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"Before each run I stretch for about 5 mintues" I promise I'm trying to be helpful, but stretching *prior* to exercise has been shown to be useless at best and potentially harmful. Sources: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/02/sports/playmagazine/112pewarm.html…

http://www.npr.org/blogs/13.7/2012/05/24/153285061/can-children-know-at-age-2-they-were-born-the-wrong-sex?sc=fb&cc=fp From the article: This framework does not mesh with the "born that way" school of thought — the view that Kathryn was psychologically male right from birth, but trapped in a female's body. "What could it…

That was exactly my point on what became "the chimp penis incident." Interestingly enough, when you try to Google for, "do other primates exhibit transgender behavior?" the first three responses are links to examples of homosexual behavior, not transgender behavior. Like you, I do not agree with the two being lumped…

I really like this paragraph a lot because I believe it introduces a point that hasn't really been discussed: what is gender? You wrote that "other species have varied genders and gender fluidity." But mammals, for the most part, really only have two genders: male and female. How these species (or even humans) interact or…

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Just teach your cat to use the toilet. Problem solved!

Aren't you already doing this? :bigsmile:

I guess it maybe comes down to semantics over the word "disorder." If being called "abnormal" or having a "disorder" is offensive, then I would argue that an autistic person has just as much right to be angered at such a label as a homosexual or transgender would. As such, it strikes me as the height of hypocrisy to make…

Thank you. And I would like to, once again, point out that I'm not making the positive statement that it *IS* a disorder, only that I don't understand why it should not be considered so. I do not feel the previous links provided did much to make that case and that opinion is not based on prejudice or an inability to…

It hasn't. There are indications which my friend here referred to that show differences in neuron counts and a lengthening of a receptor that is linked to testosterone. Neither study concluded that is has been definitively "proven" to be structural only. In fact, the one study specifically links it to levels of…

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She most definitely implied it. Adding "we are NOT sick" right after the sentence about how autism differs from LBGT certainly implies that one is sick while the other isn't. And I do not understand why the "T" is lumped in with LBG, but whatever.

But kids with autism ARE sick and have a disease? Man that's some serious bull**** there. It's so ****ing hypocritical.

Nonsense. I want EVERY cookie but I somehow manage to not eat them.

As usual, he beat me to it. Yarwell is 100% correct. If you really want to determine your caloric needs, accurately track every single thing you eat or drink for a month and weigh yourself every day. After a month, if you are the exact same weight, the average number of calories you eat per day will be your TDEE (total…

As much as I hate to continue feeding the troll.... The first quote doesn't even come close to denigration. I don't understand why it's considered "normal" to think you have the wrong anatomy as opposed to being a mental disorder. My amputee example demonstrates this. I did not say that transgender people are "weird" or…

Well there it is. I guess I should have known better.

Offensive and incorrect. Also offensive and incorrect. I never said "ewwwww." I never denigrated transgender people. I never called them "crazy."

Which is why you will remain blissfully ignorant.

But there *IS* something WRONG with them. They are suffering from a mental disorder. The method of treatment is irrelevant to the fact that there is a fundamental error in their brain.

You have nothing. All you have done is proved that people who espouse a belief in accepting others can be just as close-minded and bigoted as people who hate those different from themselves. At least the latter category is honest in their intent. You know nothing about me.

Wanting to cut off your own fingers is most definitely unnatural. I intentionally picked a ridiculous example - the fact that you feel it should be considered "normal" to want to cut off your own fingers..... there's really nowhere to go from there.

It's in the quote that you just requoted: "If you were born with a very strong urge to amputate four of your fingers it would be a different biological path, and you should be certainly allowed to amputate those fingers." No... no, you shouldn't. If you want to cut off your fingers, something is WRONG with you and you need…

I do not understand this. By your definition, everything is "normal" and we shouldn't treat *any* psychological disorders.

Oh, and your argument for diversity is just plain insulting. If someone doesn't understand why cutting off your genitals shouldn't be considered a mental disorder that doesn't instantly meant they are against people being "unique" or "diverse." I took great care in trying to avoid being insulting towards transgender…

Statement without proof. Please define "mental gender." From the study you posted: "The present findings of somatostatin neuronal sex differences in the BSTc and its sex reversal in the transsexual brain clearly support the paradigm that in transsexuals sexual differentiation of the brain and genitals may go into opposite…

This doesn't say very much for your imagination :flowerforyou:

You either have a Y chromosome or you don't. There *is* such a thing as being either male or female, biologically speaking. I know I'm probably asking to be flamed, but here goes... I do not understand the acceptance of "transgender" as being a normal or natural state for humans. Unless you are a hermaphrodite, you are…

Seconded. People make mistakes. Was anybody *really* hurt by this?