- cross-posted to:
- technology@beehaw.org
- technology@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- technology@beehaw.org
- technology@lemmy.world
Thursday on X (Twitter), all users saw the same pinned topic under the “What’s happening?” sidebar. As part of a “timeline takeover” — which gives advertisers “priority access to logged-in users’ first impression of the day” — conservative media nonprofit PragerU is promoting the hashtag “#DETRANS” to advertise its new film about “the stories of detransitioners.”
Detransition is the equivalent of people who decided they actually aren’t gay. It’s rare enough to not make policies or be an ass about it, it’s super rare for it to go all the way to straight/cis and instead is typically “actually it turns out I’m bi/nonbinary”, and there’s a group actively funded and encouraged by the right wing, many of whom later retransition. It is a real phenomenon, but so is quicksand, both of which turned out to be less common in real life than certain media would have you believe
It’s also sadly common for folks to detransition because of hostility and a lack of support. Hard to afford hormones if you can’t get a job because you’re trans.
Very true. And it’s easy to decide that physical safety is more valuable at the moment than self fulfillment.