I agree and disagree. Crazy I can see both sides. On one side, if you take the tax free status away, then Churches will not be free to openly push politics from the pulpit. That has the potential to be dangerous. They already do that. Political candidates make pilgrimages to this church or that chu...

This conversation is why it's so important to delineate between sex (genetics) and gender (a construct).

No one I'm aware of is implicating all priests. The church did nothing other than move their criminally abusive staff members around into unsuspecting communities so they could continue to sexually abuse children. They should at the very least lose their tax-exempt status, and probably be branded as...

Gays and lesbians are not a subset of sex. Trans is, according to you and the link I posted, not an immutable characteristic like race or sex, so that's a whole different issue. The redefinition of the CRA made no sense. The gutting of Title IX makes less. If the legislature cares about rights, it n...

It seems that the Biden admin is proposing to extend Title IX to include Transgender people as well as other expansions. It will be interesting to see where this goes eventually since what actually ends up in Title IX may not include everything the President is proposing. Allowing the President to ...

There is nothing genetic about gender. Nothing. You're kidding, right? You don't know about X's and Y''s? If you exclude someone for being born as a male, it's a genetic distinction. You're kidding, right? You don't know about X's and Y''s? If you exclude someone for being born as a male, it's a ge...

There is nothing genetic about gender. Nothing. https://www.plannedparenthood.org/learn/gender-identity/sex-gender-identity https://www.snexplores.org/article/gender-when-body-and-brain-disagree I don't see anyone saying that transgender men and women should not enjoy legal protections that everyone...

https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/05/us/archdiocese-of-baltimore-clergy-sexual-abuse/index.html A report from Maryland Attorney General Anthony Brown released Wednesday alleges 156 Catholic clergy members and others abused at least 600 children over the course of more than six decades. Now lets multiply ...

SB, sports are segregated by sex, not gender, which is among other things a social construct and not biology. So when it comes to transgender people and sports, the biological equation is the same.

My statement had nothing to do with transgenders, and I feel your statement is intentionally inflammatory. Men's sports are for men, women's sports are for women. A trans woman is a biological man.

So I've put the question to you several times, what's your solution?

I don't see this as an "in for a penny, in for a pound" situation. We can affirm that someone can be born with Gender Dysphoria (gender mentally not lining up with gender physically), while also realizing that when someone changes attributes of their gender to be "female or male"...

I was informed that this post didn't conform to the spirit or the word of the rules, so I've modified it. Sports is an area that (in my opinion) someone who is biologically male, should not compete against females. It gives them an unfair advantage in competitions. I wonder why no one hears how horr...

I'm stating exactly what my last link stated. That Title IX (got it right this time!) applies to both sexes, but was crafted to deal with women's issues. These words are fine. But words to the effect that it elevates women more than is needed for equality I will always disagree with, and that's why...

https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/05/us/archdiocese-of-baltimore-clergy-sexual-abuse/index.html A report from Maryland Attorney General Anthony Brown released Wednesday alleges 156 Catholic clergy members and others abused at least 600 children over the course of more than six decades. “From the 1940s thr...

The laws, especially Title IV, were crafted to specifically protect women, even though they all can apply to men. Are you asserting that women have more rights and privileges under the law than men do? If not, then "the appropriation of the legal spoils which are attached to certain protected ...

I can't claim any expertise in this stuff. But I would not take that to mean it is a protected class. Rather, that they cannot ...how to say it... be a discriminated class. Am I misunderstanding? No. Sex discrimination is illegal. The laws, especially Title IV, were crafted to specifically protect ...

I feel it appropriate to point out a FACT. "Women" is not a protected class. Saying it is is not only wrong but perpetuates an incorrect narrative of what "protected class" means. https://www.eeoc.gov/discrimination-type https://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ocr/docs/tix_dis.ht...

This doesn't preclude that person's rights and protections under the law, but it does preclude that person's ability to enjoy the legal benefits of that protected class. Legally speaking, I believe you're wrong. At least with some laws, and likely more all the time. Therein lies the rub. Reactionar...

We as a society though are required to treat transgender women as women. Indeed. I am reminded of Asimov's Bicentenial Man . How much being a woman is considered enough to be a woman? (And the same for men.) Being a woman is what's required, and a man who identifies as a woman is no more a woman th...

Again, no one is injecting morality into this conversation, so I'm not sure why it keeps being brought up. Because in general people have made it a moral issue. This doesn't mean people on the Watch have made it a moral issue. (Although "It's a social contagion, spread by pervasive social medi...