CertifiedSexEDposts

(he/it) Exactly what it sounds like! Sex education posts and discussions! Feel free to @ or DM me if you know any posts that should be here.

[certifiedsexed]

This is a Certified Sex ED Blog! My pronouns are he/it.

No, I am not a doctor or a therapist, nor do I have a certificate. Just training (unfinished due to disabilities) and experience.

Minors, DMs (I will rarely respond to those though, sorry!), asks and @'s are 100% welcome, just keep in mind I do not tolerate hate speech. If you want me to answer your ask privately, just add it to your ask! Check out my Before You Ask Post (before you ask!)

Also, I have a No Stupid Questions Rule, ask whatever the fuck you want, no matter how obvious it seems.

(If your question is "genital specific" or you think it might be, please do not tell me you're "AFAB/AMAB" and assume that tells me your genitals. It does not!)

If I ever reblog anything that seems bigoted or by someone bigoted, feel free to let me know (with some explanation, please!)

For those who need them, some of my tags are:

#sex education <- all sex ed in general.

#sex tips <- tips specifically on having sex!

#asexual education <- education on asexuality!

#aromantic education <- education on aromantism!

#trans education <- education on trans-related things!

#intersex education <- education on intersex-related things!

#hormone education <- education on hormones/HRT

#sex work education <- education on sex work!

#kink education <- education on kink!

#consent 101 <- education on consent!

#disability education <- education on disability-specific sex ED!

(Fundraising is tagged #vetted)

[rabbitkinglune777]

hey since my Kofi is back up, I need some help since I paid some pretty big bills and groceries, I need to save up to help support me and my sisters while also getting small stuff for myself (which is done after bills are paid)

thank you, sorry I ask so much 😭😭😭 living is so hard these days

[rabbitkinglune777]

if you enjoy my art, any tips help because holy shit we are drowning in our electric bill and we might get cut off soon. help a bunny out if you can 😭

[grendel-menz]

Nader's brother just had a baby -- what should be a beautiful and wonderful occasion is brought down by the current state of life in Gaza. Food is scarce, medical care is expensive, and housing is unstable.

If you have the means, please consider supporting Nader and his family. They're trying to leave the strip once they have the funds, but everything is making it extraordinarily difficult.

FUNDRAISER HERE.

[abdalsalam-2000]

The situation of the little girl, Massa, is dire. She is having difficulty breathing and cannot breastfeed. We are forced to buy her expensive formula. Please stand by us and help us. Please donate.

[abdalsalam-2000]

Your donations are our only hope and salvation for survival in Gaza. Please, I beg you, help us save this child and my father who has cancer. Please donate whatever you can. We need €2,166 to reach our goal. Please donate.

[theinternetarchive]

What a horrible situation for a child to be born into-please give what you can. I can't imagine Nader's pain much less his brother's. His father's condition worsening and this brand new child suffering.

please donate. i really don't know what to say. my heart hurts

[certifiedsexed]

Can estrogen make you sick? My mom has already been getting sick really bad every few months but it came back after a week and she said it might be because she's been taking double then prescribed because her doctor is mean or something and then I panicked and worried about my friend who's also on estrogen and sent her this whole paragraph begging her not to take double because I didn't want her to throw up yellow....was it the estrogen because my mom has been to the hospital like 6 times and they've all told her there's no problems

Well, anything can make you sick if you're using too much of it. Vomiting is definitely common with overdose, including estrogen, but vomiting is a pretty common symptom in general.

I can't tell you anything for sure about whether it's estrogen that made your mom sick. I don't know her estrogen levels, her dose, how she's taking it, how frequently, why, etc and that's not my area of expertise.

Frankly, y'all might be better off calling an overdose number and asking them! Tell them her symptoms, explain she's "accidentally" been taking too much, ask them if her symptoms line up with an overdose or too high estrogen levels.

That said, you probably don't know your friend's estrogen levels, her dose, or anything like that either.

Don't fearmonger her over it-especially if your friend is trans. Trans people hear enough fearmongering about things like HRT without you applying a completely different scenario without even knowing if its true to their lives.

