That's complicated due to the likelihood of racial gerrymandering, since voting out politicians who support it would be a good democratic way of doing it.
https://www.mississippifreepress.org/40385/mississippi-racial-gerrymandering-trial-targets-state-house-senate-maps
They shouldn't be...
I don't like it. Here's why:
"Our position is thoroughly identified with the institution of slavery-- the greatest material interest of the world. Its labor supplies the product which constitutes by far the largest and most important portions of commerce of the earth. These products are...
Again, small percentage of the population, and you are overstating the risks. The side effects may include decreased fertility, but that is hardly maiming and sterilization is not an inevitability but a risk. The risks are still being researched, but we can assume given the contradictory...
A person may have a positive outlook that is unrelated to gender but a part of their personality. They may be angry or ill-tempered. They may be active. They may lazy. They may be classy or a lummux (I am very lummuxy myself!) or forthright.
In other words, personality is far too broad to...
Are they? At what rate? I am given to understand surgery is extremely rare under the age of 18:
"The ultimate step in gender-affirming medical treatment is surgery, which is uncommon in patients under age 18. Some children’s hospitals and gender clinics don’t offer surgery to minors...
He's Trump's buddy. If they are willing to believe that Putin supports a Biden presidency, Republicans are fully under the sway of Trump's grift and Putin's propoganda, previous ideological opinions on Russia be damned!
This is inconsistent with the ethology of human sexual and gendered behavior, since sexuality as it relates to biological reproduction is only a part of the continuation of a species. There is more to the survival of traits than the physical act of reproduction, since a species needs surviving...
How about the census data they are reporting on?
It's one thing to distrust a source, it's another thing to critical analyze the data or argument the source is presenting.
I hope not! Insulting the President is a traditional American past time. It's part of my heritage by gum!
This especially applies to Trump who we had a right to insult well before he was President, being a racist grifter jerk and all.
Yes, animals are conscious and sentient. If I am to assume other human beings are based on my observations of their behavior, I may as well assume the same of animals.
I haven't read Foucault, but I understand the argument. As a teacher, I am trained to use "person first" language for students with disabilities. For instance, "a student with blindness" rather than a "blind student." In practice, though, I find most students with disabilities prefer being...
Are there laws forcing kids to get sterilized and maimed, and allow women to be raped and assaulted, and that are designed to ruin women's sports?
Or, are there laws that allow for people's right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness and there are bad actors like there are in every...
So you are unhappy about people getting mad about your behavior? That's a personal choice. I hope you are able to manage civilly outside of a debate forum, but if not, that is your choice.
Defining something with as many variations as gender as precisely as we need takes time. It suffices to simply refer to it as a construct related to customs based on social roles and relations. The problem here is that humans don't quite follow this definition neatly. Traditionally, it is...
Well, I do think "social construct" is complicated in and of itself. I do think there are biological influences as well, including innate response mechanisms, but how we relate to one another socially is really the crux of the matter of "gender." Like it or not, society does mold us to some...
Mind specifying the laws?
In terms of my definition, let's dissect deeper. What are the things that we use to determine gender? Appearance such as clothes, the words people use to describe other people, how we treat each other according to roles and such.
I purposely leave out genitalia and...