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"They can try to ban us. They can try to get rid of our health care. They can try to deny us housing, credit, and public accommodations. They can try to shame us. They can try all they want to erase us, but at some point, they will realize the trans community is never going away. Trans people are everywhere."
- Charlotte Clymer
even if bioessentialism was real and all trans women had some inherent advantage over cis women in sports you could not pay me to give a fuck because sports are made up. they are games people play for fun. even though we as a society invented careers around sport it is still boiled down to the fun made up game where you kick a ball. or dribble a ball. or swim in a pool. or show people how fast you can run. it’s for leisure. fun. not serious. who gives a fuck. fun. #mygame⚽️🏀🏈⚾️
I feel like sports are also a mix of inherent bodily advantages and practice/work. Some people are physically going to be better at certain sports no matter what, some people are going to be better because they've put a lot of work into it. It's like banning tall people from basketball bc it's where they thrive
I'm not even nearly as anti-LLM as most other leftists but part of approaching new technology is "hey let's think real critically about the application and scope of this so we can use it in ways that are worth it and don't cause mass scale societal damage" but the fact that it's being injected into fucking EVERYTHING makes any stance more cautious than "USE LLMS FOR EVERYTHING NOW AND FOREVER" so much more anti than the status quo that I don't even fucking want to add nuance
Like most of the problems people have with LLMs are the natural conclusion of decades of tech companies gaining monopolies, environmental regulations struggling to keep up with new technologies, and a growing semi-privatized surveillance state, as opposed to issues with LLMs themselves. There's a theoretical reality where LLMs are implemented in useful, responsible, and sustainable ways but that reality is so far removed from our current one that none of those points actually matters
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Kinda off topic but this reminds me of a story I once heard. There was some sort of public demonstration of this illusion where people could expirence it for themselves. A woman tried to participate, but learned she couldn't because they only had rubber hands to match white skin tones, none of them matched her dark skin at all. I still think about that sometimes.
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do you know if theres any kind of non-silicone lube that feels closer to vaginal lubrication? tried a water-based one and it felt so sticky (in a bad way) :(
This one’s tricky, but there are some nice ones out there. What I’d mostly recommend though is going into a shop and asking to feel samples. We kept open bottle so people could feel different consistencies.
With water based lube you’re always eventually gonna absorb it and it’ll go a little sticky, thems the breaks, but a lot of water based ones rehydrate with added moisture so. Good to know.
what's your feeling about coconut oil? (assuming no condoms needed)
I believe it’s in my FAQ but oil based lubes or just oil are not ideal for vaginal flora. They can trap bacteria for too long allowing it to grow into bad stuff. Can cause UTIs and infections. I’ve heard people anecdotally tell me they use it casually with no ill effects but it’s not recommended.
thanks, that's helpful to know
Not to contradict, but rather toss this into the ring to have it examined:
A gynecologist working at a differences in sex development clinic told us to use coconut oil for dilating and masturbation, saying that it was fine and did a good job of conditioning the skin and tissue there without throwing things off too much.
We tend to trust sex workers and sex store employees a little more than doctors, for Reasons. And the thing about trapping bacteria for too long is definitely the primary concern.
We wonder why this doctor didn't think that was a problem. Ignorance? (there's a distinct possibility transphobia was involved, because we were mostly talking about dilating, but we seem to recall she did say she recommended it to cis women, too)
Honestly the amount of gynecologists that I’ve heard recommend KY jelly my beloathed is astonishing. I’ve definitely encountered medical folks who don’t keep up on new advances, or they just give the same advice they’ve always given. Or their personal experience with something is positive so they don’t reexamine their views.
Not everyone who uses oil will immediately get a UTI but it isn’t the most recommended lubricant.
no more historic events this decade that is ENOUGH, i’m putting my foot down
History is not done with us yet my friend
I have received all manner of threat, up to and beyond “I will play a flute carved from your femur,” and yet this is the first time I’ve felt truly threatened
i knew posting this in 2022 was risky but holy fucking shit
This is just what medical transition is like
Yeah exactly
The thing is, simply by the fact we are so rare, unless a problem is within the trans community itself exclusively then trans people are never the problem. We represent somewhere around 0.5% of the population and have virtually no political or societal power. Even in queer spaces we still represent a small fraction of the group. We are the edge case of the edge case.
So if you ever find yourself mad at a subset of trans people and focusing on what you see as their part in an injustice, meaning you are focusing on a fraction of an edge case of an edge case, for any issue that isn't exclusively part of the trans community, then you need to figure out why you are being prejudice because I promise you the 0.2% of the population that are heavily marginalized are never the driving force of a large scale injustice.
I love looking up professors I know on ratemyprofessor and reading the bad reviews for them. "I didn't have time to do the final assignment because I was super busy, and they gave me a zero for it! 1/5 stars." "So disrespectful and rude, they expect THEIR answers to all the questions in the pop quizzes and will call you wrong even if you are right!"
Meanwhile other reviews for the same person will be like, "Very willing to talk and help, even outside of regular hours. All you have to do is show up and follow instructions and you will get an A."
It reminds me of one of my favorite professors in college. Before I took my first class with him, my roommate recognized his name and warned me that she had heard he was super sexist. I was alarmed, and spoke to the person who called him sexist and was very upset with how he treated her!
