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Re: should people be allowed to self-identify?

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Re: should people be allowed to self-identify?

October 18th, 2018, 6:22 pm

News like this is always to be welcomed. It means that the world is almost perfect. The roof is fixed, there’s no rising damp, the WiFi extenders are getting a signal to every corner of the house. Now we have heated arguments over the correct way to hang the toilet roll.

The world is almost perfect, isn’t it? No major issues?
 
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Re: should people be allowed to self-identify?

October 24th, 2018, 10:05 am

new british poll

44% believe people over 18 should be able to define their own gender
32% believe people over 18 should be able to define their own race
19% believe people over 18 should be able to define their own age
10% believe people over 18 should be able to define their own species
 
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Re: should people be allowed to self-identify?

October 24th, 2018, 11:51 am

new british poll

44% believe people over 18 should be able to define their own gender
32% believe people over 18 should be able to define their own race
19% believe people over 18 should be able to define their own age
10% believe people over 18 should be able to define their own species
So, some lunatic Christian group commission a study that asks insane questions of random people on the internet and carefully tabulate what may or may not have been the answers. Which incidentally showed strong support for letting trans people serve in the military. And you left out the responses to whether people should be able to self define as non-human.
 
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Re: should people be allowed to self-identify?

October 24th, 2018, 12:24 pm

And you left out the responses to whether people should be able to self define as non-human.
I mentioned that

>> 10% believe people over 18 should be able to define their own species
 
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Re: should people be allowed to self-identify?

October 24th, 2018, 12:52 pm

And you left out the responses to whether people should be able to self define as non-human.
I mentioned that

>> 10% believe people over 18 should be able to define their own species
Ah - fair enough. There were also the oddly self-referential questions about whether people above/below the age of 18 should be able to decide their own age.
 
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Re: should people be allowed to self-identify?

October 30th, 2018, 7:35 am

Lester Holt (NBC News) appears to have changed his identity


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you go girl
 
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Re: should people be allowed to self-identify?

November 1st, 2018, 8:36 am

a transwhite woman is met with ridicule on Dr Phil
 
 
 
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November 5th, 2018, 6:36 pm

Anthony Ekundayo Lennon is a British trans-black theatre director (facing bigotry because he is trans-black)
Anthony Ekundayo Lennon: my genes are white but I’m black
I say it's nice to have people of color like Mr Lennon in the arts
 
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November 6th, 2018, 2:30 pm

 
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November 8th, 2018, 12:52 pm

Dutchman, 69, brings lawsuit to lower his age 20 years
"We live in a time when you can change your name and change your gender. Why can't I decide my own age?" he said.
he thinks he'll get more tail if he's 20 years younger