Originally Posted by dewilson58 (Post 2084553)

Interesting statement. :oops:

Originally Posted by BlackhawksFan (Post 2084567)

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

May you be blessed with a transgender grandchild.

Originally Posted by OrangeBlossomBaby (Post 2084617)

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.

Originally Posted by thevillages2013 (Post 2084880)

That crap won’t happen in my immediate family

Originally Posted by JMintzer (Post 2084851)

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

But admitting that would destroy your argument...

Originally Posted by dougjb (Post 2084852)

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!

Originally Posted by blueash (Post 2084471)

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

Originally Posted by kcrazorbackfan (Post 2084392)

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

Originally Posted by Vermilion Villager (Post 2084892)

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

Originally Posted by jimjamuser (Post 2084867)

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"

Originally Posted by jimjamuser (Post 2084888)

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.

Originally Posted by Vermilion Villager (Post 2084892)

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

Originally Posted by fdpaq0580 (Post 2084916)

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?

Originally Posted by Luggage (Post 2084502)

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