[-] ada 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Your statement seems to imply you think i disagree with you

You do. You are suggesting that trans people should offer to exclude themselves and give up our rights, because demanding equality is too much.

I am expressing concern about how other peoples actions will cause more negative pushback

Giving up some of our rights, rights that everyone else has, to appease the folk who enjoy those rights, when we are the ones more at risk of violence, and exclusion is not a viable middle ground like you seem to be implying it is.

Your framing of that as "all or nothing" means I very much disagree with you. You may think trans folk deserve rights and dignity, but you don't believe trans people deserve the same rights as cis people

[-] ada 7 points 1 day ago

Also, based on some messages I got from users

No, it's not.

Let me ask you a question. Is teaching a kid to repress and hide who they are for the sake of other people something you want to teach them? Especially if they're queer themselves? 'cause that's what hiding yourself teaches them.

[-] ada 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

"I think people should have respect" isn't something you can say when the thing that follows is a list of arguments to exclude those very same people.

Even your framing highlights why trans folk are so frustrated. You talk about women's safety, as if trans women aren't part of that discussion, and on top of that, you completely brush over the fact that trans women are even more likely to be victims of violence and sexual assault than cis women.

And your response is that trans folk should just be OK with that, they should just compromise by accepting that their needs are viewed as less important than the needs of cis folk, and just silently accept exclusion.

The truth is, rights are won through social push back and confrontation. They are fought for, because they don't just get handed over otherwise. Especially when there is political capital in exclusion.

I'm also going to highlight that despite engaging with you in good faith, you almost certainly haven't become more accepting, and in fact have most likely become more entrenched in your position as you consider comebacks to my points.

That's why

[-] ada 13 points 2 days ago

Not quite. I grew up with a lot of racism that took time to undo and is still ongoing.

But that didn't impact my kiddo directly as they're not targetted by racism.

However, I found out that I'm adhd due to my kid being diagnosed, and I was out as queer before them. So we have intersections in common that we've both been working through at the same time.

[-] ada 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Literally no one thinks cis women and trans women are the same, so your compromise doesn't mean anything in and of itself.

I'm asking you what your position means in real world terms. What are the consequences of these differences? Because that's what really matters.

Feigned outrage because I asked you for specifics seems counter to your stated goals of reaching compromise and makes me question your motives.

[-] ada 82 points 2 days ago

It's a transphobic dog whistle. Popularised by UK transphobes. The implication is that trans women aren't women, and when you see it used, that's what they're really saying.

[-] ada 65 points 2 days ago

FYI, I won't be able to see any responses to this comment chain from feddit.uk users or admins unless I manually watch it off instance. I'll try and do so, but I won't see pings etc.

In any case, to address Emperor's comment, to avoid defederation and give the feddit.uk time to work it out, all it would have taken was a single response to my messages stating that it's being discussed by the admin team. Instead, despite twice highlighting that this is an issue important enough to defederate over, I got radio silence, whilst Emperor continued to post elsewhere. Even if it were not the intent, it came across as a deliberate choice to ignore my messages.

Federation will be re-enabled if they ultimately address the issue.

[-] ada 95 points 2 days ago

No. I won't start a brigade against a specific user, even a transphobic one. And ultimately, the defederation is due to the feddit.uk admins approach to transphobia rather than the specifics of the posts.

[-] ada 3 points 2 days ago

That didn't answer the question you replied to, and didn't actually say anything. What does that all look like in real world terms in your mind? How does this "compromise" manifest? I'm guessing that it involves putting trans folk in harms way...

[-] ada 5 points 3 days ago

i love Cachy! The performance tweaks are nice, but what I really like is the Cachy repositories and how quickly they're updated, and how useful they are!

[-] ada 68 points 3 days ago

The opposite happened to me when I transitioned. When I was perceived as a guy, if I was in a meeting, people didn't instantly fall silent if I spoke, but if they tried to overtalk me and I just kept speaking, they would eventually give way. I transitioned 8 years ago, and from the earliest days of my transition until now, if someone starts overtalking me, they will just keep doing it even if I don't stop talking. The only way to stop them is to vocally call them out and ask them to be quiet until I'm finished.

Similarly, I used to be seen as one of the two "tech guys". The person that people would come up to and ask for tech advice to avoid calling the internal helpdesk. After I transitioned, they started coming up to me and asking me where the other tech guy is.

My career has stalled since I came out. I'm in a trans inclusive country, in a trans inclusive workplace, and I transitioned so long ago, that most people don't know that I'm trans or simply forget. But since coming out, the various shoulder taps in to project opportunities and the like just don't happen anymore.

Maybe people went silent because they were fascinated by or fixated on the unusual timbre of the OP’s transitioned vocal cords.

It's a nice theory, but it's somewhat strange how my own experience as a trans person transitioning from male to female had the opposite impact. Did people start overtalking me because they were fascinated by my timbre?

Additionally, OP was in the same department for years and then transitioned. So, naturally people would approach a more experienced person for help or advice regardless of perceived sex if they knew that person was there longer than them.

Again, it's a nice theory, but in my case, they stopped approaching me. And even the ones who don't know that I'm trans don't approach me that way, because I'm not seen as one of the "tech folk" anymore, despite not losing my experience when I transitioned.

but OP seems to be using the worst possible anecdotes

Similarly, you are using the least likely possibilities that contradict the first hand experience of folk directly in these scenarios to fit your pre-conceived notion of what is happening.

Yeah, the OPs post and mine are anecdotal, so you shouldn't take either of our experiences as universal truths. But your takes aren't even anecdotal. They're suppositions.

[-] ada 46 points 5 days ago

Exist as a trans person

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Mods are asleep, post ducks!

But to keep it on topic, this is a female Rosy-billed Pochard in Buenos Aires. Taken with a Canon R50, which I used for a brief moment before returning to Olympus/OM systems

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More fishing practice!

#gull #seagull #picton #bird #aotearoa #NewZealand

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It's less then 24 hours before Tropical Cyclone Alfred hits. The sun is out, the wind is calm and it's a beautiful day.

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This girl was screaming the whole way as she came in for landing, and she gave me a beautiful reflection as she did!

Zealandia, Wellington, Aotearoa/New Zealand - February 2025

#bird #gull #KelpGull #Zealandia #reflection #Aotearoa #NewZealand #Larus #LarusDominicanus

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This girl was screaming the whole way as she came in for landing, and she gave me a beautiful reflection as she did!

Zealandia, Wellington, Aotearoa/New Zealand - February 2025

#bird #gull #KelpGull #Zealandia #reflection #Aotearoa #NewZealand #Larus #LarusDominicanus

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Kea (Nestor notabilis) (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
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Auckland Zoo, Aotearoa/New Zealand - February 2025

#bird #kea #nestor #NestorNotabilis #Auckland #AucklandZoo #Aotearoa #NewZealand

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This is what Toombul looks like now!

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Tiritiri Matangi, Auckland Region, Aotearoa/New Zealand - February 2025

#tui #Tūī #tiritiriMatangi #bird #birds #aotearoa #newzealand #ProsthemaderaNovaeseelandiae #Prosthemadera

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Zealandia, Wellington, Aotearoa/New Zealand

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Round the Bays (self.running)
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I arrived in Wellington yesterday, and at parkrun I discovered Round the Bays is on on the next day (now today). So I signed up for my first ever international race, with zero prep. It starts in 90 minutes. What could go wrong? :p

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