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On 4/9/2019 at 5:10 PM, TrojanDad said:

I am talking about a publication that is known to have a political agenda, information can and is commonly skewed in a given direction.  So yes, I am suspect.  The article I provided (including the one more recent that your Statesman LiveScience 2017) does not dismiss what you provided, but clearly indicate "a few births out of a thousand babies".  This is what I stated originally.  

There are some variations, though. Recent research has found that a person can have a variety of different combinations of sex chromosomes and genes, particularly those who identify as LGBT. For example, a certain X chromosome called Xq28 and a gene on chromosome 8 seem to be found in higher prevalence in men who are gay, according to a 2014 study in the journal Psychological Medicine

A few births out of a thousand of babies are born with a single sex chromosome (45X or 45Y) and are referred to as sex monosomies. Others are born with three or more sex chromosomes (47XXX, 47XYY or 47XXY, etc.) and are called sex polysomies. "In addition, some males are born 46XX due to the translocation of a tiny section of the sex determining region of the Y chromosome," said WHO. "Similarly some females are also born 46XY due to mutations in the Y chromosome. Clearly, there are not only females who are XX and males who are XY, but rather, there is a range of chromosome complements, hormone balances, and phenotypic variations that determine sex."

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https://www.genome.gov/26524120/

 

The limiting statement "a few births out of a thousand", refers specifically to instances of people being born with a single sex chromosome.  The article does not say anything about how common it is to have the "variety of different combinations of sex chromosomes and genes" discovered in recent research. 

Again, the whole point of the book discussed in the New Stateman review is that the recent research has overturned the traditional focus on the X and Y chromsomes being the the "sex chromosomes", and thus the traditional view that only mutations/variations affecting those two chromosomes are relevant to determining a person's sex. Rather, the new research shows exactly what the last sentence of your quoted article says: 

"Clearly, there are not only females who are XX and males who are XY, but rather, there is a range of chromosome complements, hormone balances, and phenotypic variations that determine sex."

 

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https://www.dailycaller.com/2019/04/10/democrats-equality-act-transgender-girls-sports/

Every House Democrat but one has co-sponsored a bill requiring schools to allow male athletes who identify as transgender girls to compete on female sports teams.

Democrats’ Equality Act would amend the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to make “sexual orientation and gender identity” protected characteristics under federal anti-discrimination law. Among other things, the bill would force public schools to expand female athletic teams to include biological males who identify as transgender girls.

Sarah Warbelow, director of the left-wing Human Rights Campaign, praised the bill’s impact on high school sports in written testimony submitted to a House subcommittee on Tuesday.

“Opponents of equality in athletics for transgender athletes have argued that girls who are transgender have unfair physiological advantages over cisgender girls and as a result, will dominate women’s competitive sports,” Warbelow wrote, calling it not “rooted in fact” that biologically male athletes will outperform their female counterparts.

House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler, a Democrat from New York, made a similar argument during an April 2 hearing his committee held on the legislation. (RELATED: Biological Male Is Top-Ranked NCAA Track Star)

“Many states have sexual orientation and gender identity nondiscrimination laws, and all of them still have women’s sports. Arguments about transgender athletes participating in sports in accordance with their gender identity having competitive advantages have not been borne out,” Nadler said in his opening statement.

 

And now this debate starts.........................XXXX & YYYYYY's ?

 

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2 hours ago, swordfish said:

And now this debate starts.........................XXXX & YYYYYY's ?

Is it gonna change to "Xaviers and Yvonnes, not Xs and Ys" instead of "Jimmys and Joes not Xs and Os?"

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Notre Dame's first female leprechaun: 'Who says the Fighting Irish can't fight like a girl?': https://www.indystar.com/story/sports/2019/04/17/notre-dame-fighting-irish-picks-first-female-leprechaun-mascot/3496112002/

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For 54 years as the band has blared the "Victory March" and the storied magic of Notre Dame football has played out, a leprechaun has wielded a shillelagh — leading cheers, pumping up the blue and gold with a legendary superstition the spirited elf brings magical powers and good luck to team.

Known only as the Notre Dame leprechaun, he has always been a male.

Lynnette Wukie is not. And this season, she will be the first women to don the green suit and Irish persona of glee for Notre Dame.

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I'm kind of surprised it took this long.

 

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1 hour ago, Muda69 said:

Notre Dame's first female leprechaun: 'Who says the Fighting Irish can't fight like a girl?': https://www.indystar.com/story/sports/2019/04/17/notre-dame-fighting-irish-picks-first-female-leprechaun-mascot/3496112002/

I'm kind of surprised it took this long.

 

When I was a junior there, and living in the dorm, my next door neighbor was the leprechaun. She’s a lot better looking than he was.

