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[Start ID/ Digital art of two hormone vials that have been repurposed as flower vases sit next to each other. On the left, there's lavender sprigs sprouting from the estradiol valerate vial and on the right, purple pansies sprout from the testosterone cypionate vial. /end ID]
New Brazilian law heavily restricts minors from using the internet, and forces everyone to give personal information in order to be allowed to use the internet. I can't even see a trans meme on twitter. Lula and every single politician behind this law should be brutally murdered
Wow, it's such a good idea to completely isolate children and teenagers from the outside world and give abusive parents total control over their child's life. You're doing such a good job of protecting children and teens Lula. Just fucking nuke Brasilia at this point
imagine you're a child, you learn your queer and your parents are extremely bigoted. you have some friends on Roblox who are very kind, they're in their early 20s and they sympathize as they went through the same things as a kid. they offer to use your correct name and pronouns, maybe some even offer to buy you a binder or help you find hrt or support groups local to you
roblox rolls out their age group system, and you can no longer talk to any adults on the platform. you can only talk to people in person, i.e. your parents, who are horrid. now you're back at square one, being helplessly abused. to make it worse, you're homeschooled, as I was. you can't reach out to anyone at school for support either.
or maybe you're not homeschooled, and you ask your pronouns to be used at school. it goes well for a while, and you feel some relief.
then your state passes a bill that requires forced outing. your teachers report to your parents that you've been trying out a different name and pronouns.
they pull you from school, send you to boarding school or conversion therapy, and force you to attend private schools in the future that match their values.
you are entirely under their control. you could've made connections with other adults, ones willing to help you out. to treat you like a human, give you access to life saving care. and it's stripped away, you're alone, and everything feels hopeless.
this is the reality for many children. this is almost exactly what I went through as a child. it is not a mere hypothetical, it happens regularly. please stop falling for this moral grandstanding, it's about control- it's always been about control.
If it were ever about the children the us would sign the convention on the rights of the child.
Classic Bolsonaro moment.
@lurking-kitty rest in piss bozonaro
beautiful!
pity our congress is trying so hard to free him
also yeah just like. there's no denying that staff is doing this shit themselves at least partially, everyone ive seen share an actual termination email it's said it was internally generated by staff
staff is actively hunting down girls, this post isn't even 4 hours old yet and 2 hours ago op was still alive
Hi yall. As most of you know, I was nuked by staff. Not only was I nuked, but it was an "internally generated report" meaning that staff did it personally. I was not reported. Staff chose to ban me all on their own. What for? The reasons they gave were 1. Harrasment. And 2. "Making multiple blogs of the same subject matter"
That second one is an outright lie. I have never had more than one account at a time. Yes, I had sailor crusader before I had sailatina. But I deleted that one before starting fresh. There is absolutely nothing in the TOS that says I cant do that.
And harassment? Harassing who? I would like to know who I supposedly harassed, because I can tell you this: for the entirety that sailatina existed, I have never once sent a mean ask. I never sent a single anon at all. And I sure as hell never made sockpuppet accounts. No stalking, no bullying, I was never even rude to someone unless they were rude to me first. And I'm banned for harassment? When literally after my ban there are people making accounts to spread rumors about me? That's right, there's someone out there *right now* accusing me of having CP of all things. With an account they made for that sole purpose. And I'm the one who's ban worthy?
Now I need you to understand, I was banned shortly after Patricia Taxxon was. Here is the email she received and the one I received upon my own ban:
Notice anything? They are the exact same. The only difference is that mine was internally generated. Isn't that interesting? Two prominent trans women on this site, posting on similar topics, both get banned for the same made-up reasons within days? And here's the kicker, it happened AGAIN! The EXACT same thing just happened to isuggestforcefem! Literally the exact same!
Staff has crossed a line. We've been through banwaves before but this is absolutely deliberate and they're hardly even trying to hide it. Keep in mind that alleged human trafficker Matt has already admitted there have been discriminatory practices against trans women on here. There is no denying it, Tumblr staff is intentionally discriminating against trans women. Banning us for existing and, let's face it, for the color of our skin in many cases.
