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OK. (By the way, what do you mean by the rather disrespectful comment "people like you"? That's not very kind...) 1. Taking hormones does still leave a male advantage if that person has gone through male puberty. It's obvious. Transgender Women in the Female Category of Sport: Perspectives on Testosterone Suppression and Performance Advantage - PMC (nih.gov) Transgender Women Competing In Sports: LGBT Doctor Analyzes The Scientific Truth (youtube.com) To take just one example, height is an advantage in many sports. A trans-woman doesn't suddenly shrink because they're taking hormones to suppress testosterone production. That's literally bollocks. 2. I'm not particularly into boxing, but who are you talking about? Is it Patricio Manuel? Obviously not all men are better than all women in "athletic" ability. Some women who are very talented will be better than some men - possibly even most men. I'm not at all surprised that a biological woman boxer could knock out a man. (Although if you are referring to Manuel they've never knocked anyone out according to Wikipedia so I don't really know what you are saying. If it isn't Manuel who is it?) I used to play mixed hockey and I got a concussion from a girl much smaller than me. It happens. If you are talking about Manuel I note that they fight at super featherweight which has a maximum weight of 59 kg. I can easily imagine that an athletic and well put together biological woman who has been taking testosterone could defeat a 9 stone man who I would consider underdeveloped. (I remember when Johnny Owen died many boxing experts suggested that it had been a mismatch because anybody weighing as little as he did from the UK must have been underdeveloped and malnourisdhed compared to his similar weight opponent from a developing country. He boxed at an even lighter weight than Manuel - 54kg? - but the point remains the same) I suspect any trans-man boxing at middleweight or above against a reasonably developed man would get slaughtered. 3. In any case, what a trans-man can achieve in a sporting activity against men is irrelevant when it comes to considering the inherent advantages that a trans-woman who has undergone male puberty carries over when competing against women. 4. It's also irrelevant that Lia (isn't that the correct spelling?) Taylor only won one event. (I don't know if that's true or not, but let's assume it is). As I've already pointed out above, some women will always out-compete some men. Nobody who argues that trans-women should be excluded from women only sports are doing so because trans-women will always win. They do so because trans-women have an inherent advantage over all the women they beat or displace from the sport. That is the issue. (Laurel Hubbard is a case in point. By selecting her for the 2020 Olympics NZ unfairly denied a woman competitor from the Oceania region from participating in the Games. And again it's irrelevant that Hubbard actually bombed out. Makes it even worse actually). This is also one of the reasons why men are excluded from women's only events. It's not because they will always win, it's because they will always have unfairly beaten any women behind them in the rankings. It's also clear that Taylor must have had an unfair advantage over women as they had a pretty mediocre record as a male but soared through the rankings in "women only" events. A Look At the Numbers and Times: No Denying Advantages of Lia Thomas (swimmingworldmagazine.com) 5. What's with ending sentences with "No?"? Are you a moody teenager? Basically everything you've written "Regarding sport..." makes me think that you have no understanding at all of what sport and fair competition is about. You haven't got a clue. And just to be clear, neither I nor anybody else wants to exclude trans-women from participating in sport. What they can't do is participate in the protected category of women-only events. If it's the principle of just competing that counts, they can compete in the men's or open categories as whether or not they win or do well won't matter to them. (Although I suspect if they have no chance of winning or doing well they suddenly won't be so bothered about "just being able to compete and take part..."

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There's a good article in - surprisingly - The Guardian today by David Bell who was a consultant psychiatrist at the Tavistock Clinic and was one of the early clinicians to speak about what was going on in GIDS but was ignored. He's looking at the Cass Report "...Those who say a child has been 'born in the wrong body', and who have sidelined child safeguarding, bear a very heavy responsibility..." "... It has been suggested that the Cass report sought to 'appease' various interests, with the implication that those who have promoted these potentially damaging treatments have been sidelined. But in reality, it is those of us who have raised these concerns who have been silenced by trans rights activists who have had considerable success in closing down debate, including preventing conferences going ahead. Doctors and scientists have said that they have been deterred from conducting studies in this area by a climate of fear, and faced great personal costs for speaking out, ranging from harassment to professional risks and even, as Cass has experienced, safety concerns in public. The pendulum is already swinging towards a reassertion of rationality. Cass’s achievement is to give that pendulum a hugely increased momentum. In years to come we will look back at the damage done to children with incredulity and horror" The Cass review of gender identity services marks a return to reason and evidence – it must be defended | David Bell | The Guardian Anyone interested in reading some history of what went on in GIDS at the Tavistock should read "Time to Think" by Hannah Barnes, the former(?) Newsnight journalist. Time to Think (book) - Wikipedia Time to Think: The Inside Story of the Collapse of the Tavistock’s Gender Service for Children: Amazon.co.uk: Barnes, Hannah: 9781800751132: Books

How can a typo convert "boomers were 58% more likely to watch transgender porn than younger folks" into something with a completely different meaning - "Apparently 58% of you [boomers presumably] regularly search it up"? In any case, that "research" doesn't tell you anything about boomers - it only tells you something about the viewing habits of people who watch porn online - who I'd suggest are from from representative of the population, whether boomers or "younger folks" I suspect you read it and saw what you wanted to see rather than what was written.

