that's a good way to put it, it's victim blaming in a way
sort of like the reactionary trend of pulling your kids out of school because Common Core has changed how math is taught so critical thinking and conceptual understanding is incorporated, rather than teaching math by rote memorization?
sorry, what else would a reddit-clone full of reddit users be? I think a lot of people here are trying hard for this place to be reddit 🤷♀️
Technology Connections is such a great youtube channel, thank you for sharing this link 💛
In November 2022, the Southern Poverty Law Center reported that Newsweek had "taken a marked radical right turn by buoying extremists and promoting authoritarian leaders" since it hired conservative political activist Josh Hammer as editor-at-large. It noted the magazine's elevation of conspiracy theorists, publication of conspiracy theories about COVID-19, views such as support for a ban on all legal immigration to the United States and denying adults access to trans-affirming medical care, and failure to disclose potential conflicts of interest in the content published on Hammer's opinion section and podcast.
Newsweek in particular is vile and horrible, and you are driving traffic to them. The argument that there are other news sites with problems is whataboutism, it doesn't address that this news source has a serious problem.
Besides, here's an easy alternative and less problematic source: https://www.axios.com/local/tampa-bay/2025/03/25/florida-child-labor-bill-migrant-workers
(it's not that hard)
What about genetic disorders like type 1 diabetes, cystic fibrosis, or Huntington's disease? Nobody gatekeeps people with those conditions because "God makes no mistakes" - yet clearly, mistakes were made.
From the fires in LA, not from arson, just to be clear, lol
"Delay, Deny, Depose. You people are next," she allegedly said near the end of the call.
Let's be real, the "You people are next" is probably the reason for jail.
There is a point where you can't really boy-mode anymore, and I admit that can feel really scary. You could try binding if you really have to keep boy-moding, but I'm not sure this is as mentally healthy as leaning into more feminine presentation (which is more affirming anyway). I guess it depends on whether you have socially transitioned or if you are closeted still.
If you can feminize, here are some ways I've approached feminizing to survive those awkward, early days of HRT:
- voice training (e.g. 1, 2),
- establishing a daily skin-care routine including wearing sunscreen every day and UV protection (1),
- getting eyebrows waxed professionally,
- seeing a skilled hairdresser and learning to take care of your hair and style it to look nice every day,
- learning how to feminize your face with makeup without looking like you're wearing makeup (e.g. 1, 2),
- gaining and losing weight to redistribute fat in feminine patterns,
- feminizing your body with certain exercises (e.g. 1, 2),
- learning how to shop and dress to accentuate and hide all the right parts of your body (e.g. 1, 2).
Guides / writeups like this can be helpful: https://web.archive.org/web/20230520181719/https://old.reddit.com/r/MtF/comments/13n21h7/my_tips_on_how_to_pass/
There are so many resources it can be a bit of information overload, but as always feel free to ask me anything. ☺️
EDIT: also, congrats - welcome to being a woman! 🤗 ❤️
I'm in one of the worst states, I'm scared about where things are going ...
not to tell you how to shitpost, but I'm noticing you're posting a lot of new posts in a short period - you might have better engagement and people might enjoy the content better if you space out posts over days, it kinda feels like spam to dump everything at once (maybe this is just my opinion, but Lemmy could use more consistent and reliable posters - so I wanted to encourage pacing as a way to help with engagement and burnout)