So yeah. I'm sorry y'all are dealing with that, I wish I could be more helpful and I hope she gets better. And maybe apologize to your friend because ngl, you might've scared the shit out of her and that's not fair.

[certifiedsexed]

Okay wait sorry if this is a stupid question but now I'm confused on how trans men on T can experience menopause if its related to estrogen?

No worries, I have a "No Stupid Questions Are Stupid And Even If They Were, I Don't Care" rule and love answering questions.

Fun fact! Everyone's body is supposed to produce estrogen! It usually just differs in amount and how your body reacts to it! Taking testosterone doesn't mean you stop producing estrogen, it just lowers the amount of estrogen you produce and how effective it is.

It certainly doesn't guarantee things like ovulation stop or negate if someone has ovaries or whether their body remembers "oh hey, we're supposed to do something when we're completely physically incapable of producing periods/ovulation, aren't we?"

In fact, taking testosterone can trigger menopause "symptoms". Vaginal atrophy is actually one of those symptoms! But it's not a guarantee or anything, just depends on the person and the dose.

[certifiedsexed]

i'm still pretty confused after reading that article about menopause. i'm in my 20s and on testosterone hrt now and went through estrogen puberty. if i stay on testosterone forever, would i ever experience age-related menopause? probably not, right? is it even possible to experience when doing hormone replacement? but in the short term yeah i have had symptoms of low estrogen because of testosterone and previously depo-provera which you could call menopause.

(For anyone wondering, I assume you're talking about this article!)

So, here's the thing; it absolutely is possible for you to still go through menopause, even if you're on HRT.

See, testosterone can cause menopause (usually the phase that's called 'perimenopause') or "menopause symptoms" but it doesn't have what's considered the most characteristic part of menopause, which is when you stop ovulating.

(Frankly, I'd say that's just one possible part of menopause but some doctors like to consider menopause "a moment" in life as opposed to, y'know, a possible good chunk of it, which is medically inaccurate bullshit but what do I know 😩)

You can still experience age-related menopause on testosterone! Even if your periods stop on HRT, you can still ovulate and/or your body will simply reach a point where it recognizes "oh hey, we're not capable of producing periods/ovulating even if the testosterone stopped" and that could kickstart menopause.

(Or you could get your ovaries removed and that could cause it too!)

But it's kind of a hit or miss thing. The body has a very loose set of rules that it occasionally follows and occasionally forgets about alltogether so it's a "might happen/might not" type of scenario.

That said! It's definitely possible.

Hopefully this clears that up a little bit but feel free to ask me to clarify if it doesn't! I know there's a lot of misinformation and confusion surrounding things like menopause and I don't mind answering in the least. <3

[certifiedsexed]

would you or any of your followers know where to find pics of penile-preserving vaginoplasty? i'm so curious about it but i feel like i can't find anything

Well, I know some surgeons who do penile-preservnig vagionplasty and similar used to post results of patients (with consent) for people to look at but I think most of them took them down due to high levels of harassment.

That said, plenty of them will still let you view pictures like that if you send them emails to ask and if you look on trans subreddits (on Reddit), plenty of people post their results and places to find more!

[certifiedsexed]

To the silly goose anon asking about T, I just wanted to tell them that I know about 6 people IRL, plus myself, and plenty more online, who have taken hormones to transition. Not one of us started as early as puberty, and it still has great affects.

Wanted to be anon so I couldn't reply directly to the post, but I wanted to add some reassurance.

Aww, that's awesome! Thank you for sharing. 💞

(Anon is referring to this post, for anyone wondering.)

[certifiedsexed]

Greetings, I was wondering if you could explain to me a little bit of how going on Testosterone to transition works? Sorry if this sounds a little bit uneducated, but can you only do that while you're going through puberty or can you also use T to transition when you're older because thats how I see a lot of people transitioning; when they're going through puberty and also on T and i never see any older people..

And I know my parents would never let me get T now.. so I was wondering if it'd work when im older?

