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I didn't start playing characters that didn't align with my birth-assigned gender until I came out so

Yes, that's right my ~~son's~~ daughter's ~~boyfriend~~ girlfriend is also ~~gender confused~~ trans. What's worse is that these two, who are perhaps the ~~worst~~ best possible people for each other, are engaged to get married in a "lesbian" wedding later this fall. I, of course, was not invited. Heaven forbid I try to ~~save~~ remove my ~~son~~ daughter from ~~his~~ her ~~horrible confusion~~ happy life.

In short,

I played Bayonetta once and this is what I look like now:

Actually a very sweet story about a young transbian and her t4t girlfriend discovering themselves and finding love and acceptance online in secret from an unsupportive family

I was transed by Professor Oak asking me if I was a boy or a girl in Pokemon.

Rebranding "videogame violence is responsible for all the things we dislike" to "videogames including women as a character option is responsible for my child becoming trans".

I, of course, was not invited. Heaven forbid I try to save my son from his horrible confusion.

Get fucked.

This unlimited customization dangerously blurs the boundaries of gender and sex

In other words, “I want gender and sex to be the same thing, but I can’t unlearn that they’re different. And instead of accepting that fact, I’ve decided to be a huge a-hole.”

His "son" sounds like a transfem stereotype it's so obvious she's trans. And t4t, I'm so sorry these girls had to grow up around this dude.

The website is really fucking funny. The goofy acronym name and the fact that it has an entire category just titled SONS just makes it seem like something out a comedy

Also, as much as he tries to pin the blame for his child turning out trans on Minecraft and the ability to freely customise your avatar, the author gives the game away entirely here

This means that the selection of characters is limited only by the players' imaginations

My dude, the "gender confusion" was coming from inside the house all along

I, of course, was not invited.

Poor daughter, imagine having such a terrible parent.

Also to answer your question, back in my day you didn't get to choose your gender in many video games, so I don't know.

Edit: missgendered by mistake, sorry. Fixed.

First blames the game for being single player, "if only she had played with the chuds online they would have shamed them into never coming out of the closet". Then says their daughter did set up a multiplayer server but because the game has no moderation (a complete misunderstanding of the game's infrastructure and how such a task could even be accomplished short of banning all chat directly, which wouldn't even work because out of game chat and voice clients still exist) and now "oh no the trans activists were waiting for a random Minecraft server with innocent child to pollute their minds with the thrill becoming a woman, and no I never supervised their play sessions, I was busy watching my own shows".

The whole thing screams the child is my property how dare it make decisions that I disagree with for their best interest. No I will not even talk to my child about what their going through they should just suck it up and get over it like we did in my day.

Just the idea that video games ought to limit your character's gender to the player's actual gender is so unhinged. I'm a cis man, and I often play female characters in RPGs. It has not transed me, and it has nothing to do with wanting to be a woman in real life. I just like playing different characters (and frequently the female voice actor in things like Bioware games is just way better).

Back in my day it was simple. You were just a warrior, mage, or rogue. That is all it was. There was none of this multi-classing stuff.

That article is easily the funniest PITT has ever posted, I'm glad someone posted it here for all of us to laugh at collectively!

Here's another fun fact about PITT ("Parents with Inconvenient Truths about Trans", very funny acronym): about two years ago they decided they wanted their Wednesday posts to all come from detransitioners. That worked for maybe a month, but clearly they massively overestimated how many detransitioners would be willing to write shitty transphobic articles for their shitty transphobic newsletter. For another month or two Wednesdays just didn't have posts, until one Wednesday it was a normal post from another shitty parent and that's what it's been since. They just quietly dropped Detransitioner Wednesdays because they couldn't find people to write them. So funny.

no mentions of New Vegas

Are they even trans or what

I was “gay” in high school, but used a girl from a yuri anime to represent myself a lot online at the time (my then bf used the character’s love interest it was a whole cringe/cute thing) and one of my friends asked if I was trans because of it and I was like “lol no it’s just a thing”

Anyway, like a week later I was playing RuneScape and the quest where you have to change your gender at the makeover mage to beat a puzzle and I started to feel weird when all the npcs would call you “miss” or “girl” so I messages my friend like “actually maybe”

and that’s how video games and anime transed my gender

What gives a parent the right to "save" their adult children from so-called "confusion"? I hate that controlling nature. Good that the author wasn't invited, what a shitstain of a human.

Oh wait this is real lmao. I gotta come back to this after work

Somebody's parents could use a bit Minecrafting.

i was transed by the show k-on and im only half kidding, it also made me start playing guitar

I like the implication that, instead of unlimited customization, you must tell someone your correct gender. And no, you can't just tell the game what you want, so it would have to be some gender authority who over sees bibio games who then offers you a limited selection of customization.

It would also presumably be the same person who checks children's genitals before they're allowed to play sports in elementary school just in case the woke mind virus tries to corrupt the purity of competition of 4th grade wrestling.

This unlimited customization dangerously blurs the boundaries of gender and sex, and, especially considering the predominantly young player base of Minecraft, can be very confusing in terms of gender. One of these confused young people is my son, now 21 years old, who, it turns out, had been using the default "girl" skin of Minecraft, often shown in marketing alongside a more fitting masculine character. While this is not concerning on its own, having done so since the age of 11 will surely have contributed to his gender confusion.

Most games have some form of gender customization/selection at this point. How are you supposed to stop someone from choosing an "incorrect" gender? By requiring a genital scan or something?

Also the "girl" skin is pretty clearly intended to be gender-neutral and is based on a real-life man.

Once again Substack provides space and publicity for the meanest kind of Internet bigotry. I don't know why anyone would want their writings to appear next to this trash.

Ice cream causes polio

I, of course, was not invited

Gee I wonder why

I forget how I realized I was trans tbh

Little did we know, this seemingly innocent game was a gateway drug to cross-sex hormones, wrong-gender pronouns, and a replaced name.

Fucking tagline honestly, I mean I wish I could write a bit this good

I had way too many brain worms set into myself by society, so I actually hard avoided the female player character stereotype, among other things. Didn’t want to be weird, and I definitely didn’t want to show or validate any repressed fears, was VeryNormal in avoiding it.

This is some Rod Dreher shit, what a melt.

I remember reading an article a long time ago about what they called "cross-gaming", playing as the opposite gender in a video game. It said that it may be an indication of " transgenderism".