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There is semantical disagreement, but clearly there are only 2 sexes and variations on them. Further, most of us are unambiguously one or the other with intersex humans being at most 1 out of 400 of us. Also, our sex is indentifiable in most of our cells and is not changeable and many of our ....

No. The appearance can change. The work hormones does on the body is real, but your sex does not and cannot change. Telling people otherwise is cruelty disguised as kindness.

Even accepting the gamete or chromosomal definition, can't seems a very strong argument given we can already modify and fix genetic defects mutations via gene drives. Like is there anything you want to point to that is physically impossible?

1) Thomas is flat wrong about 'binary' gender. Gender "assignment" at birth is sometimes arbitrary. Intersex births include dozens of conditions that make gender anatomically ambiguous. The doctor and parents must choose. It's as common as redheads, and the choice is often wrong.

2) And this only considers the physical aspect. We all know the brain is the most powerful influence in sex and sexuality, but it's not even a factor in these intersex births. Anatomy = gender is the most determinedly ignorant approach one can take in these matters. SHAME ON THESE BIGOTS!

OK, I get you disagree with his summation of the issue, but I'm not getting the "ugly" and "transphobic" charge you make. This would not be worth commenting on except that any disagreement with many trans right advocates leads to the same false accusations and avoidance of any real issues.

Push this thought through a bit more and you will get to the place where you realize that there are no females identifying as males who have physical advantages over males in men's sports, and perhaps understand that this is a legitimate women's rights issue concerning sex, not gender identity.

Women and girls don't deserve a fair and safe sports competition, awards, athletic scholarships then? Men can always take away women's rights when they feel like it? How progressive of you!!

Justice Three-Fifths should hang, as should the whore he "married". Just expressing 𝑶𝒓𝒊𝒈𝒊𝒏𝒂𝒍𝒊𝒔𝒕 ideology. 😉

Stupid fucking religious asshole, race-traitor, abuser of women, and and corrupt Justice are Clarence Thomas’s own immutable characteristics. And he’s no Man either, just a “boy” playing dress-up in a robe for his billionaire patrons. Like those lawn jockey hitching-post “boys” on the plantations.

The phrase “object of psychiatric treatment,“ should be a real warning sign as to where this is headed. Mental hospitals, drugs, and electric shocks are not too distant in the future.

It should not be lost on people that Alex Byrne who is cited here as the source on defining gendered terms is the philosopher notoriously involved in the writing of the RFK Jr. DHHS report on youth gender-affirming care.

It also really bother me that pundits keep referring to it as men playing in girls sports. Not men in women sport or boys in girls sport but men in girls. Words matter. All kids should be free to participate in sports.

Kids yes, but past puberty organized sports competition is a serious and strenuous activity for those participating. There is a reason that sports have been segregated by biology - not identity - and that includes both sex and age. That reason is fairness in competition, not psychic validation.

Well if you can’t be a racist you trample on other minority rights. This opinion is a thinly veiled attempt to establish a religion-driven view as constitutional. Biology for the win!

General Casimir Pulaski, one of george washington's greatest generals, & one who saved his life, was intersexed. what does anita hill's abuser have to say about that.??

His source? A cherry picked Catholic philosopher who even admits that his position is in the minority of Philosophers, never other disciplines such as Anthropology, Biology, Sociology etc. Thomas is wholly unqualified to be a SCOTUS justice.

Weirdly, Thomas believes that race IS an immutable characteristic but doesn't think govt should do anything about racial discrimination either. Apparently, his take is that discrimination is always ok (unless it's purportedly against white people), just with a shifting rationale.

Quite the meltdown over this in your comments. Lots of people still seem compelled to pretend that trans girls are actual girls which is hilarious 🤣🤣🤣. Seeing the same level of craziness on the right wrt birthright decision. Looks like SC made the right decision in both cases.

