Definitely. Many factors at play, for sure. And yes, body fat is a better indicator, I would assume. But because the study used BMI, we don't really know at what body fat percentage it's a problem, unless I'm missing something, which is entirely possible. Either way, 15% body fat is solidly in the range of healthy and is normal for a fit man.
No, 18.5 is the lower range for healthy BMI. 15 is too low. As for body fat, almost nobody accurately measures it - they use readings that are completely bogus from exercise machines and scales.
Guess you didn't read the news. Trump lied again (no surprise there). The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff denied any consultations between the military and Trump, and no other member of the joint chiefs has come forward to say they were consulted. Also, defense secretary Mattis wasn't consulted, even though he is the one who ordered a review of policy wrt transgenders last month, and that review is not yet complete.
Trump again lies to distract. Also, the generals who implemented the current policy are all still in their jobs: The military leadership who were consulted about the Obama transgender policy that was subsequently put in place, and is still in force as of today, haven't changed. The chiefs of staff of the Army and Air Force, the Chief Naval Officer, the Marine Corps Commandant and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff are all the same as they were under the Obama administration.
None of them had a problem with the policy, so who did Trump consult? Maybe Russian general Valery Gerasimov? Or Russian commander-in-chief Comrade Putin?
Your claims of complaints being passed up the chain of command is denied by the military, so stop making up shit, loser. You wanted Trump, you got him, now be ready to be the laughing stock of the world and Putin's cockholster.
Your panties are in an awful knot over the non-successes of this failed lame duck's non-actions.
Face it: You lost. You're lashing out trying to downplay the massive success of Trump in obliterating the liberal social engineering agenda. The Supreme Court appointment alone ruins your narrative. We win for the next 30 years.
You must be joking. I wanted Trump to win. For one thing, Clinton would have just continued the duplicity of the democrats, and she already has several wars to her credit. For another, it was obvious that Trump would destroy the republican party from within, especially the tea party faction.
Thirdly, I'm not an American, so I can give a less biased opinion. Your president is the idiot-in-chief whom nobody else respects (then again, a lot of people on his staff don't respect him either, so BFD).
I won't deny that I've had personal motives to study it for decades, even before it hit public awareness. And my name has never been Bob (or any variant).
I don't hide the fact that I'm a male-to-female transsexual, because there's nothing to be ashamed of. And here, there's not really any stigma any more. Even if my birth certificate didn't now say I was born female, it doesn't mean that I would run into much in the way of problems.
I've never encountered problems using the women's bathroom, and ironically, even the latest Texas bathroom bill would require me to use the women's bathroom. That's what happens when you make it dependent on the birth certificate - you pass a stupid law, you just look stupid to the rest of the world. Again.
Why is it that the US military is, according to Trump, composed of people who can't adapt to change, either on their own or with training? 18 other countries have done so, with no problems. Additionally, there are 2500 transgenders currently serving in the US military, and plenty more who have served, including former Navy SEALS. Where were the problems all these years?
Trump is just throwing shit at the wall in an effort to distract from his screw-ups with Russia, Jeff Sessions, the failed vote to repeal Obamacare, etc.
Trump: "We will recall congress on the first day and repeal Obamacare." Wasn't that why you elected him?
Didn't happen the first day, nor the first week, nor the first month, nor the first season... still isn't happening 6 months later. And now that the vote to repeal failed, they're looking at either a watered-down version or a bipartisan bill. So much for getting rid of Obamacare.
If we take your figure of 0,1%, then there's damn good statistical odds that you either know someone or know someone who knows someone. You just don't know it. Why you seem to think that it has anything to do with working at a university is beyond me - it has nothing to do with it.
If you have known 100 people in your life (and that's low) then there's a 1 in 10 chance that at least one of them is trans. If none of them are, and we apply the same conditions (each knows 100 people), then the odds rise to 90% that one of those people knows someone who is trans.
I don't know anybody who is trans. You keep saying that BS that hoping the majority of people like me will feel like the oddball. Just aint true though.
Everybody in SF, Manhattan, and Miami Beach probably know someone. Those are not military recruiting hotbed though, so my guess is most soldiers are more like me.
