From: nospam@buzz.off   
      
   On Wed, 02 Apr 2025 05:58:52 -0400, the following appeared   
   in talk.origins, posted by jillery <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.   
   >   
   Really? So "...if you made even a token effort to present it   
    in a way that's on-topic to T.O" wasn't about his right to   
   post off-topic material here?   
   >   
   >  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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    the one that heralds new discoveries, is not   
    'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'"   
      
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