Ad homenin

To be clear, I am saying “punch Nazis, but don’t be a dumbass about it”.

https://people.howstuffworks.com/when-legal-punch-someone-face.htm

It’s absolutely not legal.

But that’s just one more reason to do it.

“Street drugs” exists due to individuals not having access to proper medical care, including and especially mental health, and being forced to self-medicate.

The short story is that the difference is mostly one of dosage and metabolism. While there are some subtle differences between methamphetamines and amphetamines, see pharmacology section, they have nearly identical effects on most people.

The big difference between recreational and medicinal usage is dosage and duration. A lot of the pharmacology around ADHD medication is in trying to get a slow and steady release either via binders and packaging (IE Adderall XR) and/or prodrugs/salts (IE lisdexamphetamine aka Vyvanse).

Street drugs on the other hand usually don’t have the same level of quality control which makes dosing difficult and aren’t intended for the same level of consistency.

Someone could microdose meth and get similar results to a real shitty Adderall generic but it comes with a lot of risks and is generally not recommended.

the man went out to hunt

Myth based on modern gender roles

Glad we agree the irrational and emotionally driven humans are the root problem!

Guns have no use other than killing.

Yes. That doesn’t give them agency or sentience or anything though.

She competed in the 2021 Olympics but did not finish. Same as Chris Mossier who you so casually dismissed as a counterexample.

She did win silver in the 2017 World Weightlifting Championships. You do notice how you moved the goalposts we previously established in order to get the answer you desired?

You are continuing to be willfully, and now maliciously, ignorant.

If you’re calling yourself a tool I’ll concede the point.

The point being made is you can’t blame the tool for the operator’s usage of it.

They are though, just going through the last 2 Olympics the list of openly trans individuals: Laurel Hubbard, Chelsea Wolfe, Quinn, Ness Murby, Nikki Hiltz, Raven Saunders.

You can look these things up, stop being a willfully ignorant bigot.

“It wasn’t the gun that killed you, it was the person who pulled the trigger.” C’mon, dude. You’re being obtuse.

It’s axiomatic. The best means the best. Objectively. Fastest, highest, longest, game won.

So your goalpost is a world record? No trans, non-binary, etc. individual I can find has set a world record in any sport.

Participating in the Olympics, only to not even finish isn’t exactly winning though.

If we lower the goalpost to ‘any trans, non-binary, etc. individual winning gold in the Olympics’ again nobody meets that criteria¹. Dropping it to simply medaling? Again nothing.

^1 Quinn the soccer player arguably does meet this criteria, but it’s a team sport. Using that as your sole evidence of ‘loads of examples of the opposite’ seems extremely cherry picked doesn’t it?^

Define your goalposts, what exactly is “winning against the best in competition”?

Chris Mosier seems like someone who consistently does win in those competitions.

If he doesn’t count then who, specifically, does “the other way around”?

alteration that isn’t and can’t be available for everyone

That’s unfortunately how genetics works.

What is then the legal limit for doping of a trans male?

I thought being assigned female at birth made someone inherently and irreversibly weaker and so they would be non-competitive in men’s sports /s.

Seriously though that’s a largely solved problem. While specifics will vary depending on the specific org this set of guidelines outlined by the World Anti-Doping Agency is a decent enough framework and directly answers that.

It’s like saying your rights are being trampled on if Walmart bans you from their store. You still have access to food.

With the existence of food desserts and Walmart’s decades long crusade of monopolization this is less true than you think.

Sure, you can still go buy food, but in many parts of rural US it’s now an hour+ trip each way to the gas station and costs 3x as much as you can afford. Meaning in reality you don’t.

She was born as a woman and she considers herself a woman

You are conflating sex and gender, she has 5α-reductase deficiency which exclusively effects individuals with an XY karyotype.

Either all women¹, including Semenya, fall under that umbrella or none of them do. Pick one.

If your concern is about “unfair advantages gained via doping” then the majority of trans women competing are being much more fair because they are undergoing HRT to bring the “doping” back to within the typical woman baseline.

Unless your moral outrage is because you’re drawing a distinction between naturally occuring and artificial doping?

^1 I should have to fucking say this, but based on the fact we’re having this conversation: this inherently includes trans women.^

If the doctors had designated her sex “correctly” when she was born would you hold the same opinion?

Why is her situation any different than someone who medically matches her hormonal levels, irregardless of assigned sex at birth?

It gets much, much more skewed after puberty.

Because the primary causitive variable here isn’t the person’s sex chromosomes but their relative hormone levels. It’s highly correlated to the sex chromosomes that one is born with, which is what your data shows, but it isn’t the cause.