Just a boy from Harvey, Blue Island, Chicago. Merit matters. Engineer, Used to teach Math, CS, Cooking. Life is good. Dis guy/Dat guy. I make wine. I drink wine
@mdrache@cheesetrader1 When you don't know math, the world is a festival of random occurrences, magical happenings, a fairy tale told by Mother Earth in a rainstorm of coincidence and mystery.
It must be awesome!
@79illwill Remember when most people believed that. We knew how to work and get ahead
And also true that men and women who embrace these traits find each other. I met my wife when she was 18 and I was 21. Not a dollar to spare between us. But now we are retired and living right
@Scullypit@therealburns3 We haven’t tailgated. Don’t really know anyone who does. The Reggie’s experience was good. After the game was a little tougher. All day drinking didn’t help!
My position is that gender dysphoria is a real, painful condition and that for some adults, the only way they may feel able to resolve that inner conflict is transition. If that’s the road they choose I wish them long life and happiness and I would vigorously oppose any discrimination against them when it comes to employment, housing or voting rights.
I do not believe children have the capacity to consent to treatments that may leave them infertile and, in some cases, anorgasmic. Multiple studies have shown that gender dysphoria in childhood and adolescence is not uncommon, for gay kids particularly, but it also occurs in, for example, straight girls who hate the idea of becoming women and sometimes, tragically, in children who’ve been abused. The available evidence shows that in the majority of cases, gender dysphoria resolves after the person has gone through adolescence. I am strongly opposed to the experimental treatment of blocking puberty in dysphoric children. I believe trans activists have behaved hugely unethically and irresponsibly in pretending that there is good evidence that these treatments are beneficial (there isn’t), that puberty blockers are completely reversible (there is a mounting body of evidence to suggest they aren’t) or that children are likely to kill themselves if denied blockers (there is no evidence to support this and suicide prevention charities warn against making such statements, due to the very real danger of suicide contagion.)
Of course, not all trans-identified people are dysphoric. Erotic transvestism, also known as autogynephilia, (getting a sexual thrill out of dressing as/pretending to be a woman) has been around for a very long time. I believe lesbians are entitled to exclude straight, cross-dressing men from their dating pools without being accused of bigotry and worse (same goes for gay men with trans-identified women). It’s profoundly homophobic to attack gay people for being same-sex attracted.
I don’t believe anyone, adult or child, is ‘born in the wrong body.’ That is an unfalsifiable, quasi-religious belief. A person may *feel* as if they’re in the wrong body, but humans cannot literally change sex. However they identify, men don’t belong in the single-sex spaces for which women fought so hard.
@79illwill That is the truth. Caleb has 2 things definitely in his favor. 1. He is genuine. 2. He plays to win. On and off the field.
His dad gets it too. This guy going to be a great football player and VERY wealthy
@ggabefootball Agreed. I think the only thing that could change this is the video. When it leeks, we will know. The league will then try to get ahead of it
Jacob’s attorneys are probably working with the NFL on that right now. Both sides will want this to become yesterday’s news quickly
@Eve_Barlow@MarkRuffalo Similar to Roger Waters (Pink Floyd). Booked a gig in Tel Aviv in 2006 then backed out. He has said that’s when he became aware of th “Palestinian issue”
I can’t take a man seriously who didn’t know about Yassar Arafat or either intifada.
Weak