I am impressed that they would have the audacity to do this. Considering how they just had a lawsuit for their discriminatory practices. Would you like another lawsuit? Can Tumblr, the next PDF, survive another lawsuit? Y'all are bottom-feeding scum.
Fun fact. A couple months back, a group of open TERFs massreported, stalked, and attempted to dox a trans woman, all the while mocking her and referring to her by as many degrading names & slurs as they could come up with. Their mass report campaign succeeded, and the trans woman in question's account was banned by the automod. But the TERFs had been sloppy on this one. Since they had conducted the entire campaign out in the open, and the woman in question's friends had watched it happen, there was significant backlash and the TERFs themselves were reported until they were banned by automod as well. All goes quiet for a couple of weeks. Suddenly, the TERF accounts that led this campaign, who called their target a disgusting man and attempted to find her workplace to get her fired, are manually reinstated by Tumblr staff. Their target remained banned.
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my favorite thing right now is how mad the official french language people are that parts of african languages are getting mixed into french
a huge percentage of the world's french speakers are in africa, and language evolves, so there's a lot of african phrases and speech patterns being incoorperated into french. the french language academy is losing their shit because european french people pick up african french from social media and are ruining the fancy shmancy purity of the language. it's hilarious
the best part of this post is the french people responding with rants about how much they fucking loath l'académie française
âI always remember having this fight with a random dude who claimed that âstraight white menâ were the only true innovators. His prime example for this was the computer⊠the computer⊠THE COMPUTER!!! THE COM-PU-TER!!!
Alan Turing - Gay man and âfather of computingâ Wren operating Bombe - The code cracking computers of the 2nd world war were entirely run by women Katherine Johnson - African American NASA mathematician and âHuman computerâ Ada Lovelace - arguably the 1st computer programmerâ
- Sacha Coward
Also Margaret Hamilton - NASA computer scientist who put the first man on the moon - an as-yet-unmatched feet of software engineering, here pictured beside the full source of that computer programme. #myhero
Grace Hopper - the woman that coined the term âbugâ Â
- @robinlayfield
Grace Hopper did more than coin the term âbugâ. She invented the first program linker in the early 1950s, for the UNIVAC I. A program linker translates instructions from one language to another (for example, numerical codes that represent instructions translated to machine code that computers can read), which is the very foundation of how computerâs operate independently. she also pulled a steve rogers and tried to enlist in the military a bunch of times and was denied. then, an exception was made for her when she joined the navy reserves, and she ended up serving for over 40 years (half of which was active duty). she retired from the navy Rear Admiral Grace Hopper. she was born in NYC in 1906. Grace Hopper was a fucking badass.
also computing was typically a job for women (many of whom were black women that made incredible contributions) back in the day, so itâs absolutely fucking wild that straight white men think they are the foundation of computer innovation. men PUSHED women out and took the credit.
Reblogging to do what the failed education system never did.
Reblogging to do
what the failed education
system never did.
Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.
Adding Wendy Carlos to the list! Trans icon and pioneer of synthesized music!!
Also, just about every computerized device outside of desktops is running ARM chips now. Your phone, your keyboard, your car, your watch. Basically everything.
And ARM was primarily designed by Sophie Wilson, a trans woman.
Please donât forget Hedy Lamarr. Screwed over by the US government. She helped develop spread spectrum communication, which in part led to the development of WiFi and Bluetooth tech.
LED, LCD and CRT colour monitors are built upon the design of Guillermo GonzĂĄlez Camarena, Mexican inventor of the colour television. Without him, computers would still be black and white. Without colour screens, video games wouldnât have become as popular as they are now, and movies with digital effects would be almost impossible, meaning computers as a whole wouldnât have grown to be as powerful as they currently are, because a lot of money in modern computer research comes from the film and video game industries.
ASLOF: Always Shine Light On Fuckery.