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https://www.si.com/swim-daily/2019/01/04/halima-aden-si-swimsuit-2019-model-kenya?utm_source=twitter.com&xid=socialflow_twitter_si&utm_campaign=si-swimsuit&utm_medium=social&__twitter_impression=true

Halima Aden Makes History as the First Model to Wear a Hijab and Burkini in Sports Illustrated Swimsuit

 

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Do think she is expanding the definition of beauty or bring us back full circle?

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5 minutes ago, swordfish said:

https://www.si.com/swim-daily/2019/01/04/halima-aden-si-swimsuit-2019-model-kenya?utm_source=twitter.com&xid=socialflow_twitter_si&utm_campaign=si-swimsuit&utm_medium=social&__twitter_impression=true

Halima Aden Makes History as the First Model to Wear a Hijab and Burkini in Sports Illustrated Swimsuit

 

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Do think she is expanding the definition of beauty or bring us back full circle?

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Nothing wrong with these bathing dresses, if women want to wear them:

 

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High School Mulls Removing George Washington Murals Because They 'Traumatize' Students: https://www.dailywire.com/news/46683/high-school-mulls-removing-george-washington-joseph-curl

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A high school in Northern California — George Washington High School, to be specific — is mulling over a push to remove two 83-year-old murals from its hallways. Critics advocating for their removal say they are offensive to Native Americans and African-Americans. They say the pair of panels “traumatizes students and community members.”

A San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD) working group says the murals should be removed and put in storage to protect the students.

"SFUSD convened a ‘Reflection and Action Working Group’ that was comprised of members of the local Native American community, students, school representatives, district representatives, local artists and historians," Laura Dudnick, spokeswoman for the district, wrote in an email to The College Fix. "At its conclusion the group voted and the majority recommended that the 'Life of Washington' mural be archived and removed because the mural does not represent SFUSD values," the letter continued.

"Two of the thirteen panels in the mural series have come under fire since the 1960’s for their controversial depictions of African-Americans and Native Americans," the Richmond District Blog writes.

In one mural, entitled “Mount Vernon”, George Washington appears to be in conversation with another Caucasian man who gestures towards a seated African-American man holding corn, presumably a slave. In other parts of the mural, African-Americans are engaged in acts of manual labor like hauling large bales of hay and picking cotton in the fields, while Caucasian men are also laboring at other tasks with tools. Washington’s servant, who is pictured holding his horse, is also African-American. The mural is a clear depiction of slavery in the United States, and of George Washington as a slave owner.

The second panel, entitled "Westward Vision," depicts Benjamin Franklin and other founding fathers looking at George Washington as he points off in the distance, while he points with his other hand to a map. On the right side of the mural, as if carrying out Washington’s call for westward expansion, frontiersmen, depicted in greyscale unlike other figures in the mural, stand over the dead body of a Native American man, signifying the genocide of Native American life and culture.

In the bottom right of the “Westward Vision” panel, a frontiersman and Native American chief sit at a campfire smoking a peace pipe. On the ground at the chief’s feet is a tomahawk, symbolizing the disarming of Native tribes. Directly above the Chief’s headdress is a broken tree limb representing broken treaties made by the U.S. government with Native Americans, and broken promises made by settlers.

 

Here's the irony, though. The murals were painted in 1936 by artist Victor Arnautoff, who was a protégé of Diego Rivera and a communist. "He included those images not to glorify Washington, but rather to provoke a nuanced evaluation of his legacy. The scene with the dead Native American, for instance, calls attention to the price of 'manifest destiny.' Arnautoff’s murals also portray the slaves with humanity and the several live Indians as vigorous and manly," The Wall Street Journal reports.

Historian Fergus M. Bordewich told The Fix that it is "a deeply wrongheaded habit to project today’s norms, values, ideals backwards in time to find our ancestors inevitably falling short."

"It betrays a very troubling intolerance of art and the ambiguity of art and the aspirations of art," he said. "It’s incredibly stupid if we try to erase history. It still happened, and you should argue about its meanings."

 

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Don't Let the Woke Scolds Ruin Cinco de Mayo: https://reason.com/2019/05/05/cinco-de-mayo-cultural-appropriation/

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Today is Cinco de Mayo, which means it's time for tacos and tequila shots—and also time for social-justice-influenced ideologues to tell us why enjoying things from other cultures is an unconscionable act of cultural appropriation.

Of course, trying to tell people not to consume delicious foods and beverages on holidays is a tough sell. This year, the woke scolds seem to have given up on that battle, and instead are focused on discouraging appropriative Cinco de Mayo costumes: sombreros, serapes, etc. BuzzFeed published one of its trademark listicles on this subject, "13 Things I'm — And I Can't Stress This Enough — Sick Of Seeing On Cinco De Mayo." The author is mostly perturbed about white people in hats.

