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I was agreeing with you and stating that the original group doing the “natural” thing were philosophically incorrect but I still appreciate the gesture of their support :p

I’m a trans transhumanist and agree. Though actually iirc there is evidence of animals experiencing some of this stuff even if they often lack the sociocognitotechnological structures to act upon it.

But my opinion is that “nature” (as much as that is even coherent as a concept which is questionable imo, youd really want to be going into specific systems) itself is fundamentally coercive.

I consider “nature” itself to be transphobic in structure (even if it is not sentient or has intent, once you can criticise systems for their construction why not criticise systems that are not human created such as biophysical systems nya). That is, the very construction of major parts of my biology - along also with social systems which have a major component - deprive me of autonomy and self determination. For me, as a trans enby who wants and has obtained hrt, then, I have used technological means to seize my agency ^.^. I’m not just talking abojt trans stuff here but yeah :p

Imo we must tear down this idea that “nature” is something just or good at all or any sort of model for how things should be. Thats not to aay engage in ecological destruction which is a different issue (I won’t go into that now but “don’t accept nature as it exists and be willing to radically alter or overthrow its tyranny” is not the same as “burn down all the forests/release CO2 and mindlessly destroy all the complex and interesting ecosystems that exist and that we also currently need for agriculture, just for short term profits, often even when better options exist”).

On the other hand, I do appreciate the gesture of support and solidarity for what it is. Even if philosophically I consider it incorrect.

I hate bioreactionaries I hate bioreactionaries I hate bioreactionaries I hate bioreactionaries I hate bioreactionaries.

In addition, he was also transphobic and opposed to bodily self-determination as well nya: https://apnews.com/article/vatican-gender-surrogacy-abortion-pope-3f84d8eb97f045b0cfb0ec1efa4e614e

Every accusation by fascists really is an admission, huh.

The one time there actually was a “masonic shadow government” it was a fascist far right group. Lmao :p

Thanks ^.

I have a very shitty notebook this is likely to be very useful for ;p

How does this compare to zswap. For me, if you still want a swap device on a real disk, this might be better? Idk >.<

Edit: arch has zswap enabled by default https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Zswap - someone below says it is better if you have zswap when you already have a swap device :)

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This is generally a censor of the word “trap”. While it obviously has several non-slur meanings, it is also used as an extremely visceral anti-trans (and in particular, anti-transfem) slur :/

The implication is that transfem people are “secretly gay men trapping straight men into being attracted to them”. It is associated with simultaneous sexualisation, homophobia, and transphobia >.<. If someone called me that IRL I would be seriously worried for my safety, as that’s often the kind of thing people would say before either raping or killing or injuring a transfem person for “”“threatening”“” their fragile sexuality, then using the trans panic defense.

The term got it’s start on 4chan, and people used it for femboy characters in anime (who are often poorly translated and may actually be trans in a lot of cases), but the kind of dehumanisation aspect of it means it very very quickly became a viscious anti-trans slur :/

You might find this interesting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zP4b3pw94s0

It’s a blackhat talk that talks about vulns in proxies and reverse proxies ^., as well as much of their weird behaviour.

Well, generally speaking I find the double empathy problem wikipedia page a helpful resource here. She mentions it in the article you linked, but then carries on with the framing of poor theory of mind, which she connects to “lack of cognitive empathy” >.<

My view and comprehension of the definition is that theory of mind is related to understanding that people have different internal self-perceptions. In this article, she conflates it with the ability to understand all of those internal states (this is cognitive empathy) in neurotypical people via reading things from their facial expressions etc. (Though acknowledges that autistic people have cognitive empathy for other autistic people).

The problem is that understanding that other people have their own perspective (theory of mind), and being able to read it off them (cognitive empathy), is absolutely and vitally distinct. In particular, lacking the former essentially means you view people as automatons to be used and abused or at least not even considered (there are situations where people do not consider others, but these are often associated with strong emotion, sensory overload, or desparation, and this isn’t unique to autistic people. ^.).

Claiming that autistic people lack the first gives people an excuse to mistreat us or deprive us of agency, and it’s also just incorrect. As documented in the page I linked above, most of the experiments claiming to provide evidence for this are either unreplicable or completely useless because they are totally unreciprocal (details in the link even though i’m tempted to list them out ;p) (e.g. they often use metrics to detect Theory-of-Mind behaviour or empathy that are designed for neurotypical children, on autistic children for things like responsiveness and emotions)

Secondly, she kind of has the implicit assumption in this article that we are flawed for not reading things from eye contact and similar things, and that learning to put up with that and read things that way is something we must do to be happy or empathetic :/, I’ve not found this to be the case, my cognitive empathy for neurotypical people comes primarily from visualising myself in their position while trying to consider their circumstances, or just asking about their emotional state, and I don’t think this is wrong or inferior like her article that you linked kind of implies. I care about other people even if I can’toften read their emotions well (at least if they’re neurotypical).

