[thevillages2013]

Originally Posted by dewilson58

Interesting statement.

That’s exactly what I was thinking!

[thevillages2013]

Originally Posted by BlackhawksFan

So you're fearful of transgender people. What did they ever do to you?

May you be blessed with a transgender grandchild.

That crap won’t happen in my immediate family

[thevillages2013]

Originally Posted by OrangeBlossomBaby

Actually, you have more power as a customer than you have as someone who doesn't help them profit.

You also have more power as a shareholder.

If you really want them to change their tune, you'll buy stock in their company and attend their stockholder meetings, and use your power of the vote to make them change.

Until then, it's just more noise from Charlie Brown's teacher.

Pretty sure that I have influenced a bunch of smart people to stop buying Adidas

[Bill14564]

Originally Posted by thevillages2013

That crap won’t happen in my immediate family

Since your grandchild is not your immediate family then by definition it won't (but you are smart enough to know that, right?).

I hope if a grandchild does identify as trans that he will not be met by this hostility since *that* will certainly affect your immediate family.

[jimjamuser]

Originally Posted by JMintzer

No one suggested there shouldn't be a "safety net"...

But admitting that would destroy your argument...

OK, so we agree about the desirability of a safety net for people in society that were NOT born with many of the tools needed to succeed in today's complicated world. My main point is that the acceptance of "trans" people or GENDER FLUID people has changed from (let us say) 1950 to the present - that is PROGRESS. And it makes sense that in the FUTURE there will likely be MORE acceptance. That is barring some cataclysmic event like a war causing social PROGRESS to be on hold.

[biker1]

Bobby Riggs, in his prime, was a very good tennis player. I believe he was ranked number 1 in the world at one point and won several grand slam events. He played, and lost to, Billie Jean King when he was in his mid 50s and she was in her prime. If he was a transgender woman in his prime he would have dominated women's tennis. He was a showman who had a big mouth.

Originally Posted by dougjb

So....does anyone remember the Bobby Riggs and Billie Jean King match?

Imagine Mr. Riggs was transgender. Anyone wanna guess whether that skinny little wuss of a man (even as a woman) would stand a chance against Billie Jean. She worked hard to become a true athlete. He worked hard at working his misogynist mouth off.

Athletes are athletes. If a transgender beat a woman in a particular sport, what was the time differential in the finish. If it was just milliseconds or even seconds, it seems to me that it is just a matter of training. And if the birth woman beat the transgender entrant, perhaps it is due to her very early training in the sport which may have been denied the transgender entrant?

It seems like this thread is making a mountain out of a molehill. I suspect Fox Opinion News has something to do with it. It would appear that so many on this thread are twisting their hankies into knots, crying how unfair....when one must wonder how unfair it really is...if at all!

[Jokomo]

Originally Posted by blueash

All you experts in a man is a man and a woman is a woman... What is a person with XXY chromosomes? What is a person with XO? What is a person with XYY? What is a person with ovotestes? What is a person who has cliteromegaly that mimics in all respects a small phallus? What is a person whose brain tells them beyond any shadow of a doubt they are a woman? You experts are so certain in your ignorance and intolerance. The genders are not as simple as you wish or your church may have taught you. It is very complex and the exceptions to your wrongheaded wisdom prove the fallacy of your beliefs.

Of course you would support forcing teachers not to teach the truth about gender identity because telling children the truth would threaten your so tightly held beliefs. There is every color of the rainbow in human expression and experience of sexuality and gender.

And any corporation that understands how the emerging picture of the complexity of gender must be boycotted. Cancel culture I believe is the term the thought police use on TV

Very well said. Thanks for your thoughtful fact based response and questions.

[Vermilion Villager]

Originally Posted by kcrazorbackfan

As will Mrs. KC and I. Tired of the Woke companies that push that.

Please explain "woke" to us....(This should be good!!!)
Got a C note that says you get it wrong.......

[Bogie Shooter]

Originally Posted by Vermilion Villager

Please explain "woke" to us....(This should be good!!!)
Got a C note that says you get it wrong.......

I’m waiting too……..

[Keefelane66]

They will never tell you.

[jimbomaybe]

Originally Posted by jimjamuser

School quality and teacher salaries are PURPOSELY kept down by low property taxes (which benefits people that have high property values. The people passing the property taxes are defending themselves against paying a high tax bill. Some call that the "fox guarding the henhouse"

My experience in Chicago is that public school teachers get paid more than the parochial school teachers who turnout much better educated children as compared to the public schools, the difference being parental involvement

[JMintzer]

Originally Posted by jimjamuser

OK, so we agree about the desirability of a safety net for people in society that were NOT born with many of the tools needed to succeed in today's complicated world. My main point is that the acceptance of "trans" people or GENDER FLUID people has changed from (let us say) 1950 to the present - that is PROGRESS. And it makes sense that in the FUTURE there will likely be MORE acceptance. That is barring some cataclysmic event like a war causing social PROGRESS to be on hold.

Which again has NOTHING to do with the topic at hand...

[fdpaq0580]

Originally Posted by Vermilion Villager

Please explain "woke" to us....(This should be good!!!)
Got a C note that says you get it wrong.......

Will you accept the dictionary definition, or does it have to be the politically correct nonsense?
I can use it in a sentence. " This morning I woke with a hangover."
Do I get a participation trophy?

[Bogie Shooter]

Originally Posted by fdpaq0580

Will you accept the dictionary definition, or does it have to be the politically correct nonsense?
I can use it in a sentence. " This morning I woke with a hangover."
Do I get a participation trophy?

The use being questioned was not used in that context.

[Garywt]

Originally Posted by Luggage

Life isn't fair in so many ways. If I was one of the women swimmers in that contest where they had a transgender competing, I would have gotten out of the pool and refused to swim

This was sad news. To compete and train your entire life in swimming only to be beat by a transgender that was ranted 465 when he was a man is just not fair. He should have competed against men or other transgenders only. Why should that young lady have to settle for 2nd place.