Chelsea Manning For US

Thu Jan 18 22:32:45 PST 2018

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On 01/18/2018 08:50 PM, John Newman wrote:
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> On Jan 18, 2018, at 8:17 PM, juan <juan.g71 at gmail.com 
> <mailto:juan.g71 at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>> On Thu, 18 Jan 2018 13:43:19 -0500 John Newman <jnn at synfin.org
>> <mailto:jnn at synfin.org>> wrote:
>> 
>>> has had  their cock chopped off
>> 
>> Now, that's an interesting one. Cutting your dick off seems like
>> a nasty thing to do to yourself. And cutting your dick off is of
>> course a brutal form of castration. And castration is something
>> one would expect a feminazi, anti-sex mock 'culture' like the
>> americunt-western 'culture' to encourage.
>> 
>> 
> 
> I don’t think it’s really just a matter of chopping it off, that
> was me just sort of bullshitting ;) Anyway, out of curiosity, I
> took a look and Argentina is actually quite a bit farther along
> this line than the old Americunts... the following cut and pasted
> from wikipedia  -
> 
> 
> https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transgender_rights_in_Argentina
> 
> *“Transgender rights in Argentina* are among the most advanced in
> the world. The country "has one of the world's most comprehensive
> transgender rights 
> <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transgender_rights> laws":^[1] 
> <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transgender_rights_in_Argentina#cite_
note-washingtonblade-1>
>
> 
its Gender Law, passed in 2012, made Argentina the "only country that
> allows people to change their gender identities without facing
> barriers such as hormone therapy 
> <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hormone_replacement_therapy_(transgen
der)>,
> surgery <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_reassignment_surgery>
> or psychiatric diagnosis that labels them as having an
> abnormality".^[2] 
> <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transgender_rights_in_Argentina#cite_
note-washingtonpost-2>
>
> 
^[3]
> <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transgender_rights_in_Argentina#cite_
note-usnews-3>
>
> 
In 2015, the World Health Organization
> <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Health_Organization> cited 
> Argentina as an exemplary country for providing transgender
> rights.^[3] 
> <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transgender_rights_in_Argentina#cite_
note-usnews-3>
>
> 
Upon legalising same-sex marriage
> <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Same-sex_marriage> on July 15,
> 2010, Argentina became the first country in Latin America 
> <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_America>, the second in the
> Americas <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americas>, and the tenth 
> in the world to do so.”
> 
> <snip some stuff>
> 
> “Gender identity law
> 
> The Ley de Género (Gender Law),^[7] 
> <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transgender_rights_in_Argentina#cite_
note-7>
>
> 
grants adults sex reassignment surgery and hormone therapy as a part of
> their public or private health care plans. The law also allows for 
> changes to gender, image, or birth name on civil registries without
> the approval of a doctor or a judge.”
> 

Sometimes the law is one thing and reality is another.

There are countries - thinking of Costa Rica in particular
that have decent laws about gay or trans rights, but their
society and police don't care and persecute people nonetheless.