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   On Tue, 01 Apr 2025 05:28:20 -0400, the following appeared   
   in talk.origins, posted by jillery <69jpil69@gmail.com>:   
      
   >On Mon, 31 Mar 2025 17:43:16 -0700, Bob Casanova    
   >wrote:   
   >   
   >>On Mon, 31 Mar 2025 17:24:37 -0400, the following appeared   
   >>in talk.origins, posted by Kestrel Clayton   
   >>:   
   >>   
   >>>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.   
   >>>   
   >>Don't worry about it; this group has posts about everything   
   >>from Flat Earth and Expanding Earth nutters to serious   
   >>issues of astrophysics and cosmology, with no complaints. A   
   >>post such as yours is not a problem.   
   >   
   >   
   >Unless your opinion is that the OP would not be more interesting when   
   >presented in a topical way, then your comments above are non sequitur.   
   >   
   My comment was a matter of fact regarding historical posting   
   data, plus my opinion regarding the relevance of that to his   
   apology, but your opinion is noted.   
   >   
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    the one that heralds new discoveries, is not   
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