Love what you do! Do what you love! Love life! Live and let Live. Be nice, Respect, Donโt be afraid to offend ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ๐ฌ๐ง๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐ซ๐ท๐ช๐บ We are all Human
@benonwine My local council swung over to the Lib Dem 3years ago, there has been a positive change in the borough, after the neglect of the tories.
People just need to vote if they want change
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For goodness sake, when a meal is ordered, how hard is it to send the drinks. My order is always messed up and missing something I have paid for when I get it delivered.
We wouldnโt have a country or language
The celts
The romans
The Vikings
The Anglo Saxons
And the Norman
Weโre all illegal immigrates that came over on small boats!
Itโs thanks to the Anglo Saxons that we even have the word England!! 2/2
Now everyone who has been through the British educational system should know their over the last few thousand years this island for our has seen its fair share of visitors. But one thing some people have forgotten is that if it wasnโt for the following groups 1/2
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Please stop saying that PIP claimants are stuck on benefits and need to get back to work. Not all PIP claimants are out of work. PIP give many the means they need to get to work and live a full life!
I HATE having to address transgender issues, but the bad-faith ignorance is astounding.๐งต
My feed has been filled with conservatives attacking transgenderism as a mental illness with no legit biological basis. Which is medically, demonstrably FALSE. Yes, transgender women are obviously not biologically identical to cis women. However, most also are not biologically identical to cis men either.
Countless, broadly accepted medical studies have found that most transgender individuals have brain anatomy and functioning โ and often hormonal, chromosomal, and genetic traits โ that more closely match their experienced gender. My Substack post in my pinned tweet links to dozens of these medical studies.
The conservatives yelling โthatโs impossible because male and female brains are fully identical in design and function" are not only clearly, biologically, wrong, but also hypocritical. The longstanding conservative belief in โgender essentialismโ centers around such brain differences as the basis for male masculine vs. female feminine personalities โ as they remind us every time a liberal mom tries to raise her baby boy with barbie dolls to reject masculinity. If conservatives suddenly believe that the brain is genderless, then they are endorsing the more radical leftist idea that male masculinity and female femininity are entirely social constructs that can be erased anytime. Any takers on that theory? I didnโt think so.
Typical male and female brains contain subtle but real differences. And because our genes contain a full blueprint for both male and female development, it is possible even for some people with XX or XY genes to experience chemical changes in the womb that alter some of the gender development signals, particularly to the brain.
This all relates to the assertion that transgender people โlive under the delusion that they can change their sex.โ No, we donโt. The point is that most transgender people were already born with biological differences relative to cisgender people. They arenโt trying to โchange their sexโ because, biologically, they never completely developed as the other sex to begin with.
As a trans person, I did not wake up and decide to โchange my sex.โ I knew from age 4 that something was off with my gender, and later participated in several gender medical studies that confirmed a more female brain chemistry/architecture/functioning, hormone levels, and other biological characteristics. Most people who transition are merely aligning the rest of their body with other observable biological gender aspects (mostly in the brain) that emerged before birth.
So, no, a trans woman is not the same as a cis woman. But she is probably not biologically identical to a cis male either. While the scientific discoveries continue to evolve (particularly in identifying the key genes), it has been firmly, medically established that transgenderism does indeed have an observable, biological basis. So it would be nice if more of the conservatives (and some liberals) who pride themselves on โstanding up for truth and basic gender scienceโ actually bothered to read and understand the scientific research.
And if you are too invested in hating trans people to accept that gender science is more complicated than the simplified model you learned in 10th grade biology, well, as conservatives love to remind everyone else, โfacts donโt care about your feelings.โ