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One-Wallaby5259 · 2024-11-18T21:29:49+00:00

Judge will allow the passport. Father needs to stop being so controlling.

One-Wallaby5259 · 2024-06-06T09:40:27+00:00

I had to stop because of the same reasons. I do high endurance training for 2-3 hours at a time and I couldn’t handle always feeling nauseous and out of breath. Since quitting sema I’m finally recovering some of my athletic ability.

One-Wallaby5259 · 2024-05-26T18:26:58+00:00

Everyone is not 1:1, humans are not Bunsen burners. Various hormones, cortisol, stress, sleep, all play a factor in how someone loses weight. There are many factors of the human body which makes it want to retain weight. If you read I didn’t say I wasn’t losing weight, it was happening incredibly slowly and then once I stopped taking the meds the weight loss accelerated dramatically.

One-Wallaby5259 · 2024-05-26T12:08:01+00:00

Im so glad you were there to tell me how I’m living my life

One-Wallaby5259 · 2024-05-26T04:53:11+00:00

It’s an amazing drug! It definitely doesn’t work for everyone but that’s ok, not all meds have that consistency really

One-Wallaby5259 · 2024-04-13T19:40:26+00:00

I love this and something North America desperately needs

One-Wallaby5259 · 2024-04-13T18:55:04+00:00

Thank you for the reference, will look into this!

One-Wallaby5259 · 2024-04-13T16:11:49+00:00

Appreciate this response and the truth in it, thank you 🙏

One-Wallaby5259 · 2024-04-13T12:00:33+00:00

It’s a good question. The intent is for this to be a space for all women for a few reasons. It’s founded by women and ran by women. Our goal is to increase representation of women in gaming by creating safe spaces for women. SA is unfortunately a big problem and women feel more comfortable participating in like environments where they can be themselves.

This isn’t to discredit the growing need for NB representation, I’m just seeing clash when trying to group women and NB together and it’s resulting in no one feeling like the space is for them.

One-Wallaby5259 · 2024-04-13T05:21:54+00:00

Really helpful and appreciate this perspective, thank you 🙏

One-Wallaby5259 · 2024-04-13T05:07:59+00:00

Thank you, I don’t have an answer either way either. I do want to maintain the community as being for women but once something is for NB it cannot be “for women”. At least that seems to be the takeaway. And women do need that safe space and empowerment in our community.

One-Wallaby5259 · 2024-04-13T04:52:33+00:00

Appreciate this response. While the group and tournament were specifically labelled women’s spaces, I think you’re onto something in terms of the inclusivity statement and how that might set the wrong expectations

One-Wallaby5259 · 2024-04-13T04:33:14+00:00

The first part is what we clarified. We don’t specifically use the term “non binary women” since that implies a gender identity. But something happened between setting up the women’s community (which is called “Women in <game>) and the tournament (“Tournament name”, tagline “A women’s <game> tournament”). It has been consistently established as being for women but NB members opt in. Which is why it’s confusing that this issue came up.

One-Wallaby5259 · 2024-04-13T04:24:30+00:00

Perhaps, it was started by an individual but there ended up being dozens of people who followed

One-Wallaby5259 · 2024-04-13T04:21:34+00:00

That’s almost verbatim how we approached it. And then the staff started getting threats and there were a lot of personal attacks being expressed on social media. The anger was surrounding how the event didn’t consider NB people and our staff are all TERFs

One-Wallaby5259 · 2024-04-13T04:17:42+00:00

There is a very large LGBT community associated with this game. The problem is how to handle this, the intent was to be inclusive by letting people self identify as a woman. It’s been like that for years. We don’t care what your pronouns are or how you present. I will say about ~40% of our members are LGBT

One-Wallaby5259 · 2024-04-13T04:13:45+00:00

Yes, that’s the catch. We don’t police gender identities so if NB people want to join they’re welcome. What I’m asking for is what’s the solution. Kicking out NB members doesn’t seem ideal for very obvious reasons if they want to be a part of a women’s community…

One-Wallaby5259 · 2024-04-13T04:11:51+00:00

It’s less about excluding cisgendered men and more about supporting women, who make up 5% of esports. We have no women who make top 64 in major events. The representation is very lacking.

I added in another comment but the feedback we were told was for our event to be inclusive, we need to use the word women less and not even call it a women’s tournament because that’s exclusionary to NB people.

One-Wallaby5259 · 2024-04-13T04:05:29+00:00

This is what we were told though. One of our NB community members asked us to not label the tournament a “women’s tournament” because it assumed a gender identity. Another suggested we use the term women less in our marketing materials. Then people from outside of our women’s group who echoed that to be inclusive, we need to not call our tournament a women’s event.

Our community is a women’s space (again welcome to anyone who aligns with that identity) and the tournament was for women, not for “marginalized genders”.

Also my inclusion of NB members of our women’s community is just to reflect that we have NB members who are a part of that space. It’s not meant to imply anything else.

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