Re: OT: Trans Day of Visibility 2025 AMA

On Mon, 31 Mar 2025 17:24:37 -0400, the following appeared
in talk.origins, posted by Kestrel Clayton
<richZIG.e.clayZIGton@gmail.com>:

On 31-Mar-25 02:00, jillery wrote:

On Sun, 30 Mar 2025 22:00:04 -0400, Kestrel Clayton
<richZIG.e.clayZIGton@gmail.com> wrote:
 
 

The last day of March is the Transgender Day of Visibility, a day to
improve awareness of transgender people, to draw attention to the
challenges and oppression we face, and help people understand us better.
The TDoV is more important than ever in 2025, as the Trump
Administration has put us squarely in its target sights.
>
One of the ways I can fight for my existence, and that of several of my
friends and loved ones, is by being visible as myself, answering
questions, and demystifying trans people.
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I am a transgender woman. I am visible. Ask me anything.

 
 
While I am sympathetic to your stated goal, I would feel even more
positive toward your OP if you made even a token effort to present it
in a way that's on-topic to T.O.; ex. document non-binary sexual
behavior in other species, or explain how transgender people provide
adaptive benefits to human societies.

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I thought it might be of interest to the group generally, as
talk.origins has always had a secondary purpose of identifying and
countering authoritarian attempts to overrule science — the why of
creationism, so to speak, in addition to the how. The current
Administration's war on "gender ideology" is a cousin of creationism and
intelligent design; it's bread and circuses to keep the rubes distracted
while the oligarchs pick their pockets.
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In addition, I've been posting here on and off for 30 years now, and
many of you feel like people I've known for a very long time. Perhaps
not friends, precisely, but long-time neighbors of whom I've grown very
fond. I thought you might be interested. My sincere apologies if the
general consensus is this is inappropriate for talk.origins.
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Don't worry about it; this group has posts about everything
from Flat Earth and Expanding Earth nutters to serious
issues of astrophysics and cosmology, with no complaints. A
post such as yours is not a problem.

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