The medical and psychiatric establishments are in lockstep that gender dysphoria is not a mental illness, but those of us with thinking brains know it is.
I'd like to see how "woke" the WNBA becomes when a man starts playing in their league.
"Research highlights
► Gender identity and sexual orientation are permanently programmed in the fetal brain. ► Testosterone in the fetal stage determines sexual differentiation of the human brain. ► The degree of genital masculinization does not necessarily reflect that of the brain. ► No evidence indicates social environment affect gender identity or sexual orientation. ► Sex differences in the brain determine sex-specific prevalence of brain disorders."
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Science requires more than "Feelings"...please show any studies that refute the above findings.
They have come to a conclusion first and then reach for anything and everything to "prove" it.
It's simple. If you were born with a penis you are male and if you were born with a vagina you are female. Case closed. Any attempt to refute this is laughable.
I'm not saying it's not possible for a male to prefer things and activities that generally females prefer. What I'm saying is that certain constraints imposed by society imply that the male MUST in fact be female if they have such preferences, and the person erroneously buys into this myth and mistakenly believes he, indeed, must really be female.
Now, that's logic and reason, something most of the "expert" sources you continually cite sorely lack.
genetics...epi-genetics...hormones....they develop separately from other parts of our bodies...sexual "Identity" occurs in the brain...in utero and in neo-natal environments...
These studies have been going on for decades...they involve scientists doing objective studies that are subject to peer review for accuracy and logic.
Sorry, but the world isn't a simple as you'd like it to be.
this excerpt from the 'Abstract'...
"There is no evidence that one’s postnatal social environment plays a crucial role in gender identity or sexual orientation. "
Now, it is scientifically appropriate for someone to present a study that counters this assertion...that's how we get to the truth of any matter...please provide one...i.e. not just your gut instinct, or a statement to the effect..."Well, everybody knows...".
Link: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0091302211000252?via%3Dihub
…..they have been co-opting it for about the last 30 years. One of the Left’s first targets was the DSM in psychiatry.
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Exploitation of young fragile minds.
If you can afford it, Catholic schools are worth it.
On one hand, posters bitch about intrusions on your personal space amidst a global deadly pandemic, …. yet we see thread after thread where posters want to judge and intrude upon other people’s most intimate and personal space.
Unlike COVID, transgender identity is not contagious.
has nothing to do with personal space. This has everything to do with a man competing against women in sports. But as long as people like you continue to defend this dude, it's only going to get worse. That is until it happens to you or someone close to you. Just ask Pat Forde who has been really quiet since this guy beat his daughter.
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I am calling out the posters who are consumed with condemning transgender people generally.
Make trans their own category of competition if you like, but don’t pretend that this is about what he does to himself privately. We aren’t discussing any of the other trans who are NOT cheating the women’s athletics system, are we?
that being said, many people who support the concept of transgender girls competing with cisgender girls agree that the rules as they stand need to be changed, and that if they are, then Lia Thomas would very likely NOT be allowed to compete..and I agree with that.
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that she followed those rules...therefore, any assertion that she "lied" is a fabrication...
You may have 'your own' rules, but Lia followed the NCAA's rules...pretty simple assessment.
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...away with murder.
reading...hopefully a link or two that I've provided for easy access. It isn't about what YOU SEE...it's about what THEY PERCEIVE..and the majority of scientific evidence points toward pre-natal biological changes producing that perception...not environmental factors after birth.
Lia Thomas perceives herself to be female...and a competitive swimmer...she followed the NCAA rules in order to continue compete as a female...totally logical...and since she doesn't make the rules, there is no possibility of her cheating...simple as that.
...afraid to rule, what you wish to attempt to justify, or what standard I may, or may not be, better or worse than.
The objective reality is that here we have a biological male competing against biological females. That is patently unfair and an unfair advantage.
Pretending otherwise doesn't change that reality.
physical advantages...but that's just due to her transitioning "after puberty"...I'd be surprised if she could ever compete fairly, but I...as well as noted swimmers Donna De Varona and Nancy Hogshead-Makar...agree that with proper rules being established it might be possible...more to the point though, since science is showing us that nearly all people who seek transgender assistance are 'formed' in-utero by various influences (hormones, epi-genetics, etc.) on their brains, that is what affects their "perception" and behavior...for instance...all of us get sexually aroused by our BRAIN CHEMISTRY...not by our physical body formation...I'll leave that analogy there to avoid censorship ;-)...but really, that's where the focus needs to be in all of this...not the simple observation of genitals, but rather an appreciation of the primary driver of sex and sexuality...our brains.
Can you accept this?
Horny kid dresses as a cheerleader to nail chicks. Gender dysphoria, my balls (HA!) Pfft!
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He pretended to be gay but was still pulling major tail at the Regal Beagle.
Life imitating art I guess.
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The lines will only continue to blur. A few generations from now, gender may not even be a binary construct or continuum.
Just look at Television. In my lifetime we’ve gone from Lucy & Ricky sleeping in separate beds to every prime time show having at least one LBGTQ+ character, and usually at least one same sex kiss per episode.
contagion, thus the extraordinary explosion among teenage girls. They are mostly kids already on the periphery, and within public schools, there are teachers and counselors who actively search out such kids and isolate them from their peers. I've witnessed it firsthand, and there are now recordings of meetings among such teachers where they explicitly state their goal of recruiting these types of kids.
They appear to be overplaying their hand with their demands of sports. Ultimately, it will have to be women who stand up and say that enough is enough, and refuse to buckle to the slurs that will be hurled against them.
Is the right word. It’s a socially created phenomenon.
At some point, sanity, logic, reason and facts have to take control. But apparently 2022 is not the time.
We have too many homeless and incarcerated to deal with,
AND no one dares open the pandora's box over the etiology of the myriad forms of human sexual perversion.
It ain't genetic pals.
I swear, the Rs are going to screw up the midterms if that's the last thing they do.