cluedos

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by cluedos 4y ago
Transmen are women who want to be men. The fact that some can and have become pregnant is because they are women.
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by cluedos 4y ago
> Your trick is ignoring the stronger argument which is it's very likely that a trans woman will get pregnant after a uterus transplant at some point during our lifetime. Harvesting the uterus of a woman and hosting it inside a ma
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by cluedos 4y ago
The only reason that redefinitions such as this are being proposed (and in many places, accepted) is so that some men can claim to be women, and to twist law and policy around such claims. So, as a consequence of this, we now have men in wo
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by cluedos 4y ago
Your personal choice is just that. The more important conversation is about what gets imposed on everyone else via law and organisational policy.
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by cluedos 4y ago
That is disgusting, but sadly not unexpected these days. The elephant in the room is that many 'transwomen' identify as so because of sexual fetishism; these men want to become the pornified image they have of women. It's eas
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by cluedos 4y ago
Here's a well-argued critical analysis of this analogy to adoption: https://hollylawford-smith.org/the-adoption-analogy-revisite... In summary: " There are several crucial differences between biological and adopti
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by cluedos 4y ago
The statements made by any company representative responding to PR crisis shouldn't be taken as the unvarnished truth. The purpose is reputation management, dampening negative publicity before it overwhelms, while hopefully minimising
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by cluedos 4y ago
Out of these two antagonistic online mobs, which is the disempowered one?
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by cluedos 4y ago
It's trivial in the same way that celebrity gossip is trivial.
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by cluedos 4y ago
Look at it from Cloudflare employees' point of view though. Do they really want to spend their time getting drawn in to any more of this trivial online drama? No, of course not. Pulling the plug is the sensible business decision.
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by cluedos 4y ago
I feel sorry for Cloudflare's management team in having to deal with all this nonsense. What they really want to focus on is growing their business, developing new cloud-scale technologies, and serving their customers the best they can
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by cluedos 4y ago
Neither of those estimates seem to be correct. Per https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12476264/ , the prevalence is 0.018%, or around 1 in 5,500. That doesn't mean it's impossible to observe the sex in most of th
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by cluedos 4y ago
They are men too, if you peel away the veneer of 'gender identity'.
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by cluedos 4y ago
> Women in prison are sexually assaulted, raped, and even impregnated by men all the time and have been for years. Those men are guards. Indeed and this is why feminist organizations, and others with an interest in women's rights
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by cluedos 4y ago
> More often than not, when someone has a take like this, it usually means they're a TERF but I can't find anything she's publicly written that's obviously transphobic so I'm scratching my head as to what the ac
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by cluedos 4y ago
Yes it has. It doesn't matter that the segregation was originally pushed for with the benefit of male prisoners in mind. If you look at the conditions for women in prison before and after sex segregation, it was an improvement. We shou
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by cluedos 4y ago
It's all about 'gender identity' these days, not hormones and surgery. Indeed, in trans circles, expecting the latter as a required factor is often considered highly offensive. This, and the notion that a person needs to expe
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by cluedos 4y ago
So are you advocating for entirely mixed-sex prisons or what? That's an extremely radical view. An important part of addressing these issues of violence in the prison system has been, up until recently, the segregation of inmates by th
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by cluedos 4y ago
Exactly this. Even using the phrase 'trans woman' is a concession, implying that these men are a subcategory of women, rather than of men. And that it's possible to 'trans' into this category. (This is why in radica
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by cluedos 4y ago
How so? 'Trans women' are male, by definition.
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by cluedos 4y ago
> And I believe pretty strongly that putting a trans woman in a cell with a cis male is more likely to result in assault than putting a trans woman with a cis woman. Why do you believe this? And, more importantly, why is it somehow the
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by cluedos 4y ago
No, these are important questions regarding policy around sex-based rights. The FOIA requestor did not ask for any private information, merely for the number of the people.