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[–] ricecake@sh.itjust.works 13 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Couple things: a statement relating to unspecified testing about one failed test to Russian state media is a pretty far cry from "it kind of holds up".

I'm glad you avoid manufactured outrage. In this case, the manufactured outrage is from the people falsely claiming a woman is secretly transgender and spreading misinformation, like in the original post you seem to not have a problem with.

You don't see what accusing someone of being transgender to undermine their win has to do with transgender issues?

Also, "transexual" is not the preferred nomenclature. Transgender is. The former is an older, dated term and is generally best avoided.

[–] MyTurtleSwimsUpsideDown@fedia.io 6 points 2 months ago

Going by their username, I don’t think they have any compunctions about using dated terminology.