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Cara Ramsey

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LGBTQ, pro-democracy, BLM, women’s rights. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️. 🚫MAGA 🚫haters 💙Vote Blue!💙 🚫 crypto. 🚫Illuminati 🚫FOREX traders MEN GET LOST! I'm absolutely not interested in you. NO DMs!!

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Cara Ramsey @cairenntairisu.bsky.social · Jan 4

This post is a reference post for other posts that I would "pin" to my profile, if I could pin multiple posts. I will add to this via replies as the list grows.

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Cara Ramsey @cairenntairisu.bsky.social · Dec 16

Trans people exist. They are unusual so trying to apply the usual approximations is as silly as trying to apply Newtonian physics to objects close to light speed. Legislating such things is as insane as legally ruling that P=3. I hope this explains why I don't base my opinions on 9th grade biology.

Series of posts from ChristopherE:

In 1890, the X and Y chromosomes were discovered. It was found that the men who were tested had 46 chromosomes including an X and a Y while women who were tested also had 46 chromosomes, including 2 X chromosomes. So obviously the conclusion was that the Y chromosome defined masculinity.

A reasonable conclusion... Fast forward 50 years... and it was discovered that some men had 47 chromosomes, including 2 X's and a Y while some women had 45, including only one X. Still no problem with the "Y chromosome defines masculinity" idea.

Then... it was found that fully 1 in 300 men weren't 46 XY. Some women were. Oops. After DNA was discovered in the 1950s, it was found that the SRY gene, usually found on the Y chromosome, sometimes was missing. And sometimes had been translocated to the X chromosome, hence 46 X men and 46 XY women.

So SRY defined masculinity. Then it was found out that some men didn't have an SRY gene, not anywhere. Some women did. Other genes were involved. Worse, other factors, such as androgen insensitivity made 46 XY people female, and congenital adrenal hyperplasia masculinized 46 XX people.

Then in the 1970s, other syndromes, such as 5alpha-reductase-2 deficiency were identified, which caused babies to look one sex at birth, then the other sex at puberty. Worse, in some places, 1 in 50 infants had this natural sex change. It was not rare there.

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In an isolated village of the southwestern Dominican Republic, 2% of the live births were in the 1970's guevedoces ... These children appeared to be girls at birth but at puberty sprouted muscles, testes, and a penis.

For the rest of their lives they are men in nearly all respects. In the 90's, it was found that hormonal hiccups in the womb caused some parts of the body to develop as one sex, others as the other sex, regardless of genetics.

Male-to-female transsexuals have female neuron numbers in a limbic nucleus. Kruiver et al J Clin Endocrinol Metab (2000) 85:2034-2041 The present findings of somatostatin neuronal sex differences in the BSTc and its sex reversal in the transsexual brain clearly support the paradigm that in transsexuals sexual differentiation of the brain and genitals may go in opposite directions.

It's a matter of timing during foetal development. Sometimes a boy is born looking like a girl, sometimes a girl is born looking like a boy, regardless of chromosomes.

This is complex stuff. We don't teach the theory of general relativity in grade school. Newtonian physics or at most Special Relativity (far simpler) is enough. Similarly "XX is female, XY is male" is good enough unless you do medicine or biology in college.

It's really only relative when talking about trans or intersex people, just as relativistic effects only become relevant in the domain of the very big, very small, or very very fast close to 186,000 miles per second.

People do *not* need psychiatric help when they think things get heavier, more massive as they go faster... while lengths contract. People do *not* need psychiatric help when they think their sex is something different from their genetics.

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Cara Ramsey @cairenntairisu.bsky.social · 11d

From Evey Winters

Kataplexis: When Hate Speech is Not Accurate Enough (as a term).

Why We Need A New Word For Harmful Speech

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Kataplexis: When Hate Speech Is Not Accurate Enough

Introducing a new term to better understand power dynamics, intersectionality, and harmful rhetoric in modern discourse

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Cara Ramsey @cairenntairisu.bsky.social · 16d

#MarketingMonday !!!

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"Cara Ramsey doesn’t just give us a romance; she gives us a story about forgiveness, healing, and the weight of the past. "

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Cara Ramsey @cairenntairisu.bsky.social · 16d

Why is it always Grindr and Pornhub dragged to a halt when Republicans gather?

Maybe, just maybe some certain political party is obsessed with transgender porn & trans peoples' genitals?

(HINT: The Charlie Kirk Memorial was the same day in Arizona also. Draw your own conclusions.)

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Cara Ramsey @cairenntairisu.bsky.social · Sep 4

I just can’t with this guy!

Holy shit, men are fucking embarrassing!

Do you ever want to grab someone and say, WTF IS WRONG WITH YOU?

Fuck! I mean holy goddamn fuck! What the fucking fuck?

Cara Ramsey @cairenntairisu.bsky.social · Sep 2

All of you who demand loyalty to Newsom while ignoring that he's already thrown multiple marginalized communities under the bus... yes, you are morally bankrupt.

You want my vote in 2028? CHOOSE BETTER. Right now, as a trans person, there is no functional difference between Newsom & Trump.

