Have you tried turning off voting for lemmy
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Transgender is a gender thats different from what your assigned at birth. Not binary. Can be any gender.
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im taking a shit
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So if I'm born male and identify non-binary, that would be considered trans as well? If I got that right my definition of trans was apparantly too binary.
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If you are assigned male at birth yes, remember that sex and gender are different things.
Trans just basically means your not the gender you was assigned at birth. So yes it was to binary and thank you for recognizing that. Very much appreciated
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I like the idea of an instance not having down votes that way. I assume that you could go to another instance and participate and no one could down vote you
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Thank you for the explanation!
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I'm sorry I didn't mean to imply I didn't support the non-binary among us, that was bad phrasing on my part. Of course I support their right to be who they are.
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Totally understandable, just was pointing it out.
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Transsexual is an old, negatively coded word. Transgender is the preferred nomenclature.
It was a derogatory term that implies that being transgender has something to do with sex and not an expression of gender.
Asexuals, who are disinterested in sex, can be transgender. Calling them a "transsexual" implies that there is a sexual expression happening.
When you express your gender (whatever it is), do you feel like you are being sexual? I would wager most don't think they're being sexual simply walking around being who they are.
That's why the term for non-trans people is "cisgender" not "cissexual."
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I decided to make an account on libretechni it's federated and it has no down votes just want to see how that works out
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Personally, I'm not offended when referred to as '-sexual'. In general, I don't see my gender as an important part of my identity. I guess I'm 'just' cis male but I don't see that as restrictive in any way.
But thanks for your explanation! Good to know that there's a negative connotation tied to that term and other people might be offended. I'll try to keep it in in mind for future discussions.
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That would be a really cool feature
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Sometimes that's just the up/downvote train. Sometimes people will just see the first couple of comments in an argument and just downvote/upvote alternatingly. Despite the idea that the votes are usually for what contributes to discussion, and not agree/disagree votes...
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Speaks for itsef!
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I'm using an app called Thunder and I have voting turned off for posts. For threads I have an up vote arrow when the comments are expanded, but if I collapse them I can see the count, which kind of does what you're asking? No idea how I managed to get that configured though.
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Already exists. Go to your user settings and deselect show upvote and show downvote scores.
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I was referring to the commenter's last sentence
