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Sunday School January 19th 2025.

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    _Robert_
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    Yes Strega. I also will use their pronouns. Trans women were very much like my goth self for decades. They lived their lives without forcing mass acceptance. People like musician Wendy Carlos were a great inspiration to me. Somewhere down the line it all became very political and divided liberals.

    Look how long it took for gays and lesbians to finally be accepted in liberal cultures. Society slowly fell in love with gays and lesbians. Now all of that progress is in peril. Brute force Trans activism adopted a terrible strategy that triggered a visceral reaction.

     

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    jakelafort
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    Simon says: If people chose to be trans, rather than being born that way – so what? It’s a harmless thing in itself, and not like molesting children, the people who do that also being usually wired up that way for some reason.

    The conservatives just don’t like new and different things. It’s in the nature of conservatism. They believe in preserving the existing order, and I can see the merit in that. But a little compassionate flexibility wouldn’t go amiss.

    If we stop positing free will it has obvious benefits as aforementioned. Identify the causation and demonstrate it is beyond control or volition and the modern humans will eliminate stigma and blame.

    The notion someone would choose to be trans especially if they have surgery and go through all that pain is a little farfetched. Barring some need for masochistic relief it is a little crazy.

    You are not wrong about conservatism but you should not single out conservatism as resistant to change and invested in preserving the existing order. It is in the nature of ideology.

    #55969

    Unseen
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    According to a Trump executive order defining gender, we’re ALL female. Yup… you read that right. We’re all women whether we like it or don’t.

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    Strega
    Moderator

    @unseen that was perfect 😂

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    #55972

    jakelafort
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    It is gotta be great news for CNN and MSNBC to have Trump be our president.

    Shooting ducks in a bath tub and Trump deranged viewers inhaling the vituperation.

    #55973

    PopeBeanie
    Moderator

    We’re all women whether we like it or don’t.

    That is good.

    Sidenote, and revealing my geeky side, the mechanism they’re talking about whereby a fertilized egg (aka zygote) eventually becomes male or female is governed by epigenetics.

    Genes determine the basic design of the organism and are inherited in the next generation, but epigenetics is the mechanism, often subject to chance, that determines which genes get activated or inactivated throughout the lifetime of every cell in the zygote or body. Epigenetics, for example, govern the differentiation of stem cells into more specific kinds of cells like skin or brain cells. Epigenetics even determine whether a cell and adjacent cells become cancerous.

    In humans, epigenetics are not inheritable, but epigenetics are more often inheritable in plants and in some other animals.

    Hey man, real science, not pretentious science.

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