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In this case, "resident" is an official designation, not just a term for where you usually live. If Thailand is your country of residency, then you are here on a resident visa or are a citizen of Thailand. If you are not a citizen of Thailand and are here on a non-resident visa, then your residency is somewhere else.

Good for them! I heartedly approve and hope more universities and businesses will join them.

I wasn't able to post on the forum regarding the Pope's death. It had been closed to comments by the time I saw it. If I had, I'd have posted something like this: In accordance with DEI, when electing a new pope, serious consideration should be given to female and Black candidates. And, if the cardinals really wanted to include DEI, they could even consider a trans woman! 😮

Well, I'm not so sure I agree with this. Some forms of "corporal punishment," like spanking, is okay with me. But, of course, I am opposed to allowing more severe punishments, and even spanking if it is done with a whip or too frequently. And, I don't know how this will be enforced. It will take someone to come forth and accuse the parent or adult of administering "corporal punishment." Or, could the kid do that? And if so, how will the charges be proven?

I'm all for changes in the Democrat Party, including those that involve control by a "New Generation." Of course, as usual, I will just have to wait to see how the Democrats stand on the issues, but, as in the past, as long as the Republicans are controlled by Trump, I always intend to vote for the Democrat candidate.

I'm glad to see all these people using their freedom of speech to express themselves. I hope their rights will be protected.

Typical "typical" response.

I didn't "find myself" in Thailand. I found myself (became "woke") many years ago. But my time here now (about 20 years) has not interfered with that at all.

This, like most of Trump's actions, is a horror show! 😡

I'm not from the UK, but this type of attitude is rampant in the USA, my home country, also. What these people just won't accept is that there are NOT just two biological genders. EVERYONE, including the reader of this post and me, is somewhere on a scale between the extreme opposites of "male" and "female." No one has only the hormonal and chromosomes associated with "male" or "female." Everyone has a mix of these. Some have such a mix that they end up being "trans." Some people are even born with a mix of physical characteristics (penis/vulva), although that is rare, it does occur sometimes. This mix has always been part of human (and all animal) makeup, so a declaration by some officials will not erase it.

No. And I don't think anyone should be wasting their (and our) time and money trying to go into space when we need to concentrate our efforts on trying to fix, or at least slow down, our devastation of this planet.

Looks like two White guys on one Black guy to me. 😞 The article says they were drunk. Why do people fight after they've been drinking? When I drink, I just want to go to sleep. 🙂

I only watched the first two and a half minutes of the video, but I understood most of what the people were saying. What I couldn't understand was due to them speaking fast, but not because of the words they used or their pronunciation. I'm 79 and went to a public grade school and high school in a small town in Indiana. It was all-White, but that's because the town I lived in was all-White. While in high school, we did have an exchange student from Turkey. Everyone in the video was White and speaking English, so I don't know why you couldn't understand them. I am also worried about how the kids in the USA are growing up, but it's not a surprise since it seems like a large percentage of the adult population seems rude and bonkers too. Trump was elected president, after all. 😞

No, Trump's battle is against democracy... 😞

I would have no problem with labeling sports "women" and "open." Women have competed in men's sports occasionally in the past, like these seven golfers who participated in men's professional golf... Exploring the 7 women including Lexi Thompson who have played at a Men’s PGA Tour event. I did like your use of the word "observed" to describe how a person is assigned a gender at birth. I think without more in-depth testing of chromosomes, and hormones that don't really develop until puberty, a doctor ought to now assign a person's gender at birth as "TBD" (To Be Determined). I did believe there were only two genders and that I could tell them apart when I was 4. And then I didn't care who I played ball with or went inside the same bathroom. Also, I was "woke" when I was 4. Societal pressures lulled me to sleep sometime after that, but thankfully, I became "woke" again when I was about 30. I'm 79 now and have learned a lot in the past 75 years, not from "media brainwashing" but from scientific and biological reports. I'm 79 now and have learned a lot in the past 75 years, not from "media brainwashing" but from scientific and biological reports. And my life has been amazing! 🙂

