20240226 Under fire in Texas. Transmen may still ovulate. Julius Zmarktwy artist. Will they go after Gay apps? Human Gay Male Newsletter.
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“Transgender men may still ovulate after hormone replacement therapy” is the title of this article.
Notice they won’t use the term “transmen.” The article has little ideological items like this concluding sentence.
Asseler hopes future work will answer that and other questions critical to trans people’s reproductive health. “Everything that we thought we knew from cisgender health care is being turned around because of the findings that we find in transgender people,” she says.
They are biologically women, and of course their health care is different from men. However, socially I am fine with them being men, as long as I don’t have to hear complaining that Gay men won’t date them.
I don’t support the pile on of abuse on transmen, but I am not going along with the shaming of Gay men either.
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I have signed up with them. I am not necessarily endorsing them, but I do want my readers to be informed and know about the options are. They do have a Gay centric focus. They are mostly focused on rejecting gender ideology. They are mostly in the UK. They are fighting the idea that Gay men are somehow obligated to have sex with Gay transmen and also Gay transmen complaining about Gay society. They do have meetings on Zoom.
I have told them that you build a community by being for something. However, they are at least trying to organize and so though I don’t necessarily endorse them, I also see them as trying to do something. I see them as doing Gay centric organizing and they are open to new ideas.
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How long until they go after the Gay apps?
Don’t kid yourself, the Respectability Gays, the moral scold social worker types, and people who don’t do well on the apps and want revenge, are all thinking about this lawsuit. However, it could be that the apps are a sort of scam.
I am all for going after scams, I just think that the use of the term “addictive” is problematic.
Addictive is often something conjured up to stigmatize and create moral panic.
I am sure probably some people spend too much time on their smartphone, but it isn’t addiction, but the need to grow up or have self-control.
Here are some links to coverage on it.
This is an online court filing. Six guys are filing it.
https://dockets.justia.com/docket/california/candce/3:2024cv00888/424915
You can download their entire 60-page filing at this link.
https://www.classaction.org/media/oksayan-et-al-v-matchgroup-inc.pdf
Who is really behind this? The articles say it is six dating app users, but I doubt that six ordinary people could pull together the funding and file such a lawsuit. So who is really behind this?
Is it some Christian group? Or some group of moral scolds who don’t like dating apps? Or maybe it is just some people going after a scammy app in the public interest? I don’t know.
Of course, the issue could be some scammy tactics of these apps. In the filing on page 2, I read the following.
4. The undisclosed defective design is intended to erode users’ ability to disengage from the Platforms and turn users into addicts who will purchase ever-more expensive subscriptions to unlock unlimited and other ‘special’ features which are not designed to deliver on Match’s marketing promises, but instead to further addict and forever entrench users in the app.
But then again, there is involve what I think are bogus claims. From Page 4.
A survey conducted by eHarmony found that a shocking “nine in ten singles (90%) believe they are ‘addicted’ to dating apps,” that “half (48%) [of users] admit to checking their apps last thing before going to bed and two-fifths (39%) check their apps against first thing when they wake up,” and, “nearly a third (28%) confess to checking [dating apps] at work… and 12% have even checked dating apps while on a date.”5
Also, for people who are single, finding someone is important. Is it really unreasonable for single people to want to spend a few minutes before going to bed and when getting up to look for someone? The 21st century is a century of loneliness for many.
This wasn’t published in any peer reviewed academic publication, but is something published by Eharmony itself. The footnote 5 is:
eHarmony Editorial Team (Feb. 6, 2023), Why Singles are ‘Addicted’ to Dating Apps, EHARMONY. https://www.eharmony.co.uk/labs/app-dicted-to-love/ (Last visited, February 14, 2024).
Maybe the lawsuit is about one dating business stigmatizing another. I don’t know. I tend to think this is more about scamming foolish people than addiction.
Also one issue regarding the lawsuit doesn’t preclude another. It might be that the Match Group is scammy, but the people going after them have an agenda and the scammy things are a pretext. There could be multiple agendas at work.
The problem is that issues in the dating world tend to have spill over effects that are negative to the Gay world.
For example straight men were sending unsolicited dick pics to women and they were upset, so legislation establishing criminal penalties was passed. I have gotten unsolicited dick pics on hookup apps. It doesn’t bother me. I usually suspect that the pic isn’t real, but I am not bawling about it or wanting the person sending it arrested.
https://www.jezebel.com/states-are-cracking-down-on-unsolicited-dick-pics-than-1849586442
Science magazine article on the difficulty of finding a cure for AIDS.
Fairly long technical article showing the challenges involved. Basically the HIV virus is hiding out by becoming inactive and staying silent while anti-HIV viral drugs are being used. There are challenges to getting this silent hiding virus dealt with. Basically the biomolecular science isn’t there.
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adk1831
Dallas Suburb cancels Gay play “The Laramie Project.”
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Whatever your feelings might be about the idea of “non-binary” this is not acceptable and also this person is condemning all the letters of the LGBTQXYZ.
It is time to have a tough agenda.
You can download the book “Disable, Defeat, Demolish Homophobic Christianity,” for free.
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