This week in trans: The Lancet, the ACLU, the Guardian

[Emily Lake]

What about gravity?

Also not an agent

Like I said before, we need you in the philosophy section - or at least the threads where compatibilism and/or the freewill/determinism chestnut are being discussed. We have several people who do not even understand basic principles! Poor Marvin Edwards, whom I invited personally to TFT, is doing a great job trying to get through the seemingly impenetrable skulls of certain posters even as we speak.

You go, Emily!

/thread derail - sorry!

Come, Concord! We must go to the philosophy section and argue with silly people!

Give me a link, and I'll do my best

 

[repoman]

Is this about the boy in a dress who sexually assaulted a girl in a Loudoun County school bathroom and then another girl?

Any sexual predator can be a threat.

 

[Metaphor]

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Is this about the boy in a dress who sexually assaulted a girl in a Loudoun County school bathroom and then another girl?

Any sexual predator can be a threat.

I don't know, but it doesn't necessarily have to be about any incident in particular. It seems the ACLU of Virginia is also in complete ideological capture of the trans movement, just as its national arm is.

 

[Toni]

Because it is fact that single neurons in a neural network create functional change,

You do know that a neural network is an analytic term that doesn't actually mean the network of neurons in a brain, right? You know that the two aren't synonymous, right?

and with the knowledge that brain dimorphism have been observed.

Sexual dimorphism of the brain is a well established fact.

Please provide some solid sourcing for this claim.

Again, my mouse is still not working properly and I just am not replacing it for a while but here are some articles:

https://health.clevelandclinic.org/research-on-the-transgender-brain-what-you-should-know/

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-01237-z

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/05/180524112351.htm

 

[WAB]

Like I said before, we need you in the philosophy section - or at least the threads where compatibilism and/or the freewill/determinism chestnut are being discussed. We have several people who do not even understand basic principles! Poor Marvin Edwards, whom I invited personally to TFT, is doing a great job trying to get through the seemingly impenetrable skulls of certain posters even as we speak.

You go, Emily!

/thread derail - sorry!

Come, Concord! We must go to the philosophy section and argue with silly people!

Give me a link, and I'll do my best

YAY!

How about this one for starters:

https://talkfreethought.org/showthread.php?24773-Compatibilism-What-s-that-About

Poor Marvin has his hands full. I invited him to come and join us, and he did! Imagine that! I have invited a lot of people, but Marvin actually took me up on it. AntiChris notified me of Marvin's blog. ETA *snipped stuff I have already said*...

I think you will fit right in and will help immensely, if your conversation with Jarhyn about rocks and agency is any indication...

Thanks.

 

[Emily Lake]

You do know that a neural network is an analytic term that doesn't actually mean the network of neurons in a brain, right? You know that the two aren't synonymous, right?



Please provide some solid sourcing for this claim.

Again, my mouse is still not working properly and I just am not replacing it for a while but here are some articles:

https://health.clevelandclinic.org/research-on-the-transgender-brain-what-you-should-know/

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-01237-z

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/05/180524112351.htm

Differences in brain patterns as a result of hormones are a thing. Is there solid real and predictive differences in the brains of pre-pubescent children on the basis of sex?

 

[Metaphor]

You do know that a neural network is an analytic term that doesn't actually mean the network of neurons in a brain, right? You know that the two aren't synonymous, right?

Please provide some solid sourcing for this claim.

Again, my mouse is still not working properly and I just am not replacing it for a while but here are some articles:

https://health.clevelandclinic.org/research-on-the-transgender-brain-what-you-should-know/

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-01237-z

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/05/180524112351.htm

Differences in brain patterns as a result of hormones are a thing. Is there solid real and predictive differences in the brains of pre-pubescent children on the basis of sex?

Sexual dimorphism of the brain is a furphy. It wouldn't matter if transwomen had brains 100% indistinguishable from women. The problem is not that transwomen have 'male' or 'female' brains. The problem is that they have male bodies. Nobody sex-segregated anybody based on gross brain anatomy.