Same, I disliked him even before the Andrew Sachs business. His stand up was gross. He hid his behaviour behind the veneer of progressiveness.

Just existing as a woman or trans person isn’t political. No one ever says this about existing as a man.

Thanks for this, joined! :)

Trans women no longer have the same protections as cis women, so this ruling literally does do that.

We don’t have any evidence of a significant part of the population feeling that they are chickens, yet we do have evidence of trans people existing for as long as humans have. Your argument isn’t based on fact.

It isn’t about style. Women’s sizes (e.g. 8, 10, 12) originally came from codes based on the variations between hip, waist and bust measurements.

Generally, women are going to have boobs and wider hips and men generally have bigger feet. Obviously there’s a massive spectrum of human body shapes, but this is the main differentiation.

If I wear my (male) partner’s t-shirts, they’re just straight with no space for boobs and they don’t come in at the waist. Same with trousers, there’s a massive pouch in the crotch, too narrow on my hips and too loose at the waist. People like to wear things that best fit their bodies.

Thanks, I’m not from the US so have only seen little snippets.

Yeah I used to have one, I only replaced it when the battery started going. I loved that phone, it was solid yet so light! I have a 6a now which is great but so much heavier than the 4a.

Yeah they’re not doing it for 4a, Google might offer you a voucher to replace your phone.

Yeah but you could also end up with 300,000 crushed people if you treat a crowd like this.

People need to be sharing info here and through other channels. Pictures, videos, links to organised groups.

Yeah you shouldn’t have to, none of us should have to face prejudice. But talking to someone could help you learn how to deal with difficult situations, or manage your emotional reaction when something bad happens (I’m not trying to invalidate how you feel, feeling rage is justified, but finding more productive outlets for anger can be really helpful, I’ve found this for myself personally), or they can just be someone you can vent all these thoughts to about wanting to burn them all to the ground. They could also help you consider other practical/logistical solutions to problems you’re facing.

Well that’s a really good starting place :) If you did want to try therapy, being able to go in saying “I have these issues and I need to learn how to cope them” then you’ve got something to work on.

It would be helpful to find a therapist who is a specialist in trans issues, and hopefully they can help you work through what you’re struggling with. They can help you reflect on why you feel a certain way, or why certain things make you feel uncomfortable or how to cope with everyday things you have to face from other people. Sorry if I’m making any assumptions about what you need, but hopefully you get the gist of what I’m saying.

But this is just for the 9a, the 9 has the superior chip. The “a” models have always been smaller and lower spec, and therefore cheaper.

I wouldn’t say it’s essential, more one option out of a whole bunch you could use to improve yourself (though we pay for many essential things like housing, water, food… Welcome to life as we know it).

Therapy isn’t going to “fix” anything. It’s a way of helping you reflect on yourself, see where your problems are, give you some perspective and start to see things differently. It can help you understand why you have certain behaviours and traits and work on unpicking them or unlearning them. But like I said, lots of other things can help you get there too, like meeting new people and having good chats, taking drugs that change your perspective, travelling, reading books. All of the above combined.

Therapy is one tool that can assist personal growth. You could also try reading into Stoicism or make friends you can talk to candidly or take some acid.

If you’d explained things more articulately to begin with it would have saved you a lot of time!

Ok, you’re not dismissing cause and effect as a whole (i.e. You believe if I pushed a domino over and it fell, I caused it to fall) but don’t believe cause and effect necessarily applies when the effect is the result of a transaction. There are often circumstances where multiple causes result in an effect. e.g. I hadn’t been sleeping well, hadn’t been eating properly and caught a cold, with the effect of failing an exam.

If you don’t want to engage in discourse, why even start a thread?

But ok, you think that events don’t happen because they’re instigated by something else. If I push a domino over, it falls. If I didn’t cause it, what do you think did?

Maybe expand on your point if you want some discussion, your statement doesn’t really make any sense.

Yeah border control there are insane. My partner (who is half American but has always lived in the UK) and I flew to Canada and met his family at the airport, who drove us over the border to where they live in the US (their nearest airport was in Canada) and we got interrogated at the border because they couldn’t understand how they could be related when he had a British accent lol. With a wall of guns behind them. Absolutely insane place.