The serious transgender bathroom issue discussion

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I know exactly what it is. It is the opposite of transgender. Its essentially a double negative. Its a normal dude with a dick who knows he's a dude. I'm asking what is the issue with a cisgender dude using the women's restroom or shower? Are you now saying that it would be wrong to have a dude's dick swinging around in the women's shower but a "sorta woman's" dick is OK?
i figure the rules that have existed for millennia have been working just fine. I'm the Conservative here. It's worked, It works, it will continue to work. No Change necessary.
Then why did Charlotte and then later Obama change it?

 

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How could one determine if the person is a cisgender who is lying about his gender identity or a transgender. There is no functional difference for purposes of the directive from the feds. If you questioned whether someone was truly a transgender or a jerk doing it on a dare, you would be opening up yourself to a civil rights lawsuit. I don't want anyone to be discriminated against, but I don't believe that a lot of this was well thought out. Sure in the past transgenders would often use bathrooms of the gender they identify with, but the reason it was never, or rarely, a problem was that they appeared to be the gender they identify with. I don't see anything in the new directives which could be construed as allowing schools to have a test or criteria for determining whether someone is really a transgender or not. I do not think it is a red herring. Teenagers can be immature, and will do stupid inappropriate things on a dare. As with any population, a subset of them are going to be maladjusted sexually and have voyeuristic or exhibitionist tendencies. Without some type of real criteria to sort out who is a "real" transgender, there are bound to be cases where these directives result in unintended consequences.
As usual, spot fucking on, Len. Which has been my whole point from the beginning of this thread.

But, its not happened yet - so sol, razr and the rest are going to stick their heads in the sand until it does. Another ten spot says it happens in the next 6 months or less.
let's say it happens once every six months.

twice a year

how many peeping tom cases are filed every year

probably more than 2

 

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How could one determine if the person is a cisgender who is lying about his gender identity or a transgender. There is no functional difference for purposes of the directive from the feds. If you questioned whether someone was truly a transgender or a jerk doing it on a dare, you would be opening up yourself to a civil rights lawsuit. I don't want anyone to be discriminated against, but I don't believe that a lot of this was well thought out. Sure in the past transgenders would often use bathrooms of the gender they identify with, but the reason it was never, or rarely, a problem was that they appeared to be the gender they identify with. I don't see anything in the new directives which could be construed as allowing schools to have a test or criteria for determining whether someone is really a transgender or not. I do not think it is a red herring. Teenagers can be immature, and will do stupid inappropriate things on a dare. As with any population, a subset of them are going to be maladjusted sexually and have voyeuristic or exhibitionist tendencies. Without some type of real criteria to sort out who is a "real" transgender, there are bound to be cases where these directives result in unintended consequences.
As usual, spot fucking on, Len. Which has been my whole point from the beginning of this thread.

But, its not happened yet - so sol, razr and the rest are going to stick their heads in the sand until it does. Another ten spot says it happens in the next 6 months or less.
let's say it happens once every six months.

twice a year

how many peeping tom cases are filed every year

probably more than 2
Why, especially as it pertains to kids, would you support anything that even remotely increased the possibility for the kids' to be subjected to such a thing?

 
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I know exactly what it is. It is the opposite of transgender. Its essentially a double negative. Its a normal dude with a dick who knows he's a dude. I'm asking what is the issue with a cisgender dude using the women's restroom or shower? Are you now saying that it would be wrong to have a dude's dick swinging around in the women's shower but a "sorta woman's" dick is OK?
Maybe let the blacks into the same bathrooms too.
Fine with me. But I didn't realize the negros were not allowed into the bathrooms. Maybe only in N FL is that a problem?

