{"id":86728,"date":"2024-01-04T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-04T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=86728"},"modified":"2024-01-02T13:27:02","modified_gmt":"2024-01-02T19:27:02","slug":"blast-from-the-past-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=86728","title":{"rendered":"Blast From The Past"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>One of the moments that made me realize my old former friend known to all of you as &#8220;Dog Gone&#8221; had slipped the surly bonds of reason was their claim that gender reassignment surgery altered the patient&#8217;s biological makeup at the DNA level &#8211; that it changed gender-related chromosomes [1]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I told myself &#8220;nobody can possibly be this deluded&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;even while knowing deep in my soul that there&#8217;s always someone more delusional out there. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And sure enough:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This transwoman is triggered and upset by a DNA test that came back as biologically male.<br><br>Imagine being so delusional that you get mad at a DNA testing company for being honest. \ud83e\udd26\ud83c\udffb\u200d\u2642\ufe0f<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/LGBWithoutTheTQ?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#LGBWithoutTheTQ<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/kDGdibjUHm\">pic.twitter.com\/kDGdibjUHm<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Greg \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8\ud83c\uddec\ud83c\uddf7 (@gregissnacking) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/gregissnacking\/status\/1738017310705607044?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 22, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Part of me wants to say &#8220;someday we&#8217;ll look back on this whole period of Western history and shudder&#8221;.   But I realize that&#8217;s optimistic. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[1] Side issue &#8211; if they <em>did <\/em>have surgery or medication that altered the human body&#8217;s entire chromosomal makeup, it occurs to me that curing cancer would be a pretty trivial matter, wouldn&#8217;t it?. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the moments that made me realize my old former friend known to all of you as &#8220;Dog Gone&#8221; had slipped the surly bonds of reason was their claim that gender reassignment surgery altered the patient&#8217;s biological makeup at the DNA level &#8211; that it changed gender-related chromosomes [1] I told myself &#8220;nobody can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pc","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=86728"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86729,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86728\/revisions\/86729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=86728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=86728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}