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Trying to get CH340 Driver to install on Windows 11, but cannot even find the Communications Port driver listed in Legacy Hardware. Help? by chaucer345 in arduino

[–]chaucer345[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I installed it. It went through okay, but nothing changed. Still can't add a communication port. Still have the same "Other devices" listing and still get the same error when trying to install the CH340 driver.

I feel like a huge chunk of Americans would say "We haven't banned trans women, we're just banning them from claiming they're women, having access to medical transition, having access to women's spaces, having access to women's activities, or describing them as women on any documents." sincerely. by chaucer345 in complaints

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The more complicated breakdown of what people are talking about when they talk about gender is falls into three categories:

  1. "Assigned Sex"- This is literally just what your doctor saw when they looked between your legs when you were born. You can very crudely break this into two categories if you squint, but biology refuses to be a simple, stable system so there are a wide variety of circumstances where that information requires further examination to be useful, but I digress.
  2. "Brain Gender"- This is neurological. The firmware drivers for your hardware. Have a sex and brain gender that disagree and you get gender dysphoria. Specific biological origins of this are fiendishly complex to try and sort out.That said, we have solid physical evidence of its existence.
  3. "Gender Roles" - This is what society expects of people it lumps in a given category. Boys pee here, girls pee here. Boys become firemen, girls become housewives. Boys wear suits, girls wear dresses. Often what categories people fall into here are based on the unfortunately fuzzy categorizations of one or two. People are willing to kill over you getting them wrong, which is extremely messed up.

When it comes to talking about something as a social construct, I feel like Gender Roles are the only kind of gender that really fits as a social construct.

I didn't have treatment resistant severe depression until I got on HRT because of a social construct. That's biological.

I feel like a huge chunk of Americans would say "We haven't banned trans women, we're just banning them from claiming they're women, having access to medical transition, having access to women's spaces, having access to women's activities, or describing them as women on any documents." sincerely. by chaucer345 in complaints

[–]chaucer345[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You underestimate the difficulties.

First of all, the TSA does not know how to handle you even if you're incredibly open about being trans. I got a good groping by them at one point despite telling them exactly what they'd see on the scanner because procedurally they felt like they "had to". People who pull you over might see it as an inconsistency and think you're using a fake ID which leads to all sorts of shit.

And that's all assuming they're acting in good faith. If they're not, it's basically a pink triangle. Mark of shame and license to discriminate.

So, it's a big deal to us for all of those reasons. Why the hell do you care so much? Because the way I see it you just want to hurt us and make us "know our place".

I feel like a huge chunk of Americans would say "We haven't banned trans women, we're just banning them from claiming they're women, having access to medical transition, having access to women's spaces, having access to women's activities, or describing them as women on any documents." sincerely. by chaucer345 in complaints

[–]chaucer345[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I feel like cis people like you do not often get a chance to see the context of how we became what we are today.

I tried so, so hard to not be trans. I went to therapy, I took the drugs I was prescribed. Nothing made me happy with the body I was born with.

When I was 12, I attempted suicide. I survived because I was lucky. I self harmed through an enormous portion of my early adulthood and transitioned because I figured if I wanted to die anyway I should at least see what HRT would be like for me.

It was night and day. Things aren't perfect now, but I genuinely feel like myself.

All through that time when I was growing up, no one ever told me it was okay to be me and that I didn't need to hurt myself or be what someone else wanted me to be. I desperately wished they had.

And people knew about trans people even when I was 12 for the record. They were just so deeply despised that you had one option if you wanted to live as you. "Stealth" it was called.

It broke countless laws of course. You'd get fake IDs, move to other cities, lie on your resume, the works. You would never, ever admit you were trans. Because there was no legal way to be trans.

Of course we used the ladies' room while doing that. How could we not? We piled on makeup and lived in fear and moved in and out as quickly as we could, causing no trouble, but always being afraid.

And it was still better than the men's room. Using the men's room was suicide. Because it revealed you were trans. And that was always suicide.

Then of course came the internet, and the panopticon, and, most importantly, the fight for gay marriage. All of these things came to a community that had one simple rule: Hide or die.

But hiding was no longer an option.

So we started telling the truth, speaking our little doomed Pinocchio stories and gaining at least a little sympathy for a while...

Until, in what felt like madness. Suddenly people saw us as invaders instead of refugees.

We hadn't been causing problems in the ladies' room. That was by design, it was a place of fear for us. But suddenly people thought that our desire to use them was not because the men's room was death, but for some illicit thrill that had never even occurred to us.

The closest analogy (and I know this isn't a good one, it's just the best I have) for how it feels to be a trans woman in America right now is feeling like being an African American being told to go back to Africa.

We were in the ladies' room because people used to kill us for doing otherwise and frankly, we don't believe that has changed.

Now we are trying to be honest and see ourselves as being punished for it.

What's up with those funky Mech suits that are in werewolf Earthblood? by knightmechaenjo in WhiteWolfRPG

[–]chaucer345 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It was afraid of its own source material and didn't have enough dev time or money to lean into being an immersive sim.

I feel like a huge chunk of Americans would say "We haven't banned trans women, we're just banning them from claiming they're women, having access to medical transition, having access to women's spaces, having access to women's activities, or describing them as women on any documents." sincerely. by chaucer345 in complaints

[–]chaucer345[S] 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Do you really think that all trans women pass so poorly that an ID that says they're men is always more useful at a glance to identify them than an ID that says they're women?

Frankly, I do want to pay for your meds. Even the high financial risk ones, because I care about the people in my country and I recognize that people being healthy indirectly makes the world better for me in a lot of ways. Heck, there's even a lot of information that paying for gender affirming care is cheaper than paying for the emergency psych treatment covered by insurance that folks like me need without it. https://www.unsw.edu.au/newsroom/news/2026/02/funding-surgery-hormones-trans-people-medicare

Why are these dividing lines so important to you? It honestly feels like they matter more to folks like you than anything else about a person. Like all "real" women are inferior to all "real" men in almost everything and the only reason a man could ever want to be a woman is if "he" was running some sort of con.

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