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So much for trans men being a recent fad

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LAURA MAUD DILLON / TRANSGENDER PIONEER

Laurence Michael Dillon, born Laura Maud Dillon (1915 – 1962), was a British physician and the first transgender man ever to undergo a phalloplasty (meaning, basically, a doctor constructed a penis for him from scratch, and grafted it onto his body).

Dillon had long been more comfortable in men's clothing and felt that he was not truly a woman. In 1939, he sought treatment from Dr. George Foss, who had been experimenting with testosterone to treat excessive menstrual bleeding; at the time, the hormone's masculinizing effects were poorly understood.

Foss provided Dillon with testosterone pills but insisted Dillon consult a psychiatrist first, who gossiped about Dillon's desire to become a man, and soon the story was all over town. Dillon fled to Bristol and took a job at a garage.

The hormones soon made it possible for him to pass as male, and eventually the garage manager insisted that other employees refer to Dillon as "he" in order to ....

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Shiftless2 said:
"So much for trans men being a recent fad" S2 #845
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This comment has me puzzling over these occasional mismatches between physical body, and emotional perspective.
Some of us are lucky to have both in accord.
What insight into evolution is provided by these minority mismatches?
 

Pete Buttigieg acknowledges 'fairness issues' with trans athletes in women's sports​

Buttigieg joins a growing list of Democrats speaking out on the controversial sports issue
By Jackson Thompson Fox News / Published July 29, 2025 6:03pm EDT
US Olympic and Paralympic Committee bars transgender women from competing in women's sports
Prominent Democrat and former U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg weighed in on the debate about transgender athletes competing in women's sports.

"Chess is different from weightlifting, and weightlifting is different from volleyball and middle school is different from the Olympics. So, that’s exactly why I think that we shouldn’t be grandstanding on this as politicians. We should be empowering communities and organizations and schools to make the right decisions."
"Around sports, … I think most reasonable people would recognize that there are serious fairness issues if you just treat this as not mattering when a trans athlete wants to compete in women’s sports," Buttigieg said.
The Democrat then agreed that parents who have complained about trans athletes competing against their daughters "have a case." However, Buttigieg also argued that politicians shouldn't be dictating policy to determine whether males can compete in women's and girls sports.
"And that’s why I think these decisions should be in the hands of sports leagues and school boards and not politicians … in Washington trying to use this as a political pawn," Buttigieg said.
www.foxnews.com

Pete Buttigieg acknowledges 'fairness issues' with trans athletes in women's sports

Democrat Pete Buttigieg joined a growing number of party members expressing concerns about transgender athletes competing in women's and girls sports.
www.foxnews.com www.foxnews.com

HOW TRANSGENDERISM IN SPORTS SHIFTED THE 2024 ELECTION AND IGNITED A NATIONAL COUNTERCULTURE

- Oh Pete -
 
Fairness - always comes back to why isn't the podium completely dominated by trans athletes?

And if you want to argue that they have some sort of "unfair" advantage how do you address the cis woman whose natural testosterone levels are off the charts by female standards? Or someone like Michael Phelps (arms too long, hands and feet too big, joints overly flexible, a body that produces less than half the lactic acid that a normal person does)?

Face it, no matter how hard the average person trains they'll never win an Olympic medal.
 
Calm seas do not a skillful mariner make. English proverb

If we subjected all the nation's children to opulent pampering, after graduation would be baptism by fire, plunging them into the Trump inferno unprepared. BUT !
It wouldn't make sense to subject grammar school students to the adversities of Marine boot camp either. So where should we draw the line?

I favor the progressive gradient, pampered at birth (don't care much for the pun), but challenged enough in successive years from K - 12 to be adequately prepared for HS graduation, and the adult world beyond.
And in that case, does it make sense to exclude our young citizens from reality, leaving them to be shocked to learn Brian has two Dads? Or that Brian is transitioning to Bryanna?

Easy questions, easy answers?
The issues here aren't easy.
Secretary Buttigieg can hardly be deemed a bigot. His voice is one more in the chorus.
 
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