StringJunky

In his country they still have some way to go in just accepting gays... his PiS govt is anti, so it's likely a hot button issue for him and his compatriots.

It will probably get worse before it gets better. Don't forget, these minorities are labelled under the same banner and have been since I can remember.... and now some of each are vocally falling out, regressing back into the traditional male-female divide.

Why the timing coinciding with the advent of fusion? What makes you wonder that?

How people are pursuing it to be heard may be extreme but the status itself is no more an ideology than their lesbianism. Basically, it appears that there is a schism being formed within the LGBTQ banner.

For them, transgenderism is an extreme ideology. The irony is that they are promoting an ideology themselves that gender is binary. The interviewer "...campaigns against male violence and extreme transgenderism". How can transgenderism be 'extreme'? It either is or isn't.

Tar, you work towards understanding the theory before trying to offer solutions. I'm surprised you are even questioning this, given how long you've been here and the evidence that has passed before you.

Yes mate, I find myself in a strange position, with agreeing and disagreeing in the same thread with posters I argue with on a contentious subject. Where possible, I endeavour to follow the science. The trouble with Stock is that she holds a vocally fixed philosophical position, which is odd because she's a philosophy professor. I expect a fair degree of objective detachment from a person at that level.

She's an example of the uncomfortable bedfellows that LGBQT's make that I mentioned earlier, and they are not actually as monolithic and united as the 'LGBQT' label suggests. Messy world. This is a woman kicking back about men who are invading her gender space. Science is against her. She's out of her depth and shouldn't have entered the national debate. She has been treated harshly but one should be aware of the consequences when sticking ones neck out.

The Wealth Of Nations, Book II, Chapter II, p.329, para. 106. Will that result in a happier country, after all, money is only a means to an end?

How does that manifest?

Then why use it. If ones desire is to have a positive outcome from an encounter, it makes sense to respect their wishes. It's a non-problem that's being made into one.... who wants that.

I think that's a pretty typical American form of a address.

Thanks.

Yeah, it can get very messy from what I've read. Ultimately, when studying nature, I think we are superimposing theoretical frameworks on nature that may or may not be durable and are, in fact, pertinent only under certain conditions. For example, as in this discussion, how increasingly tenuous the binary theory of gender is... it only works viewing through a coarse lens.

In nature in general. Are humans unique?

'Currently' is the operative word because if conditions change, they can be something else. What this shows is that gender can be dynamic, to adapt to vaying conditions.

MigL. I'm a bit disappointed that you are arguing with working biologists on definitions and facts that are clearly in their domain. I'm amenable to your approach on a fair few subjects but this is not one them. Definitions are not negotiable.

In the Lincolnshire-English vernacular, they are paying fuck all compared to Joe Normal. It amazes me.

Ask Trump, Bezos, et al, They know how to do zero tax with style.....

It's because c is what it is that requires time to dilate and distances shorten the amount they do. The way you put it, the tail is wagging the dog...it seems to me.

Yes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hijra_(South_Asia)

Maybe that's a species-survival insurance mechanism when the chips are down, at the expense of variation.

The notion of 'fixed point' is abitrary.

Define 'relatively stationary'. It doesn't matter from which position you take, in time or space, even moving with uniform velocity, you will measure c.

It's not the size of the virus that facilitates their evolution, it's their sheer number and reproductive rate that allows the chance of many more mutations to occur in a shorter space of time.