From: 69jpil69@gmail.com   
      
   On Wed, 02 Apr 2025 09:11:12 -0700, Bob Casanova    
   wrote:   
      
   >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?   
      
      
   Yes, really.   
      
      
   >>  Indeed, these posters regularly misrepresent what I   
   >>post to the point of lying about it, apparently just to exercise their   
   >>inner trolls.   
      
      
   You must enjoy proving my point for me, you do it so often.   
      
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