[🪿 silly goose so I can find later]

Thank you so much for taking the time to answer this!! 💙

Hello there! I can absolutely do that, no problem. And don't worry about sounding uneducated; I like to educate people and if everyone knew everything, I wouldn't be able to do shit so honestly, you're doing me a favor! :)

You can take testosterone at any point in your life. Unless you have a health condition that would prevent it, you can physically transition by going on testosterone and/or getting surgeries at any age!

It will still have the same sort of affects; some just might take a bit longer to show, depending on your body. You can go on testosterone at 90 and it will still work.

The reason you don't see a lot of older transitioned trans people is simply because a lot are dead (transphobia sucks) and a lot are "stealth", which is where a trans person transitions but continues to hide that they are trans (usually for safety reasons).

It doesn't mean none of them have transitioned; in fact, more older trans people are transitioning now because of easier access to HRT in certain areas and more resources.

But you're still more likely to see younger people because of biases and bigotry and all types of bullshit, unfortunately.

That said!! This is a photography project that was done with trans elders in the US and while it's not focused on transitioning specifically, I think you might find it interesting! There's some veteran bullshit in there but its easily skippable, at least.

I hope this helps a little! Lemme know if you have any other questions, Anon. 💞

[certifiedsexed]

I wish more people understood that plenty of people get sexual pleasure from giving other people sexual pleasure and that a way of giving sexual pleasure can be by receiving it.

There are so many different ways people experience and give sexual pleasure and just because they don't look/sound like someone giving/receiving pleasure to you doesn't mean they aren't.

It doesn't mean those people don't care about their partner/s or are "selfish" or "lazy". It just means different people like and experience different things differently. As is their right.

[certifiedsexed]

Re: the anon about calling people "good boy"

A couple of my friends call each other good boy and joke a lot about sex and kink, which I think is whatever, they're both chill with it so who cares, which is imo an example of very harmless use of it. On the other hand, a guy in my class who I really dislike, called me "good girl" once, to be cruel, and I was so fucking angry I don't know how I managed not to scream at him. Like, the phrase is neutral, but context is EVERYTHING

Absolutely!

Like it's chill to joke about but it sucks when people do it mockingly or despite their anti-kink or as some sex negative bullshit. Or as sexual harassment!

(Also, I always love to hear that people joke with their friends about sex and kink in a healthy, sex positive way ngl, that's awesome for y'all.)

(Anon is referring to this post, for anyone wondering.)

[wolf-aid]

Perhaps I haven't paid enough attention, but I haven't seen anything online or in the news about this, or rather, I've stopped seeing anything about Palestine, and that's unfortunate. Keep in mind that Israel considers the Palestinian government and many humanitarian and charitable organizations to be terrorist entities, which automatically labels us Palestinians as terrorists.

Israel’s death penalty bill for Palestinian prisoners moves to final vote

Legislation initiated by far-right Otzma Yehudit party drew mounting criticism from opponents and rights groups as it moved through the Knes

[wolf-aid]

Hello guys, we have received confirmation today that the school will be opened by the Ministry of Education upon completion, so I will focus only now on fundraising for that school, I will stop fundraising for my family and make it my first goal now because if we do not make progress, it may be closed due to lack of necessary resources

[wolf-aid]

Guys, please I won't work on the school campaign. Don't worry about the safety of donations because Govand Mei asks for a lot of investigations and where will the money go so I hope you donate and don't ignore us you guys are now almost 6700 more than Maybe we can reach 7,000 as soon as possible just 300 eure to reach please donate right now pls

Donate to Help the children of Gaza get a safe and free education., organized by Asma Yunis

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[beserkerjewel]

Please help!!

[closet-keys]

Israel has deliberately and systematically destroyed the means for people in Gaza to sustain their physical health. 94% of hospitals are destroyed, and none can operate at full capacity. Life sustaining medications are blocked from entering and stocks are running out.

[closet-keys]

My friend Fadel has been hospitalized on and off for months now. The hospitals were already unable to remove shrapnel from him two years ago when Israelis bombed his house while he was inside. At this point in the genocide, he has experienced power outages from nearby bombings while being hospitalized for severe anemia and malnutrition.

