I will still retain my height and weight

Why do you assume that both of those things are true? Trans people taking estrogen don’t typically shrink drastically, but a small amount of height loss (less than 1”) isn’t unheard of, along with a slight decrease in shoe size. The age you start and your own genetics also play a role, of course.

For weight, it’s pretty uncontroversial that for people taking estrogen, you will lose some muscle mass and have to work harder to build/maintain more.

This also assumes that your bone density is identical to a pre-HRT trans woman’s bone density, when actually trans women tend to have lower bone density than cis men prior to HRT.

TL;DR: hormones and personal/medical history play a much larger role in sexual characteristic expression than whether you have XX or XY genes.

One big genetic marker that is necessary to compete in most top sports is being male.

Pump the brakes, because you are making a lot of assumptions that make sports worse for women. Including:

• that male and female are perfectly distinct categories that everyone fits into
• that everyone can be categorized into male or female based on their gender history or a ‘sex test’
• that everyone put in the male category has an advantage over everyone in the female category
• that everyone sorted as female needs to be protected from intrusion of everyone sorted as male
• that hormones have no effect on performance of people in either category

These aren’t based in anything but anxieties and hearsay, and trying to enforce them will inherently affect far more cis women than trans women, because cis women outnumber trans women by an absolute fuckton.

They didn’t specify poverty, you can be malnourished without being in poverty. Especially on a typical American diet.

Because people are way, way worse at spotting trans people than they think they are. And they’re really bad at statistics.

Cis women are literally half the population, so even if you assume 95% of cis women look so feminine that nobody could mistake them for male, that still means you’re roughly 10x more likely to run into a ‘masculine looking’ cis woman than a trans woman period, regardless of how masculine or feminine she looks to anyone.

“Biodegradable” doesn’t mean “biodegradable in the conditions in the human body.” Lots of ‘green’ plastics are only compostable at a fairly high temperature (120F/50C) and with specific bacteria present.

The fact that’s still true should tell you just how dangerous driving is.

You have to use the bed at night (or during the day for a debuff if you don’t have the night owl characteristic), there’s a random chance a dream sequence will initiate and give you other POVs.

Coffee drinkers about to start paying $10/cup for anything made outside the home.

I mean, I probably wouldn’t be either. Just for different reasons.

I’m almost 40 and I don’t remember any war where this many journalists (during the whole war, not this one bombing) died in general, much less at once like this. It couldn’t be clearer that Israel is methodically targeting journalists.

It used to be that a woman had to have said no very clearly. While now in many places, lack of acceptance is the same as no. That goes for both rape and sexual assault.

This is a weird fucking thing to fixate on and rail about on a thread about a sleeping 15 year old girl getting raped by a 44 year old. Whether or not she said no changes fuck all.

Maybe this is just my media bubble, and I’m not saying I haven’t seen any articles about it, but I feel like remarkably little attention overall is being given to how many fucking people are dying in these heat disasters. Not just this one, but over and over.

Had to look up what a fairy chimney was because I’d never heard the term, that sounds so cool!

The heat/cold retention on that must be fantastic.

Interesting exception: in North America around the Great Lakes, pure native copper was widely available at the surface due to the ice sheets exposing underground deposits when they advanced/retreated.

I said apps but I probably should have said websites and apps, because websites aren’t exempt. I hear you on how frustrating it is when they’re making everything an app, though.

It’s absolutely Orwellian, and people should be angry at the UK for forcing this onto any website their citizens access.

Applies only to the UK, which is requiring it for apps that host adult content: https://www.theverge.com/news/704468/bluesky-age-verification-uk-online-safety-act

It can go moldy, though. Always check your weed with a UV light, especially if it’s not from a legal dispensary, you don’t wanna smoke mold.

It also demonstrates how much AI companies mislead the public on what their products can do. If a guy is selling lawnmowers that actually just generate grass clippings without mowing the lawn, you’re not an idiot for thinking it was going to mow grass.