An article from WBUR argues that cultural appropriation of ethnic garb is a form of white supremacy:

This is how white supremacy works. It always begins with the taking — an entitled grabbing of the cultural symbols of others. A sombrero? A serape? A kimono? Cornrows? They're there for the seizing. And if such snatching is questioned — if we dare confront the audacity by which it plucks what isn't its own — then there is intimidation and terror.

 

White supremacy grabs and grabs — lands, people, continents, culture — for both power and hollow amusement.

Suffice it to say, this is a rather backward understanding of white supremacy—an ideology that stresses differences and divisions between the races. The alt-right doesn't want white people wearing sombreros: They want Mexican people to take their clothing and food and head south. White nationalism is obsessed with keeping the white race pure—with making sure other peoples, cultures, traditions, and values do not dilute white identity. There's no better way to undermine this pernicious ideology than to engage in rampant cultural blending and borrowing.

As a practical matter, it would be impossible to disentangle distinct ethnic traditions from the blended fabric of American society. Cinco de Mayo is a Mexican holiday, but one that's primarily celebrated in the U.S. rather than Mexico. That's what happens when cultures mix: New traditions form.

Much of the outrage over cultural appropriation is confined to leftist social media enclaves and college campuses, where de-problematizing Cinco de Mayo is a frequent goal of racial justice activists. Their efforts call to mind H.L. Mencken's famous description of Puritanism as "the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy."

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We will defend the land of divine guidance with our bodies, and we will sacrifice our souls without hesitation," said the young child. "We will chop off their heads, and we will liberate the sorrowful and exalted Al-Aqsa Mosque. We will lead the army of Allah fulfilling His promise, and we will subject them to eternal torture."

It's so nice to see the young kids in Sunday school......

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9 minutes ago, swordfish said:

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We will defend the land of divine guidance with our bodies, and we will sacrifice our souls without hesitation," said the young child. "We will chop off their heads, and we will liberate the sorrowful and exalted Al-Aqsa Mosque. We will lead the army of Allah fulfilling His promise, and we will subject them to eternal torture."

It's so nice to see the young kids in Sunday school......

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In all honesty, it has a semblance of the Battle Hymn of the Republic.  Also, La-Marseillaise https://www.thoughtco.com/la-marseillaise-frances-national-anthem-4080565

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19 hours ago, foxbat said:

In all honesty, it has a semblance of the Battle Hymn of the Republic. 

I respectfully disagree........"Let us die to make men free".......

We will defend the land of divine guidance with our bodies, and we will sacrifice our souls without hesitation," said the young child. "We will chop off their heads, and we will liberate the sorrowful and exalted Al-Aqsa Mosque. We will lead the army of Allah fulfilling His promise, and we will subject them to eternal torture."

Mine eyes have seen the glory
Of the coming of the Lord;
He is trampling out the vintage
Where the grapes of wrath are stored;
He hath loosed the fateful lightning
Of His terrible swift sword;
His truth is marching on.

Chorus
Glory! Glory! Hallelujah!
Glory! Glory! Hallelujah!
Glory! Glory! Hallelujah!
His truth is marching on.

I have seen Him in the watchfires
Of a hundred circling camps
They have builded Him an altar
In the evening dews and damps;
I can read His righteous sentence
By the dim and flaring lamps;
His day is marching on.

Chorus
Glory! Glory! Hallelujah!
Glory! Glory! Hallelujah!
Glory! Glory! Hallelujah!
His truth is marching on.

He has sounded forth the trumpet
That shall never call retreat;
He is sifting out the hearts of men
Before His judgement seat;
Oh, be swift, my soul, to answer Him;
Be jubilant, my feet;
Our God is marching on.

Chorus
Glory! Glory! Hallelujah!
Glory! Glory! Hallelujah!
Glory! Glory! Hallelujah!
His truth is marching on.

In the beauty of the lilies
Christ was born across the sea,
With a glory in His bosom
That transfigures you and me;
As He died to make men holy,
Let us die to make men free;
While God is marching on. 
 

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1 minute ago, BARRYOSAMA said:

Kind of like a Islamic martyr reaching paradise.....with 72 virgins

So you think a member of the US military is equivalent to an Islamic martyr?

If the goal of the US was world domination, Canada and Mexico would be a parking lot right now......

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18 minutes ago, swordfish said:

So you think a member of the US military is equivalent to an Islamic martyr?

If the goal of the US was world domination, Canada and Mexico would be a parking lot right now......

No I think a Islamic religious zealot is equivalent to a Christian religious zealot.  

Mexico, Central and most of South America are already the US's economic and military (76 bases in Latin America) parking lot.

World domination comes in many forms.

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1 hour ago, BARRYOSAMA said:

No I think a Islamic religious zealot is equivalent to a Christian religious zealot.  

Mexico, Central and most of South America are already the US's economic and military (76 bases in Latin America) parking lot.

World domination comes in many forms.

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