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Gender dysphoria and the trans movement.
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Ah Gawd the freedom and liberty fer fooks sake!!!
This what the hate you bring here leads to Frosty. Shame on you.
www.independent.co.uk
Oklahoma banned trans students from bathrooms. Now a bullied student is dead
Nex Benedict died one day after a fight in a school bathroom. Their mother Sue Benedict tells Bevan Hurley that the gender fluid teenager endured more than a year of abuse simply for being who they were
www.independent.co.uk
GenghisKush
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shiva82
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so you want mentally ill men to use the girls bathroom? why is frosty to blame ? shame on youThis what the hate you bring here leads to Frosty. Shame on you.
Oklahoma banned trans students from bathrooms. Now a bullied student is dead
Nex Benedict died one day after a fight in a school bathroom. Their mother Sue Benedict tells Bevan Hurley that the gender fluid teenager endured more than a year of abuse simply for being who they were
Brother Nature
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When I was a young kid, I used to go to the ladies bathroom with my mum. No one gave a fuck then, no one gives a fuck now.
If a trans person shits in the woods does anyone hear it?
Apparently some of you guys do...
If a trans person shits in the woods does anyone hear it?
Apparently some of you guys do...
RickLafleur
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Apieceofshitsayswhat?
Shame upon the vermin!!
Wait...
I answered that.
Oh boy...
Shame upon me for I am humble vermin.
I answered that.
Oh boy...
Shame upon me for I am humble vermin.
I wonder if the lack of conflict that acceptance and inclusion would bring about is disappointing or defeating for the hateful?
GenghisKush
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The burials that could challenge historians’ ideas about Anglo-Saxon gender
Published: October 3, 2023 7:25am EDTAuthor James Davison PhD Candidate in Medieval History, University of Liverpool
There are a significant number of Anglo-Saxon burials where the estimated anatomical sex of the skeleton does not align with the gender implied by the items they were buried with. Some bodies identified as male have been buried with feminine clothing, and some bodies identified as female have been found in the sorts of “warrior graves” typically associated with men.
In the archaeology of early Anglo-Saxon England, weaponry, horse-riding equipment and tools are thought to signal masculinity, while jewellery, sewing equipment and beads signal femininity. And, for the most part, this pattern fits.
So far though, no convincing explanation has been put forward for the burials which appear to invert the pattern. My PhD research asks whether looking at these atypically gendered burials through the lens of trans theory and the 21st-century language of “transness” has the potential to improve historians’ understanding of early Anglo-Saxon gender.
Atypically gendered burials are generally excluded as “outliers” in excavation reports and subsequent research. This relies on the anachronistic idea that historical societies followed a system of sex, gender and sexuality aligning with 19th-century western standards.
This idea is so common that many people believe these three aspects of humanity have remained unchanged throughout history. But such an approach may mean that there are aspects of how gender was understood in early Anglo-Saxon England (circa AD450 to 750) that are going unrecognised today.
Using approaches from trans studies – which acknowledge the potential for genders beyond a male-female binary in historical cultures – allows researchers to approach these burials more critically. It also brings these graves – and the lives of the people buried in them – into meaningful historical research, rather than leaving them to be discarded from studies as outliers.
The golden belt buckle discovered in the Sutton Hoo burial hoard. Jononmac46/Wiki Commons, CC BY-SA
Eleven burials from the fifth to eighth century found in the pre-Christian cemetery of Buckland, Dover were designated as “discrepancies” in their cemetery excavation reports. This was due to a perceived misalignment in the sex of the skeleton and the gender associations of the items they were buried with.
This makes them a good place to begin exploring an interpretation of these burials through the lens of transness, as a possible explanation for this “discrepancy”. A closer look at two of these burials, “Grave 30” and “Grave 93”, offers insight into the complexities of gender in this period.
Inside Grave 30
The occupant of “Grave 30” was between 35 and 40 years old, buried around AD600, and was designated “definitely male” in the excavation report, based on their skeletal features.
Drawing showing the position of the occupant of grave 30. Courtesy of Historic England
At a depth of 0.61 metres, Grave 30 is especially deep for this period. This suggests they were a person of high status, as the energy expended digging a person’s grave reflects the regard in which they were held by their community.
