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BDKJMU wrote:So 8-9 year old need to be given the option to be trans gendered? What a bunch of :dunce: running Montgomery Co schools..
It's not really that which bothers me as much as IMO this will lead to colleges doing it and then pretty soon they will start tracking their 'X' gender acceptance rates and will start issuing demands for more 'X' gender in their student bodies, and so begins another bastardization of college acceptance.

My kids are only four generations removed from Spain and Cuba. Should/could they have applied "Hispanic"? I know kids who are three generations removed who did. At least that can be quantified. How do you quantify gender?
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89Hen wrote:
BDKJMU wrote:So 8-9 year old need to be given the option to be trans gendered? What a bunch of :dunce: running Montgomery Co schools..
It's not really that which bothers me as much as IMO this will lead to colleges doing it and then pretty soon they will start tracking their 'X' gender acceptance rates and will start issuing demands for more 'X' gender in their student bodies, and so begins another bastardization of college acceptance.

My kids are only four generations removed from Spain and Cuba. Should/could they have applied "Hispanic"? I know kids who are three generations removed who did. At least that can be quantified. How do you quantify gender?
Gender is not the same as sex. It is self identification and should not be codified.

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kalm wrote:
89Hen wrote: It's not really that which bothers me as much as IMO this will lead to colleges doing it and then pretty soon they will start tracking their 'X' gender acceptance rates and will start issuing demands for more 'X' gender in their student bodies, and so begins another bastardization of college acceptance.

My kids are only four generations removed from Spain and Cuba. Should/could they have applied "Hispanic"? I know kids who are three generations removed who did. At least that can be quantified. How do you quantify gender?
Gender is not the same as sex. It is self identification and should not be codified.

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Gender is a fictional construct. That's my point.
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kalm wrote:
89Hen wrote: It's not really that which bothers me as much as IMO this will lead to colleges doing it and then pretty soon they will start tracking their 'X' gender acceptance rates and will start issuing demands for more 'X' gender in their student bodies, and so begins another bastardization of college acceptance.

My kids are only four generations removed from Spain and Cuba. Should/could they have applied "Hispanic"? I know kids who are three generations removed who did. At least that can be quantified. How do you quantify gender?
Gender is not the same as sex. It is self identification and should not be codified.

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Then why are males who have male sex chromosomes allowed to compete on the same playing field as females who have female sex chromosomes just because they "identify" as a different gender?
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Baldy wrote:
kalm wrote:
Gender is not the same as sex. It is self identification and should not be codified.

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Then why are males who have male sex chromosomes allowed to compete on the same playing field as females who have female sex chromosomes just because they "identify" as a different gender?
They shouldn't be.
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89Hen wrote: It's not really that which bothers me as much as IMO this will lead to colleges doing it and then pretty soon they will start tracking their 'X' gender acceptance rates and will start issuing demands for more 'X' gender in their student bodies, and so begins another bastardization of college acceptance.

My kids are only four generations removed from Spain and Cuba. Should/could they have applied "Hispanic"? I know kids who are three generations removed who did. At least that can be quantified. How do you quantify gender?
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CAA Flagship wrote:
89Hen wrote: It's not really that which bothers me as much as IMO this will lead to colleges doing it and then pretty soon they will start tracking their 'X' gender acceptance rates and will start issuing demands for more 'X' gender in their student bodies, and so begins another bastardization of college acceptance.

My kids are only four generations removed from Spain and Cuba. Should/could they have applied "Hispanic"? I know kids who are three generations removed who did. At least that can be quantified. How do you quantify gender?
https://thefederalist.com/2019/08/14/so ... ropaganda/
Believe me, I know first hand how that goes. It will be an easy transformation into letting fictitious genders guide their acceptances. :nod:
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kalm wrote:
Baldy wrote: Then why are males who have male sex chromosomes allowed to compete on the same playing field as females who have female sex chromosomes just because they "identify" as a different gender?
They shouldn't be.
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https://www.military.com/daily-news/201 ... nship.html
Children born to U.S. service members and government employees overseas will no longer be automatically considered citizens of the United States, according to a policy alert issued by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) on Wednesday.
Overwhelmingly affects legal immigrants serving in the military/gov't (aka. Hispanics).

But Trump's not racist... :coffee:
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∞∞∞ wrote:https://www.military.com/daily-news/201 ... nship.html
Children born to U.S. service members and government employees overseas will no longer be automatically considered citizens of the United States, according to a policy alert issued by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) on Wednesday.
Overwhelmingly affects legal immigrants serving in the military/gov't (aka. Hispanics).

