bobalob

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by bobalob 10mo ago
Welcome news, but unfortunate that the WI had to be compelled by the threat of legal action to follow the law and do the right thing.
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by bobalob 1y ago
The reason that this male sexual predator was allowed to use the female changing room and showers is because he claimed to have a female gender identity. This illustrates the safeguarding risk in allowing males to use female spaces on the b
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by bobalob 1y ago
> Also, here's one of her many posts from JKR literally equating trans women with sexual predators. > https://xcancel.com/jk_rowling/status/1972054407148695732 Consider what this conversation was actual
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by bobalob 1y ago
Of course Algeria are going to deny it. But look: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/boxing/2025/06/01/imane-khelif-m... https://www.3wiresports.com/articles/2025/6/1/xxyetyl
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by bobalob 1y ago
Unless you're arguing for the abolishment of all single-sex spaces, which you don't seem to be, I don't see how your analogy works. The reasons that women and girls are provisioned with female-only spaces are entirely differe
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by bobalob 1y ago
> 2. A group of people demanding certain specific and new legal rights with respect to how they are different > (yeah, those n***s want to eat in our restaurants and swim in our public pools, have decent schools and even be allowed to
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by bobalob 1y ago
> People don't just "choose" to be transgender. You may be surprised. Have you heard about "transmaxxing"? This involves men deliberately transitioning, with the end goal of passing themselves off as women, becau
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by bobalob 1y ago
No problem. Regarding Kirk's tweet, at that point (early August) it was already well established that the IBA had disqualified Khelif (and another boxer, Lin) from their women's tournaments for ineligibility due to failing a sex t
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by bobalob 1y ago
> What brings us to the main point the right always doesn't get: What is a woman? If body and mind have the same gender it's easy but what if body and mind have a different gender? Seems to me the concept that the mind doesn&#x
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by bobalob 1y ago
> intersex people disagree Not really. Each of these conditions can be understood and described in terms of male and/or female sex development. The "spectrum" rhetoric obfuscates detail. > the traits that society-at-lar
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by bobalob 1y ago
Sex is neither a spectrum nor an identity.
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by bobalob 1y ago
> as she would not have faced sexism while living as a man The irony here is that concepts like "living as a man" and "living as a woman" are inherently sexist.
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by bobalob 1y ago
Going through normal pubertal development is in no way whatsoever a process of being "irreversibly mutilated". What a daft claim.
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by bobalob 1y ago
It does involve hormones as part of the mechanism but puberty is primarily about the maturation of the reproductive system, and how this is experienced depends on one's sex. To take female puberty as an example, this is the growth and
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by bobalob 1y ago
That is another off-label usage that is similarly controversial due to adverse effects on health: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/women-fear-drug-they-use... > Besides, she can't meaningfully consent t
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by bobalob 1y ago
> So the report throws out essentially the entire body of research for failing to meet an impossible to meet standard. This is disinformation that is easily shown to be false if you read the final report. In fact this lie was so widely d
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by bobalob 1y ago
That ~1% figure is unlikely to reflect the full picture of regret. That paper defines regret very narrowly: only including the patients who made an appointment with their original medical team to discuss regret, and only if they regret surg
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by bobalob 1y ago
Puberty is a stage of natural maturation of the body. There is only one, as per your sex, and you can't go through the wrong one. The puberty of the opposite sex is not an option. This conception of the "wrong puberty" as som
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by bobalob 1y ago
This is not actually true, see for instance: https://www.city-journal.org/article/aclu-attorney-confesses...
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by bobalob 1y ago
Women's chess is a protected category. On that basis, FIDE are stating that women who don't want to be women can opt out of that category if they so wish, but men who say they are women cannot opt into it.
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by bobalob 1y ago
Chess is male-dominated from childhood onwards, and the women who do play are highly outnumbered by men. So women-only chess clubs and tournaments are a way to try to redress the balance by encouraging women and girls to play. How does it b
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by bobalob 1y ago
Depends who you talk to, I suppose. In the real-life conversations I've had about this issue, most people are horrified when they find out that men, transferred to women's prisons due to trans activist policy, have been sexually a
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by bobalob 1y ago
To do that requires addressing the actual argument.
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by bobalob 1y ago
> For women, I've found that they see men as biologically and intrinsically dangerous, and that a tiger doesn't change its stripes just because they are alienated from masculinity. This is demonstrably true in many scenarios. S
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by bobalob 1y ago
You're taking part of my comment and ignoring the context in which it was written.
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by bobalob 1y ago
How so? Are you suggesting that the civil rights of males are being violated when they're told that female-only spaces are off-limits?
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by bobalob 1y ago
Bathrooms are only a small part of this. The Supreme Court ruling will also ensure that males are not present in women's prisons, women's hospital wards, women's sports, domestic violence refuges for women, and many other spa
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by bobalob 1y ago
More importantly though, it's a great day for women who need single-sex spaces. This is a much-needed clarification of the law. The Supreme Court judgment makes this very clear: if you're male, having a Gender Recognition Certific
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by bobalob 1y ago
Could you explain the racial analogy in more detail please? It's not obvious how restricting males from using female-only spaces is similar in concept or principle to racial segregation.
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by bobalob 1y ago
Placing female prisoners at risk of physical violence, sexual assault, rape and impregnation by male prisoners is an obvious wrong to undo, but I agree there are many other horrifying aspects of prison conditions that need to be addressed

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