writing-shawn.bsky.social
Dog & Cat Dad to Jasper, Amber & Onyx
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Singer, writer, and photographer
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Thatās cats for you š with mine Iām like ābro you got a lot of audacity for a little guy who used to sleep on my porch in the coldā
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I started at 34 and am now 37. The last 2.5 years gave me so much happiness and hope and now I feel like all that has just been cut short. Itās so not fair. But itās not our fault. Just think if youād waited longer, or never did it at all.
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Thankful I work at a small nonprofit that would never for a moment entertain this nonsense
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Metal is like the perfect coping mechanism for this actually lol. When I donāt have the energy to be angry it puts that fight right back in me
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A lot of us older trans folks have been struggling too and honestly part of the reason I hang on some days is because I want to show trans youth that they can have a future. Obviously that future is less certain now but Iād like to think my perseverance can help them anyway.
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And Musk calls trans people āgroomersā.
Wtf are these barely out of puberty boys doing being employed by a creepy 50 something billionaire?
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Like clearly a lot of people read The Handmaidās Tale and 1984 and thought āoh wow, this sounds rad, actually.ā
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Bro really needs to go to therapy and learn to accept his trans daughter instead of taking it out on every trans person in the country.
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All things that a lot of Americans couldnāt afford in the first place
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Good kitty!
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I have written entire scenes of my book in my phone notes app on the train because the music I was listening to and the scenery around me triggered a solution to my writerās block lol.
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Whatever we can. Which may be a lot or may not be much. Those of us in minority groups will honestly be more focused on trying to survive and stay out of concentration camps.
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Real Americans love our Canadian & Mexican neighbors and value peace & diplomacy. Unfortunately half our country confuses toxic masculinity with patriotism, and our President has the social skills of a schoolyard bully.
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People who brag about child abuse - whether as perpetrators to their children or as childhood victims themselves - are so effed up.
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I only have male privilege because 99% of people are unable to clock me as trans. That does not erase the fact that I am and always will be trans. I am just as vulnerable to anti trans legislation as trans women. My malehood is fragile and hinges entirely on my ability to hide my transness.
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And itās reductive as heck to say that trans men automatically are granted male privilege. In some ways, absolutely. But that privilege is conditional on a bottle that sits on my bathroom counter that I may lose access to.
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The ātrans men have it easierā thing just because we generally pass easier if long enough on Tā¦ while not false has still always bothered me. Like, what are you expecting me to do or say?
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Absolutely, but for safety reasons it would have to be done in organized groups.
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Damn, Iām sorry. I found my doctor through the childfree subreddit. They have a wiki of doctors in all 50 states who are on record as being willing to do no questions asked sterilizations for just about anyone over 18. My doc is a straight up progressive feminist lol.
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Thank you for being a loving and accepting parent. It will make all the difference for her. š©·
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You will get the chance. I was twice your age when I came out (though I didnāt need to wait that long). You have the gift of knowing who you are so young. I didnāt get that. Stay strong dear š©·
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I do think it can be challenged. 18 year olds in a federal context can legally seek and consent to their own medical care. I canāt think of any exceptions to that where you have to be older.
(Sterilization maybe but thatās just doctors being bigots; it is *legal* to get a vasectomy/tubal at 18)
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Absolutely they did.
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I noticed that too. Any surgery attempting to alter a personās genitals that would destroy their natural biological function.
So, say, getting tubes tied even.
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Yes, because making trans men with beards use womenās restrooms is *checks notes* ādefending womenā
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āIāll make everything so bad, eggs will be the least of your worriesā
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Been transitioning for 2.5 years and never once been clocked in a menās restroom, not even in a busy truck stop in rural Trump country Arizona. I certainly donāt expect it to start.
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The vast majority of people I know with pronouns in their email signature are cis lol