It’s one thing to have differing views, but I’ve seen enough attempted reddit migrations to be relieved that the popular communities in the fediverse so far haven’t been about crazy racist stuff or other extreme right bullshit.

I am also glad that I’m getting away from reddit’s general political shitposting, which was more left leaning. You couldn’t have any proper discourse on there, and even I with my generally more left leaning views recognized that.

  • tikitaki
    9•1 year ago

    we aren’t seeing a 4000% increase in kids becoming gymnasts

    it’s a poignant social topic. instead of attacking my credibility, aiming to represent me as biased, you should try to attack my argument

    having said that, i support kids transitioning. i’m more upset about the “wrongthink” mentality where someone can’t even share their opinion without getting pounced on. he isn’t sharing hate speech he’s just talking

    • sour
      11•1 year ago

      we aren’t seeing a 4000% increase in kids wanting to transition

      • BasicTraveler
        3•1 year ago

        If you cherry pick the dates of comparison you can probably come up with 4000%

        Check. Mate.

    • FaceDeer
      9•1 year ago

      Indeed, I’ve been finding myself hesitant to chime in on this because I know I’m inevitably going get lumped in with transphobe Nazi facists because at some point I’m going to say “hey hang on, there’s some nuance here that you’re missing.”

      • tikitaki
        4•1 year ago

        was in the article i linked

        between 2009 and 2019, children being referred for transitioning treatment in the United Kingdom increased 1,000% among biological males and 4,400% among biological females.

        i guess it’s too much to expect people to read things

        • Anomander
          5•1 year ago

          So “transition treatments” have gone up 4000% … in the time period following the treatment becoming available. If being a gymnast was illegal until 2009, or nobody had invented a trampoline until then, you can certainly bet making it legal or possible to do floor routines would result in a 4000%+ increase in people who were openly and publically gymnasts.

          Trans people, trans kids, have always existed - we just didn’t have the technology to provide the treatment in that article.

          That article is choosing to cite the numbers on the treatment rather than the condition because the treatment’s very recent launch means it allows the presentation of a scarier number.