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Thanks for the posts - I have read what you have written and am considering it all, and I feel like I am still forming some of my opinions on this. I am going to cover the issue again if I see anything pertinent…

BTW I do tend to post articles from a variety of sources, and I very routinely get yelled at for postign “Russian propaganda” about the Ukraine war in spite of the fact that I have also posted things from transparently pro-Ukraine sources as well, and I will post crime stories that show Ministers, Priests, and Cops as the predators that they are when it is appropriate, but I also share relevant news about crime done by mirants - though this is the minority, I share crime stories of all types all the time…

Point being… If I do end up sharing something you think is inflammatory and upsetting, it is because I treat this website & the Fediverse as a place for archiving information & generating discussion, right, so I am not hoping to attack trans people or anything.

Nonetheless, bring the passion & fire to any future posts about this, lol, because it is enjoyable and you are well spoken.

That is certainly torturous and it helps the case that the confession may be invalid. Nonetheless, it makes sense why he is the leading suspect from what I remember.

Taekwondo and Kyukoshin karate have been thoroughly reformed martial arts for a while now and whatever lingering religious roots may exist in some practices have been completely expunged as far as I know…? Like, I would not be surprised if someone could bring up some old manual or origin behind a specific movement in a kata or a specific philosophy that is vaguely tied to an Eastern religious perspective, but I would also say that… This shouldn’t be problematic.

The Catholic church even ruled that Confucian ancestral rites were OK as it was a ceremony to honor the dead more than some fixed religious thing…

I do appreciate your concern, though…! And I do not want my answer to be the definitive one here… Just trying to help.

I think it is just an unavoidable fact that growing up with testosterone in your body fundamentally changes your skeletal structure and musculature, and that is why such an extreme minority in society is able to quickly begin dominating women’s sports and why you also have not heard any stories of transmen dominating men’s sports. It appears to also be the case that since biological men & women process testosterone differently, the baseline levels of testosterone that transwomen on HRT may still produce or receive (I am not sure how this works) will also be received differently.

Some problems cannot be fixed, right: a transwoman now does not have the same level of testosterone as men, and that means the transwoman’s training is greatly impacted. The ability to generate new muscle in the training season will be less… Yet, they also have unfair advantages when competing against women.

It is basically unfixable other than having transwoman specific categories or simply creating open leagues or leagues in which all participants accept these realities… This is not that problematic for non-contact sports, but can be deeply problematic if we are talking about women’s rugby or something.

And… when it comes to competition at high levels, it is far more complicated simply because there is more emphasis on who is the fastest woman/man? Who is the strongest woman/man? Which nation has the best women’s basketball team…?, etc., and people prefer a more narrow definition of this.

So, what can we do?

Let me end it by saying…

• Lesbians are probably over-represented in most women’s sports at the top levels (I have heard informal estimates of around a quarter of WNBA players being lesbians and this generally checks out)
• Women who are unfairly subjected to body image issues are disproprotionately top tier athletes
• Lesbians & women who experience discrimination and unfair characterization as overly masculine or ugly due to their size or musculature are statistically the greatest victims of transwomen in sport…

This is not to say “Transwomen are villains!”

This is to point out that a very vulnerable community is also negatively impacted by this…

I can’t help but think of a few girls in my high school who were tall, athletic, and masculine. I can’t help but think of my aunt who was a jock… They have faced a lot of name calling and criticism, and have often felt inadequate for many men as women, as losers… Athletics was the one area they brought great credit on themselves, their schools, their families, their nations, even…

Women athletes have often been rebels and nonconformists facing an uphill battle… There’s something special about that, which makes it more painful for people to see them displaced…

This is not meant to say, “Oh, fuck you guys,” but rather to outline what I think is a real issue.

I apologize for not responding earlier in the week - I have been busy

If you look at my posting history in the Sports section, you’ll see that I posted very frequently about the WNBA season because I do watch and follow the WNBA… I’ve been very excited about the fact that Caitlin Clark & Angel Reese are going to be such superstars advancing the game to the next level and making it highly marketable. I also closely followed Rhonda Rousey and Joanna Jedrzejczyk, but only recently am I coming back to MMA as something I actively follow and so I am not that familiar with the current women’s fighters (as I have also lost familiarity with all but the most standout men’s fighters that are unavoidably given more attention than women fighters).

