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Trapped in the hospital for the week. Watched a bunch of Ghost Adventures (Wife wanted it), Bones, Castle, Spongebob Squarepants (Wife wanted that), Forensic Files, Bad Boys 1 and 2, and Captain Marvel and rewatched part of Ant man and the Wasp.
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Trapped in the hospital for the week. Watched a bunch of Ghost Adventures (Wife wanted it), Bones, Castle, Spongebob Squarepants (Wife wanted that), Forensic Files, Bad Boys 1 and 2, and Captain Marvel and rewatched part of Ant man and the Wasp.
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This one is for Hermit
 
 

You seem way too smart to have ever been an MP.
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I'm pretty sure this would convince nobody. Most conservatives (more talking heads, less so rank and file citizens) I've seen expressing an opinion agree that these intersex conditions occur, and express varying levels of sympathy toward these cases. What they don't like are people born with normal genitalia who say that they're of the opposite gender than goes with their genitalia. They get further confused with the vast spectrum of circumstances that are now being taken in under the transgender umbrella by trans-rights activism.
 
IMO, a better way to use the atypical genitalia argument is this: There have been many cases where a person was born with ambiguous genitalia, and a doctor made the call to assign a sex to the infant based on what the surgeon felt they could best "correct" the genitalia to, regardless of chromosome. This caused a problem later in life as these children often didn't feel  "right" in their bodies. A genetic male assigned female at birth, and raised as a female, for example, would eventually figure out something was up, and be caused great emotional trauma as a result. News pieces and news magazine shows were devoted to this topic as far back as, say, the 80s, and the debate continues to this day. (I remember them coming up at least in the early 80s time frame on shows like 60 Minutes.) So, get the person to agree that this is a messed up situation. Shouldn't be too hard. Hopefully, they will sympathize with stories of a boy being surgically altered and raised as a girl (or vice versa) and this causing problems.
 
Then say that this must mean we have an innate sense of our gender. Once agreement is reached, flip the script. Talk about a boy who's born and raised as a boy but has a strong innate feeling that he's a girl. This causes great emotional distress. What's the solution? Well, you can't fix the thing that tells a person what their sex is, since nobody knows what it is. So, you take steps to make them comfortable in their body, and to treat them as the gender that's appropriate. That might include purely social things, or hormone replacement therapy or various surgeries up to gender confirmation surgery.
 
Probably also wouldn't work, but you never know.
 
Good luck on convincing them that any of the other categories of people that fall under the trans umbrella are acceptable, though. Baby steps, I guess.
 
 
 
*As far as I know. I label this thing as "gender" based on some older thinking of one's gender being in your head and your sex being in your chromosomes. When those two don't align, it causes issues. Still seems to hold up, such as in the case of intersex/atypical genitalia children above, though it's a pretty simple model that doesn't address many other areas of gender identity.

I'm picking the Genesis Device as my cargo
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I'm picking the Genesis Device as my cargo
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I'm picking the Genesis Device as my cargo
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I'm picking the Genesis Device as my cargo
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i was like please dont be Jim Butcher.
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My coworker still thinks that Trudeau is trying to control the population of Canada by offering euthanasia for broken noses. He had an article published by Forbes and I was like what you said is going on is not what the article says. They kicked it up since the article came out.
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The Grizzled Veteran is Snake Plisskin for the times you need to escape from some locked down city
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THat is on me. I thought one of the picks was for engineers. I will option Scotty.
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THat is on me. I thought one of the picks was for engineers. I will option Scotty.
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The world's best engineer, Admiral Montgomery Scott. 
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The world's best engineer, Admiral Montgomery Scott. 
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The world's best engineer, Admiral Montgomery Scott. 
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Captain Malcolm Reynolds
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The Voyager from Star Trek
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Too bad this has been done. 
 
 

I'm optioning the last of the protectors of the Nexus and grabbing Jennifer Kale, mistress of the mystic arts.
 
No archers, bro
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I would like to option the Man Thing's assistant, Howard the Duck
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I need to get two picks tonight. I am going with Kent Nelson, and Lockjaw.
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Read Heroic Hearts edited by Butcher and Hughes. This is an anthology where people investigate crimes with magic like Toot Toot and Mister foiling an attack of Gremlins on Dresden's castle, Vincent Graves dealing with a murderous leprechaun, or the Moor dealing with a blind date and her Fae tormentor. I liked a lot of these stories even though I don't read most of the authors presented.
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