Viridian Lakes

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Writer for What The Trans?!, bnuuy fan, generally silly person

Rhoades Ha also disputed criticism that the Times fails to include transgender voices in its coverage. "When a story is focused on trans issues and people, we include the perspectives of trans people and always try to have their voices quoted in the piece," she said. “However, stories that briefly mention a topic may not have a voice from a specific group."
Wizard says "There is no meme, I hope you heal from the things you don't talk about."
Skinny Puppy - Too Dark Park
Our assessment is therefore that the likely impacts on gender reassignment as a characteristic are negative, in relation to each of the 3 limbs of the PSED. Mitigating factors are the ability of service providers to create 'third-space' provision for trans people, and the guidance in the Code on when it is, and is not, proportionate and necessary to request information on sex at birth.
From linked article: Sussex University has overturned a £585,000 fine from England's higher education watchdog after the high court rejected claims that the university breached free speech regulations in a case involving its former professor Kathleen Stock. The ruling is a damaging blow to the credibility and management of the Office for Students as the court rejected the regulator's lengthy investigation involving Stock's resignation in 2021, which followed protests over her views on transgender rights and gender identity.
If the situation was hopeless their propaganda would be unnecessary
Batman: The Dark Knight Returns panel. "This is the weapon of the enemy. We do not need it. We will not use it."
From the linked article: Under Donald Trump, the US has repeatedly rejected international efforts to advance gender equality, while advancing its own anti-rights agenda, through the anti-abortion Geneva Consensus declaration and an expanded "global gag rule", for example. Such actions have been welcomed by ultra-conservative groups, such as the Centre for Family and Human Rights (C-Fam), one of the powerful anti-rights bodies that will be lobbying the UN at CSW this week. In an email headlined "5,000 gender lunatics descending on the UN", the C-Fam president, Austin Ruse, called on followers for donations to support their cause: "We are up against the full weight of the UN bureaucracy. We must ensure the document under negotiation does not contain language that threatens the family, the unborn child and our understanding of the human person."
Another tell-tale sign, present at birth, may be a slight enlargement of the clitoris, insignificant in itself, but enough to lead the alert physician to make further diagnostic investigations. In a very small number of re-corded cases, the clitoral organ may be large enough that, in combination with the fact that the testes can be palpated in the groins, the physician may decide the baby should be declared a boy, and surgically corrected as much as possible as a boy. From puberty on, these boys are imprisoned in a body that develops like that of a female and absolutely refuses to masculinize despite all therapeutic efforts, however heroic. The breasts can be removed surgically, of course, but it is impossible to induce deepening of the voice and masculine hair distribution. A particularly disheartening feature of failure to masculinize is that it also creates the impression of failure to age in appearance and look mature enough for one's age. As a husband, if a man with this condition surmounts the obstacles of his physique and sexual anatomy and gets married, he may scarcely be able to cope with the indignity of being mistaken for his wife's son.
The reproductive anatomy is dimorphic. Therefore, it is foreordained, if a species is to reproduce, that sexual behavior must be sexually dimorphic enough to permit conception to take place. It would not much matter whether, instead of the copulatory act as we know it, the male should take his sperm to the female in a membranous bubble, or whether the female's egg, attached to an ovidepositor, should temporarily inhabit a sperm chamber in the male. The issue is whether the male and the female each carry out their complement of behavior appropriately. Assuming that they do, then the issue becomes one of the origin of the dimorphism or complementarity of their behavior.
On the basis of this declaration, the sex of rearing may mistakenly be assigned as male. The mistake is tragic when the phallus is only an enlarged clitoris in size, for it cannot be repaired surgically into a functional penis. It is preferable, in such cases, to assign the baby as a girl and to direct surgical correction and pubertal hormonal therapy as for a female. The wisdom of such a decision is reinforced if the case proves to be one of androgen insensitivity, and unable to respond to injections of male sex hormone, at the time of puberty. Such cases are doubly tragic, in adulthood, when the person has been reared as a male and has differentiated the gender identity of a male, for he is not only incapable of functioning sexually, but also of maturing and aging physically as a male so as to look his age.
Despite the absence of a direct cause-and-effect relationship between the events or products of embryonic and fetal differentiation of the organs of generation and the ultimate gender identity, the indirect effects and long-term repercussions are enormously important. To spell out the complexities and details of these effects and repercussions is part of the purpose of the chapters which follow. To begin, it is necessary to summarize how embryonic development actually takes place.
The significance of a style of rearing that allows ordinary boys and girls to become acquainted, unostentatiously, with the facts of nudity and repro-duction is even more evident by its absence in the rare case of a her-maphroditic child raised in secrecy, prudery, and without early corrective surgery. When physicians fail to schedule first-stage corrective genital surgery for a hermaphroditic infant, it usually means that they have covertly postponed a fixed commitment to the sex of rearing because they do not feel secure in committing themselves to one decision or the other. The experts' uncertainty is rapidly conveyed to the parents whose own equivocation is then covertly transmitted to the child, as contagiously as though it were rubella. Small wonder, then, that the child may reach the stage of wondering whether older people are all knaves and fools. By the laws of binary arithmetic, if one claim is wrong, then perhaps the other is correct. The dilemma of uncertainty may thus lead to a child's growing con-viction that this uncertainty can be resolved only by changing to live as a member of the other sex. A child so affected may become a good candidate for sex reassignment, whether chromosomal and gonadal sex agree with the reassigned sex or not.
