14specks

Fuck Google

I'm not trans, so defer to others as appropriate

The question of "the children" will come up:

• It would be good to understand the recommended treatment program that is implemented for trans youth (hint: it's not surgery).
• What is definitive is that care for trans youth saves the lives and well being of the people who have access to it. You can easily find creators on Youtube or TikTok who will talk about their experience firsthand, whether they received treatment when they were young, or wished that they did.
• On the "permanence/regret/detransition" angle that people are concerned about: there's a stat that someone else can probably post, but the rate of "regret" of gender confirming care is significantly lower than many common cosmetic procedures. Detransitioners are a small minority, and transphobic detransitioners who are outspoken about being "tricked" or something are even smaller still.
• Other likely thing is bathroom stuff, but like most transphobia it gets nonsensical fast since the only way for that to work is for someone to think "I can always tell" which is always false false false.

So some people really not grasp that?

Actually, yes, the original FOSS movement had more right-libertarian roots than anything to the left, although nowadays some might see it as "common ground".

The whole point is that it's federated too. The devs haven't really been ardent about much to do with the software except "we're not getting rid of the hard coded slur filter cause we really don't want to see the open fascists who would care about that using it". I don't fully agree or disagree with that, but they don't really have much else to say about the community at large. Des has repeatedly stated that he wants to have a healthy amount of "mainstream"/"liberal" instances that he has nothing to do with the content of.