LainTrain
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- Comment on Schools won't be allowed to teach children that they can change their gender ID, reports say 4 hours ago:
Aye.
- Comment on No sex education in schools 'until children are nine' guidance to say 4 days ago:
So is this just a paedo’s charter, since the whole reason we have sex ed that early is so kids know if something being done to them is wrong?
Oh wait
The Telegraph also reported that the guidance will make clear that “gender ideology” involving discussions regarding changes of gender is a “contested subject”, and that teachers must say that there are two biological sexes."
It’s just Section 28 for trans people.
- Comment on No sex education in schools 'until children are nine' guidance to say 4 days ago:
I understand downvoting me under the assumption I only read the title, but I did actually read the aforementioned sentence, but since it was contradictory to both the title and the tagline I was unsure
- Comment on No sex education in schools 'until children are nine' guidance to say 5 days ago:
So is it 9 or 13? Or just not those topics until 13 and no Sex Ed at all until 9? Or does it mean Year 9, since most kids are 13 by then?
- Comment on What is a good eli5 analogy for GenAI not "knowing" what they say? 5 days ago:
That analogy is hard to come up with because the question of whether it even comprehends meaning requires first answering the unanswerable question of what meaning actually is and whether or not humans are also just spicy pattern predictors / autocompletes, since predicting patterns is like the whole point of evolving intelligence, being able to connect cause and effect in patterns and anticipate the future just helps with not starving. The line is far blurrier than most are willing to admit and ultimately hinges on our experience of sapience rather than being able to strictly define knowledge and meaning.
Instead it’s far better to say that ML models are not sentient, they are like a very big brain that’s switched off, but we can access it by stimulating it with a prompt.
- Comment on "Nuisance begging" and rough sleeping as soon to be illegal 5 days ago:
Ah yes the classic strategy for when you get caught pulling stuff out of your ass: accuse the other person of doing the same, the wordier equivalent of simply going “no u”.
You can stop now, it’s just embarrassing
- Comment on "Nuisance begging" and rough sleeping as soon to be illegal 5 days ago:
lived north and south
So have I and your “can” gives away that you don’t actually know, you’re just assuming so.
- Comment on "Nuisance begging" and rough sleeping as soon to be illegal 5 days ago:
I don’t think you’ve ever been to the UK. Most of those “public” spaces are corporate property and if you and your homelessness damage their brand they’ll escort you off.
The homeless camps on high street ken during the pandemic had this happen to them all the time, as if the cruel irony of rough sleepers next to wholefoods and dyson shit blower 3k ads wasn’t enough to make humanity unevolve peered solely by cringe alone and let trilobites, or some particularly feisty proto-moss take the top spot instead.
- Comment on UK 'set for rapid rise in cases' of fatal lung disease linked to kitchen revamps 1 week ago:
Ah finally - the gen z asbestos! Iron lung here I come 💪
- Comment on Google Delists Sites Providing DIY Hormone Therapy at Behest of UK Government 1 week ago:
Thank you for reading!
- Comment on Now, if it was a Pixel... 1 week ago:
Strange. I’ve never updated my Pixel and it doesn’t bother me about it, and you can always also roll back after an update also since there are no e-fuses or measures of that type, in fact there is even an official tool for this that runs in the chrome browser of all things. I’ve been meaning to go back to Android 10 from 13, ‘Material You’ is just an eyesore.
I’ve not had issues with notifications either, perhaps it’s worth it to check your settings?
If there are specific Samsung apps you miss, why not download them from Google Play if available or Apkmirror, or look for FOSS alternatives on F-Droid?
- Comment on NHS charter to stress biological sex when placing patients in wards 1 week ago:
What world do you live in where spare rooms on the NHS are widely available? Because I’d like to go there, since it certainly isn’t reality.
You are not assigned male, you fall in the sex category male at birth
I’m not at birth though anymore am I? I’m not a man and for most purposes I’m not male anymore either. Defining sex by chromosomes only when dictating societal policy which is very much not about chromosomes when it comes to sex segregation is overly reductive and it is completely absurd to place women who transitioned decades ago and have very little physically in common with the male sex alongside the male sex for literally no reason.
The only motivation for this absurdity is to hurt and ostracize trans people.
You
My NHS sex marker says F and has since I’ve had an NHS number and I never even changed my name from a very obviously male one. It’s almost as if this whole charade is pretty absurd and trans women being women and for the most part female is self-evident.