Please look for your local trans groups and send money for support. Get involved. Cis white straight women especially- we MUST join the fight. We have the most privilege and power to use our money, voices, and bodies. #transrightsarehumanrights

Dear Jacob, Do you mean that there are males, females, hermaphrodites, & people who were born physically male but wish to be treated as female & vice versa? As it stands, the only thing that's clear about your post is the assertion that you hold a qualification allowing you to practise medicine.

This is what we mean by “trans rights are human rights”. The dude thinks our identities are political issues that politicians get to decide on. He thinks he gets to divide people into groups and tell each one where they get to go and what they get to go. It’s segregation under different premises.

I wonder why he pivots to gender dysphoria since that wasn't the subject of controversy in this case. He just assumed that all transgender people have gender dysphoria so that he can opine his bigotry because conservatives are horrible evil people.

CT may not be as smug if someone decides to “revisit” Loving… I guess he follows the CJRoberts school of thought (yay if it doesn’t affect you, nay if it does)

They’ll have a “supreme” exception (if you are a member of the highest court, the rule doesn’t apply to you). Sounds ridiculous but maybe not so…

So sick of these fucking fuck fuck motherfuckers. All of them. Trans people exist and trans rights are human rights.🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️

Wow. Talk about true colors. At his age, he doesn’t even bother to dress up his absolute contempt for other human beings. This guy has been and will always be an utter disgrace and bonafide POS.

Thomas cites the same Alex Byrne who’s an MIT philosophy professor, who co-authored the anti-trans care for minors HHS report back in November 2025: bsky.app/profile/flor... www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202... (A philosopher writing a federal report on medical care…)

washingtonpost.comOpinion | I co-wrote the anonymous HHS report on pediatric gender medicineNine academics concluded medical transition for minors is not empirically or ethically justified.
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Dominionist! Dominionism is a cult of Christian political ideologies asserting that believers are mandated by God to take moral, cultural, & political control over secular society. Its goal is to establish a world governed by biblical principles & law prior to the return of Jesus Christ.

The movement is rooted in a highly assertive interpretation of Genesis 1:28—commonly referred to as the "cultural mandate"—where God instructs humanity to "subdue" the earth and have "dominion" over it.

At the beginning of the page, he says being transgender is just a “temporary” situation “[like] mental illness”. So he’s just wrong, and seems to be of the “pray away the gay” mindset

I'm having a hard time thinking of any biological trait that isn't mutable at some point during development, and the stuff I've come up with would be very broad, nonspecific things like "certain physiological traits bounded by the laws of physics that allow having a metabolism"

It's almost like he is really wrestling with race - and this is a way he can twist that into a "reality" where the outcome is different than what he experienced.

He essentially says it’s a mental illness (history is littered with things being labeled as such.) But the right’s mantra is “you’re either a man or a woman” while they simultaneously comment on who’s a “real man” or that a girl isn’t very feminine. Sure sounds like gender is a social construct.

Since Trump now controls the CMS, FDA, NIH, CDC, NASA... they get to say what is 'biological' now. I thought biology was really complex stuff - nice that Clarence pointed out my error there - It's really simple. Looking forward to Thomas' Astrophysics and geocentric universe.

If sex is an "immutable BIOLOGICAL characteristic" as Thomas claims, then God, by definition, cannot be male. Unless God was "assigned male at birth" based random selection of X and Y chromosomes from God's mother and father. And God is composed of flesh and blood cells with 23 chromosomes.

CONTEXT: The belief that God is "male" is utterly integral to the mindset and world view of evangelical and fundamentalist Christians who believe in a patriarchal "complementarian" society over one based on the equality of sexes. That only works if God is male.

It would be great if someone with proximity to these rightwing assholes could surreptitiously obtain DNA from their wives; more than a few would discover their spouse doesn't have only X chromosomes.

Don't miss the very conservative idea that sexual maturity begins at 10 years old being baked into this opinion as well. It's a generation of perverts whose main goal was to have government reflect their profound perversions at every level.