BuiltTooLong
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^Big Sky?
My money is on a new Halcon burner account.
According to whom?Once again, they are either XY male or XX female at birth except" for extremely debilitating exceptions. This is the simple truth you don't want to accept. Being female is the ONLY criteria to play in FPO. These 'shades of grey' in phenotype expression are genetic disorders and do not apply to trans persons.
According to whom?
A.) they are many combinations of karyotype at birth (and throughout life).
The only thing you can say is that the majority is most likely going to be either XX or XY.
Either way, their assigned sex ("assumed" being the better word than "assigned") is not based on their karyotype, genotype, gametes, cells' receptivity to proteins containing "gendered" information, whether or not they have a uterus, but solely part of their phenotype (the set of observable characteristics or traits of an organism) namely the absence or presence of a meaty appendage between the baby's legs (assuming the baby has two legs).
As I said about "anomaly", "abnormality", and "defect", that also applies to "disorder" and "debilitating"; all of these words have an intrinsic negative bias built-in, which is what biologists tend to not do.
And on your statement that these variations do not apply to trans people, what you are saying is that having one of these variations (combined under the acronym DSD) is mutually exclusive to being transgender. That is most certainly not the case.
Already from the mere fact that most people who actually have any variation in their being "gendered", other than being explicitly male or explicitly female, remain fully undiagnosed, refutes your statement.
Only the people born with two distinct - or ambiguous - sets of external sexual characteristics (in the past these were called hermaphrodites) will instantly be diagnosable. Anyone else with any DSD variation is very likely to remain undiagnosed until during or afte rpuberty, if at all.
I don't think the voting system needs changing nor that it's burdensome. Changes without compelling reason could likely add bias. PDGA posted all candidate statements & video interviews. Doubt the PDGA would resurrect a forum & the resultant need to moderate. Sure, with 13 candidates we have to dig for specific info. Same scenario with the 1,212 registered USA presidential candidates in 2020. DGCR & Reddit seem like logical places to campaign but it seems few did. One thing that would help me is contact info for each but I imagine that would turn into s-shows.
My takeaway from this thread is 2 camps with transgender players as the single most important defining issue. There were 18,265 voters last year. There are only a couple dozen people active on this thread & some (many?) are not eligible voters so I doubt this small community is a representative sample. Truly a unique election for the PDGA.
And how strict are the guidelines for participation in Special Olympics?My sister has a variation called trisomy-21. She gets to play basketball and softball in a completely separate division from us called the special Olympics.
Variations = their own division. It really is that simple.
And how strict are the guidelines for participation in Special Olympics?
I very gladly voted for David Schreff, and am still very much convinced of that having been a very valuable vote for the PDGA.I saw the 2021 pdga thread on this forum and it was 11 pages mostly discussing Mr. Schreff. We are at 45 and still have just under 2 weeks to go. Certainly an eventful election and I wouldn't be surprised if there was more fun within the next week or 2. Exciting times.
I very gladly voted for David Schreff, and am still very much convinced of that having been a very valuable vote for the PDGA.
I doubt that. David's term started Sept 1st 2021, while the "PDGA, WFDF Announce Global Partnership" announcement is dated Aug 24th 2021.I think he was instrumental in getting the PDGA to rejoin the WFDF.
I doubt that. David's term started Sept 1st 2021, while the "PDGA, WFDF Announce Global Partnership" announcement is dated Aug 24th 2021.
There's lots of people advocating for candidates who have a more positive message; I have seen three names predominantly being advocated for. Will any of these three earn more votes? I can't tell.
I - obviously - hope I get re-elected, but whether I actually will be, depends on people voting.
As for you being concerned, I can only ask you to cast your vote wisely, and if you do have a bunch of PDGA members in disc golf network, to advocate for candidates you feel strongly about.
I voted for you and Phil mills