AwakenedAce

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago

Well, for one there's the constant love of the MIC (no criticism allowed), then there's the ever present transphobia and homophobia (exhibit A, exhibit B, exhibit C, exhibit D), then the anti-immigrant/xenophobic stuff (example, you can see a lot of "they're erasing our identity blablabla" bullshit there). Most threads have some right wing idiots.

No, they're solidly right wing, perhaps the mods aren't as much, but the people there definitely are.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

No worries! Thank you!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Seems to be a post that requires signing in, what did they say?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Well it's 20ish% for Gen Z, so the acceptance likely plays a part there

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

And you knowing gay people exist when you were 7 didn't turn you gay? Whoah, that's soo surprising /s

Somehow knowing gay and straight people exist somehow didn't turn me anything, I'm ace, it's almost as if it has nothing to do with it..


Sometimes I wonder with these bigots, like how does their worldview even remotely make sense? (not talking about you ofc to be clear)

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago (12 children)

Practically nonexistant, it is not possible for children under 16 to access HRT, if anything they are prescribed puberty blockers (so that you know.. they can avoid suffering from the changes in their body and not be permanently affected).

The general figure of regret for transgender affirming care is 1%, and 82.5% of these people do not detransition because they are no longer trans, but because of external factors. Source: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33794108/

By age 17, 0.1% of trans children get HRT. Source: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/article-abstract/2828427


Now let's calculate some numbers: 1% of these 0.1% will regret it, that's 0.001%. And 17.5% of these might not be transgender, so that's 0.000175%

According to that second study, there's about 300000 trans children, so 0.000175% of that is 0.525 people.

So... less than 1 child in the whole United States would maybe regrets it because they're not trans. In other words, you can stop fear mongering.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Zero purpose in society since women fill their role now

If people being more equal than before rids you of your purpose there's quite a problem there, there's no reason for that.

Don't get me wrong, the suicides are a problem, obviously, but suicide attempts are actually multiple times more frequent among women (around 3x last I checked), so I don't think this is a reasonable hypothesis (losing purpose because women are empowered more) as to why the suicide rates are higher.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

And yet some kids do know they're totally straight, or gay, or transgender, before they even turn 12, or 11, etc.

They might not have the vocabulary to express it, and others might not know how it works or how they feel, so that's just all the more reason to teach them.

Imagine if we treated any other subject like this: "oh the children have no idea how it works, lets not subject them to it". It doesn't make sense, of course they don't understand if they've never heard of it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

And what's bad with furries or linux socks?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago

This was in November 2022, here's a link to the original post https://x.com/TaylerUSA/status/1594074742797090820 (ew, I hate linking to Xitter)

 

The Trump administration on Wednesday threatened federal employees with “adverse consequences” if they fail to report on colleagues who defy orders to purge diversity, equity and inclusion efforts from their agencies.

Tens of thousands of workers were put on notice that officials would not tolerate any efforts to “disguise these programs by using coded or imprecise language.” Emails sent out, which were based on a template from the Office of Personnel Management, gave employees 10 days to report their observations to a special email account without risking disciplinary action.

“There will be no adverse consequences for timely reporting this information,” the template sent to agency heads said. “However, failure to report this information within 10 days may result in adverse consequences.”

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

No, I tried, they don't comply, and tell you to make a complaint to your DPA and the Irish DPA or go to court if you have a problem with that.

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