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Norwegian Man Now Identifies as a Disabled Woman, Uses Wheelchair “Almost All The Time”

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion' started by AroundTheWorld, Nov 18, 2022.

  1. Os Trigonum

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    Yea, I do not have him on ignore but I did make the mistake of acknowledging and extraordinarily stupid post. I will go back to quasi ignoring him.
     
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    See what interracial marriage has gotten us?

    This is what happens when we let leftists run the asylum.
     
  4. Os Trigonum

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    2019. This happened on Trump's watch. @deb4rockets
     
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    Pretending to be a woman does no harm as long as they do not take offense with me not playing pretend along with them. Pretending to be disabled is on a whole other level. You cannot tell if someone in a wheel chair is faking or not. In fact most people assume they actually need the wheel chair. Does he take the electric shopping cart when he goes to a store thus making it unavailable for someone who truly needs it? When you get down to it the man needs help and playing along with his delusion only makes thing worse for him.
     
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    It's not about disability fraud. If it is, then a problem like this (real actual issue that cost society) would be posted here instead of this one-off that literally has no impact on anyone.

    Catching Social Security Disability Fraudsters in the Act - ABC News (go.com)

    The Social Security disability program is meant to be a lifeline for the severely disabled, but shameless con-artists are increasingly seeing it as a way to make easy money, thinking that no one is watching.

    The Office of the Inspector General for Social Security says its investigations uncovered $340 million in savings for the government during the last fiscal year. Meanwhile, new applications for disability are on the rise as the U.S. population ages.


    Rogers and his agents recently busted Ramona Hayes, 42, and Cory Eglash, 52. The two of them ran a coffee shop in Friday Harbor, a beautiful tourist town in Washington's San Juan Islands. With the eye-catching name "Criminal Coffee" the two of them boasted their cafe was "The place to come when you're on the run."

    But when Eglash filed for disability in 2012, a review of his application turned up the fact that he was working the coffee shop and that Hayes – who also worked in the coffee shop -- was already receiving disability payments.

    In her application, Hayes had written she couldn't work due to "anxiety, severe depression and PTSD." Eglash is on-record in her application to support her claim, writing that her symptoms were so severe that he doubted she could work a part time job or even put gas in her car. The government was paying her more than $1,000 a month in disability based on her application and she ultimately received over $40,000 from Social Security before she was caught.

    Investigators say Hayes and Eglash are a perfect example of what they face every day -- people trying to bilk social security out of tens of thousands of dollars, claiming to be disabled and eligible for benefits set aside for those truly in need.
     
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    Realistically, you can't do much of anything about it. If you start to question these people, you will end up impacting people who are actually disabled. There is no indication that this is a big enough problem to really do anything about it. At a societal level, I don't think you need to be concerned. No one approves of such selfish behavior.
     
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    This is Texas’s fault
     
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    Trans folk have been documented since early recorded history. I don't think it's a scam by Science (fronted with Caveman/Alien hybrid Illuminati money) to claim it to be true.

    Maybe there's a point in over-estimating frequency of trans folk (vs "choosing" to identify as the opposite sex), but I still maintain sexual identity/preference is different than only liking cherry pies or having your balls stepped on with high heels.
     
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    Unfortunately, there are those who attack the trans community who are driven by bigotry, regardless of how they deny it. People who think it is all just a "farce" or a "game," and spend time finding outliers that don't represent the overwhelming majority of the trans community. For those people, in my opinion, it can become a sickness, an obsession, devoid of any effort to understand, and the over one million in our country alone who make up the trans community deserve understanding, in my humble opinion.
     
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    I'm surprised it's that many. Never really paid attention to it, but you are right, seems like 1.6 million in the US? I thought it was a much rarer phenomenon.
     
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    Some of this feels like a carry over of the homosexuality debate, where the main theme was that homosexuals "didn't have a choice". It's not entirely true as there's clearly a spectrum where folks are 100% born gay while many others range from having a traumatizing event to flip sides or maybe act gay with booze or drugs, or even say it to be trendy.

    At the time it was a fierce issue, so the Pro side dug in with homosexuals "being born with it" over choosing to be gay. It was just less confusing, more expedient, and easier to form regulations around. In the end it covered a smaller subset, though the (moral and legal) rules applied to people who choose to be gay. It also worked against Con arguments of slippery slopes such as "marrying their sisters", "marrying their dog", or legitimizing polygamy just so they wouldn't have to deal with gay marriage.

    So there are many of the same themes here despite it being an even smaller sample size with an even thinner continuum of sexual identity. Part of it is confusion from previously ignorant stereotypes. For example, people still identify cross dressers as trans. Transvestites aren't necessarily transexuals. Confusing AF right? It wasn't even a decade ago when they were grouped together in mainstream media.

    Maybe cross dressers choose to wear the opposite sex's clothes to feel good. Transexuals wear their non-biological sex's clothes to identify. Does it mean it's work appropriate for transexuals to wear opposite clothes while it isn't for cross dressers? **** if I know. I chose to not think about it much and let HR handle it.

    Still, all of this is what's driving the same "nature vs. nurture" back and forth since the Gay debate, and it even spills over towards "thinking about the children" when the same group didn't give a **** about those kids killing themselves and are now ******** on the few who really thought long and hard on how to care for them to avoid that outcome.

    These ignorant folks will point to "what's natural" but if they really paid attention to the animal kingdom, there are a lot more freaks and weirdos related to sex than God's children spoiled by the sin of knowledge.
     
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    This makes no sense, and who is actually doing this?
     
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    Since there will never be a significant number of people doing this, it hurts nobody and will never be a thing anyone has to worry about.
     
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    You can say that but what if it does affect one person? Now imagine What if that person was your family member? Are they SOL? A victim of a greater cause ?
     
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    The typical excuse from the left is initially "it's so rare, it doesn't really happen" until it flips to "this minority is significant in numbers, you must cater to them".
     
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    What do you mean SOL? Even if someone is affected by somebody identifying as permanently disabled, that effect would certainly be annoying and a pain, but not enough of a big deal that anyone would be SOL.

    Why is anyone acting like it's an important issue in any way shape or form? It isn't.

    It might be interesting because it's so odd, but it is in no way a threat to anyone. There is no legislation that needs to happen to protect anyone from this. There are no community groups that need to be formed. It will affect less people than someone winning the lottery. The odds are the same or less.
     
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    Lol. Yes when a significant minority of people start self identifying as permanently disabled, we can discuss it.
     
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    Not one person addressed this simple thought - just address people as what they objectively are. They can identify as whatever the hell they want, but don't expect everyone else to cater to that.
     
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    We should add 10k wheelchair police to watch people and deem if they should use a wheelchair at the grocery store. All because of a case of 1.
     
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