My DND group is all men, because it's just me. Someone please play with me.
All my friends got married and now half the table is spouses with a few spots reserved for a cameo from one of the kids
My D&D group started off with one token girl. Then he transitioned. So I became the token girl.
the ratio must be maintained!
Good good the ratio is prosperous.
Thank you for your service!
Some West African frogs have been known to spontaneously change sex from male to female in a single sex environment. Malcolm was right. Life found a way.
-- Dr. Alan Grant, Jurassic Park
I used to only have one (seemingly) female friend, and then that friend transitioned, and I started to worry what it said about me that I only had male friends. Fortunately, a year or two later most of my other friends transitioned in the other direction and balance was restored.
I was in an all guys group but then the DM and 3 of the guys had kids so it ended.
I imagine there's a lower percentage of trans players outside of these online spaces
Trans people are like 1% of the population, so I’m sure of that.
This is very true. My D&D group started out with 5 guys. Now it's just me and a bunch of girls
Yea my group is myself and one other guy, and then four gals.
I am happy that trans people can be who they want to be, even if there is still a long way to go. But I am thrown by how statistics, that consistently give numbers of <1% to 3% for transsexual people in the general population, don't match the number of transitioning stories I read online. I get why that is, safe space, confirmation bias and all, but it's such a major disconnect between experience and actual numbers that it constantly trips me up. From what I read online, the percentage of trans people feels like it's around 20-30%. Or, in this case, 50%.
It's the same bias as cops and black people. The real questions is how that bias came to be while the class struggle is consistently ignored.
on top of what others have said, cis people don’t really tell the stories of their non-transition, do they
no one will be like "my DnD group was all men. it’s still all men no one transitioned", even if it’s probably the most common experience lol
Percentages get crazy when you start talking about 8 billion people. 1% is 80 million. If 1% of that found lemmy the ~~active~~ user base would be almost half Trans. (I found around 1.2 million ~~active~~ lemmy users on some website, and 800,000 is 1% of 80,000,000)
1.2 million active lemmy users
There's no way that's true. I'd guess there are ~30000 active users on the entire threadiverse. 1.2 million is total registered users ever, across all servers, including spambots and such.
Beats me, I didn't pull the data.
https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/stats
(I struck out "active" from my original comment)
There's another phenomenon that interacts here - there is an observed higher prevalence of LGBTQ in autism (discussed here https://sparkforautism.org/discover_article/autism-lgbtq-identity/ and various research papers). Niche forums such as Lemmy, Fediverse, even Reddit all feel like they also have a higher autism spectrum prevalence than a general population. So I would guess there's a double whammy on representation happening here - extra representation via safe space and shared interest on LGBTQ, extra representation ij autism spectrum, and an extra overlap between these two populations.
We subconsciously find each other and vibe with each other, our friend groups are reflections of ourselves.
Sometimes it doesn't work out that way by random chance, but it's definitely too common to be a coincidence.
Aren't >95% of people online lurkers? With that in mind, is it really surprising that the amount of trans stories are many? I mean, why would someone post a story about how they're not trans.
Weird. I started prefacing everything I said in World of Warcraft chat with "I'm not gay, but" and people found it super offensive.
I mean, it's just really important to me as a person that others know I am not gay.
I'm not gay btw.
According to a survey i have recently done, with answers from people from all 7 continents, over 94% of people are trans
I tried to get answers from people who were least likely to be closeted to ensure the most accurate data
My group started with two guys and three girls. Now I'm one of the girls and the guy is the only one
1% is 1/100. So not on every bus, but every 2 or 3 busses.
Also tend to be poorer, like public transit. So maybe every bus.
Ehhh... Where'd that come from?
Might just be where trans people spawn if there aren't any trains nearby. I know straight cis people come in at the DMV sports games and starbucks
How's this related to the gender ratio in the Dungeons & Dragons community?
I think I meant yo reply to a comment about the rarity of trans people relative to how often one hears trans narratives, so I gave context to how often that is. Therefore: straight cis people spawn at starbucks
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