To be clear, I’m not saying that it’s a bad idea to learn eye reading if you want to, but that kind of stuff is also exhausting and dehumanising and just ruins conversations and makes them stressful in my experience >.<, if you can actually spare the energy to constantly read this stuff while also listening to actual words . I also can’t really “mask”, which might be a factor in this, cus this kind of stuff causes massive amounts of stress and anxiety and dissociation and depression for me, and it doesn’t even work anyway.

Doing the whole “making facial expressions to have neurotypical people see you have emotions” stuff - which is the reverse end of the trying to read neurotypical facial expressions - is just miserable and fake to me, not that I can do it anyhow but even trying just adds a layer of exhaustion and stress and anxiety and dissociation to conversations. I don’t want to do it and I don’t think I should be expected to put on a show just to get others to consider my emotions, or just make them happy at my own expense.

Perhaps neurotypical people should learn how autistic people express internal states (infodumping, stimming, contextualising w.r.t special interests, etc.) or how we do conversations either verbally or textually (e.g. I often relay support or ideas or thoughts about something to someone by talking about something similar that happened to me, but my experience is that a lot of neurotypical people take this as trying to overtake the converasation or be self centred or whatever <.<). Or something like this ;p

Basically, she acknowledges the double empathy problem exists but then goes back to framing it as theory of mind deficits (which are distinct from empathy in my understanding, whereas she conflates them), even if there is a token acknowledgement that a lot of neurotypical folks have lack of cognitive empathy (which she conflates with theory of mind) w.r.t. autistic people.

Maybe it’s because I’ve in the past few months been more and more in social groups with a decent sized proportion of autistic people that I feel this, but not having people expect you to adhere to neurotypical social protocol (which I can’t do reliably and it causes massive dissociation and stress for me to try) has been extremely liberating ^. - i’ve realised that i’m not actually an introvert either, just found trying to navigate more neurotypical social norms/scripts/body language/magic-bullshit-emotional-sidechannels cripplingly exhausting, un-genuine, and anxiety inducing. Unpacking my very poor attempts at masking has helped immensely as well ;p

Apart from buying into the unscientific and dehumanising idea that autistic people lack theory of mind, this has some good signs to look out for, even if I disagree with a lot of the framing of autism here.

And it’s a good thing. Fuck proprietary software 😎

That’s super interesting tbh, a lot of the examples in that give me the idea that a lot of these were very conditional in who they helped and often with undercurrents of controlling behaviour? But also almost charity like in a really patronising way.

It reminds me of some of the stuff the Salvation Army does with queer homeless people :/, or the old-style benefits system in parts of the US back in the 1920s and 1930s (iirc) where people were basically only allowed help if observers deemed them “sufficiently frugal” or sufficiently miserable >.<

“Yale Police Benevolent Association” is such a dystopian name. Real “Ministry of Truth” vibes :/

The absolute contempt for human life and dignity in this comment :/

Exactly. Poland itself is pretty damn far-right, and while they might be helping Ukraine and Ukrainians, this doesn’t mean their government is not borderline fascist. Someone else below (@[email protected]) provided this link documenting some severe human rights abuses against lots of migrants (some of these are also from the Belarus side too, it’s not just Poland).

Any situation in which a state denies access to people watching for such abuses - like this - is one that sends immediate and severe warning signs to me. Combined with the other stuff going on around LGBT+ free zones, well, it’s worrying imo >.<

Some of this stuff is even worse than what I’ve heard of the US/Mexico border, though it’s all pretty horrific.

Why is it that liberals only source is wikipedia??? Please read other things.

Not a lib, and my source is wikipedia because it has it’s own sources as well and provides a decent summary.

Says the person whose entire fucking understanding of the matter was gained from wikipedia 5 seconds before making this comment. Jesus fucking christ.

Yeah because you’re from hexbear and I don’t trust you to engage in good faith or not immediately jump to the worst possible interpretation of something I said or missed (like you have done with the trans clinic thing), or do the whole thing where you assume only you are right and people can’t reasonably disagree on something, or always pivot to “but the us/uk did…” and act as if the inevitable and only correct conclusion to any debate or discussion is that the US and “West” (which is itself a messy concept) is worse in every aspect of every single thing than anywhere else in every possible action. And I, you know, can read the information and compare it with the uk/us pretty quickly, without listing every single tiny factor that went into my consideration.

