HopeOfTheGunblade @ HopeOfTheGunblade @kbin.social

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Coming soon to a red state near you!

Any sufficiently identical copy of me is me. A copy just means there are more me in the universe.

You do you, man, but I feel like getting this het up over a competition you'll never be involved in, have any control over, or be forced to watch, is kind of a waste of lifespan. Are you happier for it? Healthier? Wealthier? Kinda seems like it's just burning more than one second off your life per second for no benefit.

Also, tradition is just peer pressure from dead people, and they told me in school not to give in to peer pressure. We didn't have breakdancing as an event, and now we do. The only constant is change.

There's a difference between finding enjoyment in transgressing lines of expectation in outfits, and finding the experience of your body and social place as wrong, and wanting to change it to better fit with who you are. Yes, for people young enough, gender affirmation largely lies in changing clothes, names, pronouns, but over a lifetime it usually doesn't stop there. Having your body start shifting on you, in ways that aren't congruent with your experienced gender, is godawful and horrifying. Imagine your experience of puberty, but instead of the hormone you had dominant in yours, you got the other one.

You can go ahead and ask me anything about the experience; I was one of those kids, before affirming care was a thing for kids, and my goddess did it suck, and I suffer fallout from it still.

What pedo movement?

Yeah, sorry, sometimes I can't help my need to play with language, when given the slightest chance.

YouTube lost google -31.5 billion in 2023, approximately 10% of all of alphabet's revenue.

Doesn't seem to be on the list yet:

Terraria.

I have hundreds of hours on my steam account, and I'm pretty sure it's actually thousands. It's a great game, and it's been updated so much since it released. When you could buy and hold gift copies of steam, I used to regularly buy new copies to hang on to to hand out to people; I've probably gotten ten people into it. Currently doing a modded master playthrough with my family and having a great time.

In 2023, Ureña attended the raising of the Progress Pride Flag, where she was reportedly lunged at by local Rebecca Lemon.

Lemon, a 43-year-old woman, described herself as “white, Lutheran, conservative Republican, everything they think is hateable.” She called the city’s move to fly the Pride flag next to the Stars and Stripes outside City Hall an affront to U.S. military veterans like her father and grandfather.

“He’s not a daughter, he’s a son!” Lemon yelled at Ureña’s father, who had been recording her outburst.

“He’s not a woman! He’s not a woman!” she kept screaming before swearing at the police and kicking Ureña’s father.

Idk if you're doing shit like this I feel like you're maybe the one hating.

They're going to get fuuuuuuuuucked.

Poor bastards.

It's not perfect, but "never go south of the Mason-Dixon line" has been a good heuristic for as long as I've been alive, and I learned it from my mom.

If anyone doing an arms race wins at AGI literally everyone gets mulched, so I hope nobody who is, does.

"You deserve this because you wanted to know what was going on" is sure a take, but not one that's ever gonna sit well with me.

Christianity: Humans have free will.

No no not like that!

It distinguished between gender-affirming surgeries, which it rejected, and “genital abnormalities” that are present at birth or that develop later. Those abnormalities can be “resolved” with the help of health care professionals, it said.

Because of course it has the worse take. Why would the Catholic Church think consent was something that mattered?

Yeah, I'm not sure that you understand what trans people experience. The core issue, at least for a number of people, is not about wearing a particular article of clothing or not, it's that your body is wrong. That doesn't even get into matters of neurochemistry; T is awful for many trans women and E for trans men. Telling people it's okay to wear a skirt or go topless isn't going to help with that - for trans masc people, going without a binder would be significantly worse. Medical intervention is merited in cases where people want medical intervention. If someone wants medical intervention, and the research shows that said intervention is the best treatment for people who want such intervention, why would we not want to give said person said intervention?

Yeah, the Vatican threatens my unique dignity. It is so declared.

Transphobia, more than any other bigotry, seems to rot the mind. It's not obvious to me why it's that way, but there are several cases where you can watch someone start at some vaguely terfy position, and end by losing their work and nobody wanting to hire them and getting divorced because they just will not shut up about how trans people, a subset of humanity roughly on par with genetic redheads in the general population, are destroying society and making everything awful and ruining their bodies and on and on and on.

TERFs generally in fact do hate both, just in different ways. While I haven't heard Rowling's take, I'd be somewhat surprised if it wasn't some version of the usual patriarchal agency denying thing where trans men are just confused by society telling them lies about escaping repression as women and how horrible it was that these poor girls were going to damage their bodies because they were just too dumb and weak-willed to know what they really wanted, which is a marriage to a good man and pumping out eight or nine kids. They want to take choice and self determination from all trans people, that version just plays better currently.

Incidentally, FtM and MtF are generally deprecated terms. Usually these days the terms, relative to my ordering in the prior sentence, are trans men and trans women, it's less alienating than the older terms that tend to describe people as a segment of their life that isn't them.