Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

Show HN: I built an active community of trans people online

t4t.social

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

101–110 of 411 posts

Re: Show HN: I built an active community of trans people online

#101

Post by whalesalad »

t4t wrote: post #10

The biggest piece of feedback I think I have gotten from posting here is that the nsfw content is a bit shocking which I get. Sorry about that. My guess is that if you just scrolled twitter or whatever by new exclusively unfiltered you wouldn’t have that different an experience. On the one hand I do think there is something interesting about the rawness of this network but also some sort of smart nsfw filtering is cl…

honestly I think people just need to grow up. so many people get outraged and cry "this should be NSFW!" when it is literally just a naked human body. we are so prudish in our society.

Re: Show HN: I built an active community of trans people online

#104

Post by dgares »

popcalc wrote: post #89
01HNNWZ0MV43FF wrote: post #84

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For casual readers: Blanchard's theories are widely discredited and "Autogynephile" is considered an impolite term among trans people.

[flagged]

> Blanchard's work reigns as the clinically accepted typology for patients seeking transition.

False. The clinically accepted typology is 'Gender Dysphoria', as under the DSM-5. The only place AGP is referenced in the DSM is as a subtype of 'Transvestic Disorder' (Transvestic Disorder With Autogynephilia), which is marked explicitly as crossdressing and imagining oneself as a woman solely for sexual purposes. The two diagnoses (Gender Dysphoria and Transvestic Disorder) are distinct from one another and not related.

Re: Show HN: I built an active community of trans people online

#106

Post by aliasxneo »

whalesalad wrote: post #101
t4t wrote: post #10

The biggest piece of feedback I think I have gotten from posting here is that the nsfw content is a bit shocking which I get. Sorry about that. My guess is that if you just scrolled twitter or whatever by new exclusively unfiltered you wouldn’t have that different an experience. On the one hand I do think there is something interesting about the rawness of this network but also some sort of smart nsfw filtering is cl…

honestly I think people just need to grow up. so many people get outraged and cry "this should be NSFW!" when it is literally just a naked human body. we are so prudish in our society.

Not everyone share that view, and that’s OK.

Re: Show HN: I built an active community of trans people online

#107

Post by wizzwizz4 »

01HNNWZ0MV43FF wrote: post #97
popcalc wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

[flagged]

The HSTS / AGP dichotomy is not taken seriously among trans people or care providers, don't listen to this person.

In the post-Karl Popper academic landscape, it's hard to beat the absurdity to explanatory-power ratio of Sigmund Freud's "penis envy", but Ray Blanchard's ravings about trans people are certainly a contender.

The "science experiments" he ran to "support" his "theories" aren't quite Philip Zimbardo levels of unethical quackery, but I'm still not sure how attaching electrodes to people's genitals and making them watch porn is a sensible way to categorise anyone, even ignoring the fudging required to make his experiments show the "correct" results.

Re: Show HN: I built an active community of trans people online

#108

Post by popcalc »

dgares wrote: post #104
popcalc wrote: post #89

Earlier quoted context omitted.

[flagged]

> Blanchard's work reigns as the clinically accepted typology for patients seeking transition. False. The clinically accepted typology is 'Gender Dysphoria', as under the DSM-5. The only place AGP is referenced in the DSM is as a subtype of 'Transvestic Disorder' (Transvestic Disorder With Autogynephilia), which is marked explicitly as crossdressing and imagining oneself as a woman solely for sexual purposes. The two…

[flagged]

Re: Show HN: I built an active community of trans people online

#109

Post by popcalc »

wizzwizz4 wrote: post #107
01HNNWZ0MV43FF wrote: post #97

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The HSTS / AGP dichotomy is not taken seriously among trans people or care providers, don't listen to this person.

In the post-Karl Popper academic landscape, it's hard to beat the absurdity to explanatory-power ratio of Sigmund Freud's "penis envy", but Ray Blanchard's ravings about trans people are certainly a contender. The "science experiments" he ran to "support" his "theories" aren't quite Philip Zimbardo levels of unethical quackery, but I'm still not sure how attaching electrodes to people's genitals and making them watch…

[flagged]
Post reply on HN