I think I need to be the transexual in the room who points out that blocking testosterone and using estrogen instead has a massive effect on the body, and even more so if the person in question started blockers early and never had a testosterone driven puberty.

I don't know much about fantasy football but someone lacking the capacity to consider a common strategy seems like the exact type of person who would complain about the game being unfair as they get scholar mated for 5th time in a row (to mix in a chess analogy)

I'm being guilt tripped over using my 2 weeks of vacation before they expired at the end of the year, we adding 6k+ in medical debt and that's with insurance, and all my friends are afraid of being laid off while no one is hiring and then becoming homeless...

So... Ya... Things aren't going well

The report claims trans youth lack autonomy and the state must intervene to preserve an "open future" (i.e. cisgender future). It doesn't treat trans youth as people. It views them as confused subjects needing protection from their own identities. It's perverse.

trans peeps are the minutemen at bunker hill in the emerging multi-group democracy in the US

if they win

we all do

Any frilly crochet is also non Euclidean and hyperbolic!

Gives cold assessment, is accused of being emotional

What happens when former confederate states attempt to restablish the confederacy? I can't see a scenario of collapse where that doesn't happen.

The people you and I are more likely politically aligned with are in cities not just in the blue state but through the country

Breaking into successor states is choosing to abandon minorities in red states.

Food supply chain is a real issue as well.

Wildly different situations, wild to assume no one would fight to maintain the union, wild to assume things would not reflect the American civil war but would reflect the the dissolution of the USSR instead.

I mean that would be ideal but I don't think that happens without a civil war that ends with a 30-50%+ death rate which I'd like to avoid because that seems worse for everyone.

The tent of metaphor is bigger than it seems

What if I don't like tents, can we do picnics instead? The weather is nice still, maybe we can have a bonfire instead and burn all the tents.

What I don't get is why we need to share a tent to share a cause or goal

Like I don't need you in my tent for both of our tents to want to protect our republic. We can be aligned on that but not in a single tent.

Even if we are in a big tent we aren't all sitting at the same table

There's just the stink of sexism around the assumption that women past like college age are all mumsy figures who don't really understand all this complicated politics stuff but want everything to be nicer.

You say "ratio me" like it's a terrible horror to engage in public dialog. Lmao.