LainTrain
@LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- Comment on What is the point of Xbox? 20 hours ago:
Piss off ecofash. Modern life good actually. Industry, medicine and science all good.
- Comment on Will I ever be seen as truly British? 20 hours ago:
Ah in that case yeah I definitely did not mean it that way, but it’s also not a good look for the left to come off as to utterly deny demographics when facts are very easy to find, especially if you have a pro-immigration stance.
- Comment on Will I ever be seen as truly British? 21 hours ago:
Simmer down buddy, no need to get your blood pressure up - I clarified the statement didn’t I?
- Comment on Stack Overflow bans users en masse for rebelling against OpenAI partnership — users banned for deleting answers to prevent them being used to train ChatGPT 1 day ago:
No, you can’t post something in public and have it appropriated by a mega corp for money and then prevent you from deleting or modifying the very things you posted.
- Comment on Will I ever be seen as truly British? 1 day ago:
Yee, 's why I left.
- Comment on Will I ever be seen as truly British? 1 day ago:
Oh sure. I was speaking relatively.
- Comment on Stack Overflow bans users en masse for rebelling against OpenAI partnership — users banned for deleting answers to prevent them being used to train ChatGPT 1 day ago:
Lol it ain’t for public benefit unless it’s a FOSS model with which I’d have no issue
- Comment on Will I ever be seen as truly British? 1 day ago:
Compared to the rest of the country in the ethnic-cultural sense? Yeah absolutely.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_London
London is 36.8% White British
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manchester
For comparison a major metropolitan area lime the city of Manchester is 59.3% White British
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brighton_and_Hove#
Brighton is 80.5% White British
Furthermore in London, 40.7% of people are born in another country, and 56.8% of people are born to a foreign-born mother.
That’s what makes London so different from the rest of the country imo, and a way better place to be as a young person who doesn’t belong elsewhere.
- Comment on Will I ever be seen as truly British? 1 day ago:
Not in the UK alongside British people for sure.
I’m in the same boat but not from Poland and I came over a tad later (12) but I’m also 5 years older.
I don’t actually have an accent inherently but I always use an American one to obscure my country of origin.
It’s really quite a backwards little country and they have an insular culture and hot opinions on ‘de immigants’ amongst other things, they’re just polite enough to keep it to the voting booth most of the time until the the child alcoholism and the FAS kicks in.
They will always see you as defined by your nationality first because to them, it makes you fundamentally different as a person because they themselves are fundamentally defined by their nationality - (you can often tell by how much they rely on this as material for ‘banter’) - rather than how many other people see it - as a random side note of historical background of yet another human on this planet - a citizen of the world if you will.
I recall meeting a friend group of my S.O. who’s been here all her life and went to school with those people and still the occasional joke about her country of origin gets a big laugh, not to mention the only brown person at the table only ever joked and got joked to about being Muslim, it wasn’t offensive or anything, but you’d think the guy was a hardcore religious leader by how much it came up when he seemed like just some guy to me.
They might keep you around to pitch in with a fun fact about Poland (even if you don’t really know any) or say something funny (to them) in your accent/language, but you’ll never be actually British and treated as just another one of the peeps about the place.
Try to surround yourself with other people from diverse backgrounds if you can, which won’t be possible in the norf (idk about Wales, never been) but you can definitely do this in London as British people are far and few between and so long as you steer clear of other majorly represented insular ethnic groups you can maybe find a multinational clique or what I had more luck with - an eastern european one with similar levels of integration and shared interests etc., and maybe consider living or visiting elsewhere, like the US which is far more diverse and your background matters far less.
Hope this helps.
- Comment on NHS charter to stress biological sex when placing patients in wards 1 day ago:
you made me confused after I read 2 posts on twitter dot com by some fringe teen enby and now I’m going to be a raging bigot to trans women
Very cool. Cis people really are the best.
- Comment on NHS charter to stress biological sex when placing patients in wards 1 day ago:
Biologically trans women are trans women, they have very little in common with cis men other than chromosomes, they’re not the same as cis women entirely but have far more in common with them.
The average trans woman has had her T levels nuked for decades, usually below cis women leveks and E levels same as a cis woman, their bodies are completely different including their genitalia most of the time.
As far as the actual medical truth of the matter we are not cis men, I don’t have to worry about testicular, prostate or penile cancers but I do have to worry quite a bit more than a cis man about breast cancer for example.
- Comment on NHS charter to stress biological sex when placing patients in wards 1 day ago:
I always say female anyway and so do all trans women I know. I specify “biological” if asked because I’m not a cyborg either. This isn’t some gotcha you think it is and idc what other dogwhistles you invent. Cope and seethe.
- Comment on NHS charter to stress biological sex when placing patients in wards 1 day ago:
Trans women. It’s in the name innit.
- Comment on NHS charter to stress biological sex when placing patients in wards 1 day ago:
This shit is so blatantly and openly misandrist, I can’t even imagine growing up as a boy hearing this rhetoric thrown around how you’re just a monster and you can’t prove otherwise, spread by what you would assume at first are kind old ladies on the street.
- Comment on NHS charter to stress biological sex when placing patients in wards 1 day ago:
That seems reasonable. I’m a transsexual female and I will be in the female ward thanks.
- Comment on NHS charter to stress biological sex when placing patients in wards 1 day ago:
As if that will actually happen. There’s no magic single room tree :)
- Comment on Google Delists Sites Providing DIY Hormone Therapy at Behest of UK Government 1 day ago:
I have an unfortunate feeling this is going to be a topic in the news going forward, so I’d like to educate people if possible on what DIY in this use case means:
What is “DIY Hormones?”