This is further suggested by the person having suffered from five cavities – the result of a high-sugar diet. The absence of enamel hypoplasia (horizontal lines which appear on the teeth during periods of malnutrition) also demonstrates that their access to food was reliable.
In the grave was a bone comb, a silver-gilt brooch, a silver pin, 84 beads, a silver pendant, a buckle, a knife and a set of iron keys – a rich collection which emphasises their high status.
All of these items are associated with femininity and are anticipated finds in cisgender female graves (burials where a female skeleton is accompanied by artefacts considered feminine). The brooch and pin, for example, were both parts of seventh century feminine clothing.
We will never know exactly who this person was, or how they fit into their community. But taking a trans studies approach to the burial evidence, I can theorise that this could be interpreted as the grave of a wealthy trans woman, who wore fine silver jewellery, ate as well as any of her contemporaries and on her buckled belt proudly bore the large iron keys of the home she managed.
Inside Grave 93
The person in “Grave 93” was also estimated to have died aged between 35 and 40. They were designated “possibly female” in the excavation report, poor preservation not allowing for complete certainty.
Drawing showing the position of the occupant of grave 93. Courtesy of Historic England
Grave 93 is not as deep a grave as 30, but is still large. There is evidence of tooth cavities known as “occlusal fissures”, often caused or exacerbated by feminising hormones, particularly during pregnancy. This evidence supports the designation of the skeleton as female, but doesn’t preclude transness as an explanation for this burial in the light of the accompanying artefacts.
This person was buried alongside a sword, a spearhead, fragments of a decorated shield, one glass bead (likely attached to the sword), an iron rod, a bronze band, iron fragments of a buckle and a bronze ring.
The sword makes this one of only 17 graves excavated in the cemetery to contain such a high-status weapon. The combination of weapons is the archetypal assemblage of an Anglo-Saxon “warrior grave”.
Again, we will never be able to know for sure who this person was in life. Such a burial does not necessarily signify that the person was a warrior. However, it does indicate that they were of high status and operated in a masculine sphere.
A trans studies reading of the burial evidence suggests this could be interpreted as the grave of a trans man who enjoyed a position of respect in his community, displaying his wealth, masculinity – and perhaps warrior status – through his shield, sword and spear.
There are other possible explanations for these burials. Perhaps the weapons in Grave 93 were family heirlooms, buried with a woman who was the last of that family line, or were the possessions of a “warrior woman” along the lines of Lagertha in the TV series Vikings.
As there are so many variable factors and we can’t speak with the people in these burials, any historical theory on gender in this period can only ever be speculative. A trans-exclusionary interpretation of the burial evidence is no less selective – it operates through as modern a lens as a trans-inclusive interpretation and requires just as many assumptions.
While trans-inclusive approaches can’t offer a definite explanation for burials which sit outside of a traditional understanding of Anglo-Saxon gender, the insights they offer are equally evidence-based. Bringing these “anomalous” burials out of the footnotes and into mainstream scholarship offers new perspectives into the earliest iteration of the English-speaking world.
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When it comes to transgender ideology, the solution to a subjective state of gender disphoria, isn't cementing it and turning it into an objective state of gender disphoria. The most important thing in regards to sex or gender, happens to be reproductivity. People seem to ignore that fact and continue cementing a state of disphoria which is cementing a corrupt conscience. The human psyche is a powerful thing, made up of the mind, soul and spirit. The only thing that can truly align the psyche and cleanse a corrupt conscience is truth.
The truth will set you free, that means lies only serve to inslave you. The physical, temporal experience serves as the foundation for the metaphysical, which represents a mathematical framework or possibility space, created through physical architectures. The possibility space represents a mathematical framework and the potential possibilities contained therein. We see the potential manifest as pixelated objects and interactive user spaces, like this forum upon which we interact.
There is a hierarchy, most people are oblivious to it. To lost in pursuit of subjective perfection missing out on objective directions. The mathematical framework or transistors and pixels represent a possibility space of potentials and the pixel dust represents the metaphysical material we form into structure. Thus the possibilities manifest before our eyes, in the form of pixelated objects that we interact with.
There is more to the universe than our perception would lead us to believe. Hierarchy is a real thing. Using the pie chart below, we begin to realize how science has the general idea, however clueless simultaneously. I will make some correlations to clear up the image a bit.