What is difficult and very difficult indeed for a young child, is to have a father (or a mother) who switches roles. Some cases have been re corded of a transexual father who naively believed that he could, after reassignment, return to his family, playing the role of aunt to his own children. In other cases, the transexual father knows that it is in his young children's best interest if he separates from them and does not burden them with his gender problem. Those parents most likely to burden their children with blurring of gender differences are transvestite fathers. Their compulsion to impersonate a woman may be so overpowering that they may not effectively hide it from their children. In some cases, the children may be obliged to play elaborate deceits, addressing their father in public as a woman. His impersonation may be so effective that a younger child will have no way of ascribing male sexual status to his father in female dress, unless he knows that the penis, though covered by the clothing, is still the final arbiter
Genital morphology completes its program-bearing work by passing the program on, first to those adult individuals who are responsible for sex assignment and rearing the child as a boy or girl, and later to the child in person as he, or she, perceives the genital organs.
Cover of Man & Woman, Boy & Girl by John Money
By the time his world record was broken in 1960, Koubek was too tired of his track and field trophies to care. He dumped all the medals he'd won into the trash can.
The Trump administration has made free speech, particularly what it sees as the stifling of conservative voices online, a focus of its foreign policy including in Europe and in Brazil. Europe's approach to free speech differs from the U.S., where the Constitution protects virtually all expression. The European Union's limits grew from efforts to fight any resurgence of extremist propaganda that fueled Nazism including its vilification of Jews, foreigners and minorities.
From article: Asked about why the number of children and young people who have gender dysphoria is increasing, Cass said it was "complex" but there was a different cultural context, with people "less locked into gender stereotypes". "I think what has kind of misled children is the belief that if you are not a typical girl, if you like playing with trucks, or boys who like dressing up or that you have same-sex attraction that means that you're trans and actually it's not like that but those are all normal variations," she said. "I think children and young people were being given a narrative that it's not okay to be anything but absolutely typical of the other girls on Instagram."
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Fritts' stance in parental rights: Parental Rights and Personal Freedoms – He emphasizes Tennesseans' rights to make their own decisions on medical care, healthcare, and parenting, opposing government overreach in these areas. [18]
The reason that trans people relayed dubious tales of illness and spontaneous bodily transformations was that their access to healthcare depended on it. Social acceptance necessitated retrofitting their lives into simple narratives that the public could understand. Often, that meant focusing on biology-explaining not that they felt psychologically like a certain gender, but rather that their physical body had shifted in some consequential way.
Excerpt from Jamie Paul's Substack: The political right’s legislative anti-trans crusade was only just getting started — by 2023 they’d be pushing bills by the hundreds. But for now, this early backlash was largely unsuccessful. Few of the bills passed. Some that did, such as the one in North Carolina, were repealed shortly thereafter. The conservative culture warriors driving these efforts were regarded as bigoted busibodies at odds with public opinion. As a 2016 poll from the Public Religion Research Institute found, only 35 percent of Americans supported these bathroom bills. Even among Republicans, support stood at just 44 percent. The prevailing attitude at the time was “Just leave these people alone to live their lives.”
The Women's World Games turned Hitomi into a star. The Washington Post and The New York Times soon devoted articles to her, though in their obsession, shades of racism were apparent. The British press dubbed her "the brilliant little Japanese athlete"; a German newspaper was shocked to see that Hitomi had a "splendid body no different from those of female athletes from Europe and America." 10 Speculation about her biological sex was not out of bounds, either. Starting in 1926, gossip magazines repeated an anecdote from Hitomi's high school years, in which a swim coach had refused to let her join a women's swimming competition out of concern that she was a man. The a Japanese same year, commentator wrote admiringly of Hitomi's physically masculine characteristics. Noting that Hitomi had arms and legs "stronger than those of most men," the writer declared that "it would be difficult to find such proportions, even among a hundred
Quite from article of a Fox interview with Mace
Text of the Wikipedia page on Douthat's views.
From article: (Caption: At the age of 17, Carolyn Mercer confided to a local priest that she felt female rather than male) Carolyn Mercer, 78, says she has always felt female despite being born male and having lived most of her life as a man. At the age of 17, Carolyn confided to a local priest that she felt female rather than male and was sent to Blackburn Hospital for electric shock treatment. "My hand shot up in the air, pain racked through my body, tears rolled down my face," she said. "That treatment wasn't any sort of therapy. It was cruel, barbaric punishments - torture, not therapy."
Video on Marxism hanging on an ad because it isn't loading and can't be skipped.
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Portion of article describing men and women's breast tissue as "similar".
The smart one
NYT headline "How the Senate voted on the failed effort to prevent a government shutdown"
From linked article: In a presentation to a scientific panel in the Japanese capital on Friday, Dr Stéphane Bermon, head of health and science at World Athletics, outlined why the sport's governing body believes such screens are necessary as he presented data collected over the past 25 years. He said it showed that athletes with differences of sex development (DSD), who have a 46 XY karyotype with male testes but were reported female at birth, were significantly "over-represented" in major finals and that it "compromises the integrity of the female competitions". "Everyone is watching World Athletics and we are leading in this area," Bermon said before telling his audience that there were "approximately 50-60 cases of DSD in athletics".