"It is a complicated issue. It is truly a complicated issue, with a wide range of views, truly a wide range of views," Jean-Pierre said. "There is no 'yes or no' answer to this, it is complicated. There is a rule that the Department of Education [DOE] has put forward, and we're going to let that process move forward, and again, we want to make sure that while we establish guardrails with this rule, we also prevent discrimination, as well, against transgender kids. But again, a complicated issue with a wide range of views, and we respect that."
"Absolutely no reason for the Biden admin to do this," New York Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez wrote. "It is indefensible and embarrassing. The admin can still walk this back, and they should. It's a disgrace."
"Honestly, this move by Biden to push a rule on trans kids in sports is not only a backwards betrayal, it [forces] us to have to spend our time dealing with god d*** sports instead of criminal bans on our healthcare," Alejandra Caraballo, a civil rights attorney and LGBTQ+ advocate, wrote. "He could have just done nothing. This is legitimizing transphobia."
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"A complicated issue with a wide range of views, and we respect that" Fuck off out of here with that "centrist" nonsense. There's nothing complicated about it, and it's not an issue unless you want to turn it into one and want to appeal to people's emotions like Republicans are doing. It was only a matter of time before they'd start throwing trans people under the bus. I guess with the coming elections it's as good a time as ever.
We were before federation.
we’re still good at purging bigots. we just get a lot more of them now
I'm not saying our mods have let their guard down, i like that every bigot waltzing in here gets dogpiled immediately as well, but we would never have had a thread like this before federation. Look at what's going on here, it's as if i'm on one of the few radlib subreddits where the mods actually recognize and ban transphobia. I get that this is educational for a lot of lemmy libs, i'm not saying we should defederate, but we should have a hexbear only part of the site where all the nazi pigs from lemm.ee or these bazinga brained techbro instances are not allowed in. A place where i do not have to put up with this shit. I want to be able to completely tune out this fediverse garbage. I get that it's god for recruitment and educating left-leaning folks, i see a merit in that we federated on an agitprop level, but to me as a person, as a user of thisn site it's worthless and even harmful. I have enough fights to fight every day. I do not come here for more of that, i came here to shitpost and blow off steam in a safe environment and i do not have that safe environment anymore because this place is overrun with liberal cissie pigs "just asking questions". There's a reason i post so much less nowadays, it's just better for my overall wellbeing to hang out on left-ish trans discords instead. They're also full of libs, but at least those libs usually do not want to argue their right to misgender me or why it's complicated to not speak out about us being denied the right to exist in public.
do you want to mod here https://hexbear.net/post/492322 (new hexbear-only comm)
carcosa is down for longtime users such as urself to mod this comm without submitting a mod application
On one hand, hexbear is the only place where me being a mod could work in theory because i'm just too guillotinee to mod any other community, on the other "let's become a mod and personally take care of all the shit i normally don't have to see" is kind of the exact opposite of what i wish from this site.
i understand, but with this comm you just have to ban anyone who posts there with a non-hexbear acct. reading their comments isnt necessary. im sorry if seems im brushing away ur concerns, i just thought this new comm addresses some of those concerns and wondered if you’d like to help maintain it
Look, i appreciate your trust and the effort going into this, but ... idk, maybe i'm misunderstanding what the plan is, so let me recap to see if we're on the same page: This is one comm that isn't even actually seperate from the reddit shit, but requires us to manually ban the droves of people from other instances who will see it on the top of their front page and will obviously not get they're not allowed to post there? How is this supposed to work, let alone fix anything?
we can request other instance admins to block that comm instance-wide. if some admins dont then yes, we will manually ban users. but they wont even see it in their “all” feed unless someone in their instance subscribes to it. its just supposed to function as a haven away from the rest of the fediverse. idk if it’s going to “fix” anything but i think it will be nice to have a safe haven where it’s just hexbears. ik it doesnt address ur concerns well, but perhaps it would be helpful if you reiterated those concerns in a c/feedback post so we could have a discussion abt it wider than just the two of us :)
I've just aired all of this in a big, emotional post in the pinned announcement thread for the den. Sorry in advance when one sentence there comes off as calling you out, i had to vent. Like, really had to. From what i've seen after writing that, local-only comms actually do not seem hard to implement, we may have those soon and i damn hope so because that's the only way i'm staying on this reddit-ass site.
no worries :)
cant argue with any of that. i especially agree we need a hexbear only comm/comms. im sorry this federation has driven you away, i miss ur presence on hexbear and im sure many others do too. it gets worse when we federate one instance at a time bc we’re opening a new floodgate every other week and as soon as things calm down we open another. once we federate widely enough and ban the bad faith non-hexbear users, im sure things will be much calmer