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Posted: Apr 12, 2021 - 1:55am

 miamizsun wrote:

a couple of coffee thoughts

sort of an irony in this head line (i'm not sure if editors had anything to do with it)

bruni has complained about gays being stereotyped, then stereotypes republicans (to be fair he puts something like a caveat in there)

are there politicians pandering or trying to make hay from this? i'd say so, but lgbt issues have been huge losers for those opposing them

brink lindsey writes about it and how the religious right (and left) have been stream-rolled in the last ten years or so on what once was a lynchpin issue

another important point that probably isn't getting enough attention is the issue of children coerced into transitioning and are trying de-transition now at a later age

peeps can google that see that this is a real issue (and that it is causing a lot of grief and hardship)

who is responsible or liable for these somewhat irreversible procedures? when are children responsible for making a life changing decision like gender/sex reassignment?

and then realize that it is a mistake? is that cruel?

definitely a slippery slope, the intuitive answer is to let children come of age and then let them decide to have surgeries and hormone therapies, etc.

we do this already with other lifestyle decisions

i'd hope that political leaders could have some sort of rational conversation around this, but the intentional idiotic polarization rules the day

unfortunately we're at a point where the government wants to use its force to ban or mandate things what would normally be nuanced issues

because radical politics

100% agree.....damn, if it isn't italics its bold.....
kids can't drive a car, can't drink in a pub, supposedly can't have sex...but can make an absolutely life-changing decision like transitioning when they don't even know who they are yet.

The lawsuits are beginning and will inevitably mount up.....people suing for being allowed to make the decision to do this when they didn't know better and now find they are not only no happier but usually a lot more unhappy and that a mistake has been made.

The world has gone bonkers!

Because radical politics, as you say.

Peace to you too....
miamizsun

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Gender: Male


Posted: Apr 11, 2021 - 12:30pm

 R_P wrote:
I thought lifestyle was more of a fashion thing, but it keeps popping up in the strangest contexts: "I don't hate the gays, I just don't like the lifestyle." Seems to be used in lieu of identity in order to trivialize.

maybe try this:

don't hate or harm anyone and someone's lifestyle or decisions how they want to live their lives is their own business

no harm no foul

peace
R_P

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Posted: Apr 11, 2021 - 10:00am

 miamizsun has concerns too:
children coerced (will someone plllleeeaaaazzzz)

slippery slope (always. inevitably leads to bestiality or worse)

lifestyle decisions (see below)

government wants to use force (uh-uh)


I thought lifestyle was more of a fashion thing, but it keeps popping up in the strangest contexts: "I don't hate the gays, I just don't like the lifestyle." Seems to be used in lieu of identity in order to trivialize.
miamizsun

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Gender: Male


Posted: Apr 11, 2021 - 6:47am

 R_P wrote:
a couple of coffee thoughts

sort of an irony in this head line (i'm not sure if editors had anything to do with it)

bruni has complained about gays being stereotyped, then stereotypes republicans (to be fair he puts something like a caveat in there)

are there politicians pandering or trying to make hay from this? i'd say so, but lgbt issues have been huge losers for those opposing them

brink lindsey writes about it and how the religious right (and left) have been stream-rolled in the last ten years or so on what once was a lynchpin issue

another important point that probably isn't getting enough attention is the issue of children coerced into transitioning and are trying de-transition now at a later age

peeps can google that see that this is a real issue (and that it is causing a lot of grief and hardship)

who is responsible or liable for these somewhat irreversible procedures? when are children responsible for making a life changing decision like gender/sex reassignment?

and then realize that it is a mistake? is that cruel?

definitely a slippery slope, the intuitive answer is to let children come of age and then let them decide to have surgeries and hormone therapies, etc.

we do this already with other lifestyle decisions

i'd hope that political leaders could have some sort of rational conversation around this, but the intentional idiotic polarization rules the day

unfortunately we're at a point where the government wants to use its force to ban or mandate things what would normally be nuanced issues

because radical politics
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Posted: Apr 10, 2021 - 7:19pm

Republicans Have Found Their Cruel New Culture War
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Posted: Dec 3, 2019 - 6:42pm

 R_P wrote:
 
Cool!  Thanks for posting this.
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Posted: Nov 15, 2019 - 5:17pm


