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Transgender dispute

mardi 28 novembre 2017 à 01:00

The dispute between defenders of transgender females' rights, and the feminists who distrust them as males, is getting so heated that it is causing difficulties for various progressive and radical movements. The plutocratists must be chuckling.

In principle I think both sides have a valid concern. However, in practice the transgender people face a real problem, while the fearful feminists face only a theoretical problem.

There is indeed no formal obstacle to stop a straight male from putting on women's clothing and calling himself a transgender woman in order to visit women's bathrooms; but surely this must be very rare. Most straight males who might consider going to such lengths to peep at women would feel a horror of making themselves "effeminate" by dressing as women. They wouldn't consider actually doing that.

Selling face recognition data

mardi 28 novembre 2017 à 01:00

Australia is constructing a data base to identify everyone in that country by face recognition. Now it plans to sell companies access to the data base, compounding the initial wrong.

Human rights in Zimbabwe

mardi 28 novembre 2017 à 01:00

Zimbabwe Activists Fear Post-Mugabe Human Rights Crackdown.

Abortion ban

mardi 28 novembre 2017 à 01:00

US citizens: oppose SCROTUS's proposed abortion ban.

Stopping tax attacks

mardi 28 novembre 2017 à 01:00

3 steps for stopping the Republican tax attacks.

These were intended for "before Thanksgiving", but you can still do them now.