jay, god's most perfect princex

already at $150 - thank you, friends! I'm not expecting to raise even half of the total, but the less I have to cover with loans/cashing in my super/lines of credit, the better.

yes! this is the only surgery I really, really want - having a uterus is my largest remaining source of dysphoria

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🎉 I finally have a date for my gender-affirming surgery! 🎉 after waiting 4+ years, I can't wait to get this over with.

even with medicare + private health cover, I'm looking at ~$5.5k out of pocket. if you have a couple of bucks to spare, it would really help 💜

thank you! 💜 a lot of my other health issues seem to be exacerbated by my having a uterus as well, so I'm hopeful that this will solve/improve quite a few things at once.

I'm going to talk to my super fund about withdrawing money early to cover the surgery and to my bank about loan options, so I'll hopefully be all right either way, but the surgery is on 14 may so I need to get it sorted by then 😬

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🎉 I finally have a date for my gender-affirming surgery! 🎉 after waiting 4+ years, I can't wait to get this over with.

even with medicare + private health cover, I'm looking at ~$5.5k out of pocket. if you have a couple of bucks to spare, it would really help 💜

I'm thirty-six - how long is this phase meant to last, exactly?

lyrics from "my sex" by pulp: My sex is out of its mind One of a kind and ill-defined My sex is neither here nor there My sex is neither him nor her It's an out-of-body experience My sex don't make no sense My sex leaves much to be desired Spoken of in whispers behind closed doors My sex is an urban myth A lovers' tiff or a lovers' stiff I haven't got an agenda I haven't even got a gender

he's just like me fr

as a kid, I used to wonder to myself how ordinary germans justified the atrocities of the nazis to themselves, but now I no longer have to wonder because social media provides new examples daily!

he literally says every deranged thought that crosses his mind out loud with zero prompting whatsoever and they're still like "hmmm, what could this mean..." like??? he just told you out loud what he means!!!

surely there's a bakery somewhere selling pork rolls for both 🫠

that feels like selling pork roast for eid

there's just something about it which is not exactly wholesome, as such, but appeals to the storyteller/love of playing pretend in me

THE Emily Gwen Google Doc MAJOR UPDATE - CHECK “Identity Theft” I, BACKGROUND Emily Gwen, or as she’s known as @theemilygwen, is the self-proclaimed “Creator of The Lesbian Flag” has now deleted her main Twitter account after...

this google doc was my introduction to the whole thing: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

yeah, I read the big google doc someone put together and at the start I was like, well, sometimes people are just going through an extended tough time, that doesn't mean they're lying! and then I kept reading and...no, this is one middle-class girlie and her army of socks for sure

stripey pink and orange (which she allegedly did not even invent and completely plagiarised anyway)

"these multiple separate people are actually just one sad person and her sockpuppet army" is peak internet drama, imo. plus with sockpuppet army drama, you get all the other flavours as well: grifting, pseuicide, flame wars, the works! nothing else like it.

and she lives in brisbane! AUSTRALIA MENTIONED 🎉🎉🎉

the only time in the last few years that I've regretted no longer being on twitter was today, when I learnt that the alleged creator of the lesbian flag has been allegedly msscribing people for almost a decade

right back at you, friend 💜💜💜

I am not denying that, I am saying that doing so is also illogical - I realise that saying "we don't do x" was not the best way of saying this when what I actually meant was "it would be really foolish to do x and I'm assuming you, the reasonable reader, would not do it"

anyway, the food you put in your body or don't put in your body is value-neutral. there is no such thing as good or bad food. the problem with fast food advertising is capitalism, not food.

oh, anything people consider a "lifestyle disease" is absolutely an exception (and so is any invisible disability that people think shouldn't affect you the way it does), and there's definitely so much messed up protestant morality around the (un)deserving and racialised sick/poor

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4) even if all of the above were the case (and it's not), fatness still wouldn't be inherently pathological, so 🤷🏽

3) even if there were diseases caused 100% by unhealthy personal choices AND those choices were 100% within your control, everyone makes choices that aren't great for them sometimes and doing so does not necessarily in and of itself make you a terrible person undeserving of humanity and compassion

2) even if there WERE diseases caused 100% by unhealthy personal choices (there aren't, but even if there were), nobody would be making those choices in a vacuum - you would still be beholden to environmental factors partly or wholly beyond your control

1) there is no pathology that is 100% caused by your personal choices (with the exception of acute physical trauma like broken bones, I guess, but even that can be at least partly down to factors beyond your immediate control!) - so, so much of how your body reacts to things is not up to you

someone's gonna say it's different because fatness is the result of someone's personal choices, an argument also used about diabetes, lung cancer and other so-called "lifestyle diseases", which is nonsense for a couple of reasons:

cancer is ACTUALLY inherently pathological and we don't moralise at (most) people with cancer! and that's good, because if we did, that would be deranged!

so why is fatness, specifically, considered a moral weakness? (I know why, we all know why)