My pronouns are I and me, the only ones I use about myself. I'm content for you to address me directly as 'you'. What you call me in my absence is your concern.
Hitler believed in the superiority of the Aryan race. I don't.
Hitler also believed in the economic benefits of a modern motorway system. So do I.
If the latter makes you think I'm a Nazi, you're a fool to be mocked then ignored.
@lozbian40@mrstomlinstan@JeanHatchet Then don't give him any yourself. But those who give can give as they wish, and he can use it as he wishes.
The primary victims of transactivist bullshit are women. But they are not the only victims, and Graham doesn't need anyone's permission to act given what he has suffered.
@brett0769 @fightwithmemes Indeed.
And if students started loudly walking out of a biology class, or an archeology class, or history class, because they didn't want to hear reality that conflicted with their 'beliefs' - and tried to cut the sound system as they left - they would be rightly castigated.
Really, Stella?
So the "work on sport, biology and prison reform" has to wait because some women happen to like that Trump has acted on those things?
Sounds suspiciously like pure spitefulness from you there.
FWIW agree work to do on sport and biology, prison reform - and why we demonise those who are different to ourselves to our shared detriment.
But thereβs little point talking if you see this moment of fundamental peril to all womenβs freedoms and choose to indulge Trump.
@NickBailey596 @Hard_garbage @SwipeWright@NotMaryAnnObv "Sex is generally defined by which gamete an organism produces"
That's not QUITE right though, is it - after all, organisms that have developed the phenotype associated with a gamete have developed a sex even if they don't personally produce the gamete associated with that sex.
@Hard_garbage @SwipeWright@NotMaryAnnObv > is a classification of development having taken place, not predicted to take place. It's a bit pedantic, but, strictly the undifferentiated embryo does not yet have a sex, because it has not yet developed, although it may be destined to have a specific sex.
@Hard_garbage @SwipeWright@NotMaryAnnObv It's pretty straightforward.
Potential sex is not sex, it's potential.
Theoretically (though not yet in practice), you could have an SRY gene artificially fully disabled pharmaceutically, causing an 46 XY embryo not to develop as male.
Every zygote has a potential sex, but sex>
@CassieDebus@runthinkwrite@Ashworth101 It is worth noting the standard dope testing procedure that every elite athlete must sign up to is significantly MORE invasive, with an actual person watching the point of the urine leave your body (you can thank cheats with urine bags and fake willys for that one)
@CassieDebus@runthinkwrite@Ashworth101 ...and need never consider it again, perhaps with a single testosterone check.
for those who come a cropper at this point, there are still a variety of tests that do not require humiliating examination, but can be done fully or mostly clothed using standard scanning equipment.
@SophyRidgeSky A bit, but more that, for the first time really ever, in a GE the Tories lost the 'unity bonus' they've enjoyed on the right, the huge Lib Dem surge a notable consequence of same. Allowed Labour to profit from mid 30s vote thecway tories could in past.