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LeoRavus posted...

Some people may not like telling people their name is Rumpelstiltskin when asked.

Fun fact, you don't have to "go by" your legal name for anyone or anything beyond stuff like filling out your taxes.

For example, how often does your legal middle name come up, for those who don't ever go by that name?

SSJKirby posted...

What your name is legally doesn't matter except for paper work, people can still call you what you want

Yep, and most of the time even for paper work you can use an alias instead of your "legal" name. People do this all the time.

DnDer posted...

Yes.

That was BDSMKane

DnDer posted...

Missing post? Hm.

Post #85?

Dont forget to take this on the way out!

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bigotry and hate takes the LLLLLLLLLLLL

those kind of people should not be welcome in public places

AnsestralRecall posted...

videos like that lead to violence against trans people, fuck out of here

@invertedlegdrop

what do you have to say for yourself, sir

ItsNotA2Mer posted...

I have them tagged, and the video was exactly what I thought it would be. I could only stomach half of it before I had to stop watching.

^^ this

Heineken14 posted...

What is this supposed to be?

predictably anti-LGBTQ+ hate speech knowing the user who shared it.

ffmasterjose posted...

A fucking federal law proclaiming there's only two genders? Jeeeeezus this is sheer red meat for his fanbase

Yeah he already previously committed to ending any recognition of trans people in the US and making it illegal for us to exist. They want to enact genocide.

Don the con hard at work to attack vulnerable and marginalized minorities

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Its fascinating to witness these Olympic level mental gymnastics pretending toxic masculinity isnt a thing, downplaying it, diluting it until it loses meaning.

Like Hey, lets hack off the word masculinity because Im feeling super called out! Im bristling with anger and misogynistic rage right now from hearing toxic and masculinity put together!

bro, just no.

this behavior doesnt make you more of a man. Its toxic.

Wow, we really do have the usual suspects showing up to immediately flop on the floor and contort themselves into some incredibly bizarre forms as soon as they hear the term, toxic masculinity.

deathproof12 posted...

Discipline
Hard work
strength
Will power

A lot of these end up making men turn into rigid, harsh and unlikable people even if they make good providers and protectors

Probably the most disciplined person Ive ever met in the whole world is also one of the warmest, nicest, and a very wise person.

Do you start drinking when you wake up?

transphobia is so icky and dumb!

She should try being less of a bigot instead of harming children.

Remember that Cass Report in the UK that was commissioned? We already knew it was harmful to trans people and our care, but wait, there's more! She's supposed to be a highly respected doctor, and yet...

Here we go!

https://www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-news/cass-says-porn-makes-you-trans

Ive been waiting for a good chance to go in on this old gas bag.

The gas bag in question is Hilary Cass, titular leader of the four-year Cass Review into the UKs National Health Services treatment of trans kids at trans health clinic Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS). Cass was interviewed on Wednesday by Bostonian NPR branch WBUR News. I should clarify that I despise Hilary Cass for her ineptitude as a practitioner and the thoughtless damage shes done to thousands of trans kids, and I loath the Report her work produced because it is an unforgivable hack job not fit to be used as toilet paper that has still, somehow, become the shining beacon on the hill for every anti-trans journalist across the globe.

Appearing on WBURs On Point podcast with host Meghna Chakrabarti, Cass and her interviewer spend about an hour misgendering trans kids (for a laugh, I guess), and thats still not the most annoying thing about the interview. Truthfully, I dont think I could easily rank how annoying the obnoxious crap that comes out of Casss yapper is, so Ill just sort of go through the interview in chronological order and point out the various things that make it clear the good doctor is actually a bumbling buffoon.

To start, after talking a bunch of shit about whether or not puberty blockers maybe might not sort of possibly be unsafe for kidsshe admits theyre fine for cisgender kids, but of course we must draw the line at trans kidsCass says, the more we can let young people go through their typical puberty the more likely it is that they will make the best possible decision.

A statement so flatly ignorant and inflammatory that I had to go scream into a pillow for half an hour before I could continue reading. Lovely. As Ive explained recently to another churlish weasel, blockers are a typical part of gender-affirming care, and the vast majority of medical authorities agree that its the best course of treatment for trans youth. A highly credible study presented at a 2021 American Academy of Pediatrics National Conference & Exhibition found a 60% decrease in moderate and severe depression and 73% decrease in suicidality among transgender and non-binary youth who received puberty blockers or gender-affirming hormones over a 12-month period.

