i’s just pokin a lil fun, mind

oh you enlightened centrist, where’d you get so smart?

ohh, you’re a conspiracy theorist!

god, that explains everything. you should’ve opened with the big-hormone shit, we could’ve all just had a big laugh.

and i’ll be the last person to argue for SMS. media messages are a fucking MESS, it’s a terrible standard in 2024

Talk about fragile minds, you’re just parroting random hatespeech about a whole ass group of people because… what? What drives a person to do that? At the very least you’re going waayyy out of your way just to be mean, is that cool to you? Is this thing you’re doing productive?

It could be said I’m being no more productive, but at least I’m not shitting all over a whole bunch of my fellow humans while doing it. Who hurt you?

If they are happier, cool for them.

So this is just meaningless fluff? Or are we agreeing that these, uh… “mutilated children” as you so eloquently put, often lead much happier lives with their chosen identity?

The alternative is they kill themselves in droves, which they’re already doing. Thanks in large part to people like you. Thanks again for being so understanding.

You don’t know shit about trans people, but you DO know exactly what treatment entails for them? You’ve got a very human-shaped blind spot in your demonization goggles there, friend. I’d suggest you stop viewing them as some kind of nebulous “enemy”.

you’re assuming there’s a right way of owning a phone.

Except I’m literally not. I have a hard opinion about which is better, and sometimes I’m judgey.

Lotta people got a lotta piss in their cornflakes over something that, in my experience, more apple users do anyway. After all, it’s a well known phenomenon to get ghosted over wrong colored message bubbles. I don’t plan to cut contact with anyone over their phone preference, but I will make a couple inferences about their priorities when I see they’ve got the new $1200 iphone that just came out last month.

Doubly so when they also complain about how expensive something is. ¯_(ツ)_/¯

Zero harm in the context of being used for folks concerned with their gender identity. If we’re considering height discrepancies to be “serious harm”, then we’re not really having a good faith discussion at all. You CLEARLY don’t need convincing, seeing as any effort spent will be wasted. You’re a brick wall asking me to walk through you.

Hey how about you educate yourself, since you’re rejecting lots of good faith attempts to do it for you? The science checks out, you just haven’t actually read any of it. At best you’ve had it misrepresented to you, much the way a parent would lie to a child.

So you’re actively arguing they not receive treatment for something you do think is a mental illness?

No wonder mental health is failing so hard across the board, people are just deciding which things do and don’t get treatment all willy nilly based on feelings apparently!

Take your own advice and stop being so worried about the genitals of strangers.

Do you not see how egregiously you are overstepping boundaries here?

Why are we letting them delude themselves further?

Why would this ever be any of your business?

I don’t like the way you drive your car, I’ve decided it’s unhealthy and morally wrong. A bunch of people are all arguing that you should have your license revoked because of it. Seems kinda fucked up, right?

You could get real driving experts, with real bona fides, to present facts saying the way you drive your car is no different from anyone else (as it relates to health and safety). But because I feel like I deserve to be the moral authority on the matter, me and my crowd are going to continue dehumanizing you at every opportunity, and will ruthlessly demand that you lose your driving privileges.

You want the same thing, but for bodily autonomy. For no reason other than you think you know better than everyone.

Your opinion screams of a lack of understanding, and your manner belies an unwillingness to even hear contrary information.

Don’t be surprised when people refuse to engage with you in this punji pit you’ve constructed around a boxing ring.

When I found I could speed up every single transition animation and functionally halve the time it took me to do anything, I lost all patience for that walled garden. It’s literally just a single box in dev settings, I can also turn off any flashy bullshit that only serves to waste my battery.

Also when something doesn’t work on android, I actually have some recourse beyond waiting for apple to fix it for me.

Thank you so much for sharing your story 💖

Wow, you should read some actual evidence then instead of just thinking about it!

I’d bet anything you don’t personally know or love any trans folk. On the off chance you do, please please please never tell them that their diagnosable condition is akin to plastic surgery. This is precisely what people are referring to when they talk about harmful, close minded ideals towards trans people and their identities.

At risk of sounding like a pretentious fuck, I do actually lose a tiny amount of respect for someone when I learn they have an iphone. It’s like baby’s first smartphone, great for elders and children.

Yich, that reminds me of the ever-expanding role of the start menu in windows.