Just because you think you don't know anyone doesn't necessarily make it true. Also, you missed the part where you might not know someone, but you know someone who knows someone.
There's a huge incentive in the military to NOT reveal what's going on with your gender identity if it doesn't match your physical sex, so there are plenty who have not even tried to transition yet, same as everywhere else in real life.
And? It should be self-evident that whacks to the head can cause brain damage - those who are arguing against it have a vested financial interest in it not being true. But that doesn't make the study statistically valid.
A better study would be to do MRIs on all players in the league both before and after one season, and again at the beginning of the next season (to eliminate the possibility that the brain completely returns to its pre-season state by then).
It's not like they don't have the money to do it. But they certainly don't have the financial incentive, and a huge disincentive. Willful ignorance, and not just the leageu administration. Players don't want to know because then it would place the liability on them for willingly participating in a sport that would have then been convincingly demonstrated to cause brain damage, freeing the league from any liability.
This is the same guy who, if he had just taken the money from his father and let someone else handle it using market index funds, would have at least double what he has. So tell me again how he's so smart? He's inept, both in business (6 bankruptcies, defrauded at least 3,500 creditors, multiple fines for violating anti-discrimination laws against blacks, and not a single independent thought). This is the guy who just parrots whatever he sees on TV. He could be replaced with a perl script. I can't be.
RE: fertility - That's what she said. But seriously, just because you can reproduce easily with one woman doesn't mean that you will have the same results with another.
The percentage of body fat is a better indicator than BMI by itself. Low body fat == more likely to have problems reproducing. Same as too much body fat. There is an optimum weight and an optimum amount of body fat.
The theory is that with more women who are educated, birth rates go down. This doesn't hold true in much of Africa.
It is a waste of time trying to educate a continent of 70 IQ people.
Not true. While every generation's IQ tests are normalized to 100 being average, each generation is turning out to be able to obtain higher non-normalized scores than the previous generation. In other words, your forbearers would probably have scored well below today's average. BTW, racism is stupid - witness Trump.
Last year, then defence secretary Ash Carter cited a study by the RAND Corporation think-tank that said there were about 2,500 active-duty service members and 1,500 service members who were transgender.
Where were the riots, the mutinies, the refusals of people to work alongside them? Oh, right - they didn't happen.
There are already 2,500 trans troops in the services, and 1,500 in the reserves. This is just Trump throwing shit at the wall to distract from his failures.
So how much support do you think they will get from a bunch of Jar Head grunts?
Nowadays? Plenty, because everyone knows someone who is trans, or knows someone who knows someone who is. No need to go through 6 degrees of separation a la Kevin Bacon.
The " U.S. National Transgender Discrimination Survey " is a piece of shit, with poor methodology, huge selection bias, and they even admit that because the survey only had a budget of $3,000, they couldn't get a representative sample.
Any study based on that is doubly a piece of shit.
Anyone stupid enough to cite it is triply a piece of shit.
You're so full of shit. Post-surgery suicide rates are close to the general population. Also, Trump is an idiot - there are already 2,500 transsexuals serving in the military, and 1,500 in the reserves, and it hasn't had a negative impact. He's spouting nonsense to take take the heat off of "the Russia thing", Sessions, and the failure of the senate to repeal Obamacare outright, with 9 Republicans joining the Democrats.
Testicles need to stay several degrees below body temperature for proper sperm production, so wearers of tight pants are going to have serious fertility issues.
Natural selection at work - hipsters will become extinct. YAY!
The media understand it here - they literally used the term self-selection bias on the news this evening. Then again, Canadian news tends to cater to a more literate crowd, not those with an attention span of 140 characters.
In other words, not inherited. The fact that every ethnic group known to man has a strong cohort who follow religion tends to discredit the idea that it's inherited.
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Definitely. Many factors at play, for sure. And yes, body fat is a better indicator, I would assume. But because the study used BMI, we don't really know at what body fat percentage it's a problem, unless I'm missing something, which is entirely possible. Either way, 15% body fat is solidly in the range of healthy and is normal for a fit man.
No, 18.5 is the lower range for healthy BMI. 15 is too low. As for body fat, almost nobody accurately measures it - they use readings that are completely bogus from exercise machines and scales.
