Regarding the number part: what if there were athletes that did not come out yet?

I’m specifically talking about trans women on hormone replacement therapy here. There is no significant movement towards including trans women not on hormone replacement in women’s sport at elite levels.

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Nah. There’s a million studies that look at isolated physical traits, but mostly have one of two common problems. 1) they are often written by people with an explicitly anti trans inclusion bias and 2) they look at physical traits in isolation without attempting to quantify if and how those traits apply to sports.

If trans women can out perform cis women, it only takes one to set a women’s world record, yet that just doesn’t happen. There are often articles claiming this has happened, but when you look closer, it turns out that they’re talking about age/regional/federation specific records that are mis presented as world records.

If trans women out perform cis women, we should expect to see them more likely to end with podium finishes than the cis women they’re competing with. It should be pretty trivial to gather the data and show that advantage. But it doesn’t happen, because the truth is, trans women are on average, more likely to under perform compared to cis women.

No study that looks at a trait in isolation and makes educated guesses about the effect of hormone replacement on that trait is ever going to tell you how real world sporting outcomes will be impacted.

The only thing that will tell you that is actual real world sporting results, and the limited results we have so far don’t show any hint of an advantage. If it is in there, it’s small enough that it’s not immediately obvious. We both know that if it was obvious, the media would be screaming it from the hills.

Some numbers. There are 50,000 athletes in the Olympics each year. From memory, there have been 4 or 5 Olympics in which trans people have been able to participate. So, that’s at least 200,000 athletes participating in that time. Now, trans people make up 1% of the population. Lets say that trans people are 10x less likely to get involved in sports though due to external factors. Using those numbers, 1 in 1000 of those 200,000 athletes should have been trans, which comes out 200. Lets say trans people are 100 times less likely to participate in sports. Even then, we should have seen 20 trans athletes. And those athletes should have got more gold medals than you would expect. Instead, we have had exactly 1 trans woman athlete in that time, and she came last in her event.

That’s what people are afraid of.

No amount of articles about testosterone and puberty change the reality that people are trying to exclude a vulnerable minority to solve a problem they can’t even show to exist in the first place.

That trans women on hormones have a significant advantage in sports

What’s the network flow like? I’m posting this to the lemmy.ml /asklemmy community, but I’m composing it on the sh.itjust.works interface. I’m assuming sh.itjust.works hands this over to lemmy.ml. How does my browsing work? Is all of my traffic routed through sh.itjust.works?

So, you post and it federates from your instance to lemmy.ml where the group you’re posting to resides.

Then the group basically “boosts” your post, and anyone that follows the group (ie, anyone that is subscribed to it) sees the “boost”, which the lemmy interface then displays as a post in the group. But if you follow the group from mastodon/calckey etc, instead of a threadiverse app, then it would just appear as a regular boost by the group you posted to.

Backfilling of data isn’t really a thing as such. Basically, your instance is only aware of content that has federated to it, and it only starts federating to your instance when someone first subscribes to a particular group.

That being said, the devs have mentioned that when lemmy federates the group actor, the API also sends the last 20 posts to the group. I don’t know how often groups are updated, and whether this applies every time it’s refreshed or not though…

It’s really light weight at small sizes.

It’s more stressful than anything ;)

Navigating split attraction and the correct labels is a challenge…

I’m a trans woman. I spent most of my life dating women, and even before I transitioned, I had come to accept that I’m not attracted to women, even though I’ve loved my partners. I started working through that, then I transitioned. I dated a woman not long after that and it didn’t work out. I told myself it was because I loved her but wasn’t attracted to her.

So, I stopped dating women. I called myself straight, because men and strongly masc aligned enbies are really the only people that I am attracted to (though not the only people I can fall in love with)

And that sucked. My queerness was invisible to folk. Most of my dating pool was actively not queer, and I never got what I was looking for in my relationships with men, despite my attraction to them.

And now I’m an amazing poly relationship with my girlfriend.

