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By my reading it is quite a fine article. I do think it is very sensitive of her to compare the surgery trans woman undergo to the surgery women with breast cancer sometimes undergo to have breasts again.
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Trans women, like so many women who have had breast cancer, sometimes need the help of surgeons, because it is helpful for one's social body to support and confirm one's biological identity, not contradict it.

That's why it's so awful to talk of trans women as men who have been castrated. Such people are women who have had the biological misfortune to have been born with bodies that are out of kilter with the much more complex biology of their female minds. That too, is why the trans community prefers people not to talk of being biologically or born female as opposed to trans female. Trans people are biologically or born female, but with detail of the flesh that traduces their ability to be physically and socially accepted for what they are.

btw, are we discussing the morality or the legality of the boys actions?

for the second: you can either argue that he acted out of self defence or was not capable of mentally grasping the consequences of his actions

Do they really have a chance in court? There are laws that make this a real possibility?

You may want to set your FPS-cap to 1 prior to making your mommydwarf a fallingdwarf to make it easier to save at the right moment.

[...] and took my name out of the thread title [...]

Maybe you could somehow get (at least) the word "penguin" back into it? I liked the old title.

From the article:

if you overlay a map showing areas with higher incidence of violent crime with one showing lead contamination, there's a strikingly high correlation

.. which is interesting but not really surprising because:
1.) if you overlay a map showing areas with higher incidence of violent crime with one showing low income areas, there's a strikingly high correlation
2.) if you overlay a map showing areas with low income with one showing lead contamination, there's a strikingly high correlation

So I'd say it may boil down to: being affected by lead contamination is a sign of low socio-economic status (SES) which leads to more violent crime. Basically you could as well match poor grades in math with high violence (low education->low SES)