LGBTAI+ #59: Will You Take This Woman To Be Your Galpal?

[BisectedBrioche]

Funny story; last year I had a consult for bottom surgery. I was warned that there might be a 12 month wait (since I can't afford it privately and the NHS only OK so many a year).

Guess what's been classed as non-essential surgery?

[LaZodiac]

Funny story; last year I had a consult for bottom surgery. I was warned that there might be a 12 month wait (since I can't afford it privately and the NHS only OK so many a year).

Guess what's been classed as non-essential surgery?

Plague times sucks, especially for people like us.

I'm hesitant to say it considering the bad news but happy trans visibility day.

[Powerdork]

Love to experience constant pushback against unusual gender identity and neopronouns in literally every gaming group that has a concept that speaks to me.

Love to be unable to run a game that grips tolerant people, meets my standards, and isn't a pain to manage.

How are y'all lately?

[BladeofObliviom]

Quiet here these days. Been a long, long time since I last checked in, but I just wanted to say I hope everyone's holding up okay. You're all valid. <3

[BisectedBrioche]

It's a small bit of positivity, but I started playing Pyre yesterday, and I love how it handles pronouns.

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/585077194

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Your player character is found by three other characters, your initial team, in a wasteland. One feature of the dialogue is that you can mouse over highlighted words (mainly people, places and other lore important words) for a summary. Eventually one of the characters says something about your (not shown) character and refers to you as "he". The mouse over text says "they're assuming you're male, interact to change this". Clicking cycles the sentence from "he" to "she" to "they" and back again. Whichever you choose is what the other characters in the game will go with.

A moment later a character who's of a doglike race says something like "huh, you can just tell?".

[BladeofObliviom]

Huh! That's cool. I was actually thinking just recently about how I'd design a more natural-feeling chargen for an rpg concept and something like that had been bouncing around in my head; less menu, more dialogue-based.

[BisectedBrioche]

Huh! That's cool. I was actually thinking just recently about how I'd design a more natural-feeling chargen for an rpg concept and something like that had been bouncing around in my head; less menu, more dialogue-based.

Yeah, quite a few games have experimented with it (to be clear, in Pyre you never appear on screen; choosing a pronoun is basically all the customisation you get), but I've yet to see anything completely dialogue only (at the very least, they involve some sort of personality quiz).

Then again, it tends to be a nuisance on multiple playthroughs.

[LaZodiac]

Yeah, quite a few games have experimented with it (to be clear, in Pyre you never appear on screen; choosing a pronoun is basically all the customisation you get), but I've yet to see anything completely dialogue only (at the very least, they involve some sort of personality quiz).

Then again, it tends to be a nuisance on multiple playthroughs.

I mean you also get to decide if you do or do not date your magical orb ninja friend because Pyre is an incredibly good game. But still, you're not wrong.

[BladeofObliviom]

Hm. The multiple playthroughs thing is a good point. Maybe throw in a global variable that checks if you've seen the intro before and a backup quickstart option that lets you just make all the choices quickly and directly after the first time, if you want.

[BisectedBrioche]

I mean you also get to decide if you do or do not date your magical orb ninja friend because Pyre is an incredibly good game. But still, you're not wrong.

I love every part of that sentence and can't wait to learn the context.

[The Ari-tificer]

hey everyone
its been a while since ive been here
and uh
in that time ive realized im trans and lesbian
so yeah
hows yall

[The Fury]

hey everyone
its been a while since ive been here
and uh
in that time ive realized im trans and lesbian
so yeah
hows yall

Good to be out finally, yeah?

[BladeofObliviom]

Congrats! It's always good to unlock pieces of your own puzzle, no matter how it might feel in the moment. I'm glad for you.

[The Ari-tificer]

Good to be out finally, yeah?

sure is
even if i do wish i was more out

[The Fury]

sure is
even if i do wish i was more out

Yeah? Personally I feel like being out can mean different things to different people. In my case, I'm mostly only out to the people I actually care about. For me, that's good enough. I gather it's a little different for you, right?

[BladeofObliviom]

Out is a process, really. There's out to close friends, out to family, out to place of employment, out publicly (which can have subcategories like "out when I go to the store, out on facebook, out on an internet forum...), and the continuous process of 'out' to new people you meet. Not necessarily in that order, but yeah. It's a thing!


Edit: This thread seems starved for content, so here's a more or less honest picrew I did cuz I was bored.

