The costs of trans visibility

Aside from whether or not I oppose prisons generally, I do not oppose women only prisons. So, in addition to just making things up, you're wrong.

But, you call yourself a libertarian. I was completely correct when I said "You clearly don't want any of those discriminations forced by government to be allowed." And you'll notice I said "forced by government", so your comment about private insurance was completely irrelevant. I understand what you said and what you implied and what libertarianism is.

I don't think your commitment to things like not having laws about the percentage of women on corporate boards is very strong if you're going to use that as an argument about trans, unless you're either being disingenuous or your libertarian principles are just overwhelmed by religious fanaticism or a sadistic and depraved love of conformity and punishment.

The comment re private insurance is relevant because some countries do not allow companies to discriminate on the basis of biological sex, others allow pro women discrimination but then you have to accept trans as well lol

It's not relevant because I didn't say anything about it. Obviously I expect you would think that it's okay for a private companies to discriminate.

What do you mean, in the deepest sense, when you say “you”? Is it based on bio sex? For those people caught up in this trans reality, “you” at the core is gendered and disembodied.

Part of the reason why trans activists are so dug in is because they realize “you” and “I” transcend bio sex, and they’re right about that. When someone comes into the discussion associating gender with bio sex, they see it as regressive because they are interpreting it as associating “I” with bio sex.

At root, this is a disagreement about what “you” and “I” mean in the deepest sense. Only after this is sorted, can there be the possibility of coupling gender with bio sex for those in trans reality.

Until then, bringing up bio sex is counterproductive. If you do actually believe that “you” and “I” is based primarily on bio sex, then sorry to say, those stuck in trans reality are actually closer to the truth than you are, and you are actually ceding to them the moral high ground to dig their heels in.

I believe in this. But I guess I'm not fully libertarian, because I think businesses should have to treat people equally also. I don't want to go back to separate restrooms for negroes.

This doesn’t address the, I believe small minority, who operate in trans reality and believe gender is solely a social construct. These people are lightweights and ultimately non factors in this disagreement in my view.

In trans reality, I and you are gendered with one gender and not the other. Thus, the panic about a man being stuck in a female body.

To understand I and you in the deepest sense is to realize that I and you transcend gender altogether. That doesn’t mean we don’t identify with gender identities; we clearly do. It’s just not who you are in the truest sense.

Once this is realized and accepted, then it becomes unnecessary to discriminate against your bio-sex-gender. The pain and struggle can then be decoupled from gender politics altogether and treated properly through the lens of self + soul.

Me neither, but I'm not the one running around saying I'm a libertarian while constantly supporting government intervention.

I submit corporations or any organization where the government protects the owners by shielding them from liability don't have any rights at all and the rules made for them should just be whatever is best for society.

The concept that corporation=person is definitely one that has been shown to be very wrong IMO.

Do women get quoted better car insurance rates?

Shopping for it now and considering a transition.

---Ok older women pay higher rates but younger men pay more.

good friend of mine works in car insurance, says that the single best way to determine risk factors are age, sex, & race but they can only use age because it's be a pr nightmare if it came out that asian women were charged higher insurance

I guess it could have changed, but when I was in my teens to early 20s I know that young women definitely were offered lower rates than young men because they were considered lower risk drivers.

I'm not sure how their liability per mile compared, but I assume young women generally drive fewer miles than young men.

Historically, men drive drunk more often than women, not sure how you measure aggresive versus defensive driving. Women supoosedly text more than men in recent years the but data is a little blurry. Distracted driving defintiely has to be the key factor at play.

When I lived in New Jersey, a male had to be 28 (I think that's right) to be considered an adult for car insurance purposes.

Sounds about right.

Though I do like to semi-troll people with "you're not really an adult until you've raised children."

This is very interesting, do you have a source for this?

In the UK a few days ago, with the impending election The Muslim Vote, a Muslim campaign group made a list of 12 demands to the Labour leadership in order to gain their support for the general election. One of them did make me smile:

If this is indeed true, I suspect it's because people called "Muhammad" are involved in more accidents than the mean.

freakanomics tackled this pretty well
https://freakonomics.com/2010/03/who-dri...

they then talk about that being offset by men being in 80% of fatal accidents

but insurance companies are going to dive deeper than this

this breaks it down pretty well

https://www.iihs.org/topics/fatality-sta...

men also more likely to die on a bicycle, die as a pedestrian, etc we as a group are more reckless

take the last 5 or so years of driving fatalities

that just covers alcohol

https://www.nhtsa.gov/press-releases/spe...

Almost One-Third of Traffic Fatalities Are Speed-Related Crashes is the title of the Department of Transportation article above

While I can't find anything solid that's not hidden behind a scholarly journal (but they do agree the majority of those receiving speeding tickets are men), skimming news reports and SEO articles for law firms you'll commonly see around 70% of speeding tickets are issued to men

So using the table above we get these for male deaths per year not involving a DUI since 2015

so we know that there's going to be some overlap of those who died while drunk and speeding but it won't be 100%

so we take all the non DUI deaths and merge them again because we need to pull out ones for speeding, to account for the overlap i brought it down to 25%

from there we bin by .7 and .3 and we get these numbers of clean deaths which are much closer

factor that men drive much more than women
https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/ohim/onh00/bar8...

you'll see men put on nearly twice as many miles than women, this is largely due to couples tending to default to the male as the driver - something the freakonomics article also discusses

so you have men driving at a 1.63:1 ratio to women

that 2015-2021 estimation of non reckless non drunken fatal accidents break down to 44,362 male and 21,715 female

it's a bit more severe than 1.63 as it's a little more than 2:1 - but it's now much more in line with actual driving and after all is still a rough estimate

tldr i trust what the friend who works as an actuary isn't making stuff up - my assumption is that they factor in that a lot of those male deaths are suicides as a lot of people choose single car accident going full speed into a tree or wall are people who want to end it but don't want it known as a suicide for various reasons

i mean, if i were going to end it i'd definitely choose that route just so my friends and family wouldn't be distraught over not catching the warning signs and doing something about it sooner etc etc - but alas my name's not Muhammad so I'll go down in glory in hookers and coke binge in Mexico instead

Excellent post, thanks 😀

Do transgender infants belong at pride parades?

Infants can neither express gender identity nor have understanding of their own gender, so this smells like a troll post.

I don't know why you over mod me.

Its a perfectly relevant example from today's time, about parents who raise their kids as non-binary etc.

Can I post too?

It couldn’t be your horrible posting and your inability to follow directions?

Ok so what would you do to a parent who brings an infant to a gay pride?