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And yet this is far bigger than Biden. These problems would be happening regardless of who is in office. America isn't special and it isn't insulated from global issues.
Way to ignore this administration's contributions to the problem.
Bizarre.
Not usually, although some do.
And no, once again, if civilization collapsed they would be eaten by others. You are not alone in this world. You are not the only one with a gun or a fishing rod.
There are a LOT of hunters that do not live in the country. And not all farmers hunt. You seem to have a strange belief about people that live in cities. Too bad that you do not have the experience of living in the city and living in the country. You appear to have only one perspective.
Even people living in the larger towns that I've met are not as trustworthy as your average redneck, in my experience. The larger the town, the more likely they are to be people who care little about helping others. Locally, I can't think of hardly any country people I would not trust to have my back, even if they are a little rough. The city transplants I'm just not sure about. If things go bad, the locals will band together and help the less fortunate. When the same thing happens in cities, you see a lot of people just living out survival of the fittest and taking what they want.
You are still living in a fantasy. If society comes to an end we are all toast. Anyone suspected of having a hidden stash is more at risk than others.
And that's what your atheism gives you, no hope in the goodness of humanity.
No. Atheism gives one reality. One can understand that "prepping" is a negative activity when it comes to society. Atheist know what we have to work our problems out ourselves. Our invisible friend is not going to help us.
Nonsense. If you are prepared you can help others. This is just common sense that our grandparents understood. They had a root cellar and a woodshed and a smokehouse because they knew that having enough food to get you through the winter was just smart planning. Somehow we have become so dumb that we mock people for having some extra recourses in case the grocery store isn't available, in case the gas station doesn't have gas, and so on.
That is just an excuse that you give yourself. Your earlier attitude was "it's all mine". Unless you have warehouses of food you can't help anyone, you can only be a target.
Ha, it is Christians who believe in Armageddon. And why do Christians think it is just? Because humanity is rotten.
Nope. That's sex.
What you have just described is entirely what gender is.
Since we're talking about gender, which is a sociological - not a physical - phenomena, limiting ourselves to discussions of only the physical means are not actually talking about the same thing.
Nature doesn't assign gender. Nature assigns sex. We assign gender. Gender is a form of social expression that is often associated with sex, but is not entirely related.
This is still false no matter how many times you repeat it.
All gender is artificially produced. That's why it's a social construct.
Since there is no moral issue with allowing people to change or identify as certain genders, I fail to see how this hand-wringing is relevant.
Except dysmorphia is not a requirement to be trans. Dysmorphia is a product of self-identification clashing with expectations and self-perception. It is a consequence of rigid social expectations on gender, not a natural dysfunction of the brain.
Sure. But this is also true of trans people. People can look at their own body and identify it as "lacking" or "wrong" in some fundamental way. As a gender abolitionist, I see this as a symptom of a societal ill that the sociological concept of gender forces on people.
This is just a baseless statement.
See, the words "normal" and "normalcy" are doing a lot of work in this statement. Not too long ago, "normal" also meant "straight", and anyone who exhibited "non-straight" tendencies would have been considered in the exact same terms - as a person with something wrong with them that requires correction in order to render them "normal". See also the history of racism, in which it was often decreed that "white" was the "normal" (or, to be more accurate, "preferred") state that all other races needed to aspire to build towards or be considered lesser. In the case of trans people, the "normal" that we should be referring to is NORMALIZATION, i.e: the idea that being trans is socially accepted, in much the same way that homosexuality is (in some places...). The dysfunctions that often coincide with being trans are not an inherent facet of being trans, but most often a result of conditions brough about by social pressure and exclusion - in much the same way that the higher rates of depression and suicide in homosexuals isn't due to some "inherent self-hate gene" within gay people, but a result of gay people simply experiencing way more exclusion, cruelty and other factors that can lead to poor mental health than straight people.
Agreed. Which is why I support science in its current understanding of trans people, and its consensus opinion on gender-affirming care.
This is literally true of any kind of care or therapy. Again, once you get rid of the idea that trans = abnormal, you can deal with this incongruity quite easily.
