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And TASS, the Russian news agency: And while we are on the subject, only Russian sources describe the Ukrainian army as 'militants'. Saldo gives the game away by referring to 'Ukraine’s 141st, 65th and 128th brigades', obviously meaning Ukrainian army units. Propaganda is not as easy as it...

моргни два раза, если путин держит тебя в заложниках. :oldthumbsup:

The vessel was obviously out of control when it struck the bridge. Add corporate homicide to the list.

That is close to what I have said; it is a complex issue requiring professional judgments. Many people have benefited from therapies. That is why I deprecate those here and elsewhere who oppose therapies on principle. The argument based on biological sex being fixed and immutable is irrelevant...

I disagree. Gender dysphoria is demonstrably real. That is science too, but fits in less well with the doctrine. But that issue is not as important as the real suffering of actual people seeking help. These patients encounter the resistance of people who are antipathetic to gender reassignment...

This does not apply in the UK. We have a National Health Service. None of the therapy is extraordinarily expensive - certainly not comparable to major surgical interventions or serious injury after accidents. In any case this discussion is not about money. I am, of course, against...

I am not concerned about doctrinal arguments about gender, only the alleviation of suffering. That is always the aim of the psychiatrists, surgeons and others involved in reassignment. It may be 'only cosmetic' to you but to the people involved this is not a trivial matter.

Tosh! What 'most royalists' think is irrelevant. You are making the mistake of taking the media coverage seriously. It is almost all conjecture and gossip.

I have just pointed out that the issue is complex. A sex change affects nobody but the individual patients and is a matter for them, their medical advisors and no-one else. You state that many people are still unhappy after a sex change; I am sure you are right. I believe that there are many...

Yes, it was too strong. They are on the whole innocuous, harmless, mainly and by choice invisible. They are hounded mercilessly by media whose only interest is to make a living out of them. Remember that in one infamous case paparazzi hounded their mother - quite literally - to her death. You...

Of course. Nobody is arguing for recklessness. One problem with a total ban is its over-simplification of a complex issue. It puts a specific viewpoint before the personal welfare of very unhappy young people. All cases are about individuals and this blanket ban cannot address them.

They are not being offered to children who are too young to understand. Here at least they are only offered to those young people whom the law accepts as responsible - over sixteens. In the UK a person can marry at sixteen, the age of consent.

No, we don't know them - at all. All we are told comes from the tittle -tattle of the popular media. And they don't know them either. If you 'don't really follow the gossip' how can you have such strong opinions about them, liking some and disliking others?

No we won't.

These cases are all very recent. Have any reached a conclusion? Until they do they are merely allegations and not evidence in support of your claim.

Public opinion has come to the same conclusion. It is difficult for Russians, especially those in authority, to conceive that in democracies policy is in part driven - and always influenced - by public perceptions. This might be because there has never been any lasting democracy there. They are...

No you don't. You have not met any of them. You are just drinking at the fountain of gossip about them. Most of the British press make up their stories. Even a cursory glance shows that the stories are speculative. The plain and obvious fact is that none of us know them. They are almost totally...

I am more interested in the fact of the Republican split than semantics.

Not even the original post? That is to be taken literally. The Republicans split roughly fifty-fifty. Nothing metaphorical about that. It looks to me as if the Trump influence on the Party has weakened. Many reluctant, cajoled and frightened Trump followers in Congress have resisted his...

As well as being well off-topic, that is more or less total rubbish, isn't it?