The PC and Perpetually Offended Brigade

[Caomhaoin]

A friend of mine works for Pietà House.

Iván Drago (me) vs 'Rocky' (road to Dublin)

Headgear

After I'm finished with the communists I'm  calling out Pedrito and Open Face Surgery.

Ye are good, but I'm better.

[Caomhaoin]

Chris, if you ever meet me in the ring,and on the unlikely event that you win, illl agree with you.

You're main problem is that I will beat you to within an inch of your life on side of the ring

[Caomhaoin]

I am calllimg you out Chris

[Eoin McLove]

Looks like a tequila genocide.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Impressive you held on to the same train of thought for about six hours Kev! 

[Kurt Cocaine]

Das Méxican führer, he be's angwee... 

[Caomhaoin]

Let's do it for the laugh

[Kurt Cocaine]

If it's got a dick, it ain't a chick...

https://www.newsweek.com/im-nevadas-first-transgender-beauty-pageant-winner-1578389

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Hardly surprising if the competition was held in such low resolution conditions!

[Kurt Cocaine]

They sure don't make 'em like they used to.

[Kurt Cocaine]

Crackin tune.....

[Blitzer666]

I'd certainly have a go at it, as long as she leaves her balls in her knickers

[Kurt Cocaine]

Yep, I'd definitely take it from behind.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Yep, I'd definitely take it from behind.

For the manicured hands and nails on your back? 

[hellfire]

I'm working in brain chemistry, to be precise, and how that relates to behavior. And what you're saying only holds up within a very naive conception of both neurobiology and language. It's not at all a question of truth versus polite untruth, it's a question of science not having as many answers as would convenience certain people. We have no reason to believe that gender dysphoria, while probably influenced - as with addiction, schizophrenia, dementia, etc. - by environmental factors, doesn't also have a genuine neurobiological underpinning. So, imagine if someone's nervous system is genuinely making them feel like they belong to another gender (a simplistic analogy to phantom limb syndrome may help the imagination along), at a genuine neurophysiological level, is it merely a polite untruth to refer to them as he or she upon their request and based on how they dress, etc.? Folk used to think schizophrenia was demon possession!

I know a lad who has schizophrenia. A truly awful condition to say the least. He has delusions that various state and terrorist bodies are after him. At no point has anyone ever agreed with him and said "fuckin hell Chris that is actually ISIS outside the window". This is the only dillusion in the DSM that people are expected to play along with. Imagine telling anorexics the they are fat, OCD sufferers the their living space is contaminated......