Next up, ISIS claims responsibility for me stubbing my toe.

Maybe I’m just overly optimistic (I mean, I did grow up with Star Trek: The Next Generation and it shaped like 95% of my ethical views), but to commit such an atrocity surely a person must be horribly twisted up with pain and hatred. Perhaps combating hatred with more hatred is the wrong approach... perhaps we need to…

...No, without data, your assertions are meaningless. My assertion, while you may find it absurd, is backed by hard science. Bring empirical evidence, since current empirical evidence suggests the exact opposite of your assertions. And I’m sorry, but Lieutenant Commander Data is always relevant, even if merely as a…

Except I’m saying what I’m saying because of science. You’re saying what you’re saying because... what? Where is your evidence? Where is your data? Which studies back up your assertions, and contradict the studies I’ve been referring to? I keep citing sources, you just keep ignoring those studies and repeating…

...Wait, what? I thought you were claiming the victim was trans, not the perpetrator. That’s a big part of why I was so pissed off at you, I mean really, I thought you were being a massive glans about this. Like, a ginormous glans. The science-denialism was admittedly a bigger part, however, the perpetrator appears to…

Sure, sure. In a post-truth world, facts and empirical evidence mean nothing, and all that matters about a topic is how you feel about it. Trans people actually have 2% unicorn DNA, which gives them on average roughly 50 times the strength of cis people. Meaning that clearly these allegations are false, since the…

Shields up, red alert! Initiate evasive pattern omega four!

Except the debate swayed towards whether or not hormone treatment affected the strength of trans people, therefore making whether one particular trans woman has taken it or not something of a more minor issue. And once again, I’ve cited science, you’re not citing anything, so it’s really not me that’s having a problem…

This is getting somewhat strange. Also rather peculiar, my previous reply to you is somehow grey. Anyway! I will admit that I slightly misunderstood your last comment, in that I thought you were talking about overall strength rather than some minor skeletal features, a point I’m giving you the benefit of the doubt on…

You can’t defend that point because you don’t even yourself think that a year or two of hormones removes those differences.

None of the differences you’re citing make nearly as big a difference to a person’s strength as the hormone related muscular changes. They’re pretty insignificant. Although really, you put “muscle development” into your argument, after we’d already discussed that that’s precisely what hormone treatment changes after…

The first frame while your gif loaded, I honestly thought that was the interior of the TARDIS.

I imagine this one is right out?

The disparities of physical strength are actually altered by hormone treatment. By a year or two into her hormonal treatment, a trans woman will have lost any strength advantages she once had before treatment. Similarly, a year or two into hormonal treatment a trans man will be a lot stronger than he used to be. This…

It was even more painfully ironic to those of us forced to be aware of the situation. That was two years into this hateful bullshit. And last year, the Paralympians were starting to lose their Motability cars. Motability is a scheme, run through a cooperation by the governments, a charity, various banks, and car…

Thank you! I will most certainly try and get on that later, mental health permitting.

And I suppose also to be fair to Gizebel, this is an issue that’s horrendously underreported on even in the UK. Is there an email address we can prod their writers via?

Yes, genocide. Feel free to read my replies to Anna, above :)

If that’s true, it’d be a pretty funny middle finger to them. I’m sure they’d just change the rules again though.

P.S. I’d just like to leave you with this video of a rant by the most excellent comedian Adam Hills on the matter, from “The Last Leg” (pretty much the only topical news/comedy show I know of with disabled hosts, meaning it often focuses on the otherwise underreported bullshit towards the disabled) and partly because…