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prude posting
Personal blog · lacroicsz.substack.comculturehealth
prude posting is a personal blog at lacroicsz.substack.com about culture and health. Since 2022, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times, most often “By Any Other Name”. The last post was in 2023, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (7) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link this Substack, a first-person account by a detransitioner, when discussing gender clinic gatekeeping, testosterone prescribing and ROGD. It is cited as a source for those points.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 7 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
flaying my psychology publicly for science.
Most-linked posts?
- By Any Other Name9 people · 9 mentions · first linked 2022-02-21
What Hacker News says?
It depends on the clinic. Some gatekeep more than others. Here's an example of one young woman who was prescribed testosterone on her first visit to a Planned Parenthood clinic: https://lacroicsz.substack.com/p/by-any-other-name
Comment linking /p/by-any-other-name
on “Malaysia started mandating ISPs to redirect DNS queries to local servers”Submitted By Any Other Name as a story · 2 points
HN discussionHave a read of this, it's a first-hand account of a detransitioner who says that Littman's description of ROGD fit her to a tee: https://lacroicsz.substack.com/p/by-any-other-name She was captured by the ideology as a teenager and took testosterone for a year and a half before realising what had happened to her. And there are many others just like her. I urge you to be more open-minded about this issue, and not base…
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on “Netflix’s big power clash and rivalries behind the crash”Submitted By Any Other Name as a story · 2 points
HN discussion> > Race and orientation is an immutable characteristic of the person. > That is no more true that it is of gender identity. Some people detransition, i.e. their gender identity changes back to match their sex. This demonstrates that gender identity is not immutable. For example, here's a fascinating piece by a recent detransitioner, about how, and why, her gender identity was male for several years: https://lacroic…
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on “Netflix to Employees: If you don't like our content, you can quit”> Actually, the current guidelines by health authorities do not allow irreversible treatments for minors. Nonetheless, girls under the age of 18 are having their healthy breasts removed for reasons of 'gender affirmation'. With some bitterly regretting it when they become adults. Here's one particularly shocking example of this being done, to a 13-year-old girl: https://4w.pub/tiktok-gender-doctor-per-breast-removal…
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on “Debian developer demoted, quits after two decades with project”Not always the case, see e.g. https://lacroicsz.substack.com/p/by-any-other-name She was prescribed testosterone at her first appointment with Planned Parenthood. There was basically no gatekeeping.
Comment linking /p/by-any-other-name
on “US public schools banned 10k books in most recent academic year”Is it really insane? In the detrans community, it's not uncommon for people to see their transition as ideologically led, see e.g. https://lacroicsz.substack.com/p/by-any-other-name .
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on “Do Not Turn Child Protection into Internet Access Control”> All rises in incidents of transgenderism are easily explained by a more tolerant society accepting it. This doesn't explain the disproportionate rise in teenage girls seeking treatment at gender clinics though. There's a fascinating essay by a detransitioner on how she began thinking of herself first as 'non-binary' and later as male, and ended up being prescribed testosterone medication for this: https://lacroics…
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on “Stop that It’s not Tourette’s but a new type of mass sociogenic illness”