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[–] [email protected] 90 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I'll always remember this one time in the 1990s when my family and I were watching some medical documentary on cable TV. There was footage of a trans woman getting top surgery, and they showed the medical details and cutting of her uncovered chest with no problem, but the instant the breast implant was slipped beneath the patient's skin they blurred out the nipple because it became unsuitable for unedited broadcast at that moment.

i think about that moment a lot.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 days ago

gender affirming censorship

[–] [email protected] 382 points 6 days ago (9 children)

SOMETIMES A CHECKMATE IS JUST SO FUCKING POETIC.

Butters: weiners out!

[–] [email protected] 149 points 6 days ago (3 children)

For real, this is such a great move. Oh sure, the government could just ban nipples in general, but good luck enforcing that when it gets mildly warm and every scottish man rips their shirt off

[–] [email protected] 52 points 6 days ago

is that the "red wave" they've been warning us about?

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[–] [email protected] 82 points 5 days ago (4 children)

Trust me when I say this: none of the right-wing media/politicians, will understand that they've made any points on behalf of the protestors by blurring the "men's" nipples.

Also, saying men can go around topless but not women, is sexist. Any such law should be removed. We should all be equal in the eyes of the law. With that said: that shouldn't imply that women should go around topless. It should just be legally allowed. I'm a guy, but I don't think I need to explain to anyone the potential complications from going around topless as a woman... Whether trans or not.

The whole situation is dumb. Society needs to do better. We're all people. Let's keep that in mind and treat everyone the same, based on the fact that they are a human person in society. No legal separation of sex, gender, race, religion, or anything else. If you are a human person, you should have the same rights and freedoms as every other human person.

[–] [email protected] 74 points 5 days ago (8 children)

I'm a guy, but I don't think I need to explain to anyone the potential complications from going around topless as a woman... Whether trans or not.

It's normal and fairly mundane for men to go topless in virtually all societies, however, there are a good number of cultures where it is also normal for women to be topless. If it is normal and mundane for women to be topless, then it becomes a non-issue eventually. It's only racy because we're trained in our culture to find it racy.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 5 days ago (1 children)

In the late 90s or early aughts here in Canada women challenged and won the right to go topless as well as men. I can't recall seeing in person any women exercising that right myself, and it won't surprise me if the religions conservatives here have managed to overturn that directly or indirectly, but as a teenager/young adult i thought it was cool at the time that Canada fixed that inequality

Didn't really have a point here just felt like sharing

[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 days ago

OH! Finally! A chance to use my knowledge acquired from scrolling wikipedia while procrastinating! That law hasn't been overturned and is still, well, law. Of course every once in a while some clueless cop (because why should somebody enforcing the law, know the law sigh) will ask a topless sunbather to cover up. Here's the article.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 days ago

I'm reminded of the story of a couple comprised of a cis woman and a trans woman who wanted to get married in a state that was trying to forbid gay marriage. The state was in the position of either accepting that the trans woman was a woman and trying to forbid their marriage, or asserting that she was not in fact a woman but then allowing them to get married.

[–] [email protected] 155 points 5 days ago (4 children)

It would have been icing on the cake if trans men would have been in the same protest, also topless, but they weren't censored lol

[–] [email protected] 40 points 5 days ago (5 children)

To many in alt right groups, trans men don't exist.

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[–] [email protected] 172 points 6 days ago (4 children)

Legendary behavior. Bigots can choke on it

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[–] [email protected] 199 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (12 children)

Another example of the Scots fighting for freedom .... they've been doing it successfully for thousands of years and they're still doing it!

I will never in my life ever understand the fight against gay, lesbian, bi, queer, LGBTQ+

They are a fraction of the population yet the majority causes them immeasurable harm simply because they exist. The louder they persecute, the more prominent LGBTQ+ movement becomes .... it's contradictory. If conservatives had just left them alone, there would almost be no issue about any of this at all.

There are far more important debates and fights to be had in our society .... namely the fight to preserve the survivability of our species in the coming centuries ... yet here we are fighting about who gets to show or not show their tits!!!!

[–] [email protected] 99 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (5 children)

Conservatives need a demographic to hate. This one is perfect because they will never be Conservatives, and most hardcore Conservatives can't stand to see homosexual PDA.

[–] [email protected] 55 points 6 days ago (1 children)

they will never be Conservatives

I wish that were true, but I have family that is deeply conservative and so is her wife.

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[–] [email protected] 116 points 6 days ago (2 children)

And that, ladies and gentlemen, is what we call a brilliant catch-22 situation.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 days ago

The fact they just censored the nipples still 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂

[–] [email protected] 142 points 6 days ago (17 children)

Tits censored, guess they are women then. Fuck the transphobes

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[–] [email protected] 96 points 5 days ago

Malicious compliance at its best.

[–] [email protected] 62 points 5 days ago (1 children)

A living edge case. I love it.

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[–] [email protected] 60 points 5 days ago

Fucking Genius

[–] [email protected] 102 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Biological women can do it too if they print and cut out pics of men nipples and stick them on top.

[–] [email protected] 71 points 5 days ago

Damn, these people are bold as fuck. Get it!

[–] [email protected] 69 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (9 children)

In America most men are overweight or obese and have pendulous lumps on their chests with nipples attached. Personally I don't love seeing them, but when the weather is right, they are all over the goddamn place. It's absolutely ludicrous that women can't do the same. If there were any logical rule it would be don't show your chesticles unless you are a woman who uses them for feeding a child OR everybody gets to have their tits out regardless of any gender types. Pick one and go with it, but the current laws are base AF.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 5 days ago (4 children)

When I was in pre-K, on a really hot day, I remember asking why the boys got to take off their shirts but I couldn’t.

Now that I’ve had top surgery, I can be the fat hairy bearded guy that mows lawns shirtless. It’s nice.

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 6 days ago (4 children)

Love the message, but the blurb isn't correct. Police couldn't not arrest them because it would define them as a woman, outraging public decency and similar laws don't require specific genders.

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[–] [email protected] 46 points 6 days ago

Hmm...

spoiler


Pretty sure it's just a bug in the federation of images between blahaj.zone and lemmy.world, but it was a funny coincidence.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Is it illegal for women to be topless?

[–] [email protected] 26 points 5 days ago (54 children)

Yeah. That seems sexist.

Free the nipple.

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 5 days ago (1 children)

actually proud of Scotland for once, not the government but the people

[–] [email protected] 59 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (3 children)

It's the UK supreme court, not a Scottish court, that decided to stomp over all the progress we had made with trans rights.

The Scottish Parliament tends to be considerably more left wing than the UK Parliament. Left to their own devices they would probably be much more like a Scandinavian country.

But actually, yes, the Scottish people are indeed awesome.

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