Transgender rights discussion

[altodevil]

Chess seperates male and female players?

They have open (both) and women categories.

 

[Scandi Red]

I think that’s what they’re proposing.

Hmm, so trans men can compete with cis men, but trans women can't compete with cis women? People will surely protest against that proposal too.

 

[Pogue Mahone]

Hmm, so trans men can compete with cis men, but trans women can't compete with cis women? People will surely protest against that proposal too.

There’s no proposal they could make that people wouldn’t protest against.

 

[Scandi Red]

There’s no proposal they could make that people wouldn’t protest against.

That is true, but I think that this proposal genuinely might cause more protests. Sometimes consistent and complete injustice is better than half-measures.

But I don't have the solution to this so I'll leave the discussion to the very thick-skinned and (hopefully) wise.

 

[Duafc]

They have open (both) and women categories.

Why?

 

[altodevil]

Why?

To encourage more women to play chess

 

[Revan]

Why?

Cause male players are far better at chess than females. There has been no female who was a world champion in open category, and only one ever in top 10.

 

[Duafc]

To encourage more women to play chess

Yep fair - is it only recent they've added this category or has it always been split?

Why don't women like chess!?

Cause male players are far better at chess than females. There has been no female who was a world champion in open category, and only one ever in top 10.

Yeahhhh, but there's nothing that makes a male inherently better at a game like chess, it's just about interest/access surely?

 

[Revan]

Yeahhhh, but there's nothing that makes a male inherently better at a game like chess, it's just about interest/access surely?

I guess almost surely, yes. Same how males in general are more successful scientists, politicians, or company owners. Probably to do a lot with encouragements kids get, so a social construct engrained in our society.

 

[Scandi Red]

Why don't women like chess!?

For the same reason women "don't like" video games and coding. Once a space becomes too male dominated, particularly by the nerdy kind, it's not very tempting to join. For various reasons.

 

[Duafc]

For the same reason women "don't like" video games and coding. Once a space becomes too male dominated, particularly by the nerdy kind, it's not very tempting to join. For various reasons.

Harsh on @altodevil

 

[altodevil]

Harsh on @altodevil

I'm a woman

 

[Duafc]

I'm a woman

Fool me once

 

[calodo2003]

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[calodo2003]

The cruelty isn't the bug with right wingers, it's the feature...

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[Laurencio]

Republicans trying to score political points with evangelicals by attacking a minority is pretty much their core ideology at this point.

They desperately want liberals to move from Texas and Florida so that they don't end up losing every future presidential election. Those states have been trending towards Democrats for a good while. Their politics is very blatant and cynical.

 

[calodo2003]

Republicans trying to score political points with evangelicals by attacking a minority is pretty much their core ideology at this point.

They desperately want liberals to move from Texas and Florida so that they don't end up losing every future presidential election. Those states have been trending towards Democrats for a good while. Their politics is very blatant and cynical.

Unfortunately it is also the Hispanic vote that is assisting Republicans in those two states (more pronounced in FL).

Attacking a marginalized minority also helps in both states with Hispanics the same way the right is trying to woo evangelicals. Thumping has a receptive audience in those two states.

 

[calodo2003]

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[Sweet Square]

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Amazing how he predicted the future of stand up comedy.

 

[maniak]

Amazing how he predicted the future of stand up comedy.

So this is what kids call cringe...

 

[FrankDrebin]

So this is what kids call cringe...

Its a parody performance.

 

[maniak]

Its a parody performance.

Oh, I'd never heard of the guy.

 

[Eriku]

Amazing how he predicted the future of stand up comedy.

tbh Roseanne Barr is the past of stand up

 

[jeff_goldblum]

Regardless of whether it's found to be motivated by transphobic hate, the killing of Brianna Ghey clearly demonstrates the cost of all this bad-faith hand-wringing about self-ID.

Brianna's deadname is currently being splashed across the press and her death certificate will misgender her as a matter of public record as long as those records exist. Self-ID has never been about toilets or prisons, it's about trans people being afforded basic dignity.

 

[calodo2003]

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[maniak]

feckin hell, conservatives are obsessed with other people's genitals and what they do with them.

 

[Mike Smalling]

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Old woman yells at crowd.

 

[calodo2003]

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[Mike Smalling]

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The whole "problem" related to trans women in bathrooms is so artificial from a legal standpoint. I mean, isn't there only stalls or other individual locked spaces in women's bathrooms anyway? That should make sure no-one sees anything they don't want to, if everyone behaves. And if someone wanted to show their genitals in a bathroom that would a) Probably already be illegal, and b) Not exactly require anyone to be transgender.

These bigots seem to think that there are swarms of people out there willing to go through the process of changing their gender, just so they can wander into a women's restroom to flash their dick.

 

[calodo2003]

This all boils down to a fairy tale…

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[maniak]

fecking sadists, I have to stop coming to this thread, it just pisses me off.

 

[Semper Fudge]

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Awful. The cruelty is the point with these people.

 

[calodo2003]

Awful. The cruelty is the point with these people.

Yep. Cruelty is the feature, not the bug.

 

[calodo2003]

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[Jippy]

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Forget income inequality and gun deaths, let's punch down on marginalised groups and use the word 'woke' as loudly and frequently as possible.

 

[utdalltheway]

Typical GOP hate filled bs.

 

[calodo2003]

Most dangerous midget in my country right now - for what credible reason would the state of Florida need such information?

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