toomanypancakes

Unfortunately, the requirements for the program are ridiculously severe. It's super hard to get allowed, especially when you're under 50 or only have mental health issues. We really just need UBI so people aren't required to struggle to work to get by.

I like your style

Out of curiosity, how low would that dollar amount have to be for you to opt to spend it on something else? Would it still go to debt if it was only 1,000 or something?

Fresh mint, not ridiculously uncommon or anything but I never see people buying it and its rarely called for in recipes I encounter. I use it in a ton of soups, salads, and dressings. Also its like my favorite flavor ever.

Sorry, it's not worth having baby's first "what is a trans person" conversation with you, which would be clearly needed before delving into the nitty gritty. Take that pass! Go somewhere else.

So the effort trans women put in to compete doesn't count for anything, people just decide to transition to win sporting events, and trans women are men with a different body. Wow, you really hit the trifecta of shit takes.

Exactly my point. Thanks for illustrating it.

Let me ask you a question in turn. How many trans women are placing well in sports? Numbers, percentages, whatever you've got. How many cis women have had their rightful first place stolen by someone who's just naturally better by merit of how they were born?

In answer to your question, transition does a lot, more than you would expect. It's pretty statistically clear that the residual effects of going through the wrong puberty haven't caused a physical ability imbalance that renders competition unfair. We haven't seen any such thing play out, unless you consider any trans woman placing ever as inherently unfair and stealing results from cis women.

I want to know where this outrage was for Michael Phelps. We didn't see legislation passed to deperson Andre the Giant. There are huge biological differences between people, and some people have an advantage in sport by merit of how their body works. There's never outrage against gifted men.

Women have to suffer the brunt of this line of attack. Many cis women, for some reason especially women of color, get attacked as men if they have elevated testosterone, chromosomal abnormalities, or many other random biological quirks that someone doesn't think is fair. Imane Khalif, a cis woman, gets attacked for not being a woman. Lin Yu Ting gets attacked for not being a woman. Caster Semenya gets attacked for not being a woman.

This trans panic in sports is not about fairness. Nobody making these decisions are doing so to create a balanced competition. This is sexism and transphobia being used to police women to ensure they're feminine enough to appear on the world stage.

I'll give a nickel to whoever makes a 400 bean chili first

Apparently, since you never did. Do I just need to use small words for you, so you can understand what's being discussed?

I thought you did research. Must have been too hard for you.

No.