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@lemmy.worldTo be fair that means they'd be making money without spez's 193 million salary. https://fortune.com/2024/03/19/reddit-ceo-steve-huffman-defends-193-million-compensation-following-backlash-unpaid-moderators/
Read your own damn study. You are selectively omitting the words right before "of the 139 participants "
"Sexual orientation was ascertained for both fantasy and behavior and then dichotomized as either biphilic/androphilic or gynephilic. Of the 139 participants, 17 (12.2%) were classified as persisters and the remaining 122 (87.8%) were classified as desisters. Data on sexual orientation in fantasy were available for 129 participants:... "
Right off the bat that study is about sexual identity, ie- sexual preferences, not gender identity ie who one is.
And the are much better studies that are far more comprehensive
"found an overall rate of 1 percent for regret after surgery for both transmasculine and transfeminine surgeries." https://slate.com/technology/2024/02/transgender-youth-health-care-regret-pamela-paul-nyt-data.html
With a 1% regret rate it is not something that trans people have an issue with. You can count on one hand the number of trans individuals that have gone back permanently. Also puberty blockers are completely reversible, it's not until months on the actual hormones that people start getting permanent changes. And even then that isn't that irreversible.
Yuuuuup and it was the only one they could pass because of the one seat majority Joe Lieberman afforded them and he was bought out, the original Kristen Sinema.
Still saved a lot of lives and still infinitely better than what was before it.
Obama changed Healthcare forever he gave me the Healthcare that saved my life literally, again trans. His hope and change was a step forward. But you don't sound old enough to remember what it was like before that. And he was betrayed out of his congressional power immediately after by Joe Lieberman.
I know his troubled history, I'm trans, I'm a socialist. I do not believe there is any other way for me to survive without a Biden win, and black people in South Carolina overwhelmingly put Biden in charge of the democratic party over Bernie Sanders and I respect that choice because he was there to uphold Obama's legacy.
Nope, politics is won by messaging. By constantly hand wringing about flaws your echoing his critics material. We all know his weaknesses, echoing them over and over only weakens the messaging.
Point is your just echoing the criticisms, which undermines his strength as a politician even if he isn't anyones favorite, he's still a good Democrat who is old school pro union, which is honestly more beneficial and fundamental to democratic power than anything.