Once again, your prescription on this matter isn't really relevant because you're talking about a complex issue with medical expertise and treatment that are far more nuanced and complicated than you think. And yet I doubt you would have this level of concern over therapy for depression, or invasive treatment for paediatric cancer. I advise you speak to an actual doctor who is knowledgeable about the issue, because I cannot allay your fears in this regard beyond assuring you that the experts involved aren't determining the best course of treatment arbitrarily.
This is simply not true. Gender-affirming care and social acceptance of homosexuality DECREASE suicide rates.
Homophobia and transphobia.
Once again, the disorder is not "being trans". The disorder is the dysphoria. The treatment for that is gender-affirming care.
Once again, you're going to have to direct these queries at the entire field of medicine.
You're right. Going through a male puberty statistically makes an individual far more likely to identify as male regardless of whether or not that is actually true or beneficial to them - and it also results in a lot of trans people, who have been forced through a male puberty, find it almost impossible to correct themselves, leading to significantly worse mental health and suicide statistics. The fact that puberty has this impact is exactly why delaying it can be helpful to a trans person. There is absolutely zero evidence that puberty blockers result in some kind of bias towards "becoming" trans.
Nope. In the vast majority of cases, adulthood is a legal distinction defined by age, not puberty. When you're buying alcohol or buying your first car, they don't typically ask to have a look down your pants to see if you're packing pubic hairs before making the sale.
Yes.
Based on...?
See above.
Once again, I am bewildered by the fact that a few posts ago you displayed total ignorance of gender affirming care, and now suddenly you're an expert on sexual development.
You seem confused. Delaying puberty doesn't "inform" them. It gives them time to BECOME informed.
Again, that is not the point of puberty blockers.
Gee, that sure would be bad. Good thing we have doctors, psychologists and all manner of other experts available whose whole job is to not let that happen.
You don't know what an ad hominem is.I see your resorting to ad hominin attacks more often.
No, it doesn't. What we identify as and what we normalize are two different things. A person can identify with a gender without adhering to any of the things we consider "normal" to associate with that particular gender. It's purely a matter of self-identification.
Again, you might as well be asking how we identify paediatric bipolar disorder, or autism, or how we determine specialized care, or who belongs in remedial or advanced classes. I suggest you ask the medical experts, because this is an extremely complicated subject with literally millions of different, individual cases. There is no simple yardstick doctors use to separate the "trans" from the "not trans".
Good thing we assign many experts to determining it and then allowing each individual to make determinations for themselves.
My gender was assigned at birth. All through my life I was told I was a boy. Nobody ever told me I could be a girl if I wanted, or that I could wear dresses, or like dolls, or do anything specifically associated with being female. This was actively discouraged in me from birth.
Being trans isn't a disease. And the fact that we seek to eliminate pain and stress is exactly why we do gender affirming care with trans people and why we should normalized being trans.
So you're just going to stick your fingers in your ears and ignore all of the studies that show that pre-and-post transition trans people have significantly different suicide rates? That gender-affirming care can reduce suicidality in trans people to as much as 1/17th of its previous number?
Mental Health Outcomes in Transgender and Nonbinary Youths Receiving Gender-Affirming Care - PubMed
Then you ought to be happy, since you are wrong. It is not dangerous. And unless you believe all of medicine is engaged in some kind of conspiracy, its methodology is sound.
Unless they receive proper care. In which case every study I have seen shows a decrease.
Good thing the evidence is contrary to that.
Please learn what "gender" is. You are not "born into" a gender. You are confusing sex and gender.
The difference being that people aren't born smoking, and smoking isn't something that people can't do anything about, and smokers aren't hated to the extent that they are constantly under threat of violence, social isolation and arrest around the world simply for something they cannot help.
Not always. For example, your dislike of smokers is perfectly reasonable. It's your dislike of an innate facet of certain people because of things that they cannot control that negative labels are attached to you.
Then be relieved, because you're just wrong.
I, too, go to Reddit for all my extensive medical studies and case reviews.
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We believe that God will remake this world and that a large segment of humanity will continue.
I’m a woman and there should exist no questions about whether I was born that way or not. Simply put, trans women are not women.