Unless they're robots, trans women are biological women, being that they're women and they're "biological"
Except research conducted by men like Sam Parnia rules that out and shows that conciousness persists after death.
That's not what he showed though. What he was saying is that brain death isn't the hard on/off line that we think it is, and that in some cases, it's possible to restore some brain function in a brain that had been declared to have died.
Only problem is that even if the person is barely clinging onto life there's still the issue of conciousness being strong and present where none can exist.
Sam Parnia quite explicitly talks about "restoration" of brain function. This does not mean that consciousness exists independent of the brain, he's stating that he believes we can return consciousness to some brains that we believe are beyond that point, and the boundary at which the brain/consciousness "dies" isn't quite as clear cut as it seems.
He also claims that the experience of consciousness might not be centered in the brain, despite interacting with it, but at this point, he is no longer backed by research or medical experience, and is just theorising.
Which is to say, the research and experiences he talks about do suggest that our "time of death" and treatment of brain death as a binary yes/no situation may be incorrect.
However, it doesn't say anything new in regards to life after death, souls, or anything along those lines, and Sam Parnia's talk in these areas is supposition rather than evidence based.
I think you have the wrong community...
If the only significance of 240 sterlings is that it weighs a pound, then it seems likely the pound would have been a pound, whatever number of sterlings it happened to be...
That's a lot of words to say "Things were better when I was young".
It's a clickbait article, showing the same distress at younger generations that every generation before has complained about
because studies range from showing HRT helps a little to not at all at preventing suicide.
No they don't. There are a couple of studies that are deliberately misrepresented by transphobes to imply this, and they often get passed around as fact, by people who aren't familiar with the studies in question.
Firstly, there was this Finnish one https://mentalhealth.bmj.com/content/27/1/e300940
You can see more about the hatchet job that the New York Post did on that one here https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/56772/does-gender-transitioning-do-nothing-to-help-suicidal-ideation
Then there is this one https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3043071/. It's older, and it is misrepresented to claim that the suicide rate of trans folk doesn't change after transition. The thing about that study is that doesn't even assess the impact of transition. The entire cohort of trans people in the study were post transition, and questions were asked about their lifetime suicide attempts, without comparing before/after transition data. So because 41% of trans people in that study had made at least one suicide attempt at some point in their lives, the claim was made that transition doesn't help, because "41% of post op trans people have attempted suicide". The lead author of this particular study has spoken out several times on the misuse of the study by transphobes with an agenda, but to this day, it keeps happening...
So, let me give you the actual data...
This is a consolidation of the findings of research on trans health care, and the impact of transition on the well being of trans folk. To summarise, they looked at 55 studies on the impact of transition. 51 of those found transition to be beneficial, and 4 of them contained mixed findings.
You've stumbled on one of the tools that transphobes use. Deliberate misrepresentation of the facts, so that they can push for trans folk to be cut off from transition related healthcare, all whilst sounding reasonable, and sometimes even supportive. That, and trans people in sports, were the two main wedge tactics that they used to open the door to the wave of transphobia now sweeping the world.
If making excuses for virulent transphobes is the best of lemmy in your mind, I'm concerned about what would qualify as the worst...
What you're describing is very common. Once we have finally accepted ourselves, the dysphoria, which was often an all pervasive background noise becomes sharper and more focused. Not necessarily stronger, but the focus changes, because now, we know what is going on, and we know what we want, and not having it, makes things stand out more.
The silver lining though is that now, you have answers, and when the opportunities present themselves, you know what you can start doing to help. When it's background, directionless dysphoria, it's not as sharp, but it's also not something you can do much about. Now, you can do something about it. It might not be quick or easy, but you have a path forward!
People must really like Pie! We just did the same thing with Blåhaj Lemmy yesterday!
This is the story of Dave the fish. We were a group of young students, all around 18 or so.
Dave... My housemate bought a bunch of fish for the house. Cichlids, zebra fish etc. And we also ended up Dave. The pet shop guy threw him in for free, because he didn't know what type of fish he was. He was a small, generic silver fish, about the size of a zebrafish, but without their colouring.
Anyway, within a day or two of getting the fish tank set up at the house, Dave jumped out of the tank and landed on the floor! He laid on the floor for so long he was partially stiff by the time we found him.
We put him back in the tank, and he sank straight to the bottom without moving. We were looking for the net to get him out of the tank again when his gills started to move. He didn't move, but he was breathing, so we left him there.
The next day, he was fine, and you wouldn't have known anything had happened.
Within a year or so, every other fish in that tank died, but not Dave. So when we moved house, someone put him in a glass spaghetti container, with a sealed lid (something like this ) to make it easy to transport him.
When we got there, we put his (sealed) spaghetti container on a shelf, whilst we got the new house sorted out. And we then kinda forget he was there... Months later, while we were moving things around, we discovered this spaghetti container. It was still sealed closed, and so lined with algae, we couldn't see anything inside the container. And we remembered that was the container we used for Dave, so we opened it up, to clean out whatever remained of Dave.
Except Dave was still alive. Still doing fine. Despite being sealed in a spaghetti jar for months, untouched, unfed, with no water replacement.
By this point, we had started to realise that Dave was unkillable. But his troubles don't end there.... Because our lease on the house ended, and it was time to move again. But this time, we all went our own way, and some of us to another city. But when we talked later, none of us had Dave. He didn't make it to any of the new places we were all living.
I like to imagine that all these years later, he's still living quite happily in his spaghetti jar, planning on outliving us all...