From: 69jpil69@gmail.com   
      
   On Mon, 31 Mar 2025 17:24:37 -0400, Kestrel Clayton   
    wrote:   
      
   >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.   
      
      
   Please don't let other posters sway you into thinking that I wrote   
   anything which criticized your opinions or diminished your right to   
   post them to T.O.  Indeed, these posters regularly misrepresent what I   
   post to the point of lying about it, apparently just to exercise their   
   inner trolls.   
      
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