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We have two boxers who are born as a woman [..]

Right, they were incorrectly assigned female at birth and raised as women but are biologically male, because

the athletes do not meet one of the eligibility criteria

I'm confused as to why you think those quotes support your point. The sex testing was done by an accredited lab, and is the eligibility criteria they do not meet.

I think you're kind of confusing trans people and people with DSDs. The Olympics stopped doing sex testing themselves in the 90's. There have been a few biological males with DSDs that won women's medals in the Olympics though. All 3 medals for the women's 800m at the 2016 Rio Olympics were awarded to biological males, Caster Semenya, Francine Niyonsaba, and Margaret Wambui. Likewise, Imane Khelif and Lin Yu-ting are also biologically male (not trans as some people incorrectly claimed) and notably won gold in 2024. They were all wrongly assigned female at birth but have the physical advantages of male puberty.

Ana Caldas is a more specific example of why trans people that are biologically male have an insurmountable advantage in the women's category.

TBH this is probably just more grifting from Brianna Wu. Are there any actual sources for "laugh as she got aids from being raped" type comments? afaik terfs would be more like "that's unfortunate but not our problem"

Where is the quote "direct military action" from? The closest I see in the report itself is:

One example of a successful US Government campaign against a TCO occurred in the mid-1980s through the mid-1990s. During this period, the US Government decided the Cali Cartel was a national security threat because the cartel had created a criminal enclave in Cali, Colombia and had captured the state of Colombia through its corruption, which put at risk Latin America's oldest democracy. Before the Cartel's takedown, the US Government mounted a campaign that dismantled the Medellin Cartel. The Medellin Cartel takedown was impressive and led to many lessons learned; however, analysts and practitioners agree, the Cali Cartel was a far more sophisticated organization and a much harder target to dismantle.

What ensued from the US Government was a concerted campaign to break the noose of corruption the Cali Cartel had around the neck of the Colombian government. As one cartel member said during his interview, "at this point, when the entire US Government coalesced around defeating us, we knew our demise was imminent." Once the US Government decided the Cali Cartel was a threat to national security, the resources and agency priorities converged on dismantling the Cali Cartel. The campaign plan had four general lines of effort: diplomacy, building partner capacity, counter threat finance, and direct action. The campaign succeeded because it had the full support of the President of the United States and US Congress as well as an effective partner in the Colombian National Police, which was willing to take aggressive action against the cartel's command and control. This combined effort resulted in law enforcement action in more than a dozen countries and dismantled a TCO that one DEA official referred to as the "McDonalds of cocaine trafficking" because it had transformed drug trafficking into a global corporate enterprise on par with any licit multinational corporation.

Since the headline is unclear, here's what it says:

NPR has obtained the draft text of a proposed rule that would prohibit federal Medicaid reimbursement for medical care provided to transgender patients younger than age 18. It also prohibits reimbursement through the Children's Health Insurance Program or CHIP for patients under age 19.

An additional proposed rule would go even further, blocking all Medicaid and Medicare funding for any services at hospitals that provide pediatric gender-affirming care.

The current rule "merely" ends federal funding for GAC through Medicaid, and the proposed rule is de facto banning it since hospitals rely on federal funding:

The proposal to condition a hospital's participation in Medicaid and Medicare on halting gender-affirming care for youth represents an "unprecedented" use of the executive branch's power to control what medical care is available in hospitals, says Keith.

"Because Medicare is such a significant portion of many hospitals' revenue," she explains, the rule would essentially force hospitals to end their gender care programs for transgender youth. That would mean all of those programs' patients — whether they have Medicaid or private insurance — would lose access.

The law states that “reproductive cancer of any type” be covered. Officials added male breast cancer under that category after a working group of experts reviewed the science. The decision noted “the marked similarity of male and female breast cancer.”

The Trump administration’s memo argues that designation is a mistake. “The Biden Administration falsely classified male breasts as reproductive organs,” Kasperowicz said in his statement to ProPublica.

A former official who was involved in the VA’s decision last year said that while there were discussions about how to interpret “reproductive cancer,” the scientific consensus among VA oncologists was clear. “The evidence showed that male and female breast tissue respond similarly to toxic exposures and share nearly identical biological and mutational profiles,” said the former official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, citing concern for his job prospects in government. “Expanding coverage to male breast cancer was the right call.”

Rosie Torres, who advocated for the PACT Act after her husband became sick, said the current administration is putting politics above patriotism and people. “It shouldn’t matter who signed the bill,” Torres said, referring to Biden. “If you don’t like the ‘reproductive’ word, do it under another category. Don’t remove it. These are peoples’ lives.”

That's a dumb technicality. Wonder if they're really that dumb, or this was pushed through because someone's benefiting from denying care. The right thing to do if you want to "well aktually" the term "reproductive cancer" would be to figure out how to cover it under whatever term brings you joy, not just leave them to die.

Pithy, but one of the weaker critiques of capitalism imo. All of human history has been a hard struggle against starvation. Any system of government requires enough people working to produce food, or we'll all "get dead".

Labor creates all wealth, the problem with capitalism is too few people end up with too much wealth

Right, "equivalent to" in the sense that legs are "equivalent to" fins in that they provide locomotion.

Overanalyzing the joke: intellectual property is a bad term that shouldn't be used because it conflates 3 separate types of laws, all completely different than property in the sense of the first panel. See RMS' article for clarification:

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/not-ipr.html

Not quite - mating types aren't sex (though the post confuses them). Their gametes are the same size (isogamy), so it's called mating types. Humans have gametes of different sizes, so we have sexes.

There's no assumption. They literally listed two purity tests that they themselves use, directly after saying that they never see anyone use purity tests