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Yeah I’m just going to stay out of it today.

the second link (the first was to the study i already replied about) has this as the first sentence in their discussion "The results from our systematic review and meta-analyses do not allow us to conclude on the specific brain phenotypes differential for each of the groups covered by this review." so i finds nothing of support for your claim. you might want to read the entire thing. The third one has a tiny sample size that included trans women that have already undergone estrogen therapy which we know can change the brain, that isn't "innate" that happened after taking estrogen. there are other issues with the machine learning i could get into as well. The fourth one is a review of small-sample studies and many of them primarily included homosexual trasnssexuals (males attracted to males). we already know that sexual orientation does show brain differences, so those can't be attributed to gender identity. The fifth one found correlations between certain gene variants and being trans That does NOT mean those genes cause gender identity or that identity is innate. These types of studies are also notorious for false positives and non-replication. 6th study didn't open for me. bad link or something 7th study was the same one as the first one i replied about. 8th study was another duplicate 9th study was another duplicate so of the 5 unique studies I saw, none of them come anywhere near proving that trans is innate or that gender identity is innate.

@sleepymei3 @jfullerucla @admcrlsn they were hidden so i didn't see that they were there. i'll take a look

Searchlight did an extraordinary job with this polling. This is not an easy issue to test, and this is an excellent resource for candidates and the public. I was deeply saddened by a lot of the results. But harsh truths are still truths. It’s critical to know where the American public is at on these things so we can figure out the best path forward on codifying protections on anti-discrimination/safety, persuading the public, and determining the most effective strategic path forward in advancing the cause of trans rights.

@shawtown740 @antifawokesoros @Noahpinion @lauferlaw So why are democrats talking about it too?

@mentalext @antifawokesoros @Noahpinion @lauferlaw It's called a distraction. They don't care. It's like dangling keys to maga crowd.

Democrats have STILL not reckoned with how much people hate progressive ideology

@shawtown740 @antifawokesoros @Noahpinion @lauferlaw You don’t know what people are feeling or thinking

@unforgetablove @CollinRugg That’s the opposite of what she was saying.

@CollinRugg She is saying if she paints herself black does that put her in the pain and suffering black people been through

NEW: Brazilian politician Fabiana Bolsonaro performs blackface to show trans people that putting dark foundation on her face doesn't make her black, just like changing your body doesn't make you a different gender. The incident was reportedly a protest against the appointment of federal lawmaker Erika Hilton, a trans woman. "I am painted black on the outside. I identify as black. So why can't I preside over the anti-racism commission? Why can't I take care of this agenda? Because I am not black."

@itstuff48 @CollinRugg Tell that to all the people that like to compare the fight for trans rights to the civil rights struggles of Black people

@CollinRugg You can protest the trans thing without dragging black people into it. Ridiculous woman.

@RajanBarot24 @CollinRugg And trans women don’t have a clue of what women go through.

@CollinRugg A truly sickening stunt. The woman involved hasn’t got a clue about what it is to be a trans women and what they have to go through. Utterly shameful!

@Uberdad88 @CollinRugg They have zero room to talk anyway when they constantly are trying to bring up race in their little analogies. These men will compare themselves to black women not being able to use the women’s restroom in the past, which is about as racist as it gets. Self-serving hypocrites.

@CollinRugg I, as a black man in USA, am 1. 100% UN-offended by her use of blackface. l understand the argument that she was making. And it was an effective argument to all people with a brain. 2. 100% supportive of Fabiana. She is correct. 3. 100% against woman-face.

The irony of people upset at this is that trans activist and their allies are the first ones to bring up race when they’re trying to make analogies to support their ideology. they try to say that transphobia and racism go a hand in hand. They don’t like it bc she it was effective.

@CollinRugg Black here, I understand what she's doing, I'm also not offended and crying about "black face", I see that some people can't be told that what they're doing wrong, so they have to be literally shown through example and explained to.

@immyonboard @CollinRugg Yes, race is actually more real than gender. sex on the other hand is 100% grounded in reality which is why it matters not gender identity

@CollinRugg Race is something you a born with. Gender is a social construct. Two entirely different, non comparable things. … Also doing blackface is just racist no matter your intention.

@JCR1392 @CollinRugg Think again. trans people always bring up race when they’re trying to make their points. They compare themselves to black women not being able to use the women’s restroom. It’s sick.

@CollinRugg Transphobia and racism go hand in hand

@Zamayworld @CollinRugg Trans people also shouldn’t compare their plight to the struggles of black people. Which they ALWAYS do. I’ve seen them say that them not being able to use The women’s restroom is similar to how people didn’t want black women using the female restroom, which is BS.

@CollinRugg Blackface has a racist history. Using it to mock trans identity compounds harm.

@only1icon_x @CollinRugg Why? Tra’s constantly use race in their (bad) analogies.

@CollinRugg Don’t you think that she could have used other examples

@mahto_deepak91 @CollinRugg Tra’s are usually the first to use race as an example for their points

@CollinRugg Fabiana Bolsonaro’s blackface stunt sparked outrage, highlighting how her attempt to compare race and gender identity crossed a line and was widely condemned as racist and transphobic.

@dennisago_ @CollinRugg It’s an apt comparison. Very effective.

It’s a flawed comparison. Race and gender are not interchangeable concepts and reducing gender identity to something as superficial as “changing appearance” misrepresents what it means to be trans. The experiences of trans people, like those of racial groups, are rooted in lived reality not caricatures. Actions like this don’t foster understanding they deepen division. If the goal is meaningful dialogue, it should start with listening to people like Erika Hilton rather than dismissing their identity through provocation.

@daniellismore Your grandmother is a terf.

Terfs will die out. They will one day be seen like the kkk.

@jfullerucla @CapNKind @HistoryBoomer @TheBARPod @mattyglesias Yes women often kowtow to men

@CapNKind @HistoryBoomer @TheBARPod @mattyglesias I'm not really talking about whatever anecdotes you are. Statistically women are more supportive of trans rights than men are.

I'm not a radical guy—nor super brave—but the widespread attempts to silence women on this issue helped de-progressivize me. It's why I was a superfan of The Harpers Letter and insta-subscribed to @TheBARPod & @mattyglesias in 2020. The left trying to silence speech horrified me.

@bunchonumb3rs @HistoryBoomer @TheBARPod @mattyglesias Their beliefs are what everyone believed not too long ago

@HistoryBoomer @TheBARPod @mattyglesias TERFs are bad actually it’s really not relevant that a movement for bigots happens to be composed of women. Their beliefs are incompatible with what it means to live in an open society, that’s the essence of what liberalism is. It’s nonnegotiable.

@Superninfreak @HikoukiHikouki9 @hecubian_devil That’s not a good reason to give kids puberty blockers

@HikoukiHikouki9 @hecubian_devil The funny thing is that the trans people that are most likely to be accepted by median voters are trans people who pass, who are often the trans people who got puberty blockers as teenagers.

Opposing puberty blockers for minors but accepting it for adults is a real median voter moment lmfao

@shawtown740 @antifawokesoros @Noahpinion @lauferlaw yet strangely, everyone's talking about it. funny huh?

@mentalext @antifawokesoros @Noahpinion @lauferlaw So take it up with the school board! The rest of the country doesn't care.