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To make matters worse for people that shares your stance, many Fediverse users in this movement are of the opinion that your instance should be blocked as well
by mikae1 3y ago
To make matters worse for people that shares your stance, many Fediverse users in this movement are of the opinion that your instance should be blocked as well if you dont't block Meta.
- tedunangst 3y agoThere's always about 100x more people talking about the puritan servers that block the friends of the friends of the wicked servers than there are actual puritans.
- concordDance 3y agoSo you're saying most Mastadon servers won't block servers that allow "TERF"s (a term which includes the very mainstream view that transwomen shouldnt be allowed in woman's sports)?
- tedunangst 3y agoMany probably will, but they won't recursively block every other server that declines to block those servers, as repeatedly alleged.
- watwut 3y ago[flagged]
- xigoi 3y agoWhat's even the point of having sports separated into women's and “men's” if anyone can just choose where to participate?
- watwut 3y agoWhich is not situation at all, nor was there any threat of that happening.
- tarsinge 3y agoI'm not familiar with that term and the subject, what's the issue with checking someone fit in the corresponding physical category? Sport is all about the physical body and performance, not about personality. Physical categories could be abandoned, but if they are maintained there then it's seems logical to check, maybe with a more scientific test like testosterone level being into a range. Regardless of gender people would then compete in their (testosterone?) class, like weight classes exists in some sports.
- watwut 3y agoYeah, I take issue with forcing anyone including 13 years old to undergo genital checks. It is literally in the sexual harassments category and massively humiliating. Also, if there is manufactured controversy, it is this one. It is not like there would be hundreds of trans women destroying female sport. This issue exists purely to outrage people and to be cruel to few that exist.
- shapenamer 3y agoweird take imo, I played multiple sports in highschool and every year I had to go have a doctor (always female, but I'm supposed to be ok with this I guess, but I wasn't) handle my genitals or I wouldn't be allowed to compete.
- watwut 3y agoThat is definitely not normal.
- shapenamer 3y agoIt's extremely normal https://www.virtua.org/articles/turn-your-head-and-cough-the-first-step-in-a-hernia-diagnosis https://www.virtua.org/articles/turn-your-head-and-cough-the... You clearly didn't play any sports, or you're female, I suppose.
- Crux2632 3y ago[dead]
- concordDance 3y agoI have never seen people called "TERF"s being against transmen in men's sports, only transwomen. Haven't seen one demand genital checks either.
- mcv 3y agoI think TERF includes a bit more than just that opinion on sports.
- concordDance 3y agoThat opinion is the minimum required for the label. Any prohibition of transwomen from a woman's space is enough, though most "TERF"s will prohibit all pre-op transwomen from all woman's spaces.
- rsynnott 3y agoMany Mastodon instances do block instances which allow transphobes, yes. However, it's very rarely _transitive_, is the point; few Mastodon instances will block instances which do not block instances which allow transphobes.
- singleshot_ 3y agoCounterexample: EFnet