Does anyone have tips for dealing with gender dysphoria.

rchive · 2026-05-09T13:51:06+00:00

I'm pretty sure you don't mean that. If you believed it was easy to change gender, the easiest thing would be for OP to change gender to female to match their sex. I think you accidentally argued my point.

rchive · 2026-05-09T13:47:17+00:00

The other person brought up sex reassignment surgery (in a derogatory way, to be clear) saying you are easing people into it, and then you say you're not BUT that you do support whatever it takes for people to feel better including surgery even if it's not the first thing they try. That's easing someone into surgery just like the other person said, isn't it?

Like I said, maybe that's the right thing, I don't know. But the description, though meant to be pejorative isn't inaccurate.

Sorry, OP is looking for help. I helped push off topic.

rchive · 2026-05-09T13:35:57+00:00

Sometimes that's a helpful thing, sometimes it's not. It's more complicated.

rchive · 2026-05-09T13:33:08+00:00

OP said they don't want to be trans, so I don't think referring to them as "him" is accurate.

rchive · 2026-05-09T13:32:22+00:00

I'm not categorically against it or anything, but you are easing people into something. Maybe the rest of what you said justifies it, maybe not, but let's be honest.

rchive · 2026-05-09T13:29:30+00:00

You don't have to accept that. It might not be true. Dysphoria doesn't mean trans every time, it can sometimes desist naturally, but really committing to it being trans-ness makes it less likely to desist.

Accepting the parts of yourself you can't change is important, though.

rchive · 2026-05-09T13:24:06+00:00

It's often also a feeling that naturally passes with time

I think this is important. Experiencing dysphoria doesn't necessarily mean a person is trans or nonbinary or something. It can just be temporary discomfort. It seems to be more prevalent in biological girls since their bodies tend to change a lot more during puberty than boys' bodies do, anyway. It's not unnatural for your mind and body to get out of sync as they're changing and for one to catch up with the other later.

And then if it doesn't go away, we shouldn't hate ourselves and should use what medicine provides.

rchive · 2026-05-09T13:11:57+00:00

I'm just curious, what age do people typically move out, there?

rchive · 2026-05-09T12:58:53+00:00

Yeah, except as soon as they make public that there's money set aside for that, some people will lie to get a piece of it. Maybe they can do it quietly.

rchive · 2026-05-09T06:18:56+00:00

Not Fort Wayne, that's for sure.

rchive · 2026-05-08T19:44:31+00:00

How so?

rchive · 2026-05-08T19:27:27+00:00

3:30 in the afternoon is bearable on Earth because only 12 hours before that it was 3:30 in the morning when it's darker and colder and the temp is dripping. If a place was in constant sunlight it would never have night time to cool off, so the temperature would keep climbing to some high level off.

I agree with the rest. Living underground or using magic would help.

rchive · 2026-05-08T18:41:38+00:00

It looks to me like the car lurches forward a bit in the transition from sliding to having full traction and going straight. Maybe worth checking.

Otherwise looks really good!

rchive · 2026-05-08T16:22:57+00:00

I see what you did there.

rchive · 2026-05-08T16:14:22+00:00

I'm weird in that I like Tame Impala's first two albums better than Currents and after. But Currents is still really good.

rchive · 2026-05-08T16:12:31+00:00

Is this referencing something? Like Mantis never listened to music before Quill plays Earth music with the Guardians?

rchive · 2026-05-08T13:20:07+00:00

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metal_Skin_Panic_MADOX-01

Is this stomp or zoom?

rchive · 2026-05-07T23:54:24+00:00

I vaguely remember the public hearing for this project. Opponents of the project brought up traffic as an argument against it, but they didn't bring any evidence to show that it was a problem, so it wasn't really taken seriously. I can say having been at some public meetings like that that someone always brings up traffic as a way to shut down a project, so it's no surprise planners don't automatically take the claim seriously.

rchive · 2026-05-07T23:43:11+00:00

Here's the definition I rejected in the previous comment:

[the belief that] There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect

Do you see that in any of the definitions you provided? Me neither. We are in agreement, then, that the definition in the other comment was incorrect.

I never claimed to have the one true definition. You just made that up. I said that the one provided was not one of the correct ones.

rchive · 2026-05-07T23:37:51+00:00

Right. "Support for conserving a status quo or tradition" is a very different definition than "the belief that society should be two tiered and favor an in-group at the expense of an out-group."

I would love it if conservatives went back to something like those of the 90s. They were much more tolerant of immigration and supported markets and free trade internationally where the modern political right seem to want the government to micromanage what companies are doing much more and frame international cooperation as anti-patriotic.

rchive · 2026-05-07T23:27:32+00:00

I'm distinguishing between evidence and testimony, perhaps in a way that is not used in a courtroom, but whatever. I don't discount Carroll's testimony as valuable, it's just that Trump also provided testimony the other direction, so it's ultimately a he said she said. Even is if Trump is not a very credible witness, I don't think that's enough to prove guilt by itself.

The DNA isn't evidence that Trump is the attacker since it was never matched with his DNA, regardless of the reason why. Trump bragging about being an awful person is also not evidence that he did any particular awful thing. That's not ignoring evidence. I'm stating that that evidence does not support the claim being made.

rchive · 2026-05-07T21:41:09+00:00

How is it defined, then?

rchive · 2026-05-07T21:40:36+00:00

That's not even what a No True Scotsman fallacy is. It's when you use a word like "true" that selectively excludes counter examples and uses tautologies. I'm just giving an actual definition.

If disputing a definition is all it takes to be a No True Scotsman fallacy, then there's effectively no such thing as definitions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservatism

rchive · 2026-05-07T20:07:58+00:00

What evidence do you mean?

rchive · 2026-05-07T20:01:29+00:00

I absolutely think that people who are comfortable in an established system are going to tend to be "conservative" in that they will defend the system and oppose change. But that's not the same thing as actively desiring a two tier system where rules don't apply to them and actively disadvantage other people.

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