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"I know a person" is a typical response from the noveau pseudo scientific trans movement, no one really understands this condition yet, and hopefully science ca
by spicyramen 7y ago
"I know a person" is a typical response from the noveau pseudo scientific trans movement, no one really understands this condition yet, and hopefully science can figure it out, although science around this topic has been shut down by the "progressive" movement.
https://www.brown.edu/news/2019-03-19/gender https://www.brown.edu/news/2019-03-19/gender
- undoware 7y agoTrans activist here. What we've shut down, basically, is the lengthy history of medical abuse and trauma that cis supremacists have inflicted on our people. Have a nice day. Stay in your lane.
- dang 7y agoPlease don't respond to a bad comment by taking the thread further into flamewar. Down that path lies wreckage, regardless of who's right and who's wrong. And it breaks the site guidelines as well. As they say, the thing to do with egregious comments is to flag them and/or to email hn@ycombinator.com—not to feed them by replying. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- dang 7y agoIt breaks the site guidelines to post shallow dismissals of other people's experience, so please don't. Taking HN threads into ideological flamewar is even worse, so please don't either. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html Knowing a person is a perfectly cromulent reason to say something in a conversation. Conversations is all HN threads are. Anecdotes are great for conversation (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=by%3Adang%20conversation%20anecdote&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...).