[closet-keys]

Fadel (@fadell-aldany) relies on medication to treat his blood disorder. He has been unable to afford it consistently, and the result is constant dizziness, nausea, pain, and fainting. His family is terrified every time they find him collapsed unconscious that he has died. Now he also suffers from side effects from medications at the hospital that do not work as well. Please help him afford his healthcare and survive this.

[fadell-aldany]

I watch myself wither away in front of the mirror while my surgery is delayed and support remains elusive. Every moment of neglect weakens me, and I'm losing consciousness because of what I'm going through. Please help me today, stand by me before I become a mere memory; your kindness might ease my pain and give me another chance at life. I hope you won't forget me.

[certifiedsexed]

(Not the same anon)

How can they not let you keep the uterus or any other body part? It literally belongs to you.

If I get an organ removed, it would automatically still belong to me by any law based on morality or ethics. Like just because it wouldn't be IN my body anymore, it still would count as part of my body?

My body, my rules.

My body, my right.

(Anon is talking about this post.)

Love, I'mma be real, I literally debated with my dentist for like half an hour on the topic when I was supposed to get my wisdom teeth removed a bit ago. I'm with you.

It's absurd but apparently a lot of doctors don't want to deal with the extra paperwork and shit it would require to "allow you" to keep part of your own body.

And in certain states, it's illegal for certain doctors and types of offices to give away organs or body parts, even if they belong to the person they're giving them to? 😭💀 Its wild AF.

So instead, they often put in the paperwork for doing surgeries like that that they will be taking the organs or whatever and disposing of them so that they have your agreement on paper should you want it afterwards.

Which is funny because plenty of doctors will give you things they've removed with no hesitation (and even keep it off the paperwork lol) while others act like its an act completely devoid of morality.

But y'know, doctors suck, what's new. 😩💀

[princesspuppets]

hiii everyone, its puppet again, terminated for no reason. getting really tired of this. as always, its a homeless and disabled trans woman living purely off donations from tumblr, even as it keeps getting nuked. paypal here if anyone can help. anything's appreciated.

its also having the worst time ever and being nuked makes it hard to come back to normal so like,, come play with it maybe,,? or be its friend..

please reblog to keep spreading it around. puppet loves you ♡

[transsexual-feminism]

I do appreciate all the support on my post about Marlow Trottie, but yall need to do that kind of thing for Black trans women while they're still alive too. That's actually more important in a lot of ways.

[rinsedrice]

please help my friend move to safer housing, shes a black trans woman who i love so dearly and who deserves every good opportunity that comes her way

Donate to Survival Funds for Healing and Stability, organized by Tori Peck

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the gfm is not yet updated to reflect this but we do need to reach $2,500 as soon as possible so she can move. her partner has a post fundraising for them with more payment info if ppl need ❤️

[certifiedsexed]

How do you feel about the widespread thingy of calling people a goodboy cause as someone who is kinda in to that it pisses me off..like im not in to it when like people say it in a mocking way ..I like it when my boyfriend says it to me cause he means it in a sweet way but uh when the kids in my class say it to eachother or to me in a joking way it makes me mad and uncomfortable and i was wondering what your thoughts on this was

sorry for my poor wording

Also 🪿 silly goose for later

Well, I think it's very interesting how agitated people get about kink and how its "immoral" to talk about it or do anything related to it in public/around others (to the extent that wearing a collar or certain shirts is viewed as "nonconsensual") and then somehow circle around to doing kinky shit in public with friends and strangers.

I don't think its wrong to joke about or do with friends or anything like that but I do understand how it'd be annoying, especially with people who are just mocking kinky people or who generally don't respect kink but then use kinky terms as a joke.

Like, okay, you think kinky people are stupid or annoying or whatever but then you're the one saying shit in public to strangers or friends without making sure they're chill with it? 🤨 Okayyyy.

So yeah, I get where you're coming from. It can be funny but a lot of people are hypocritical with it and that's enough to drive me up a wall squirrel-style.