Toni
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My incredulity is at YOUR apparent lack of understanding or unwillingness to understand even if you disagree. In fact, I don't think it is lack of understanding on your part: you simply disagree and are unwilling to consider that there might be a valid method.I've said it before, and I keep saying it over and over again. You really need to work on your reading comprehension skills.Your response assumes that a pilot would be used to gather data for a possible general expansion to the entire population. That need not be the case.Because it is discriminatory. And if you restrict it to a "distinct population" then the pilot project is worthless as a study as whatever is gleaned from the data is not transferable to the population at large. Instead of playing favorites by race and gender identity, Breed and her minions should have made it a lottery, so you have a random sample of individuals within the city. Everybody with the same chance. No discrimination, and you get usable data. Why is that so bad?At this point, our society (in the US) is starting to experiment with the idea of UBI. If one is starting a study, it seems logical to start it in a distinct population. In this case, transgendered individuals. Why not?
I did not assume anything. I was directly replying to Toni who called in an "experiment" and a "study". I added the emphasis.
In her response, she was also incredulous as to why such a non-random sample would not be transferable to the population at large.
So I guess you saw no problem with Jim Crow laws either, since "gov’t policies usually discriminate on some basis".As to the rest of your response, gov’t policies usually discriminate on some basis - income, age, and legal status are but a few examples that come to mind. Why should this particular basis be forbidden?
If discriminating against trans people is wrong, then so is discriminating against cis people.
Also: everyone makes assumptions, yourself included. You did in your response to me and certainly in your response to LD.