- Comment on What is the point of Xbox? 1 week ago:
No you don’t, what kind of alternative facts shit is this? It’s absurd to suggest one can only be a supporter of an ideology if said ideology is in power for any ideology.
I fucking wish we had fascism. Maybe then I’d get a winter again.
The only winter you need is a Siberian one, with a paid-for stay at a Gulag :)
- Comment on Google Delists Sites Providing DIY Hormone Therapy at Behest of UK Government 1 week ago:
Something like Medichecks is the easiest way for sex hormone blood tests. They mail you a thing, you do the test yourself (finger prick kit) and mail it back - only problem is it costs a small fortune as of late and their kits are more oriented towards cis people. Can be a bit inaccurate but usually okay unless there’s user error (dirty hands or contamination).
Alternatively if the GP is trans-supportive they may arrange hormonal blood tests for you. There are also LGBT-oriented sexual health clinics (I think only 2 in the country atm) that will do hormonal blood tests for trans people, but they don’t interpret them.
- Comment on What is the point of Xbox? 1 week ago:
Piss off ecofash. Modern life good actually. Industry, medicine and science all good.
- Comment on Will I ever be seen as truly British? 1 week ago:
Ah in that case yeah I definitely did not mean it that way, but it’s also not a good look for the left to come off as to utterly deny demographics when facts are very easy to find, especially if you have a pro-immigration stance.
- Comment on Will I ever be seen as truly British? 1 week ago:
Simmer down buddy, no need to get your blood pressure up - I clarified the statement didn’t I?
- Comment on Will I ever be seen as truly British? 1 week ago:
Yee, 's why I left.
- Comment on Will I ever be seen as truly British? 1 week ago:
Oh sure. I was speaking relatively.
- Comment on Will I ever be seen as truly British? 1 week ago:
Compared to the rest of the country in the ethnic-cultural sense? Yeah absolutely.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_London
London is 36.8% White British
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manchester
For comparison a major metropolitan area lime the city of Manchester is 59.3% White British
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brighton_and_Hove#
Brighton is 80.5% White British
Furthermore in London, 40.7% of people are born in another country, and 56.8% of people are born to a foreign-born mother.
That’s what makes London so different from the rest of the country imo, and a way better place to be as a young person who doesn’t belong elsewhere.
- Comment on Will I ever be seen as truly British? 1 week ago:
Not in the UK alongside British people for sure.
I’m in the same boat but not from Poland and I came over a tad later (12) but I’m also 5 years older.
I don’t actually have an accent inherently but I always use an American one to obscure my country of origin.
It’s really quite a backwards little country and they have an insular culture and hot opinions on ‘de immigants’ amongst other things, they’re just polite enough to keep it to the voting booth most of the time until the the child alcoholism and the FAS kicks in.
They will always see you as defined by your nationality first because to them, it makes you fundamentally different as a person because they themselves are fundamentally defined by their nationality - (you can often tell by how much they rely on this as material for ‘banter’) - rather than how many other people see it - as a random side note of historical background of yet another human on this planet - a citizen of the world if you will.
I recall meeting a friend group of my S.O. who’s been here all her life and went to school with those people and still the occasional joke about her country of origin gets a big laugh, not to mention the only brown person at the table only ever joked and got joked to about being Muslim, it wasn’t offensive or anything, but you’d think the guy was a hardcore religious leader by how much it came up when he seemed like just some guy to me.
They might keep you around to pitch in with a fun fact about Poland (even if you don’t really know any) or say something funny (to them) in your accent/language, but you’ll never be actually British and treated as just another one of the peeps about the place.
Try to surround yourself with other people from diverse backgrounds if you can, which won’t be possible in the norf (idk about Wales, never been) but you can definitely do this in London as British people are far and few between and so long as you steer clear of other majorly represented insular ethnic groups you can maybe find a multinational clique or what I had more luck with - an eastern european one with similar levels of integration and shared interests etc., and maybe consider living or visiting elsewhere, like the US which is far more diverse and your background matters far less.
Hope this helps.
- Comment on NHS charter to stress biological sex when placing patients in wards 1 week ago:
you made me confused after I read 2 posts on twitter dot com by some fringe teen enby and now I’m going to be a raging bigot to trans women
Very cool. Cis people really are the best.
