Moving is extremely expensive, can result in losing your job, and also requires you to likely uproot your social life to do so. Suggesting people in red states move to the few purple ones that are basically the only states that matter in a presidential election isn't remotely a reasonable suggestion to deal with the electoral college or gerrymandering.

Yeah there's actually a fair number of people who get the plague every year. Its by no means common, but its also not uncommon either. Its just way more treatable now and less likely to spread very far.

Scrolling through the community quickly, there were like 3 jokes mentioning a husband's wife, one mentioning a car's manual transmission stalling, and one that's over a week old that includes the word "ass' which is directly breaking the no-profanity rule, yet somehow the concept of a gay couple is too confusing for a 6 year old? Oh and also a joke about "Cherenkov radiation" which I am 1000% confident no 6 year old on earth has ever heard of.

PTB

I started using Firefox Focus on mobile and Mullvad Browser on laptop which has largely fixed the problem for me lol. Instead of just leaving tabs open I bookmark them otherwise if my browser ever closes I would lose the tab. Then since everything was bookmarked I could at least be more organized into subfolders.

If someone criticizes the dems for being too woke, or whatever other right-wing bullshit, that implies they're doing so because they're criticizing anyone left of the dems. If someone criticizes a dem for being transphobic, or too conservative/centrist, or not meaningfully pushing for change while in power, that implies they're doing so from a left-wing perspective and aren't supporting Republicans or whatever.

Also if a dem candidate is running on a bad platform the relevant time to criticize that is while they're running, since that's the whole point of the platform. There are criticisms which make the most sense to mention at specific times. Trying to mention a Democrats anti-trans ad, for example, and how that negatively affects trans people after the ad is off the air and the election is over makes no sense.

Yeah this entire thread is (unfortunately) great for expanding my block and tag lists.

Unironically if I went on a date with someone and they infodumped for 30 minutes about sea monsters on old maps I think I'd fall in love lmao.

Yeah I found a copy of it, here are the relevant parts I was thinking of in this response:

I don’t understand it right now, and I would even say I disagree.

"Leaning towards being against"

Does this stuff harm or hurt folks in the long run? Only time will tell.

"Just asking questions"

I wanted to be the same gender as the only parent that was there for me, and I think a lot of what we’re seeing here is similar to that.

"pushed into transitioning"

It’s quite curious that we’re trying to allow folks that can’t drive, drink, vote, join the military, or do any other number of adult activities alter their body like this

Both "insinuating medical transition happens at 8 years old" and "trans kids are too stupid to know they're trans and undergo HRT driven puberty, but cis kids can undergo natal puberty perfectly fine". A 2 for 1 special, how fun.

Edit:

Maybe it would be worth it to talk to someone that’s grown up, someone that went through this themselves. Someone that received the gender affirming care while they were young… although that might be hard to find for this very reason. … I just don’t think the experience I’m looking for has even happened in a person yet (due to the mentioned legal issues)

Also this is stupid for a multitude of reasons and shows you didn't do even a tiny bit of research beforehand

If thats how several trans people in this thread took your argument it might be a good opportunity to self-reflect.

I would not call people being (rightfully) annoyed at you evil. What I would call evil is posting, on an article about the rights of trans kids being stripped away, how you're "just asking questions" about why trans kids shouldn't have the right to the correct puberty the same as their cis peers, while ignoring the sources people offer to you and using as your source a single article by a right-wing, anti-abortion christian site, out of some fear that kids are being pushed into transitioning. A fear that is being created by the people behind the rollback of trans rights, using the age old technique of accusing queer people of "grooming kids" (whether that's turning them gay, trans, or anything else). One that you are being told is wrong from both actual medical studies as well as personal experience (I almost guarantee every trans person can tell you a story of medical gatekeeping they or someone they know experienced). Even as adults getting on HRT is not always an easy task, and as a minor it can be almost impossible.

Sorry that you feel trans people are being rude to you, but you have no idea how often we hear this exact same argument from cis people who think they somehow know better than medical experts and actual trans people about whether kids are too stupid to know that they're trans but somehow not too stupid to know that they're cis.

And, respectfully, you yourself did not approach this topic with the respect it deserves. Your initial now removed comment insinuated an 8 year old child not yet seeking medical intervention was the age for "alter[ing] their body like this" (eg medically transitioning), said how you were "leaning towards being against" "don't understand... and would say [you] even disagree" about trans care for minors [edit: correction since I misremembered exact wording], and reused a common TERF and transphobe talking point about how its possible you could have been pushed into transitioning as a child were it more well known and accepted, with no evidence other than a vague feeling. Your comment being removed is entirely fair and not evidence of mistreatment.

Its difficult to find large scale studies due to both the fact trans people are often understudied/represented in medical literature, and the existence of trans minors is so highly politicized. Almost all generally agreed upon data points to regret rates for gender affirming care being extremely low compared to almost every other type of treatment. Beginning HRT while you aren't trans is pretty likely to give you biochemical dysphoria very quickly, the same way not being on HRT while you are trans can cause biochemical dysphoria.