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bobalob

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    Comment #46139749

    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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    Comment #45499583

    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 safeg…

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    Comment #45499396

    > 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 c…

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    Comment #45499284

    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/xxyetyl1aewfij... ht…

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    Comment #45497398

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    Comment #45345982

    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…

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    Comment #45345662

    > 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 pu…

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    Comment #45337267

    > 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 passin…

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    Comment #45276917

    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 to…

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    Comment #45276220

    > 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?…

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    Comment #45008127

    > 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 d…

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    Comment #45001394

    Sex is neither a spectrum nor an identity.

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    Comment #44938922

    > 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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    Comment #44911143

    Going through normal pubertal development is in no way whatsoever a process of being "irreversibly mutilated". What a daft claim.

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    Comment #44552448

    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 tak…

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    Comment #44552192

    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…

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    Comment #44552079

    > 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 yo…

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    Comment #44546445

    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 …

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    Comment #44546388

    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. …

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    Comment #44546052

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    Comment #44314153

    This is not actually true, see for instance: https://www.city-journal.org/article/aclu-attorney-confesses...

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    Comment #44217960

    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 …

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    Comment #44212727

    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 b…

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    Comment #43943924

    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 …