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Posted: Sep 4, 2019 - 6:34am

 islander wrote:


 sirdroseph wrote:
 islander wrote:


 sirdroseph wrote:
 islander wrote:


 sirdroseph wrote:
I am glad the ludicrous nature of gay conversion therapy was brought up in another thread.
Correlates to my struggle with transgenders and surgery. Firstly, I
have a very strong belief that we should all have the freedom to express
who we are and be proud of it. It is a core value of individualism and
what makes us all unique. Our opinions on LGBQT and Hetero people are
absolutely moot, we are what we are and must learn to exist and co exist
with each other as we were born. Which is why I am against hormone
therapy and plastic surgery to alter one's gender if they do not
identify as such. If you are a man who identifies as a woman, be that.
Dress how you want to dress, talk how you want to talk, you just be
you. Same goes for a woman who identifies as a man, be that. Just
because medical technology allows for you to artificially change
genders, does it mean you should? Not to mention the moral obligations
that are mostly not met for obvious reasons for future love interest and
whether one divulges their birth gender or not. Just as you should not
attempt to change your sexuality, why is it ok to change your gender?
And why is it not ok to change your identity and cultural appropriate
for all other examples except gender? Rachel Dolenz got in a lot of
trouble for passing as black, Elizabeth Warren as Native American and so
forth. People are intentionally blinding themselves because they
identify as being blind, they are also purposely amputating limbs for
the same reason (these things have happened, look them up). Why can't
we just all be happy with who we are and live it?
And conversely we have the same responsibility to accept others as they are. 

In other words be true to yourself.
 Anyway, that is where I have finally landed on that and feel quite comfortable with it.


 

Extra emphasis on the I.  I'm glad that you are finally comfortable with your position. But let me just summarize the lead in paragraph:  "Be who you want to be as long as you don't do anything that sirdoseph is uncomfortable with and he will accept you as you are".    I'm not really comfortable that you are able to reconcile all that. 
 
This is my opinion and you not being comfortable with mine is yours. This does not bother me in the slightest.  I hope this does not make you too uncomfortable because you opinion has an extremely low chance as in nil of affecting mine in any way.  So in essence if my opinion does bother you....."You're gonna have a hard time!"{#Lol} 

And likewise, your level of comfort with anyone else's gender identity, sexual identity, or relationship with their doctor/surgeon/psychologist/milkman/music teacher/metermaid/butcher has little meaning to those people.  So be true to your 'rugged individualist' self and don't try to influence policy or opinion that impacts their ability to just be. 
 

Oh I am fully aware of this and never indicated that my opinion was anything but that, but it is mine.  I wonder if you have the same level of self awareness.

{#Think} 

 

I'm fully aware of my many hypocrisies. But not really relevant as you're the one who started the morning posting a bit about 'everyone should be who I think they should be'.   
 
I believe I said everyone should be who they are, but you are free to interpret any way you like.  My sleep pattern will remain the same either way.{#Sleep}
islander

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Location: West coast somewhere
Gender: Male


Posted: Sep 4, 2019 - 6:27am



 sirdroseph wrote:
 islander wrote:


 sirdroseph wrote:
 islander wrote:


 sirdroseph wrote:
I am glad the ludicrous nature of gay conversion therapy was brought up in another thread.
Correlates to my struggle with transgenders and surgery. Firstly, I
have a very strong belief that we should all have the freedom to express
who we are and be proud of it. It is a core value of individualism and
what makes us all unique. Our opinions on LGBQT and Hetero people are
absolutely moot, we are what we are and must learn to exist and co exist
with each other as we were born. Which is why I am against hormone
therapy and plastic surgery to alter one's gender if they do not
identify as such. If you are a man who identifies as a woman, be that.
Dress how you want to dress, talk how you want to talk, you just be
you. Same goes for a woman who identifies as a man, be that. Just
because medical technology allows for you to artificially change
genders, does it mean you should? Not to mention the moral obligations
that are mostly not met for obvious reasons for future love interest and
whether one divulges their birth gender or not. Just as you should not
attempt to change your sexuality, why is it ok to change your gender?
And why is it not ok to change your identity and cultural appropriate
for all other examples except gender? Rachel Dolenz got in a lot of
trouble for passing as black, Elizabeth Warren as Native American and so
forth. People are intentionally blinding themselves because they
identify as being blind, they are also purposely amputating limbs for
the same reason (these things have happened, look them up). Why can't
we just all be happy with who we are and live it?
And conversely we have the same responsibility to accept others as they are. 

In other words be true to yourself.
 Anyway, that is where I have finally landed on that and feel quite comfortable with it.


 

Extra emphasis on the I.  I'm glad that you are finally comfortable with your position. But let me just summarize the lead in paragraph:  "Be who you want to be as long as you don't do anything that sirdoseph is uncomfortable with and he will accept you as you are".    I'm not really comfortable that you are able to reconcile all that. 
 
