Ain't no such bloody thing as a transsexual ...

[dogtag]

So says the President, seemingly the only person with a
suggestion which makes a whole heap of common sense.
You're either born with something that dangles or you're not.
There ain't nuttin else, so get on with it.
It's about time too, It's like these nincompoops live in some
kind of fantasy land where whatever you want to be is
granted by the main stream media fairy.
But just you wait for the wailing to start - you'll going to
think a Banshee got it's tail caught in the meat grinder.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...-NY-Times.html

[sid]

It's about time that this was done. Your gender is locked into your DNA and that is that. If you feel that you are a girl who is trapped in a man's body or vice versa then you have a serious psychological problem and should get help for it.

[dogtag]

Oh wait, I forgot, there is a third gender - well, not exactly a gender:
it's called a Eunuch - usually found in Seraglios looking but without
being able to appreciate the merchandise.

[togor]

(WARNING: Be sure your heart is healthy enough for frank language about a naturally-occurring intermediate gender medical condition.)

https://jenapincott.wordpress.com/2009/06/01/when-the-perfect-woman-is-genetically-male/

In nature there is always a little grey between black and white.

[clintonhater]

In nature there is always a little grey between black and white.

Only because nature isn't perfect--nature (or rather, the biological/chemical processes which enable nature to function) makes mistakes. Such biological mistakes for hundreds of yrs kept circus sideshows in business, but nobody called them "normal"--they were "freaks of nature." Do we call hair-lips, club-foots, etc., normal? Do we say to such unfortunates, accept this condition, make the most of it?

[blackhawknj]

Do we accept diabetes and other genetically dfflictions as "normal" and tell those afflicted there is no hope of an effective therapy, let alone a cure ? Alcoholism often has a strong genetic cause yet we tell those afflicted it is not an excuse for selfish, self-centered and irresponsible behavior.

[togor]

In the natural world, of which we are a part whether some here like the idea of not, the sharpness of transitions are limited by a range of natural factors, but in an engineering sense by the limitations on the concentration of force and energy. Garand example: the op-rod cut. We know now from our ANSYS models that sharp inside corners carry high stresses and are the most likely places for a part to crack. In filter design, there is no such thing as the perfect cutoff filter at 22.05 kHz (Nyquist frequency for audio CDs). You say you want to pass everything at 22.04 kHz and nothing at 22.06 kHz and nature says "forget it".

Oncologists understand that the processes that drive cancer are the same ones that drive life itself, that the potential for cancer is built into our biology. Yes the terms "normal" and "abnormal" are brought to bear on that topic, but not as an either-or proposition. It is understood that there are degrees of normality or abnormality. Anyone here with Barrett's esophagus? If so then you know that you have cells down there from acid reflux that are not considered normal for that part of the body, but they're not quite cancer either. Any old guys here with brown spots & odd bumps on their skin? Same deal.

Even our own thoughts are the result of bio-electrical activity of such exceedingly low amplitudes that our own feelings of consciousness, clear as they might seem to us inside our own heads, are in measurement terms barely above the noise floor. The artificial clarity of the computer, where a 1 remains a 1 and 0 a 0, comes only from hammering a circuit with (from a biological perspective) impossibly vast amounts of electrical power. Our brains function on about 20W of power only by turning down the voltage to the point where noise is a factor. It's actually a fascinating field of research if anyone feels like reading up on it.