Guess you didn't read the news. Trump lied again (no surprise there). The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff denied any consultations between the military and Trump, and no other member of the joint chiefs has come forward to say they were consulted. Also, defense secretary Mattis wasn't consulted, even though he is the one who ordered a review of policy wrt transgenders last month, and that review is not yet complete.
Trump again lies to distract. Also, the generals who implemented the current policy are all still in their jobs: The military leadership who were consulted about the Obama transgender policy that was subsequently put in place, and is still in force as of today, haven't changed. The chiefs of staff of the Army and Air Force, the Chief Naval Officer, the Marine Corps Commandant and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff are all the same as they were under the Obama administration.
None of them had a problem with the policy, so who did Trump consult? Maybe Russian general Valery Gerasimov? Or Russian commander-in-chief Comrade Putin?
Your claims of complaints being passed up the chain of command is denied by the military, so stop making up shit, loser. You wanted Trump, you got him, now be ready to be the laughing stock of the world and Putin's cockholster.
Your panties are in an awful knot over the non-successes of this failed lame duck's non-actions.
Face it: You lost. You're lashing out trying to downplay the massive success of Trump in obliterating the liberal social engineering agenda. The Supreme Court appointment alone ruins your narrative. We win for the next 30 years.
You must be joking. I wanted Trump to win. For one thing, Clinton would have just continued the duplicity of the democrats, and she already has several wars to her credit. For another, it was obvious that Trump would destroy the republican party from within, especially the tea party faction.
Thirdly, I'm not an American, so I can give a less biased opinion. Your president is the idiot-in-chief whom nobody else respects (then again, a lot of people on his staff don't respect him either, so BFD).
Wrong. The military already issued an internal memo saying that it will be business as usual wrt transsexuals serving in the military. So suck it up.
I won't deny that I've had personal motives to study it for decades, even before it hit public awareness. And my name has never been Bob (or any variant).
I don't hide the fact that I'm a male-to-female transsexual, because there's nothing to be ashamed of. And here, there's not really any stigma any more. Even if my birth certificate didn't now say I was born female, it doesn't mean that I would run into much in the way of problems.
I've never encountered problems using the women's bathroom, and ironically, even the latest Texas bathroom bill would require me to use the women's bathroom. That's what happens when you make it dependent on the birth certificate - you pass a stupid law, you just look stupid to the rest of the world. Again.
Even Estonia and Bolivia allow transgender individuals to serve in the military. Canada's military just tweeted that they are promoting the recruiting of transgender individuals. in direct response to Trump's proposed ban.
Why is it that the US military is, according to Trump, composed of people who can't adapt to change, either on their own or with training? 18 other countries have done so, with no problems. Additionally, there are 2500 transgenders currently serving in the US military, and plenty more who have served, including former Navy SEALS. Where were the problems all these years?
Trump is just throwing shit at the wall in an effort to distract from his screw-ups with Russia, Jeff Sessions, the failed vote to repeal Obamacare, etc.
Trump: "We will recall congress on the first day and repeal Obamacare." Wasn't that why you elected him?
Didn't happen the first day, nor the first week, nor the first month, nor the first season ... still isn't happening 6 months later. And now that the vote to repeal failed, they're looking at either a watered-down version or a bipartisan bill. So much for getting rid of Obamacare.
If we take your figure of 0,1%, then there's damn good statistical odds that you either know someone or know someone who knows someone. You just don't know it. Why you seem to think that it has anything to do with working at a university is beyond me - it has nothing to do with it.
If you have known 100 people in your life (and that's low) then there's a 1 in 10 chance that at least one of them is trans. If none of them are, and we apply the same conditions (each knows 100 people), then the odds rise to 90% that one of those people knows someone who is trans.
Not my fault you failed math.
I don't know anybody who is trans. You keep saying that BS that hoping the majority of people like me will feel like the oddball. Just aint true though.
Everybody in SF, Manhattan, and Miami Beach probably know someone. Those are not military recruiting hotbed though, so my guess is most soldiers are more like me.
Just because you think you don't know anyone doesn't necessarily make it true. Also, you missed the part where you might not know someone, but you know someone who knows someone.
There's a huge incentive in the military to NOT reveal what's going on with your gender identity if it doesn't match your physical sex, so there are plenty who have not even tried to transition yet, same as everywhere else in real life.
