Re: OT: Cracking Speech by JDV!

On 20/02/2025 5:51 am, John Larkin wrote:

On Wed, 19 Feb 2025 18:40:08 +0000, liz@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid
(Liz Tuddenham) wrote:
 

Don Y <blockedofcourse@foo.invalid> wrote:
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On 2/19/2025 3:51 AM, Liz Tuddenham wrote:

bitrex <user@example.net> wrote:

The idea that a man who has the appearance of a woman could easily enter
a woman's bathroom and engage in nefarious activities drives even some
of my better-educated American relatives and associate into conniptions
of hand wringing.

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It's a primitive fear that is drummed into women from an early age and
it's not uncommon in men either.  As soon as the spectre is raised of a
predatory man being present when you are at your most vulnerable, all
logical thought is suppressed.  That is what they are playing on.

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And, what was the reason for fearing blacks, mexicans, homosexuals,
etc?

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If the bigots who are currenly spouting anti-trans rhetoric were to
substitue the word 'black' for 'transgender', their true nature would be
more obvious and fewer people would be fooled.
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It may only be a matter of time before they start targeting other
minority groups- then America will have rolled back over 150 years of
civilisation.

 Puberty is stressful. Lots of people will prescribe hormones or
surgery to confused kids. Some people are genuinely different,
chromosomes or enzymes and such, but the current trans fad is hugely
bigger.

Or so it seems to you, a gullible sucker for all kinds of right-wing propaganda. Everybody - except identical twins - is genuinely different from everybody else. There are about a million different single nucleotide polymorphism in the human genome which allow a much larger number of different combinations of these polymorphisms.
Some of them seem to leave people unhappy with the sex chromosomes they have got. One can make people insensitive to testosterone, so they can grow up with a perfectly female body even through they have one X chromosome and one Y chromosome. It's very rare, but it does happen
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Androgen_insensitivity_syndrome
The underlying mutation shows up in between one in 20,000 males births and one in 64,000 and doesn't always produce complete insensitivity.

Partly driven by smart phones and medical providers and
politics.

There are always crooked doctors who will milk their patients.

And a mediocre male athelete can put on a dress and be instantly a
superstar in girls sports.

Not that you can cite a single example.
--
Bill Sloman, Sydney