But Trump's not racist... :coffee:

I figured that is who it is aimed at.

He's been deported the soldiers, as well.
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∞∞∞ wrote:https://www.military.com/daily-news/201 ... nship.html
Children born to U.S. service members and government employees overseas will no longer be automatically considered citizens of the United States, according to a policy alert issued by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) on Wednesday.
Overwhelmingly affects legal immigrants serving in the military/gov't (aka. Hispanics).

But Trump's not racist... :coffee:
You get some leave, head to the bars, hook up with a member of the Swedish Bikini Team, she gets pregnant, has a baby in Europe, and somehow it's an American citizen?
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CAA Flagship wrote:
∞∞∞ wrote:https://www.military.com/daily-news/201 ... nship.html


Overwhelmingly affects legal immigrants serving in the military/gov't (aka. Hispanics).

But Trump's not racist... :coffee:
You get some leave, head to the bars, hook up with a member of the Swedish Bikini Team, she gets pregnant, has a baby in Europe, and somehow it's an American citizen?
Why shouldn't it be?
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5 year anniversary of the biggest scandal to rock the Obama White House
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Skjellyfetti wrote:5 year anniversary of the biggest scandal to rock the Obama White House
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How far we have fallen in 5 years.

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dbackjon wrote:
CAA Flagship wrote: You get some leave, head to the bars, hook up with a member of the Swedish Bikini Team, she gets pregnant, has a baby in Europe, and somehow it's an American citizen?
Why shouldn't it be?
Well then that brings up the question of whether a child is more tied to the mother or the father.
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CAA Flagship wrote:
dbackjon wrote:
Why shouldn't it be?
Well then that brings up the question of whether a child is more tied to the mother or the father.
To quote the great Dave Chappelle... :lol:
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Skjellyfetti wrote:5 year anniversary of the biggest scandal to rock the Obama White House
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Yeah, THAT was it... :dunce: :dunce:
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kalm wrote:
89Hen wrote: It's not really that which bothers me as much as IMO this will lead to colleges doing it and then pretty soon they will start tracking their 'X' gender acceptance rates and will start issuing demands for more 'X' gender in their student bodies, and so begins another bastardization of college acceptance.

My kids are only four generations removed from Spain and Cuba. Should/could they have applied "Hispanic"? I know kids who are three generations removed who did. At least that can be quantified. How do you quantify gender?
Gender is not the same as sex. It is self identification and should not be codified.

(Preaches to the choir)
Well then I’m going to start identifying as a non-binary gay black individual once reparations start rolling in...
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AZGrizFan wrote:
kalm wrote:
Gender is not the same as sex. It is self identification and should not be codified.

(Preaches to the choir)
Well then I’m going to start identifying as a non-binary gay black individual once reparations start rolling in...
I thought you already did?

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AZGrizFan wrote:
kalm wrote:
Gender is not the same as sex. It is self identification and should not be codified.

(Preaches to the choir)
Well then I’m going to start identifying as a non-binary gay black individual once reparations start rolling in...
Just start identifying as Italian. It will get you three-quarters of the way there. 8-)
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∞∞∞ wrote:https://www.military.com/daily-news/201 ... nship.html
Children born to U.S. service members and government employees overseas will no longer be automatically considered citizens of the United States, according to a policy alert issued by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) on Wednesday.
Overwhelmingly affects legal immigrants serving in the military/gov't (aka. Hispanics).

But Trump's not racist... :coffee:
Now that this has basically been proven to be false, I was looking for the correction on this thread...but failed to find it...

Hmmmmmm???

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Col Hogan wrote:
∞∞∞ wrote:https://www.military.com/daily-news/201 ... nship.html


Overwhelmingly affects legal immigrants serving in the military/gov't (aka. Hispanics).

But Trump's not racist... :coffee:
Now that this has basically been proven to be false, I was looking for the correction on this thread...but failed to find it...

Hmmmmmm???:
What correction? It's f*cking racist.

It only affects non-citizens serving in the U.S. military and gov't, most of which are in fact Hispanic.

Conservatives can justify it however they want, but it's a targeted, racist, change.
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∞∞∞ wrote:
Col Hogan wrote:
Now that this has basically been proven to be false, I was looking for the correction on this thread...but failed to find it...

Hmmmmmm???:
What correction? It's f*cking racist.

It only affects non-citizens serving in the U.S. military and gov't, most of which are in fact Hispanic.

Conservatives can justify it however they want, but it's a targeted, racist, change.
I'm not saying you're wrong but why should the children of NON CITIZENS become CITIZENS when they are born in a country not named the United States of America? :coffee:
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