Trump inaugural address: "There are only 2 genders"

Some socialist protester in my area was quoted in the paper that he opposes Trump because of women's rights.

GOP is protecting women's rights.

His Democrats are waging a war against women.

Well, to be fair liberals were the first to made all his discourse around that 1,4% of the population (highly overstimated btw)

The false dichotomy is right vs. left. Authoritarianism goes by many names. The important thing is to keep the problem in focus, without creating some schematic that cuts you off from folks who may well agree with you more than you think they do.

All of which to say, you prefer to look for balls instead of dicks? Sure. Sounds good. Agree.

At the same time I’d be very much surprised if the malformed micropenis contingent is at all comparable to the number of men with average genitalia who decide they want to compete against women. Is there a malformed microscrotum contingent as well? Or are those always easy to spot? I wonder.

If absolute fairness was of paramount importance, then perhaps every woman playing pickup field hockey (for example) might be tested for undescended testes. But that seems a bit excessive, since such tests have considerable costs and may be invasive. Surely there is some way to limit medical tests to situations where livelihoods are at stake, or at least where they don’t do more harm than good. I presume then folks with outlier ability would test earlier in order to get an accurate valuation on their talents and hedge against overinvestment.

End all? Be all? I picked dicks because I hear they are what doctors look for on ultrasounds when trying to determine the sex of a baby before birth. I reckon for them it is a practical concern. I, myself was always more interested in noses, but they don’t seem too useful for this mission.

You’re right about men not properly understanding women. Women also rarely properly understand men. But how can anyone be expected to understand the opposite sex when the can scarcely understand themselves?

He's like the Catholic Church. He can declare that the world is flat and the sun revolves around the earth but it ain't so.

There are two different issues: it's just a scientific thing that claiming there are two well-defined genders is problematic - it's a social thing that permitting not obviously women to participate in women's sports ain't fair. Don't be so stupid as to conflate the two (I know it's hard for maga supporters to not be stupid).

1.4 percent of 350 million is nearly 5 million ... In absolute numbers that's a hell of lot of people. Almost as big as Norway.

Haters aren't christians.

Daresay they have been ever since they conspired to shove them into offices and factories for the sake of a larger tax base and GDP.

Not that anyone should be prevented from voluntarily participating, but it is a crumby way to spend a life especially when it means your kids get raised by the government and your family survives on a diet of packaged food as a result. No wonder many who can afford it are considering more “traditional” lifestyles.

The “working class” pays plenty of taxes. It is only the ultra rich and the layabouts who can laugh in the face of the numerous examples of pork barrel spending you cited, none of which can be said to have helped people more than it cost them.

Of course nobody ever studies cost efficiency. Why would they? For the Keynesians the spending itself is the goal. In fact they spend so much that they like to print money just so they can spend it. To what end? Enabling corrupt politicians to finance murderous wars and shutdowns that traumatize kids and decimate small businesses. And then there is the hidden tax on all currency holders to consider — a tax not levied by elected officials, but imposed unilaterally by unelected central bankers.

The dichotomy is Trump v non-Trump. His followers are a cult. You're either part of it or you aren't. And most of them are right wing.

Women have always worked it's just their work making the home, cooking and rearing children was entirely unpaid. This allowed men the time and resources to build financial independence that was denied to women.

The feminist movement was about providing independence to women through paid work, not because feminists wanted women to be sat in factories.

But just to be clear: the reason that HCPs look for dicks and not balls when doing prenatal ultrasounds to check for fetal abnormalites isn't because the penis is considered a more important indicator of male sex than the testes are. It's because these scans are customarily done in the second trimester of pregnancy, long before the testes of male fetuses have begun their journey from inside the abdomen down and out into the scrotum on the outside of the body adjacent to where the penis grows during a much earlier phase of development.

In humans, the testes don't descend until the end stages of pregnancy; they typically start descending around week 32-34. But pregnant women who have access to medical care customarily get sonograms between week 14 and 20 to check to see if the fetus is developing normally and especially to check for neural tube defects and brain/cranial malformations. It's in the course of looking at the entire fetus to check for anatomical abnormalities of all kinds that the HCPs are typically able to see if the fetus has a penis or not.

In addition, some pregnant women get fetal scans ASAP in the second trimester solely for the purpose of looking for the presence/absence of a penis because they want to find out if the fetus is male or female - and that's their only concern. Or it's their principal concern, rather.

In countries like the USA, sometimes women get these scans ASAP to look for the presence or absence of a penis out of curiosity and anxiety - and because they want to be able to throw so-called "gender reveal" parties. But globally, the main motivation for doing prenatal scans ASAP in the second trimester is solely to determine the sex of the fetus so that female fetuses can be aborted.

Although sex-selective abortion is illegal in India, it's still so common that there's a booming black-market prenatal scan industry - and when fetal scans are done in medical settings or for medical reasons in India, it's illegal for the HCPs to inform the parents of their developing offspring's sex.

But nowadays, women pregnant with single fetuses or twins can find out if their fetuses are male or female with a high degree of certainty even before the the time when male fetuses develop penises. Genetic testing which tells the chromosomal and genetic sex of a fetus can be done as early as 8-9 weeks through CVS or the NIPT.

In CVS, fetal DNA is obtained by inserting an thin instrument through cervix and snipping off and extracting a tiny bit of the placenta. Obviously, that's invasive and costly. But still, CVS has been widely used in pregnancies where there's medical reason for early genetic testing for going on 40 years now. I personally had CVS in the 1990s, and my kids are in their 30s now.

In the NIPT, fetal DNA is extracted from blood drawn from the pregnant woman's arm or finger like it would be for any other kind of blood test. The NIPT is pretty cheap.

In the USA and some other countries, the NIPT has become part of standard prenatal care that's offered to all pregnant women who get prenatal care. All private and government-funded health insurance programs in the USA now cover most or all costs of the NIPT. In fact, in some states like CA, the NIPT is free for women on Medicaid and there's also no copay or other out-of-pocket costs for women with private insurance.

When the NIPT is available at no or low cost, women opt to get it at extremely high rates.A paper published before the Covid pandemic estimated that as many as 50% of pregnant women in the USA were already getting the NIPT. Pilot programs in Europe show that when the NIPT is offered by state-funded healthcare systems, 9 out of 10 pregant women opt to get it.

Along with the nearly-universal use of fetal scans as a standard part of prenatal care, the fast-growing popularity of the NIPT means that we're already in an era where it's very common and pretty normal for parents in the USA and some other parts of the world to know their their offspring's chromosomal/genetic sex and if their offspring have penises many months before birth. Which is one of the reasons that so many people have taken umbrage at the gender identity movement spreading lies meant to give the impression that no one knows the sex of humans before birth, and that a sex designation is rather arbitrarily "assigned at birth" rather than observed, recorded and/or confirmed.

Trump's got tig ole bitties so he's at least 2 himself!

According to his executive order on the subject (read it for yourself), we are the gender assigned at CONCEPTION. By that logic, we are all women since the hormone shower that creates male genitalia doesn’t happen until six weeks. Glad that great conservative scientists were included in the drafting of that document!

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Unfortunately there are too many people who are absorbed with what goes on between their legs than what happens between their ears.

"Republicans hate women while we love them. That's why we allow men in their private spaces as long as they're wearing a dress. If that's not love, I don't know what is!"

-Dems

You're contradicting yourself, you keep posting you're against Men competing against Women.

And, according to MAGA, only one race.