Admin hat on here.

You need to be very careful about how you phrase topics like this. It’s ok to express your opinion. It’s ok to say that surgery is not for you and to be open about why.

What’s not ok is telling people that surgery, or any other aspect of folk living life authentically on their own terms isn’t isn’t for them either.

You can talk about your own experiences and perspectives, but don’t push them on to others

Doubt…

Different height above the water, different wall above the water, different ledge width above the water, and no source…

The OP was never banned for numskull. They were banned because we were trying to ban the transphobe, but misclicked and banned the person arguing with the phobe without realising we’d got the wrong person. As soon as an admin realised, it was fixed

It was an accidental ban that has been corrected!

https://lem.lemmy.blahaj.zone/modlog?page=1&actionType=All&userId=19176706

Sorry about that!

Set the kids up and then move to Uruguay

That person can fuck off, and I’ll ban them the second they try and tell you your own truth!

I guess when they keep their mouths shut they aren’t much of a problem and maybe more people are willing to change than I’ve previously thought

I’ll be honest, I don’t know how common people changing their opinions on this is. All I know is that when I first transitioned, I went from someone who held vague transmed views, but mostly kept them to herself, to understanding that my own experience is not magically more correct, true or valid than anyone else’s.

Anyway, that’s my best guess- that transmedicalists come from a place of being pretty body-focused internally and then lack the insight or humility to understand that other people experience gender/sex/transness in ways that are different, but still fucking valid.

This was my exact journey

I’ve got no interest in baiting trans folk and looking for excuses to ban them.

Gatekeeping isn’t welcome, but a transmed who interacts with this space whilst keeping their opinions to themself has a chance of moving away from that mindset. And even if they don’t, as long as they’re not pushing their beliefs on others, they’re not doing harm to anyone but themself.

There will absolutely be transmeds here. They are in every space. Hell, I used to hold vague transmed beliefs myself when I first transitioned. But that was because that was all I knew. Being in community shifted my perspective. I want folk to have that opportunity.

There would have been, but a warrior called Kyle Reese traveled back in time from the future, and informed Sarah Connor of the coming future, and she took that shit down

TIL, iPhones have lidar…

What lidar device is pointing at them?

tl;dr - This term that folk use to talk about their experience in a way that prioritises lived experience over medicalisation is problematic because it doesn’t talk about their experiences through the lens of medicalisation

I was diagnosed in my 30s, after my kid got diagnosed. I didn’t magically become neurodiverse when I got a diagnosis, and it didn’t change my life in any meaningful way, yet the authors of that article would claim that there is some fundamental difference between the version of me that didn’t have a diagnosis and the version of me that does

Sure, do what you want, of course, but you said “I can’t install it.”, and that’s not true.

I wish you’d have opened with that…

Not that it makes any difference. I’m unlikely to play cyberpunk again any time soon, and either way, it’s a massive red flag from valve that has destroyed any confidence I had in the future accessibility of my steam library, and destroyed any willingness I had to give valve money in the future.

you need

No, I don’t.

I need to be able to access games I paid for, without arbitrary lockdowns.

I can’t, so my time with steam is done…

Haven’t tried that, because I don’t actually plan on re-installing, but it looks like it would work.

Either way, steam is dead to me now, so workarounds or not, they will see no more of my money

Firstly, I can’t install games that are locked down, so I can’t access my own copy of cyberpunk, because I can’t reinstall it.

Even if I could reinstall it, but was locked out of future R rated purchases, that would be the end of my steam purchasing, because fuck that

I don’t have cyberpunk installed. I can’t install it.

22 year old steam account, never had a credit card on the account and never will. Locked out of games I paid for. And just like that, my time buying games through steam is done.

It’s a screw on filter. You should be able to twist it off. Get yourself a silicone jar opener pad or the like, and you should be able to get it off.