There are a few subreddits I check out from time to time because Lemmy doesn’t have the volume of users required to keep those niche conversations active.

Wow, what a pain! There’s so much hostility and byzantine rules. It’s just not worth it.

    • Duamerthrax@lemmy.world
      144·
      9 months ago

      If you’re weighing on on complex issues with simple replies, you’re going to come across as you’re concern trolling. If you’re regurgitating conservative talking points without realizing it, you’re going to come across as a conservative.

      You mention being against wind as nuclear is better, but wind isn’t competing with nuclear. It’s competing against oil. Guess what a major export of Norway is. You’re regurgitating talking points from your conservatives.

      You mention being skeptical about trans children, but in your comment history, you don’t propose a solution. Competitive and recreational sports has no effect on your quality of life. Why bother having an opinion on it?

      “I support the british government”

      cringe

        • NaoPb@eviltoast.orgEnglish
          1·
          9 months ago

          I think you make a fair point. And regarding sports it really isn’t fair if people have an unfair advantage. It also takes away the fun others have.

          I think it’s a hard decision to make because you don’t want to be labeled as transphobic, but you also don’t want biological and trans women competing in physical competitions. Now if it was about chess that would’ve been something else.

          The big question is what is fair. And I think fair is when we all have an equal chance and it’s no one has an unfair advantage over the other. And this might also disqualify biological men and women if that so happens to apply to them. Because it needs to be fair.

          I’m a trans woman myself btw and I would feel terrible if I were to compete with biological women in something physical. I just can’t imagine how that would be fair. Even if my muscle mass is mostly gone now, we are built different. Not better or worse, just different.

          P.S. does baard mean beard in your language too?

    • surewhynotlem@lemmy.world
      83·
      9 months ago

      letting biological men compete with biological women in sports

      Is it fair to let Michael Phelps, who has genetically abnormally large lungs, compete against other men without that genetic benefit? Why is genetalia your preferred means of segregating sporting groups?

      • FUBAR@lemm.ee
        12·
        9 months ago

        It’s not only genitalia, males have different hormone profiles growing up resulting in more strength.

    • AdmiralRob@lemmy.zipEnglish
      4·
      9 months ago

      Phobia is defined as an irrational fear, dislike, or aversion. Take the word fear out. Someone calling you or your statements transphobic isn’t calling you a scaredy-cat, it’s an attempt to notify you that your beliefs about transgender people don’t appear to be coming a logical, rational, or well-informed place.

      Not that I’m accusing you personally of anything, I’m just sick people using the flaccid “but I’m not afraid of them!” argument.

    • Punk_face@lemmy.zipEnglish
      41·
      9 months ago

      If it helps, at all…I don’t give a fuck either way. I find people who cling to the latest social trend as annoying as those who loudly oppose it. I enjoy educated banter from both ends of the spectrum…however, 90% don’t want a civilized & educated discussion…they want to insult and make you sound less than human in order to validate their beliefs & opinions. It’s the same all over the internet. Doesn’t matter if you are on Lemmy, Reddit, Twitter…doesn’t matter.

      • NaoPb@eviltoast.orgEnglish
        1·
        9 months ago

        Hey, someone who says what I’m thinking.

        And I agree, you find these people everywhere. Not just on Reddit. And they’re even on Lemmy.

    • myxi@feddit.nlEnglish
      3·
      9 months ago

      From Murat Altinay, a psychologist:

      Postmortem studies, which focused on male-to-female transgender brain, found that the brain volumes of transgender women were similar to that of cisgender females in certain areas, such as the central nucleus of the bed stria terminalis or interstitial nuclei of the anterior hypothalamus. These are areas that are essential in sexual behaviors, and the fact that the transgender female brain resembles the cisgender brain was important.

      Researchers also looked at some gray-matter volumes and cortical thickness. Again, transgender brains showed similarities to the identified gender even before the patients started hormonal treatment.

      Read more: https://consultqd.clevelandclinic.org/the-brain-and-gender-identity-current-evidence-and-implications-for-practice-podcast/

      There are differences between the brains of cisgender people and transgender people. Even as a kid, they can feel and suffer from their fate of having their brain in the wrong body. This is not some mere confusion caused by influence. Imagine your brain gets transplanted to a body of your opposite sex. Even a toddler would feel uncomfortable.