Our own neighborhoods don’t belong to us.

1 in every 10,000 births has an ambiguous sex. If we forced every human on earth to undergo this a lot of people would unexpectedly find out their chromosomes didn’t dictate their sex their genitalia.

It’s a fishing expedition. They’ll always find something if they look because human genetics are messy as fuck. How many of us are walking around with an undiagnosed something? We all have a weird unknown thing going on. Mosic condition? Mothers with XY chromosomes? One of the -tisms? And believe you me, they’ll make sure to test the fuck out of the ladies who’re wining too much or are from countries without the resources to bribe or refuse. This isn’t about trans people or fairness. It’s fucking political bullying. But we’ll all yell science and talking points at each other while the real reason whooshes right over all of our heads.

I used to do this when I lived in New York state and would occasionally travel down to New York city. It was stupidly cheaper to drive (and faster - which WTF whhhhhy). So I would rent a cheap spot in a garage near the outskirts of the city for the day and use public transport for the rest of the day. I remember being mad that it was cheaper and faster to drive and pay to store my car then it would have been to take the train. That’s a problem. Especially when I had a train station in biking distance to my apartment at the time.

I don’t care if they were the worst people on earth walking the easier hiking path on the nicest day of the year. None of that matters! They left on a hike TOGETHER, and needed to return TOGETHER.

Full stop.

Anyone who can’t follow that one simple rule has no business out on the trails.

DUDE! I hike. If you leave together, you FUCKING come back together. YOU want to break up, put on your big boy panties on do it AFTER everyone is home safe.

Also there is no such thing as “an easy day hike.” Anything can go wrong in the wilderness and lackadaisical thinking is what gets people killed.