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That would have been good to know four years ago, if the child had been interested in rugby and her parents had been posted to Australia.

Deciding "that" ? No. Asking the organizers to let her try out for the team that exists in her age a weight category.

Yes, it's been floated once or twice. However.... Besides the problems mentioned by TheVat, here are a couple more. While children who have been assigned the wrong letter at birth usually realize it quite early - between 3 and 7 years - they are not yet articulate or forceful in communicating this. They do express it in conforming to the stereotypical habits of their own gender identity https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1909367116 but their family and community may not accept this as an indication that the child needs his or her assignment changed. They don't often get the support they need to assert their identity. (This communication issue is complicated by several factors, of which prejudice is only one.) Meanwhile their physical development may or may not reflect their psychological development. In the 6-10 range, when children typically show an interest in sports, and at which the exceptionally talented should start building their skill-set for the elite levels, growth patterns vary a great deal in both cis boys and girls and incorrectly assigned children. At 7 or 8 years, secondary sexual traits are not a factor in their physical abilities. But it it's already a major - if not the single most important - factor in how adults classify them. It is at this stage where it's crucial to let each child find their own level, style and peer group. Even if you insist on segregating boys and girls once they approach puberty, at least let them all be normal, feel normal, be recognized as normal and participate normally until then!

Therefore: God=nothing

That's why her parents were so surprised, and a little upset, that they wouldn't let her play in France. But they were guests and had no say in the matter. That wasn't edited. It's a stone lie by the same bot that wouldn't let me edit last time. Thing needs a whack upside the chassis.

At age 8, she or he may not know what gender they're supposed to be. All they know is, they want more than anything to play the game they love and they're not allowed even to try out. For a little kid, that hurts. A lot. It's that simple.

Who gives a flying fig about your NRL? And why do you expect them to?

Apparently, kids who choose the wrong game for their birth-assigned gender deserve to be disappointed. the bot ate my homework

Apparently, little kids who choose gender-inapproriate games deserve to be disappointed.

You're welcome, but the rest of the message is relevant also. I am not a citizen of the United States and have zero effect on American lawmaking or political practice. So I'm giving up something I never had.

It's never been adherence to a principle that underpins the right-to-gun faction when they cite the second amendment; they're using it as a slogan: meaningless in itself; powerful on a flag, bumper-sticker, or tractor-hat that unite and interest bloc.

Giving up. Actually, it's nothing to do with me, except for the increasing spillover that's been affecting our big cities, so it would be presumptous of me to make any suggestions. But there have been lots of suggestions and proposals and initiatives over the years from sensible, honest Americans in positions far better placed to implement those suggestions - to little avail. I don't see any hope in bandaiding : gun violence is just one dramatic symptom of profound systemic malaise (In cinematic terms: the sudden spontaneous nose-bleed that signals an outbreak of plague.) The young Democratic firebrands know exactly what needs to be done. The question is whether they can build a big enough popular landslide to get it done. before their conservative counterparts do.

One measure that actually might just squeak past legislatures is a license like the one you get for driving, where you have to pass an operator's proficiency test. Of course, people deliberately kill other people with cars, too, so level of skill doesn't always translate to public safety. But it might prevent some of the accidental shootings.

No kidding! It wasn't a suggestion. It was a comment on the terminology "responsible gun ownership." Agreed. How's it working out, so far? Right. No problem finding the money to bullet-proof a hundred thousand largish buildings. And I'm sure the children can have just as much fun in recycled fortress air as they would outdoors. But I suspect teachers already have more job description than would allow for a full course in combat training, and you may have trouble finding the money for extra pay. (Actually, I'm surprised there are any teachers still working in US public schools. They must be as dedicated as nurses -- but I doubt most of them up for prison guard duty.) By all means! I'm all for it. Especially as the current trend is going in the opposite direction. Who's kidding whom? There is no 10-year agenda, never mind 70. Of course. Absolutely. Maybe not perfect, but you're likely to find that they all have better overall health-care system and better access to counselling for troubled youth.

