bro it's x-men

ackshually for the Chinese novels it's more like

"I activate my Nine Heavens Demonic Dragon God's Forbidden Dance of Asura's Nirvana Upon the Starry River of Eternal Samsara technique that lets me punch harder!"

(transcribed from a series of tweets) - @iamragesparkle

I was at a shitty crustpunk bar once getting an after-work beer. One of those shitholes where the bartenders clearly hate you. So the bartender and I were ignoring one another when someone sits next to me and he immediately says, "no. get out."

And the dude next to me says, "hey i'm not doing anything, i'm a paying customer." and the bartender reaches under the counter for a bat or something and says, "out. now." and the dude leaves, kind of yelling. And he was dressed in a punk uniform, I noticed

Anyway, I asked what that was about and the bartender was like, "you didn't see his vest but it was all nazi shit. Iron crosses and stuff. You get to recognize them."

And i was like, ohok and he continues.

"you have to nip it in the bud immediately. These guys come in and it's always a nice, polite one. And you serve them because you don't want to cause a scene. And then they become a regular and after awhile they bring a friend. And that dude is cool too.

And then THEY bring friends and the friends bring friends and they stop being cool and then you realize, oh shit, this is a Nazi bar now. And it's too late because they're entrenched and if you try to kick them out, they cause a PROBLEM. So you have to shut them down.

And i was like, 'oh damn.' and he said "yeah, you have to ignore their reasonable arguments because their end goal is to be terrible, awful people."

And then he went back to ignoring me. But I haven't forgotten that at all.

Oh, and there are 5 known lions(esses?) out there that shine light on a potential need for gender studies. By that I mean 5 female lions that otherwise look and act like male lions. One of them is more famous, named Mmamoriri.

Not implying they are transgender animals, but they serve as evidence that our knowledge of gender is shaky enough to warrant more in-depth advancements. Simply writing off gender studies as some liberal grift is a disservice to biology.

To add onto the hippocratic oath argument: gender dysphoria is a devastating mental illness, and so far the only effective treatment is transitioning. Conversion camps don't work, and there isn't yet a "cure-all" drug that would make dysphoria go away. That would make a case for artificially induced PMS to be less harmful overall than gender dysphoria.

As for the "we were all female once" argument, that shouldn't really matter. Neuroscience is a complicated field and it should be of no surprise to anyone that there can be a gender-sex mismatch at birth. The only reason we even see these issues is because humans culturally separate themselves by gender on a society level. There are probably trans animals out there but we wouldn't know because they wouldn't care. Also, two of the three trans people I personally know are trans men, people often forget transition goes both ways.

Wow ok you weren't supposed to share those with anyone

She wears a strap-on