me no get :<
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I've got no idea what's going on either...
The mum thinks being trans is natural, but it's actually caused by a video game called Peggle.
The humour comes from a mix of absurdity (trans isn't caused by video games) and the popularity of Peggle with trans people.
Fun fact: there's a free Peggle game starring Gordon Freeman, GLaDOS, and tf2 Heavy. So hopefully that explains why trans people like it.
Here's another meme with the same joke
tfw I've never even heard of Peggle...
Time be slipping away.
I diagnose you with old.
It's a game from the 2000s that combines brick breaker and puzzle mechanics.
They're more likely to be pretty young tbh.. I think we're probably the old ones
Peggle was released 19 years ago.
We're as far from Peggle as Peggle was from games such as Super Mario Bros 3 and Ninja Gaiden.
Have you heard of Peglin? It is the basic gameplay of Peggle but with roguelite RPG elements.
Nope...
Were these mobile games?
Peggle is part of the realm of games that became mobile games after modern smartphones became a thing. Casual gameplay, short levels so you could play for a few minutes and leave, lots of levels that are essentially the same to give good playtime for the development cost. Just on a PC and without the whale hunting that microtransactions later brought.
Well, those being the only three genders, makes perfect sense!
Well that's blatant Pyro erasure. I'm reporting you to the mods
what's the name of that peggle game?
and saying "brain chemistry at birth" for "born this way" sounds strange. is that the scientific consensus on what makes people trans? last i heard, trans people don't have special brains and we can't tell if someone is trans yet from anything other than them telling us.
Peggle Extreme.
Nobody knows why trans happens, but one of the popular theories is that differences in hormones in the womb affect the development of the brain.
Note that estrogen and testosterone have different effects on people of different preferred genders. You ask any community of trans women, you'll meet plenty who couldn't cry from first puberty until they started HRT. That's a difference in how the brain responds to sex hormones. Men can cry on testosterone just fine, but many trans women can't. The way hormones interact with emotions has a link to preferred gender. So that's proposed as evidence for the theory.
Of course, gender fluidity challenges that theory, since we now know gender can change, and that different people differ in how often theirs can change. But perhaps there's a chemical event during development that affects how easily gender changes.
One of the biggest obstacles to reaching a consensus is that the word "gender" is used interchangeably to refer to identity, preference, neurology, and social roles. We of course know that all of those can differ, thanks to eggs and the process of transition.
But the meme doesn't have time for all that nuance, and the mother's question in the meme already demonstrates a literacy on the subject far greater than expected. Which sets up the rug pull that the true answer is silly quite expertly.
ngl this sound pretty bio essentialist idk :<
i wouldn't describe that as literace but idk
Yeah, and the theory doesn't account for xenogenders, only binary spectrum genders.
Great game, I also like Peglin