transgender issues

Continuation thread from: https://www.internationalskeptics.com/forums/showthread.php?postid=14361590#post14361590 The core function of both the card and the plate is to identify the bearer thereof; for whatever reason(s) we allow ourselves to have more fun with the latter than the former...

Much sturm, drang, & buzz around the final Cass report these days, but I'd like to focus solely on the scientifically answerable questions raised therein or thereby, since the answers to those questions ought to inform medical best practices outside of the UK. Here is a brief summary of what...

Resolved: Hilton, Wright, & Heying are essentially correct about what makes a mammal either female or male.

Oh, nicely presented!

https://www.dailywire.com/news/biological-man-26-who-molested-girl-to-be-housed-with-females-in-juvenile-detention-after-identifying-as-woman TLDR: James Tubbs molested a 10 year old girl in a horrifying act just prior to Tubbs' 18th birthday. DNA evidence did not convict Tubbs until recently...

Swiss Man Legally Changes Gender to Retire Earlier

Continued from here. As is usual the split point is arbitrary and participants are free to address points from the previous thread(s). Let me try it like this. Other than those times when he was having a rendezvous with his sex partner, which bathroom did he use? Do you have any evidence...

Tucker Carlson Mocks Promotion of Transgender Admiral: ‘How Long Will It Be Before Joe Biden Appoints His Horse to the Supreme Court?’

Continued from here. As is usual the split point is arbitrary and participants are free to quote from previous parts of this thread. But please use your best endeavours to stick to your MA when composing and submitting your posts. Apparently the interviewer wanted to substitute a different...

Discussion continued from here. As is usual the split point is arbitrary and participants are free to quote from previous parts of this thread. But please use your best endeavours to stick to your MA when composing and submitting your posts. :mad: They are all things that are ALREADY happening.

Thread continued from http://www.internationalskeptics.com/forums/showthread.php?t=346735 Transitioning is not a necessary part of being trans. So that's a big fail

I would say that belief that homosexuality is real is based on agreement that people can have sexual attraction to the same sex, even though it is an internal viewpoint. If I were to be challenged on this, I wouldn't be able to conclusively prove the attraction or prove it to the satisfaction to...

Thread split from: as ever feel free to copy from and reference previous thread: http://www.internationalskeptics.com/forums/showthread.php?t=337066 I'll go through it one more time, but after that I'm just going to reiterate that if you want to comment on my posts then the best advice I can...

Thread continued from here. You may quote from that thread freely in this one. Yes, as anyone can read the reference states "The race element was emphasized in order that property-holders could get the support of the majority of white laborers and make it more possible to exploit Negro labor...

It's really bad. Linky. It only gets worse from here, but I want to get this out of the way. A neovagina is not like an open wound. The body isn't going to heal it shut. It's a bizarre piece of misinformation. I think the point of the essay, and why the NYT published it, was to counter...

I debated putting this in sports, but it seems to be more appropriate for a social issues and current events thread. Note that in the photo accompanying the article, McKinnon does not appear to be presenting himself as a female, and the text makes it clear that he's operating with...

BBC News: Pride in London sorry after anti-trans protest "Members of lesbian and feminist group Get The L Out demanded to march behind the rainbow flag, which marks the start of the event, organisers said. The group believes lesbian rights are attacked by the trans movement. Pride said...

This subject has been brought to a head in NZ by the inclusion of a trans woman in our weightlifting teams for the Commonwealth Games. Link: https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/opinion/99544169/mark-reason-transgender-lifter-laurel-hubbard-carrying-the-weight-of-the-world She competed as a bloke...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/09/16/sweden-man-free-festival-comes-fire/ But the festival has come under fire from users of Instagram, the photo-sharing social network, who claimed the policy was discriminatory against transgender people. This is because the ban on men only applies to...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-4747200/amp/Transgender-man-gives-birth-son.html Woman feels she is really a man. Woman gets surgery, takes hormones, and lives like a man. Now a transgender Man, "he" gets pregnant and gives birth to a healthy baby. Someone please explain to me why...

Seems he will reverse everything Obama did - regardless of merit :mad: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-40729996 As well as the whole message being the usual ill-informed reactionary nonsense, the thing I find very disturbing is his description of what the military should be focused...

An article called "In Defense of Transracialism" was published by a young professor named Rebecca Tuvel, in the feminist philosophy journal Hypatia, passing the peer review and editorial process. It posed the question of whether some of the arguments in favor of transgenderism could also be...

So, I'm going to present two articles here with differing views on how doctors should handle gender dysphoria in children. Then, I think we could discuss the two views (preferably after reading both articles, or at least enough to get the general idea; the second article is quite long, but worth...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/highschools/meet-the-texas-wrestler-who-won-a-girls-state-title-his-name-is-mack/2017/02/25/982bd61c-fb6f-11e6-be05-1a3817ac21a5_story.html?utm_term=.c620163393ad Mack Beggs, the person at the center of this controversy, would prefer to wrestle males, but...

San Diego Police Officer Christine Garcia, the department's first transgender officer, was denied entry to the Transgender Day of Remembrance event (a yearly event remembering the victims of transgender targeted violence) over concerns that her uniform might "upset" other attendees. Officer...

It started with a post about how "cis men" should not dress in "drag" for Halloween because it is apparently offensive to the trans community and is an insult to femininity. Nevermind that drag, trans, and femininity are all totally different things! Now I'm seeing dozens of examples of the...

That is an ideologically-derived belief, not a rational evidence-based conclusion.

In an interesting and topical decision the US (Federal) Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 2-to-1 in favor of one Gavin Grimm, who'd sued the Gloucester County School Board, arguing that its policy requiring students to use facilities that correspond with their "biological gender" (as on the...

So I was reading yet another screed from the right about how terrible the Girl Scouts are. The latest outrage is over their decision to allow transgendered girls into their program. http://citizengo.org/en/22667-girl-scouts-girls-not-boys?sid=MjkyNTUyNTg5OTMwMzY0 It was all the usual stuff...

Didn't see this on here, so I figured I'd bring it up. Leelah Alcorn, a 16-yr old transgender teen, committed suicide a few days ago by stepping into traffic. She felt there was no need to continue with her life given the lack of support she received from her family who disagreed with her...