Next, Cass and Chakrabarti refer to young transmasc or non-binary people as adolescent girls, and discuss why theres been such a significant rise in this particular group identifying as trans over the last few years. Rather than any of the typical reasons that people seen as girls might receive medical attention on a different timetable than their male peers, Cass suggests that early exposure to pornography might be to blame.

I dont know what possible link any normal-brained person could draw between exposure to pornography and self-identification of ones gender, unless perhaps you preemptively view transgender people through a sexualized slant, like some sort of annoying loser who should stop talking and thinking about trans people forever.

Later on Cass accuses WPATH and their cohorts of producing guidelines that, to paraphrase, feed into one another in a circular way. She praises the Nordic studies of working from a clean slate, specifically Finnish and Swedish studies, both of which have serious problems: The Finnish gender clinic from which their study was conducted has been accused by parents of psychologically torturing children and asking them deeply inappropriate questions, while the author of the venerated Swedish study has been speaking out against transphobic misinterpretation of it for years.

Near the end of the interview, Hilary Cass advises trans children and their families to keep your options open, and that its not as urgent as it feels. Classic patronizing slop from somebody who has absolutely no idea what theyre talking about. Because of Cass vile, shoddy Report, trans youth in the UK dont have any options anymore.

Prior to heading the Review, Hilary Cass had absolutely no clinical experience with transgender youth. Unlike her, I know all about trans kids. I was a trans kid, I know trans adults who used to be trans kids, Ive met trans kids. Im not a doctor, and I cant speak to the individualized needs of every single trans youth in the world, but what I can tell you is that we knowhave known for quite a long time, nowthat gender-affirming care works. It greatly improves lives, and sometimes it may even save them.

I dont know how these children and their families will move forward, denied the right to express who they are and receive adequate treatment from doctors who should give a shit about them. But I do know that Hilary Cass has been instrumental in worsening their suffering, and I can only hope that decent journalists deny her the opportunity to spread her callous, uninformed bullshit.

It should go without saying at this point that this woman is a quack doctor, however, it's good to have these reminders about why this woman should be nowhere near or have any say whatsoever in healthcare for trans people.

Don't let people try to pull the wool over your eyes about her and be fooled by the rosy wording of the "recommendations" in that disgraceful report.

so in other words, its more like the conservative perspective or how they imagine liberalism is supposed to be, shunning morals and family values. A big ol sack of horse manure except less useful

specialkid8 posted...

The author mentions several times she was into hippie sex commune shit. She's not saying, like, socialized healthcare isn't compatible with motherhood.

Conservatives do that stuff too, they just call it swinging instead

DoesntMatter posted...

are you saying that the writer of the article was correct in that you can't embrace liberal ideology and be a mother at the same time?

That user is how shall I say anti-liberal

DoesntMatter posted...

"for me, becoming a mum meant giving up on a great deal of the liberal ideology Id embraced when younger because it was impossible to square with the embodied reality of caring for a baby. "

stopped reading right there because this is a load of horseshit. you don't need to "give up" any liberal ideology in order to raise a child, what the fuck?

These people seem to have only the barest of paper thin understanding of anything and just lick it and stick it on whatever narrative they want

Toonstrack posted...

Lmfao no, im not going to change her statement so that it now becomes ok.

Im going to call it out for being made in the state that it is.

Ah yes, a black man being uncomfortable about slavery comparisons is "sealioning".

Gooood lord lmao

Didnt make a comparison to being enslaved. Keep grasping those straws.

Toonstrack posted...

Strawman?

Theres no strawman. You compared your being questioned in this topic to someone questioning an actual holocaust victim or victim of slavery. You did that in this topic.

It has nothing to do with attacking your character. Maybe just dont do that? Thats incredibly tone deaf. We all make bad posts sometimes.

Youre grasping at straws and still have nothing to contribute, particularly if you dont want to recognize intersectionality or otherwise deny we should be learning from history.

Toonstrack posted...

Another spin!

This one is the worst one yet. It actually has multiple spins.

It was a bad comparison, and the person she was responding to never said her existence should be made illegal.

What is a bad comparison? Your baseless strawman that you are attempting to attribute to me in a misguided attack on my character?

AceVanquish posted...

what does attacking someones race or sex have to do with any of it

How is that an attack on you being white or male?

Toonstrack posted...

So you just completely dodged the question then.

Itd be preferable for you not to compare yourself to those individuals, and I dont think you actually disagree with that.

Wtf are you talking about, do you have a point to make that isnt disingenuous bad faith trolling? I didnt do anything that could even be interpreted that way, and never compared my struggle for basic human rights to being enslaved. You would have no grasp of perspective or intersectionality if you were doing anything beyond posting in bad faith.

