Brain-cleaning sleeping cap gets US Army funding

Re:Brain-cleaning sleeping cap gets US Army funding by dTal on Sunday October 03, 2021 @06:10AM (#28735926)

As I understand it, "people with <x> genitalia" is a trans-accepting way of discussing medical issues without rejecting anyone's gender identification. Having a vagina is no longer considered necessary or sufficient to be called a "woman".

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Re:Brain-cleaning sleeping cap gets US Army funding by true_religion on Monday October 04, 2021 @09:51AM (#28746675)

I’m not the OP, but I think we deeply erred by conflating gender and biological sex characteristics into a single word. Unfortunately, the solution to retain men/women for gender and use more specific terminology for sex is problematic.

- There’s a greater argument to be made for binary biological sex, and you can attach obvious descriptions to it to make the two categories distinct. - Gender on the other hand is more fluid (both historically in its expression, and in between cultures). - Biological based terminology can be used historically (e.g. Women’s History)

But this is all off topic, so I’ll stop here.

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Re:Brain-cleaning sleeping cap gets US Army funding by blacktriangle on Monday October 04, 2021 @10:01AM (#28746806)

Lets just all go back to calling them mentally ill.

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