Okay FINE. I'll do a 5th play through Larian, you win!

I played Talos principal 2 this year and it honestly blew me away. It goes without saying the puzzles were intriguing but the story, world building, atmosphere and dialogue are the real stars of the experience.

Report back! I'm tempted to snag it.

The new series of Tomb Raider games are quite well done. A mix of brutal survivalist scavanging and combat, along with some interesting puzzles that feel at least plausible. The amount of uzi ammunition and pre lit torches you found in ancient sealed tombs back in the original game always bugged me. 😂

And you need to understand, that finding out, whether a kid is part of that population is exactly the hard part.

I don't think you fully appreciate the stigma and roadblocks associated with being trans. This isn't something people do on a whim and the data supports it. They are part of my community when they say they are.

The children that have self advocated enough to persistently ask enough for medical transition deserve the opportunity to do so. Like truly, think of the position you would be putting them in.

individuals were 60% less likely to experience depression (aOR, 0.40; 95% CI, 0.17-0.95) and 73% less likely to experience suicidality (aOR, 0.27; 95% CI, 0.11-0.65) when compared to youths who did not received gender-affirming interventions.

Blocking anyone from getting the care they say they need is reckless. It's not yours or the laws place to put up roadblocks to deny them that opportunity. It's not protecting kids but quite the opposite, it simply raises the risk of self harm.

there isn't research about how kids think and care ten years later.

The metric of 10 years is a high bar, but the data does exist.

• 220 youths who had accessed puberty blockers or hormones were detailed by the youth and/or their parents as part of an ongoing decade-long study of transgender youth. At a mean of 4.86 years after beginning blockers and 3.40 years after beginning hormones, they reported very high levels of satisfaction and low levels of regret; the overwhelming majority (97%) continued to access gender-affirming medical care.

• When the researchers asked more about these regrets, she says, “often the regrets they were expressing had to do with [wishing] they hadn't done blockers and they'd gone straight to hormones, or they maybe had a negative side effect related to the blockers.” For instance, having an implant that got irritated.

As always: further research is needed.

You sound well meaning but uniformed. Sure more research is always good but this is already a very well understood field and I have ample sources to prove it.

I can understand that people are hesitant to allow gender affirming care, because they fear they might do more harm than good.

First off, there is absolutely zero surgeries being performed on minors. This is not happening. What is happening is puberty blockers and hormone replacement therapy, both of which are non-permanent. And once someone becomes an adult and begins more permanent affirming care, the rate of people experiencing regret is laughably low.

• A total of 27 studies, pooling 7928 transgender patients who underwent any type of GAS, were included. The pooled prevalence of regret after GAS was 1%.

all those trans issues must seem like a new trend, I certainly didn't hear much about them 10 years ago

I think you need to understand your personal limitations. Because it's really not new, I mean I can point to ancient history with people like Empress Elagabalus, but if we just want to talk about modern medical transition there is Dr. Alan Hart in 1917 or Christine Jorgensen in 1952 a WW2 vet that made national headlines. The diagonosis of gender dysphoria has existed in the DSM since 1980. Trans identity or medical transitions is very far from a new concept.

Unless there's something like a proper scientific guideline,

Every major field of related medicine abundantly agrees that this is safe and necessary treatment. Such as American Academy of Pediatrics, American Medical Association and American Psychiatric Association.

There are already numerous safeguards, such as to receive any gender affirming care (which is only ever provided to adults) requires multiple years on reversible Hormones and then letters of support form two separate psychiatrists.

Weather or not a doctor is allowed to prescribe proven treatments to a patient suffering from a preventable, manageable and curable condition is NOT something that a judge needs to determine. It exclusively is the purview of a patient and a doctor, not the law.

As a trans person myself, I need you to understand that reticence by the cis population is dangerous for the trans population. So while I can understand why it sounds extreme to you, that should only be a reason for you personally not to seek this sort of care. Not a reason for you to support roadblocks against the advice from medical professionals.

