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Not sure if you even read all I said. But I said the same, heck I can just look at my own family and say I'm much bigger than any of the females. At the same time being trans female, you aren't even comparable to men in strength and speed. Organizations come up with nonsense policies because they look to the government, whose policies are also nonsense. They're made up by government bureaucrats that are not transgender or non-binary and therefore have no understanding. Sex/gender are used interchangably on IDs and birth certificates when they are not the same thing for trans and non-binary. A large part of this is because of past discrimination, stigma around the fact that the two can be different. In the long run, we would be better off having both sex and gender on documents/IDs where it's necessary (like medicine, sports), and just gender in the context of everyday life. Or we take the direction of Asian countries and just conflate them into a third gender, but the West doesn't really have the cultural history for that to take off IMO

There are only two kinds of people who care so much about LGBT issues in 2023. 1) Religious nuts, who mostly want to keep to themselves 2) Closeted and/or damaged LGBT people, who end up being crazy activists or anti-activists You are in camp #2. The majority of trans would not agree with competing in sports universally. It's only the minority, who are the most vocal who get the attention

There was a time people said the same about gays like you, that it was a mental disorder and they should be locked up or gassed. But on a more serious note, I can tell you aren't enjoying your Stockholm syndrome at all with more unhinged posts by the day. You act the exact same way that other unhinged LBGT activists act. For most of them it's the wishful thought that if they could just punch all the facists or cancel them, all their past suffering would go away. Only instead in your case it's fantasies about discriminating towards other minorities like trans, for example disowning your own kids for not being honest enough if they were trans. Because deep down you want revenge for the past by inflicting it on others. It doesn't bother me in the least to say that trans who didn't get hormones/blockers before puberty shouldn't be competing in elite sports. But it does bother you to think that those who did are virtually indiscernable. Because those kids wouldn't have to suffer what you did, and you feel they should have to

Blah blah blah more 'only biological sex matters' simplistic tripe from the far right. Btw, you're deluding yourself if you don't think they'll come for you too. There must always be an other.

Makes me wonder what the default rate is going to be on student loans in a few years. Especially with interest rates rising. The problem is probably even worse than we realize

Though if you're talking high school sport the assumption would be that trans would be on hormones since before puberty. So there's basically no advantage in that case. Depends some on the sport too obviously, there's no one size fits all. Banning transgender from all sports even recreational is a pretty extreme take. Though even before transgender athletes got more into it, this was an issue that sports organizations didn't really solve. Allowing intersex to compete in racing (Castor Semenya) against women for example. What I want to know is the mindset of these athletes. Is there really any glory in it? It just seems so odd to me from a psychological angle

I don't understand your point at all? I'm saying that if you've gone through male puberty you shouldn't be competing against females in elite sports. Maybe that wasn't clear. That's not a discriminatory take, as many people who aren't born with an athlete body also can't be elite athletes ever. There's a million other careers one can seek out. It's not the past where options were far more limited

Speaking for MtF, if you're on hormones you're going to be a lot closer to a girl in terms of sports performance than a guy. The strength loss is significant, up to half. But at the elite level it's too much an advantage. An average sized male is 99th percentile for height/weight female.

It's absolutely true. The far right believes male/female is entirely biological and medically transitioning means nothing. Even if you could never tell on the street that I was ever male. And the far left believes it's entirely in the mind, that you just have to believe and that's what you are. Both of these views are very ridiculous and not helpful. In the case of professional paid sports as a career, sex should be the primary determinant obviously and not gender. For recreational fun sports like in school or extracurricula, it should be gender. Eventually we'll reach a middle ground but right now the extreme views seem to get the most attention - which isn't really what the majority think about it all

I think the Liberals get more seats than the NDP at these polling numbers. Liberals have strong regional support in Quebec and the NDP are more spread out. Not that it would matter a lot, a majority is a majority.

Yea the organizations should serve the athletes. Today it seems most such organizations serve themselves first. A lot of this stems from conflating sex and gender. The right and left both do it. The right by classifying by sex only, and the left by using gender only. There are issues where both need to be considered to make sensible and fair decisions.