Essentially while some options exist for completely home-made injections of Estrogen and Testosterone, for the most part DIY is about ordering the same medications that would be prescribed or generics of those medications but without a prescription from an endocrinologist (hormone specialist doctor) whether they be pills, patches or gels.
Why do trans people use DIY?
The general pathway to trans care is to be seen by a gender identity clinic known as a GIC, the wait times for these clinics can exceed in well over a decade (sometimes more than two decades) and are highly dependent on being even referred in the first place - there is often no recourse for a secretly malicious GP lying about making such a referral only for it to come out (possibly years) later that it was never made.
Even once you’re with a GIC, shortage of staff can often result in having to wait many months for an initial appointment, which is almost always followed by a second appointment months apart, which is then - if diagnosed (gatekeeping and malicious clinicians can further delays their process for reasons of varying validity) - can lead to an endocrinology referral and official hormones prescription, possibly over a year after initially being seen.
Or you could just order the meds yourself.
Why not go private?
Costs of private care are the main reason, often just the diagnosis can cost like £600 with endocrinologist appointments and private prescriptions (as guidelines now tell GPs not to do bridging - another roadblock for us) can easily balloon to well over a £1000. A month’s meds from Indian pharmacies where their prescription checking just isn’t so stringent will be way under £50 so go figure.
Is DIY dangerous?
The trans community have done an incredible job of researching, sourcing and pooling information on making it as safe as possible and share this knowledge with each other. As long as proper precautions are taken (blood tests), a dosage worked out etc. it can be very safe and often times more effective than dosages prescribed by the NHS (the only time my T was above 0.8nmol/L in the past 10 years was when i first switched to an official prescription - go figure)
Bottom line
Many trans people don’t actually want to DIY if they don’t have to - it is a huge hassle to be your own doctor - but for many of us, especially those who are affected by the puberty blockers ban (under 18s) and those who’s care is under threat from the likes of the Tories and so-called experts like Cass (under 25s) we will see an increased use of DIY because trans people simply have no other options to access hormones - which are lifesaving as they are the only thing that can very naturally change one’s appearance and halt further chsnges from their natal hormomes.
So in plain English a trans woman will look more like a woman thanks to E and less like a man thanks to absence of T and won’t become more masculine physically even after puberty, (as there’s a helluva difference between a 20 yo man and a 40 yo one and hormone effects are constant throughout one’s life), which is the only thing that really treats gender dysphoria and regardless of British reviews that discard evidence that disagrees as well as international evidence remains the approach to trans care worldwide.
Denying people what already is a a last resort option is effectively signaling that the government prefers trans people to not exist, and in my opinion constitutes an attempt at eradication through policy.
Thanks for reading!
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- Comment on Gender-specific toilets to be required in non-residential buildings in England 1 day ago:
Oh sure that seems perfectly reasonable and in addition to gender neutral bathrooms separate ones are perfectly okay, as long as trans people are allowed to use whichever they’re more comfortable with and this right is legally protected from TERF attacks as it has been under the GRA and EA for a decade, but I strongly doubt this is what was meant because this whole thing as always is a dogwhistle to signal trans hate since no one is actually talking about taking away sexed bathrooms.
- Comment on Now, if it was a Pixel... 1 day ago:
What features? Most of the bloat is just duplicate applications like “Google photos” and “Samsung photos”
- Comment on Gender-specific toilets to be required in non-residential buildings in England 1 day ago:
Trans women are 49% of the population? Wow that’s crazy, where are they I want to meet them
- Comment on How rental ‘libraries of things’ have become the new way to save money 1 day ago:
By itself it may be okay, especially for things like a metal detector, but the implications and the quote is downright dystopian. Gonna be renting our toothbrushes soon because we can’t afford the downpayment on them.
- Comment on Apple introduces M4 chip 2 days ago:
16:10 has always been superior to both but I quite like my second 4:3 monitor. Also I was referring to mobile devices obviously (where most internet traffic comes from), and 4:3 isn’t a size measurement.
- Comment on The Verge shows how Google search is useless 2 days ago:
Well I’m glad you’ve been lucky but that’s all it is, you’re a bit out of touch.
Faulty
It’s not faulty, it is that way by design. And this is basically the standard nowadays. Just look at most TVs - trying to open an app on one is like pulling teeth, it lags to high heaven just navigating a menu.
Microwaves might be cheap ($20 though? Jeez where do you live! They start at £50-£80 minimum here) but I was just using that as an example to prove the point. Boilers aren’t cheap.
- Comment on Now, if it was a Pixel... 2 days ago:
Say whaaaat.
How’s the pixel experience worse than Samsung? That’s the reason I stopped buying Samsungs way back. All the malware PUPs Samsung loads on being my main sticking point.
- Comment on Now, if it was a Pixel... 2 days ago:
Wild. Had no issues until the 5th QC wise but it was all downhill from there. I’m now considering carrying a dumb phone and some alternative to a smartphone
- Comment on Apple introduces M4 chip 2 days ago:
I’m starting to wonder if the real reason the push for bigger screens caught on wasn’t just because of the basic psychology of “bigger = better” but so they could shove more ads on screen, and now it’s more processing power so those ads won’t lock up the browser for a whole second while loading some bullshit questionnaire like “are you adult, child or gamer on iOS”
- Comment on Now, if it was a Pixel... 2 days ago:
If it was a Pixel 2 or a 4a I’m keeping it, that phone was peak modern smartphone before everything went downhill with no rear fingerprint scanner and fixed focus selfie cams
- Comment on The Verge shows how Google search is useless 3 days ago:
But how do you know what matters in some appliance you didn’t even know existed nevermind how it works?
- Comment on The Verge shows how Google search is useless 3 days ago:
Zitron, though, describes him as “a computer scientist class traitor who sided with the management consultancy sect.”
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