What shitty take will you go for next to add to your list of defending Republican shitheels like rittenhouse?

Toonstrack posted...

Are you... comparing *yourself* to an actual person in chattel slavery or a jewish person during the holocaust rn?

That is ... wow.

Pulling a Gina Carano is not what I expected

This reach is cringe even for you, Toon.

Lets see what actual survivors of the Holocaust have to say about what the modern Republican Party is doing these days and other experts on genocide research, ah yes they are warning about not repeating history and see parallels there.

Imagine confronting slaves about if they actually do anything to help other struggling people, or similarly to Jews leading up to the Holocaust. Here's this marginalized and vulnerable minority group that only makes up maybe 1-2% of the population, and could not have basic human rights if not for the support of their allies. "But what do they actually do to help other people??"

jfc

just leaning into that meme about playing devil's advocate even harder

CSCA33 posted...

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SHRlKE posted...

I'm not particularly in favor for people needing to resort to 3rd party clinics abroad mainly for potential health and safety reasons. I feel the same for many treatments people may feel the need to go abroad for. It also potentially bypasses the important early engagement stages of actually understanding why a patient wants to transition, make sure it's what they really want to do, give them all the facts, give them time to reflect and ultimately allow people to make a fully informed choice.

Thats not really under the purview of medical professionals providing gender affirming care. Essentially all they require is informed consent and this is backed by professional guidelines in terms of the best approach.

People who are questioning their gender and arent sure about transition should be speaking to a psychologist with experience treating trans patients to help them.

When it comes to children, its helpful to see a psychologist but its not their job to gatekeep another persons identity. A person who is of sound mind and sure of their gender identity, maintaining that position over time needs to receive support, rather than having to deal with cis people whose main concern is alleviating their own personal hangups. This is why there are periods to start blockers and wait at least several months to a year before beginning cross sex hormones at the appropriate age, which would be in the neighborhood of 15 or 16 depending on the patient.

For legal adults 18 and up, theres no need to gatekeep anything beyond signing informed consent forms and they can begin cross sex hormones immediately, without a letter from a psychologist or anyone asking them are you sure you are trans? But why?

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Yep

It also has the word vegetarian for one of the substances in the list of ingredients. Sounds woke to me

ToteAll posted...

But what do you do?

I see this clown show of yours is featured all night.

ToteAll posted...

"Other people's struggles are theoretical to me", huh?

Tell me exactly, what do you actually do to alliviate other people's struggles?

My mere existence shakes the very foundation of cisheteronormativity, you should see some of the sneers I get in public

I give voice and presence to say its okay for people like me to exist, and am an ally to others in our intersectionality

ToteAll posted...

"Run away"? I'm not sure what you think this conversation is, but there's some deep issues in the way you're approaching it.

Regardless, my main point was, and continues to be:

Your attitude here is the exact opposite of this. You just want to be seen, which is kinda sad, specially on freaking CE.

Why not try to be seen somewhere else where you can put all this angsty energy to better use?

ToteAll posted...

Yes, because they're incapable of being nice, you shouldn't be, and because that's the best way we get to prevent said genocide. Riding high horses and allienating more conservative/traditional/older "swing voters" is how these people keep finding power vacuums to fill over and over.

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ToteAll posted...

Trying to in any way downplay or ignore that fact is just a clear show of people just wanting to be right, not actually caring about the right thing being done.

Ah yes, we should be nicer to people who want to enact genocide, because thats the right thing to do.

ToteAll posted...

I'm calling out people for that

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Reminds me of the time Kim Jong Il died and observers were waiting to see what kind of ruler Kim Jong Un would be, with some speculation he might reform the country after time in western society

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Elsa homo erectus

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Hope

Parents have some control but that wanes into adulthood, particularly when were talking about an absent father figure like trump.

Barron has more than enough privilege and opportunity to not follow in his fathers footsteps. The reins are in his own hands.

Have you tried using scotch tape?

It has begun!

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One of them looks a lot like a nude

$20/hr is pretty much the bare minimum to earn a living wage in many places.

It sounds like that dude doesnt want to pay anyone $23, much less $25.

He probably wanted to pay you something south of 20

Sorry he laughed at you, that was a very shitty thing to do.

"Machine Gun" by Jimi Hendrix

Is this like a website or something

josiskrazy posted...

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Ahh makes sense thx

So are XO and OVO supposed to be text based emoji like XD and OWO?