Thank you Captain Obvious. But that is irrelevant to the discussion...

Jim Carrey used to do a bit on that, years ago, on In Living Color... "Vera de Milo"

I recall seeing Tootsie and the TV show "Bosom Buddies"...

I fail to see the connection between any of this and the discussion at hand...

Does Google not work in your Village? Or did you simply not read the link you provided?

"Semenya is an intersex woman, with 5α-Reductase 2 deficiency, assigned female at birth, with XY chromosomes and natural heterogametic testosterone level."

Dear Cybersprings,

Calm the heck down and read the last paragraph in my post quoted above. Looks like you missed the part where I stood up for women’s rights — been doing that for decades.

I guess I hit a hot button with the other part of my post though. Could not bear to read beyond that maybe?

I will address your other attack in my next post, so I can include another with the same pattern of constant, condescending responses………Doppelgänger?

Boomer

Aw, c’mon, Mintz, gotta learn to think outside the box. (I know that’s not going to happen though.)

I can see exactly how teenagers would just love skewing up and screwing up this poll — for a variety of reasons — many of those reasons have to do with messing with adults’ heads. It’s what they do.

Besides, since when do we believe everything teenagers say.

Carry on. I’m done.

Boomer

Right... That's got to be the answer... Teenagers make up sh!t to invalidate multiple polls that all miraculously show the same results...

But we better damn sure believe them when they tell us they are (insert the gender/pronoun of the month) or you're cancelled... Which is it?

Carry on...

Bingo.

My granddaughter, who lands somewhere between "millennial" and "gen z" (more toward millennial) just shakes her head when she hears or reads these types of discussions. According to her at least 90%, probably more, of the people in those two age groups who "identify" as LGBTQ do so precisely for the attention. This, I think, is borne out when one compares the numbers in the graph to the Gen X and the Boomers. Subtract the LG from the set of initials, the incidence of which without knowing the precise numbers would seem to be close to the incidence of gays and lesbians in the population overall, and you're left with the BTQ. And given that, it begs the question, just why are there so MANY BTQ people in the Gen x - millennial group?

The only answer that makes sense (unless one leans toward the "epidemic" mindset) is the attention that making the claim gets one.

Probably because being gay/lesbian/bi is no longer seen as unnatural.

And "transgender" is very complicated when you start digging into it.

The fact that you agree that transgender women should not be competing in women's sports does not negate:

"I think it is vile to target transgender people whose lives must be difficult enough without being used as pawns in political ploys.

Attacks on transgenders — both verbal and physical attacks — are part of a movement to dehumanize others — and the number of people who are susceptible to joining in the hatred is appalling.

And don’t get me started on the incongruity of using “holiness” as an attempt to veil hatred and to obsess about what is between someone else’s legs. If an adult decides to do something totally legal, why should anyone else care."

You made personal attacks on all the other people supporting biological women in this thread. You call people vile. You accuse people of hatred and attacking. Were you expecting no one to react to your unwarranted untrue attacks? But referencing the 2 posts you made and saying "nice record" is more than you can handle? Are we supposed to build a safe space for you?

After thinking about this for another 60 seconds, MEDICAL DOCTORS ARE PERFORMING SURGERIES TO MUTILATE TEENAGERS based on what they say. Are you kidding me????

Well...

Did you miss the part where I said the sudden rise was due to "Social Media"? And that I said "Identify as"?

Of course it's for attention...

Just recently the actress, Marcia Gay Harden just had to announce that ALL 4 of her children are LGBT. One of the "Real Housewives" announced that 3 of her 4 children were, as well. Really? That many in ONE family?

Bill Mahr (sp?) talks about how you can't go to a dinner party in LA or NYC without parents talking about their multiple LGBT children...

He thinks it must be something in the water... :D

Somebody missed the point of the post they responded to...