Would saving someone’s life technically be affirming their gender

It may be possible to harvest fuel on the moon itself. Also the amount of work to keep that in orbit, etc, the moon may be more promising.

The Moon has the benefit of possibly being a refuelling or assembly spot for spaceships. Due to the lack of atmosphere and low gravitational pull, it may be more feasible to launch larger and heavier spacecraft from there (an alternative is assembly while in orbit).

Also for the clout of being an interplanetary species.

Why would someone call their cat that 😭

I wonder why this happened

nah mate, we bought them. cry about it.

…why?

I think it’s good though that more and more resources are available to people who are simply on the waiting list. But still.

God save The King!

There’s a bit of an echo chamber…

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Apparently I’m a transphobe again for just asking questions 🫩

I know several people who identified as transgender before they were 18 and didn’t get treatment and no longer identify as transgender. We’d have more of these detransitioners if we did what you suggested. I could have possibly been one of them.

It seems the issue here is suicide. Suicide can be prevented with methods that aren’t giving children life changing medication because they suspect they might be transgender.

I never claimed to be talking for the transgender community. I was being transparent with my sources. Why is it impossible to have a respectful conversation about this subject?

My parents did this, albeit before my time. I don’t know if there is a real problem if done genuinely. I remember a youth (well, more children’s) group I was in would sponsor a child in Africa somewhere and she’d send us letters. She sent us a Christmas card and it arrived in February, which is something I remember well. Hope she’s doing well.

To counter this, there is actually a dignity thing. In quite a lot of cultures, including some western ones, there is shame attached to accepting charity. If the person feels like they worked for it, it gives them a sense of accomplishment and dignity. There was an old anecdote of someone who had a neighbour who was constantly needing financial/material help and was in need, and that person’s family was helping them. From time to time, they’d go and ask that neighbour for smaller things, such as some salt or stationery. They did this so their worse off neighbour felt more as equals than a lesser.

Radio 6 seems popular here! Interesting, as I never really considered it. 1 is well known, 2 is moreso my taste, 4 is my favourite as well as my local one. 3 also has the classical music.

I’m starting to get cussed at a lot in this post and labelled a “transphobe” because apparently I disagree with giving kids life altering hormones.

I feel like people are watering down the “transphobe” label, which actually could negatively impact trans people.

As you said puberty blockers are a slippery slope, I would disagree with you if they aren’t life altering. Some say that when you stop them, puberty just sets in as normal, so if that’s the case, I don’t see an issue. I don’t know if you have a different point though or disagree. The NHS seems to disagree but others are claiming that it’s been infiltrated by political activists.

What about harming cis kids?

And why hormones and not puberty blockers? Aren’t hormones more irreversible than the purported affect of puberty blockers?

Or am I vsauce music

I’m operating off of the model here which I picked up around ten years ago that the term “sex” refers to your body’s default position, male/female at birth. While gender is what’s in the mind. So a trans woman would have the gender of female but the sex of male. If my terminology is incorrect, you are free to correct me. However, you are acting completely hostile and horrible towards me, randomly bringing immigration and race into this. I do have patience, but you constantly cussing me out here is abusing that affects how seriously I take your position. I can’t even remember what we’re even talking about anymore without going back quite a bit because of how you’re de-railing this conversation.

The human nature of many is to act in a reactionary way to being attacked, to dig heels in and be defensive. Maybe I am surrounded by reactionaries, or maybe you are the reactionary. I’m not sure. But it seems like I have done something despicably evil by trying to get out of what could be an echo chamber and discuss this topic with people outside of it. Over time on Lemmy I have tried to become more understanding of the transgender cause, and there are many excellent people on here who have caused me to rethink this topic and changed my position on it. Even someone else on here got me to rethink my previous age bracket of 18 and lower it to 16. I can’t really take scientific positions, but I do have a model which I am trying to build that’ll reason (for example, if puberty blockers truly don’t cause long term effects in most cases, then I don’t see the issue in using them on children).

Thankfully, I like to see the best in people and groups, and I like to think that you’re just a minority in the community of pro trans people, or even possibly having a bad day. So I won’t tar the whole group with a whole brush. But other people I know wouldn’t even give you the time of day to discuss the matter, nevermind put up with your toxicity.

I didn’t state that they do. Hexbear people need to stop trying to read minds and go back to badposting. It’s what they’re good at.

go back to LinkedIn, clanker