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>Yes, I do.

No, you don't.

>He purchased them specifically before the law against purchasing them went into effect.

The California Assault Weapons Control Act was passed in 1989, not "a few years ago". So no, they did not buy them "a few years ago". QED.

>Seriously?

Yes, seriously.

>I have a relative who lives in CA and bought a pair of AR-15s a few years ago, just because...

No you don't. AR-15s are illegal (felony) in California.

Cope.

> It's very hard for anybody to be persuaded about any set of ideas where you see a large part of the discussion shut down.

The problem is that any discussion involving gender, sexuality or identity will sooner or later devolve into flamewars, with zero arguments backed by serious research - particularly the "liberal" crowd tends to aggressively stick to "there are more than two genders" while ignoring every single research piece to the contrary.

>Really?

Yes really.

>Using the fact that someone put pronouns in their profile is a bad faith move?

No, putting pronouns in your profile is a red flag for bad faith moves.

>Your account is literally a throwaway.

Which means you can expect unadulterated facts.

>Calling these twin studies as settled science is the most bad faith move here

No it's not, stop denying the science.

>since the chief problem of this section of The Bell Curve is that it confuses heritability with genetic determination

The Bell Curve makes no confusion between heritability and genetic determination.

>mistake that informed scientists wouldn’t make

Good thing the Bell Curve didn't make that mistake!

>Unsurprisingly, that is why there is widespread scientific backlash against it.

There wasn't much scientific backlash to it because it's fairly bulletproof. The backlash was because of contained heretical topics, and may have pointed to blasphemous conclusions.

>Believe it or not, twin black babies separated at birth and raised with white parents are still treated as black by society.

"Believe it or not, twin Asian babies separated at birth and raised with white parents are still treated as Asian by society."

You're almost there /r/selfawarewolves.

>The best our actual doctors (obviously not you) have been able to determine, yes it really does increase their quality of life.

No they haven't, and you don't need to be doctor to know that.

>I know that doesn't matter to some people, but a lot of us do care.

Lot's of people care about factually incorrect things that go against narratives for sure.

>What usefulness does that sentence hold?

What usefulness do objective facts and the truth hold?

>It is true that in our society some people who you'd socially describe as men are able to get pregnant

That is not true at all. It's actually a gross inversion of the truth, a foundational feature of Big Lies. There are trans-men, who are actually women, that may get pregnant, but they're by definition not men. They are human females, AKA women. No amount of cross-dressing and body mutilation will change that.

>because they have biologically female sex organs

Yes, they're women. Glad we agree.

>We also know that following their social wishes (i.e. referring to them as men) dramatically increases their quality of life.

"We also know telling schizophrenics that the coffee maker IS indeed an evil demon and removing them from the office will dramatically increase their quality of life."

No, feeding into delusions will not increase their quality of life.

>Given these facts

"Given the fact that the coffee maker is a demon".

>can you really not understand why people see that sentence as transphobic?

"can you really not understand why not believing that coffee makers are demonic is schizophobic?"

>It doesn't accurately describe our social landscape, and it hurts some of the more vulnerable among us.

It does accurately describe our social and biological landscape. If biological realities, truth, and objective facts hurt "the most vulnerable among us", it sounds like they have a mental illness.

Something even less benign than that, such as "men cannot get pregnant" is enough to be labeled a transphobe. If you went back as little as 15 years ago and told people "men can get pregnant" they'd rightfully laugh at you.

That is one of the most horrifying videos I've seen in quite some time.