Awoo [she/her]

“Cure” is loaded language. Your gender doesn’t need curing, your gender is what it is.

If it can be changed, then yes perhaps it can be intentionally changed. But what the mechanisms are for that to occur are absolutely not understood and any attempt to forcibly do so to anyone should be considered a violation of human rights.

I don’t disagree with the reasoning everyone has for being extremely defensive about this possibility, I just also don’t really rule it out as solidly as many others do. I get it though. I do understand why people have such a reaction to this and want it to be untrue. I feel like we don’t really understand any of it though. We’ve barely scratched the surface.

I also think a lot of the research is trying to confirm the idea that people are born this way. IE working from the conclusion. Because the science is performed by those with a desire for it to be the outcome because it’s the safest outcome for trans people. I’m not really convinced all of it is good.

I don’t know. I’ve just seen a lot of change in myself in my life and am open to the idea that we’re not as fixed as we believe. And of course that that’s OKAY and doesn’t change anything about how people should be treated or viewed.

If they say they were made trans by life circumstances, I would tell them that that is likely not true, but I would never dictate someone’s gender.

I think it’s worthwhile remaining open to this but not really valuable to trans people to like make it part of activism or anything. There are enough instances of people saying things like their sexuality has completely shifted for me to be open to the idea that what gender we’re attracted to can change. I don’t think we know enough about being trans to be certain one way or another, trans people however have a very understandable defensive reaction to this because we don’t want it to be weaponised against us as “fake” or whatever.

fake-communist dictatorship in China

Do you know anything about how their system actually works or are you just repeating something you’ve seen in reddit comments over and over again?

Getting yourself imprisoned or killed while functionally achieving nothing that actually changes the system does absolutely nothing except remove yourself from the next 30+ years of value you could be providing to organising.

We call it fedposting because it’s the kind of shit feds say because it benefits them by removing radicals from society.

Thus:

Join an org and put the work in. When the appropriate requirements are met they will act, but they will never be met without people putting in the effort. Individual action sounds tempting and exciting, but it’s not going to change anything. It is adventurism.

You should read the Jakarta Method.

Nah

It’s not what “people” upvote, it’s what white people upvote, because they’re racists.

Every post that hits /all/ from this comm is either misogyny or casual racism like this.

Weird how all these anticommunists turn out to be frothing at the mouth fascists

Haha women amirite?

“My source is a wikipedia link full of Adrian Zenz citations”

Also, Chinese isn’t a race or ethnicity, its a nationality. Uyghur is a ethnicity for example.

Oh fuck off.

You would recognise that it’s racism if it were about Nigerians or some shit:

• Be Nigerian

• Get hunted by a warlord before breakfast

• Get chased by muslim jihadists

• Blah blah blah

The FIRST thing you would recognise is that it’s being racist. Regardless of the fact that it says “Be Nigerian which is a nationality not a race”.

Stop being such a pathetic defender of racism, just because it’s targeted at a country you dislike. It makes you a massive loser.

I mean. It definitely carries the implication that Obama has done very little wrong whether or not you intended it that way. Natalie’s inability to own up to mistakes is either a serious character flaw or she thinks that the murderous actions he took were justified.

Hrm… haven’t thought about that. Could you open up an issue in lemmy-ui . I think the cross_posts field is sorted by published, but I’m not totally positive. In that case it’d just be marking it in the UI in some way.

I can, will do it this evening. I don’t think it does sort like that I’m pretty sure I noticed it just being in any old order, maybe alphabetical? Either way a clearly indicated Original post: separate to the Cross posted to: would strongly incentivise community owners to crosspost their content for the community promotion it provides, and reward them with subscribers for doing it. It generates a little bit of “hey stop advertising in our subreddit” from some modteams but it’s worth far more than it takes away, and this is an extremely specific little detail of the system that I think only people that have tried to start many different new subreddits will understand.

I def didn’t anticipate it would get this far this fast… we’ve become the 2nd most popular fediverse software recently. I’m super-excited about the impact we can have on global media, and getting ppl to break their dependency/addiction to US-tech dominated spaces.

Back in the Digg days Reddit just quietly sat in Digg’s shadow as a sort of “dual power” if you will. Its community did its own thing, creating a culturally-unique space with its own community that liked it for its own sake. They just had to exist and Digg would eventually shit the bed. I think one of the major things that community owners here ought to be doing, which sadly the largest - lemmyworld - is not, is to create a space that is not just “we’re reddit but without Spez”. Better reasons for being here other than just spite are essential for longevity. Hexbear does a good job of this, Lemmy seems to be building that up too, I’ve recently become fond of the direction lemm.ee appears to be headed but we’ll see.

Ironically lemmyworld won’t see this criticism because of their defederation, so their users are missing out on several ama responses.

We love our devs folks

1. Can we get the show context bug fixed? Pretty please? :3 Possibly the most frustrating bug we’ve ever had.

2. Also, on crossposted threads can we get the first thread marked as “original post” so it’s clear what the originating community is for people that might want to subscribe to it for similar content. The indication of the originating community is a considerable source of subscriptions over on reddit and one of the primary methods that crossposting functions as a growth tool for new communities.

3. When you started this project did you think it would get where it is now? Was it a sort of daydream thing or a serious belief that it would get this far?

God I hate this bug.

I didn’t read it as that because it’s a really weird non sequitur. Like someone just dumping as many controversial things into the thread as possible.

I read your comment as referring to the soviets not china. I still don’t understand why you even brought them into it though. It reads like trying to cause as much drama as possible.

siding with the great Satan and fascists is bad

Claiming they sided with fascists is fucking absurd. Don’t spread this revisionist shit all you’re doing is reinforcing anticommunism.