I’ve never understood private trackers. I have yet to encounter a situation where I can’t locate a file on a public tracker.

And a private tracker doesn’t allow for VPNs? Sounds like an industry honeypot.

Linking to a government website for a download of text based information? And it’s not even the original file?

All of you need to take a good long read of https://www.privacyguides.org/ and assume that the government is making a spreadsheet. And if not them then all the data brokers.

Internet archive has the original file at https://web.archive.org/web/20250103232813/https://opa.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/2023-08/gender-affirming-care-young-people.pdf

And a markdown version that nobody has to leave lemmy.blahaj.zone to see:

What is gender-affirming care?

Gender-affirming care is a supportive form of healthcare. It consists of an array of services that may include medical, surgical, mental health, and non-medical services for transgender and nonbinary people. For transgender and nonbinary children and adolescents, early gender- affirming care is crucial to overall health and well-being as it allows the child or adolescent to focus on social transitions and can increase their confidence while navigating the healthcare system.

Common Terms

• Cisgender: Describes a person whose gender identity aligns with their sex assigned at birth.
• Gender diverse or expansive: An umbrella term for a person with a gender identity and/or expression broader than the male or female binary. Gender minority is also used interchangeably with this term
• Gender dysphoria: Clinically significant distress that a person may feel when sex or gender assigned at birth is not the same as their identity
• Gender identity: One’s internal sense of self as man, woman, both or neither
• Nonbinary: Describes a person who does not identify with the man or woman gender binary
• Transgender: Describes a person whose gender identity and or expression is different from their sex assigned at birth, and societal and cultural expectations around sex HHS uses LGBTQI+ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer/questioning, or intersex) to reflect the diversity of this community. More specific terms are used in alignment with research and information sources. However, people who are part of this community may use various other terms to define their identity.

Why does it matter?

Research demonstrates that gender-affirming care improves the mental health and overall well-being of gender diverse children and adolescents.^[1] Because gender-affirming care encompasses many facets of healthcare needs and support, it has been shown to increase positive outcomes for transgender and nonbinary children and adolescents. Gender-affirming care is patient-centered and treats individuals holistically, aligning their outward, physical traits with their gender identity. Gender diverse adolescents face significant health disparities compared to their cisgender peers. Transgender and gender nonbinary adolescents are at increased risk for mental health issues, substance use, and suicide.^{[2] [3]} The Trevor Project’s 2021 National Survey on LGBTQ Youth Mental Health found that 52 percent of LGBTQ youth seriously considered attempting suicide in the past year.^[4] A safe and affirming healthcare environment is critical in fostering better outcomes for transgender, nonbinary, and other gender expansive children and adolescents. Medical and psychosocial gender affirming healthcare practices have been demonstrated to yield lower rates of adverse mental health outcomes, build self-esteem, and improve overall quality of life for transgender and gender diverse youth.^{[5] [6]} Familial and peer support is also crucial in fostering similarly positive outcomes for these populations. The presence of affirming support networks is critical for facilitating and arranging gender affirming care for children and adolescents. Lack of such support can result in rejection, depression and suicide, homelessness, and other negative outcomes. ^[7][8][9]

Resources

HHS Office of Population Affairs This information extracted from the original PDF located on the internet archive.

No alt text for our blind brothers and sisters? For shame comrade.

For a long time, I thought the Democrats were fighting valiantly but just overwhelmed by the oligarchy and the Republicans. Then I saw that the Democrats keep losing fights they should win and figured they must be just weak and ineffectual. Then I kept seeing them backing off without putting up a fight at all and decided they were gutless cowards. Finally I noticed that enough of them keep voting with the Republicans to always make sure the Republicans more or less win almost every fight, and that they keep starting from a Center position and bargaining to the Right, and eventually after enough of that it became impossible to ignore the only conclusion that actually fits the facts: The Democrats are not over matched, they aren’t weak, they aren’t cowards…they’re complicit.

Take this opportunity to prune your Microsoft data and inject false information. Become a trans man liberal vegan who thinks Trump is great for privacy. Algorithm does need good data after all.

Deletion is probably not necessary. People change all the time, let the computer think you changed into something else.

TLDR? Is this another “all CPU chips are CIA sponsored, gotta homebrew your own motherboard to be safe”

Waiting for its ios port. Otherwise, sticking with Firefox Focus

The alternative is putting up “do you want free training on operating a small bulldozer?” signs everywhere, hiring the humans who show up, and laying down underground cable or telephone poles everywhere. Fuck, just slap a “national defense” reason for why there needs to be internet everywhere for military communications.

Starlink outshines in latency vs undersea cables. Small drones use small radios, bigger drones can use bigger military satellites. Just build out communication to rural areas already. Integrate comm lines into road maintenance crews.

Don’t forget the champagne

Would there be any issue with abuse?

Not more so than the current anti-abuse methods blahaj already uses. A valid e-mail address, a short paragraph explaining why you want to join the server.

Registration can also be limited to actual IP address.

Maybe users that login with Tor would require special approval for their account before being able to post?

Locking until your comment score gets high enough and being 30 days old? Or one post/comment a week for the first month?

I saw an unfiltered dark web internet comic and it turned me gay.

If you just end up going off titty skittles for a couple months, you’re probably fine.

Want to emphasize this part. T levels take a long time to rise. (citation needed, not a doctor)

Per https://old.reddit.com/user/onnake Sat Feb 22 16:20:17 2025 UTC

NPR missed an important point that Trump, in his quest for ever-greater power, is once again ignoring a judicial ruling:

“In another case, Judge Royce C. Lamberth of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia issued a preliminary ruling blocking the three plaintiffs’ transfer to a men’s facility, saying they had ‘straightforwardly demonstrated that irreparable harm will follow.’”

“While the transfers likely would not be seen as directly flouting the judge’s order, David Super, a Georgetown law professor, said they would clearly violate the spirit of Judge Lamberth’s ruling that such a transfer would most likely violate the Constitution’s ban on ‘cruel and unusual punishment.’

“‘Historically, administrations do not do things that an active court order declares unlawful,’ he said.”

NY Times: https://archive.is/6XGIo

What are you talking about? The seal has always faced left. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Seal_of_the_United_States

Ah fuck. This one is going to hit a kind person I know.

I wanted more expanse style stories, and I got another expanse style story. The novella “Livesuit” was also good.

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Extracted a paragraph from the “preview” by academic paywall:

INTRODUCTION EXCERPT ATTACHED. In 1865, the British rulers of north India resolved to bring about the gradual ‘extinction’ of transgender Hijras. This book, the first in-depth history of the Hijra community, illuminates the colonial and postcolonial governance of gender and sexuality and the production of colonial knowledge. From the 1850s, colonial officials and middle class Indians increasingly expressed moral outrage at Hijras’ feminine gender expression, sexuality, bodies and public performances. To the British, Hijras were an ungovernable population that posed a danger to colonial rule. In 1871, the colonial government passed a law that criminalised Hijras, with the explicit aim of causing Hijras’ ‘extermination’. But Hijras evaded police, kept on the move, broke the law and kept their cultural traditions alive. Based on extensive archival work in India and the UK, Jessica Hinchy argues that Hijras were criminalised not simply because of imported British norms, but due to a complex set of local factors, including elite Indian attitudes.

https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108592208

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By royal decree, the children of maintenance workers are to travel in the rear of the aircraft. /s