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Growing Up Alyssa
- BrotherBisquick 3y ago[flagged]
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- api 3y agoI think the right has seized on trans people because it's become socially unacceptable to go after gay people (at least directly), so going after trans people is a substitute. "Othering" some group and uniting people against them is powerful brain stem stuff, and elections these days are won or lost on turnout rather than changing anyone's mind. I'm not sure what they're going to do when there aren't any groups left to "other." They might have to argue for their ideas and policies on reason and merit. That's gonna be hard. It's a lot harder to convince the neocortex with reason than to rally the limbic system with outrage porn. It's gross of course. It's using people for political cannon fodder. At least the left mostly just tries to scare me and make me hate right-wing politicians, which is like striking a military target rather than a civilian target. I hate the culture war in general. It's a godsend to incompetent politicians. All they have to do is grunt correctly on culture war issues and they don't have to actually deliver anything of substance or solve any real problems.
- Veen 3y agoThe most vociferous "anti-trans" people tend to be left-leaning feminists, in my experience.
- cashmonster 3y agoThe article is clearly about political and legislative anti-trans machinations though, not TERFs at dinner parties or whatever. In that context it’s the right that is the issue.
- howinteresting 3y agoThe organized TERF movement and the far-right trans eliminationist movement are one and the same. For example, the Women's Liberation Front (WoLF), which brands itself as a left-wing group, has been working with the people pushing bills: https://twitter.com/ErinInTheMorn/status/1634287701896712207/photo/1 https://twitter.com/ErinInTheMorn/status/1634287701896712207...
- jojeobe 3y ago[flagged]
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- jojeobe 3y ago[flagged]
- howinteresting 3y agoTarring an entire group of humans, one that has been attested in history for thousands of years, as pretenders, is beyond incurious. It is cruel. We're talking in the comments of a (flagged) post by a young trans woman. The bile you are posting is a demonstration of your low, low character.
- jojeobe 3y ago[flagged]
- ribit 3y agoAnd your comment might even be relevant if “left-leaning feminists” were a non-fringe political power threatening to take over legislative, executive, and judicial branches of power. We have real problems to deal with, not some imaginary “bad feminism”.
- fmnst 3y agoFeminism advocating for women as a sex caste fighting for their rights in a male-dominated world is the only type of feminism that makes any sense. Everything else is, to varying extents, pandering to male wants and desires.
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- tombert 3y agoI don't know; it seems like DeSantis and his ilk are pretty happy to just directly go after gay people under the guise of calling them "groomers". I mentioned this here a few weeks ago, but part of the reason that my wife and I have dismissed the idea of moving to Florida (despite us both having family there) is because she's planning on becoming a biology teacher, and the broad and idiotic "don't say gay" law in Florida is likely to make our lives extremely unpleasant if she taught there.
- hersko 3y agoWhat specifically in the "don't say gay" law are you against?
- tombert 3y agoThe fact that it allows basically any parent to sue to the teacher for mentioning basically anything involving sexual orientation, the fact that it doesn't really define what is disallowed, the fact that it was extended all the way until twelfth grade, the fact that there's little repercussions for a parent lying or embellishing. ETA: Oh, also, because it's basically predicated on a homophobic conspiracy about gay people all being out to groom your children.
- hersko 3y agoI'm just looking at the bill [1]. It seems like a very straight forward reinforcement of a parents rights to oversee the education of their kids. > any parent to sue to the teacher for mentioning basically anything involving sexual orientation "prohibiting a school district from encouraging classroom discussion about sexual orientation or gender identity in primary grade levels or in a specified manner. ..... to adhere to standards developed by the department of education." Presumably they can only sue if the teacher is going against whatever the normal standards are. > little repercussions for a parent lying or embellishing I don't know what you mean here, but presumably if the parents take a teacher to court and lose (because they lied/embellished) they would have just wasted their legal fees. > homophobic conspiracy about gay people all being out to groom your children Not sure about this. I think the bill came out before the whole groomer thing. [1] https://www.scribd.com/document/559840370/House-Bill-1557-Don-t-Say-Gay# https://www.scribd.com/document/559840370/House-Bill-1557-Do...
- ChrisMarshallNY 3y ago> I'm not sure what they're going to do when there aren't any groups left to "other." Sadly, this will never happen. We've been at this for tens of thousands of years, and we always find "others." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANNX_XiuA78 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANNX_XiuA78
- LV123 3y ago> I'm not sure what they're going to do when there aren't any groups left to "other." There's always going to be an "other". If necessary, some arbitrary social divide will be invented. Most of the "groups" we've split ourselves into are not particularly meaningful to begin with, and it doesn't take much to become an outsider when people really want there to be outsiders.
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- dale_glass 3y agoThe whole discourse over this in the US is getting nuts as of late. We justifiably get annoyed when uninformed lawmakers make sweeping laws without understanding the technical issues involved. It's frankly bizarre to have some 80 year old fossil who can barely understand using a cell phone be involved in something like deciding net neutrality or AI regulations. We should be equally annoyed at the current trend of throwing medical issues into the public sphere. There's no reason whatsoever why random people like my mom whose education is in textile design and mostly watches cat videos all day should participate in the public drama of who should get what medical treatment when. We have professionals who specialize in medicine for a reason.
- whitemary 3y agoIt distracts from the economy. Simple as that.
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- brucethemoose2 3y agoThere are downsides to technocracy, like doctor groups or AI companies pursuing their self interests a little too much. And at the federal level, many of the older congressional members are not as uninformed as you might think. They have a big information machine around them. ...But, in general, yeah. Its absurd how uninformed the debates can get these days.
