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@OkaayLik @kaitlinmaarie If a straight girl never kissed a boy, does that mean they’re not straight? If a straight girl never had a boyfriend, does that mean they’re not straight? If a straight girl never held hands with a boy, does that mean they’re not straight? They are straight. Same as bi girls

@mikethenavyguy The school board trustee did more than the two gender argument.. he caused nothing but issues in our school district. And here we have politicians on their soapbox with a small sliver of details trying to rally the masses, grandstanding over something they know little details on.

That's not factual. Not remotely.

It’s strange to live in a world where millions believe scientists, researchers, and doctors are all lying, but a fraud-convicted reality TV host is telling the truth.

This is your annual reminder that the boy in Nova Scotia was called homophobic slurs because he challenged traditional gender norms by wearing pink. The story has been watered down by school boards to make it more “palatable”. Thank you for coming to my #EdTalk.

Death penalty for women who have an abortion but not for pedophiles who rape kids???

If your version of Christianity is easily co-opted by wealthy oligarchs to justify the oppression of marginalized people around the world, then it is not the Christianity of Jesus.

Call me a radical left extremist, but I think the Surgeon General should be a licensed medical professional.

Here’s my takeaway from the State of the Union: NPR reports that the DOJ has “withheld” documents that include allegations that Donald “sexually abused a minor.”

Is this the same God and the same Jesus that tells you to vote for a rapist and a pedophile who murders his own citizens? Or one of the other 4000 Gods. Be specific.

@dfuhrer1yahooc1 @ikwilson Your ass foolery in Alberta has extreme negative consequences to all of us, so na. I’m good. I’ll keep keeping it real. With the historical and legal aspects.

@MattJDever @ikwilson Oh look another moron from Ontario chiming in and sticking his nose in where it doesn’t belong! You don’t live here so keep your dead end thoughts to yourself

Alberta independence does not undermine treaties. It respects both the treaties and the rights of First Nations First Nations would retain the right to decide whether to maintain the status quo with Canada, have Alberta assume federal responsibilities under the Treaties, or negotiate modern agreements with a new Alberta government. Many First Nations members are signing the petition because they want a better future than Ottawa has delivered. That deserves serious, respectful discussion — not fear-based rhetoric.

@HoleRat6031 @ikwilson And it’s the god that you and only you believe in I bet. Enjoy your mirror.

There is no definitive only a spectrum of slight and large deviations. That is what biology is. That is what humanity is. And then you take how we think things through and are affected by this gradiation of hormones and our life experiences you will see a diversity of concepts in gender expression that is also cultural. And in the end, what the hell does it matter to you how someone else express themselves or feels they are? That’s the part that you can’t unlock from so these are just useless discussions that I always regret getting into.

@MattJDever @daniellismore Seems you're slow What you just referenced is a congenital disorder. It shows how sex is expressed not what it is fundamentally Still waiting for that nuanced differentiation that is borderline not man or woman Cmon you can do it

One of the strangest things about the gender-critical movement is the level of science it relies on. Not advanced biology. Not medicine. Not endocrinology or neuroscience. Basic school-level biology. The kind most people last encountered around the age of 13 or 14. Chromosomes. XX. XY. A neat diagram. Lesson over. That is where the learning stops. Everything that comes after is ignored. Developmental biology. Prenatal hormone exposure. Brain differentiation. Receptor sensitivity. Intersex variation. Neuroanatomy. The reality that human sex development is a process, not a single moment. Modern medicine does not treat sex as a light switch. It treats it as a cascade. Here is the part that is almost never explained in public debate. All human embryos start from the same template. In the early weeks of pregnancy, every fetus develops along a default pathway. That is why men have nipples. They form before sex differentiation begins. No mystery. No ideology. Just timing. Genital development begins later, driven largely by hormones. If certain hormones are present, external genitalia masculinise. If they are not, they do not. This process happens in a specific window of pregnancy. Brain development related to identity, body mapping, and self-perception happens on a different timeline. It is also shaped by prenatal hormones, but not at the same moment as genital development. These processes are separate. They can align. They can also diverge. When they diverge, you get transgender people. This is not speculation. This is documented across endocrinology, developmental biology, and neuroscience. It is observed across cultures and throughout recorded history. It is why gender identity has a neurological basis and why attempts to suppress it consistently fail. The same biological reality that explains why men have nipples explains why trans people exist. Development does not happen all at once and it does not always line up neatly. Gender-critical arguments depend on pretending none of this exists. They collapse complex human development into a primary school diagram and then insist that anything beyond it is fantasy. That is why their explanations feel so confident and so shallow at the same time. They are arguing from a stopping point, not a starting point. From what they were taught before the science moved on. Medicine has moved on. Biology has moved on. The evidence is not new. What is new is how loudly people are insisting on staying behind. When people finally see the timelines laid out side by side early fetal development, genital differentiation, later brain differentiation the reaction is almost always the same. Oh. I didn’t know that. And once you know it, the idea that trans people are “pretending” or “ideological” stops making sense. This is not belief. It is biology playing out over time. You cannot argue human development back into a worksheet.

@HoleRat6031 @ikwilson Which god? Not declared. Which interpretation of a god? There is no starting point with this concept and no end point. So it’s moot.

@Itz_Donovan_ish @daniellismore Intersex is the name associated with with the 6% of us that are not solely and clearly binary - from a biological perspective. This is what you need science for dude. You need to continue learning.

@MattJDever @daniellismore Name the any other sex aside a man and woman Since it's more nuanced this should be simple I'll wait

@HoleRat6031 @ikwilson The crown owns it through treaty. Only through treaty can it be exchanged. Good luck convincing First Nations to do that. That’s why I say it starts and ends with First Nations. You can have any referendum you want but it is meaningless without first being agreed to by FN.

@Itz_Donovan_ish @daniellismore Neither is gender “real”. Thanks for proving a point by accident. And sex is far more nuanced than can be contained in a binary. You really should get out more and see the world and not just your village.

@MattJDever @daniellismore Colors are actually not "real" in a physical sense; they're a perception created by our brains. Light's wavelengths trigger cone cells in our eyes, and we interpret those signals as colors Nice attempt trying to sound smart Pack it up

@DefAMustRead @daniellismore You missed everything the OP said and you are completely wrong. Btw, some people can’t see all colours, or can’t see all colours in all lights. It’s a very crisp and clear comparison.

@MattJDever @daniellismore This is a terrible comparison. You can literally see other colors. Just like you can literally see someone's external genitalia which indicates their sex which is binary (excepting edge cases of disorders). You argue against yourself.

Trump is a second-generation immigrant.

evangelical youth pastors: “LGBTQ people are grooming children!” also evangelical youth pastors: *gets married to one of his former students after she graduates*

The irony is that vaccines have become a victim of its own success. They have worked so well - that we have lost our collective recognition and memory of how devastating these diseases can be.