Recent content by Emily Lake

How exactly do you think this is relevant?

Disorders of sexual development aren't cultural concepts, no more than conjoint twins are a cultural concept, or downs syndrome is a cultural concept. Stop using people's deleterious medical conditions to prop up an unscientific ideology.

And to present those anomalies as if they represent elements of a bimodal distribution. I've grown tired of asking, but genuinely - all that needs to be done to change my mind is to show me a sperg, and provide an explanation of the reproductive system that evolved to produce those sperg.

What are the two peaks on the bimodal distribution of uteruses? What does the organ in the trough look like for the bimodal distribution between a penis and a uterus? Can you describe the 95th percentile gonad on the ovarian side of the bimodal distribution, and does it make super-eggs? Can...

This is a winning post, thank you.

Very informative

Because the current method is to reapportion based on the US Census. Reapportionment only occurs every 10 years, when a new Census is done. There's good sense in not having reapportionment done too frequently - it would be very unstable. Hypothetically, we could do a good estimate every...

That's a silly rejoinder, Loren. We're talking specifically about people who have had surgery - we're not talking about people stuffing a bra or wearing binders. The premise of this is people who have had surgery. The reality is that, contrary to your assumption, the majority of people who...

This is false. Neither Loren Pechtel nor I were limiting the discussion to the removal of gonads. It's not up to you to dictate the boundaries of what other people discuss.

I was under the impression it was 750,000. But hey, okay. Let's revise that:

Hard disagree. In females, by far the most common gender-related surgery is bilateral mastectomy, and it is 100% done for appearance. Extremely few females have phalloplasties - they're extremely difficult, have very high rates of complication, and they just don't work. An artificially...

According to your assertion, the entirety of fashion is evolutionary in nature. So high heels are evolutionarily motivated, as are corsets, and steel toed boots, and cumberbunds. Hair dye is evolutionary in nature. Fingernail polish. You made the baseless assertion that a desire for body...

I dismiss it because it's a baseless assertion that you've made that has no scientific support. It's your personal speculation. It's an ideological belief you hold that some sort of mental archetype of "woman" and "man" exists and that this archetype is somehow the result of evolution. I...

If the census estimates that a state has 2,900,000 million people, and it undercounted black and hispanic people by 200,000... what is the effect on the number of seats that state has in congress? Does the melanin content of the undercounted people make any difference to the number of...

You're applying an artificial boundary set to this discussion. One that is uniquely specific to your own beliefs.