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The Politicians And The Medical Establishment Fudge Science To Appease Abrahamic Religions!
Manchester, England. In England the National Health Service (NHS) defines sex as the biological sex that you were born with. It is determined by the sex or
09-03-10
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Palenville, NY, USA. Apparently there actually is a transgender prime directive. It basically is "thou shall never ever ever mis-gender a transgender identified person. Let's examine exactly how this is applied in the real world. By mis-gender
08-25-10
Word count: 212
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Lancaster, PA, USA. Somebody needs to check Pennsylvania’s water supply. Perhaps it’s something those guys are drinking, or maybe smoking, that explains the faux pas outbreak spreading in the Keystone State. Either way, it’s threatening to be
08-22-10
Word count: 168
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New Delhi, India. Nanotechnology's potential to improve public health will be maximised only with a conducive environment. There are around five billion people in the developing world who could benefit from the use of nanotechnology in key sectors
07-19-10
Word count: 128
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Chico, CA, USA. Earth’s population is approaching seven billion at the same time that resource limits and environmental degradation are becoming more apparent every day. Rich nations have long assured poor nations that they, too, would one day be
07-13-10
Word count: 148
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Western Australia, AUS. The rescue of round the world sailor, Abby Sunderland, has been making the headlines recently, attracting the usual debate concerning whether we would or should pay for her rescue or not.
Some time ago Yann Elies, competing
07-05-10
Word count: 163
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London, UK. Rape is deployed as a weapon of war in countries throughout the world, from Bosnia to Sudan, Peru to Tibet. [R1] Rape includes lack of consent to sex as well as provision of sex to avoid harm and obtain basic necessities. The Rome Statu
06-26-10
Word count: 162
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Somewhere, Planet Earth. The number of years I have done research and been involved and written about issues surrounding transsexuality have given me a perspective on the whole issue that can only come with years, decades, of involvement and obser
06-25-10
Word count: 156
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Hong Kong, China. Robert F. Kennedy (November 20, 1925 – June 6, 1968) was shot and killed 42 years ago this week. The killing brought a tragic end to his campaign for the 1968 Democratic nomination for the presidency. In the manner of famous peo
06-12-10
Word count: 147
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Victoria, AUS. Why can't a woman be more like a man? Henry Higgins posed the question in My Fair Lady and ever since Viagra began earning Pfizer more than $US1 billion ($1.2 billion) per year, the big pharmaceutical companies have been asking it, t
06-11-10
Word count: 171
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Texas, USA. Predictable in that we have had this back and forth since the mid 1980s.
I went to the meeting of a "gender" group out in Santa Monica. It was the activist in me. I wanted to see what was happening and a friend told me abou
06-10-10
Word count: 184
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Irvine, CA, USA. A culture's icons are a window onto its soul. Few would disagree that, in the culture of molecular biology that dominated much of the life sciences for the last third of the 20th century, the dominant icon was the double helix. In
06-06-10
Word count: 170
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Indianapolis, IN, USA. Just so there's no confusion, I want to make my two main points right up front.
First, I don't believe that religion and science must compete with one another. Second, those who disagree with my first point call me an accom
05-31-10
Word count: 166
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Meadowbrook, Queensland, AUS. I can’t believe I’m the only person in the universe to be regularly incensed by the shopping experience.
We’re used to car salesmen and real estate agents taking liberties with the truth as they try to separate
05-27-10
Word count: 226
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Palenville, NY, USA. Yes, after a lifetime of feminist consciousness (well since I was nine years old anyway) I was told the other day I am no longer a feminist because I reject the victimhood hierarchy that passes for feminism among so many younge
05-24-10
Word count: 161
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Waltham, MA, USA. Give me your tired, your poor, your Phase II failures ... Well, OK, to be honest, I'm not sure I want your tired or your poor, and besides, The Statue of Liberty has that pretty well covered. But I am sure that I want your Phase I
05-23-10
Word count: 223
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Brisbane, QLD, AUS. Classical Athens is famous for what is arguably the most fully developed democracy of premodern times and for its cultural revolution, which helped lay the foundations for the arts, literature and sciences of the ancient and mod
05-22-10
Word count: 164
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Indianapolis, IN, USA. In case you had any doubt, the last nail was just placed in the coffin of intelligent design (ID).
