Rivaclaw🏳️‍⚧️ΘΔ @renbymon@computerfairi.es

As the media is running the findings of gender identity and youth by Dr Cass today, I would like to point out dozens of studies regarding puberty blockers and HRT were not considered by Cass as they were not blinded or did not have a control group.

While this is usually good practice, where the effectiveness of, say, cancer drugs, is tested by the genuine drug versus a placebo, it cannot apply here as the effects of puberty blockers and HRT are so apparent and obvious, test subjects would easily know if they are in the genuine group or the placebo group.

As such, this research cannot be done blind or with control groups, so by disregarding it, as Cass has, has created an end result biased against the findings in those studies, presenting a more one dimensional perspective.

I would argue that a more rigorous piece of research would have included these studies to present a more comprehensive picture of gender identity and youth, with an explanation as to why they are included despite not being blinded or in a control group. The fact this was not done, makes me devalue the work and question biases and perspectives of Cass.

Lastly, and as a bit of an aside, academia, at least as when I was being taught, knows people hold biases and how this affects the research and work presented. Rather than pretend these don't exist or that research and work will be done without bias, which is impossible as these biased affect how we behave even unconsciously, we should be open and disclose our biases. This way, the reader is fully aware of what informed the research.

The problem is less that Cass has personal opinions, we all have them, it's more that due to a lack of disclosure, seeing the studies on puberty blockers and HRT removed for bad reasoning makes me, as a reader, assume the worst intentions of Cass.

Because, why else were these studies not included? Not being blind or in a control group is not a good enough reason when you spend more than ten seconds thinking about it.

「Xenia Linux - Æ」

It's #UNICORNDAY! 🦄 Pleeeeease show us your unicorn characters? 🥺 We would love to make more unicorn fursuits!

#fursuit #fursuitmaker #furryfandom #furry

Playing around with the VTuber avatar and this lined up with the music pretty well 👀

HOLY FUCK SHE LOOKS AWESOME

If you’re on mastodon.social, I would highly recommend that you switch to a different server that protects its people instead of exposing them to a well-known bad actor like Facebook/Meta via Threads.

For alternatives, see: https://fedipact.veganism.social

And remember that Mastodon is not the fediverse. The fediverse is much more than just Mastodon and definitely more so than mastodon.social and Mastodon gGmbH.

#mastodonSocial #mastodonGGMBH #mastodon #fediverse #threads #facebook #meta

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I ran @RLabibov's program and got this.
Source: https://bbcmic.ro/?t=9GqqZ #bbcbasic

I'm a week late for #TransDayOfVisibility, but I wanted to finish this piece anyway. Featuring Nikki (she/her) and Austin (he/they) 💜 #furry #furryart #pride

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So how do you install this?

Well it's easy, you just...wait, you WHAT?

You um...you add a curl directly to your .zshrc. You're sourcing this from the website _every time you open a shell_.

That's gotta be the slowest possible option, to say nothing about the security concerns.

Happy International Asexuality Day, from VGAPride!

made a really shitty quick ref for 5G's new design

#furry #robot #mastoart

new profile pic :3

this piece was kind of cursed......... and took days of throwing it all out and redoing it, but it ended up really pretty so it was definitely worth it ^^

#Furry #FurryArt #Cerberus #Husky #AnthroHusky #MultiHead #MultiFur #MultiFurry

I can't wrap my head around how almost all of the #xz reporting focuses on the failures of #opensource.
Yeah, sure, but ...

Good luck finding such an attack in proprietary code.
Via the cliché paid off/blackmailed employee, hacked dev servers/repos, or via capitalism's favorite cost-cutting measure: a remote "offshored" contracted temporary developer (or nowadays, embedded into some LLM output).

If anything, Open Source Security has *worked*.

#cypersecurity #OSS

The Ferranti effect: open circuit voltage at the receiving end of a transmission line is greater than the sending end, due to reactance

The Ferrero effect: the quantity of chocolates at the receiving end (the possum) is greater than the sending end (the box of Ferrero Rocher) due to hunger and desire for chocolate

Happy #FursuitFriday from Exe!💙🔥

Thanks for watchin!’
#fursuitdance #fursuitdancing #furry #fursuit

My Pocket 386 arrived! It seems to have basically the same specs as the Hand386, but in a laptop form factor. There's a few new options for managing the video, and the built-in screen isn't as horribly shit this time.