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Federal judge lifts last of injunctions against Trump's transgender military ban.

 

https://thehill.com/policy/defense/433106-federal-judge-lifts-last-of-injunctions-against-transgender-military-ban

 

In case anyone gets into a discussion in the next couple of days with someone who insists that being transgendered means that the person is mentally ill, this article gives a fairly good layman's description of how and why that isn't medically true.

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/national/2015/10/19/becoming-nicole/?utm_term=.d392e70d37f2

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10 hours ago, archer said:

 

If you've hit your limit on Washington posts articles, you can view this by right-clicking the link and choosing Open Link in New Private Window (or w/e the equivalent is in your browser of choice.).

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6 hours ago, Pattern Ghost said:

 

If you've hit your limit on Washington posts articles, you can view this by right-clicking the link and choosing Open Link in New Private Window (or w/e the equivalent is in your browser of choice.).

 

 

Good Lord, you might have just revolutionized my life!

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17 hours ago, archer said:

Federal judge lifts last of injunctions against Trump's transgender military ban.

 

https://thehill.com/policy/defense/433106-federal-judge-lifts-last-of-injunctions-against-transgender-military-ban

 

In case anyone gets into a discussion in the next couple of days with someone who insists that being transgendered means that the person is mentally ill, this article gives a fairly good layman's description of how and why that isn't medically true.

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/national/2015/10/19/becoming-nicole/?utm_term=.d392e70d37f2

 

Thanks for this.

 

One quick note, transgender is already an adjective, so transgendered isn't a thing, it's just transgender.(That's more the grammar pedant in me talking than the trans person, by the way. :))

 

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5 hours ago, Hermit said:

 

Is anyone surprised? It's 2019, and we're all suspects for crimes that might happen in the future and that's considered good enough excuse for just about anything.

I mean come on. Does anybody think that the government would have shut down Precog over some Minority Reports where the psychics got it wrong, or after they found out you can game the system. Heck no. They would continue to break into people's places for crimes that hadn't happened yet

CES 

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Italy - Two men cleared of rape charges, despite date rape drug found in the victim's system and physical evidence of a sexual assault, because a panel of three female judges think the woman looked too masculine to be sexually assaulted.

 

I kid you not.

 

https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/433864-two-men-cleared-of-rape-charges-after-court-rules-woman-too

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16 minutes ago, archer said:

Italy - Two men cleared of rape charges, despite date rape drug found in the victim's system and physical evidence of a sexual assault, because a panel of three female judges think the woman looked to masculine to be sexually assaulted.

 

I kid you not.

 

https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/433864-two-men-cleared-of-rape-charges-after-court-rules-woman-too

 

I need to throw up now.

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1 hour ago, archer said:

Italy - Two men cleared of rape charges, despite date rape drug found in the victim's system and physical evidence of a sexual assault, because a panel of three female judges think the woman looked to masculine to be sexually assaulted.

 

I kid you not.

 

https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/433864-two-men-cleared-of-rape-charges-after-court-rules-woman-too

 

Oh sweet God in heaven, of all the stupid sexist hateful....

 

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On ‎3‎/‎13‎/‎2019 at 2:11 PM, archer said:

 

Just when I start to think the USA is beyond all hope, I read a news story about Italy.

 

I can understand that. I can't name the number of times I hear about some hate fueled incident done by a moron and I find myself thinking "Please don't be from Tennessee" 

If I feel REALLY optimistic, it's "Please, don't be from a Southern state!"

 

 

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In case anyone hasn't yet hear the story, there was a terrorist attack / mass shooting on two mosques in New Zealand. Left 40 dead and 20 wounded so far. 3  in custody. This site seems to be doing frequent updates:

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2019/mar/15/christchurch-shooting-injuries-reported-as-police-respond-to-critical-incident-live

 

 

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