 

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How could one determine if the person is a cisgender who is lying about his gender identity or a transgender. There is no functional difference for purposes of the directive from the feds. If you questioned whether someone was truly a transgender or a jerk doing it on a dare, you would be opening up yourself to a civil rights lawsuit. I don't want anyone to be discriminated against, but I don't believe that a lot of this was well thought out. Sure in the past transgenders would often use bathrooms of the gender they identify with, but the reason it was never, or rarely, a problem was that they appeared to be the gender they identify with. I don't see anything in the new directives which could be construed as allowing schools to have a test or criteria for determining whether someone is really a transgender or not. I do not think it is a red herring. Teenagers can be immature, and will do stupid inappropriate things on a dare. As with any population, a subset of them are going to be maladjusted sexually and have voyeuristic or exhibitionist tendencies. Without some type of real criteria to sort out who is a "real" transgender, there are bound to be cases where these directives result in unintended consequences.
As usual, spot fucking on, Len. Which has been my whole point from the beginning of this thread.

But, its not happened yet - so sol, razr and the rest are going to stick their heads in the sand until it does. Another ten spot says it happens in the next 6 months or less.
let's say it happens once every six months.

twice a year

how many peeping tom cases are filed every year

probably more than 2
But there are laws which protect against peeping toms, apples and oranges. Here we are talking about removing a schools ability to deal with it, unless it blatantly crosses into sexual harassment or assault.

 

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How could one determine if the person is a cisgender who is lying about his gender identity or a transgender. There is no functional difference for purposes of the directive from the feds. If you questioned whether someone was truly a transgender or a jerk doing it on a dare, you would be opening up yourself to a civil rights lawsuit. I don't want anyone to be discriminated against, but I don't believe that a lot of this was well thought out. Sure in the past transgenders would often use bathrooms of the gender they identify with, but the reason it was never, or rarely, a problem was that they appeared to be the gender they identify with. I don't see anything in the new directives which could be construed as allowing schools to have a test or criteria for determining whether someone is really a transgender or not. I do not think it is a red herring. Teenagers can be immature, and will do stupid inappropriate things on a dare. As with any population, a subset of them are going to be maladjusted sexually and have voyeuristic or exhibitionist tendencies. Without some type of real criteria to sort out who is a "real" transgender, there are bound to be cases where these directives result in unintended consequences.
As usual, spot fucking on, Len. Which has been my whole point from the beginning of this thread.

But, its not happened yet - so sol, razr and the rest are going to stick their heads in the sand until it does. Another ten spot says it happens in the next 6 months or less.
Bass ackwards. The Charlotte ordinance did not protect the right of cisgender males to violate the sanctity of the women's pisser. Similarly, the NC law does not address cisgender rights. We are not talking about cisgender rights, other than the effort to use cisgenders as a red herring to distract from the conversation, as Ms. Kelly noted.

It's a tough topic. We're not talking about a few pervy pranksters here, there are 700,000 people in the category, in the US. How many must there be to be entitled to protection from folks dusting off the same arguments for discrimination that were used in the 50s and 60s and 00s? Doing some reading and learning about it might help. http://www.vox.com/2015/4/24/8483561/transgender-gender-identity-expression

I know exactly what it is. It is the opposite of transgender. Its essentially a double negative. Its a normal dude with a dick who knows he's a dude. I'm asking what is the issue with a cisgender dude using the women's restroom or shower? Are you now saying that it would be wrong to have a dude's dick swinging around in the women's shower but a "sorta woman's" dick is OK?
Maybe let the blacks into the same bathrooms too.
Fine with me. But I didn't realize the negros were not allowed into the bathrooms. Maybe only in N FL is that a problem?
The folks fighting it used much the same arguments as folks are using here.

http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/teachers/lesson_plans/pdfs/unit11_4.pdf

 
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How could one determine if the person is a cisgender who is lying about his gender identity or a transgender. There is no functional difference for purposes of the directive from the feds. If you questioned whether someone was truly a transgender or a jerk doing it on a dare, you would be opening up yourself to a civil rights lawsuit. I don't want anyone to be discriminated against, but I don't believe that a lot of this was well thought out. Sure in the past transgenders would often use bathrooms of the gender they identify with, but the reason it was never, or rarely, a problem was that they appeared to be the gender they identify with. I don't see anything in the new directives which could be construed as allowing schools to have a test or criteria for determining whether someone is really a transgender or not. I do not think it is a red herring. Teenagers can be immature, and will do stupid inappropriate things on a dare. As with any population, a subset of them are going to be maladjusted sexually and have voyeuristic or exhibitionist tendencies. Without some type of real criteria to sort out who is a "real" transgender, there are bound to be cases where these directives result in unintended consequences.
As usual, spot fucking on, Len. Which has been my whole point from the beginning of this thread.

