@AlpacaAurelius It is because the cow wastes a lot of energy doing daily cow stuff and so if you used his grazing land to grow crops you could unlock a lot more calories
@LiftingPA81@RigoIrizarry Your "evidence" is people saying they are happy immediately after receiving these irreversible surgeries they have fought so hard for. Unsurprising. Are they healthier? Certainly not. Will they need ongoing health care as a result? Probably. How will they feel in 5 years?
@LiftingPA81@RigoIrizarry No one is saying it doesn't exist. Psychological support and not surgery is the appropriate treatment.
The doctors performing these surgeries should be ashamed of themselves.
@LiftingPA81@RigoIrizarry Living in a world where people believe it is medically appropriate to remove body parts from mentally ill patients rather than provide the psychological support that they need is a helluva trip
@LiftingPA81@RigoIrizarry Are you really trying to equate chemotherapy and heart bypasses with the removal of a healthy man's perfectly functional penis?
These people should be receiving the psychological support they need to feel comfortable in the bodies they were born with.
@padelai1981@Jimomthytimbers@villiam_xd The difference between Argentina and the Falkland islands is that the European colonisers of what would be called "Argentina" wanted independence.
If Falkland Islanders wanted independence they could have it too.
When I became a mom to a girl 18 years ago. I never imagined I’d have had to save my daughter from an ideology. The only way to truly be authentic is the removal of your sexual function and body parts. Transgenderism is rooted in homophobia. It is gay conversion.
My daughter was socially transitioned in secret at her high school then without my consent.
This happened when she was 14 at an age where adults insist students should have “privacy,” yet somehow parents are treated like we’re the problem. But I’m her mother. I was not a threat to my child. I’m the person who has loved her, protected her, and raised her, her entire life.
And I didn’t find out because the school sat me down and spoke honestly.
I found out because I saw her name had been changed by her biology teacher in 9th grade. A teacher whose job is literally to teach biological reality.
That moment shattered something in me. Because it wasn’t just about a name. It was about an entire system deciding it could step in, redefine my child, and push her into an opposite-sex category while excluding me from the conversation.
Let me say this clearly:
Social transition is not neutral.
It’s not “ kind.”
It’s an adult decision that changes a child’s social world overnight name, pronouns, peer groups, school records and it can create pressure to “stay consistent” with the new identity, even when the child is unsure or distressed. They lock them in with no off-ramp.
I tried to address it through the normal channels. I asked questions. I requested meetings. I tried to work cooperatively.
The school principal and with the help of the assistant superintendent, Equity person, teachers and local teacher union president. Shut me out!
I had to do what no parent should have to do just to protect their own kid.
I hired a lawyer to stop the social transition.
And here’s the part the adults thinking they are doing something great for the child don't want to hear.
When the adults stopped, my daughter desisted.
When the outside reinforcement stopped, the confusion settled.
When the pressure stopped, she came back to herself.
That is what reality looks like when a family is allowed to do what families are supposed to do: support a child through a hard season without permanently labeling her as something she isn’t.
Some people assume that if you speak up, you must be “far right” a bigot.
I am a lifelong liberal Democrat, and I’m a California native with deep roots. I love my state. California has always been known for tolerance, compassion, and live-and-let-live.
But it has gone too far! With anti parent laws.
Because tolerance should never mean lying to children, excluding parents, or erasing girls.
In our society we also need to be honest about what this has become. This isn’t just a social movement. There are ideological roots here that deserve scrutiny including older attitudes that stigmatized homosexuality, pushed rigid gender stereotypes, and treated bodies like problems to be “fixed.”
Today, it has become a pipeline that conveniently feeds a massive medical and pharmaceutical industry, where lifelong patients mean lifelong profit.
I am one of the lucky ones who got my daughter back. It has crushed me. I am broken. I have compound trauma and trust issues. I have been shunned. Attacked. Even from the people who I love. Friends and family don't talk to me. I am a cyclone of despair, hope and triumph! Grief hangs over my life. I feel lost and found. Humbled to my core. In the chaos of fighting gender. I have also gained the most brilliant and amazing new friends. Out of difficult times comes silver linings. One thing that I never let go of. It was hope.
But, some are not so lucky.
I’m devastated. A good friend and dormmate of mine, Amin Pourfarhang, has been sentenced to death after protesting in Iran 😭 He’s one of the kindest people I’ve ever known.
Please share. Visibility raises the cost for the Islamic Republic and may stop this execution!
@truthache68 I find that most people who interrupt me make incorrect assumptions about what is to follow.
To me in signals impatience and overconfidence.
@JennaFights4You "Transgender woman" is an extremely biased descriptor when we are considering the gender of the person in question. If you cannot see this then you shouldn't have a problem with rephrasing of the question to:
"A trans identifying man is a woman"
@SoulCimmerian@garylfrancione People with intersex conditions should absolutely receive all the support they need to live as the gender that feels most appropriate. However they make up less than 2% of the trans community. 98% are perfectly healthy males or females.
@rejserin Appropriate healthcare should be the support that helps them feel comfortable in their bodies. Surgery and hormones should not be pushed on physically healthy children.