andrewducker | Interesting Links for 16-07-2025

5 When I put images in a DW post (which isn't planning to implement age verification) they're hosted on BlueSky (which will do) as an easy upload image option. I wonder how integrated everything gets and if the image links will break unless you've verified, will I be better to find a different host...

You can store images on DW, if that helps. https://www.dreamwidth.org/file/new

It's just not even slightly integrated, because their "Tidy the code up" refactor is taking decades.

Were I to suddenly be a retired millionaire, I would absolutely be getting involved there...

Oh, I had totally forgotten that that was a thing. I've been using faffy links to Google photos for ages, so that's a really helpful reminder, thank you!

You're welcome!

5: everyone involved in this fascist shit should be deported to gaza

Regarding bullying, I still have a strong impression that the whole thing is specific for specific societies. There was no bullying in the school that I attended. The general idea would have been just disgusting. In my daughter's class there was one case. I was in the parents committee; we were informed about that case, and I just went to see the parents of the bully. It took me some efforts to convince the father not to beat up his kid, but we had eventually agreed on everything - and there was no more bullying. Everything was done with respect.

But I heard lots of stories of bullyings, beatings, in Moscow. A different world, I guess. A different culture. The idea, I think, comes from the notion that not everyone is equal, or something like that.

Oh yes. If you're in a society where "Being strong" is considered important, and everyone is trying to beat everyone else down to make sure they get the best things (or at least something) then bullying is going to be really common.

I'm glad you got it sorted for your daughter. And persuaded the dad not to be violent!

Thank you. My daughter has actually always been fine; she's a great manipulator. Started a company when she was 20, etc. Got rich. But those days, when she was a teenager, we were perfectly cooperating (or so I thought).

Edited 2025-07-17 12:15 (UTC)

Hmm.
Approximately 92,329 binary and nonbinary trans Americans aged 16 and older — including 84,170 adults — participated

Were those who detransitioned after (bottom) surgery included in the survey ?

The survey seems to be of people who took a step backwards at some point in their transition, but eventually decided that they were trans or non-binary.

The Cass report was significantly concerned about those who considered transitioning and then decided that they were going to stick with their assigned gender. Those people don't appear to be part of this survey.
Planners of gender identity services need to know how many such people there are and perhaps how to support patients to work out which they are.
Of course, it may be that with the current provision those people never reach the existing services, but if we were to be supporting patients at an age when puberty-blockers would be useful, more of these people would be seen.

(I am aware of one person in my online world who surgically transitioned because of family pressure and who has big regrets and now believes that they should have stayed at gender-fluid.)

They *would* be included. And I'm sorry they were pressured by anyone at all! That's awful.

Although the far more common experience (it was my own) is to be pressured NOT to surgically transition. I won't bore you with the legal and psychological threats that were made.

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