Transgender Thread.

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Transgender is...?

  • Ok for anyone

    Votes: 14 29.2%
  • Ok as long as it's binary (Male to Female or vice versa)

    Votes: 1 2.1%
  • Wrong

    Votes: 7 14.6%
  • No one's business except the person involved

    Votes: 22 45.8%
  • Don't care

    Votes: 4 8.3%

  • Total voters
    48
You suggested that I don't see value in transgender research, and while I'm skeptical about the whole field, I can still come up with something positive.

Great, but what does that have to do with what we're talking about? It's like you want me to give you credit to spout logical fallacies just because you threw a bone to transgender diversity something something. It's a non sequitur.

What I was implying with that little remark that triggered you

This is ad hominem. I ignored it the first time, because I do let some of these slide. But what you're doing is claiming that I'm being emotional, and absolutely nothing about me pointing out your use of a motte and bailey fallacy is emotional. It's about as far from it as possible.

is that, in my opinion, academia in "social studies" has more "freedom" to research whatever they want about gender and society in order to gain access to public funding than physicists do in their field.

This is probably the best formulation of your argument to date. You're posting a video of someone saying that supercolliders over promise based on a lack of understanding of particle physics, you're layering on that there's even MORE confusion about social studies than particle physics (you see how when you state it out that it's laughable right?), and then from that you're claiming that there will be more manipulation in social studies grants than Sabine claims there are for particle physics.

Applying a tiny bit of rigor can sometimes expose a really terrible assumption. In this case, that there is more "freedom" in social studies than particle physics. I think you're assuming that because particle physics is hard science that it's less prone to overstatement. What you didn't take into account was the disconnect between understanding of hard physics and people who control grants. I've basically said as much before, but you jogged past it.

But I didn't use that video to prove that—I only said that it affirms my own experience with various project fundings.

You'll have to understand that when you post this many breaches of logic I'm not going to be taking your word for the conclusions you drew from your unnamed and unelaborated experience.

So far in the last few pages, you've posted motte and bailey, ad hominem, and non sequitur. Let's see how many more you can get.
 
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“Ladies and gentlemen of the supposed jury, this is Chewbacca…”
What?

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In local news, a law firm in New Zealand has sent out a letter "warning of potential legal action" against healthcare practices who provide gender affirming care.

Te Whatu Ora - New Zealand's public healthcare system - has sent out letters to healthcare services and staff across the country, offering to take the lead in providing legal support:
Letter from Te Whatu Ora

Please be assured that, if any complaints were to be received or legal action taken in respect of gender affirming care provided by health professionals employed by Health New Zealand, the organisation and its legal team would support you and take the lead in responding to any complaints or legal proceedings issued in relation to that care. You would also have access to individual legal support from your own professional indemnity insurer.
 
In a jury trial, the Chewbacca defense is a legal strategy in which a criminal defense lawyer tries to confuse the jury rather than refute the case of the prosecutor. It is an intentional distraction or obfuscation. As a Chewbacca defense distracts and misleads, it is an example of a red herring.

Our friend here doesn't engage directly anymore b/c his arguments don't hold up. But, he still likes to interject himself in as the third party.
 
@Daniel It's on Wookieepedia
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