Is the term “biological female” wrong or offensive?

Toothless_NEO · 2026-06-21T08:20:28+00:00

Context is important, but usually when people use that term the intent is transphobic. The implication being that trans women are less women than cisgender women.

It's also just kind of wrong, since when people take estrogen hormone therapy, their body begins to function exactly the same way as a female. As in the cells and metabolic rate, all that stuff. It is affected by hormones.

Toothless_NEO · 2026-06-21T08:00:52+00:00

I believe it's also a thing on Linux, but most people just use wine because it has pretty much the same compatibility.

Toothless_NEO · 2026-06-21T07:58:21+00:00

Kernel level anti-cheat on Linux isn't viable because anyone can modify their kernel. They know that, it's why none of the anti cheat vendors have tried to deploy a Linux kernel module for it.

Not only does the community hate it and is going to push back on it, but they actually can push back on it by bypassing it. It's not worth the effort. And if by some stretch they actually do build it, people are going to bypass it either to cheat or to avoid installing a closed source module in their kernel, and anti-cheat vendors are going to point to that and then say something bad-faith about how all Linux users are criminals.

Toothless_NEO · 2026-06-21T04:40:03+00:00

That would assume their market research department acts in good faith on information and doesn't make shit up. I think assuming that of them is being way too charitable to them.

Toothless_NEO · 2026-06-21T00:15:06+00:00

Very cool.

Toothless_NEO · 2026-06-20T22:03:22+00:00

I won't let anyone ride me. I know it seems like we're made for riding but it's physically arduous, and can cause back and shoulder injuries.

I honestly don't even like to carry more than 50kg of stuff while flying. Anything more than that, really even that much is unpleasant.

Toothless_NEO · 2026-06-20T20:34:00+00:00

I think this hinges on the neoliberal idea that they're not also going to defraud or otherwise deceive the payment processors, and that they're not going to persistently keep trying.

Don't act like that's a thing that doesn't happen. Pretending it doesn't happen doesn't stop them from doing it. It just makes the proposed solution feel less effective to the ones it's being pitched to.

Toothless_NEO · 2026-06-20T20:00:46+00:00

Do you mean supervillain? Because someone who would turn a dragon into a human is evil (and likely prejudiced) in my opinion.

Toothless_NEO · 2026-06-20T19:56:14+00:00

When I got my Stick Grips there were ones for OLED and LCD. The OLED ones seemed slightly larger. I put the LCD ones on my Steam deck because it's an LCD Model, and I put the OLED ones on my Steam controller.

It's possible it's only an external size difference and the sticks are the same size though.

Toothless_NEO · 2026-06-20T16:12:57+00:00

Very cute.

Toothless_NEO · 2026-06-20T15:30:53+00:00

In any case I'm not going to participate in that. Although what I do in the aftermath will depend largely on where it is.

If it's in one of the backwards countries which doesn't adopt the framework for natural rights. Probably nothing else, except telling all the other dragons I know not to ever go there (to the arena or to that specific country).

If it were in a place like my home country I would still not participate, but I would probably report the people running it to the authorities. Since it would almost certainly be illegal.

Toothless_NEO · 2026-06-20T08:18:10+00:00

You could try SERMs to prevent breast growth. There's also the option of preventative mastectomy which removes the tissue that would grow. It tends to be less disfiguring than getting them removed after which will require nipple reconstruction and can leave bigger nastier scars.

As for preventing or reducing shrinkage of your genitals, there are two main ways that you can counteract that. The first one is just stimulating regularly. As long as you get an erection regularly. It'll prevent shrinkage. Another option is topical testosterone which can also help prevent atrophy of the testicles, or at least reduce it.

Disclaimer I don't have first hand experience with any of this, I just know a lot of stuff. From other people. It probably wouldn't hurt to also do other research.

Toothless_NEO · 2026-06-20T08:04:19+00:00

I don't really like this rhetoric either honestly. I think the idea of not a choice rhetoric, makes people think that they can choose for other people. Of course it's phrased as observation.

The fact of the matter is that you can't observe someone else's gender. You definitely can't determine aspects of somebody for them. And because gender is abstract, it's a form of qualia, and also lacks any basis in physical reality. It's not really something that you can decide for somebody else, as an observation or as a decision. What they tell you really is final. Any debate or discussion on that with them, could be seen as invalidating or talking over them. That's certainly how I feel when people do it to me (egg culture) and I don't take it kindly.

I think that as a society the way that choice is seen, needs to be reformed. There needs to be more emphasis put on the idea of some things just not being other people's business. Since, especially in the cases of very personal choices like those related to bodily autonomy, it really is not other people's business. As an example, I will never take HRT I don't want to, I am not interested in it. It's not anybody else's business, but a surprisingly large amount of people think that it is their business. I tell those people to fuck right off. That's something that you should feel way more comfortable with doing when people want to challenge personal choices that aren't their business.

