i had to check this because you can see them in the water at the adventure aquarium in camden, nj and they sure can get around. but indeed on the site they do not once use the word swim! 😮

www.adventureaquarium.com/explore/anim...

my stance is that I think it's important to accept that we do not have an answer either way

i inferred that when you said your existence is not a choice* that your stance is that you accept a bioessentialist view of gender based on that lack of choice, but I could very well be mistaken

*not just but that was key & i'm working with limited space here

it is not true that a trait not being a biologically essential attribute means that a person has a choice over it

we don't know and it doesn't matter and "born this way" gave us truscum, i do think factuality matters

basically "nobody knows what causes someone's gender but we do know that it can be determined by simply asking because we know what our own genders are" is the correct truth

the popularity of the screenshots of people talking about meso vs apex predators w/r/t the cat software on dog hardware fox meme does seem to be helping to change that

so it is for us all

every single way that we plebes waste time talking to each other has always and will always get called corrupting i can't pay attention to that argument

goodness, that old absolutist get off the internet bit. unironically at this point in time. congratulations on finding one in the wild.

wow what. thank you for translating though.

getting meaning out of that might be hopeless. like that's neither correct nor incorrect in a meaningful way to me.

there are limits to atmospheric moisture. you feel me? without more parameters it's functionally incomprehensible.

what does that sentence mean i'm still stuck at comprehension

i'm not sure i understand but however your journey goes i hope you have a nice time along the way

i am somewhere on the spectrum and i experienced "not feeling connected to my putative gender" as more like having to tolerate hearing people say and assume something incorrect than, say, not feeling connected to my right handedness

oooooooh, i came out in 2016 and most of what i just described was prior to 2019. but in 2019 i had a job where i was closeted again but in the other direction this time because my boss and a senior/mentor who were "so open minded" told transphobic jokes & nobody else thought that was a problem.

was it? i remember constantly being told to watch some Jenner thing i never saw and having doctors and therapists being too bold about claiming competency with trans healthcare.

i think inviting someone behind a wendy's is still au courant

lmk if you need weapons or anything, get their ass