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- Comment on PSA 5 days ago:
Here’s what the science actually says …cornell.edu/…/what-does-the-scholarly-research-s…
What these people say? It’s not science. It’s bias, wearing a veneer of science, so that people who don’t like the idea of trans kids existing can point at something other than their own internal discomfort.
- Comment on Would the United States actually risk a Tiananmen Square incident? 6 days ago:
Like it or not, the distinction is meaningless to people outside of the US
- Comment on PSA 1 week ago:
What they’re getting at is they don’t ask for people who are trans, they ask for people “navigating gender dysphoria”.
It’s like someone using “females” instead of women.
When you choose that framing, it’s often a sign of something deeper at play…
- Comment on PSA 1 week ago:
So Littman and Bailey are controversial. Not unethical. (Fyi Lisa Littman is herself a trans woman).
Incorrect. They are both unethical.
Littman for example, when doing her study on rapid onset gender dysphoria, targeted only online spaces which were full of parents that were upset and angry at having a transgender child. Her sample was deliberately and knowingly biased towards supporting the hypothesis she invented. Her audience also didn’t involve any trans people, only the parents of trans people, and parents who were, as a group, explicitly more likely to be strongly uncomfortable with the idea of having a trans child.
This wasn’t a mistake, or an oversight. It was a deliberate choice she made to bias her results. That’s not “controversial”, that’s outright unethical.
Similarly, Bailey regularly lies to his participant audience, and loads his studies with questions predisposed to get the results he wants to show.
The study linked to in this post is a classic example of that. None of the results of this will be designed to help people navigate dysphoria. The study is trying to draw trans people in to think that they’re helping, when in fact, the results will be used to actively undermine their ability to seek transition care and support.
Bailey and Littmans findings make the trans community angry because the research supports that for some trans females, (not all but some) they transition due to a sexual kink. That they can only be sexually excited by being a woman.
Even that’s not true.
When you look at the definitions Bailey uses for autogynephilia for example, if you apply those same measures to cis women, it turns out, they too more often than not, meet the requirements for autogynephilia. It only becomes a paraphilia when the woman is trans though, and it only becomes an explanation for the woman’s identity, when the woman is trans.
It’s taking a real correlation, ignoring the fact that the correlation isn’t unique to trans folk, and then using that correlation as an explanation for trans identity.
He never said it’s true for all female trans people.
He said it’s the only way to be a trans woman that is asexual, bisexual or gay.
The only trans women who don’t fit his criteria of transitioning due to a paraphilia, are straight trans women. Who, by the way, he calls “Homosexual transexuals”. He can’t even recognise their gender… And speaking of that, even though he thinks that trans women who aren’t straight should be able to transition, he doesn’t think that they’re women, and will repeatedly misgender them or talk only about their birth sex when talking about them.
Take a look at this, from his personal blog…
In this screenshot, you can see that whilst defending a woman who had nazis at her rally, he refers to trans women as “male” without ever referring to them as women, whilst also showing a diagram that says all trans activists are paraphillic (and thus, not really trans)
Bailey genuinely believes he is doing good science. But he’s not. He’s got a lens through which he perceives transgender identity, and he is absolutely not open to challenging that. That’s not good science…
I struggle to understand how you can call anything the man does “ethical”
- Comment on What's up with "Plex Servers"? 1 week ago:
I mean, Kaity and I run a Jellyfin server for our family to access, as well as a couple of friends. But that’s about as public as it gets…
- Comment on If a Space Elevator became a reality, wouldn't the cable act as a kind of wick for all of the unfiltered radiation from outside our atmosphere? 2 weeks ago:
We have the materials technology to manufacture materials that could make up a Dyson Swarm. We are not even close to having the technology to make materials that would be sufficient to make a Dyson Sphere.
What we don’t have is the resources, logistics, energy supply and manufacturing base to implement either…
- Comment on If a Space Elevator became a reality, wouldn't the cable act as a kind of wick for all of the unfiltered radiation from outside our atmosphere? 2 weeks ago:
Induced radioactivity is mostly the result of contamination from radioactive materials. Whilst it’s possible to induce radioactivity from gamma rays directly, you’re talking “background noise” levels of radiation. Which is to say, the cable isn’t going to become notably radioactive, and even then, the part that does, will be the part that isn’t protected by the atmosphere. And for people to navigate those areas of space safely, we already need shielding, so it wouldn’t be any different on the space elevator.
