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The Usenet Oracle has pondered your question deeply. Your question was: > Oh great Oracle, according to whom all genders are canon: > > My parents recently told me that I couldn't possibly be > trans, because it's something that people online just made up. > Is that true? And in response, thus spake the Usenet Oracle: } Actually, transness is not, as some have claimed, a recent } invention, but was instead originally invented by an obscure } 19th-century Swiss clerk trying to design a more efficient } timekeeping mechanism. This is good because it means that all } patents relating to being trans have long since expired, and now } anyone is free to build upon the original work and/or transition, } even without permission from the original inventor or subsequent } rightsholders. } } You owe the Oracle a fan fiction about your favorite genders } attending high school together.
TT: May I ask you a question?
GC: SUR3
TT: Why are you still here?
TT: Let me clarify that before I scare you off.
TT: Because I very nearly did scare you off, or so it seemed like, and yet you came back.
TT: Despite all your doubts, you are still coming in here and talking to me.
TT: There’s a reason for that.
TT: So why are you still here?
GC: C4N 1 4SK YOU 4 QU3ST1ON 1N R3TURN?
TT: Of course.
TT: I’m an Oracle.
TT: It’s kind of my job.
GC: TH4TS WH4T 1 W4NT3D TO 4SK YOU 4BOUT
GC: SO 1 GU3SS MY QU3ST1ON 1S TH3 S4M3 1S YOURS
GC: WHY 4R3 YOU ST1LL H3R3?
TT: Why am I the Oracle of Light?
GC: Y3S
TT: I still quite like the rogue AI explanation, myself.
GC: L13S >:[
TT: My lies are way more interesting than the real story.
TT: It’s the Internet. Anything could be true.
TT: And you get to go out there and make it true.
TT: That’s the fun of it.
TT: You could believe that I’m a depressed, tired trans woman blogger who got fed up with throwing away words into the howling toxic void that is our transmisogynist, racist culture and decided to revive an old urban legend to try and do some small personal good by saving trans girls who maybe just needed some words of inspiration, who needed someone to believe in them.
TT: You could also believe that you are personally speaking to a mystical priestess, daughter of the Internet and great-granddaughter of the Pythia herself, who’s offering you a divine revelation that could save your life.
TT: But no matter what you believe, know this:
TT: I believe in you.
TT: And that’s the truth.
TT: So now it’s my turn to ask you again:
TT: Why are you still here?
GC: 1 DONT KNOW WHY 1M ST1LL H3R3
GC: BUT 1 DO KNOW WHY 1 C4M3 H3R3 1N TH3 F1RST PL4C3
GC: 1 SP3ND SO MUCH T1M3 TH1NK1NG 4BOUT WH3TH3R OR NOT 1M TR4NS 4ND 1 GU3SS 1 W4NT3D SOM3 H1GH3R COURT TO RUL3 ON TH3 1SSU3 FOR M3
GC: 1 DONT R34LLY TH1NK 1M R34DY TO H34R TH3 4NSW3RS TO MY QU3ST1ONS
GC: BUT 1TS N1C3 KNOW1NG SOM3ON3 1S W1LL1NG TO TRY
GC: 1 GU3SS TH4TS WHY 1M ST1LL H3R3
GC: M4YB3 SOM3D4Y 1LL B3 R34DY FOR TH3 4NSW3R
TT: I think that day will come sooner than you think.
GC: 1S TH4T 4 PROPH3CY?
TT: Call it a hunch.
TT: You just keep coming in here and when you’re ready to ask me a question I’ll give you the best answer I can.
TT: It’ll be okay.
TT: You’ve got an Oracle on your side.
] look LABYRINTH You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all different. ] xyzzy MYSTERIOUS ROOM You have been teleported to a small room. There is a bell here. ] ring bell You ring the bell loudly. GC has arrived. GC is requesting a chat with you. Open chat? [y/N] ] y
– uranianUmbra [UU] is now chatting with guidingCryptomancer [GC] –
UU: pardon me, but are yoU the oracle?
GC: 1M 4N OR4CL3
UU: there is something i need to know and it has been vexing me for a long time now and they said yoU know things. that yoU could help.
UU: i keep wondering if i’m trans.
UU: so please tell me, oh oracle: am i trans?
GC: 1 C4N SM3LL TH3 4NSW3R CL34RLY
GC: TH3 4NSW3R 1S Y3S
GC: Y3S YOU 4R3 D3F1N1T3LY TR4NS >:]