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See my edit, there was more to the ruling than that. They basically narrowly reversed because that was the case before them, but also recommended a broader overhaul of policy.

That's pretty much taking a technicality at face value; the Facebook rule against bare breasts is literally written as applying only to female users. That said, that's not *all* they ruled in this case. They overturned a user ban based on finding that the existing rule was "unclear" regarding...

Let me point out that if you look at the actual context of the comic, this is not a trans man version of Joker, this is the result of Zatanna casting a rather loosely worded magical curse ("No one else will ever have your baby!") on Joker in retaliation for him sort of creepy-flirting at her...

Not so fast. Only a subset of intersex conditions are genetic; there's a substantial number that are hormonal, and even some that are exogenously hormonal. Moreover, there is substantial evidence that transsexual individuals *are* intersex, just with primary manifestations at the neural level...

How exactly do you imagine that having better surgical treatment options somehow challenges *cis* people's "right to exist"?

More to the point, Blanchard outright declared that ignoring both cis women and female to male trans people is a perfectly sensible way to research sexuality because women do not have fetishes. Also, it's not just that "autogynephilia" has been found in cis women as well; it's that Blanchard...

Care to present actual evidence supporting these claims, let alone your clearly intentional implication that LGBT people were to blame for the rise of the Nazis?

Why should it "always be on the table" when it's a treatment modality with a history of abject failure and consistently negative patient outcomes? At this point, you're basically saying that medical science should be overridden by anti-transgender political/cultural ideology.

As documented in this paper, teaching in the United States was an all-male occupation during the colonial period, and shifted to a predominantly female occupation by around 1900. The female school teacher for young children that you're thinking of was unheard-of prior to around the 1800s, and...

Except society constantly redefines what the traditional roles even are. Teaching and nursing were historically all male jobs, not "traditionally feminine" at all. The modern perception of nursing as feminine is heavily a function of the Clara Barton mythos, ignoring the fact that Clara Barton...

Allow me to address both of your concerns with some scientific studies. The idea that a significant portion of trans children are actually "just gay or a tomboy" was pretty much the standard assumption among child psychologists for a very long time, to the point where this was largely taken as...

This is one of the key points -- for all the criticism levelled at transition therapy, the *only* argument made for conversion therapy is that it makes people *other than the patient* happier because it lines up better with their general ideological/social beliefs. Conversion therapy has a...

This is a matter that has been the subject of considerable neuroscience study. The broad-strokes answer is that at the broad neurological level, there is no such thing as an absolute and definitive "male brain" or "female brain" in the first place. Most of the differences between male and female...

Gender as a concept being unnecessary to you does not make it unnecessary to everyone, and the idea that actual scientific and medical knowledge should be "trashed" simply because it is more complicated is deeply anathema to actually understanding the world. For the substantial majority of...

Non-binary is on the level of psychological gender and social role, as opposed to biological sex. Intersex conditions in biological sex exist, but are independent of nonbinary identities. Also note that I have not actually argued that intersex conditions refute "normal" gender being binary; I...

Neither the IOC nor the NCAA is globally authoritative, no, but no such global authority exists in the first place. But when we're talking about actual participation in actual sports, the numerous governing bodies which have authority over the individual sports have follpwed the IOC in adopting...

The IOC didn't commission brand new studies specifically, but they studied the issue in the same way that a court studies an issue -- by interviewing subject matter experts and reviewing the scientific literature. Both of those are absolutely contained within the word "study", so I don't see...

You're completely ignoring the arguments and evidence I have provided showing that the biology alone is a great deal more complex than that. While intersex conditions are edge cases, they are "the exception that proves the rule" in terms of the actual science and medicine, which cannot be...

No. While we do not yet fully understand everything about the etiology of being transgender, the scientific and medical evidence firmly refutes that idea that transgender identities are "imaginary", "delusional", or "pretense". There are, of course, elements of gender identity which are social...

I made no such argument. Indeed, I didn't even remotely imply a position on the matter as I don't think it's relevant to the issue at hand; I'm simply mentioning relevant context since people decided to bring it up.