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Cara Ramsey @cairenntairisu.bsky.social · Sep 2

Look, I'm on Sapphic (lesbian) dating apps and it's INSTANTLY apparent when someone is using AI to respond to you. And as soon as they do that, the entire chat gets deleted and they get a block.

Now that's me on a dating app. If that had happened at my wedding, I'd have done more than walk out!

a man wearing a wig and sunglasses is in a red circle with the word ai in white

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Cara Ramsey @cairenntairisu.bsky.social · Aug 30

Betcha he’s married too.

a man says he 's cheating while wearing a suit and blue shirt

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Cara Ramsey @cairenntairisu.bsky.social · Aug 25

#NeverNewsom

Gavin Newsom is a monster. May karma have her way with him soon.

IllCaesar @illcaesar.bsky.social · Aug 22

Gavin Newsom suggesting that 25 years of age is too young to transition and agreeing to right-wing entryism of concern trolling about trans people in sports. This is your opposition leader?

I will never vote for Gavin Newsom anyone who thinks trans people are actual humans will follow suit.

Cara Ramsey @cairenntairisu.bsky.social · Aug 25

I've been saying we were headed for Balkanization for a decade. And while it's bad, it would still be better than a unified American Christofascist nuclear state.

Putin has constantly funded Christian nationalists for nearly 20 years now driving this wedge deeper and deeper into American society.

Cara Ramsey @cairenntairisu.bsky.social · Aug 18

But you can count on one thing for sure. Once US universities lose their place at the top, they will NEVER recover within YOUR lifetime, even if you live to be a hundred years old.

THAT is the future Trump is handing to our children and grandchildren. We should be ashamed.

Cara Ramsey @cairenntairisu.bsky.social · Aug 18

They NEVER recovered. Eighty years later Germany's universities still fall behind much of the developed world in terms of research.

NOTE: Some people project that German and other European universities will use this moment to seize back leadership, or at least share it with Chinese universities.

Cara Ramsey @cairenntairisu.bsky.social · Aug 18

In the 1920s, Germany's universities were the best research universities in the world. When Hitler was elected in 1933 he began to gut universities. Hitler was defeated in 1945.

Do you know how long it took Germany's universities to recover to being the top research universities in the world?

Cara Ramsey @cairenntairisu.bsky.social · Aug 16

The “all sides” comment gives him away.

a woman in a yellow dress is running in a field with the words `` run girl '' .

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Cara Ramsey @cairenntairisu.bsky.social · Aug 14

The transphobic scientific conundrum.

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Cara Ramsey @cairenntairisu.bsky.social · Aug 11

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Cara Ramsey @cairenntairisu.bsky.social · Aug 10

back in her face, “So you can’t always tell, can you?”

I didn’t win over the transphobe that day but I’m pretty sure I won over a few fence sitters.

Cara Ramsey @cairenntairisu.bsky.social · Aug 10

I looked at her for a few moments as if she’d grown three heads to hen finally said, “Because I’m a decent human being and because I’m trans.”

It was a jaw dropping moment for her but just as importantly, several other women were then staring at her while one said, clearly being snarky to throw it

Cara Ramsey @cairenntairisu.bsky.social · Aug 10

As an older trans woman, a number of years after I transitioned, I realized I hadn’t been misgendered in months and shortly after that, I got into a “debate” about trans people and another older woman got exasperated and asked, “Why do you care? Do you have a trans child or grandchild?”

Cara Ramsey @cairenntairisu.bsky.social · Aug 10

Every single Democrat who says that trans people protesting or demanding more is a problem - YOU are the same people who would have disapproved of lunch counter sit-ins by POC in the 1960s or Dr. King's march on DC.

You're the white liberal who wants a "negative peace" more than true justice.

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Cara Ramsey @cairenntairisu.bsky.social · Aug 2

I LOVE IT! PERFECT!!

a woman is sitting in front of a microphone and saying i love it .

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Cara Ramsey @cairenntairisu.bsky.social · Aug 2

I admire the attempt but I'm not going to agree with you. But like I said, there ARE progressive men who are talking about this problem and what men can do to fix it. I suggest you follow and listen to them for a while. That might help clarify your thinking.

Good luck!

Cara Ramsey @cairenntairisu.bsky.social · Aug 2

Professor Neil on Facebook. Non-toxic masculinity isn't inherently political. It's only made political by right wing bros trying to browbeat women into submission once again.

Your article was interesting but seemed to miss the boat on key points. In a couple places, it sounded almost incel-like.

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Cara Ramsey @cairenntairisu.bsky.social · Aug 2

I read your article and no, the single most important trait a man can have is not competence, though competence might be considered high on such a list.

It's empathy, and also emotional intelligence. It's recognizing women as equals, not fuck buddies. I suggest you follow SpeechProf and

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Cara Ramsey @cairenntairisu.bsky.social · Aug 2

If there is a hell, Garland will burn there.

Cara Ramsey @cairenntairisu.bsky.social · Aug 2

Jay, our institutions cannot and will not save you. The United States is dead. It's over. It's just a rotting corpse now.

Once upon a time, Americans faced a total tyrant and they did what they had to do, at great personal cost, to try to achieve freedom.

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Declaration of Independence: A Transcription

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