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   Yoko's Asterisk 🏳️‍⚧ (charliejane@wandering.shop)'s status on Saturday, 07-Dec-2024 06:09:21 JST Yoko's Asterisk 🏳️‍⚧

   Random thought about the current obsession with regret rates for trans people:

   We justify our "presumption of innocence" standard by saying it's better to free 100 guilty people than to imprison 1 innocent person. Because prison is so bad.

   Transphobes seem to think it's better to block 100 unregretted transitions than to let 1 person regret transitioning. Similar reasoning.

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     Cassandra is only carbon now (xgranade@wandering.shop)'s status on Saturday, 07-Dec-2024 06:13:36 JST Cassandra is only carbon now

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     @charliejane That kind of logic is so pernicious, and also so telling. Feels pretty similar to the antivax argument that 100 people dying of preventable disease is better than one person being autistic.

     (Not that it's even true that vaccines cause autism, but taking that untruth at false value still leaves horrific implications.)