@vriska@LodedDiaper i don't think literally all laws are slippery slopes, i am against laws forcing or disallowing medical procedures but if you want to say you can't have a drag show next to a school i'm pretty okay with that.
@vriska@Moon Isn't HRT still needed if someone gets a vaginoplasty or phalloplasty. Even under the lenses of "protection" this fails, in fact why don't they ban cosmetic surgeries for those under 26. This just a case of them being afraid of the "man in a dress".
@LodedDiaper@Moon there is a bill in nebraska right now that would forcibly detransition anyone up to age 26, which is an insane, abhorrent breach of human rights and sets an insanely dangerous legal precedent
@Moon "that can and will be used against everyone" should be the tagline for all the culture war horseshit. Once the government has legal ability to strip 25 year olds of medical autonomy they're going to use it on whomever they like
@orekix@Moon in every country where prostitution is legal human trafficking increases. the only correct take is decriminalize the prostitutes and support them finding other work, while criminalizing the pimps and buyers.
@vriska@LodedDiaper@Moon >which is an insane, abhorrent breach of human rights How dare the government not let... *checks notes* ...Mentally ill people mutilate and castrate themselves?
@Moon@shitposter.club I do feel bad and I don't feel bad for the "sex worker" instances. Sure, it's not good to be deplatformed, however many of the instances in question (e.g. switter.at) make it very easy to get shuttered. Why? Centralization. Why? Maybe a tragedy of their (sex worker) collective "business model". I guess it's "good for business" or "brand" or something to have everything in one place so that "customers" don't have to go hunting for "content". At any rate, large, centralized networks are not hardened against censorship and targeting. This was the same conundrum faced by, like them or hate them, groups like the KiwiFarms---you put everything into a single metaphorical basket and it's real easy to target. Individual "sex workers" with their own instances or instances for them and a few comrades would be a whole lot more difficult to target as a collective. Any group at risk of censorship, deplatforming, or other attack needs to get wise to evading fire. Simply using "FOSS, decentralized" technology isn't enough if one is only deploying a couple giant instances---try a couple hundred instances. Hell, even a couple dozen would probably suffice.
https://www.prri.org/research/americas-growing-support-for-transgender-rights/ 40% of the country think there are more than 2 genders. 47% want trannys to be able to use the wrong bathroom. 64% want to give trannys special protections from discrimination. 17% want to let them compete on woman's teams. 31% want to let kids transition 27% want to make tranny surgery covered by health insurance.
I think even trannys find trannys abhorrent and revolting on some level. The problems is not that people like trannys, it's that they support their existence or at least don't oppose said existence with any vigor.
There have been plenty of things where 90% of people hated what the government was doing, but because they didn't ideologically oppose it in absolute terms and fight back, that thing became normalized to the point saying you are against it makes you a social outcast.