And, in case you had any doubt, that last nail joins many others that have been in place for quite some time.
The latest att
05-17-10
Word count: 130
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Wollongong, NSW, Aus. When Nina Funnell was bashed, strangled and narrowly escaped rape, she thought telling her story was the most responsible thing she could do. What she was not prepared for was mockery.
An anonymous online group posted her pic
05-15-10
Word count: 180
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Somewhere, Planet Earth. The thing about nostalgia is that it’s not what it used to be.
The town in which I grew up was host to a very large USAF base and we entertained a large contingent of US airman. There were no aeroplanes at the base it wa
05-14-10
Word count: 155
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Sydney, NSW, AUS. There is nothing quite so flattering as receiving hate mail. Over the years I’ve had my fair share of it. While many writers detest hate mail, I deal with it by trying to revel in the knowledge that people actually read my work
05-13-10
Word count: 230
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Texas, USA. Or, in the case of people who have been post-op for a number of years, what is wrong with having been transsexual?
Why did you get a sex change operation?
Because I was transsexual.
Does this mean you are still transsexual?
Nope. Si
05-12-10
Word count: 187
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Melbourne, VIC, AUS. Every person on the planet is affected by masculinity in some shape or form.
This is why getting masculinity right is so important.
If we get it wrong, everything falls apart.
You might have noticed that everything seems to
05-08-10
Word count: 195
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Fairfax, VA, USA. A recent report, The Impact of Media Images on Body Image and Behaviours: A Summary of the Scientific Evidence, places the issue of digitally enhanced images back in the spotlight. And it doesn’t look pretty.
According to this
05-05-10
Word count: 148
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Somewhere, Planet Earth. I cleared out some boxes of “stuff” the other day and came across a pretransition picture of me. I was not particularly concerned about it since I simply look like a younger version of me now, probably why I did not des
05-03-10
Word count: 181
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Fairfax, VA, USA. In an example of the most self serving egomanaical act in recent history, Autumn Sandeen joined the others who chained themselves to the fence at the White House protesting Don't Ask, Don't Tell US military policies.
Pam's House
04-26-10
Word count: 150
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Somewhere, Planet Earth. My issues with which sex I am go back in my life to my very earliest memories and sometimes when you hear people say that, it’s sourced in a kind of post-hoc rationalisation.
However, in my case, it is documented and in
04-23-10
Word count: 239
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Texas, USA. If one views "gender" as a social construct that has varied a great deal across time and in various cultures rather than as some form of unvarying absolute truth, a binary of one or zero, black or white then the very idea of&q
04-22-10
Word count: 162
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Somewhere, Planet Earth. One of the most common systems of argument used by a great many transgender types against transsexuals when we assert clear difference between us, is the expansion of our points until they reach absurd proportions and they
04-03-10
Word count: 186
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Sydney, NSW, AUS. Eric Clapton sang, If I could change the world. Many men dream about changing the world, but very few actually attempt it. Some succeed in bringing change, but is that change healthy, or does it create more problems than it solves
04-02-10
Word count: 223
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Texas, USA. Many years ago, about the time I got my surgery I bought a camera. It was a fixed lens rangefinder Yashica with aperture priority, 35mm. It was the first decent camera I owned that was capable of easy accurate focus and the sort of op
03-29-10
Word count: 135
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Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. Is there any relationship between postmodernism and pseudoscience? In order to do justice to the matter I should define both terms: Postmodernism is an intellectual current that, to a greater or lesser degree, has the f
03-20-10
Word count: 155
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Texas, USA. Okay I admit it, we watch the food channel, especially Iron Chef America but also other food shows that are ostensibly about cooking but are in fact advertisements for food that is very expensive in terms of both money and health.