So, both trans women and trans men can participate in men's sports, correct? I assume the "supreme court" you mention above is the UK Supreme Court. I saw part of their ruling, and they claimed their gender ruling, which defines male and female, is made on a "biological" basis. That's not true. This ruling is being made on a legal basis, an "either-or" basis. The true biological basis is that there is no such absolute "either-or" distinction. Gender, male and female. are made up of traits, which include physical, hormonal, and chromosomal, that are all shared between both genders. What we call "male" is someone who, from a cursory examination (mainly physical), is thought to have a large percentage of male characteristics. The same goes for females. But the facts are, there are some (I don't know the percentage, but I've seen it claimed to be as high as 3%. (https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/trans-population-by-country), whose physical, homonal, and/or chromosomal makeup is somewhere in between. That is the biological basis for trans people. (And, I am above 4 years old. In fact, I'm above 74 years old. )

I understand your (and most people's) opinion on this, but what I have said is I NEVER SEE any mention of trans men in all these governmental actions that involve trans women. That's all I'm saying... And, as I'm sure you probably know, we (the USA) used to have that same binary classification of White and non-White. Even just 50 years ago, non-Whites were not allowed to play sports with Whites. But, because as time went by there were more and more mixed-race people, we eventually declared that if someone was only 1/4 or 1/8 or even 1/16 Black, they could be considered White. (The percentage varied from state to state.) Now, of course, all races are (supposedly) treated equally. I hope that will be the same with how we think of gender in the future.

Thanks for the clarification, but I think you have extrapolated that from how trans women are to be treated. It seems to me that whenever ANYTHING is brought up about trans women, there is never a mention of trans men. An easy example is that there is a big hubbub about disqualifying trans women from taking part in women's sports, but I have NEVER seen any mention of whether trans men should also be disqualified from participating in men's sports. WTF? Do we have women's sports and men's sports, or women's sports and everyone-else sports?

I don't have to go to a neighbor to find a country that now promotes capitalism, which did so after a mass slaughter. How about what the founders of the US did to the native Indians?

Much the same happens with any visa overstay in a lot of countries. Simple arrest. Then booted out. Why involve lawyers in this matter? I note the guy was a student in the USA for a decade. Who was the slow learner...him.....or the government? Lawyers should be involved because in the USA, the accused may engage (or be assigned) a lawyer to represent him. I think neither could be called "slow learners." But I certainly could categorize the USA now as "rapidly ignoring" our constitution. 😞

Thanks for your very thorough and detailed reply to my previous comment. I'm glad to hear that Khalil will be given the opportunity to contest the charges. I am disappointed that a visa holder can lose their visa for being "antisemetic" (anti-Jewish) and expressing their opinions on that. I agree with our government's being opposed to being anti-anything that is based on race, religion, country of origin, native language, etc. But I do not agree that being any of those things and expressing your views on that should be a reason for visa cancellation and deportation. I do believe criminal actions (felonies, not misdemeanors) are valid bases for revoking visas and deportation. By the way, in response to the banner on your image logo (I Stand with Israel), I must confess that now, after what has happened since the horrendous attack on Dec 7 a year and a half ago, I Stand with Palestine. And, I don't consider that an anti-Semitic act.

I'm a US citizen, but I sympathize with the problems the UK is now having. They are much the same as ours (USA), but I think ours are much worse. Is Britain and the USA lost? I hope not, and I think not, but recovering from these current crises will take a long, long, and turbulent time.

How do they know that they're trans women until they strip search them? Are they required to verify their GRC or get a copy of their birth certificate before they determine who should strip search them? Also, and I ask this in all these reports of how to treat trans women, what about trans men? Who searches them?

I won't expect you to respond to this, but what you've written above doesn't answer my question. What specifically is it he is accused of doing? Is it speaking out against Israel or against the USA's support of Israel? And if that's the case, why isn't that free speech? It certainly is when I do so (at least for now 😉), I have assumed ICE thinks he's been physically involved with the anti-Israeli demonstrations when they broke the law, and maybe even attacking Jewish students. Now, if he has done either of those, then I could understand this better - but even then I still believe he has to be charged, tried, and found guilty before deciding to deport him.