Triasha

That's not what the science says.

Trans women are, on average, taller, and tall athletes do better, on average, than shorter athletes, but there differences stop there, so long as HRT has had it's chance to run.

And cis women can be tall too, that's not a trans advantage, it's a hight advantage.

But even HRT requirements is the compromise position. It's an easy compromise to make because the effects are dramatic and bring us slightly below cis averages and nearly all trans women desire to undergo hormone replacement anyway.

Underneath that though, is an argument from principle: are trans women..... Women?

If we are women, and we enter women's competitions, and we win, then where is the problem?

A woman competed, and a woman won. Tall women are not banned from basketball or track despite the obvious physical advantages they have over their shorter competitors. Michael Phelps was not banned from swimming, he was celebrated, despite having physiological advantages over nearly all his competition.

Banning trans women from sports is an implicit threat to our identity. We are not women. We are something else. When a trans woman wins a sporting competition, it is somehow not fair to the..... Real women, the cis women.

That is the point is this. Anything else is window dressing.

Trump got more votes in 2020 than he did in 2024, but kamala got even less of Biden's votes.

Biden remains the highest presidential vote getter in history.

That depends on what you want to accomplish.

If the only thing that matters to you is going to the polls every 1-2 years, than non voters are meaningless.

If you want to transform society. Voting is only one vector. Unions, mutual aid, protest, consciousness raising, and so on don't have anything to do will polls, and non voters can be valuable allies.

I can't deny there are dirty jobs that nobody would do on a lark or as a hobby or even a calling.

A busted sewer is a community emergency. You can ask the infirm, the pregnant, the elderly "what are you willing to do to support our efforts to fix the sewer?" And the answer might be cook some large meals, care for the children, or take someone's regular job for a week

Yes, everyone will be side eyeing young, strong, men (and maybe women) to take the lead on fixing the sewer. There might be promises to make it up to them later. A fifty year old with carpentry experience might offer to expand a house install new cabinets if they will help with the sewer. I do think there are things that others can do to support a major effort like that.

Given that an anarchist society wouldn't have capitalists, I Imagine that wages, if they still existed, would be substantially different than they are today.

I would think the desire for flush toilets would be enough, but if you think people need extrinsic motivation there is room for that.

Whoever steps up first. For a sewer, probably several people. What's your point?

Anarchist response would be "people who want functioning sewers, which should be everybody."

Yeah it's a dirty job. So is wiping your ass. Does someone need to threaten you to wipe your ass? Take a shower? When your toilet breaks at home do you shrug and just shit on the bathroom floor?

No, you fix the toilet. Same with the sewers.

Spoken like someone who's family loves them.

With right wingers, it's completely impossible.

Do you want the option to see your brother again? Mend bridges at some future point?

There are some things you can't take back. I have a grandmother in law that skipped my wife and I's wedding and we have not spoken to her since.

I don't want right wing apologia in my life. I do not enjoy biting my tongue to avoid arguments. I understand why you wouldn't either. But skipping a wedding is serious and maybe permanent damage to your relationship. If it will free you and leave you better off, don't go. If you will regret it, probably go and do the best you can.

Oh no. You can volunteer without citizenship.

They can say no, but we have non citizens serving.

Secret knowledge was a lot more realistic back then.

If you were the ONLY person that knows how to turn base metals into gold, you can still be rich beyond all reason.