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I haven't slept in two or three days because I've been over-dosing on B vitamins.
I was gonna post about feeling utterly let down by my government, my country because I'm a disabled person who hasn't been able to get disability benefits (which I actually need) and a hardworking, educated person who cannot find a job. The economy is off and the disability benefits system is kinda garbage. I'll skip that, however.
I'm past the point of feeling let down by the amount of violence in this country. It's like being a fish complaining about being confined to the water. The water is everywhere, so it's easier to forget about. Gun violence is simply a part of the United States, not just a problem the United States has. Maybe at some point there was a chance that the other forms of violence would not be so endemic, but I do not expect them to be easier to fix. I don't expect them to get fixed anytime within the next century.
I was reading a research paper on autism and sleep difficulties, and one of the research variables was "sex assigned at birth." This is concept used by trans activists and real trans people alike, seemingly to distance themselves from their reproductive sex and/or downplay the importance of reproductive sex. They represent reproductive sex as if it's merely an opinion of whatever medical staff attended their birth, as if it's an arbitrary "assignment."
This concept has apparently been stolen from the intersexed community, who are the only people to whom it applies. Some infants who had sexually ambiguous genitalia got their sex "assigned" (aka a doctor more or less chose male or female and wrote that on the birth record). The vast majority of people do not get their sex "assigned" because we do not have sexually ambigious genitalia.
So now this sjw garbage has made its way into academic research. The research paper was not about intersexed people. It's becoming more and more common for people to apply this concept to everyone. At one of the House Judiciary committee hearings, a politician shared a video of a surgeon referring to female genitalia as "assigned-female-at-birth anatomy."
https://invidious.private.coffee/watch?v=qAqNCo7RTWI
and here's the whole hearing:
https://invidious.private.coffee/watch?v=oaN4c2hQrwg
And it's not just that dubious concepts of sex are being added to research; the original, biological concept of sex is perhaps disappearing. I've participated in a few research studies in the past year, and none of them asked participants for reproductive sex. Several asked for "gender identity," however. Mad as it is, it seems as though the trans activists' goal of supplanting reproductive sex with "gender identity" is coming to fruition in some sectors. The fact that it's coming to fruition in scientific research, what is supposed to be a truth-seeking endeavor, is disturbing but not surprising in this country.
The fact that the United States has remained a staunchly religious country despite all its scientific, legal, and social progress was a clue that this sort of thing could eventually happen. A country whose political candidates discuss their personal religious beliefs to help them win votes is never far off from the degradation of its intellectual life.
I was gonna post about feeling utterly let down by my government, my country because I'm a disabled person who hasn't been able to get disability benefits (which I actually need) and a hardworking, educated person who cannot find a job. The economy is off and the disability benefits system is kinda garbage. I'll skip that, however.
I'm past the point of feeling let down by the amount of violence in this country. It's like being a fish complaining about being confined to the water. The water is everywhere, so it's easier to forget about. Gun violence is simply a part of the United States, not just a problem the United States has. Maybe at some point there was a chance that the other forms of violence would not be so endemic, but I do not expect them to be easier to fix. I don't expect them to get fixed anytime within the next century.
I was reading a research paper on autism and sleep difficulties, and one of the research variables was "sex assigned at birth." This is concept used by trans activists and real trans people alike, seemingly to distance themselves from their reproductive sex and/or downplay the importance of reproductive sex. They represent reproductive sex as if it's merely an opinion of whatever medical staff attended their birth, as if it's an arbitrary "assignment."
This concept has apparently been stolen from the intersexed community, who are the only people to whom it applies. Some infants who had sexually ambiguous genitalia got their sex "assigned" (aka a doctor more or less chose male or female and wrote that on the birth record). The vast majority of people do not get their sex "assigned" because we do not have sexually ambigious genitalia.
So now this sjw garbage has made its way into academic research. The research paper was not about intersexed people. It's becoming more and more common for people to apply this concept to everyone. At one of the House Judiciary committee hearings, a politician shared a video of a surgeon referring to female genitalia as "assigned-female-at-birth anatomy."
https://invidious.private.coffee/watch?v=qAqNCo7RTWI
and here's the whole hearing:
https://invidious.private.coffee/watch?v=oaN4c2hQrwg
And it's not just that dubious concepts of sex are being added to research; the original, biological concept of sex is perhaps disappearing. I've participated in a few research studies in the past year, and none of them asked participants for reproductive sex. Several asked for "gender identity," however. Mad as it is, it seems as though the trans activists' goal of supplanting reproductive sex with "gender identity" is coming to fruition in some sectors. The fact that it's coming to fruition in scientific research, what is supposed to be a truth-seeking endeavor, is disturbing but not surprising in this country.
The fact that the United States has remained a staunchly religious country despite all its scientific, legal, and social progress was a clue that this sort of thing could eventually happen. A country whose political candidates discuss their personal religious beliefs to help them win votes is never far off from the degradation of its intellectual life.
