Eva ✂️🍆 (she/her)

Given all the evil shit he's done, harping on the fact that Hair Furor wore a baseball cap to a solemn event for fallen soldiers is trite fucking nonsense.

STFU about it. It does not matter. Not one person will feel shame about his behavior.

24 hours from now I'll be checking in at the hospital for my vaginoplasty. I waited for 40 years for that call, and they gave me 13 days until surgery.

It's hard to express how I feel right now. When I think about it, it feels like a dream, but I know it isn't. I couldn't be more excited.

...upcoming absence, and that it was for surgical recovery. One of my residents asked me tonight what kind of surgery it was. I looked her in the eye, and told her the truth: "I'm having a birth defect corrected that has bothered me for years."
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I work in a dementia facility in hands on patient care. This makes it a mixed bag to take time off to recover from bottom surgery. Clients form bonds with caregivers; trust is essential. Long absences undermine that. To minimize that problem, I warned the residents in my normal work area about my...

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Raaaay Neeeeeeeeer Beeeeeeer

Iykyk.

It's been 10 days since my last injection, and I think I'm getting hot flashes.

Why are so many leftists so allergic to supporting sex workers? What’s going on? Why can’t yall at least hit the repost button on our posts so that we can reach people who will pay us? I’m so confused as to why it’s too much to ask for.

So it's now after business hours on the business day prior to my surgery, and no one called to cancel, so I guess this thing is actually happening.

Thank you so much. You've been a great friend to me, right from the beginning.

I got the call from the hospital today giving me instructions on when to arrive at the hospital for my surgery, and where to go, etc. This is really happening.

I'm getting bottom surgery.

He has popularized the narrative of kids getting trans affirming surgeries at school without parental knowledge. His supporters believe it, so now all he needs to do is tell them what's really happening, and claim it as victory in his transphobic campaign, even though it's the status quo.

I've had the opposite experience than I expected as I approach the date for my bottom surgery. I was expecting to feel nervous. While the impending change has prompted the introspection I expected, the result of that introspection hasn't been nervousness or anxiety. It's been calm peace of mind.

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Tomorrow I'm doing laundry.

Thereafter, I will never again need to wash a gaff.

That's a wild thought to me.

I was born in 1972, and I'm not even gonna argue. We had every opportunity to know better, and we acted this way anyway (as a group).

Have you considered the exigency of the imminent release of epstein files directly implicating Trump in the violent sexual assault of minors? The attack simply could not wait for planned evacuations.

It happened for me. It really did.

Never stop fighting or expressing your trans joy. I can't tell you how much strength I got from seeing you all on your journeys along my way. And never forget that you have sisters cracking from their eggs every day. Help care for each other; no one else will.
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I am not saying that all you need to do is pull yourselves up by your bootstraps to get where I am. What I'm saying is that pushing through the difficulty, even when it feels hopeless, serves a purpose. And sometimes that purpose may be to bring you a life you never thought you'd have.

...stop seeking those points of privilege we possess. And every once in a while, it's healthy to reflect on them.

This is something I felt I had to say, especially now, as I approach my date for bottom surgery.

I know there are a lot of white trans women who lack much of the privilege I possess...

...could have come to the place I am now without my racial background. I am certain it would have been much more challenging.

For white people there is no such thing as "not a racist." There is only various degrees of racism, and anti-racism. Anti-racists face their privilege and learn and never...

...access to medical care and personal isolation are widespread. I've experienced them. But all of them are worse for trans women of color. And as much as I have worked and put myself in emotionally vulnerable positions to gain the privilege I now hold, there is no way for me to be certain I ...

...white? I hope so. Almost all of my friends are radically "woke," but I live in a very white part of the country, and the small amount of racial diversity in my social groups is apparent to me.

When one examines the demographics of trans women, things like unemployment, homelessness, lack of ...

...certainly. My boss is a woman of color, but I am the only trans woman here. Would she have been as keen to hire a hispanic or black trans woman? I can't be sure.

Would I have the social support or the place to live that came with it (my "landlord" is a friend and roommate) if I were not ...

...white place, but not entirely so. But would a trans woman of color been given a bed? The other trans women I've known who've been accepted into that program were all white.

Would I have gotten my job with the good insurance and medical leave eligibility if I weren't white? Probably, but not ...

Like pasty white. Like so white that when my grandmother got pregnant with my Mom in Nazi occupied Norway, her pregnancy was monitored to ensure no one was going to abort a "pure aryan" baby.

Would I have been welcome in the homeless shelter had I not been white? I don't know. It was a pretty ...

Now, a lot of those obstacles I overcame with work. Some of them I overcame with having faith in myself; my ability to make friends, in particular. But I am forced to confront an underlying privilege that I can't objectively assess, but which almost certainly played a huge role.

I'm white.
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I was trying to find work, but I felt it was hopeless. I'd been looking for steady work for over a year already, and I wouldn't find it for another 8 months. I was on medicaid, so I was technically eligible for the surgery I'm in line to get next week, but I lacked the social support to get it.
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...discrimination from coworkers. I have friends who will drive me 90 minutes to and from my surgery, and stay with me for a few days afterwards. All in all, it's an enormous pile of privilege.

That said, two years ago I was homeless and had just moved into a shelter. I had no friends. No job.
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...leave, and a secure place to live with low rent, and living in a part of the USA which enshrines trans rights in law. I have full documentation with female gender markers all the way back to my birth certificate, passport and enhanced driver's license. My employer protects me from workplace ...