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i make sci-fi related art and writing, mainly working on a hard sf slice-of-life webcomic that will hopefully come out one day. she/they, @triplchii on discord too

Another study on youth transition that find that about 97% of all youth who says they're trans turn out to be. Only 1.1% who start HRT stopped it for any reason whatsoever. This is, like, the fifth youth transition study that I'm aware of, and all of their results have been identical.

Xtra @xtramagazine.com · 3d ago

Canadian researchers found that 97 percent of youth who seek treatment for gender dysphoria still identify as trans years later.

story featuring people who live on some kind of shell world/artificial planet, and they only discover this fact when they dig deep underground and come across a vast and mysterious layer of machinery and structural supports

Sarita P, well-known influencer on the Jovian internet famous for her travel vlogs to rarely-visited places, records her most dangerous vlog yet; setting foot on Jupiter's moon Io. Down here the radiation kills in mere hours, constraining Sarita's time on the surface to only a few short minutes.

Digital artwork depicting a woman with brown skin and dark hair dressed in a bulky blue spacesuit. She's smiling and waving at the camera. The landscape surrounding her is a flat expanse of yellow rocks and dust, with some lonely mountains far off in the distance and a caldera full of black and orange lava in the background. White specks pepper the image all over; penetrating radiation exciting the camera sensor.

Sarita P, well-known influencer on the Jovian internet famous for her travel vlogs to rarely-visited places, records her most dangerous vlog yet; setting foot on Jupiter's moon Io. Down here the radiation kills in mere hours, constraining Sarita's time on the surface to only a few short minutes.

Digital artwork depicting a woman with brown skin and dark hair dressed in a bulky blue spacesuit. She's smiling and waving at the camera. The landscape surrounding her is a flat expanse of yellow rocks and dust, with some lonely mountains far off in the distance and a caldera full of black and orange lava in the background. White specks pepper the image all over; penetrating radiation exciting the camera sensor.

1. In an incredible new landmark review, the Health Council of the Netherlands has declared that gender-affirming care for trans youth works, reducing wait times is "morally urgent," and regret is rare. It is the latest of many Euro countries to advance care. Subscribe to support our journalism.

Landmark Official Dutch Review Recommends Trans Youth Care, Call For Expanding Treatment

The review finds that wait times must be shortened, that few people detransition, and that trans youth care has enormous benefits.

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One thing especially disingenuous about the "gametes" definition of sex is that insofar as biologists use it, it's for simple convenience in assigning names It does not reflect a fundamental truth, it's just convenient to refer to "the morph that makes large gametes" as "female" across organisms!

Julia Serano@juliaserano.bsky.social · 4mo ago

...I discuss the strategy behind what I now call "gamete trutherism" & why this approach is inherently anti-feminist. but I also provide scientific evidence explaining why there is no universal maleness & femaleness, plus gametes themselves are quite diverse... juliaserano.medium.com/why-are-gend...

screenshot from linked to essay that reads:
Some of the articles I just cited make the case that there are no universal sex differences. For instance, many species that sexually reproduce don’t even make differently sized gametes (i.e., they are isogametic). Furthermore, anisogamy appears to have evolved from isogamy independently numerous times (Gorelick et al., 2017; Henshaw et al., 2023), which means that all females and all males across species do not share a common origin. Furthermore, there is evidence that anisogamy may have first evolved in hermaphroditic species who produce both eggs and sperm, rather than in dioecious species that have separate female and male sexes (Henshaw et al., 2023; Iyer & Roughgarden, 2008). Or as we say in evolutionary biology, dioecy (two separate sexes) may be the derived state, at least in some species, which would render the notion of universal maleness and femaleness even less tenable.
In their article, “No universal differences between female and male eukaryotes: anisogamy and asymmetrical female meiosis,” Gorelick et al. (2017) chronicle how gametes are extremely diverse across species, and that there are exceptions to every commonly cited distinction between eggs and sperm (e.g., large versus small, immobile versus motile). Gorelick and colleagues conclude: “Therefore, currently, there are no universal criteria for distinguishing females from males across all animals, across all plants or across all stramenopiles, let alone across all eukaryotes.”
In other words, much to gender-critical activists’ chagrin, gametes are actually a part of natural variation and sex diversity, rather than the antithesis of it.

Amnesty International put out a major report documenting the influence of UK based anti trans gender critical organizations and their funding. Within hours, GC groups threatened defamation lawsuits and Amnesty was forced to pull it down. Proving the point they're anti rights. Anyways, here it is.

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young Callistonian child surprised to learn that Old Pale Jupiter once had a "Great Red Spot" many centuries ago, until it eventually shrank away to nothing. Jovian climatologists like to speculate on when the next Great Spot may arrive, some even talk about creating one deliberately