And? It should be self-evident that whacks to the head can cause brain damage - those who are arguing against it have a vested financial interest in it not being true. But that doesn't make the study statistically valid.
A better study would be to do MRIs on all players in the league both before and after one season, and again at the beginning of the next season (to eliminate the possibility that the brain completely returns to its pre-season state by then).
It's not like they don't have the money to do it. But they certainly don't have the financial incentive, and a huge disincentive. Willful ignorance, and not just the leageu administration. Players don't want to know because then it would place the liability on them for willingly participating in a sport that would have then been convincingly demonstrated to cause brain damage, freeing the league from any liability.
Tell me again who is smarter?
This is the same guy who, if he had just taken the money from his father and let someone else handle it using market index funds, would have at least double what he has. So tell me again how he's so smart? He's inept, both in business (6 bankruptcies, defrauded at least 3,500 creditors, multiple fines for violating anti-discrimination laws against blacks, and not a single independent thought). This is the guy who just parrots whatever he sees on TV. He could be replaced with a perl script. I can't be.
The hipster trait is not genetic (have you ever see hipsters who's parents are hipsters?) They pick it up from the environment not mom and dad.
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RE: fertility - That's what she said. But seriously, just because you can reproduce easily with one woman doesn't mean that you will have the same results with another.
The percentage of body fat is a better indicator than BMI by itself. Low body fat == more likely to have problems reproducing. Same as too much body fat. There is an optimum weight and an optimum amount of body fat.
The theory is that with more women who are educated, birth rates go down. This doesn't hold true in much of Africa.
It is a waste of time trying to educate a continent of 70 IQ people.
Not true. While every generation's IQ tests are normalized to 100 being average, each generation is turning out to be able to obtain higher non-normalized scores than the previous generation. In other words, your forbearers would probably have scored well below today's average. BTW, racism is stupid - witness Trump.
Last year, then defence secretary Ash Carter cited a study by the RAND Corporation think-tank that said there were about 2,500 active-duty service members and 1,500 service members who were transgender.
Where were the riots, the mutinies, the refusals of people to work alongside them? Oh, right - they didn't happen.
There are already 2,500 trans troops in the services, and 1,500 in the reserves. This is just Trump throwing shit at the wall to distract from his failures.
So how much support do you think they will get from a bunch of Jar Head grunts?
Nowadays? Plenty, because everyone knows someone who is trans, or knows someone who knows someone who is. No need to go through 6 degrees of separation a la Kevin Bacon.
The " U.S. National Transgender Discrimination Survey " is a piece of shit, with poor methodology, huge selection bias, and they even admit that because the survey only had a budget of $3,000, they couldn't get a representative sample.
Any study based on that is doubly a piece of shit.
Anyone stupid enough to cite it is triply a piece of shit.
You're so full of shit. Post-surgery suicide rates are close to the general population. Also, Trump is an idiot - there are already 2,500 transsexuals serving in the military, and 1,500 in the reserves, and it hasn't had a negative impact. He's spouting nonsense to take take the heat off of "the Russia thing", Sessions, and the failure of the senate to repeal Obamacare outright, with 9 Republicans joining the Democrats.
He's a lame duck.
Testicles need to stay several degrees below body temperature for proper sperm production, so wearers of tight pants are going to have serious fertility issues.
Natural selection at work - hipsters will become extinct. YAY!
If the choice is an approximation now or a real penis never, well ... ask any of the military who have received artificial dicks.
The price of a brain varies.
An ordinary brain might go for $30, but Einstein's brain would be worth much more.
And then there's Trump's brain - almost priceless. Because it's never been used.
I got dibs on your penis. I always wanted one.
Why wait. We have the technology to fix that now. Both ways - an addadicktome or a lopitoffofme.
The media understand it here - they literally used the term self-selection bias on the news this evening. Then again, Canadian news tends to cater to a more literate crowd, not those with an attention span of 140 characters.
Nonsense. Otherwise religious folks wouldn't have atheist kids or vice versa, or kids who switch religions.
In other words, not inherited. The fact that every ethnic group known to man has a strong cohort who follow religion tends to discredit the idea that it's inherited.