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Trans people are better off now specifically due to trans activism.
Every action having an "equal and opposite reaction" is a physics concept which doesn't apply here.
What? Activism by trans people is directly responsible for the improvement of the lives of trans people (see informed consent for example).
Nice to see something as simple as this is enough to filter bigots away!
Leave trans people alone.
This was created today as well https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=vincom
That being said, saying presenting instead of being is not ideal indeed.
It was a claim about anecdotal awareness.
I am still unsure about what you meant by the last part of your last sentence in your previous post.
You may not be convinced but I am simply stating my experience. I would be open to proof of the opposite. This is also seen in other open source adjacent communities around the world (eg: hacker conventions)
In the 2010s there was a sort of emancipation for trans people, and you could see them more and more often being openly involved with open source software. It is only natrual to want to turn open source communities to be explicitly accepting.
Because I really doubt that you personally know many trans people in this category.
> Sometimes I even think the evaluation requirements aren’t strict enough.
Leave it to trans people to judge that.
> I think this is necessary
Are you trans?
You definitelly can. There are plenty of big subreddits with posts like that, whose mods agree with.