In such a scenario you have to carefully consider: are you locking them all up together with or without their pills? Think carefully.

Labor camps for organic food? Shit, I thought California Uber Alles was just an old, edgy punk song.

clearly a large number of potential voters that are not so stupid as to vote for Trump but felt the Democrats wouldn’t make their lives better in any way either

This is a great point, and it is very much corroborated by the rest of your response. In particular

what was different back then?

Biden did signal to take the Black Lives Matter protests serious

Exactly, if they want to have the high moral ground they should do sth of it. It is not like Black Lives Matter and Trans Rights protest because they have nothing more interesting to do. They protest to bring social change and to be heard.

Centrists historically have won over minorities by paying lip service to them, and/or painting a narrative of inclusive capitalism. Now they were confident enough that the minorities’ vote was granted, and they did not meet that low bar even.

Biden also lift the trans military ban, much to the ire of the conservatives. What did Harris do? Shut up about trans issues and cater to conservatives because trans bad/too edgy.

appeal to moderate white conservatives (likely falsely assuming her racial identity would be sufficient to mobilize the non-white voters anyways)

Yes, the appeal to the white moderate conservative was tried in this election and failed miserably. Yet they strive for more of it. Having thought that the minorities will vote for them no matter what because what’d they gonna do, vote for fucking Trump? Guess what, some minority individuals did exactly that.

Democrats are no shit to be trusted, and they have been preying on far-left and minority vote forever, with the boogeyman of the right-wing opponent. Fuck, if they become the boogeyman themselves and shut up about our issues, then why should we even bother.

We really need to make anarchism relevant again.

I couldn’t agree more. This is another aspect of it. Puberty blockers are an artificially induced delay (by a pharmaceutical means that is well studied/established in precocious puberty cases) because of not trusting trans adolescents gender expression, not because they are accepting it, let alone accepting it blindly. Puberty blockers were originally intended to give time to a pre-adolescent to desist being trans. The argument is simple, puberty blockers are not gender affirming care because no sex hormones are administered. The fact that puberty blockers have been framed as gender affirming care is a success of the Republican propaganda apparatus, and there is little we can do about it now, because conservatives have already moved the goalposts. They already have established that even talking about this direction as viable to a minor is demonic, and they will soon outlaw it too.

I am not subscribing to this bullshit, and I am sad my comment enabled you to spew it out. “Me too” was a valid and necessary movement to combat sexual assaults that were institutionalized in many industries and protected by law enforcement and judicial authorities. Many prominent figures went rightfully to jail for sex crimes, and the proportion of women lying about it is rather small to make a political argument off it. Tracing back “liberal-themed supremacy movements” to Jewish supremacism sounds to me quite close to Nazi conspiracy theory, to take any of this seriously. I am sorry this reached my feed, and I can’t wait to engage the likes of you in combat.

That is a total misreading of what I said. I am scarred by the historical fact that the Holocaust happened. If you are literate at all you can see what I am saying about a specific photo. You want to hunt Holocaust deniers? Go after JK Rowling instead. LOL

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Then someone should correct the Wikipedia statement instead.

Stable diffusion? Self-hosted image generative AI?

I’m just figuring it out in my 30s

I understand this. I did not advocate for the “true trans” theory. I point out that it is used for gatekeeping. All those people coming out in their 30s and 40s are valid as well. Some may have been consciously closeting themselves, others might have been misled by extreme gender normalization. I think some might also have overcompensated, like Chelsea Manning said she joined the military to overcompensate being trans.

There are people who were dragged to psychiatrists like Kenneth Zucker: he and his PhD students used to publish and review tens of studies with GNC kids and present statistics of “persisters” and “desisters”.

The sample sizes of these studies were typically in the hundreds. Who knows how many of those kids were subjected to some kind of conversion therapy? Many come out now and say they had been talked out of it by doctors and others. The figures alone speak of the real volume of GNC expression in childhood.

(This is not to mean that every GNC child is trans. This simply isn’t true. But some are!)

There are also people who have fallen prey to the homosexual transexual / AGP gatekeeping, and have themselves thought they weren’t “true trans”, like the guy in the transfem literature novel Nevada.

But who is counting? Republicans have moved the goal posts of this discussion to a degree that to the average person it just sound insane to “push hormones and surgery onto a kid” because they played with a doll like once or sth. They say that this could not be happening if the Democrats were not evil lizard people and so powerful that medical organizations parrot their insane talking points.

So there is that. To sum up, I am making a list of the above reasons a person possibly does not realize/come out as early as psychologists say gender identity is formed:

• behavior normalization efforts from the parents
• psychiatric intervention in childhood
• self gatekeeping
• overcompensation
• knowing but being closeted because of averse reactions of parents/peers to GNC behavior, anticipation of averse social outcomes ^[1]
• outright conversion intervention
• denial
• not having realized due to lack of representation, lack of a conceptual framework, or overly negative representation of trans people ^[2]

Sure it isn’t. Let’s review this when the state does the same thing lol.

Is this why we should not delegate the control of hate speech to the state, because it will always blow up in our faces?

This might be out of context for the article, but once we are in /c/technology get this: GIMP is a slur, and their slogan during startup is “we glitch because we twitch” which makes me want to kick them in the nuts every time I use the fucking software.

Our collective problem is that trans is seen as being punk AF. It should be as much punk as canned soup. I am sick and tired of this.

How can someone believe that without first believing that being transgender is extremely wrong and edgy, whatever that entails. That’s why you hear so much ignorant transphobic shit from Democrats like “catering to the far left” and “biological boys should not compete with girls at school”.

The way I read it: The judge sees InfoWars as a beacon of hope and truth, and Onion as an anarchist, absurdist fake news site. To him it is like giving away the Federal Reserve to Friedrich Engels as a gift. It just feels wrong. Endlessly funny.

I am sorry that people have to choose the lesser of two evils, yet here we are.

Sure, ok, just don’t fool yourself thinking the place is safe. Transgender people have been targeted with all the hate right enough, but things are not as chill for gay people as they used to be either.

it is human experimentation

No it is not. It is a well thought out medical intervention, with extensively studied effects, and life saving outcomes for trans youth.

For the most part of this video Vaush debunks every argument that puberty blockers are an experimental treatment https://invidious.nerdvpn.de/watch?v=HhYruaFZEOI

American Psychological Organization about young transgender people https://www.apa.org/monitor/2022/07/advocating-transgender-nonbinary-youths

Or do you think trans people just pop out of thin air as fully grown adults? You understand that trans people once were kids like everybody else right? And finally have you ever spoken to a transgender person and ask what it is like growing up trans? All these ignorant morons fearmonger like this therapy is pushed onto unknowing kids and parents, presented like it is a cool video game. Guess what, people actively seek this therapy for their kids or themselves because they know what it is doing, it stops unwanted sexual features to develop, and it is reversible.

What was your problem again?

Are you sure about the UK squid? Wasn’t there a huge ordeal there for not extending the conversion therapy ban to transgender care? That’s what I had read.