r/unitedkingdom • u/PinkNews Verified Media Outlet • 5d ago

Keir Starmer says he doesn’t want schools teaching young people about transgender identities ...

https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/06/25/keir-starmer-trans-education-general-election-2024/
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u/Trips-Over-Tail 5d ago

Not strictly true. More than one doctor has had to advise to help a couple conceive because they weren't doing it right, or at all.

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u/OdinForce22 5d ago

So, you're telling me that early humans didn't instinctively have sex?

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u/Anandya 5d ago

A lot of sexual behaviour in humans is learned. That's why attractiveness and fashion changes with generations.

Late 90s JNCOs and frosted tips Anandya was considered good looking. If I rocked that look today? I think I would not...

And I have had one person at least in clinic try to get pregnant while their partner was in another country...

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u/Powerful-Parsnip 4d ago

What were they doing to get pregnant while their partner was in another country? Praying for an immaculate conception?

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u/Skore_Smogon Antrim 4d ago

Late 90s JNCOs and frosted tips Anandya

Isn't Troye Sevan basically using that look?

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u/Djorak Glasgow (French) 5d ago

To be fair, that's survivorship bias isn't it, the ones that couldn't figure it out didn't procreate.

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u/OctopusGoesSquish Stronger In 4d ago

Survivorship bias leads to evolution

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u/Alternative-Cod-7630 12h ago

Which we've essentially interrupted.

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u/Trips-Over-Tail 5d ago

No, I'm saying there are outliers, and religious indoctrination is a huge mind-fuck.

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u/Cuofeng 5d ago

Great apes (like humans) long ago developed enough intelligence to rely on cultural transmission of information rather than instinct for very many things. Instinctive control of action is thus a lot weaker.

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u/FloydEGag 4d ago

Supposedly Marie Antoinette didn’t get pregnant for the first seven years of her marriage because neither she nor her husband knew what to do. They knew the man was supposed to put his penis in the vagina but not that he was supposed to leave it there and move about a bit. Apparently Louis would just stick it in, leave it there a few seconds then pull out and say goodnight. Because despite having an heir being pretty high priority no one had thought to instruct them in the birds and the bees.

Ok not ancient humans but even with pretty high stakes there were people who had no idea of the mechanics.