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Elections have consequences.

You are clearly very passionate about this topic. Passion is not a trait that aligns with apathy.

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My friend's daughter that is transitioning to a man stated that she knew that she wanted to be a male as early as 4 or 5 years old. She also stated that never adhered nor conformed to any of the gender specific roles that society has already established for genders. Always participated in activities that were considered masculine

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Just move puberty back to age 21. Problem solved.

Unless you are trying to win Olympic medals; https://www.olympic.org/montreal-1976/a ... athlon-men

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Yes, and that's why celebrating that Wade now has a "daughter" is ridiculous and dangerous. Kids do crazy shit all the time for attention. Maybe it's a phase. Maybe he's gay. Who knows? But asking ten-year-olds to declare their gender is ridiculous. Promoting it in the media as brave and noble is absurd, and done for virtue signaling reasons.

This is leading many people down a dangerous path. Having unnecessary cosmetic surgery or taking a ton of drugs to be your "real" self is pure fantasy, and dangerous to anyone's longterm health.

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Why are only 14 percent of black CPS 11th-graders proficient in English?

Countless, but nobody actually knows how prevalent it is. You'd actually be shocked how little real unbiased research has gone into this issue. I reckon most people who would be carrying out these studies are afraid because they would be eviscerated for telling some pretty ugly truths about this trend.

Generally speaking I assume whenever you are questioning the damage wrought by the transgender fad and the answers aren't available from academia then you should probably assume it is way worse than you've been led to believe. The effect of career and social intimidation plus the obfuscation of what little facts there actually are have turned this whole thing into voodooism.

This is really the natural extension of Wade wearing the fake, smart girl glasses and starting that trend in the d/l NBA.

Luckily, no one followed Cam when he tried to do it but expect something from his kids down the road.

NFL wins again.

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

Post a few of these countless tales of regret

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I'm passionate about everything, Spiral.

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Tulsi, and Don

Wrong. Lots of Chiefs looked a bit suspicious during Super Bowl week, Travis Kelce most notably.

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

Travis Kelce is about as confused as a person as anyone in the NFL.

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

Then you gotta concede you give a least a little shit about Wade's kid.

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I'm interested in the topic. I think the language aspect is a critical part of it, particularly when it comes to pronouns which are used constantly. Just think if every person is entitled to _____ own pronouns. We'd be setting up a Tower of Babel situation where nobody knows who or what anyone is talking about. I wouldn't have any objection to society agreeing on a sex-neutral set of pronouns that we all agree to use in cases where sex is unknown. That wouldn't be much different than the transition to "Ms." in the 70s, a little more difficult because of the way we use pronouns but possible. I'm not going to use plurals for singulars though and no one can make me.

As far as sex reassignment surgery is concerned, I don't mind an adult seeking it, but I do think it presents an ethical issue to "doctors". What if someone identifies as blind- and some people certainly do- should a doctor remove that person's eyes? How about amputation? I don't consider plastic surgeons doctors. They're money grubbers preying on people's insecurities.

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Tulsi, and Don

So much national conversation about such an infinitesimally small subset of the population.

The strength of the gay rights movement was in its relation to the straight community. The stigma died or is dying because once people started to live more openly the straight population realized that just about everyone knew someone who was gay within a couple of degrees of separation.

The highest estimates for the homosexual population is 10% but more likely in the 5% range. Trans is estimated at .6%.

We openly desecrate the sacred lands of people with larger populations

That's not to say trans are unworthy of equal rights. That discussion is not limited to only those with sufficient population. That is a moral discussion.

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

That's part of the issue. Most of these kids don't have gender dysphoria at all. Just unwitting parents who are following a political agenda they think makes them "good people".

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Tulsi, and Don

That's a good comparison. Medicine has not gone forward in a straight line.

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Why are only 14 percent of black CPS 11th-graders proficient in English?

Of course they have depression and/or anxiety. They are rejected by society and called crazy.

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

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I'm going to bounce from the spot for awhile but I will be back at some point to argue with you about this hoops stuff again. Playoffs have been great this season. See ya up the road.

I'm out.

Really? Seems like these days they're often celebrated.

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

They are brave.

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There is absolutely no certainty that having surgery or taking hormones will fix those feelings. What it will do is alter your body, open you up to side effects, and cost you many thousands of dollars.

From the article:

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Why are only 14 percent of black CPS 11th-graders proficient in English?

I'm pretty sure the reactions to me here are going to destroy my mental state.

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

If we haven't done that by now, there is no hope for it ever happening.

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We're making a huge mistake with how we're classifying transgenders. It's real cute that we've raised our children over the last 40 years or so to tell them that they're all special, that however it is they feel is ok. Sometimes it's not ok.
This will eventually be classified as a mental illness. And coddling victims and not treating this mental illness as what it is has resulted is staggering suicide rates. By staggering its something like half of males and a third of transgender females have attempted suicide.
Once we stop playing like everyone is right and everyone's feelings are ok we'll learn that the dysmorphia is a symptom of another underlying illness that has a very high chance of resulting in suicide.
Peoples lives are at stake.
People die from not being treated.
Its preventable. But we won't prevent it because this society is becoming way too complacent in such matters.

And that's all I have to say about that

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"Play until it hurts, then play until it hurts to not play."
http://soundcloud.com/darkside124 HOF 2013, MM Champion 2014

Stop denying them their humanity, Darkside!!

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The problem with using suicide rates as a link to something being a mental illness is you can add a lot of things to the list of things that make it more likely. One of them is gun ownership. I don't think it means that gun owners have mental illness.

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

I'd say that's a good effort brick, but it wasn't.

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"Play until it hurts, then play until it hurts to not play."
http://soundcloud.com/darkside124 HOF 2013, MM Champion 2014

Are gun owners killing themselves at a rate of higher than 20%?

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul