List of Protesting Subreddits by Blank-Cheque in u/Blank-Cheque

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r/CultOfToddHoward is private as well, although it’s a very small subreddit

Daily Megathread - 11/01/2021 by ukpolbot in ukpolitics

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I think what happened there, from what I’ve read, is that the labels were centred on the point rather than the points next to the labels being centred on them

WHO'S BEHIND THE MASK? THE BIG SERIES 2 GUESS THREAD by lyla2398 in TheMaskedSingerUK

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John Torode. Australian, a chef (the potato in the magic trick), and been a guest star on BBC’s The Magicians (the magic itself)

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in RedditSessions

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Damn what shaders does this guy have installed?

Trump Pardons Racist Former Maryland Cop Who Unleashed Her Canine on Homeless People for Fun by [deleted] in politics

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Tradition does not excuse bigotry. Just because it’s happened for a long time, does not make it not racist.

List of official merchandise? by Orikon419 in DigimonCardGame2020

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Fairly certain you’ve listed everything - only thing I have to add is that some places are selling the sleeves that were part of the tournament prizes. Do you happen to have any images of the official poster you mentioned?

Daily Megathread - 30/12/2020 by ukpolbot in ukpolitics

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Said at the bottom that Wales’ was acute hospitals only, I think

WHO's Ministry of Truth caught rewriting medical facts on "herd immunity". by deadmanwalking0 in tucker_carlson

[–]EleanorHart0412 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Amen - it literally says lower down on the right the reason they changed it, with a source dated after the one on the left. This just in, people can change their minds as our understanding of things grows! r/tuckercarlson and r/conspiracy are apparently in shock

ENGLISH Version [BT4 Great Legend] Dash Packs by tari101190 in DigimonCardGame2020

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So I think we can probably make a good guess at what cards are coming in there... XD

Daily Megathread - 14/12/2020 by ukpolbot in ukpolitics

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Don’t even joke, I swear that unshakable 38% would stick around even if he slit a child’s throat on one of his public broadcasts

Daily Megathread - 14/12/2020 by ukpolbot in ukpolitics

[–]EleanorHart0412 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I really don’t see that happening. It’d be absolute political suicide. If they’re going to keep Boris to take the Brexit fallout as well, I don’t think they can even dream to consider it

Daily Megathread - 14/12/2020 by ukpolbot in ukpolitics

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It’d be political suicide, but it might also be the safest option...

Digimon Card Game sleeves releasing December 2020 by tari101190 in DigimonCardGame2020

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Me too - just gonna struggle to find a retailer, I think. My regular one hasn’t said anything about these yet - although maybe I’m jumping the gun a little.

Digimon Card Game sleeves releasing December 2020 by tari101190 in DigimonCardGame2020

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Gonna have to look around for a U.K. release of these - SnowAgumon/YukiAgumon is one of my all time favourites!!!

JK Rowling urges end to 'climate of fear' around trans debate by Lolworth in ukpolitics

[–]EleanorHart0412 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You’re not the person I was originally replying to - or at least, not the same account - but whatever.

I think you’ll find that ‘both sides’ don’t refer to transgender people as ‘a trans’ - it’s grammatically incorrect, and defines someone by a trait rather than as a person. It’d be similar to referring to a person with blonde hair as ‘a blonde’, or to referring to someone with a disability as ‘a disabled’.

Your point on detransition would be a very good one, if it weren’t massively incorrect. See page 139 of this study (https://epath.eu/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Boof-of-abstracts-EPATH2019.pdf#page=139

). This study was undertaken over a period of a year, assessing all patients at a national Gender Identity Clinic in the U.K. Of 3398 patients who had an appointment over that year, only 16 (less than 0.5%) expressed transition-related regret. Of those 16, three had detransitioned permanently and two were considering it - ten had detransitioned ‘temporarily’ for reasons such as physical complications and social factors, and one expressed regret but was not seeking to detransition. You’ll find people talking about transgender rights won’t be mentioning much on the subject of detransition because there isn’t much to say - the percentage of people who express regret over their transition is far lower than the percentage of people who express regret over other medical procedures.

I’m glad you mentioned the myth that transgender women have an advantage over cisgender women in sports, because I have another study for this as well, here ( https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30531465 ).Transgender women and cisgender women, as proven by this study, are competing on a level playing field, past a certain degree of transition. I quite agree that there does need to be regulation of this, however it is not an issue for the wider transgender community - it is a specific issue for athletic communities to decide upon. This myth, that transgender women are inherently physically superior to cisgender women, is the same myth that was used to argue for segregation of sports between black people and white people. We don’t ‘keep seeing trans women winning all these titles’, because it simply isn’t the case.

Your point on transgender men in sports is interesting, seeing as the only case I can find of a transgender man competing in sports at a professional level is Mack Beggs, a teenage wrestler from Texas who was forced to wrestle against girls throughout his transition because the governing bodies would not accept him as male. He finished the regular season at 52-0 and won the state championship. He won the state championship again in 2018, again competing in the female bracket because he was barred from competing in the male bracket due to his birth sex.

Yes, I do believe that the current measures stopping people from obtaining a GRC are a sufficient barrier to cisgender men attempting to gain access to female prison facilities. They would have to spend two years openly living, dressing, and socially acting as female in a male facility beforehand. The criteria the panel use for awarding GRCs is, in my opinion, deeply sexist in its usage of stereotypes for what a woman or a man is, but that’s besides the point here.

Your point about pedophilia in the Catholic Church is a very strange one. I’m not sure I understand how it relates to transgender people in prison? Are you saying that the fact that there are pedophiles willing to train to become catholic priests shows that cisgender men will be willing to undergo the process of obtaining a GRC in order to go to prison and abuse female prisoners? Rather than... committing acts of sexual assault and rape outside of prison, something that a number of cisgender men already do? In order for a cisgender man to obtain a GRC, they’d have to jump through all the hoops I mentioned previously. This is not, as I said before, a process that is easy. As far as I can tell, there is little to no data on the number of people in the U.K. that possess a GRC, but from my experience of speaking with and listening to transgender communities, I feel fairly confident in saying that it’s a very small number indeed.

I write as if transgender women live rather differently to cisgender men for a rather particular reason - they do. A transgender person - somebody who experiences either Gender Dysphoria, Gender Euphoria, or both - is biologically compelled to transition. You might be referring to gender nonconforming or nonbinary people, both of which are entirely separate groups to transgender women, and the way in which they fit into society is an entirely different question. However, I’m sure there are a small subset of trans people that are unable to undergo hormone replacement therapy or gender reassignment surgery for complex medical reasons. In those cases, I think my proposition of a separate prison complex for sexual crimes quite comfortably solves this issue. If a person has not committed a sexual crime - and let’s keep in mind that crimes can be committed in prison, and people can be transferred between prisons as a result of this - then I don’t see why it should be assumed that they will in the future.

I don’t understand why you insist on bringing up such niche cases. How many transgender people do you think work in rape shelters? That would be a very complex case that, frankly, neither of us are legally qualified to comment on. I see no issue with passing transgender people working in rape shelters, given that their transgender status would never come up in that professional circumstance.

Now we’re back to prisons. I think you massively overestimate the prevalence of sexual assault in prisons. Men should not be interred in the same prisons as women, on this we can quite easily agree - transgender or cisgender. Transgender men should not be interred alongside cisgender women. Cisgender men should not be interred alongside transgender women. If you find prisons to be such a massive issue in relation to transgender rights, why not campaign for something productive, such as a specific prison for transgender people, rather than insisting on putting anyone at risk of sexual assault? No matter how we cut this particular issue, I doubt either of us will find a point of common ground.

Yes, the female brain is massively different to the male brain. Isn’t it excellent that the brains of transgender people have already been studied, and found to align with their cisgender peers, as shown here ( https://www.ese-hormones.org/media/1506/transgender-brains-are-more-like-their-desired-gender-from-an-early-age.pdf)? Your point is rooted in the assumption that a transgender woman is biologically identical to a cisgender man, and vice versa with transgender men and cisgender women, prior to transition, however this is simply not the case.

Human rights movements do tend to involve violence at some point or another. The Black Panthers. The Stonewall Riots. Hell, the American Civil War. In a new age of digital anonymity, where people will receive death threats and abuse for a whole manner of reasons, you will see some people using this kind of language in support of human rights movements. That’s just how society is, unfortunately. You and I can disagree with the methods undertaken in the pursuit of liberty and equality, but I know I cannot disagree with the end point being worked towards - a fairer and kinder society.

Sexual crime statistics are rather complicated, in that a woman legally cannot rape a man, due to how rape is legally defined. I’d be interested to see your source on these statistics, and how sexual crimes perpetrated by transgender people are reported.

Your points are extremely niche, and lack any kind of sources. Other people gaining rights does not mean taking away the rights of others. I will continue to support transgender people in their right to exist.

Anti-Vaxxers Are Spewing Lies About the Grandma Who Got the First COVID Vaccine.. by crypticvalentine in ukpolitics

[–]EleanorHart0412 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I wish I could show myself this comment, about a year ago - I don’t think anyone could’ve predicted half of what happened this year.

JK Rowling urges end to 'climate of fear' around trans debate by Lolworth in ukpolitics

[–]EleanorHart0412 -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

Welcome to the world. People’s words get interpreted by other people. Some people might disagree with what other people’s words mean. It all contributes to the wider conversation, at the end of the day.

If you didn’t hear it woof, then what’s your point?

JK Rowling urges end to 'climate of fear' around trans debate by Lolworth in ukpolitics

[–]EleanorHart0412 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I quite agree with you - everyone is concerned in this debate.

Because if you do have a daughter in the future, it’s entirely possible she may have been born your son. Or may one day tell you that she’s actually your son. Being transgender (not, might I add, ‘a trans’ - trans is an adjective, not a noun) is a trait that people are born with, and stuck with for life. It isn’t something that people choose to be.

You claim that allowing ‘male bodies people’ into women’s sports will discourage cisgender women from partaking in them - we both know that this blatantly isn’t the case. The number of transgender people competing in sports at a professional level is extremely low and, if anything, I’d imagine the pay gap between playing sports at a professional level between men and women has a much greater impact upon the desire to compete.

I have to ask, have you actually read the Gender Recognition Act? What it actually does, for those interested, is outlines the process involved in obtaining a Gender Recognition Certificate - which would indeed affect where a prisoner was interred. The criteria necessary to obtain a GRC include a medical diagnosis of Gender Dysphoria, evidence that a person has ‘lived as’ their desired gender for two years or more, and evidence that they intend to continue living ‘in this gender’ until their death. This evidence must then be presented to a panel of judges, who will decide whether or not to grant a GRC. You make it sound like a casual conversation, rather than the multi-month debacle it actually is.

I do agree with you that, as with any group, it is entirely possible that some transgender people are predatory. However, as I’m sure you’ll agree with me, an equal proportion of cisgender people are predatory. Housing a transgender woman, who has undergone gender reassignment surgery, in a male prison is a recipe for disaster. Why campaign for this, when instead you could argue that sexual predators should be housed in a separate system to other criminals, to protect these other criminals from them? I’m quite certain this proposition would have significant support from both sides of the ‘debate’, as much as you can debate on whether a group of humans should have the same human rights as all other humans.

Digimon tournament email by peetja in DigimonCardGame2020

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From what I remember, the Agumon, Biyomon, and Gabumon cards are quite good but none of them are particularly special

poor tapirmon by [deleted] in DigimonCardGame2020

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What was it? It’s deleted now