Really - what does that mean? I might be mistaken but i thought that from previous posts you had made on this general topic that you were quite eagerly awaiting the final outcome of the Cass review following the interim report because it would - naturally - agree with your POV. Are you perhaps disappointed that the scientific and medical review by a world leading pediatrician is not in agreement with what you think is "right"? PS - Do you still think it's acceptable for biological males who have passed through puberty to participate in women only events?

Back in the early '70s during Holroyd's time at Ballakermeen two of the more pre-eminent thugs were one Priestnall and one Duggan. Over the course of a week (or it might even have been a couple of days) they both got the shit kicked out of them in two separate fights by one particular individual who they'd been bullying and picking on. Although this lad (let's call him "Pete" ) was a reasonable size, he was extrememly mild-mannered, quite shy and diffident. He did however "larn" the bullies to be a bit more careful about who they picked on in future. The teachers - who must have known what was going on for both fights because of the noise - basically didn't intervene or do anything at all. I think they'd decided that as the bullies didn't respond as they should have to frequent episodes of corporal punishment, it might be better to leave it to another pupil to teach them a lesson.

Why on earth would any household need to dispose of 100kg of waste a week? I reckon it would take me at least 10 - 15 weeks to accumulate 100kg of "waste". 100kg a month seems more than reasonable. I note the press release quoted by Roger says "Householders who visit the site regularly to deposit recycling, hedge trimmings, grass cuttings and the like from their day to day living should not be affected by the change" What's the problem?

Before community/district nurses had the use of tablets or laptops they would have had to carry some sort of paper records around with them during the day and would quite possibly keep some at home. I doubt they'd go to base every morning to pick up whatever records they needed for that day, and I equally doubt those records would be returned to base at the end of the day. Not sure if community nurses in the IoM would have had laptops from 2000 - 2014? (Of course, whatever the reason, they should have been returned at the very least on leaving...)

OK. So treating 2023 figures like the 2018 figures, if you take out Manx residents and VFRs and BVs and around 40k(?) for the TT, that still leaves 100k - 120k visitors per year. Even if you also exclude DVs (and I'm not sure if they should be or not) that still sounds like a lot of genuine "recreational visitors" or tourists - an average of around 2,000 per week throughout the year. What do they find to do? And how is the figure of 318,000 measured anyway? Are there civil servants permanently stationed at the airport and the sea terminal surveying every single flight and sailing, and every single passenger?

How can the Isle of Man possibly have 318,000 "visitors" in a year? That's over 6,100 per week! What's the definition of a "visitor"? I assume it doesn't include returning Manx residents...

This ^^^^ If Noble's/Manx care/DHSC incur additional costs from the TT fortnight, then Manx taxpayers need to know whether those additional costs to the taxpayer are included in any calculations (1) as to how much the TT festival "costs", and (2) any cost benefit analysis of continuing the TT.

You can't tell because it's such a crap report. Or maybe it was a crap FoI question. The UK NHS mental health trust I worked for used to get billed thousands each year for false callouts As Happier Diner says in the IoM it will basically just be an accounting/cost shifting exercise but will also be intended to cut down on false callouts.

That's just an example of the Peter Principle which has been widely recognised in management for decades. It isn't just the police and it isn't just the ioM. It's a widespread phenomenon. Peter principle - Wikipedia

I think your post is wholly disingenuous. Where has Amadeaus tried to justify killing a lot of people?

Yes. It was certainly the 70s whan I was involved at Easter. But it wasn't a student festival. As @numbnuts has said it was more club teams from the north west. Hockey, football and rugby.** There was the Whit festival too. At the risk of infurating @Excocet still further with a rambling reminisce, I remember showing around a mixed hockey team from Leicester on the Monday evening of the 1982 Whit Festival. They were mixed in the sense both of male/female and race too - most of them were of Indian descent. It was the first evening of TT practices and we went to the foot of Bray Hill to watch. They weren't too impressed by the smaller category bikes, but they took notice when Joey Dunlop went through rather quickly... I then took them on a pub crawl of Douglas. They loved it and the regulars in the pubs enjoyed it too. Not a hint of racism from anybody and my Indian friends loved it all. When I left them at around midnight at their guesthouse (the Silvercraigs) they were planning to go paddling on the beach. Pity if that sort of thing doesn't happen any more. I don't think they would have wrecked their hotel rooms... ** I wasn't really aware of the Easter running festival at the time, but looking at some of the archived programmes going back to the 70s it's clear that the IoM was attracting at least 300 - 400 runners plus family and friends even then. They were even attracting teams from as far away as London with teams like Hercules Wimbledon. Whatever happened to the Manx Mountain Marathon? Wasn't Joss Naylor a previous winner?