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  • Indeed, some models are reselling for extremely expensive prices nowadays, it’s a bit crazy. Especially since digital is just much more convenient, but it can feel nice to have some physical media

    Alternatively you could look into a cassette deck if you’re not set on a portable player (one released before the 2000s, I don’t think they make new ones at all anyways), the high or medium end decks tend to have better sound – there’s much less flutter/wow – compared to portable players in the same price range nowadays, since they’re less “cool”. Still have to be pretty lucky to find good deals though






  • *piracy

    Yes, that’s one of the restrictions. I also think you can’t see your users’ comments. (perhaps posts too, I am uncertain)

    If you’re not interested in following something there or it’s not a topic you’re interested in, it’s alright. You could always create another account somewhere else or browse their instance anonymously.

    The good thing about Lemmy is that you can always switch to another instance in the future. I started for a few months on .world and then moved to lemmy.blahaj.zone.

    Welcome! I hope you have a great time here and I’m glad people are moving :)




  • Practically nonexistant, it is not possible for children under 16 to access HRT, if anything they are prescribed puberty blockers (so that you know… they can avoid suffering from the changes in their body and not be permanently affected).

    The general figure of regret for transgender affirming care is 1%, and 82.5% of these people do not detransition because they are no longer trans, but because of external factors. Source: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33794108/

    By age 17, 0.1% of trans children get HRT. Source: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/article-abstract/2828427


    Now let’s calculate some numbers: 1% of these 0.1% will regret it, that’s 0.001%. And 17.5% of these might not be transgender, so that’s 0.000175%

    According to that second study, there’s about 300000 trans children, so 0.000175% of that is 0.525 people.

    So… less than 1 child in the whole United States would maybe regrets it because they’re not trans. In other words, you can stop fear mongering.


  • And yet some kids do know they’re totally straight, or gay, or transgender, before they even turn 12, or 11, etc.

    They might not have the vocabulary to express it, and others might not know how it works or how they feel, so that’s just all the more reason to teach them.

    Imagine if we treated any other subject like this: “oh the children have no idea how it works, lets not subject them to it”. It doesn’t make sense, of course they don’t understand if they’ve never heard of it.