Gender Affirming Care for minors is by far the most controversial element of the trans rights movement, it’s going to get downvotes even on relatively safe places like lemmy.
Things can be both part of a social movement and thoughoughly backed by scientific consensus: see climate change. No offesne was intended in my response.
It’s just not really a good meme at all, so it’s going to get downvotes. That’s what downvotes are for.
The more unusual circumstance is that it got so many upvotes despite being a crappy meme. This clearly indicates that we have a lot of Lemmy users who support trans youth. Good for us, that makes me glad. Still not good content for this particular community imho, so I didn’t upvote.
Why the downvotes?
Human rights aren’t politics
I wish that were the case. Unfortunately, human rights are up for political debate, since a lot of people are vehemently against them.
Gender Affirming Care for minors is by far the most controversial element of the trans rights movement, it’s going to get downvotes even on relatively safe places like lemmy.
I think gender affirming care for minors has more support than trans participation in sports, for example.
Things can be both part of a social movement and thoughoughly backed by scientific consensus: see climate change. No offesne was intended in my response.
It’s not an entertaining meme
Sure. That’s what ignoring something is for.
I didn’t downvote. But I didn’t upvote either.
It’s just not really a good meme at all, so it’s going to get downvotes. That’s what downvotes are for.
The more unusual circumstance is that it got so many upvotes despite being a crappy meme. This clearly indicates that we have a lot of Lemmy users who support trans youth. Good for us, that makes me glad. Still not good content for this particular community imho, so I didn’t upvote.