Frankly, the behaviour of hexbear users has made me always check the accounts of people with square-brackets pronouns before engaging unless I’m in a community on an instance that has defederated. I should not feel this way when pronoun tags are a trans supportive thing and would usually make me feel more comfortable when talking with people. But blegh.

I will probably block after this because all engaging with 95% of hexbear users does is cause me irrational amounts of stress every fucking time because of the constant goddamn micro-nitpick and aggression on every fucking thing, constant assumptions of superiority and assuming they are always completely correct in ever single debate or discussion, it’s like they can’t even conceive of being wrong on something. Honestly this is just a vent at this point lol, not even something you specifically have done since you’re nowhere near the worst I’ve come across from hexbear.

Engaging just makes me feel the need to analyse every single thing I say to see if it will set the hexbear folks off on a tangent or completely dismiss you and do the weird misdirection and whataboutism and such. It makes me afraid to ever engage with hexbears in any manner, or overanalyse every tiny thing I say in case they use it to deliberately evade my main point like I was forced to do when younger in very hostile situations as an autistic person to avoid unpredictably angry people, and just like then it brings very little practical success because all my effort is spent trying to find any tiny way what I said might be interpreted in the worst possible way and there’s always some excuse anyway.

China is expanding clinics for trans people. Notably for trans children, who it built its first clinic for in 2021 and has built a further 8 since.

True. This doesn’t change the other stuff I mentioned, and the UK also claims to be “improving” clinics for trans teens while doing the opposite, so forgive me for being a little skeptical of the persistency, especially since the hrt stuff is from 2022 and this is from 2021. It’s also only in a couple provinces. However, if it pans out, which it seems to from what you see, it’s a positive move, but again, it seems to be Shanxi and Beijing.

This was also explicitly mentioned in the wikipedia article and I did see it. But it was only a single province, compared to the entire government’s more negative actions >.<

The point here is that it is demonstrably obvious to trans people living in the US and UK that China is better to us than the US and the UK, one of which is currently performing a genocide against us and the other of which is transphobic on a near daily basis and is expected by the community here to follow in the US’ footsteps if it gets the chance.

China is pretty blegh actually.

They are actively making things worse w.r.t accessing HRT online, and require even more nonsense than the UK on changing legal ID, including shit like spousal approval, familial approval, and permission from various things like work, school, etc. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transgender_people_in_China

Access to hrt is also comparable to the uk by the looks of it. More importantly, the illegality of gay marriage combined with the massive approval process for id change means that trans people with different-gender partners can’t marry legally, and trans people with similar-gender partners are probably? in an unfortunate position here, though the page doesn’t include info on this >.<

The more sex-segregated components of various aspects of China also causes significant issues >.<

I’d say it’s worse in terms of being able to socially and medically transition, but there’s less overt hate. It’s more death-by-bureacracy and a need for even more extensive social approval to transition (I’m almost impressed that they managed a worse system than in the UK). The greater hold the Chinese Government has over their internet means accessing DIY HRT is likely much harder :/

People claiming China is much better on this than the US and the UK are wrong, they both have different issues. The UK in particular, most of the transphobia I experience is from institutions and media rather than “on the ground” (though this def. happens too), and the way the government is going with using us as a scapegoat is very concerning. But the - for now - lower amount of control over communications means I got started on DIY HRT pretty simply and pushed my way through the “official” system.

On a side note, stuff like this is one of the reasons opposing authoritarianism especially w.r.t communication is important, it makes it easier to do things the government has not approved of because the infrastructure is not in place to control communication and coordination as effectively.

The US is as always a clusterfuck because of it’s more federated nature, some of their states are trying to do genocide while others are acting as refuges and have things like informed consent HRT access and active protection against the more hostile states ^. - but fuck me if the dems aren’t spineless at opposing this stuff or (as can be seen in the op) sometimes support this.

Honestly most large states constantly try and censor the internet with stuff like this, though in the US/UK/Europe it has been a lot less successful at least. In this case it’s a more brazen attack on queer people, but this sort of stuff seems to happen every couple years. It’s very frustrating >.<

People definitely have some double standards though - maybe racism or the false idea that China is communist - but it doesn’t mean the Chinese govt is good on things, in my observation, just that people underestimate the things European countries, the UK, and US states do.

They may be better or worse and just because people often have double standards doesn’t make the Chinese government better (though it is often not worse in some respects, but the overall greater control of communication and computing infrastructure means it is harder to evade the subjugation or organise around it via tools like Tor, and the greater centralisation means that if the government decides to do something particularly awful it’s both harder for public dissent to occur and harder for regions to undermine efforts like that or even actively counter them :/).

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