“People are often unreasonable, irrational, and self-centered. Forgive them anyway. If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives. Be kind anyway.”
- Mother Theresa
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I know we’re all tired of being on Zoom, but some important Zoom etiquette reminders:
> everyone wants to see your cat
> don’t just say “my cat is here,” hold your cat up to the camera so we can see it
> when your cat is on camera, either say “cat” or type “cat” in the chat
This happens because the baby is dying, or incompatible with life and often in severe pain,
We know you have been told this. Stop lying. These are children who were wanted, whose parents are filled with grief.
Leave them be.
shout out to all the black and white cats named oreo, all the orange tabbies named tiger, all the grey cats named smokey, all the black cats named shadow, and all the calico cats named patches
I’m a doctor. This executive order is wrong. The President does not have the expertise to make these changes.
Vaccines are overwhelmingly safe. Vaccines are effective. Vaccines DO NOT cause autism.
Breaking up vaccines will mean children have to get more shots to get the same protection, not fewer shots. It will increase hesitancy and make children less safe.
Parents should listen to their child’s pediatrician about vaccines rather than listening to an inaccurate executive order. This is so wrong.
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@27hey7ol This makes no sense because she literally came back into SC face and started yapping before SC even stepped toward her. So not only was it a reaction, it was also a defense to her coming at her
(Avoiding names, the crazies are about)
It's spay day! We have 33 community cats at the Spay Spa & Neuter Nook today for the LC3 community cat care package. They'll all be spayed or neutered, vaccinated for rabies and feline distemper, treated for fleas, ticks, and parasites, microchipped, and they'll get their left ear clipped so everyone can see that they have been fixed and someone is caring for them. We'll post some photos of the kitties later today, there are some beautiful community cats in this group!
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@iamcoachval Also I’m so sorry you’re experiencing this response. It’s unacceptable.
This is a highly charged conversation because even soft spoken efforts to navigate (as you attempted) still provide the false pretense that somehow trans women are dangerous. And result in trans hate
New study finds no clear physical advantage for transgender women over cisgender women in sports.
A major review challenges the claim that transgender women hold a clear physical edge in women’s sports.
After pooling results from 52 studies and thousands of participants, researchers in Brazil reported that transgender women had greater lean mass than cisgender women, but not greater physical capacity.
Across the data they examined, they found no meaningful differences in upper-body strength, lower-body strength, or aerobic fitness between the two groups after hormone therapy.
That does not settle the political fight. It does, however, narrow the scientific one.
The paper, published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine, reviewed research on body composition and physical fitness in transgender people receiving gender-affirming hormone therapy. In their analysis, they covered 6,099 individuals overall. This included 2,566 transgender women, 2,646 transgender men, 442 cisgender women and 445 cisgender men. Forty-two studies were included in the meta-analysis.
Transgender women, the central result was striking in its contrast. Lean mass remained higher than in cisgender women, yet the performance measures most often cited in sports arguments did not show an advantage.
“This refutes the logic behind blanket bans on transgender women in sports,” said Bruno Gualano, a physician and researcher at the University of São Paulo in Brazil who co-authored the study. “Most of these policies are based on the assumption that transgender women retain inherent physical advantages and would therefore dominate women’s competitions. The data does not support this idea.”
The review found that transgender women had higher absolute lean mass than cisgender women, but similar relative lean mass.
It found no significant differences in upper-body strength, lower-body strength, or maximum oxygen consumption, a standard measure of cardiorespiratory fitness.
The authors also looked at how hormone therapy changed the body over time. In transgender women, one year of therapy was associated with increased fat mass, reduced lean mass, and lower upper-body strength. Over one to three years, the pattern pointed in the same direction, though not every measure could be tracked across every time span.
The paper argues that this matters because sports rules often treat muscle mass as a stand-in for performance. The new review suggests that assumption may be too simple.
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i NEED people to STOP comparing dyınġ from poverty to Darwin’s “survival of the fittest.” Poverty is a social construct driven by wealth hoarding in the post industrial age, not by any natural shortage of resources.
Women: i dont really mind trans people😊.
Conservative men:"oh yea well...what if i were to put on a dress and wig and assault you then youd change youre mind on trans people then huh???"
1. She’s been with the same guy for years. There is no reason she couldn’t have had kids yet.
2. She will now require IVF or surrogacy to have a baby, which will always come with ethical and health risks that the baby is forced to bear.
3. It is very rare, even via egg freezing and IVF, that a woman is able get pregnant after 40. Most of the embryos she creates will never see the light of day.
4. Purposely deferring motherhood into her 40s means removing the possibility of her kids knowing their grandparents, and probably removing the possibility of her grandkids knowing her. That is selfish.
5. Freezing your eggs is horrible for your health
6. She’s glamorizing the lie that women can have it all. You can’t. Biology is real and how you order your life makes or breaks your future