- Comment on Being Trans Isn't Normal or Part of Nature...or is it...? 3 weeks ago:
The only thing I would add to your post is that whilst gender is a performance, that’s not all it is. It can also be, and very often is, an internal sense of identity distinct from the social manifestation of that identity.
- Comment on Being Trans Isn't Normal or Part of Nature...or is it...? 3 weeks ago:
Your gender is how society perceives you. It is a spectrum between masculine and feminine
Not quite. It’s got nothing to do with how people perceive you. A closeted trans woman is still a woman, even though she’s perceived as a man.
It’s also not inherently defined by femininity or masculinity. You can be a masculine woman or a feminine man, or you can simply not give a shit about masculinity or femininity (this is me). Society defines what we consider masculine and feminine, and creates powerful associations between these behaviours and gender, but the association is “after the fact”
- Comment on I’m not saying that I agree with right- or center-wing views, and I do condemn transphobia. However, do you think there should be a distinction between critiquing beliefs held by transgender people, and engaging in transphobia? 4 weeks ago:
I’m not saying that I agree with right wing transphobia, and I condemn transphobia, but sometimes, do you ever think that actually, maybe transphobia is a good thing?
That’s how your post reads
- Comment on How open are you about yourself to others online in general? 5 weeks ago:
I’ve been using my real name on the internet for 30 years or so now. I’ve hosted public radio shows, I/runadmin several online LGBTQ communities and I’ve had newspapers articles done about my transition and activism.
It’s absolutely possible that someone with the desire could utilise that against me. But it’s unlikely and it hasn’t happened yet. And in the mean time, having to hold myself back and be constantly on edge about what I say and where I say it would impact my use of the internet in a way I don’t like, every single time I use it.
So for me, it’s worth the risk.
- Comment on VR is an absolute game changer for racing games 1 month ago:
I’ve got one already, with pedals. But I don’t have dedicated space to use it, so it never comes out :\
- Comment on VR is an absolute game changer for racing games 1 month ago:
The PS5 lets me play Gran Turismo with VR. and turn by using the gyro function on the controller, effectively mimicking a dedicated steering wheel by turning the controller itself rather than stick steering. I could use a wheel, but without a dedicated space to keep the wheel, setting it up and packing it down is just too much of an issue. Gyro steering gives me much of the same control as a wheel does, but without the hassle.
So gyro steering and VR together was a game changer for me. They were so amazing that I can’t play racing games any other way now…
But VR on the PS5 is basically dead in the water, so hardly any games support it, and gyro steering is basically unheard of in most racing games. So it’s pretty much Gran Turismo…
In theory it’s technically possible to use the PS VR headset on my PC, and configure gyro steering, but so far, the combination of getting them all working and configured correctly AND finding a game that supports it all has defeated me…
- Comment on Is it wiser to store one savings in Gold as superior to the average bank/savings accounts nominal interest? 1 month ago:
But you’re also betting that the economy will come back alive soon enough because without it all you have is a heavy pile of metal.
You probably don’t even have that. Unless you have your own vault, someone else is holding it for you, and if things collapse far enough, good luck ever seeing it
- Comment on How do you "feel" gender? 1 month ago:
My relationship with gender didn’t so much manifest that way.
Before I came out and accepted myself, I openly told myself I “should have been a girl”, but I also believed I wasn’t, and that was that. I didn’t really feel anything at the idea of femininity. That was my experience of feeling gender
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
This is just regular moderation, though.
It’s using the existing tool, but making a small portion of them (approving applications) available to a much larger pool of people
it doesn’t resolve the question I raised about what happens when two instances disagree about whether an account is a bot.
If the instance that hosts it doesn’t think it’s a bot, then it stays, but is blocked by the instance that does think its a bot.
And if the instance that thinks its a bot also hosts it, it gets shut down.
That is regular fediverse moderation
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Yeah, but that’s after the fact, and after their content has federated to other instances.
It doesn’t solve the bot problem, but just plays whack a mole with them, whilst creating an ever large amount of moderation work, due to it federating to multiple instances.