This is my opinion and you not being comfortable with mine is yours. This does not bother me in the slightest.  I hope this does not make you too uncomfortable because you opinion has an extremely low chance as in nil of affecting mine in any way.  So in essence if my opinion does bother you....."You're gonna have a hard time!"
{#Lol}
 

And likewise, your level of comfort with anyone else's gender identity, sexual identity, or relationship with their doctor/surgeon/psychologist/milkman/music teacher/metermaid/butcher has little meaning to those people.  So be true to your 'rugged individualist' self and don't try to influence policy or opinion that impacts their ability to just be. 
 

Oh I am fully aware of this and never indicated that my opinion was anything but that, but it is mine.  I wonder if you have the same level of self awareness.

{#Think}
 

 

I'm fully aware of my many hypocrisies. But not really relevant as you're the one who started the morning posting a bit about 'everyone should be who I think they should be'.   
sirdroseph

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Location: Not here, I tell you wat
Gender: Male


Posted: Sep 4, 2019 - 6:03am

 islander wrote:


 sirdroseph wrote:
 islander wrote:


 sirdroseph wrote:
I am glad the ludicrous nature of gay conversion therapy was brought up in another thread.
Correlates to my struggle with transgenders and surgery. Firstly, I
have a very strong belief that we should all have the freedom to express
who we are and be proud of it. It is a core value of individualism and
what makes us all unique. Our opinions on LGBQT and Hetero people are
absolutely moot, we are what we are and must learn to exist and co exist
with each other as we were born. Which is why I am against hormone
therapy and plastic surgery to alter one's gender if they do not
identify as such. If you are a man who identifies as a woman, be that.
Dress how you want to dress, talk how you want to talk, you just be
you. Same goes for a woman who identifies as a man, be that. Just
because medical technology allows for you to artificially change
genders, does it mean you should? Not to mention the moral obligations
that are mostly not met for obvious reasons for future love interest and
whether one divulges their birth gender or not. Just as you should not
attempt to change your sexuality, why is it ok to change your gender?
And why is it not ok to change your identity and cultural appropriate
for all other examples except gender? Rachel Dolenz got in a lot of
trouble for passing as black, Elizabeth Warren as Native American and so
forth. People are intentionally blinding themselves because they
identify as being blind, they are also purposely amputating limbs for
the same reason (these things have happened, look them up). Why can't
we just all be happy with who we are and live it?
And conversely we have the same responsibility to accept others as they are. 

In other words be true to yourself.
 Anyway, that is where I have finally landed on that and feel quite comfortable with it.


 

Extra emphasis on the I.  I'm glad that you are finally comfortable with your position. But let me just summarize the lead in paragraph:  "Be who you want to be as long as you don't do anything that sirdoseph is uncomfortable with and he will accept you as you are".    I'm not really comfortable that you are able to reconcile all that. 
 
This is my opinion and you not being comfortable with mine is yours. This does not bother me in the slightest.  I hope this does not make you too uncomfortable because you opinion has an extremely low chance as in nil of affecting mine in any way.  So in essence if my opinion does bother you....."You're gonna have a hard time!"{#Lol} 

And likewise, your level of comfort with anyone else's gender identity, sexual identity, or relationship with their doctor/surgeon/psychologist/milkman/music teacher/metermaid/butcher has little meaning to those people.  So be true to your 'rugged individualist' self and don't try to influence policy or opinion that impacts their ability to just be. 

 

Oh I am fully aware of this and never indicated that my opinion was anything but that, but it is mine.  I wonder if you have the same level of self awareness.{#Think} 

islander

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Location: West coast somewhere
Gender: Male


Posted: Sep 4, 2019 - 5:55am



 sirdroseph wrote:
 islander wrote:


 sirdroseph wrote:
I am glad the ludicrous nature of gay conversion therapy was brought up in another thread.
Correlates to my struggle with transgenders and surgery. Firstly, I
have a very strong belief that we should all have the freedom to express
who we are and be proud of it. It is a core value of individualism and
what makes us all unique. Our opinions on LGBQT and Hetero people are
absolutely moot, we are what we are and must learn to exist and co exist
with each other as we were born. Which is why I am against hormone
therapy and plastic surgery to alter one's gender if they do not
identify as such. If you are a man who identifies as a woman, be that.
Dress how you want to dress, talk how you want to talk, you just be
you. Same goes for a woman who identifies as a man, be that. Just
because medical technology allows for you to artificially change
genders, does it mean you should? Not to mention the moral obligations
that are mostly not met for obvious reasons for future love interest and
whether one divulges their birth gender or not. Just as you should not
attempt to change your sexuality, why is it ok to change your gender?
And why is it not ok to change your identity and cultural appropriate
for all other examples except gender? Rachel Dolenz got in a lot of
trouble for passing as black, Elizabeth Warren as Native American and so
forth. People are intentionally blinding themselves because they
identify as being blind, they are also purposely amputating limbs for
the same reason (these things have happened, look them up). Why can't
we just all be happy with who we are and live it?
And conversely we have the same responsibility to accept others as they are. 

