From: 69jpil69@gmail.com   
      
   On Tue, 01 Apr 2025 09:47:53 -0700, Bob Casanova    
   wrote:   
      
   >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,    
      
      
   As were my comments, so no difference there.   
       
      
   >but your opinion is noted.   
      
      
   Since you completely ignored my opinion, a reasonable conclusion is   
   you have no idea what is my opinion, as usual.   
      
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