Women’s sports are great… And, just like lower tier soccer, college football, etc., athletes with less physicality than the superstar elites are playing a kind of different game with different possibilities, different limitations, different opportunities…

It creates different strategies, different tactics, different approaches…

Our local soccer leagues are nothing in comparison to the EPl or La Liga - our best players all get poached to go to leagues that are higher paying… But I still attended religiously when I had more free time, and was lucky to see them win two championships in person… The fact taht “This is not the EPL!” bothers some people, and they never show up or care about our local league, but this is a garbage attitude of garbage people…

Which is also exactly why people who think that since women cannot compete with men in basketball their league is not worth paying attention to. It’s the attitude of people who do not love the sport for what it is…

Real sports fans find themselves distracted and ready to stop and watch when they see schoolkids playing, just the sight of 10 year olds kicking around a ball is enough for them to want to see what happens… Because it is the sport itself that matters.

Long rant, I know, but I dislike being accused of this…

Great post - I figured that this would be the case based off of the idea that, whether you are male or female, certain markers can only be passed on through father/mother…

Your haplogroup, for instance, always comes from the father. It would seem to me, then, that things like haplogroups would only be linked to male genetics, and simply smushing together two men’s genetics would result in things like repeat haplogroups and a total lack of mtDNA.

Perhaps, eventually, technology would exist that could translate the haplogroup of a female into the genetic code necessary for reproductive genetic combination, and likewise extract female-specific reproductive code from a male and do the same… But yeah, I imagine that would also just be the point of full genetic customization from top to bottom, and so the ability to do that would no longer be surprising but simply something that has come to us as a byproduct of advanced gene editing.

I am not an expert on this but would you associate Spring with being in a garden ?

Oh, come on, everybody recognizes the Gigachad boyz!

To be fair, the pledge is simply loyalty to specifically the 1st and 2nd amendments, which is already the law of the land.

It’s advocacy for the Bill of Rights.

You could theoretically have a Tim Walz style Democrat claim that they are also upholding the 2nd amendment. It’s just not a talking point for Democrats.

It might be the case, though, that if the election is lost specifically because of the Democrats not addressing the rights of Palestinians, it could result in the Democrats telling AIPAC to f*** off and turn the Democrats to a more authentically left wing party.

The turn toward populism of the Republicans was spurred by the overwhelming success Trump had blowing up neoconservative narratives.

Excellent information, thanks!

I had read an article earlier saying that the details were not yet going to be provided…

I imagine that locals to the area could be talking about this informally and that it has made its way to the internet, and so I thought that these details could theoretically be verified and emerge… But I am completely open to the idea that this is just a fabrication from some guy on the internet.

So, I filed it in ‘random shit.’

If it turns out to be true, you can thank the internet for the inside details before the media. If it turns out to be false, you can thank the internet for a horrifying & thrilling read.

This is probably not quite rock bottom for everyone involved yet, but we are getting closer.

There’s now lots of people who talk about the nuances of masculinity. It’s hard to deal with the topic and not find an earnest appeal to men to be in touch with their emotions and sensitive, logical, finely tuned men who understand themselves holistically… So, that’s good.

Obviously, there are still people who treat the topic in a way that is too shallow or pedantic and only portray masculinity in a way that is inaccurate and harmful to the idea of masculinity… But it’s easy to bypass that.

So, while there are still clear examples of it being misunderstood or people taking it too far, it’s not as big of an issue as it used to be, I think.

I think people are too adverse to this, even if it is technologically possible, because having natural parents and being born through a natural way is virtually a right.

It is emotionally traumatic for people to grow up without parents (whether adopted or not), so I do not see it as a choice people will be ready to make.

Instead I think they will move towards incentivizing and rewarding natural birth & childrearing.

But it’s a good discussion topic, yes indeed.

A few times.

But then I realized I was being petty… Generosity is its own reward.

Funny tee shirts.

This is particularly wild:

Nowadays, four different ant groups cultivate four types of fungi. Some insects even influence how the fungi grow so they can produce certain nutrients.

“When we cultivate them in the lab, the fungi take the expected form of hyphae. However, inside the colony, one of these hyphae types becomes swollen and forms structures similar to grape clusters, rich in sugars. We still don’t know how the ants do this,” Kooij explains.

lol I really smiled at the King Cobra reference. Thank god it’s not him. I need his content from time to time.