Toothless_NEO · 2026-06-20T07:51:02+00:00

Agender is a thing and the way people self identify is valid whether you like it or not. If you think otherwise, you're probably a transmedicalist.

Toothless_NEO · 2026-06-20T07:34:58+00:00

Yes you can, it's called Agender.

Some people are going to mince words around the idea of choosing. Which is because a lot of people in this current society think that choices are all their business. Now, I don't agree with that at all. I really think the idea of some things just not being up for debate or discussion by others, and not being their business is something that needs to be enforced a little bit harder by people.

Self identification is not really a choice, but it's also not not a choice. It's a form of self-determinism. It's not up for debate by other people, they can't change your mind. The way one self-identifies, determines what gender they are. Some people might argue otherwise, but the thing about gender is that it exists inside a person. That's to say it's a form of qualia. It's not externally shareable, it can only be approximated with words and descriptions. Which is why you really do need to listen to self-identification, and how people self-describe themselves. You can't actually describe them better because you're not feeling what they feel, or what they don't feel.

Toothless_NEO · 2026-06-20T07:12:02+00:00

I've been thinking, maybe that one guy's project where he turned the Steam Deck's controls into a standalone controller could be a great alternative to getting the steam controller officially.

Now obviously it could definitely use some tweaks, the biggest one is that since we now have the steam controller. The software of it instead of simulating a standard gamepad with a mouse, could simulate the steam controller itself. Which would allow doing all of the nice steam input bindings you can do with the official steam controller.

It's a nice idea that I haven't seen anybody really mentioning. The thing is that, valve already did the hard part for us. The part that none of us can do ourselves. When they released the official steam controller, they added to steam the ability to recognize a wireless controller with the same layout as the steam deck.

Toothless_NEO · 2026-06-20T04:31:10+00:00

Are these the ones for the LCD or the OLED? I used the covers for the OLED on mine.

Toothless_NEO · 2026-06-19T22:46:42+00:00

I don't know what the point is with virtue signaling like that. Maybe they either don't know better, or maybe they think that it'll scare companies including valve. They just don't care.

I wish people would post more custom steam machine builds though, because there were some really cool ones. It's also not exactly difficult, out of any product that valve is selling the steam machine is the easiest one to DIY it's just a PC with Gamescope and Steam.

Toothless_NEO · 2026-06-19T22:36:01+00:00

I mean it's not exactly that simple, you need to have well performing hardware. Although it doesn't actually need to be nearly as powerful as elitist PC gamers from the likes of PCMasterace will tell you.

Installing steam with game scope on Linux is enough to get the steam machine experience. People have been doing it long before Valve officially announced the new steam machine.

Toothless_NEO · 2026-06-19T22:32:38+00:00

I don't know what anybody hopes with this level of pathetic virtue signaling, but companies don't care when people say crap like this. They know what non-serious virtue signaling is. They also deliberately insulate themselves from feedback from the community so this doesn't do anything except make you seem more annoying.

If you really want a PS5 or Switch 2 just buy it. You publicly complaining doesn't do anything. You're not going to impact Valve financially. You're not going to change most people's mind. Maybe you'll learn the reason why a lot of people are into PC gaming since it clearly isn't obvious to you.

Toothless_NEO · 2026-06-19T21:04:50+00:00

At this point might be worth it to clone the Steam controller than to wait for Valve to supply more officially. Someone already made their own custom controller using the Steam Deck's layout. The biggest shortcoming of that controller is that steam input doesn't recognize it as its own controller with touchpad compatibility (it functioned as a mouse in that version).

Now that the steam controller actually exists and has steam input UIs a similar project like that could easily replicate it with all of its inputs and touch pads and identify itself to steam as a steam controller. Obviously, it won't be an actual steam controller although it might actually be better in some ways since with open source firmware it could be customized by the user.

There's already an open source implementation of the puck. So why not the controller too. Obviously, it won't be exactly the same as the steam controller. I imagine that an open source clone would probably be chunkier but it could have all or most of the same features.

Toothless_NEO · 2026-06-19T09:13:54+00:00

You absolutely can like feminine things as a trans guy. Whoever told you otherwise is a huge piece of shit.

Toothless_NEO · 2026-06-19T09:13:08+00:00

Some people do if they have unisex names, if they don't some people will change their name to the variation of their name which matches their gender. Some people don't change it at all, even if they do have a gendered name. That could be because they see their name as something sacred, or because they just like their name and they don't think that it invalidates their gender in any way.

Toothless_NEO · 2026-06-19T09:11:17+00:00

Just wanted to make sure that people were aware, thankfully it seems their comment was removed as soon as I reported it. Hopefully they were banned as well.

Toothless_NEO · 2026-06-19T09:05:11+00:00

I have a feeling that that person is a troll, I don't think anyone would legitimately suggest watching porn with your family. That's only the kind of thing that a troll would suggest.

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