“Have you tried…”

“Tried what?”

“…letting people finish a thought without butting in?”

The question is not “do you feel dissatisfied with your sex”. It’s asking, directly, about the surveyed’s desire to be the opposite sex. Which is literally what it means to be transgender.

So gender dysphoria is not a thing then? You don’t even have a base understanding of what you’re talking about.

The second quote is just semantic straw-grasping “the study didn’t use the literal words ‘gender confused’!”

It’s important because wanting to be the opposite sex “sometimes to often” is an entirely different beast from being gender confused.

Please. It is completely fair to describe “desire to be the opposite sex” as gender confusion, especially in years of childhood where one’s sense of self is in active development.

Is it also fair to lump gender confusion with being transgender, and then make the conclusion that “being trans is just a phase”?

Notice how every step of your argument relies on saying that two distinct things are “fair to describe” as being the same. Eventually the results of a survey that asks “have you ever wanted to be the opposite sex” proves that transgenderism is a phase.

If a child said they wanted to be the opposite sex, and then as an adult said they did not, it doesn’t mean they ever were transgender, or changed back from being transgender. It’s an entirely different thing altogether.

Since you seemed to miss what exactly was meant by the headline:

Unfortunately, the headline fails a fact check: the study was not about transgender individuals, but rather on people who sometimes express dissatisfaction with their sex for a variety of reasons entirely unrelated to being transgender.

To complete the paragraph you grabbed from:

In addition, 19% of the sample circle sometimes or often at some point in their lives. From these findings, the Daily Mail infers that “The majority of gender-confused children grow out of that feeling by the time they are fully grown adults,” although the term “gender confused” is not used in the original study. The headline, which claims “Critics Say It Shows Being Trans Is Just a Phase,” suggests that the study supports this notion.

Betteridge’s law of headlines is an adage that states: “Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no.”

Nothing you said was out of line. It’s an important skill to be able to laugh at yourself. It’s also an important skill to not make fun of someone after they have let you know there is a good reason that you shouldn’t. I’m autistic myself and the energy of this comment section is making me strongly consider blocking this community and moving on.

Nothing short of handing them cash in person is truly a guarantee. Really depressing how it’s turned out.

It’s sorta like lying, but not exactly, but there’s the ever present fear that I’ll be exposed for… something.

I think what you’re looking for is “masking.”

The section about “Autistic Burnout” is so validating. It feels like I’m having a new crisis every few years. I’m jealous of neurotypical people that can just…go through life without being overwhelmed so easily. It’s frustrating and there’s no safety net for when it happens so you just have to grit your teeth and push forward when all you want to do is lie down.

So do you just start a conversation, list these commands, and it follows them forever? I’ve just been starting new conversations whenever I use the site.

That’s quite a story.

That’s the worst part. It has gotten so miserable for both employees and customers and none of the profits made from these changes has gone back to those most affected by them.

Dementia runs in my family. I have wondered to myself in passing how I’ll be able to tell when my memory starts declining.

Maybe spend less time on yiffit.net then!

Which boils down to: people want to be able to plug something in without thorough inspection.

An easy, cheap solution they could have popularized from the start would be to print something like an arrow on both the port and plug to line up visually.

Genocide. Russia is committing genocide.

Apparently there’s already a Wikipedia article about this as well.

G3 hardware was great for the time but I did not love the buttons on the back, heat would gather there too, especially if you were using a case.

Sounds like at this point your ship time is predetermined anyways.

Good timing, recently started watching Hot Mess House and really want to figure out how to organize my apartment without damaging the walls (Command strips aren’t allowed).

Sometimes I leave money in glove boxes, cupboards, and whatnot as a surprise to my future self.

They’ve co-opted capitalization??