Welcome, and congrats on navigating NHS!

As for navigating trans culture, it can be quite alienating sometimes as an older trans person who grew up with a very different exposure to gender diversity. But what you’re seeing are the new generations, navigating gender diverse identities, but with more freedom than you or I were ever afforded. We missed out on our own queer culture, because it mostly wasn’t allowed to exist, and when it did, it existed on the terms of a queerphobic society. The folk following us aren’t free from that queerphobia either, but they’re less defined and constrained by it.

I think all we can do is try and be happy that we have a culture at all, even if it’s sometimes an odd fit for those of us that predate it

Plasma, but I’ll be moving to cosmic as soon as it enables auto power off of monitors on idle

I’ve manually removed those groups

Yeah, it wasn’t much use in helping cis folk understand us. But it will help them normalise us, which tbh, I think is more important

It was nice to see an affirming and positive piece of media from a big name actor. It didn’t go as deep as I was hoping, but that’s OK. The point isn’t to explain everything, it’s too normalise

Impressive. I only play driller (with 30 promotions or something) and I still haven’t unlocked all of the flamer upgrades

They want him to “go back where he came from”, because that’s what phobes want. The words are just the excuse to make that happen…

It’s true. For a moment, I thought that said click lovers!

Or… one side choosing not to support genocide…

Why isn’t that an option?

Edit - And don’t get me wrong. I’m not from the US, but I’d still vote Democrats in this election if I was, because they have other policies that would impact me more directly. But either way it’s disingenuous to blame the party offering to denounce genocide as the issue, when the only real options both support it…

Is it a third party, or is it refusing to stand firm against genocide?

Your language settings are probably hiding a lot of content. You need to enable any languages you speak and also enable undetermined

And other people deliberately use all of the “come on man” and “Hey mate” and “Dude is not gendered” explicitly at trans people, because it lets them get away with misgendering. So trans people, who experience that stuff every day, can be a little sensitive when someone does that, even if they aren’t doing it deliberately.

In this case, not knowing the person, and not having access to their pronouns, the comment was fine. But once you know it’s an issue, repeating it despite knowing it’s an issue is a shitty thing to do.

It could easily have been anonymised. The conversation can happen without misgendering someone a second time around.

Literally just edit the person’s name out of the image, and boom, same discussion, but this time without repeating the same mistake

Whatever your thoughts on the original situation, you know her pronouns now, and you’ve directly reposted the thing that got you banned. This time around, you don’t have an excuse. You know that it’s an issue, but you didn’t anonymise the post, effectively sharing the misgendering with even more people

You’re the only person to mention trans people in this thread. It’s got nothing to do with trans folk…

decided this is a hateful post based on prior comments without watching the video.

I had to watch the video to see her dog whistle.

And the whole thing about red flag/dog whistle comments is that they’re designed to seem like nothing to people who don’t recognise them. You not recognising a dog whistle doesn’t mean it isn’t one…

The fact that she shouts out another steamer that was banned from twitch for bigotry isn’t a co-incidence. It’s a red flag for a reason

Absolutely. Sticking to the things they know and avoiding the recs is how a lot of people use Youtube. But all of the things you avoid are thrown in your face in the recs. Clickbait titles, bait and switch content, dogwhistling videos that start people down the path of ever more bigoted content (for example, the video the OP posted).

I generally don’t engage much with video content though, so I’ll just continue to ignore it

As I’ve said three times now, I barely use YouTube and then only direct links. This isn’t that. YouTube rewards civil bigots so civil bigots are common and have big audiences

I barely use youtube. I actively avoid it as much as possible

She shouts out a racist who was banned from twitch for bigotry, so I’d say it’s pretty spot on as a red flag.

If the only way to achieve political impact is to swear that oath, then it’s coerced, because the only other option is disenfranchisement