Recent content by Ahab

Since this is acceptable under Title IX transwomen don't have a legal basis to object to being excluded from the female category of a particular sport as long as they are allowed to compete in the male category.

Completely agree. Am also quite amazed as an atheist that other atheists are so willing to believe that

Gender is parasitic upon sex: gender presupposes the existence of sex. And sex is binary: there are only two sexes. Gender terms are sex terms. Trans activists want to sever gender from sex and use it to refer to some sort of mental state. Looks like a recipe for disaster to me.

LoAmmo, Not going to answer for Metaphor but will say that for me it is pretty clear why this issue is important: Some of the rights that are being claimed for trans people conflict with the rights of that material class we call 'females': fairness in sports, the right to single sex spaces. By...

One can be respectful of other's rights to take on the gender roles they feel most comfortable with without denying biological reality.

One doesn't possess body parts in the way that one possess the coin in her pants pocket. Humans are bodies. Human bodies are sexually dimorphic. If your son's sex is not male then he is a young female living as a boy. Nothing wrong with that at all. Nothing wrong with calling him your son...

Quite so. Only male or female. Intersex is not another sex.

It is interesting seeing the number of posters simply complaining that this is being discussed. If one finds a a discussion to be a waste of time the sensible thing to do is to simply ignore it.

One is either a virgin or not. If you have had sexual intercourse with another person you are no longer a virgin. You can lie about it if you wish and claim you are still a virgin. So what? All that does is make you a liar. Again, one is free to adopt any gender roles they want. I have no...

It only takes a single act of sexual intercourse to lose one's virginity. Being a male or a female is for life. One can take on the gender roles of the opposite sex. One cannot change their sex.

To pretend that a trans woman is a lesbian undermines lesbianism. The right to associate with those who share your sexual attraction without legal censure.

https://twitter.com/ALLIANCELGB/status/1416292515041484802 Full article can be found HERE Why should lesbians who are sexually attracted to other women and wish to celebrate that attraction be forced to allow trans women to their social events?

Who is claiming that trans people are evil? Also, gender criticism crosses the conservative/liberal divide. Many gender critics also consider themselves to be liberals in regards to other political issues such as abortion rights or gay marriage.

Sorry, but I don't see any examples of excuses there. Only vague claims about harmful speech with no criteria for what counts as 'harmful'.

I don't see any excuse here. Can you provide some actual examples?