If o
03-16-10
Word count: 153
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Western Sydney, NSW, AUS. Our heroes have always been flawed. Heathcliff was a vengeful misanthrope with necrophiliac tendencies. Mr Knightley was an annoying elitist who belittled his heroine. Mr Darcy was essentially a bad tempered snob. And let
03-13-10
Word count: 186
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Sydney, NSW, AUS. I am as concerned as the next inner city liberal about right-wing militias in America.
The latest group to come to attention are the Oath Keepers: a militia made up of current and ex-military personnel and law enforcement officer
03-07-10
Word count: 127
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Western Sydney, NSW, AUS. Our teenagers are becoming increasingly alienated. Their existence within their technology defined lives is one of segregation. Isolated by the technology that continually accompanies them, they have effectively become est
03-06-10
Word count: 192
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Texas, USA. Sharon, a friend of mine as well as one of the editors over at TS-SI suggested that perhaps I should define Christo-fascism as people react rather harshly to my using that phrase.
I am an atheist.
That means I think the very idea of
03-04-10
Word count: 144
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Somewhere, Planet Earth. Ariablue recently published an essay she titled An Object Lesson in which she discussed the possible motives for the tragic suicide of Christine Daniels. [N1]
For those who may not be aware of the story, Christine had a v
03-03-10
Word count: 214
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Brisbane, Queensland, AUS. The phrase, human inventions, calls to mind technology: the control of fire, the wheel, the computer and all the other techniques and devices that form our society.
Language is also an invention. Our language shows ethni
03-01-10
Word count: 178
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Indianapolis, IN, USA. Even though we are now well into the 21st century, some are working relentlessly to make it impossible to reconcile a scientific world view with a religious perspective. It is certainly not an accident that this non-productiv
02-21-10
Word count: 144
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Earth. Once when trekking in the Himalayas I had to follow my Nepalese guide as he chipped footholds into a sloping sheet of half frozen snow on the side of a mountain. One slip and I would have been on my way — and it seemed to me to be a long w
02-19-10
Word count: 181
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Manchester, England. In the Hollywood version of the life of Oliver Cromwell he is confronted by a sneering, condescending party of the Establishment and taunted by the leader there with the words But we have the majority. At which point he bangs t
02-18-10
Word count: 174
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Texas, USA. Many, many years ago I went to LA for the first time. I went there accompanying Jan, who was going to an outlaw plastic surgeon for implants and orchiectomy.
I was excited, it was my first trip to Los Angeles. We spent the night we g
02-15-10
Word count: 191
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Perth, WA, AUS. Apparently post feminist women are reinventing hen’s nights in order to (re)claim a male activity while men are becoming more “classy” with spa visits and golfing days.
Yet for Hannah Pool, the hen’s night is a traumatic,
02-15-10
Word count: 114
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Somewhere, Planet Earth. My early life was a living nightmare! I’ve talked about this before so I don’t intend to bleat on about it all over again.
So having put that entire trauma behind me I moved on with my life and being in the fortunate p
02-10-10
Word count: 204
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Washington, DC, USA. “This may be the most calamitous fiscal year states have known in decades,” reports Rob Gurwitt in Governing, the 23-year old bible on coverage of state and local governance across the continent.
And the coming fiscal year
02-06-10
Word count: 178
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Lancaster, PA, USA. Voters, political scientist V.O. Key famously remarked, are not fools. By and large that’s true. The specious corollary drawn by many politicians, however, is not so true.
Voters are not fools. Politicians reason they must ha
02-04-10
Word count: 157
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Texas, USA. PBS was bountiful last night. Show about Machu Picchu, the wonders of the planet and a an Independent Lens film. The film was part of Black History Month and pointed out how prior to World War II there was a fetishization of defining r
02-03-10
Word count: 166
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Palenville, NY, USA. I come from two old New England families, on both sides of my family tree is a Salem Witchcraft victim, Susanna Martin on my mother’s side, [N2] Sarah Good on my father’s. [N3] I have identified myself as Pagan most of my l
01-30-10
Word count: 170
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Somewhere, Planet Earth. The most common accusation that is thrown at me around the various blogs and forums is one of Elitism or that Classic Transsexuals set themselves apart as somehow better than everyone else.
That accusation is actually a bi
01-28-10
Word count: 201
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