...she wanted to take one of his discussion classes, which was, as the name implies, a small class almost entirely focused on in-class discussions, with only a few papers and zero tests. Because of that, it had a strict attendance policy, with a minimal amount of days students could miss before it started affecting their grade. She had asked him if she could make an exception to the policy because she had to pick up her kids from school at the time of the class...and therefore would have to miss approximately half of the classes. He advised her against taking the class that semester, and told her that if she was interested, she should look at taking it another semester, when it would be held at a different time.
After some years of HRT I've been left with this deep, low simmering rage. Because what do you mean it was always this easy to be happy
I take a shot once a week, and even if that was too much, I could do it as pills, and so many of my problems just evaporated overnight.
And not one person thought to bring it up.
When I was talking about how horrifying puberty felt. When I was cutting myself. When I was in inpatient care. When I attempted suicide. When I talked for YEARS in therapy about how dissociated and trapped I felt in my body. When I felt like I never truly fixed something that was deeply wrong about me that started at puberty.
Not one person said it was a possibility. No one thought "hey, maybe this kid should go to someone trained to identify dysphoria". No one mentioned that trans people weren't some weird other group of people. It didn't have to be pressure. It didn't have to be "forcing" me. Just mentioning that trans people exist and it could be me. That it was possible and it was easy. No pushing, just laying the option out there.
HRT is treated like this last ditch option. This horrific, mutilating thing that I GUESS we can give to you if you have NO OTHER options. Because did you know it's permanent? Did you know you'll be on it for the rest of your life? Did you know the health risks? Did you know it'll make you infertile? Did you know that it's deviant? Did you know that it's an alternative lifestyle for other people?
No one said it was okay to WANT it to be permanent. Or noted that most people are reliant on the medical system in one way or the other anyways (and it's not even necessary for HRT). Or that the health risks are the normal parts of having that hormone, even in cis people of your gender. Or said it was okay to not want kids, or mention that you can just freeze gametes. Or acknowledged that the "deviant" people are just people, living their lives, that have been violently pushed out of "normal" society.
I grew up in an area that Republicans mock for being a kind of "woke central". And even then it's just. Not treated as an easy option. It was never on the table if you don't specifically already know you're going through gender stuff, and no one will help you get to that point. At which point, it's still treated like the last ditch option. Did you know you can be a feminine man? Did you know you can slap a "she/her" in your twitter bio and be done with it? Did you know that you're oh-so-valid without it? Did you know that you shouldn't take HRT? Maybe don't take HRT? Don't take HRT? Don't take HRT? Don't ta-
When you've been in it a while, HRT is the easiest, most casual thing in the world. Just pop a shot on a Saturday as part of your "everything shower" routine and you're done.
Anyways. Support trans kids always and forever.
And if anyone comes swinging in here with "but Sierra you don't have to take HRT to be trans this is toxic" I'm going to fucking scream, because that is the status quo. "Just do this without doing this" has become a "give them an inch" refrain when making ourselves "acceptable" to the cis. Of COURSE you don't need to take HRT. I'm only reminded of it a dozen times a day.
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if you are a parent, or may become one, or you are otherwise likely to arrive in the situation of caring for a child while they eat, promise me this: if a child doesn't like a certain food or food group, you will ask them WHY. and specifically, you will pay attention to either confirming or ruling out "it makes my mouth itch" or "it makes my stomach hurt," both of which are medically important info that children may not provide unprompted. which i know because this PSA has been brought to you by "i spent my entire childhood and much of my early teens eating peas and lentils while wondering why everyone else liked the Violently Itchy Mouth Sensation so much, like were they a bunch of legume masochists or something, before i finally realized that Violently Itchy Mouth Sensation was in fact a sinister demon appearing only to me, and her true demonic name was: Legume Allergy"
Do not let your child suffer from spicy bananas!
we gotta get back to torrent distribution, i just watched someone eat eight grand in bandwidth charges because they ran a direct-download piracy site with local file hosting through cloudflare. torrents were invented literally for this exact reason
torrents work like this
i have a file or folder on my pc that i want to share with other people. let's call it gayshit.mp3
unfortunately gayshit.mp3 is 750mb and im not paying for discord nitro so i need another way to send it
i put it into qbittorrent and it makes a torrent file. this is essentially a very small file that points to gayshit.mp3 so other computers can find it. kinda like a treasure map
i send this tiny file to my friend, who loads it into qbittorrent. their computer takes a moment to find mine over the vast expanse of cyberspace and then (as long as my pc is running and the file is still where it should be), it gets copied from my hard drive to theirs
this is the cool part: if somebody else loads that tiny file, they can download it from both of us. if i'm offline but my friend is on, the third person can still get it. this also means that if two people have separate halves of the file, they can download the other half from each other. as long as some combination of people have the pieces between them, they can all have the whole thing.
crucially this does not require a server!!! you can just upload the file to a few people and as long as they keep it, it's still accessible. as long as somebody, somewhere is still connected, it's available forever. the only way it goes away is if everybody disconnects from it.
please learn to torrent
An expert guide to get started using torrentsTorrents are one of the most popular forms of file sharing on the internet, accounting for over
always use qbittorrent, do not use bittorrent or utorrent.
