People really want free speech until they don’t.
If someone’s being a prick, just clown on them. They are entitled to speak their opinion, regardless of how stupid it is. Social ostracization will always be worse than anything moderation can do anyways.
Can someone recommend me a new instance and how to move my account?
You can’t move your account but you can have multiple acounts with the same name if they’re not on the same instance. In the Voyager app you can stay logged into more than one at the same time. Also you can check out most instances without creating an account so I’d suggest taking a look yourself to see what you like. You can find a list with filter options here.
The left is getting killed on the trans sports issue (which I believe is a completely manufactured issue) because we haven’t talked about it enough to iron out a reasonable position.
The general pop is not accepting of trans people in professional sports. I don’t think that will change anytime soon but trans people playing school sports is far more accepted and I think its a much more convincing to fight on the issue of trans people participating in school sports for fun and social reasons. It draws away from the shit narrative that trans people are trying to compete at the highest level and I don’t think anyone can reasonably argue against it since casual sport commonly mixes gender.
That’s the problem with platforms that offshoot for free speech reasons.
I want to be able to say eat the rich and luigi magione was right.
Others want to spout hate in all forms.
Then people begin to argue these are the save of you should tolerate intolerance. Which you should never do
They wanted to be Reddit again and boy are they still trying to do that.
We should all block Lemmy.world unless they get their act together.
I didn’t realize there was much of a culture difference between the instances. Is this written down anywhere?
Yeah, I’m new-ish and I don’t yet know the various instance “cultures.” Hopefully picking blahaj wasn’t a mistake, lol.
The admin is great and doesn’t put up with nonsense. Downvotes are disabled, which took some getting used to. I have never regretted my choice of instance. Very queer-friendly and I like the people as a whole. Welcome, hope you love it.
Thanks!
Blahaj is pretty good. I think you don’t get a downvote option there which I don’t quite understand but the people are chill.
I was wondering about downvotes since I saw people mentioning them, but don’t see the option to do that myself. That explains it.
Not really. And that’s because anybody who would write it down recognizes that they’re going to get piled on.
It’s such a cesspool over there
Spoiler: they won’t.
Lemmy.world is a a full on trash bag when it comes to those sorts of comments. And some people tried to tell me I was overreacting or lying about it (in specific reference to the 196 push that they failed at, yet still post to to try and garner new subs).
serious sports discussion here, so please leave any politics or phobias at the door.
i could not care less about how people identify and what they do in their time. but how are you going to create a level playing field in sports?
this guy did it to show the gaping loopholes, which trans and self identification provided back then: https://nypost.com/2023/03/30/male-powerlifter-enters-womens-event-breaks-record/ (no idea what the rules are today). and yes, you could probably filter out the guys, which identified male 5 mins before the contest.
but this is an issue with any sports, not only pure strength. i was couching floorball for a while. when we did not get enough ppl for trainings, the womens and mens club would train together. while the women where better (technique and higher league) playing a match women against men, would almost never end up with the women winning. floorball is considered contactless. but the strength difference would still create a big gap.
one proposed solution was to separate sports into high or low testosterone instead of male or female. i would be afraid of that just devolving into another doping war in the higher leagues. how do you guys think about sending woman with abnormally high testosterone to a mostly male team and vice versa? me personally would not mind, but the additional logistics could prove difficult for hobby or semi-professional organisations.
Mixed teams, weight classes, a handicap system. These issues have been solved before the word transgender was even invented. And for some sports a natural advantage is just how it goes. I’ve never heard anyone propose banning tall people from playing basketball. Don’t get me wrong, I understand that what you said is the prevalent opinion and I don’t think it’s neccessarily coming from a bad place. But it’s misinformed and inherently political and I think it’s important to acknowledge that.
how do you guys think about sending woman with abnormally high testosterone to a mostly male team and vice versa?
This for example sounds viable to many people unfamiliar with the matter but in reality we might as well separate athletes by zodiac signs since testosterone levels just aren’t a reliable marker at all.
Another thing I see sometimes is the proposal of an all trans olympic alternative which among other things goes to show that people vastly overestimate the amount of trans athletes thanks to said politicisation.
This^ - as @ToxicWaste@lemm.ee noted - women and men are good at different things so I don’t see why we can’t require mixed gender teams with equal representation for pretty much all sports.
And if somebody cries “fOrCeD dIvErSiTy!!” then you never really cared about women’s participation in sports anyways.
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so please leave any politics
You say, as you wade in to a topic that only exists for political reasons, and is actively driven and sustained entirely for political reasons
Trans-women are women who represent 0.2% of the population whom many are taking estrogen. You don’t care about regulating those with natural physical advantages in sports just with those who were often excluded from society as you want to keep hurting people for no reason.