In other words be true to yourself.
 Anyway, that is where I have finally landed on that and feel quite comfortable with it.


 

Extra emphasis on the I.  I'm glad that you are finally comfortable with your position. But let me just summarize the lead in paragraph:  "Be who you want to be as long as you don't do anything that sirdoseph is uncomfortable with and he will accept you as you are".    I'm not really comfortable that you are able to reconcile all that. 
 
This is my opinion and you not being comfortable with mine is yours. This does not bother me in the slightest.  I hope this does not make you too uncomfortable because you opinion has an extremely low chance as in nil of affecting mine in any way.  So in essence if my opinion does bother you....."You're gonna have a hard time!"
{#Lol}
 

And likewise, your level of comfort with anyone else's gender identity, sexual identity, or relationship with their doctor/surgeon/psychologist/milkman/music teacher/metermaid/butcher has little meaning to those people.  So be true to your 'rugged individualist' self and don't try to influence policy or opinion that impacts their ability to just be. 


sirdroseph

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Location: Not here, I tell you wat
Gender: Male


Posted: Sep 4, 2019 - 5:50am

 islander wrote:


 sirdroseph wrote:
I am glad the ludicrous nature of gay conversion therapy was brought up in another thread.
Correlates to my struggle with transgenders and surgery. Firstly, I
have a very strong belief that we should all have the freedom to express
who we are and be proud of it. It is a core value of individualism and
what makes us all unique. Our opinions on LGBQT and Hetero people are
absolutely moot, we are what we are and must learn to exist and co exist
with each other as we were born. Which is why I am against hormone
therapy and plastic surgery to alter one's gender if they do not
identify as such. If you are a man who identifies as a woman, be that.
Dress how you want to dress, talk how you want to talk, you just be
you. Same goes for a woman who identifies as a man, be that. Just
because medical technology allows for you to artificially change
genders, does it mean you should? Not to mention the moral obligations
that are mostly not met for obvious reasons for future love interest and
whether one divulges their birth gender or not. Just as you should not
attempt to change your sexuality, why is it ok to change your gender?
And why is it not ok to change your identity and cultural appropriate
for all other examples except gender? Rachel Dolenz got in a lot of
trouble for passing as black, Elizabeth Warren as Native American and so
forth. People are intentionally blinding themselves because they
identify as being blind, they are also purposely amputating limbs for
the same reason (these things have happened, look them up). Why can't
we just all be happy with who we are and live it?
And conversely we have the same responsibility to accept others as they are. 

In other words be true to yourself.
 Anyway, that is where I have finally landed on that and feel quite comfortable with it.


 

Extra emphasis on the I.  I'm glad that you are finally comfortable with your position. But let me just summarize the lead in paragraph:  "Be who you want to be as long as you don't do anything that sirdoseph is uncomfortable with and he will accept you as you are".    I'm not really comfortable that you are able to reconcile all that. 

 
This is my opinion and you not being comfortable with mine is yours. This does not bother me in the slightest.  I hope this does not make you too uncomfortable because you opinion has an extremely low chance as in nil of affecting mine in any way.  So in essence if my opinion does bother you....."You're gonna have a bad time!"{#Lol}

 

 

islander

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Location: West coast somewhere
Gender: Male


Posted: Sep 4, 2019 - 5:45am



 sirdroseph wrote:
I am glad the ludicrous nature of gay conversion therapy was brought up in another thread.
Correlates to my struggle with transgenders and surgery. Firstly, I
have a very strong belief that we should all have the freedom to express
who we are and be proud of it. It is a core value of individualism and
what makes us all unique. Our opinions on LGBQT and Hetero people are
absolutely moot, we are what we are and must learn to exist and co exist
with each other as we were born. Which is why I am against hormone
therapy and plastic surgery to alter one's gender if they do not
identify as such. If you are a man who identifies as a woman, be that.
Dress how you want to dress, talk how you want to talk, you just be
you. Same goes for a woman who identifies as a man, be that. Just
because medical technology allows for you to artificially change
genders, does it mean you should? Not to mention the moral obligations
that are mostly not met for obvious reasons for future love interest and
whether one divulges their birth gender or not. Just as you should not
attempt to change your sexuality, why is it ok to change your gender?
And why is it not ok to change your identity and cultural appropriate
for all other examples except gender? Rachel Dolenz got in a lot of
trouble for passing as black, Elizabeth Warren as Native American and so
forth. People are intentionally blinding themselves because they
identify as being blind, they are also purposely amputating limbs for
the same reason (these things have happened, look them up). Why can't
we just all be happy with who we are and live it?
And conversely we have the same responsibility to accept others as they are. 