Okay, fine. All the other kinds of gun kill people too, and normal people shouldn't have any of those guns in their homes, where the five-year-old can get hold of them and kill his daddy for fun. I wasn't on about the particular gun, but about the framing of the terms. The culture - all cultures - has/have been permeated by violence for millennia, by one means of communication or another. Public executions by fire, guillotine, impalement or drawing and quartering have always been popular entertainment. Good luck trying to regulate content on the internet! What happens on the stroke of 21 to turn sociopaths, wingnuts and assholes into good citizens? Over 21, they just become more efficient at killing: an adult mass shooter acting in cold blood is a lot more dangerous than a teenage hothead. . https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/vio.2018.0021 Home schooling may be lonely, but it sounds less soul-destroying for the children than being forced to enter a fortress every morning. That part's easy. Okay, not so much easy, given the first amendment, but the mainstream press are already up against the paywall, so they can be intimidated. Except FUX broadcasting, maybe. And Sinclair. But what about the non-mainstream sources of public information? Sure... also kidney transplants and long-term care for chronic illness.... Whenever universal health care kicks in. None of that regulation can happen without a huge electoral and legislative reform. And I don't see the wealth and power and fearless popular support to bring that about.

Please be selective in the flinging of pronouns! Won't help. They've been claiming for some time now that any regulation - all the way down to the restriction of military-style assault weapons - is a blow to the rights of "responsible gun-owners" (i.e. their membership and voters) Does this mean (all appendages crossed, where too short for braiding) that his minions are turning against him, like the Georgia voters did? Or is Pence back in the crosshairs?

Why would you think that? Is there a historical basis for this belief? What is the reason women chose this option when/if they had other options? I'm not saying it's wrong; just that it's contrary to anecdotal testimony I've heard*. It also sounds vaguely like the seperate-but-equal arguments for racial segregation - the result was separation but no equality. *Anecdote very far from top elite professional world-class competition, though international. A young friend, who was eight years old at that pre-Covid time, was temporarily relocated to France with her parents. She loves hockey. They do have a Moustiques (under 9) league, but there were not enough girls in the school district to make up a team and they wouldn't even let her try out for one of the boys' teams. So, tough. She missed two years of development, at a critical age, in the sport at which she excels. Because.... Vive la differance!

That simple, straightforward, perfectly reasonable idea is the wrong shape for some people to grasp. Maybe their hands are just too small.

Unless you count the 27 chapters of Leviticus. https://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/Leviticus-Chapter-1/

The entire process and all the mechanisms of the electoral system have been so severely damaged by many years of systematic tampering that only a comprehensive overhaul, which would have to include federal overriding of state-controlled voting rules and practices - could give anything like a majority of Americans the right to choose their representatives. Until that happens - brought about, no doubt, by a beautiful warrior princess riding a unicorn - every hundred hand-written letters to a member of Congress demanding gun control legislation is nullified by one anonymous death-threat on a social media platform. And the US in not unique in having a severely compromised democratic process.

Depends on what you mean by 'complete form'. They haven't torn out any pages, but they do select bits - even if it means truncating a sentence (A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.) while ignoring other bits, to argue their particular case. And it's a young document, with lots of amendments added over time, while Magna Carta afaik hasn't been changed since the thirteenth century. And the commandments, also being cherry-picked and folded, spindled and mutilated to fit new requirements, haven't changed for even longer.

It's already in one, under glass. And this gun crazy bullshit is not about the second amendment, any more than the anti-abortion bullshit is about the sixth commandment. Sacred laws are nothing more than convenient nails to hang the soiled garments of special interests - convenient, even if you have to snip one in half to make it so. (I don't see any well-regulated militias coming out of the gun lobby.)

It is happening, though the biggest players are still based in the far East. https://www.solarreviews.com/blog/best-american-solar-panel-manufacturers However, they're still concentrating their efforts on going the wrong way. Another storm just took out the grid of a major city. https://ottawacitizen.com/news/local-news/ottawa-storm-2022-a-look-at-the-storms-path-through-the-city and these storms are not going to decrease or grow tamer over time. Whatever the power-source, the delivery grid remains its most vulnerable component. So they keep building and rebuilding the same kind of grid. We're nowhere near Ottawa, and our local transformer station was damaged recently. 500-odd people were without electricity for some hours on several occasions, as crews worked at fixing it. Except us; we're 80% independent of the grid. Of course, that's not to say a big enough wind can't knock down our private array ... but that local inconvenience wouldn't affect vital functions and public services.

Suddenly I get M. Butterfly.

That's nothing to the shock of discovering just how many second-rate male athletes have applied for a sex-change operation under false pretenses, just so they can beat women to death.