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Yuchen Pei (quasi@peister.org)'s status on Friday, 29-May-2026 09:22:38 JST 
Yuchen Pei
@lxo
The only difference between a normal man and a transwoman is self identification. If the only solution for a small and not particularly strong trans identifying male to feel safe is to use women's space, then it is also the only solution for a small and not particularly strong non-trans identifying male to feel safe. Self identification has no material bearing in this scenario
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Yuchen Pei (quasi@peister.org)'s status on Friday, 29-May-2026 08:41:59 JST
Yuchen Pei
@lxo
> now let's think of a trans woman who is small and not particularly strong. does such a woman deserve a safe space? or is she not worthy of it? is she under a lower risk of violence in a men's space, in a women's space, or in a shared space?
Following this logic, if a man is small and not particularly strong, the only way for him to feel safe is to identify as a woman (become a transwoman) and use women's space
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Yuchen Pei (quasi@peister.org)'s status on Thursday, 28-May-2026 12:15:26 JST
Yuchen Pei
@lxo
What made you dismiss the fair play for women post as propaganda? Because it has a different opinion or conclusion from yours?
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Yuchen Pei (quasi@peister.org)'s status on Tuesday, 26-May-2026 14:06:41 JST
Yuchen Pei
@lxo
Sorry schoolyard taunting ain't gonna work here
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Yuchen Pei (quasi@peister.org)'s status on Tuesday, 26-May-2026 13:18:03 JST
Yuchen Pei
@lxo
> IIRC I had the link handy last time we talked about this. or maybe I'd only just read it. it didn't seem to make a difference to you then, so it's not like it would now
That's pretty convenient
> I'll show you five pictures of brazilian models, all female
> you're to tell me your guess as to their assigned sex and genotype, along with your rationale, without looking them up
Are you telling me these are not edge cases, but rather people you are likely to meet in daily lives in Brazil?
Are you telling me that looking at a picture (possibly with filters) is equivalent to looking at the person in proximity in real life?
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Yuchen Pei (quasi@peister.org)'s status on Tuesday, 26-May-2026 12:17:00 JST
Yuchen Pei
@lxo
What do you mean by gendered brain development? Do you have an example? A citation?
Most people don't try to guess someone's gender (whatever it means). They infer a person's sex by the look with extremely high precision
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Yuchen Pei (quasi@peister.org)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Jan-2026 10:31:41 JST
Yuchen Pei
@lxo
That's some rather twisted arguments you presented there: A and B have rather opposite claims but they are actually in agreement because A is correct and B is omitting what A says (which contradicts B's claims) and is spouting propaganda -
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Yuchen Pei (quasi@peister.org)'s status on Monday, 05-Jan-2026 20:44:29 JST
Yuchen Pei
@lxo
Thanks. So it's their (Breno Altman and his guest(s)?) words against Francis Fukuyama's words -
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Yuchen Pei (quasi@peister.org)'s status on Monday, 05-Jan-2026 10:41:40 JST
Yuchen Pei
@lxo
https://www.persuasion.community/p/what-history-doesand-doesntteach
> The strength of the democratic tradition in Venezuela could be seen in last year’s presidential election. María Corina Machado, who was awarded this year’s Nobel Peace Prize, was disqualified on specious grounds, and replaced by Edmundo González as a stand-in. The democratic opposition placed observers in every polling place around the country, and made careful copies of the actual vote tabulations. These demonstrated that González won the election by over 30 percentage points; the regime nonetheless declared Maduro the winner and began to systematically jail leaders of the opposition still in the country. -
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Yuchen Pei (quasi@peister.org)'s status on Monday, 05-Jan-2026 10:23:13 JST
Yuchen Pei
@lxo
Unlike Maduro, Trump did win the last election fair and square -
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Yuchen Pei (quasi@peister.org)'s status on Saturday, 03-Jan-2026 20:57:04 JST
Yuchen Pei
@lxo
> we were talking about gender. that's not reducible to gamete sizes.
