JonKramer, CIS-HET @JonKramer@qoto.org

In America, as in all places that humanity lives, we tend to play a national game of whack-a-mole. We label each of the holes as a national issue, and we split into groups to focus on our particular hole. The entirety of the game is to not have ANY moles up. And to accomplish this, we focus on our mole, and keeping it down. What we overlook is that when we knock ours down, it forces another up someplace else. And if we force ours to stay down, it can cause massive repercussions on other holes elsewhere in society. We need to judge if allowing a bit of release, allowing our mole to pop up, overall helps society. Or does forcing our mole down hurt society even more.

Maybe a big government spending program that feeds kids is a mole. Spending taxes taken by force from the people is generally a 'mole', a bad thing. But if this lowers starvation rates, and crime statistics... See how this works?

Don't think something you see as obvious is obvious to all, or even a few others.

IN America, we have a lot of people named Steve who commit major crimes. I'm talking theft, rape, murder, arson, child abuse, etc. Major crimes. In India, they have almost no crimes committed by Steves. Same with China and Japan.

What should our solution be to our Steve problem??

I am going to assume you do not understand what I am talking about. I am also further going to assume you CAN understand what I am talking about. And once you understand this, viscerally, you will know to change your argument. I will further assume that you won't, because you hear about the 'Steve' problem so often with such emotion that you don't care to be right, or logical, but being politically correct is the end goal.

Just in case it isn't obvious, this is a serious question. I really want to know who these laws are going to hurt, or help, and how. I am honestly not sure I am in favor of any elective surgery performed on babies, including circumcisions. Nor am I sure I am against it in all cases. I think the anti trans laws are going to have unexpected blowback on the non trans community that will reverberate far longer than the harm these lawmakers are intentionally inflicting on the trans community.

I'm curious about the numbers for corrective surgery performed at birth to assign a newborn as either male or female, when born with abnormal genitalia. This is a rather significant number of babies, as many as 1.7% of births showing intersex traits. And a minimum of 1 in 2000 births being hermaphroditic.

Are states that ban any trans care for children also banning any corrective surgery in all babies? I have yet to see any discussion of this issue, even though it is arguably a much bigger issue. At least by the numbers...

Looks like it is possible that the current chair of the Libertarian Party is an unregistered foreign agent for Russia.

Not really surprised at this possibility.

What is a good way to get a phone number for a guy when all you know is name and address? Seems all the online sources want me to buy a subscription.

I got a 2nd random text... Apparently someone in LA was giving out my number to young women at an Art Gala.

I just got a random text message from someone in LA asking me out for Italian. I answered "New phone, who dis?" What I hoped was it was the person who had randomly texted me years ago, and we struck up a friendship that lasted a couple of years, until my phone crashed and I lost her number. *sigh*