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[BisectedBrioche]

hey everyone
its been a while since ive been here
and uh
in that time ive realized im trans and lesbian
so yeah
hows yall

Welcome back! I returned a couple of months ago in basically the same circumstances (ace trans lesbian, but fairly close).

If there's one thing I've found, it's that you're never completely out. Whether it's having to correct someone who misgenders you (which still happens when you have long blond hair and a bust, I guess), explain you're not remotely interested in men, or have words with a colleague who thinks it's funny to misgender you to the new hires.

[PopeLinus1]

Welcome back! I returned a couple of months ago in basically the same circumstances (ace trans lesbian, but fairly close).

If there's one thing I've found, it's that you're never completely out. Whether it's having to correct someone who misgenders you (which still happens when you have long blond hair and a bust, I guess), explain you're not remotely interested in men, or have words with a colleague who thinks it's funny to misgender you to the new hires.

That's one good thing about the internet, I suppose. If you say what your gender is you're not likely to get accidentally misgendered... although the key word there is accidentally. ****ing Ben Shapiro

[BladeofObliviom]

It's an unfortunate reality that some friggin' people are mean and will do things just to hurt you.

[PopeLinus1]

It's an unfortunate reality that some friggin' people are mean and will do things just to hurt you.

Hey, I have it lucky, I'm not going to be the victim of transphobic harassment or violence. I am just a humble queer with a baseball bat, doing his part to make the world a better place.

[The Ari-tificer]

Hey, I have it lucky, I'm not going to be the victim of transphobic harassment or violence. I am just a humble queer with a baseball bat, doing his part to make the world a better place.

Yeah.
On the other hand, it's extra bad in my case because I chose masc usernames when I created most of my internet accounts years ago and now people end up accidentally misgendering me when they might not have otherwise.

[halfeye]

Yeah.
On the other hand, it's extra bad in my case because I chose masc usernames when I created most of my internet accounts years ago and now people end up accidentally misgendering me when they might not have otherwise.

I think forums often allow name changes, you'd need to ask the mods to find out if this one does.

[Unavenger]

I think forums often allow name changes, you'd need to ask the mods to find out if this one does.

It does, yes.

[Powerdork]

It hasn't been keeping up, I'll say.

[PopeLinus1]

It hasn't been keeping up, I'll say.

I've been thinking of changing my name for non-gender purposes. Probably to something like... Despot Linus The First Of His Name

[BisectedBrioche]

The last week's felt pretty rough for trans rights:

• Here in the UK (and other countries), leaders have started using COVID to sneak in transphobic legislation.
• Little Britain have brought back their transphobic sketch (which Matt Lucas allegedly was sorry for).

And if leaked spoilers for The Last of Us 2 are anything to go by:

Spoiler: Leaked spoilers mind you

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The main villain's going to be a trans woman, who murders Ellie's girlfriend.

[PopeLinus1]

The last week's felt pretty rough for trans rights:

• Here in the UK (and other countries), leaders have started using COVID to sneak in transphobic legislation.
• Little Britain have brought back their transphobic sketch (which Matt Lucas allegedly was sorry for).

And if leaked spoilers for The Last of Us 2 are anything to go by:

Spoiler: Leaked spoilers mind you

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The main villain's going to be a trans woman, who murders Ellie's girlfriend.

I mean... that isn't the greatest form of representation, but that could be done in a very positive way, and... oh who am I kidding, I have eyes and a memory, I shouldn't expect positive trans representation.

[Rydiro]

Spoiler: Leaked spoilers mind you

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The main villain's going to be a trans woman, who murders Ellie's girlfriend.

Whose idea was that? That idea is so comically horrible, it can only be thought up by misanthropic nutters. Or is this a satire?

[LaZodiac]

The last week's felt pretty rough for trans rights:

• Here in the UK (and other countries), leaders have started using COVID to sneak in transphobic legislation.
• Little Britain have brought back their transphobic sketch (which Matt Lucas allegedly was sorry for).

And if leaked spoilers for The Last of Us 2 are anything to go by:

Spoiler: Leaked spoilers mind you

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The main villain's going to be a trans woman, who murders Ellie's girlfriend.

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This is going to rely entirely on the details as to WHY it happens.

And since this is The Last Of Us the reasons will be bad. God this ****ing sucks.

[The Fury]

Y'know, The Last of Us was always one of those games that I had a low opinion of that I felt like I needed to justify. I'm glad that I'm not the only one who didn't like it.