentary, not news reporting.
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Trans women are women. Trans men are men. They aren't "claiming" to be anything. They are being genuine and true to who they are.
On “Florida “Parental Rights in Education” Bill: Read It For Yourself”
I'm not aware of any public school system in which that happens. Or private schools for that matter. State departments of education generally take a dim view of such things.
On “Woman, Controversial Woman”
Got some citations to back that up? Because all I'm seeing is transwomen, and specifically transwomen of color, being hunted and murdered quite routinely.