But, its not happened yet - so sol, razr and the rest are going to stick their heads in the sand until it does. Another ten spot says it happens in the next 6 months or less.
let's say it happens once every six months.

twice a year

how many peeping tom cases are filed every year

probably more than 2
But there are laws which protect against peeping toms, apples and oranges. Here we are talking about removing a schools ability to deal with it, unless it blatantly crosses into sexual harassment or assault.
no, we are not removing the schools ability to "deal with it"

IF a kid is transgender, which is pretty obvious, they choose which bathroom they use.

That's it. not, Johnny, "I wanna see a Vag", who says out of the blue "i'm a girl today"

 

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I am definitely not trying to distract from the conversation. I am serious in asking how does one, in a written regulation or law, differentiate between a cisgender pretending to be transgender and a real transgender? I don't think it is possible, and it certainly is not contained in the directive from the feds.

 

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I am definitely not trying to distract from the conversation. I am serious in asking how does one, in a written regulation or law, differentiate between a cisgender pretending to be transgender and a real transgender? I don't think it is possible, and it certainly is not contained in the directive from the feds.
Sure they can. When they realize that little Johnny is using the girls room, and hasn't let the administration know about being transgender.

I can't imagine the amount of crap these people have to endure, or that anyone would want to go through it for fun. The lack of real world problems indicates that such is the case. Of course, we will now get a rash of men causing problems in women's bathrooms, to try to prove the point, a number I predict will far exceed the number of transgender people causing trouble.

 

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I am definitely not trying to distract from the conversation. I am serious in asking how does one, in a written regulation or law, differentiate between a cisgender pretending to be transgender and a real transgender? I don't think it is possible, and it certainly is not contained in the directive from the feds.
Sure they can. When they realize that little Johnny is using the girls room, and hasn't let the administration know about being transgender.

I can't imagine the amount of crap these people have to endure, or that anyone would want to go through it for fun. The lack of real world problems indicates that such is the case. Of course, we will now get a rash of men causing problems in women's bathrooms, to try to prove the point, a number I predict will far exceed the number of transgender people causing trouble.
Well, yeah. That is kinda my point, and without any criteria for determining when someone is really a transgender, I think there is little that schools could do to deal with Johnny whether he tells them he is transgendered or not. I am not expecting the trouble to come from actual transgendered people, at least not for the most part. Primarily, I expect trouble to come from troublemakers who use hastily written and poorly thought out laws and regulations as cover for being deviants and dickheads.

 

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I am definitely not trying to distract from the conversation. I am serious in asking how does one, in a written regulation or law, differentiate between a cisgender pretending to be transgender and a real transgender? I don't think it is possible, and it certainly is not contained in the directive from the feds.
Sure they can. When they realize that little Johnny is using the girls room, and hasn't let the administration know about being transgender.

I can't imagine the amount of crap these people have to endure, or that anyone would want to go through it for fun. The lack of real world problems indicates that such is the case. Of course, we will now get a rash of men causing problems in women's bathrooms, to try to prove the point, a number I predict will far exceed the number of transgender people causing trouble.
Well, yeah. That is kinda my point, and without any criteria for determining when someone is really a transgender, I think there is little that schools could do to deal with Johnny whether he tells them he is transgendered or not. I am not expecting the trouble to come from actual transgendered people, at least not for the most part. Primarily, I expect trouble to come from troublemakers who use hastily written and poorly thought out laws and regulations as cover for being deviants and dickheads.
So - why did North Carolina decide to open pandora's box?

