How is it exceptable for a candidate to any position, to engage a voter, on any level except a positive one, to present their position? JFC, I abhor living in a society where such ignorance and hate are tolerated. What happened to the hippies?
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How is it exceptable for a candidate to any position, to engage a voter, on any level except a positive one, to present their position? JFC, I abhor living in a society where such ignorance and hate are tolerated. What happened to the hippies?
They became Boomers.
(I know. "Not all Boomers." Calm down. I'm Gen X. Nobody cares what we do anyway, so don't start now.
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I think it should be decided by each candidate blindly tossing a Destroyer as hard as they can into a field of 10 foot tall rough that has a combination of poison ivy, stinging nettle, cacti, and wild parsnip and whoever finds their disc first wins.
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I have not watched this yet, but I just wanted to share.
The PDGA has also provided a chance to review each candidate in this article.
https://www.pdga.com/news/clone-get-know-13-candidates-pdga-board-directors
The PDGA has also provided a chance to review each candidate in this article.
https://www.pdga.com/news/clone-get-know-13-candidates-pdga-board-directors
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Yeah, disc golf in general and the PDGA specifically has a "one size fits all" mentality. This came up here with the last bunch of changes they did. I can see how in a place where disc golf is booming, requiring people to be a PDGA member to play in a B Tier is a great call. If your B tiers are closing in 10 minutes after you open registration and spots are taken by non-members with members on the waiting list, that's a problem.
The fix they required for that applies to places that don't have the problem, though. In our case we have a local base of largely non-members. We held a B tier this year; it didn't come anywhere close to selling out and it was mostly attended by people from out of town. That requirement is a fix to something that wasn't broken here and is not helping us promote the sport here. There was a lot of ways they could have built in flexibility in the solution they had, but they didn't do that. It's black/white our-way-or-the-highway. That's locked into the PDGA culture; it goes back at least to Brian Hoeniger and the late 90's.
The PDGA needs to be more flexible with TD's and let the TD's decide what will work in the scenario they have.
I get the feeling there's a lot of untapped creative ideas for running, rewarding, programming tournaments that could really get loose if the PDGA lightened up. Would be thrilling to see some awesome new strategies (and probably some boneheaded ones!) get some play and see what rises to the surface. Diversity and competition breeds development!
Somehow I'm not surprised that these institutional preferences are so firmly entrenched.
Think about it: the only people voting for leadership positions are PDGA members who have implicitly bought into the existing framework of competition. That's not an election structure that incentives new ideas.
How do you end that feedback loop of the same old, same old? Allow non-members to vote. This will naturally allow fresh perspectives to improve the organization.
I don't have any idea how you would control that. How do you "register" so that the PDGA knows it's not a bot vote. It seems like it would be a huge hassle. If you were a dues paying member, how much time and how many resources would you want the org to dedicate to allowing people who have not payed dues to have the same voice in elections as you do?
If people care enough about the PDGA to want to have a voice in changing the PDGA, ya gotta join. Bottom line.
The bolded is botphobic. I'll be reporting this hate speech.
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I would gladly pay less to just get an entry to the tournament and not all the other crap. There are lots of one round C-Tiers around me at 35 and 40 dollars that literally turn around and give you $20 back in "merch credit" to spend at the local/club shop. Why can't I just pay 15 or 20 and play a rated round? I don't need another t-shirt or disc
The bolded part above is simply untrue. This is supported by legitimate medical sources, including the Mayo Clinic.
https://www.webmd.com/sex/news/20150422/transgender-homomes-surgery
https://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/adult-health/in-depth/transgender-facts/art-20266812
Interesting.
Report of Fertility in a Woman with a Predominantly 46,XY Karyotype in a Family with Multiple Disorders of Sexual Development
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2190741/
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Herein we report the extraordinary case of a fertile woman with normal ovaries and a predominantly 46,XY ovarian karyotype, who gave birth to a 46,XY female with complete gonadal dysgenesis.
Report of Fertility in a Woman with a Predominantly 46,XY Karyotype in a Family with Multiple Disorders of Sexual Development
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2190741/
Extracted from the paper:
Herein we report the extraordinary case of a fertile woman with normal ovaries and a predominantly 46,XY ovarian karyotype, who gave birth to a 46,XY female with complete gonadal dysgenesis.
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Something tells me that rkbraves isn't interested in legitimate medical sources, but thanks for providing!
Im just going say again that no one is becoming anything. Males who are trans women were always trans women. This is the difference between sex, secondary sexual characteristics and gender. Gender is the internal, biological, development that gives rise to your sense of self identity.
I'll ask you, if you suddenly woke up in a body that was different than the one you know, if you have always known you were a man and woke in a female body, how would you cope with that? Day after day, having your body defy your sense of self?
Language is being used ambiguously to refer to different concepts which is confusing. You at least need to acknowledge the different concepts in irder to have a coherent conversation.
I'll ask you, if you suddenly woke up in a body that was different than the one you know, if you have always known you were a man and woke in a female body, how would you cope with that? Day after day, having your body defy your sense of self?
Language is being used ambiguously to refer to different concepts which is confusing. You at least need to acknowledge the different concepts in irder to have a coherent conversation.
I deliberately keep it as simple as I can for this audience. I have an entirely different vocabulary that I use when talking about gender and sex with other transgender people. It also doesn't help that every time the discussion starts to really get going around here, some new novice leaps into the conversation asking* toddler-tier questions and sucking all of the oxygen out of the room by demanding the answers to last night's homework.
(* Whether in good faith or not. . .)
(* Whether in good faith or not. . .)
I understand your exhaustion. You can never get away from it, like Groundhog Day, but you have to put up with the daily repeat of Bill Murray's character each day.
I'm privileged in that I am granted the comfort of my cis, het white guy self just by existing. So I try to understand, and I try to pick up some of the load. Because ultimately the acceptance will depend on those whose minds can be changed learning what they need to change them. Whatever that is.
And hopefully that means fewer exhausting encounters for you.
When you use the term "woke" in this context, most people immediately stop taking anything you say seriously.
So you acknowledge that there is a debate about "transgendered" individuals having an unfair physical advantage against women? Where do you think this physical advantage comes from? The logical origin of this debate is obviously whether or not you can actually transition gender in the first place.
And to your second part, obviously I can make a third party reference to "trans women." But I can't have this debate with someone who identifies as "trans" directly without misgendering them or I completely capitulate my position. Due to moderation policy my options are effectively "Debate and eventually get banned for defending my position" or "don't debate."
What do signatures have to do with the subject of BoD elections? Maybe the mods should ask you to stay on-topic lest they prove me correct on their moderation bias.
This isn't incontrovertible at all. If it was, your last sentence disproves yourself. Intersex people exist, yes, much like the way people with polydactyly exist. Actual intersex people are so few that statistically they are insignificant as far as any major policy-making (non-medical) should be concerned. The scientific basis for "trans people" is far from settled science and much of what is being touted as "science" is scandalously unacademic "research" that is bankrolled by pharmaceutical companies and others with nefarious agendas.
However, whether "trans people" are scientifically proven or not, how a person "feels" inside is irrelevant to their biological reality. It is physically impossible to transition from one sex to the other, regardless of medication or surgeries performed. This is an immutable condition, thus as far as sports are concerned there should be no debate that any person that is biologically male should be allowed to compete in a female-only division. It would not be a female-only division otherwise, no matter the competitiveness of the male identifying as female in question.
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Btw, I'm typing on my phone so please excuse any typos.
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