Typewriter Monke

They make a lot of claims about the limitations of the surgeries that sound quite intimidating if you buy their framing, which is that these are inherent limitations of the procedures and not OUS refusing to stay up to date.

Before Oslo University Hospital took over HRT from the doctor I was getting it from (who was more competent than them in every way but got their license revoked due to pressure from OUS), they showed me a bunch of pictures of surgery results taken in unflattering lighting.

"You need to transition with qualified medical personell involved!"

Go to the top 'experts' in the country

"how do you masturbate"

The safest way for trans people to get HRT is whichever available method minimizes contact with gender clinics, actually.

DIY networks put in the work to make sure the provided supplies are what they say they are.

Many transition via DIY resources. I've never seen an endocrinologist or a psych because I don't want to go through a combative and adversarial diagnostic process to access what I need.

The healthcare risks are along the lines of "increased risk of breast cancer because I have breasts now."

Finally heard back on my PhD

Defense sometime in April probably

"The US military lifts people out of poverty" and then you look at the 'poverty' and it's "my parents couldn't afford a separate ps4 for me and my brother at launch so we had to share"

Blood on your hands.

The NYT is not responsible for the opinions it publishes.

US soldiers are not responsible for the deaths of the children it kills.

The Empire is not responsible for its actions.

The Empire's citizens are not responsible for supporting imperial institutions.

Goalpost already moved from "the military is comprised entirely of the starving orphans from 'Oliver Twist'" to "50k annually isn't middle class, the cost of college justifies bombing people way poorer than that", so that's good to know.

Everyone in the US is one bill away from bombing a school!

I don't think just making a character a man without an excuse for why there's a man in this situation makes sense

If you're in "I need to shock the slug-people out of complacency"-mode in the wrong space, you're going to have the opposite effect from what you want, in that long-term immersion in shock messaging makes people feel hopeless and unable to make an impact.

Online activism tip: Assuming that you're talking to an audience of politically disconnected slug-people who need to be smacked into awareness is a bad idea because the people most likely to see political posts are already being bombarded with messaging. Focus on encouraging people to act.

sicko lesbians are a tough audience to create off-putting characters for like i could come up with a girl who licks the blood of her enemies off another girl's face instead of wiping it off in a normal way and the response would be all "need" and "me and who?"

I am not going to tell you to "have hope". I am going to tell you that the people who benefit from this want us to feel too small and too exhausted to do anything. Every dollar to MSF or body at a protest is action against that design.

This is an ongoing struggle. They do not get to win by default.

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And I would recommend everyone who can donate to MSF (Doctors Without Borders), one of few international medical orgs in Iran: doctorswithoutborders.org

The ICRC also works with Iran's Red Crescent and has been operating there since 1977: icrc.org

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RCBG however is yuri where the characters are under various obligations to pretend it's actually straight, because Talia and I are simply built different

Like I can answer "what did I do in 2023" with lots of different things, but if I'm pressed to come up with something for 2017 it's like I'm reading off a list of procedurally generated filler. I guess I played video games and studied.

The disconnect between pre-transition and now for me is so weird like what do you MEAN I had almost nine years of adult life before transitioning? Nine fucking years between 18 and hormones? That sounds fake, there aren't eight years worth of Stuff in there.

fandoms will be like "ohhh i love my gay gay characters" and then you take a look at the thing they're fans of and every expression of attraction in the whole thing is painfully heterosexual

Oh and his wife doesn't count as working class, somehow.

When he clocks out at The Factory, where he manually builds entire fridges from scratch using only raw materials, he has three interests: Car, The Pub and Sports. He desperately wants to vote for a center-left party but just can't bring himself to do it when they actually do something left-wing.

When politicians say "we gotta appeal to the working class" you have to keep in mind that in their imaginations, the working-class person is basically a form of ogre-like creature whose existence consists of backbreaking manual labor and seething with Every Single Bigotry.

There are options beyond "don't get dressed" and "wear uncomfortable clothes"

The crossing is closed again, so donations are extra important now. Please help if you can

HOWEVER...

Working from home means no obligation to dress in workplace-normative attire...

"when i work from home i don't have to get out of my pyjamas" vs "the act of getting dressed sends subconscious signals that you're intending to lock in and be productive so you should do it anyway"

You soulless wretches have more empathy for your poor innocent butchers than the innocent people they slaughter.

"Shorting the sephichole betting pool" isn't a thing. Why do you think you can short that? What the fuck are you doing? It's not a stock?? There's no fluctuating value to it????

It's absolutely crazymaking watching a hate movement screaming that trans people materially don't exist, and facing a completely flaccid opposition that goes "but it's nice to PRETEND they do!" like I HAVE EU F CUPS GRANDPA, YOU AREN'T HELPING