In other words be true to yourself.


 Anyway, that is where I have finally landed on that and feel quite comfortable with it.




 

Extra emphasis on the I.  I'm glad that you are finally comfortable with your position. But let me just summarize the lead in paragraph:  "Be who you want to be as long as you don't do anything that sirdoseph is uncomfortable with and he will accept you as you are".    I'm not really comfortable that you are able to reconcile all that. 
sirdroseph

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Location: Not here, I tell you wat
Gender: Male


Posted: Sep 4, 2019 - 1:55am

I am glad the ludicrous nature of gay conversion therapy was brought up in another thread.
Correlates to my struggle with transgenders and surgery. Firstly, I
have a very strong belief that we should all have the freedom to express
who we are and be proud of it. It is a core value of individualism and
what makes us all unique. Our opinions on LGBQT and Hetero people are
absolutely moot, we are what we are and must learn to exist and co exist
with each other as we were born. Which is why I am against hormone
therapy and plastic surgery to alter one's gender if they do not
identify as such. If you are a man who identifies as a woman, be that.
Dress how you want to dress, talk how you want to talk, you just be
you. Same goes for a woman who identifies as a man, be that. Just
because medical technology allows for you to artificially change
genders, does it mean you should? Not to mention the moral obligations
that are mostly not met for obvious reasons for future love interest and
whether one divulges their birth gender or not. Just as you should not
attempt to change your sexuality, why is it ok to change your gender?
And why is it not ok to change your identity and cultural appropriate
for all other examples except gender? Rachel Dolenz got in a lot of
trouble for passing as black, Elizabeth Warren as Native American and so
forth. People are intentionally blinding themselves because they
identify as being blind, they are also purposely amputating limbs for
the same reason (these things have happened, look them up). Why can't
we just all be happy with who we are and live it?
And conversely we have the same responsibility to accept others as they are. 

In other words be true to yourself.


 Anyway, that is where I have finally landed on that and feel quite comfortable with it.

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Posted: Mar 30, 2019 - 4:44pm

New legislation in Kansas would pay students a $2500 bounty for reporting on transgender classmates using the “wrong” bathroom.

In Kansas, the “Student Physical Privacy Act” effectively places a bounty on the state’s transgender student population. Senate Bill 513 and House Bill 2737 together known as the “Student Physical Privacy Act” mandates that any student who witnesses a transgender schoolmate heading into a bathroom that doesn’t match the gender they were assigned at birth can sue their school for $2,500.

The proposed legislation would apply not only to public schools, but all public universities in the state as well, guaranteeing that anyone who saw someone transgender in the bathroom could sue their school for $2,500 for every time that it happened.

(...)

The Advocate reports that similar bills in South Dakota and Tennessee that would restrict transgender students’ bathroom access recently failed.

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Gender: Male


Posted: Jan 24, 2019 - 10:33am

Trump’s Transgender Military Ban and Lessons from a Lifetime of Gender-Policing

By
January 23, 2019

When I was growing up, in the Soviet Union, every document—identity
papers, personnel files, student records, police reports, application
forms of every kind—contained the category of ethnicity. Mine said
“Jewish,” a characteristic as physical and immutable in the eyes of
Soviet law and Russian culture as gender is in most of the contemporary
United States. In the late nineties, years after the collapse of the
Soviet Union, when I was working as a writer at a liberal news magazine
in Moscow, I objected to the human-resources department’s use of old
Soviet forms that asked for an ethnicity. The H.R. staff couldn’t
understand my objections. Why would I not want to list my ethnicity? “We
won’t tell anyone,” one of them promised, trying to be helpful. My
efforts to explain to Americans why I don’t believe that documents
should list a person’s gender have generally been just as futile.

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Posted: Jan 22, 2019 - 3:17pm

Supreme Court allows Trump's partial ban on transgender troops in military to take effect
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Gender: Female


Posted: Nov 1, 2018 - 5:26am

 p4jkafla wrote:

Yep. She's pretty bad ass.
 
Our president doesn't seem to be able to do that. But then again, he's only interested in kowtowing  to his fan base.
 
I can handle his shit, but frankly, he's absolutely, unequivocally making trans children and their parents terrified for their future.


 
not mine.
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