Looks like Sol is right. There was no issue before, now there is a forced solution which won't work as well as when folks just dealt with it. Or much more likely, didn't know they were dealing with it.

I lay this squarely on the bigots in the NC statehouse.

 

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How could one determine if the person is a cisgender who is lying about his gender identity or a transgender. There is no functional difference for purposes of the directive from the feds. If you questioned whether someone was truly a transgender or a jerk doing it on a dare, you would be opening up yourself to a civil rights lawsuit. I don't want anyone to be discriminated against, but I don't believe that a lot of this was well thought out. Sure in the past transgenders would often use bathrooms of the gender they identify with, but the reason it was never, or rarely, a problem was that they appeared to be the gender they identify with. I don't see anything in the new directives which could be construed as allowing schools to have a test or criteria for determining whether someone is really a transgender or not. I do not think it is a red herring. Teenagers can be immature, and will do stupid inappropriate things on a dare. As with any population, a subset of them are going to be maladjusted sexually and have voyeuristic or exhibitionist tendencies. Without some type of real criteria to sort out who is a "real" transgender, there are bound to be cases where these directives result in unintended consequences.
As usual, spot fucking on, Len. Which has been my whole point from the beginning of this thread.

But, its not happened yet - so sol, razr and the rest are going to stick their heads in the sand until it does. Another ten spot says it happens in the next 6 months or less.
let's say it happens once every six months.

twice a year

how many peeping tom cases are filed every year

probably more than 2
But there are laws which protect against peeping toms, apples and oranges. Here we are talking about removing a schools ability to deal with it, unless it blatantly crosses into sexual harassment or assault.
no, we are not removing the schools ability to "deal with it"

IF a kid is transgender, which is pretty obvious, they choose which bathroom they use.

That's it. not, Johnny, "I wanna see a Vag", who says out of the blue "i'm a girl today"
That's not what Obama says.

 

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I am definitely not trying to distract from the conversation. I am serious in asking how does one, in a written regulation or law, differentiate between a cisgender pretending to be transgender and a real transgender? I don't think it is possible, and it certainly is not contained in the directive from the feds.
Sure they can. When they realize that little Johnny is using the girls room, and hasn't let the administration know about being transgender.

I can't imagine the amount of crap these people have to endure, or that anyone would want to go through it for fun. The lack of real world problems indicates that such is the case. Of course, we will now get a rash of men causing problems in women's bathrooms, to try to prove the point, a number I predict will far exceed the number of transgender people causing trouble.
Well, yeah. That is kinda my point, and without any criteria for determining when someone is really a transgender, I think there is little that schools could do to deal with Johnny whether he tells them he is transgendered or not. I am not expecting the trouble to come from actual transgendered people, at least not for the most part. Primarily, I expect trouble to come from troublemakers who use hastily written and poorly thought out laws and regulations as cover for being deviants and dickheads.
So - why did North Carolina decide to open pandora's box?

Looks like Sol is right. There was no issue before, now there is a forced solution which won't work as well as when folks just dealt with it. Or much more likely, didn't know they were dealing with it.

I lay this squarely on the bigots in the NC statehouse.

Charlotte opened the box with their whiney little bathroom law. Without the bathroom issue the 2015 law would have passed.

Whiney little shits usually get what they want to shut them up. But people are getting a little fed up with the tantrums and taking action. The whiner in chief looks pretty silly on this one too.

 

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So - why did North Carolina decide to open pandora's box?

Looks like Sol is right. There was no issue before, now there is a forced solution which won't work as well as when folks just dealt with it. Or much more likely, didn't know they were dealing with it.

I lay this squarely on the bigots in the NC statehouse.

