• Skullgrid@lemmy.world
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      5 days ago

      yeah I have gender dysmorphia. Gender Dysmorphia that I don’t look like He-Man as someone assigned male at birth.

    • jaycifer@lemmy.world
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      Hi, I spent a few years unpacking those feelings to figure out that I like crossdressing more than I like being the gender opposite my birth. One of the things that made it more confusing in the beginning was the slew of internet comments I would read reinforcing that any gender nonconforming activity was a sure sign I was trans.

      If you know the person irl and they consistently show signs of being trans I think it’s good to ask probing questions that may lead them there, but I don’t think it’s right to tell them who they are. Better for them to figure it out themselves. On the internet you definitely don’t know the person beyond a single post, or a few posts coming from their online persona (not their personal self). This means you have even less right to tell them who they are.

      Especially with the TM I took your initial comment as a joke, which I don’t find super funny anymore personally but can give a half smile and single roll of the eyes. Your edit about people unpacking their feelings implies to me that you were saying it in earnest though, which is where I start to have a problem for the reasons above. Just in case you want some insight on why you may be downvoted so much.

    • Cethin@lemmy.zip
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      Yeah, no. You don’t have to try to make everything into more than it is. I’d be perfectly fine being trans. No hard feelings. I’m not though, but I sometimes play female characters because I prefer looking at them. It’s not more than that.

    • kkj@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      5 days ago

      You sound like an AI slop caricature of a blue-haired teacher telling kids they’re trans.

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              5 days ago

              The phrasing isn’t exactly dead on, but normal people don’t go around trying to convince others they’re trans for stupid reasons.

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                5 days ago

                It’s not “trying to convince”, it’s a joke. A bit of a tasteless one that should stay in egg_irl, but still a joke. And it sounds nothing like LLM output.

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                  4 days ago

                  What I meant was more than they sounded like the caption someone would put on an AI slop image. I didn’t articulate it very well, though.

                • mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works
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                  Wow, I should not have gotten this far down the thread before realizing the person was pulling som egg_irl bullshit.

                  I literally thought they were going the opposite direction with their comment

      • kateA
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        4 days ago

        “ai slop” slop