Well it’s not really about compromising with them, because you’re right: they aren’t interested in compromise. It’s about showing the average person (who is largely oblivious and indifferent to the entire discussion) that they’re full of shit and acting in bad faith.

Oh I absolutely agree. But I think there’s value in forcing people like Beck to put their money where their mouths are, because it exposes them for what they are. TERFs are ultimately motivated by sheer hatred, but they’re pretty good at disguising it. And I think that when cornered with what would constitute a…

Ya know, I COULD believe that people like Beck are motivated by genuine concern for women’s safety rather than sheer throbbing hatred for trans women... IF they actually made some kind of effort to protect trans women who are very obviously not faking it.

This is why high refresh rates are better.

It’s also worth noting that even when they get to this stage, there are other problems to consider like graft versus host disease, which is the inverse of organ rejection; instead of your body attacking the organ, the organ attacks your body. Bone marrow is what confers acquired immunity, so his bone marrow may now…

There’s nothing that screams “cheap sex game” quite like a nice pair of anti-gravity tits.

Now there’s a picture that says “have fun at your midnight showing of Blade II”

...how can you tell?

*laughs in Spitfire*

Basically. If it were really just about ensuring “fair competition” they wouldn’t be trying to categorically exclude kids who went on puberty blockers. But it’s exactly the kind of red herring that people love to chow down on.

I’m not even remotely surprised

I shot someone with a white shield in the back at point blank range while he was standing still, and it still took all 3 shots.

Welp, at least it demonstrates just how hard it can be to fake something like this... I guess.

I mean, yeah we’ve all made bad decisions that we’re ashamed of. But usually it’s something done in the heat of the moment, or out of sheer desperation. But this is something that took a lot of planning out, for the sake of the desperate need of... being able to say you were the victim of a hate crime?

You’re citing an analysis of a conference abstract, which isn’t very useful. You want to cite an actual peer reviewed study, specifically the one that builds off this data set. It’s important because the abstract you’re citing only lists the percent changes without the baseline values, and in this case, the trans men…

Sounds like something you’d accidentally download on Limewire.

Similarly, George Carlin narrating Thomas the Tank Engine was the reason I turned into such a smartass.

It was the sort of thing that Gabe probably found on 4chan or a lewd Facebook meme page