The actual position of the Catholic church, which sadly even many in the hierarchy don’t understand, is that gender is an immutable characteristic of the soul. The existence of transgender is actually an inevitable logical consequence of that position, because the body is mutable. Further, it implies that the correct treatment for transgender is to change the body to match the soul.
Some good news: 17 Republicans in the Montana House crossed party lines to help Democrats defeat a bill which would have allowed the parents of trans children (even people just passing through the state en route to somewhere else) to be arrested for child abuse.
That’s definitely very good news. Fucking horrible that more than twice than number - 40 - voted for this sick bill.
Also, I hate to break it to you Montana, but even driving through you sounds miserable.
Good for them, that’s horrible.
I took the train through Montana a few years ago. The western half of the state is very pretty. The eastern half, flat and brown.
I didn’t get off the train at any point.
In (limited) defense of Montana we had a HUGE turnout for the protest on Saturday–2-3000 people if not more just in Bozeman. I was surprised that quite a few truckers driving by honked and gave a thumbs up!
Horrible GOP politician tries to score cheap culture war points based on a trans girl’s participation in a high school sporting event.
A student who was in the same event tells the politician to suck it. Politely.
More of this, please.
Skepchick reports encouraging news: Science is firmly on the side of trans people, and so is DC District Court Judge Ana Reyes.
It is an absolute joy to see people like Judge Reyes stand up and tear these anti-science bigots a new asshole! Right before the public’s eyes!
Erm…hate to rain on your parade, but that video is two months old. More recently, the Supreme Court overturned the injunction without comment, meaning that the ban is going ahead while the lawsuits to stop it are ongoing.
Yeah, this is war.
Jordan Klepper interviews transgender military personal (5min). One interesting tidbit… they spend 8X more on viagra than gender affirming care.
Viagra is gender-affirming care. As are lots of other things that Republicans would rather not actually be banned, except they’re too stupid to realize it.
Another good quote “Too strong for sports but too weak for military”
Schrodinger’s perverts.
I apologize for not reading the whole thread. I was hoping for simple answers to a couple of questions re: trans athletes in high school and college.
Are there any commonly accepted “standards” as to what qualifies a trans individual to compete in women’s sport?
Personally, I do not care anything about sport, and do not care who competes in which categories. I’m not questioning any individuals gender identification. I just was unclear as to whether some athletes described as trans might be fully biologically male, and others might have undergone hormone and surgical therapy.
Am I correct in assuming that a news article referring to a trans woman might be referring to an individual who has high testosterone and a penis, or has a penis but is on horomone therapy, or they have been on hormone therapy AND have undergone gender reassignment surgery?
Why the fuck are you trolling this thread with your transparent JAQing off?
What does that have to do with the Republican war on trans people? Maybe start a new thread, hopefully in Marketplace so no one will see it.
Apologies to both of you - and al others in this thread.
Whether you accept this or not, in no way did I intend to troll this thread. And I do not know - or care to know - what you mean by “transparent JAQing off.” I thought if this is where folk most interested in trans issues were currently posting, this would be a good place to obtain a straightforward answer to a limited factual question. When I read something in my local paper, I do not know exactly what they are referring to. I was maing an effort to dispel my personal ignorance
I suppose I also thought that the current news items about trans participation in sport was somewhat related to current R efforts (which I pretty much abhor across the board.)
Minor minor aside - if you wish to have much impact on folk who are not currently true believers in your cause, you might wish to entertain the remotest possibility that a sincere question is exactly that. OTOH, if you wish to turn of folk who might be sympathetic to your interests…
True, you have been nothing but unfailingly polite.
If you’re going to repeat the the big lie that trans people in high school undergo gender reassignment surgery you should know what to expect.