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I don't think transmen in male sports are discussed as much - most likely because they don't see transmen as a 'threat' to the competition in males sports. Males have a physical advantage over females without question, so the concern has largely been on that. As far as studies go, here's two I...

Be nice when you can? That's about all I can offer. If I'm speaking with a trans person who presents obviously as they gender they identify with, I'll use the pronoun I assume they want. If they're trans and I use the wrong pronoun and I am corrected, I'll stive to use the right pronoun. That's...

Historically Americans are known for not trusting their rulers (thus the revolutionary war and civil war), but I don't think that it's because American's are necessarily more distrustful, so much as their inherently more outspoken. That's the first amendment for you. Access to literally every...

And those organisms are victims of your need to be hygienic. They are harmed as a consequence of your actions, right?

I would argue that abortion isn't victimless, seeing as a living organism does die as a result. As for the rest - assuming that the only potential victim is yourself, the punishment for those actions should be the results if things go wrong. In the case of city base jumping, if things do go...

I guess if a lie is repeated often enough, people really do start to believe it. Nina Totenberg: ]"I hope he's not long for this world." http://www.mediaresearch.org/cyberalerts/2003/cyb20031020.asp#1 And just a few more, since people will just shrug it off as "just one incident." Kill...

Say what you want, but I'm not the one making unfounded accusations and insisting that X must have caused Y because I don't like X. No one has proved anything bad has happened due to rhetoric, therefore it is entirely dishonest to be blaming it all on rhetoric - and even more dishonest to...

No, it's childish to take a shooting that had absolutely nothing to do with rhetoric, attribute it to rhetoric, and then say "look, see, these people died because of you." One needs only contradict a person to find out just how hateful they can be, but so few fail to realize it because...

Firstly, Palin and the media have absolutely nothing to do with the cause of the shooting. The guy was a nutcase and had a axe to grind with Giffords long before the 2010 elections and the rhetoric involved. A thread about rhetoric does not need to include the shooting, and it's tasteless to do...

Do you know who exactly they voted for? What's important to understand is that a political party is a combination of similar views, but the views are not 100% identical. There are some conservatives who, regardless of their personal feelings on the issue, do not believe in banning same-sex...

Re: Teacher Suspended for squleching First Admendment rights I'm glad the school suspended him. It's a shame they didn't do it for longer.

As we saw with the Bush administration, blame gets heaped upon the Executive branch because they have the most visibility. The recent mid-term election showed that the party in power during economic hardship is the party that has to fight harder to keep their jobs. People were REALLY pissed off...

Even irrational people have a right to their opinion. In like manner, I have a right to my opinion that they're stupid people, and should be treated as such. Maybe if they're continuously talked down to or dismissed, they'll get the hint...or they'll just start hating the "intellectual elite"...

Well, if you look at some of the brothels in Nevada, that's kind of what you see. Prostitutes draw their lines in the sand, and the brothel owner and the customer has to respect that. If the prostitute doesn't offer a service a customer wants, she can refer them to one that does. For the more...

Free sex is hard to come by when you're ugly, overweight, and unaccomplished. There's also the fact that prostitutes are often paid to do things most women aren't willing to do for free.