It is partially them, but I don't think the case in IL helped much either. I think there are activists on both sides who are going to push the issue in a direction that most of us won't find appealing in the end. I can understand why some parents and students would not feel comfortable in the same common shower and changing area with a transgender who has not transitioned or only partially transitioned. I don't think that makes them bigots. I think the NC law was just as poorly thought out, or even more poorly thought out, than the latest directive from the feds, but I think it is silly to blame the feds failure to think things through on the legislature in NC. Both can be wrong.

 
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I am definitely not trying to distract from the conversation. I am serious in asking how does one, in a written regulation or law, differentiate between a cisgender pretending to be transgender and a real transgender? I don't think it is possible, and it certainly is not contained in the directive from the feds.
Sure they can. When they realize that little Johnny is using the girls room, and hasn't let the administration know about being transgender.

I can't imagine the amount of crap these people have to endure, or that anyone would want to go through it for fun. The lack of real world problems indicates that such is the case. Of course, we will now get a rash of men causing problems in women's bathrooms, to try to prove the point, a number I predict will far exceed the number of transgender people causing trouble.
Well, yeah. That is kinda my point, and without any criteria for determining when someone is really a transgender, I think there is little that schools could do to deal with Johnny whether he tells them he is transgendered or not. I am not expecting the trouble to come from actual transgendered people, at least not for the most part. Primarily, I expect trouble to come from troublemakers who use hastily written and poorly thought out laws and regulations as cover for being deviants and dickheads.
So - why did North Carolina decide to open pandora's box?

Looks like Sol is right. There was no issue before, now there is a forced solution which won't work as well as when folks just dealt with it. Or much more likely, didn't know they were dealing with it.

I lay this squarely on the bigots in the NC statehouse.

That's BS. This is squarely on the CLT City council. In an exceedingly LGBT friendly city, why did they have to pass the bathroom law. It had been working fine to this point. What problem were they solving? None, they were trying to set precedent and start the seeds of a nationwide movement into less-LGBT friendly areas.

All you who are saying there is no current problem, why does it need to be addressed are shooting yourselves in the foot. If that is the case, then the LGBT initiatives are going to lose their impetus. Best you just hush up if you want to help them.

 

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So - why did North Carolina decide to open pandora's box?

Looks like Sol is right. There was no issue before, now there is a forced solution which won't work as well as when folks just dealt with it. Or much more likely, didn't know they were dealing with it.

I lay this squarely on the bigots in the NC statehouse.
It is partially them, but I don't think the case in IL helped much either. I think there are activists on both sides who are going to push the issue in a direction that most of us won't find appealing in the end. I can understand why some parents and students would not feel comfortable in the same common shower and changing area with a transgender who has not transitioned or only partially transitioned. I don't think that makes them bigots. I think the NC law was just as poorly thought out, or even more poorly thought out, than the latest directive from the feds, but I think it is silly to blame the feds failure to think things through on the legislature in NC. Both can be wrong.

As I understand it, the Feds are using a watered down NYC school policy, which hasn't had any issues.

 

Raz'r

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I am definitely not trying to distract from the conversation. I am serious in asking how does one, in a written regulation or law, differentiate between a cisgender pretending to be transgender and a real transgender? I don't think it is possible, and it certainly is not contained in the directive from the feds.
Sure they can. When they realize that little Johnny is using the girls room, and hasn't let the administration know about being transgender.

I can't imagine the amount of crap these people have to endure, or that anyone would want to go through it for fun. The lack of real world problems indicates that such is the case. Of course, we will now get a rash of men causing problems in women's bathrooms, to try to prove the point, a number I predict will far exceed the number of transgender people causing trouble.
Well, yeah. That is kinda my point, and without any criteria for determining when someone is really a transgender, I think there is little that schools could do to deal with Johnny whether he tells them he is transgendered or not. I am not expecting the trouble to come from actual transgendered people, at least not for the most part. Primarily, I expect trouble to come from troublemakers who use hastily written and poorly thought out laws and regulations as cover for being deviants and dickheads.
So - why did North Carolina decide to open pandora's box?