So I’ve mostly given up on labels and just settled on queer :)

Image description: An image of the admin control menu that appears when clicking on .... beside a post. Many options relating to moderation are displayed. One showing a pin icon labelled “Local” is highlighted in yellow.

Which is exactly what I’ve done with this post :)

I’ve been running an instance for around 6 months now, so I kinda like it. Enjoying the increased activity in the #threadiverse in general though

Users can create communities on Blahaj Lemmy. Most of our communities are created by users

I think more accurately, I know what it is, but I haven’t worked out what it means for me

That’s definitely one way to be bi :)

But there are also bi folk who aren’t attracted to men for example

As part of the fediverse, posts and content don’t back date when federating. Which is to say that if you are the first person on an instance to follow a community on another instance, you will get all of the future content to that group, but not the previous history.

You can however manually force specific threads from other instances to load on this instance by putting the URL for the post in to the search box on this instance

Bisexuals are not always attracted to men and women. A bisexual is simply someone that is attracted to two or more genders. That typically includes men and women, but doesn’t have to.

I don’t have a clue

What a lemmy group does is something akin to “boosting” any content published to it.

So, lets say you make your post from beehaw to lemmy_support on lemmy.ml. lemmy_support will see your post and then “boost” it, so anyone that follows lemmy_support (ie, is subscribed to it) will see the “boost” (though it doesn’t look like a boost through the specialised lemmy interface).

The main issue is that lemmy is basically just 2 devs trying to work around their own lives, jobs and running this instance. Now that more attention is coming to lemmy, it will be interesting to see if they start to get more devs offering their changes to the project

If you’re on beehaw, then beehaw is the source of truth for your posts. Other instances (such as lemmy.ml) will see and store copies of your content (and can choose to reject it outright), but the original is always your own instance.

Make sure you have “undetermined” set in your list of spoken languages. And if you’re the admin of the server, make sure it’s listed as an available language for users to select.

Most content that comes to lemmy doesn’t have language tags, and “undetermined” is the only way to see that content

I believe the closest you can do at the moment is make a community moderators only, and then make the people you want moderators of that community. That isn’t really what you want though, because everyone can still read it.

Crusader Kings and EVE Online. I wish I still had the time to play EVE

They are based on a fork of lemmy that added features that made it incompatible with lemmy. However, there is an active body of work taking place to bring it back to lemmy compatability and allow federation to take place again.

I’m not sure where that work is at though

At the moment, all I see is the apple reality distortion field.

Welcome aboard! I hope you have some undetermined fun :)

Also, one more thing that I just though of. Make sure you have “undetermined” set in your list of spoken languages in your preferences.

Most content comes through without a language tag, and you need to have undetermined selected to ensure that it shows

And my edits now make me wonder if there is a bug with the reply count. I replied from Calckey, and edited it twice, and it shows 3 comments instead of 1

Edit - Yep, confirmed. Editing from Calckey (and presumably other non local instances) pushes the reply counter up by 1.

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I mean, I’m visible, open and proud every day. I won’t be do anything specifically different this month though, because Pride isn’t until September here (in Spring instead of Winter)

I think we’d all be better served by pretending reddit doesn’t exist, rather than trying to bring reddit drama over here.

I’m just happy to see more users and more activity. I admin an instance, so I’m not too worried about toxicty, as I can dump any regular sources of trouble

Asking the important questions!

Which group?

Fans, and a general preference for being hot and sweaty over wearing thick/multiple layers of clothing to avoid the cold

We will! Just trying to iron out some bugs with it before we go live

We have open approvals. But lemmy still triggers this email. I leave it on so that I can manually track new joins and check them out if they look questionable

We have open approvals, but also emails when people register. It lets me skim usernames and check out new accounts manually, whilst also having open registration

It should be under the languages section in the setting menu

The instances that we’ve blocked can be found here https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/instances

Which group/instance are you having trouble with?

Full of bitcoinbros.

Mastodon around a year ago. Hopped around to a few mastodon instances before finding alternatives. Been running multiple fediverse instances since then (and none of them are mastodon)