This one’s got HUGE serifs.

Yes.

Not most of them. Some, but in my experience most of a subreddit diaspora just lose contact, or find themselves on a centralized, subject-specific site.

I don’t disagree with any of that, but I would say that “trans women are women” is about gender, not sex.

It’s unclear whether sports are segregated on gender or sex lines, but the historical record leans more toward gender segregation than sex segregation. I honestly don’t care enough about any sport to really know the correct way to organize a league, but I do want trans persons to be able to participate in public life, including sport, as safely as anyone else. I’d mostly be in favor of no division based on sex or gender, but people that are more interested in sport than I tell me that’s bad and unsafe.

Yeah, a lot of these I’d have upvoted here indivudally, but even with UBO blocking a lot, this article just looks like it wants to open a pop-under that looks suspiciously like a Win10 dialog box.

I remember some authority mentioning that our Jacobson’s organ is present, but all the passageways to it are closed up. This likely means since the sense wasn’t present during early brain development, even if we attempted to use it (making / opening passageways) it likely would be a very dulled sensation, if anything.

Agreed. I know with mandated reporting it’s not necessarily super safe to count on doctor-patient confidentiality, but I still try to be honest with all my medical providers and I know I’m more honest with them than with some blood relations. Also, same here as a 46yo, white, cis, male in Arkansas – most medical people do it out of a sense of community service (it’s not like the big bucks come from here) and try to remain non-judgemental.

Unfortunately, more projects should get this “in writing”. GNU projects prefer copyright assignment, but (I think) many of them also accept just a clear licensing statement (“This is mine and no one else’s; I give it under the project license.” but in legalese).

If there’s no clear statement, a judge many very well issue a preliminary injunction against the project distribution, just so they have time to gather and review evidence, even if the actions of the contributor are later found to show intent. With a dated statement containing the contributor identifier(s), a judge is much more likely to accept an initial motion to dismiss (even with prejudice).

I think that is most often true. However, there are risks to being outed if you are stealth and those risks could be more significant than the risks of being treated as the gender you present than as the gender you were assigned an birth.

The treatment of a broken bone is largely independent of the mix of sex hormones, presence or absence of sex-differentiated organs, or gender presentation now or at the moment of birth, but can still involve an ambulance ride and a hospital visit. I’d hope our medical system would be trans-safe enough that disclosure would be a strict positive, but I don’t know that’s the case, and I would defer to the patient’s judgement about whether to disclose or not for whatever reasons (including but not limited to safety and comfort).

THANK you. The punchline was right there.

Purity testing is a good thing. We do it for basically everything we eat or drink. If I’m expected to swallow a politician’s BS, I’m allowed to purity test it, and them by implication.

(But, I’m also a strategic voter; I’ll gladly vote for a lesser evil if I think it is likely to prevent a greater evil.)

Even tho both are AMAB, a trans woman’s biology is quite different from a cis male biology. I mean, the whole reason HRT works is because is biology. I don’t have numbers to back this up, but I think medication and surgical history are much more significant factors than gender-assigned-at-birth, those I can see the presence or absence of sex-differentiated organs (both internal and external) could be as relevant as surgical history.

Anyway “trans women are biological males” is certainly wrong, and it is mostly likely a “dog whistle” version of “gender transition is a myth”. And, while “trans women are women” might not be full of every possible nuance, as a 4-word phrase it is accurate enough for me.

I always enjoyed opening them as a kid. The pop was just as satisfying as a jack in the box, plus in a few minutes there’d be hot biscuits.

Make sure the pieces are styled to remind one of necessary body parts, too. (Tho, operation was a bit “metaphorical” with things like “water on the knee”.)

I remember reading a story about someone that called 911 from their car thinking they had been shot and their brain was leaking out. Turned out some biscuits had violently popped, threw one at the back of their head, and when it hit they instinctively grabbed for it, and were holding the biscuit against their head, convinced it was their brain matter.

It was purported as true at the time, but I have a lot of doubts – probably just one of the many urban legends that got passed around last century.

Stop the movie! He’s broken in halve!

Rent-seeking behavior will be the death of Capitalism.

Well, I wasn’t going to see it, but now I guess I have to. :P

So the meek are dependent upon the benevolence and excess production of the strong.

Yes, society only has excess production to spend. This is true in any system.

That’s also my number. Anything over 1M$ should go out to supporting independent creators, mutual aid, or community-focused non-for-profit donations. Wish I had a job and was still making progress toward that number. :(

Yep, if I was given a billion dollars, I’d immediately start my work on making 990+ millionaires (or 1M$ donations to community service/support organizations).