Recent content by NemotheElvenPanda

As someone that has read The Silmarillion and a lot of the other material outside the books, this does bother me a bit. Shelob is a monster. She's a demonic spider. Not like Lolth, but a literal demonic spider. Not magical, not a shape-shifter, just a spider with a bit of Lovecraftian...

You do realize that isn't how that works right? Right? There's screenings involved. They are analyzing by pediatric psychologists for possible signs of gender dysphoria, and even if they are diagnosed they don't go hog on hormones. Citation please. Citation please. Anecdotal as this...

But it just seems so pedantic. Someone who used to be a man but now identifies as a woman or something else entirely isn't going to have me question my own masculinity and manhood. Even if gender identities was as varied as the rainbow and widely accepted, I would still identify as a cisgender...

I reiterate my previous point: what's the harm in accepting genderqueer people? What's the harm in accepting transgender people? If someone wants to use gender-neutral pronouns and gender-neutral restrooms, who is being victimized? Even if there was no science behind it (even though there is and...

Except...that's not what psychologists are saying about being transgender. Why do you y'all think you have more authority on this than people who study and treat mental illness for a living?

But it's not an academic study, or a lab report, or anything that would be peer-reviewed or abide by academic standards.

No. You can't. That's literally not how that works. You have to be psychologically screened for it. That is actually something covered by the DSM. And you know this how exactly? And yet the American Association of Pediatrics, as well as most if not all pediatrician organizations, support...

To transition, you need to be diagnosed and psychologically screened. You can't just go to your local clinic and start buying hormones or scheduling surgeries. These are all things that have to be approved of for medical reasons or at least approved for insurance to cover it which does include...

So you know the inner workings of gender queer people better than psychologists and gender queer people? Why should I take your word over theirs? Yes, because there are people who have gender dysphoria that don't fit into the binary. That's kind of the reason why gender queer people, be they...

Secondary and tertiary ones that have little to nothing to do with actual biology.

So all the depression, anxiety, and suicide in gender queer populations is just their imagination? Again, this has been known for a while now. GID and gender dysphoria both exist, again. MtF and FtM are only the most studied and well-known forms of being transgender. It's not every single...

Gender dysphoria and gender identity disorder are things that exist. The science behind this is rather old. The term transgender is older than the internet by about twenty years mate. We've had documented cases of transitionings since the 1980's, if not earlier, on top of all the various...

Is it...really hard to believe that there might be people out there that aren't men, women, either, or neither? That there might be people that could genuinely identify as something other than "he" or "she"? Even if there isn't some science behind this, does someone using a different pronoun and...

This is a serious question: who was more offended by this? Actual players who are transgender or are transgender allies, or the people who complain about "cultural marxism" whenever an LGBT character is in a game? I feel like it's more of the latter. Yes, it's hamfisted, but it's not like...

Krem came off as one of the most genuine and real characters to me. Unlike some other characters, he didn't let his identity get to define him a la Dorian (though he has his reasons). He's first and foremost the soldier he always wanted to be and confidant to the man who saved his life. That's...