Looks like Sol is right. There was no issue before, now there is a forced solution which won't work as well as when folks just dealt with it. Or much more likely, didn't know they were dealing with it.

I lay this squarely on the bigots in the NC statehouse.
That's BS. This is squarely on the CLT City council. In an exceedingly LGBT friendly city, why did they have to pass the bathroom law. It had been working fine to this point. What problem were they solving? None, they were trying to set precedent and start the seeds of a nationwide movement into less-LGBT friendly areas.

All you who are saying there is no current problem, why does it need to be addressed are shooting yourselves in the foot. If that is the case, then the LGBT initiatives are going to lose their impetus. Best you just hush up if you want to help them.

i don't know what the issues were in Charlotte. But they seemed to have a local solution. It's the big gov't types that are happy now, on both sides.

 

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Charlotte opened the box with their whiney little bathroom law. Without the bathroom issue the 2015 law would have passed.

Whiney little shits usually get what they want to shut them up. But people are getting a little fed up with the tantrums and taking action. The whiner in chief looks pretty silly on this one too.

Saying it over and over again doesn't make it true Minister. Charlottes ordinance did not have the power of law. Words matter. Except to propagandists.

 
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So - why did North Carolina decide to open pandora's box?

Looks like Sol is right. There was no issue before, now there is a forced solution which won't work as well as when folks just dealt with it. Or much more likely, didn't know they were dealing with it.

I lay this squarely on the bigots in the NC statehouse.

That's BS. This is squarely on the CLT City council. In an exceedingly LGBT friendly city, why did they have to pass the bathroom law. It had been working fine to this point. What problem were they solving? None, they were trying to set precedent and start the seeds of a nationwide movement into less-LGBT friendly areas.

All you who are saying there is no current problem, why does it need to be addressed are shooting yourselves in the foot. If that is the case, then the LGBT initiatives are going to lose their impetus. Best you just hush up if you want to help them.
i don't know what the issues were in Charlotte. But they seemed to have a local solution. It's the big gov't types that are happy now, on both sides.

Then fucking educate yourself. You've been spouting off here for days that there is no issue so why did this have to come to a head. Well tell me the issue in CLT that prompted their push of their bathroom law. The reality was there was no issue. The CLT city council was manufacturing a solution to a non-issue so they could push an agenda. And that agenda was:

"Hey look at us. Look how fucking progressive and LGBT friendly we are".

I also think they correctly anticipated the NC legislature reaction and deliberately kicked the hornets nest to get attention to this "non" issue.

 

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225 cities have forms of gender anti-discrimination laws. This is how it works - the minority is protected from the whims of the majority. the "problem" that exists is discrimination. Thats real

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So - why did North Carolina decide to open pandora's box?

Looks like Sol is right. There was no issue before, now there is a forced solution which won't work as well as when folks just dealt with it. Or much more likely, didn't know they were dealing with it.

I lay this squarely on the bigots in the NC statehouse.

That's BS. This is squarely on the CLT City council. In an exceedingly LGBT friendly city, why did they have to pass the bathroom law. It had been working fine to this point. What problem were they solving? None, they were trying to set precedent and start the seeds of a nationwide movement into less-LGBT friendly areas.

All you who are saying there is no current problem, why does it need to be addressed are shooting yourselves in the foot. If that is the case, then the LGBT initiatives are going to lose their impetus. Best you just hush up if you want to help them.
i don't know what the issues were in Charlotte. But they seemed to have a local solution. It's the big gov't types that are happy now, on both sides.
Then fucking educate yourself. You've been spouting off here for days that there is no issue so why did this have to come to a head. Well tell me the issue in CLT that prompted their push of their bathroom law. The reality was there was no issue. The CLT city council was manufacturing a solution to a non-issue so they could push an agenda. And that agenda was:

"Hey look at us. Look how fucking progressive and LGBT friendly we are".

I also think they correctly anticipated the NC legislature reaction and deliberately kicked the hornets nest to get attention to this "non" issue.

What was "her" name Jeff?

 
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