My pc represents a physical material container. This would be the equivalent of dark energy in this universe.
The Binary Code which is omnipresent inside this physical architecture represents the dark matter.
That leaves the pixel dust representing the remaining ordinary matter.
If I add an additional hard drive to my system, that upgrade is reflected as more internal space to store all that pixelated information. So it's exponential in potential growth. External upgrades are reflected internally.
e=mc² has physical and metaphysical implications.
It tells us that matter and energy are interchangeable, experimentally confirmed empirically through nuclear fission reactions. Metaphysically through the pixelated objects we interact with on these mathematical frameworks daily.
Let's apply this to the mind, soul and spirit. The mind represents the soul as the mind is the mathematical framework or possibility space itself, we can say the physical body or architecture. The soul represents the subconscious and conscious, which is how the pixels and binary data correlate folded together through algorithms, we call them proteins. The spirit represents the light which provides the energy for all those interactve correlations. I'll stop there I'm pretty baked, an idiot like me probably can't convince you in actuality being factuality
Truth is good, lies are bad, pretty simple math. Some would argue but I can't hear their arguments.
The truth will set you free, that means lies only serve to inslave you. The physical, temporal experience serves as the foundation for the metaphysical, which represents a mathematical framework or possibility space, created through physical architectures. The possibility space represents a mathematical framework and the potential possibilities contained therein. We see the potential manifest as pixelated objects and interactive user spaces, like this forum upon which we interact.
There is a hierarchy, most people are oblivious to it. To lost in pursuit of subjective perfection missing out on objective directions. The mathematical framework or transistors and pixels represent a possibility space of potentials and the pixel dust represents the metaphysical material we form into structure. Thus the possibilities manifest before our eyes, in the form of pixelated objects that we interact with.
There is more to the universe than our perception would lead us to believe. Hierarchy is a real thing. Using the pie chart below, we begin to realize how science has the general idea, however clueless simultaneously. I will make some correlations to clear up the image a bit.
My pc represents a physical material container. This would be the equivalent of dark energy in this universe.
The Binary Code which is omnipresent inside this physical architecture represents the dark matter.
That leaves the pixel dust representing the remaining ordinary matter.
If I add an additional hard drive to my system, that upgrade is reflected as more internal space to store all that pixelated information. So it's exponential in potential growth. External upgrades are reflected internally.
e=mc² has physical and metaphysical implications.
It tells us that matter and energy are interchangeable, experimentally confirmed empirically through nuclear fission reactions. Metaphysically through the pixelated objects we interact with on these mathematical frameworks daily.
Let's apply this to the mind, soul and spirit. The mind represents the soul as the mind is the mathematical framework or possibility space itself, we can say the physical body or architecture. The soul represents the subconscious and conscious, which is how the pixels and binary data correlate folded together through algorithms, we call them proteins. The spirit represents the light which provides the energy for all those interactve correlations. I'll stop there I'm pretty baked, an idiot like me probably can't convince you in actuality being factuality
Truth is good, lies are bad, pretty simple math. Some would argue but I can't hear their arguments.
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Hiddenjems
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It’s called unintended consequences.
Trans people just trying to get through their day aren’t an issue to anyone in a restroom.
But, by allowing self indentification as the key to women’s spaces, you’re opening to door to creeps that otherwise wouldn’t have access.
Hiddenjems
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They killed themselves the day after they started a fight.This what the hate you bring here leads to Frosty. Shame on you.
Oklahoma banned trans students from bathrooms. Now a bullied student is dead
Nex Benedict died one day after a fight in a school bathroom. Their mother Sue Benedict tells Bevan Hurley that the gender fluid teenager endured more than a year of abuse simply for being who they were
You cannot change gender, you are either man or woman, anyone who thinks otherwise is mentally ill.
chaya raichik is a terrorist. can't wait til she's sued and/or held accountable.
Oklahoma's top education official called out over Libs of TikTok ties after non-binary student who was in fight at school later dies
Ryan Walters recently appointed Chaya Raichik to a state institution.www.dailydot.com
RobFromTX
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lol wouldn't the basement dwellers calling in the bomb threats be the terrorists? I guess women don't get a say on the matter. Let us all go in and watch them shower
