Yes, that’s exactly what I find concerning.
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Don’t worry, Google is bluffing. They don’t want other countries to do anything similar so they have to make a big show of fighting it, but their massive power to fight it is exactly why C-18 is necessary. Google backed down in Australia, and sooner or later, they’ll back down here — there’s still a lot of money for them to rake in even after paying to use the news outlets’ work.
BEHOLD! I shall announce the genitalia of the unborn fetus! And I shall do it with an illegal explosive in a dry forest!
People be weird. 🤦♀️ Thank goodness the fire didn’t get out of hand.
My personal belief is that people who use the term “far right” are suspect from the beginning. It’s not a real and definable group.
Lots of people have gone to a lot of trouble to define it.
I fall center left on almost every issue. I am regularly called “far right” because I spend most of my time trying to explain and defend the mentalities of the right to the left.
Are you familiar with the concept of the Overton window? You might consider your views centre-left relative to the mainstream, but from your posts I’ve read, those views are definitely right-wing relative to the entire political spectrum.
When you stop demonizing them and start talking to them, even someone like me can find a lot of common ground with the right.
As a queer person who just wants to live my life and make things easier for the generation coming after me, there really isn’t much common ground, no. And I say that as a white person who doesn’t have to endure racial oppression, among other privileges I have.
The convoy was about the fear of giving up bodily autonomy. How hard would it have been just to keep recommending them instead of forcing it on people?
No one was forced to get vaccinated against their will. For quite a while, restrictions simply weren’t lifted for unvaccinated people, which is very reasonable when dealing with an infectious disease actively killing many millions of people. The convoy’s fears were misguided. They still had bodily autonomy, they just didn’t have the right to put other people at grave risk. (Being vaccinated can’t give any individual person total protection, so it’s crucial to have widespread adoption.) Health isn’t just an individual thing, it’s communal, too.
The US government isn’t seeking to undermine us.
Not as far as we know, and only because they don’t need to. If the countries weren’t close allies, the US wouldn’t hesitate to try to influence us. They have a long history of doing exactly that, including some failed coups.
China wants to destroy both the US and us.
Destroy? No. We’re far too valuable as trading partners. I don’t doubt that the Chinese government would like to influence our government to be more aligned with their desires and are probably making efforts to, though.
The Chinese are systematically trying to insert their citizens and paid operatives to erode Canada for their own gain, through economic means as well as by eroding national security.
The way you’re describing it here is dripping with racism and nationalism. This isn’t centre-left talk.
I’m less concerned about my sex drive and more concerned about the negative racial overtones in this image. ☹️
It seems like the author is asking “why isn’t there a just-like-Reddit or just-like-Twitter site that was totally ready and waiting for this moment, and even though we’d never heard of it before now has everyone using it?”
Fediverse is different, and that’s a good thing. Because note how all of these corporate social media platforms are ending up…
I looked up the past comment you mentioned. And just… Wow. 😐
Even if you do specifically have gender dysphoria, jumping to gender affirming care is radical. It's not how we treat any other kind of disordered thinking
Gender Dysphoria is not disordered thinking. That’s exactly why the name was changed in DSM-5 (formerly Gender Identity Disorder in DSM-IV). Or if you prefer, it’s exactly why ICD-11 renamed it to Gender Incongruence and moved it out of the “Mental, Behavioural, and Neurodevelopmental Disorders” section. Shouldn’t a former therapist commenting on the issue know that?
Does Gender Dysphoria present alongside disordered thinking? Quite often! But that doesn’t invalidate one’s gender identity. Transition didn’t make my F33.2 Major Depressive Disorder, Recurrent Severe magically go away, but it sure is easier to cope with and treat these days. (Well, I guess it’s 6A71.3 now that ICD-11 is out.)
I think people who can only find relief for their dysphoria by transitioning should be allowed to
And there we have it: the core of the argument you’re making is that people should only be allowed to transition if a gatekeeper is satisfied it’s the only way they can get relief. And the only way to “show” that is to suffer more and more — unnecessarily! — until someone like you finally believes them, which might never happen. Do you believe trans people genuinely have the gender we say we do? If so, withholding treatment is simply cruel. Or do you not believe us and just think it’s okay for us to “pretend” if nothing else works? That’s not real acceptance.
There is no medical reason not to try more traditional forms of therapy and medications before pursuing the less understood and riskier treatments.
Scientists still don’t fully understand how antidepressant medications work. They come with a black-boxed warning (the strongest kind) in the US, and similarly strong warnings in the Canadian product monographs. Benzodiazepines commonly used for anxiety disorders can be extremely risky. Puberty blockers and hormone treatments are better understood and carry less risk in many cases.
I very much wish the LGBT community could try to understand where moderates like myself are coming from.
Oh, believe me, we understand exactly where you’re coming from… quite possibly better than you do. You’re only fooling yourself with that “moderate” label.
And that’s why I wrote this reply out for the bystanders — it’s not actually for you.
For the record, I’ve been an LGBT supporter all of my life.
No, I’m afraid you haven’t been. For example, there was that time you wrote:
LGBT values are an invasive culture change that is being pushed on kids without the interests of the parents in mind.
Some of those kids are gay, some are bi, some are trans, some are ace, some are intersex, the list goes on. Every one of them deserves acceptance and support, whether their parents agree or not. A queer child’s safety and well-being shouldn’t depend on winning the supportive-parent(s) lottery. And even with a supportive parent, a hostile school environment can lead to suicidal ideation. Any guess as to how I know that?
I’ve only recently had to start pushing back because I believe certain parts of the LGBT culture are not suitable for children.
Sure, but which parts do you mean? Because lately, the rhetoric has mostly been about “drag queen story hour” which is really just reading books while playing fancy dress-up. There’s nothing inherently harmful or even sexualized about it.
Such a bubble seems workable to me, with the caveat of “during classes” or the like. If teachers are on strike, then there aren’t classes in session and thus it would be okay. And for BLM, a student-led rally could take place after classes, and a community-led rally during school hours would probably be much more effective if held elsewhere.
But the reason we’re talking about this is because anti-trans protestors want children to feel it’s dangerous and bad to be queer. It’s specifically an attack on queer kids and anyone who helps them feel safe at school. And kids, whether queer or not, shouldn’t be forcefully exposed to that hate in a place they are required by law to be.
In my view, systems without an HDMI output or which default to a 4:3 aspect ratio are retro. But I don’t expect everyone else to share this opinion, and that’s totally fine. 🙂