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I was browsing Lemmy in general on the bus and my 6 year old tapped the phone. He instantly said 'cute' and tapped out.

While I agree that we shouldn't alienate people with elitism, I think k this is a fair criticism.

Basic biology has the connotation that it's something everyone should know and grasp.

The reality is that basic biology is simplified, not factual. That should be pointed out. The educated or intelligent ones, should understand the distinction, even if they disagree. The uneducated can either switch off or be educated.

Allowing misinformation to proliferate is a bigger problem, in my view, than alienating people that don't want to listen or learn.

Unfortunately, an anomaly that is used to physically harm gay men. Gay men are assumed to be trans women and so are forcefully given gender reassignment surgeries (note, for trans people, it's gender confirmation surgery).

Gender identity and sex preference are conflated. Whereas in the west, being gay is generally more accepted than being trans, it's the opposite there. Still, it's a sign for humanity that no matter where in the world, or how culture is, there are trans people and gay people living their lives. And some societies have adapted to welcome them, even when they haven't fully. It gives hope for the future, even if it's scary now.

And it is socially acceptable to be a mtf trans person in Iran and has been for quite some time, despite the conservative homophobic government,

Cool I'll edit. My point was correct, just the figure was wrong by a lot! Likely the difference to cancer surgery was also different. Maybe the cancer surgery regret was 6%.

I remember seeing a study once which showed regret about gender transition at about 1%. I thought that was pretty high. Then I saw that surgery for cancer had a regret rate that was much higher. Memory is fuzzy but maybe 6%. There are always negative outcomes for surgery. If you're happily living as a trans person who hasn't had bottom surgery, and when you do, you end up damaging a nerve, which means constant pain, you might regret the surgery. That doesn't change that you're trans, nor does it change your gender. Many people with negative outcomes or side effects still don't regret it, as they would for other surgeries.

People are complex animals. I agreed that this is likely to be seen in the future as a state sanctioned invasion of people medical rights and sense of identity that in years to come will look petty and antiquated. I wonder how they made the study possible without using banned words like gender, trans etc. Could it be that even they found their ridiculous censorship of scientific knowledge was stupid and unhelpful.

Edited: more accurate figures from other user

As a cis male, I would also say to be visible when safe to do so in online and real-world spaces. Normalisation of the lgb part of LGBT has led to a big reduction in animosity and more open living. Hiding and being anonymous are two different things. Above all, staying safe is most important. The safest thing is still the advancement of trans rights and human rights, which although we're in a step back right now is often two forward, one back. So there is hope, too.

Thrown out before or after the records are already transferred?

I'm not trans, but I sympathise. Just a heads up from an outside perspective. Even your language has some of that internalizes transphobia.

You say I don't want to be a trans woman. I simply want to be a woman.

You are a woman. Likely you always were and always will be l. Transitioning is just affirming that, not changing your gender.

As a cis person, when I read that you want to be a woman, it means to me you don't consider yourself one. I'm not trying to create drama for you, but trying, poorly, to point out how you can start affirming yourself more in your language.

Collectively, for all of us, it makes sense to not bow to societal pressure and to be our true selves, always. However, as you point out, it's not always safe to do that, so individually, we need to practice caution. Over time, hopefully individually and as a society, there is increasing acceptance. Same sex marriage is just made legal in Greece, for instance. I now will travel there with my family openly. Previously I might not.

Israeli propaganda. Or you can just call it lies. Or a deflection from their war crimes.

Always has been. corruption is greater where the power is greater and so there is bigger opportunities. Brazil has much more petty corruption the USA has built in corruption, that is deemed legal.