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  • neuracnu@lemmy.blahaj.zonetoTransfem@lemmy.blahaj.zone•Shoe and underwear recommendations?English
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    9 days ago

    A lot depends on what country you’re in these days. In the US, Hoka makes terrific walking and running shoes. That said, since doing daily walks and runs, I’ve come to realize that walking/running shoes don’t last as long as you might expect - only 500 miles or so. I was going about 6 miles every day, so I was astonished to see how quickly the shoes were wearing out, only to realize that it was just me beating them up extra hard. :)

    As for underwear, TomBoyX, all day long. However, when it comes to working out, I’ve gotten away from wearing leggings (which I can rarely get to fit correctly around my butt and gut) and just use a bodysuit / leotard with a workout top. Best decision ever.

  • neuracnu@lemmy.blahaj.zonetoScience Memes@mander.xyz•Can you think of any now?English
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    9 days ago

    More extracts from that same podcast:

    In each case, right up until the moment I received evidence to the contrary, all this misinformation, these supposed facts, felt true to me. I had believed them for decades and I had accepted them in part because they seemed to confirm all sorts of other ideas and opinions floating around in my mind. Plus they would have been great ways to illustrate complicated concepts, if not for the pesky fact that they were, in fact, not facts.

    That’s one of the reasons why common misconceptions and false beliefs like these spread from conversation to conversation and survive from generation to generation and become anecdotal currency in our marketplace of ideas. They confirm our assumptions and validate our opinions and, thus, they raise few skeptical alarms. They make sense and they help us make sense of other things.

  • neuracnu@lemmy.blahaj.zonetoTransfem@lemmy.blahaj.zone•Kamala Harris Says She Has “Concerns” About Trans Student AthletesEnglish
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    9 days ago

    From TFA…

    “I agree with the concerns expressed by parents and players that we have to take into account biological factors such as muscle mass and unfair student athletic advantage when we determine who plays on which teams, especially in contact sports,” Harris reportedly wrote. “With goodwill and common sense, I believe we can come up with ways to do this, without vilifying and demonizing children.”

    Crucially, many athletic organizations’ policies already contained rules to mitigate such “biological factors,” usually by requiring trans athletes to complete a certain number of years of hormone therapy. Some of those policies have been rolled back or eliminated in favor of strict binary classifications based on “biological sex,” amid the ongoing conservative anti-trans backlash. Last year, a study funded in part by the International Olympic Committee found that trans women may actually face notable disadvantages compared to cisgender women in athletic competitions after taking hormones.

    Still, some Democrats have ceded ground on trans-inclusive sports in the wake of the 2024 election. In March, California Gov. Gavin Newsom told the late far-right pundit Charlie Kirk he agreed that trans girls playing high school sports was “deeply unfair.” Last month, Pete Buttigieg — reportedly Harris’ first pick for running mate in 2024 — followed suit, calling for Democrats to “take those questions [about fairness] seriously and face those together” in a podcast appearance.

    Nuanced takes from Harris and Mayor Pete. Careful, thoughtful ideas that are functionally red meat for Republican bullies to tear apart and feed to their base.

    Our health care is being denied, our livelihoods are being taken away and our lives are increasingly in danger. It’s not too much to expect the politicans (supposedly) on my side to have some more fucking fight in their rhetoric.

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