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Apple Among 53 Companies Supporting Transgender Student in Supreme Court Case
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That is the ONLY question and the answer is no. Regardless if they "legally" change their birth certificate or not, they are and will always be biologically the sex they were born with. It's really that simple.
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You haven't a clue. And why your candidate lost.
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Why exactly? Because you don't like it? Suck it up.
Wait a minute!! Race and gender are NOT logically equivalent.
People are living in a fantasy land if they truly believe that anything is "what they feel like it is"
I'm sorry but this level of detachment from reality is truly mental illness.
The product of this insanity is chaos.
No, the topic is not about feelings. Law does not care about feelings.
But I'll follow your train of thought...if it's about transgender feelings whether they feel safe or not, how about my feelings and my kids feelings whether they feel safe or not?
Quote the supposed confession of btfo.....
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Psycho alert, writing people off entirely due to an assumed party affiliation. Talk about wagon before the horse.
Nobody takes you seriously with that self-entitled, SJW, echo chamber attitude. Confirmation bias and cognitive dissonance has literally ruined you and the way you interact in society. Ever heard of see no evil hear no evil? Except you are the exact opposite of that, judging by almost every single post you've made in this thread alone.
Thats just the truth whether you like it or not.
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Not answering speaks volumes.
Thanks for playing.
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Cool. Get ready to live with it. Because states rights on this issue will be struck down by the supreme court. Even with a conservative court.
Your original point was brains are inherently male or female and cannot be surgically changed to the opposite, the implication being that transgender individuals are illegitimate due to there being a concrete male or female brain. That's untrue.
First of all, we are just scratching the surface in our understanding of how the human brain functions. Statements like male and female brains being different are based upon statistical observations rather than a complete understanding of the full functionality of the brain. More recently - as was highlighted in the article I linked - we've started to understand that there is not a "male" or "female" brain but rather individual regions of our brains can exhibit behaviors that are statistically more masculine or feminine as far as our understanding of such limits. So you could very easily have one region of your brain that is 80% masculine leaning and another 75% feminine and a third 60% masculine etc... The brain is a mishmash with no clear definition of man or woman, just statistical anomalies that are pervasive across the entire population. None of this is contradicted in the articles you linked, in fact the article I linked builds upon these previous assumptions and expands our knowledge of the topic.
Now, I'm going to make a leap here but with those data it is entirely plausible that a portion of the population could have brains that formed in such a way that they absolutely feel feminine or masculine despite the genitalia they possess at birth.
Finally, although surgical alteration of the brain to affect gender is currently not in the realm of possibility the brain has also been found to be incredibly plastic, to the point of documented cases of the blind "seeing" (measured via MRI as stimulation of the area of the brain associated with vision along with descriptions from individuals that they "see") via auditory signals similar to bats' sonar. There have been studies that the way in which we think and perceive change greatly over the span of our lives. We know that our chemistry affects the functionality of our brains via both medications and chemical abuse. Again, it is fully plausible to think that various gender reassignment treatments (e.g. hormone therapy) could alter an individual's brain; in fact I would expect as much.
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The prejudice is equivalent. It is based on unsupported fears.
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Mmm, not really. Might want to check on that again.
Last year the supreme court sided with a school banning a transgender from going into the boys bathroom. Oh and thats with conservative judges and liberal judges.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/...ourt-transgender-bathrooms-virginia/88037966/
Don't you just love how they think they know everything? Even when proven wrong.
As a transwoman with actual experience in this issue, I can tell you that it is NOT a choice. What part of my life makes me a deviant ? You don't know anything about me.
It's always interesting how the argument is always claiming special rights. That tired argument was used over and over regarding gay marriage. It's about EQUAL rights.
So looking at my profile pic, do you -really- think I belong in the mens room ? Hell no, I would opening my self up to all sorts of mindless attacks from bigots.
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Talk all you want about that in church or with those who believe in your religion. Not everyone follows your religion and not everyone is religious. Not a single thing in that book can have a bearing on public policy.
Regarding your "looks", no offense but that's how you choose to make yourself look. How you look has zero to do with biology.
If you have a penis you go to male bathrooms and if you have vagina you go to female bathroom and Apple should remain off bathrooms and concentrate making good tech devices
Can the mods please make it a rule that these types of posts are not allowed?
So, do you want a man with a beard to walk into the women's room because they were born with a vagina ? They belong in the mens room like they identify.
Do you want me in the mens room wearing my fishnets, skirt and heels ?
Transgender folks have been in the bathrooms for pretty much ever. It wasn't a problem until the GOP lost the battle on gay rights and decided to attack LGBT on another front.
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Why are you so concerned or interested in the genitals of another human in the bathroom ?
Apple like many other bay area companies protect their employees rights. They respect their employees and don't want to see them mistreated. A good company produces great products _AND_ treats their employees well. I don't just support Apple because of their products. It's also because they treat them employees with dignity and respect.
Companies that don't support my rights, don't get my money. I applaud them for doing the right thing.
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Are you a doctor ? Because you seem to know more than my doctor. What else do you know about being trans that my doctor and psychologist doesn't know. Maybe you can give them some tips.
What research have you done on the human brain that says it's a choice ?
Not a choice, not deviant, trans people are entitled to equal protection under federal law. Don't be an ignorant hater robot.
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Why don't you pay attention instead of acting out like a whiney, entitled brat. I said, based off YOUR post about how YOU LOOK. How YOU CHOOSE to "look" is up to you, not biology, stop that idiocy.
Gender is state of mind and transgender minds are wired to the gender they transition to. The body parts and hormones they have are irrelevant compared to what they know themselves to be. Just respect that.
As a human, an earth citizen, a male, a bisexual, an atheist person..you name it I do have a problem having females disguised as males entering men’s bathroom it makes feel very very uncomfortable so it’s my right to express my feelings to refuse females to enter men’s bathrooms. So it’s my feelings against hers I guess. Unless she becomes biologically a male she goes to female bathroom.
Okay, I see "suggests" a lot. That's not science. Astronomers don't "suggest" that the Earth is 93 million miles from the sun. That's a fact. Suggestions are not facts.
Whatever you say. As some others here keep saying, don't like it? See ya.