This a wealth of studies showing cigarettes and beer negatively affect your health, while gender affirming cares improves and extends it. These are not even remotely comparable.

right-wing personalities like Tucker Carlson, Steve Bannon, and Tim Pool as well as full-throated racists like Nick Fuentes

It's painfully obvious to anyone that cares. Also the current home of national embarrassment Johnny Somali.

Beat ya to it.

I am so over this stupid tradition.

Hahahaha! This particular turkey can be saved from the mass killings!

Either come to terms with these creatures feeling pain, fear and suffering or ignore it. This dumb lottery to spare a particular turkey just highlights the hypocrisy.

If you are into folk punk then you should check into stickers from this great band!

Yup. That's dumb as hell.

Just as "LGBT is straight erasure!"

Just as "Bisexuals is Gay/Lesbian erasure!"

Just as "Trans is drag erasure!"

I see a lot of takes like "The media learned nothing from 2016/2020."

My enby in Christ, our blessed ever perfect capitalism means they can NEVER 'learn' or even 'care' about what is best for the country. It will only ever be about the click$.

So you know how when you hear your voice recorded and played back to you, it always sounds off? Like it wasn't what you expected or how you think you sound? Imagine that for a mirror, or even when you look down at your own physical body.

I hope that helps cis friends, the best analogy for dysphoria I have come across.

“We have had dozens of trans people die this year because of the hate and lies that you are spreading,” Greer said, to applause from the audience, as she was escorted out of the room. “Are we building an internet with free speech for everyone or just the privileged few?”

A well articulated legitimate argument. Let's see if Nancy can do the same.

Mace responded by misgendering Greer and making a comment about her genitals

Oh.

Cool.

Definitely not Princess Mononoke either. Everything else on there is certified adorable and kid friendly.

Even if they're taking mtf hormones, there's still a ton of testorone.

This is factually wrong.

Trans women on HRT statistically have far less testosterone than cis women, purely for the reason that it is a hormone all humans create but trans women are actively suppressing it.

I see a lot of mostly correct answers here, but as a trans person myself I can't help but feel they are all missing the core concept.

People hate trans folk for the same reason "get back in the kitchen" is still said to women in any non-"traditional" role or the "angry black man/woman" is said about anyone advocating for their own rights. There are strict gender and racial roles that are enforced by our society so rigidly, that many have assumed them to be naturally correct laws of the universe. Anyone existing outside of those roles is seen as either mental illness to be corrected or malicious evil-doers wanting to cause trouble.

When in fact the reality is much simpler, that being human is a more diverse expressive and dynamic experience than those holding on to those "natural laws" would like to admit. To exist outside the role you were "assigned" is a threat to society that assigns the roles, ergo a threat to the very way of life for those who see gender, sexual and racial hegemony as innate truths.

Conservatives who hold high tradition are naturally the first to speak out and seek to regulate us back in to "normal society" via legislation but liberals are absolutely not immune. To reduce transphobia to a political wedge issue, while correct, doesn't quite explain the more innocuous yet quite prevalent transphobia inside left leaning spaces.

I watched the documentary Israelism, which focuses on Jewish Americans, many who joined the IDF realizing how thoroughly they had been lied to when they were young. This concept was the main thesis of the film.

The state of Israel has intentionally, knowingly and openly made it so that being Jewish means to defend Israel. So much so that critics of Israel must either be "self hating Jews" who they themselves are being antisemitic. You're right, the are devaluing the word for their own personal use and doing so in a very scary time. There are Nazi's walking down the streets, vocal supporters praising Hitler and loud ACTUAL antisemitic threats calling for harm again those of the Jewish faith. And in this time, Israel still continues to devalue the word. It's selfish and only has terrible results.

Kim Hutton, who has a trans son and spoke with him about the suicide risks for trans kids denied care. According to Hutton’s later deposition, Hruz responded: “Some children are born in this world to suffer and die.”

An absolute monster.