- Comment on NHS charter to stress biological sex when placing patients in wards 1 week ago:
Biologically trans women are trans women, they have very little in common with cis men other than chromosomes, they’re not the same as cis women entirely but have far more in common with them.
The average trans woman has had her T levels nuked for decades, usually below cis women leveks and E levels same as a cis woman, their bodies are completely different including their genitalia most of the time.
As far as the actual medical truth of the matter we are not cis men, I don’t have to worry about testicular, prostate or penile cancers but I do have to worry quite a bit more than a cis man about breast cancer for example.
- Comment on NHS charter to stress biological sex when placing patients in wards 1 week ago:
I always say female anyway and so do all trans women I know. I specify “biological” if asked because I’m not a cyborg either. This isn’t some gotcha you think it is and idc what other dogwhistles you invent. Cope and seethe.
- Comment on NHS charter to stress biological sex when placing patients in wards 1 week ago:
Trans women. It’s in the name innit.
- Comment on NHS charter to stress biological sex when placing patients in wards 1 week ago:
This shit is so blatantly and openly misandrist, I can’t even imagine growing up as a boy hearing this rhetoric thrown around how you’re just a monster and you can’t prove otherwise, spread by what you would assume at first are kind old ladies on the street.
- Comment on NHS charter to stress biological sex when placing patients in wards 1 week ago:
That seems reasonable. I’m a transsexual female and I will be in the female ward thanks.
- Comment on NHS charter to stress biological sex when placing patients in wards 1 week ago:
As if that will actually happen. There’s no magic single room tree :)
- Comment on Google Delists Sites Providing DIY Hormone Therapy at Behest of UK Government 1 week ago:
I have an unfortunate feeling this is going to be a topic in the news going forward, so I’d like to educate people if possible on what DIY in this use case means:
What is “DIY Hormones?”
Essentially while some options exist for completely home-made injections of Estrogen and Testosterone, for the most part DIY is about ordering the same medications that would be prescribed or generics of those medications but without a prescription from an endocrinologist (hormone specialist doctor) whether they be pills, patches or gels.
Why do trans people use DIY?
The general pathway to trans care is to be seen by a gender identity clinic known as a GIC, the wait times for these clinics can exceed in well over a decade (sometimes more than two decades) and are highly dependent on being even referred in the first place - there is often no recourse for a secretly malicious GP lying about making such a referral only for it to come out (possibly years) later that it was never made.
Even once you’re with a GIC, shortage of staff can often result in having to wait many months for an initial appointment, which is almost always followed by a second appointment months apart, which is then - if diagnosed (gatekeeping and malicious clinicians can further delays their process for reasons of varying validity) - can lead to an endocrinology referral and official hormones prescription, possibly over a year after initially being seen.
Or you could just order the meds yourself.
Why not go private?
Costs of private care are the main reason, often just the diagnosis can cost like £600 with endocrinologist appointments and private prescriptions (as guidelines now tell GPs not to do bridging - another roadblock for us) can easily balloon to well over a £1000. A month’s meds from Indian pharmacies where their prescription checking just isn’t so stringent will be way under £50 so go figure.
Is DIY dangerous?
The trans community have done an incredible job of researching, sourcing and pooling information on making it as safe as possible and share this knowledge with each other. As long as proper precautions are taken (blood tests), a dosage worked out etc. it can be very safe and often times more effective than dosages prescribed by the NHS (the only time my T was above 0.8nmol/L in the past 10 years was when i first switched to an official prescription - go figure)
Bottom line
Many trans people don’t actually want to DIY if they don’t have to - it is a huge hassle to be your own doctor - but for many of us, especially those who are affected by the puberty blockers ban (under 18s) and those who’s care is under threat from the likes of the Tories and so-called experts like Cass (under 25s) we will see an increased use of DIY because trans people simply have no other options to access hormones - which are lifesaving as they are the only thing that can very naturally change one’s appearance and halt further chsnges from their natal hormomes.
So in plain English a trans woman will look more like a woman thanks to E and less like a man thanks to absence of T and won’t become more masculine physically even after puberty, (as there’s a helluva difference between a 20 yo man and a 40 yo one and hormone effects are constant throughout one’s life), which is the only thing that really treats gender dysphoria and regardless of British reviews that discard evidence that disagrees as well as international evidence remains the approach to trans care worldwide.
Denying people what already is a a last resort option is effectively signaling that the government prefers trans people to not exist, and in my opinion constitutes an attempt at eradication through policy.
Thanks for reading!
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