Solving the bot problem means stopping the content from federating, which either means stopping the bot accounts from registering, or stopping them from federating until they’re known to be legit.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
I mean, approving users, you just let your regular established users approve instance applications. All they need to do is stop the egregious bots from getting through. And if there is enough of them, the applications will be processed really quickly. If there is any doubt about an application, let them through, because they can be caught afterwards. And historical applications are already visible, and easily checked if someone has a complaint.
And if you don’t like the idea of trusted users being able to moderate new accounts, you can tinker with that idea. Let accounts start posting before their application has been approved, but stop their content from federating outwards until an instance staff member approves them. It would let people post right away without requiring approval, and still get some interaction, but it would mitigate the damage that bots can do, by containing them to a single instance.
My point is, there are options that could be implemented. The status quo of open sign ups, with a growing number of bots doesn’t have to be the unquestioned approach going forward.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
How do you figure that? There’s nothing centralised about it
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Make sign ups require approval and create a “trusted user” permission level that lets the regulated trusted users on the instance see and process pending sign up requests and suspend/delete brand new spam accounts (say under 24 hours old) that slip through the cracks
Boom, bot problem solved
- Comment on Do you ever feel like your life is "scripted"? Like everything is written by some entity controlling your life? Like you live in a fictional universe? Is this feeling normal/common? 1 month ago:
It sounds like depersonalisation to me. A form of dissociation.
Lots of trans people deal with it when they’re closeted. I know I did.
- Comment on Is there a uBlock Origin filter or extension for LLM slop in search results 1 month ago:
Kagi has an LLM community register they automatically use to filter their results
- Comment on As of December 10th, You need to be sixteen to use Aussie.Zone 2 months ago:
I’ve got one even older than that!
- Comment on what country would you never go to again? 3 months ago:
You’re right about that, and if I ever do go back, that will be why! But the sameness I was talking about is more the cultural identities of the countries. Every place we stayed felt like it could be transplanted to Australia, and fit right in. It might be different if I wasn’t Australian :)
- Comment on what country would you never go to again? 3 months ago:
I’ve never been to the US, so I can’t say I won’t go there again, but I can say I won’t go there at all.
But in terms of countries I have been to, probably New Zealand. There’s nothing wrong with New Zealand, but it feels too much like Australia, and baring me suddenly developing an unlimited amount of time and money, there are other places I would rather go
- Comment on Why are some/most of the links on this account broken? 5 months ago:
Blahaj piefed ignores downvotes, so you can be safely assured that has nothing to do with it
If I had to guess, you probably saw that when we were playing around with our CDN. We found the blahaj zone CDN on this list here lemmy.ml/post/34374544, and made some changes to try and reduce scraping. Some images weren’t loading whilst we were getting it all ironed out.
- Comment on [deleted] 8 months ago:
It sounds like a similar condition I had learning Spanish. In enough, I’d say “It’s hot”. In Spanish, that’s “Hace calor”, which translated literally means “makes heat”. And it was strange to me because I wanted to know what was meant to be making this heat
- Comment on [deleted] 8 months ago:
Do you need to be an activist? Absolutely not. You have a chance to live on your own terms in a world that made that really hard. You don’t owe it anything.
That being said… Visibility makes a huge difference, and it’s super important that some vulnerable folk are visible and loud. But remember, they’re the ones putting themselves on the line, so that in the future, it won’t be as bad for those that follow, and that needs to be respected.
For me, being trans was always just a medical issue
This isn’t helpful. Whether you see it that way or not, being trans is not “just a medical issue”. The fact that you were able to live your life as if it were, gives you a position of relative privilege that most trans people don’t share. The truth is, if you get publicly outed one day, it won’t just be a medical issue for you either. So whilst you don’t have to be an activist, you shouldn’t be downplaying the reality that other trans folk do have to face, and honestly, you shouldn’t be pretending to yourself that you are immune to them either.
Live your life on your own terms, and do so without guilt. But even if it’s just in the privacy of your own thoughts, make sure you build your visible peers up rather than mentally separating yourself from them
- Comment on Canon requires an account to transfer images from your camera. Forces you to sign up using Chrome. 8 months ago:
Yeah, it’s extra work, and doesn’t change the infuriating aspect of enshitification, but it’s an option if you absolutely do not want to sign in to the app
- Comment on Canon requires an account to transfer images from your camera. Forces you to sign up using Chrome. 8 months ago:
For what it’s worth, you can generally record a GPS tracking in another app or on another device and then use your photo editing software to add the coordinates to the photos after the fact.