I was talking about sex and I assumed you were too, when you countered my "sex is binary" with "it's not binary" followed by further arguments supporting your claim
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Yuchen Pei (quasi@peister.org)'s status on Saturday, 03-Jan-2026 20:13:06 JST
Yuchen Pei
@lxo
Sex is (commonly?) defined by gamete size. It sounds like you have a definition using brain development and gonads that is not equivalent to the gamete size definiton.
If sex is not binary, as you said, can you name a third sex?
I assume you are male based on information such as the pronouns used to refer to you and that there's no evidence suggesting you are trans identified. If someone refers to himself as she/her and claims to be trans then I assume he is male too.
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Yuchen Pei (quasi@peister.org)'s status on Saturday, 03-Jan-2026 20:02:01 JST
Yuchen Pei
@lxo
> the concern over safety is a misdirection: it's not a reason to misgender people, it's a reason to worry about fraudsters who are also sexual predators. don't conflate such monsters with trans people, that's hateful.
Practically how is a woman supposed to distinguish between someone who is "genuinely trans" and someone who is "fraudulently trans", thus achieving not being hateful in your book?
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Yuchen Pei (quasi@peister.org)'s status on Saturday, 03-Jan-2026 18:44:26 JST
Yuchen Pei
@lxo
Biological reality that human sex is binary and immutable, which has nothing to do with the visibility of gonads or brain development to naked eyes
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Yuchen Pei (quasi@peister.org)'s status on Saturday, 03-Jan-2026 18:23:16 JST
Yuchen Pei
@lxo
> misgendering people, whether they're cis or trans, is likely to hurt them. making mistakes illegal usually involves very demanding requirements of negligence, but making willfully hurting others out of spite and prejudice illegal is a lot more reasonable
Misgendering a trans identified person hurts the same way as denying the existence of God to a believer. Misgendering is not out of spite or prejudice if done on the basis of respecting biological reality. Making it illegal is not just a violation of freedom of speech, but also of freedom of conscience
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Yuchen Pei (quasi@peister.org)'s status on Saturday, 27-Dec-2025 09:46:07 JST
Yuchen Pei
@bkuhn
> pettiness, name-calling, and outright cruelty against their political opponents.
What's worse is pettiness, name-calling and cruelty against supposedly political allies, such as the cancellation attempts at rms
https://stallmansupport.org/ -
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Yuchen Pei (quasi@peister.org)'s status on Saturday, 22-Nov-2025 06:34:03 JST
Yuchen Pei
Oops did I miss the observance of the Trams Day of Remembrance -
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Yuchen Pei (quasi@peister.org)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Nov-2025 07:49:30 JST
Yuchen Pei
Do We Need Hobbies?
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/open-questions/do-we-need-hobbies
> Is there a meta sense in which having hobbies is itself a hobby? “For those of us who have ‘hobbies and interests,’ a lot of times we have lots of them,” the writer Michael Johnston observed, in 2012. Johnston writes mainly about photography, but in the past he’s worked at Model Railroader magazine; he plays pool, enjoys high-end audio equipment, and so on. Having spent decades in this man-hobby vortex, he offers a six-step program for managing and refining one’s hobbies. First, list them all; then, prioritize the list. “Over a period of weeks or months or even years,” occasionally reprioritize it, and eventually identify “the persistent top three.” Consider committing more to those hobbies, and less to the rest—and, finally, clarify for yourself what it is that you enjoy most in the hobbies you love most. “A person whose interest is fishing might really like tying flies; a person whose interest is gardening might really most enjoy the colors of flowers,” Johnston writes. “I think you’re going to be happiest if you realize where the locus of your interest really lies, and indulge that, and let the other notions go. If you really love flowers for their colors, maybe you can get into an area of horticulture where that’s a central issue, like hybridizing tulips.” -
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Yuchen Pei (quasi@peister.org)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Oct-2025 19:56:29 JST
Yuchen Pei
Peak melbourne
Via https://jamesmacpherson.substack.com/p/two-years-after-the-massacre-evil
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Yuchen Pei (quasi@peister.org)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Sep-2025 11:56:24 JST
Yuchen Pei
Great news @lxo @fsf
https://www.fsf.org/news/fsf-confirms-alexandre-oliva-to-board-of-directors
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