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turning the mundane horror of queer life into a dunk like it proves something

"queer person has homophobic family"

A Song for the Void by Andrew C Piazza

BestGhost by C.J. Daley

Imago by Matthew Zakharuk

#FantasyIndiesSpooktober 8
Spooky book recs

Here are a few indie books that are not only spooky, but ones I really enjoyed:
A Song for the Void by Andrew C Piazza
BestGhost by CJ Daley
Imago by Matthew Zakharuk @mzakharuk.bsky.social
Mystery of the Pale King by Sam Flynn @samflynnwrites.bsky.social

Medical institutions treat trans people as a population to surveil, manage, and dissect, rather than as people to assist or treat with basic dignity.

Disgustingly, the published 'research" in question was used to inflame discourse about a "rapid increase" in trans youth, harming the patients whose data it used!

bsky.app/profile/anin...

What has happened here is basically that data from the journals was collected for the sake of a "quality control" measure.

Then, that same data was used in published research, a completely separate purpose, without the consent of the people affected.

This is an EXTREME violation of research ethics

Oslo University Hospital caught using trans patients' journals for research purposes:
- Without the patients' consent to participate in research
- Affecting minors
- 1700 of them
- Taking highly sensitive information from said journals

This is a HUGE breach.

If I never ask for anything again

My girlfriend is getting bottom surgery in a month please donate to her so we have the finances to easily get through her recovery.

I really think this book is a rallying cry. Because we need to fight, and we need to fight on grounds that we can actually win on, not ground that is pre-ceded to our oppressors. And Talia opens a path for us to do so with her writing.

It’s taken me a while, due to reading in bits and pieces when I can get time at work in, but I finally finished @taliabhatt.itch.io’s Trans / Rad / Fem.

I want to thank Talia for doing something I wasn’t sure would ever happen: reinvigorating my interest in and love for theory, for reading and

Automation labeling individuals with prosthetics as “adult content” needs to be understood as ableism, full stop

This. It's at the very least a conflict of interest. Is do I far as to say it could be grounds for disqualification from any form of gender care.

Boosting for my friend Saeed, please share and help if you can!

i would love if universal basic income was a thing here because i think disabled people having to go through a horrible humiliation ritual + then get denied anyway + have to go to court is such a twisted, fucked up way to go about things

70%!!!

Please donate! The situation remains dire!

Vicky is one the best, nicest humans I know 🥰
Please donate whatever you can and spread the word ❤️❤️❤️

if I'm not mistaken, this is the first UBI scheme where they aren't in some stupid endless "study" and finally have enough data to just simply DO it, and of course like all the studies showed, the result is a huge boost for the economy

Low-key non-binary trans women are the majority of my trans women friends and it's so funny how unaware so many non-trans women tend to be about its prevalence simply because they expect every non-binary trans woman to be a degendered toy for them to project onto and abuse.

Most trans women I know who are non binary are very "only in trusted spaces" about it and there's enormous reasons for that.

Not to worry, she just paid it all back and more by being subjected to Sappho (2008) with me

Please help

Donate to Help Vyria pay for her surgery, organized by Victoria A I am raising money for my girlfriend Vyria so that she can finally get bottom surgery (vagin… Victoria A needs your support for Help Vyria pay for her surgery

www.gofundme.com/f/help-vyria... I'm so close to the finish line, please help if you can. It is vital that i have the funds ready for the end of the year so I can get the ball rolling on getting a surgery date next year

"remember what you were saying to support me 9 years ago? Yeah I hate it now, could you do the exact opposite"

I love my partner. Can you imagine putting up with the insecurities and brainworms of someone transitioning not once, but twice

Btw -- universal housing is only the bare minimum solution here

After all, surely if we’re going to risk so much, put so much at stake, in such a monumental “decision”, we should approach it carefully, and make sure to be certain, right? Shouldn’t we be looking for proof that we’re trans before gambling our whole lives on that being the case? Well, maybe… if proof of being trans was even really something possible, beyond the simple proof of subjectively experiencing your identity and gender as such. But more importantly: we never ask ourselves for “proof” that we’re cis. Cis is treated as the null hypothesis. It doesn’t require any evidence. It’s just the assumed given. All suspects are presumed cisgender until proven guilty of transsexuality in a court of painful self-exploration. But this isn’t a viable, logical, “skeptical” way to approach the situation. In fact it’s not a case of a hypothesis being weighed against a null hypothesis (like “there’s a flying teapot orbiting the Earth” vs. “there is no flying teapot orbiting the Earth”), it is simply two competing hypotheses. Two hypotheses that should be held to equal standards and their likelihood weighed against one another.

And of course the entire gatekeeping procedure is an extreme externalization of this entrenched cisnormativity, the assumption that cis is so incredibly “normal” that it’s the null hypothesis, that the burden of proof falls entirely on the hypothesis that the patient is trans, that she must meet a number of strict criteria before her claims to her gender identity will be accepted as true. At no point in the conventional gatekeeping model is the doctor ever expected to provide any evidence proving the contrary position, that the patient is really cis. And if a doctor or therapist suggests some possible theory for why a cis patient would become “duped” into believing himself transgender, again the burden of proof falls to the patient to falsify their assertion rather than for them to falsify her’s. This whole idea that your subjective identity can’t be legitimate unless you’re somehow able to back it up with objective evidence is a pretty awful situation to be put in, especially when you’re inflicting it on yourself, given how any “proof” of being trans is entirely dependent on subjective experience. What proves that you’re trans is only to understand yourself as trans. When dealing with gatekeepers and family and the numerous external forces that would deny us our identities, it’s not such a crippling situation, because at least we know, and we are the proof, and beyond that it’s simply a matter of figuring out what they think would count as “proof” and what exactly they need to see or hear to believe you (if anything). But when imposing this situation on yourself, when the only possible actual certainty is in accepting and understanding yourself as trans, but you refuse to accept and understand yourself as such until you have that certainty… you’ve created an impossible situation for yourself.

there's always someone who needs to read this so i am doing my traditional linking of @nataliereed84.bsky.social's "the null hypothecis" when gatekeeping is on the tl:
freethoughtblogs.com/nataliereed/...

Idk what all the fuss about Taylor Swift's new album is. I can totally picture myself walking through Dunnes to this

Hey babes, it’s still my birthday week and I’d be eternally grateful if you’d support our fundraiser 🫶🏾✨

april fool's is not for another half a year