Should have to have medically transitioned before puberty to be eligible. I mean if a woman took testosterone for years they would be banned for life. Even on hormones, the growth advantage in sports without weight limits is significant. The percentile curves for men and women are just so far apart even at the elite ranges. Anyways most trans athletes are more tragic than inspirational. They don't have anything else to aspire to be...

Beer is gross anyways, bitter swampwater. Never saw why it was so popular. Lots of ad money making it 'cool' I guess Hard liquor is much better, or wine

Comparing the capabilities of Hamas to Nazi Germany is laughable. Nazi Germany was the most technologically advanced country of its time, with a population ready and trained for the biggest land war humanity has ever seen. Gaza is 2 million people in a prison camp with no industry to speak of. No capability to make its own food or fuel, and no official government to organize under. A better analog for Hamas would be the IRA

The problem is Israel isn't strong enough to do it humanely, so they're cutting corners. The IDF wasn't and isn't prepared for this. It's been acting more as a police force than as an army capable of a ground invasion. A normal government would call it a truce/treaty, but Netanyahu's political survival depends on the war. Once it's over he's done politically. His approval is 20% domestically.

50% of electricity consumption perhaps, but this isn't all energy consumption which is what really matters for the environment. We'll be lucky to hit 25% renewables for all energy consumption (heat, transportation, electricity, refining etc) by 2030.

Mixed on UBI tbh. I think part of the reason birthrates are low is income insecurity. Most employers don't guarantee long term job security. And UBI can help people get back on their feet while looking for a job. On the other hand, it can be a disincentive to work at all. Guessing it won't be truely universal though, the cost of that would be extremely high. It'll probably be some overly complex system adding to those that we already have, therefore making the bureaucracy even worse. Generally agree with the sentiment that most of the social assistance programs should be consolidated (EI, disability, income assistance, tax breaks, etc) and simplified. There's a huge cost to administer the complexity. It'd be easier to cut all that and just cut everyone a cheque

Israel simply isn't strong enough to quell Gaza while defending itself from all the other militias in the area. They don't really have a plan in any of this. Wouldn't be surprised to see Netanyahu's government fall within six months. 85%+ of Israelis see his government to blame for the terrorist attacks, and that's in addition to the corruption charges which drew widespread protests prior. But anyways, it seems like posturing to me at this point. Israel, like most Western governments, doesn't have the stomach for tens of thousands of casualties which is what a Gaza invasion would be. We'll see though, war's very unpredictable by nature.

At this point, they would vote for succession to make their own country. Too much bad blood now. There probably was a point where reconciliation was possible. And they would likely make a peace treaty like most of their neighbors have. Hamas would be lucky to get a majority, they're seen as corrupt.

The difference is they get to vote. Palestinians don't get to vote in Israeli elections. That in turn leaves violence as the only way to effect change.

It's the reality of every war. No country/people fight to the last person. And yes, the casualities have been relatively low in most of their wars to date. At least compared to the amount that would die invading Gaza. It wouldn't be hundreds or thousands like previous wars, it'd be tens of thousands. I don't think they have the stomach for that. But I'm also unsure where this war is going. I don't think Israel is strong enough to achieve their objectives, and Western support is mixed.

The closest modern analogy might be the IRAs battle against the UK. It took thousands dying over decades before both sides said enough bloodshed. For Israel, they haven't suffered those levels of casualties yet. But it's likely they will soon, given that they did not go into Gaza and win decisively already. They're already evacuating towns near Lebanon, it's looking like things are going to get much worse.

Except that isn't true. Mulroney and Harper both increased Canada's debt to GDP. Chretien was the only one to really reduce it. And the Trudeaus increased it the most of all. So I'd say there is little correlation.

Pierre Poilevre reminds me of Columbo in this video, except the cigar is an apple instead. I keep expecting him to ask the interviewer 'just one more thing...'. I don't know if that's good or bad, lol

Honestly I don't think Israel is strong enough to quell Gaza while also defending their other borders. They would have went in day one with a plan, but they never had a plan and it shows. As Trump said, they were not prepared. And by the time they will be prepared, their neighbours and Hamas will be equally more prepared. In the NDP is right, a peace of some sort will have to be made. Happens eventually in all conflicts. Though remains to be seen how much death each side will accept before they realize that.