bothpithyandangry.bsky.social
Old-ass trans woman from way back in the bad old days. Work as a professional trauma dumpster. Small town, small time. Have a dog for when I'm sad and a bluesky for when I'm pissed off.
Oh also rural public health. I care about that too.
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"in a few years time"
Uh...
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Same
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Remember you're only seeing the survivors. It's been three decades of easy access to drugs and (in the states) firearms; a lot of us didn't make it. That kind of toxic assurance that you're better than who they hate you for being is a strategy that can work to keep you alive.
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We will be here when you find us. Just... try to do as little damage as possible on the way
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Who says I have? I know how fucked it is but god it's such a miserable brainworm.
I had very good friends, I started on street hormones and always knew I had that for an exit ramp, and I had punk rock. And good friends again.
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Something something truther inside job
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I'm inclined to believe that part of the story even though she missed a bunch of cultural referenced. She's definitely got 90s clinic damage.
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Sorry I had to sleep 😀
You and I and her, we were all broken. They found us disgusting kept a gate to only let in the least despicable and we fought like dogs to be The One.
It took me so long to learn to love my people. Still not okay but it isn't the length of my fingers that makes me worthy.
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It's an ugly chapter in trans history, centered on a magazine published by Davina Anne Gabriel. A core of usually-infighting trans women sued and fought to keep people they thought weren't trans enough out of women's and trans spaces. A lot of people including DAG were hurt or unalived. Dont do that
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I uh... wow okay. Um, Davina died. Are you... Are you going to try to shame me for spelling with only one "s"?
This is such a crazy throwback.
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Um...
"Actual transexuals"?
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Do you think making medication conditional on being deferential to social standards... is a good thing?
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And yet, it describes real people who are valid and important to me and probably to you!
So society can get fucked! There is nothing extraordinary about changing genders or bodies or social arrangements. Aren't humans cool?
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Anyone who wanted hormones, surgery or changed documents was compelled. Now they are not. People coming out now can, fascism aside, find their own waterline.
This is progress.
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"that was the only thing that was the goal of transition" is a pretty good definition of compulsory.
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My experience at the same age in the same timeframe was of compulsory feminine presentation, compulsory focus on passing and a strong suggestion not to associate with other trans people. Otherwise low doses and no letter.
I don't know what heuristic means but that's a terrible way to get healthcare
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I believe the genetic studies on rates of mutation found that the chimpanzee and human strains separated then, but I don't think they've identified an actual patient.
Nonetheless that's the likely timeframe yes.
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Yeah, transitioning in the 90s was a big head fuck. I'm glad the kids don't have to pretend to believe this shit anymore.
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There was a theory in the 80s and 90s that HIV had crossed from green monkeys to humans in the 60s or 70s through the use of poorly sterilized serum used to incubate attenuated polio virus for vaccination.
Then we found HIV cases going back to the 50s, found it came from chimps, and the idea died.
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Steve Bannon already called for Musk to be deported so immigration's off the table for their make-up sex.
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Also there isn't a treatment for measles
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It's okay to be an NB on DIY (or not obvs) and also survival boymoding is a thing.
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But on the other hand the stuff the clinic got me through quickly- changing documents and status- would be much harder to impossible now.
I'm seeing a lot of trans people- women in particular- keeping their identities more flexible and I will think it's a mix of freedom and realpolitik.
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I mostly date women so when I got an orch and found a reliable source for injectables I fell comfortably into a butch presentation that's held me ever since. I don't know how it would've gone today but I think there would have been a lot more safety for exploration.
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Sorry, to explain - HRT used to be conditional on a consistent and somewhat regressive gender presentation. When I was in there wasn't high-heels training anymore but there was still fairly invasive evaluation.
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Thank you for coming to my TED talk.
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Bring it. Mandatory gender-role-training-by-doctor was the worst part of the clinic system. Cis people can shift their identity without losing healthcare and we should too. And bring back the X marker. Or drop gender markers entirely.
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I think the narrative of identity construction is changing a lot in response to NB acceptance, widespread and reliable DIY and godawful sanctions against document changes. The pressure to consolidate a consistent (and passing) identity has been replaced by pressure to stay flexible.
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What is that in German?
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Haven't looked into this for a few years but I believe the effect size was small and swallowed by the population variance, so the differences would be as useful in determining an individual's gender as measuring their standing height. Still just easier to ask.
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If you want I can pass her info to some FBX trans folks
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Magic incantations
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Here too (well maybe we know the same people) they're using national guard sent to expedite roadbuilding (ugh) to open trails for the season. Meanwhile the coast guard rescue helicopter is down on the Mexican border doing the opposite of rescuing people...
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I don't know your situation in detail but you are surviving now. If this isn't something you can take on at the moment and you're okay getting through the immediate future that's fine. Keep living!
Just don't let yourself believe there won't be options. The resources should still be there, hmu
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Full disclosure I am a dual (and an immigrant) but my birth country is a transphobic hellscape. Nonetheless if all US passports with altered gender markers are revoked I will still have a way to leave the US (to some places)
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If you speak Spanish check out Uruguay.
Most places aren't the USA or those weird tax-shelter islands where you have to have invented synthetic DNA or pay half a million in cash. Most places -want- good enterprising people to move there
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Some countries grant citizenship if you can prove an ancestor was a citizen.
There are age ceilings but lots of my friends are working winters in Australia or New Zealand to get residency there.
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Like teaching English in China, studying at a Buddhist monastery or (don't recommend) aliyah in Israel, etc. A lot of countries including some with good trans politics will let you visit and job-search as a tourist and then grant residency or citizenship even after a certain number of years working.
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There are a lot of ways to be outside the country that don't involve immediately being a citizen. Short list is student visas, work visas, working for a (sympathetic) company with offices overseas, long term tourist visas with online or under-the-table work, long-term volunteering, special programs
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Oh you're a troll. Got it.
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Im not sure where you're going with this. Trump's fan service includes torture porn of brown men weeping, which tells me everything I need to know about his fans?
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I'd put forward a related postulate that Trump voters -did- vote for mass deportations, mandatory detransition of trans people, a retreat of public health etc but in the normal human way they did not imagine how horrific it would look in real life.
Goldhagenesque cultural eliminationism, i.e.