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At Rallies and Online, Transgender People Say They #WontBeErased
New York Times ^ | October 22, 2018 | Sarah Mervosh and Christine Hauser

Posted on 10/22/2018 3:19:12 PM PDT by EdnaMode

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To: EdnaMode

Bullies don’t like it when people stand up to them. It makes them very frightened.


21 posted on 10/22/2018 3:41:30 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Democracy dies when Democrats refuse to accept the result of a democratic election they didn't win.)
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To: EdnaMode

There is no such thing as “transgender”. One is either male or female as a immutable biological fact. To think otherwise is shear madness. Accept reality and live with it.


22 posted on 10/22/2018 3:41:40 PM PDT by Petrosius
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How many Transgender people are there that it will affect an Election??!!



23 posted on 10/22/2018 3:42:36 PM PDT by KavMan
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To: laplata

Yes, 0.0005 percent or thereabouts. Homosexuals are around 2% and yet they act like they are the majority.


24 posted on 10/22/2018 3:43:11 PM PDT by Reno89519 (No Amnesty! No Catch-and-Release! Just Say No to All Illegal Aliens! Arrest & Deport!y)
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To: EdnaMode

They’re what, less than 1/10th of 1% of the population. Right. Huge voting impact they’re going to have, ROFL!!!


25 posted on 10/22/2018 3:43:31 PM PDT by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: EdnaMode

“...to say transgender people cannot be expunged from society...”

Well, we used to lock up the mentally ill and get them the help that they NEEDED. Now, you can rally at the White House!

Keep making yourself visible, loud and proud. See how far that gets you.


26 posted on 10/22/2018 3:46:30 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin ( "Why can't you be more like Lloyd Braun?")
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To: EdnaMode
p14
27 posted on 10/22/2018 3:46:53 PM PDT by Snickering Hound
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To: EdnaMode

Homosexuals of all types make up just 2.5% of the population. Out of 320 million people, they number about 8 million total.

Transqueers are a small minority of that community. If I had to guess, I’d say they probably number a hundred thousand or less.

Statistically, they’re a vanishingly small segment of the overall population, but look at the huge amount of press they get. It’s ridiculous.


28 posted on 10/22/2018 3:47:15 PM PDT by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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To: EdnaMode

“L.G.B.T. activists mobilized a fast and fierce campaign...”

I imagine a lot of their activities are fast and fierce, especially at the gay bars. And some of their STDs probably are, too. Gross stuff.

That this unnatural, abnormal and minuscule portion of society gets so much media voice...well, it just damns media people as being as perverted as this subject.


29 posted on 10/22/2018 3:48:05 PM PDT by polymuser (Its terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged today. - Chesterton)
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To: Empire_of_Liberty

I think it’s more like giving gastric bypass surgery to an emaciated anorexic who thinks she’s “too fat”.


30 posted on 10/22/2018 3:49:58 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (Scratching my head.)
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To: fwdude

This is really ludicrous! These folks saying they won’t be erased......they are erasing themselves; nobody else is doing it! There has to be some sort of orderly system for gender identification & we have a good one already. A law officer or other official trying to identify someone according to their gender can’t read what crazy notions may be going on in their minds. I think the president is right in what he ordered. Keeps someone from doing something claiming he/she is a dog & only acted out of instinct & therefore can’t be held responsible. So it seems to come down to a matter of irresponsibility IMHO.


31 posted on 10/22/2018 3:51:14 PM PDT by oldtech
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To: EdnaMode
Schwarzenegger only erased in fantasy.


32 posted on 10/22/2018 3:51:56 PM PDT by Rebelbase (..)
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To: EdnaMode

They’re trying their hardest to erase themselves.


33 posted on 10/22/2018 3:55:41 PM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know. how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: EdnaMode

They’re free to call themselves whatever they want. And Trump has no objection to this. But there’s got to be a base for their administrative treatment and their technical classification. Why should a biological man have won a masters (40+) women’s cycling championship, for example, just because he said he was a woman. We disqualified the Russians from the Olympics several times for doing this, that is, giving male hormones to their female competitors to give them a muscle building edge...but even that didn’t change the fundamental build or structure of these women, so they were still female but just boosted up physically. However...take a look at the big guy in the bicycle race claiming he’s a woman (he hasn’t even had surgery or hormones) and beating these two real women. It will turn your stomach.

The baseline has got to be fundamental genetics. You are born male or female; in the cases of people who have both genitalia, a chromosome check could determine which is more dominant. The genitalia confusion is like having a sixth toe or one of the other abnormalities that occur at certain weeks of pregnancy. Once upon a time people didn’t know this, so the sex assignment was the choice of the family or the doctor (usually male). But we know a lot more now.

If some nutcase wants to think he’s a woman or she’s a man, fine...but the baseline for everything should still be their basic genetic sex characteristics if there’s any ambiguity in their physical features. Otherwise, it’s always been pretty easy for doctors or parents to tell a normal baby boy from a normal baby girl.


34 posted on 10/22/2018 4:00:06 PM PDT by livius
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To: EdnaMode

Can’t erase something that never existed.


35 posted on 10/22/2018 4:00:16 PM PDT by AlaskaErik (I served and protected my country for 31 years. Progressives spent that time trying to destroy it.)
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To: EdnaMode

Just read how more and more of them are wanting “reversals”, which sounds about like erasing a mistake. They can go to hell.


36 posted on 10/22/2018 4:07:44 PM PDT by bigbob (Trust Sessions. Trust the Plan.)
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To: EdnaMode

“in response to an unreleased memo”

Ok...


37 posted on 10/22/2018 4:08:20 PM PDT by Professional
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To: EdnaMode

Why ‘genitalia’ and not chromosomes?


38 posted on 10/22/2018 4:11:17 PM PDT by posterchild (anti-science: thinking a fetus is distinct from a tumor and sex is determined by chromosomes)
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To: EdnaMode

Your mental illness does not necessitate the rest of humanity to indulge your delusions.


39 posted on 10/22/2018 4:12:20 PM PDT by HamiltonJay
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To: EdnaMode

Since people are making up what they think they are nowadays I think I’ll be a bear so I won’t have to pay taxes.


40 posted on 10/22/2018 4:14:30 PM PDT by maddog55
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