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A problem with left-hand dominance surfaces in grammar school.
When pens looked more like this
than this
Southpaws learning to write were confronted with their writing hand smearing the ink they'd just imparted to paper.
Pencil may have helped some. But the Southpaw's gooseneck grip is an imperfect solution.
QWERTY may help some.
Not uncommon in such social statistics.
The statistical% change reflects a change in ratio between those in the closet, vs those out. (Is that what it's called?)
In a population of hundreds of millions, the actual ratios are likely to be fairly stable over time.
- I'd be the world's worst woman.
Women have an entire subculture men witness, but are often oblivious to.
Our culture expects women to not be stupid,
but not be smarter than him, unless she can make it look like her good ideas were his.
Attractive, but passive. A woman forward enough to invite a man to date is often perceived as undesirable, less valued as a candidate.
Too many etc. Too many men sneer at women, for carrying a purse. Guys! Ever see cargo pockets on an evening dress?
Let the maelstrom continue. No human living today is likely ever to see the end of it.
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Written over a year ago so it's already out of date but Governor Cox of Utah explains why he vetoed the anti-trans sports bill:
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So it's not just the lake that's full of brine governor?
#623 demonstrates the adversity of leaving public policy decisions to elected officials.
We've tried circumventing this problem by for example giving some law judges life tenure. Such job security isolates precedent-setting justices from the social repercussions of their rulings. BUT ! That's a two-edged sword. Roe v. Wade in 1973, Dobbs v. Jackson in 2022.
I'm not endorsing Governor Cox' decision. But:
when opposing sides of a dispute more closely approximate parity, an elected official policy decision-maker may be less vulnerable to that decision determining, terminating his tenure at the next election.
It's a long-recognized binary: the difference between an elected official doing the job, vs keeping the job.
#623 may be the most extreme possible example, the interest of one, vs the interest of the entire population of Utah minus one. That's an oversimplification, but it's also an illustration.
We can wag our finger of righteous indignation in accusatory tone. Or we can seek a more constructive approach, find a sensible way to split the baby. What benefit to justice to be a career ender for the bureaucrats that dispense it?
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But he's absolutely correct.
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I may have been entangled by a double-negative here.
If the governor supported the rights of the minority of one, it should be recognized
even if I didn't
at first.
In eras past, the final authority may have been the patriarch, the shaman, the clan leader ...
In our Western 3rd millennium the criterion of truth is science. BUT !!
In the United States of America with the Founding principle that "all men are created equal",
and that we are entitled to "equal protection of the laws" (14th Amendment)
what ostensible reality would render legitimate discrimination?
If instead of law or principle we prefer to adhere to ostensibly divinely inspired ancient texts, then
"Do unto others as you would have them do unto you" can suffice.
Science informs us males are a minority in the human population. That does not justify discrimination against them.
If a man wants to seek the U.S. presidency, he should not be automatically excluded. Give the men a break ladies.
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Imagine actually believing that ....
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Let us hope children are institutionally more protected.
That aside, such ignorance as depicted in frame 1 of 4 in #630 is rarely glamorous.
By now the issue, the artificial adversity may be elucidated to a practical minimum.
Is there a practical way in a few short, declarative sentences to designate the dazzling bright light of enlightenment, viewed from here as merely a nearly imperceptible glint on the horizon?
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Some trolls tried to demean this trans athlete. They ended up dunking on themselves.
Cody Smith is a trans athlete competing on the men's track and field team at RPI. Some naysayers can't get their criticism straight.
A strong indoor season and a promising start to the outdoor campaign has Smith seeing a qualifying mark within reach.
Cody Smith is a trans man on the men’s track team at Division III Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in New York. As other trans athletes have before him, he’d found huge success on the women’s team before transitioning, and he has now found a home with the men.
The trans athlete shared his story publicly on Outsports just yesterday, hoping to inspire other trans athletes to be true to themselves and, if they can, live life openly.
Of course, in the current environment for trans athletes, some idiots were looking for .....
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Prisoners have no 'constitutional right' to sex changes, red-state AG tells court in brief backing Trump
Jamie Joseph / Wed, April 2, 2025 at 3:45 PM EDTFederal and state authorities are operating within the bounds of the U.S. Constitution when they deny federal prisoners access to taxpayer-funded sex change procedures for transgender inmates, Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita told a U.S. district court this week.
Rokita filed a 24-state amicus brief in support of President Donald Trump's legal effort to uphold his executive order, "Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government," which prohibits the use of federal taxpayer dollars for transgender procedures for inmates.
"If we're to lose this case, the floodgates will open, and you will see an unending amount of these cases being filed. Costs are going to go up for the state of Indiana to accommodate these unneeded, unnecessary and dangerous surgeries," Rokita told Fox News Digital in an interview Wednesday.
Rokita is also helping his state fight a two-year legal battle brought on by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) on behalf of a transgender inmate — convicted of killing his 11-month-old baby — to receive a sex-change surgery.
President Trump's ‘two-sexes’ executive order has faced opposition in courts.
"The politics of some of these courts these days, and playing into this is really a head scratcher," Rokita said. "But the chaos that would ensue in the prison system, with all these jailhouse lawyers, all of a sudden… the expense of the taxpayer would be astronomical."
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Prisoners have no 'constitutional right' to sex changes, red-state AG tells court in brief backing Trump
Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita is supporting President Donald Trump's legal battle to uphold his executive order prohibiting transgender treatments for federal inmates.
As a general rule, building perverse incentive into a social system is a bad idea. Providing citizens a motive for murder is fundamentally a bad idea.
Rokita is also helping his state fight a two-year legal battle brought on by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) on behalf of a transgender inmate — convicted of killing his 11-month-old baby — to receive a sex-change surgery.
If s/he wants a change, magnificent. Why should the People have to pay for it? I want a unicorn, and a rocket ship with a swimming pool in it. Just skim it right off the top of our $Trillion $dollar budget. I require the delivery be completed before noon tomorrow. And don't leave tire tracks on the lawn!