- notacoward 3y ago> There's no reason whatsoever why random people... Having "random people" participate is a cornerstone of democracy. As others have pointed out, it's what separates democracy from elitist technocracy - and, ultimately, oligarchy. The problem is that another cornerstone is the public's responsibility to educate themselves. Nobody seems to do that any more, including here. This is the foundation that's failing. Fix the broken cornerstone, not the one that's still intact (though under assault in the form of gerrymandering and disenfranchisement).
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- eropple 3y ago"I'm going to try to sound chin-strokingly neutral but I can't call her 'she' when that's what she prefers."
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- bsaul 3y ago« I’m on the board overseeing Linux graphics. Half of us are trans » From a purely statistical POV, this is absurdly bizarre.
- dj_mc_merlin 3y agoIt's not a random pick from the population, or the 95% male ratio in engineering would also be somewhat weird. They have a small team: https://asahilinux.org/about/ https://asahilinux.org/about/ People like to team up with others like them, so the fact that they're more likely to collaborate with other trans people is not weird at all.
- School-Cotton 3y agoI don't think she was referring to Asahi there.
- dj_mc_merlin 3y agohttps://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/maintainers.html https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/maintainers.h... The only graphical subystem she is on the list for is the Panfrost driver. I don't think that counts as "on the board overseeing Linux graphics", not at all. This is one GPU driver. She is on the board overseeing the general graphics for Linux for the Asahi project, so I think that's what she was referring to.
- minimaul 3y agoI suspect it was actually a reference to https://www.x.org/wiki/BoardOfDirectors/ https://www.x.org/wiki/BoardOfDirectors/. > X.Org Foundation's (or X.Org for short) purpose is to research, develop, support, organize, administrate, standardize, promote, and defend a free and open accelerated graphics stack and the developers and users thereof. This stack includes, but is not limited to, the following projects: DRM, Mesa, Wayland and the X Window System. Pretty neatly describes "I’m on the board overseeing Linux graphics.".
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- jawns 3y ago> if you vote Republican in 2024, you vote erasure. You vote oppression. You vote fascism As a registered independent who finds both major parties unconscionable, this line of argument worries me. Frankly, members of both parties can ascribe the worst possible motives to those who vote for the opposition, precisely because both parties are a massive tangle of complex social, economic, political, and administrative issues, not necessarily all consistent with each other, and very often only invoked when it's politically convenient. I'm not trying to engage in false equivalence here, because it is absolutely possible for one party to be worse than the other. But what I'm saying is that ascribing the worst possible motives to those who don't vote like you is only going to inflame our already polarized political discourse, and my great fear is that if the flames are fanned enough, we're going to end up how Rwanda ended up when the hatred between the Hutus and Tutsis boiled over.
- tombert 3y ago[flagged]
- shrimp_emoji 3y agoYep. Whenever I see "republicans and democrats are the same", I know I'm talking to someone not directly affected by the policy differences (so someone likely cis, white, straight, and/or middle-class or higher).
- tombert 3y agoI just think that "enlightened centrism" is sort of intellectually lazy at this point. Obviously you don't have to agree with everything that a side does, but I think it's extremely easy to just throw your hands up in the air and say "both sides are bad!" and then turn your brain off. It is the facsimile of an enlightened opinion, but you didn't actually do anything to earn it. There are plenty of things that the American left do/say that I don't agree with [1], but I don't think the logical conclusion of that is to just act like both sides are equally horrible. [1] For example, I fundamentally do not agree with the (at least one point) popular leftist opinion of decreasing military funding.
- jmclnx 3y ago>I fear the 2024 election You and me both :( With you being young and hopefully on social media, I hope you can help turn out the youth vote. I hate to say this, most people of my generation are about as close minded as a person can get, and sadly they turn out to vote in large numbers. And many of them vote only for hate. I think the future of the US rests on your generation shoulders, and I hope your generation is stronger than mine is/was.
- marcodiego 3y agoRight wing political parties in the world are taking a crusade against LGBT rights. In brazil the situation is ridiculous: a parliamentarian used the tribune in the International Womens' Day to attack trans women[1]. A significant part of the population is against against trans rights basing their arguments on religion and "morality". There are great efforts to ban even talking about it in schools. brazil is the country with highest number of trans people killings in the world[2] and homophobia is the rule rather than the exception. There's is a reason why most women and LGBT people in brazil vote for left-wing politicians. [1] https://www.riotimesonline.com/brazil-news/modern-day-censorship/brazils-most-voted-congressman-is-harassed-for-criticizing-gender-ideology/ https://www.riotimesonline.com/brazil-news/modern-day-censor... [2] https://www.brasildefato.com.br/2022/01/23/brazil-continues-to-be-the-country-with-the-largest-number-of-trans-people-killed https://www.brasildefato.com.br/2022/01/23/brazil-continues-...
- throwwwwww000 3y ago> brazil is the country with highest number of trans people killings in the world[2] and homophobia is the rule rather than the exception. Not surprising when Brazil is a very dangerous country with a very high number of killings, period. It just naturally follows that the number of gay/trans people killings is also very high. I mean, we can probably concoct some statistics to prove that Brazil is also one of the countries that kill more cis/hetero people too. None of this to say that the right wing in Brazil is okay. They engage in this cultural war nonsense to try to stay relevant after Bolsonaro ridiculously lost the last elections even after all things he did to try and steal it.
- hersko 3y ago[flagged]
- uneekname 3y agoc'mon HN, don't flag this. it's a perspective piece about being a trans developer in a harsh political landscape. we upvote and discuss this stuff quite often.
- hersko 3y agoIt's someones political manifesto. Not sure why it's relevant to HN.
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- mrlonglong 3y ago@dang why is this flagged? It was a pretty good discussion of issues surrounding the trans community.