Well, Cygan was wondering why there wasn't one, so I made it. I guess we can talk about queer stuff. :3
(*LGBTQ+ Solidarity huggles*)
Oh, and if you're wondering, non-queer folks are welcome too.
Edited by GastonRabbit on Dec 1st 2023 at 12:49:01 PM
Might depend on your family and genetics? I'm... not actually sure how that works.
Ah well, anyways, you know what they say: Any more than a handfull's a waste.
Birthright: an original web novel about Dragons, the Burdens of Leadership, and Mangoes.Still need practice on shapes and stuff, but it's progress.
"Yup. That tasted purple."Is the recognised profession list that narrow? Everyone has a local councillor and MP, everyone has a postie, if you’re at uni you will have access to lecturers, hell I think everyone should technically fall under a parish and thus have a local vicar.
The time known requirement is the real killer I think, as knowing someone in said profession for a long time is going to be a very middle class thing.
“And the Bunny nails it!” ~ Gabrael “If the UN can get through a day without everyone strangling everyone else so can we.” ~ CyranIt's been ages since I was here. Uh, in case anyone who's still frequenting this thread remembers me, I'm a college-aged trans lesbian from the USA. I still haven't started transitioning, but outside my parents' house I'm pretty consistently presenting as female. Tried a few things to start looking more obviously female, but it's been hard to keep up (And epilating is a BITCH)
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They trust that people who would loose an important job if caught providing a false reference won’t provide a false reference.
X3 What counts as personally? I’d say I’ve known some my lecturers personally, postie and vicar defiantly. Even just a one time visit to a book launch or an after lecture trip to the pub may count for enough for a lecturer to sign of.
Guess it’s one way to get people involved in politics, guaranteed reference there if you get to know a political figure by campaigning for them.
edited 6th Apr '18 8:23:25 PM by Silasw
“And the Bunny nails it!” ~ Gabrael “If the UN can get through a day without everyone strangling everyone else so can we.” ~ CyranA question for transsexual or transgender tropers (and others with expertise on the topic): Is there any preference between the terms transgender or transsexual? There are some people who want to rename Transsexual and I'd like to know if their issue has some consensus behind.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard FeynmanTranssexual is a rather dated term which focuses on, well, one's physical sex rather than one's gender. It also over-emphasizes the role of medical transition, something that not all trans people can access or even desirenote . It's not a slur per se, but it's certainly something that shouldn't be used unless a person indicates that's a term they want applied to them.
edited 7th Apr '18 2:12:46 AM by Sixthhokage1
Well, it's not offensive by definition, however it is a rather awkward term that kinda reinforces misconceptions (specifically, it gives the idea that being trans is a sexuality-related thing).
I myself happen to consider it a slur even when used in the proper medical context, so make of that what you will.
"If I was a tabletop RPG character, my player would be accused of both minmaxing and overdramatic roleplaying." -MeBasically, transsexual is a very medical term (much like homosexual). It's still sometimes used in medical contexts (specifically for a transgender person who's medically transitioned), but the LGBTQ community doesn't use it (aside from some older members), and even most doctors won't use it unless they're older or a little out of touch.
The term transgender was coined in the 70's and became the preferred on by the turn of the millennium. Generally if someone uses the word "transexual", the average person's response should be "yikes", much in the same way as if someone says "homosexuals".
A few other notes:
- The formal definition is "does not identify as the same gender which they were assigned at birth".
- It's always an adjective, including when it's shortened to "trans" (which is perfectly acceptable). You can have a transgender men, transgender women and "transgender loos" (whatever they actually are), but nobody and nothing is "a transgender".
- The same goes for "transgenderism" and "transgendered" (they would only make sense as constructs if it was a noun).
- With this in mind, never contract trans man or trans woman into a single word (this is actually a tactic some transphobic campaigners use to argue that "transwomen" aren't really women.
- The correct antonym of transgender is "cisgender" and follows the same usage rules. Claiming it's rude to refer to someone as cis or cisgender is also worthy of a "yikes".
edited 7th Apr '18 7:48:30 AM by Bisected8
TV Tropes's No. 1 bread themed lesbian. she/her, fae/faerI admit, my understanding had always been that transsexual referred to someone who did things like crossdress primarily as a kink.
I think the question came up because of an Ask The Tropers query in which a troper (and now likely a ban evader)
was changing the trope Transsexual to Transgender which, while a legit redirect, came off as Righting Great Wrongs.
On the flip side, it reminded me of an edit I'd been meaning to make and possibly bring up here as something folks might find interesting. I used Transsexual for the edit since, while I appreciate it's not the preferred term, it is the current trope name.
Anywho, I recently got back into a webcomic, Sleepless Domain, there was a relatively recent page
A little girl the Magical Girl protagonists are protecting is telling them about a cousin of hers who recently had the dream that gives Magical Girls their powers, and that it was a surprise because everyone "still thought she was a boy". I interpreted that as the girl being a tomboy combined with little-kid logic. But then I noticed details that suggested the cousin was a character we'd seen. One who was very much not a tomboy
. Also one that, I realized while getting these links, we have a brief encounter with at the start of the same chapter that page comes from. That prompted me to go back to that comic, actually notice the author's notes I'd utterly missed, and, lo and behold, they make clear that, in the setting of Sleepless Domain, any girl can become a Magical Girl, and trans Magical Girls are a thing.
The author also states she won't be going into the physicality of it, nor getting into non-binary Magical Girls, as that topic's a bit too complex than she feels she can do without feeling like she's dictating to people about it.
It's not a huge thing in the comic itself, but it seemed like something that might be worth mentioning here. The main plot is a Magical Girl, Undine, investigating what caused a tragedy that hit her team early in the story.
Side note and minor self promotion, if anyone takes a liking to the comic, I made a discussion thread for it
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edited 7th Apr '18 7:35:35 AM by sgamer82

I mean I wasn't sure if I needed padding there in general, but some people said I did.
I don't know if it really helped
(although those are the old setup, not this one.)
"Yup. That tasted purple."