From: richZIG.e.clayZIGton@gmail.com   
      
   On 31-Mar-25 02:00, jillery wrote:   
   > On Sun, 30 Mar 2025 22:00:04 -0400, Kestrel Clayton   
   >  wrote:   
   >   
   >   
   >> The last day of March is the Transgender Day of Visibility, a day to   
   >> improve awareness of transgender people, to draw attention to the   
   >> challenges and oppression we face, and help people understand us better.   
   >> The TDoV is more important than ever in 2025, as the Trump   
   >> Administration has put us squarely in its target sights.   
   >>   
   >> One of the ways I can fight for my existence, and that of several of my   
   >> friends and loved ones, is by being visible as myself, answering   
   >> questions, and demystifying trans people.   
   >>   
   >> I am a transgender woman. I am visible. Ask me anything.   
   >   
   >   
   > While I am sympathetic to your stated goal, I would feel even more   
   > positive toward your OP if you made even a token effort to present it   
   > in a way that's on-topic to T.O.; ex. document non-binary sexual   
   > behavior in other species, or explain how transgender people provide   
   > adaptive benefits to human societies.   
      
   I thought it might be of interest to the group generally, as   
   talk.origins has always had a secondary purpose of identifying and   
   countering authoritarian attempts to overrule science — the why of   
   creationism, so to speak, in addition to the how. The current   
   Administration's war on "gender ideology" is a cousin of creationism and   
   intelligent design; it's bread and circuses to keep the rubes distracted   
   while the oligarchs pick their pockets.   
      
   In addition, I've been posting here on and off for 30 years now, and   
   many of you feel like people I've known for a very long time. Perhaps   
   not friends, precisely, but long-time neighbors of whom I've grown very   
   fond. I thought you might be interested. My sincere apologies if the   
   general consensus is this is inappropriate for talk.origins.   
      
   --   
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   Kestrel Clayton   
   "Every normal woman must be tempted, at times, to stoke the fire,   
   host the black mass, and begin eating hearts." — Rose Bailey   
      
   --- SoupGate-DOS v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)