Shining light on the fuckery
i think it's important to acknowledge that the reason why mastercard/visa has such a stranglehold on american society is because cash is not the main form of payment in the usa. the predominance of card has effectively privatized currency
in japan, one of the reasons why dlsite and other similar websites are able to just remove visa as a payment option instead of changing any of their merchandise (aside from the fact that visa doesn't have a monopoly here) is because cash payments for online transactions remain an option. even if you don't have a jcb credit card or paypay or whatever, you can still pay for your online purchases using cash by taking your barcode to a convenience store, and you can do this for essentially every online vendor, meaning credit card companies can't just impose their moral judgments on your purchases with much repercussion
How does that barcode system work? I've never heard of something like that.
1. you add whatever porn games or movies or books you want to your cart and go to checkout
2. you select cash payment at conbini as your payment method
3. youre emailed a barcode that you take to the conbini
4. you show it to the cashier, they scan it, and you pay what you owe. note that the cashier does not see what youre buying
and the transaction is complete
my mum has severe knee problems and needs a replacement. Today she was told she's too fat to be operated on and the knee specialist suggested she gets a gastric band - which also involves surgery. So my mum was like first of all you didn't read my file because it explains that I'm not fat because I eat too much second of all you said it's impossible for me to get surgery and then suggested I get a surgery about it? He then asked her her weight and height, didn't believe her answer, and made her prove it to him because she "looks fatter than that". So she was like so you also just entirely based this on looks instead of actual numbers?
My mom went through something similar. She needed a knee replacement and her doctor wouldnât okay it until she lost weight, which was difficult given the whole knee problem preventing her from walking thing. He told her she was too dangerous to operate on and that there were just too many risks.
My mom tried to lose weight in vain for months before she finally gave into my begging her to get a second opinion. The first doctor she saw next scheduled her for surgery the same day she met him. When my mom asked about the risk of operating on her he told her that there was some minor risks for complication and that all she would need to do to alleviate the risk was spend an extra night in the hospital so that they could keep a look out for any complications.
There were zero. There were also zero complications when she had her other knee done, her hip replaced and her gallbladder removed.
Almost like the first doctor was entirely full of shit and just trying to coerce his patient to lose weight by scaring her for fucking nothing, even when she was living day to day in excruciating pain and desperately needed a surgery.
Thin privilege, once again, is getting proper medical treatment.
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@lurking-kitty
merry christmas, happy holidays. transfemme and transmasc solidarity always
[start id: two empty hormone vials are side-by-side. estrogen is on the left, and testosterone on the right. they have been repurposed as flower vases containing poinsettias. /end id]
Original comic by Rasenth
Leelah Alcorn was a trans girl, a teenager, who sadly committed suicide nearly 10 years ago. I'm happy that her comic touches the hearts of so many people, years after her death.
I saved screenshots of her blog and last message to the world. Her parents had a lot of control over how she was perceived after her death, but it was also to prevent deletion by Tumblr itself. Even back then, Tumblr has been shadow banning trans women on this platform.
My heart goes out to all trans women who are struggling with society's expectations of who they are supposed to be and who they are allowed to be. May you find peace, growth, and respite from whatever you're going through. You deserve happiness, most of all. Thank you for living, thank you for being here with us.
As funny as it is to see musk's own ai not complying with his bullshit about "white genocide" in South Africa i think it should turn your stomach to know that while so many people are jumping on the bandwagon to see it in action it is coming at the cost of polluting the air for a majority Black neighborhood and making it increasingly difficult for the people living there to breathe
The companyâs turbines â enough to power 280,000 homes â run without emission controls in an area that leads Tennessee in asthma hospitaliza
The turbines spew nitrogen oxides, also known as NOx, at an estimated rate of 1,200 to 2,000 tons a year â far more than the gas-fired power plant across the street or the oil refinery down the road. Thatâs according to calculations by the Southern Environmental Law Center, a nonpartisan legal advocacy group that focuses on the South, which used turbine manufacturer spec sheets to estimate xAIâs annual emissions and compare them with pollution that other South Memphis plants have reported to the Environmental Protection Agencyâs National Emissions Inventory...
Just three miles away is Boxtown, a secluded neighborhood that officially became part of the city of Memphis in 1968, the year that the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated at the Lorraine Motel downtown. While the annexation had come with the promise of connecting Boxtown to municipal utilities, many homes still had no running water or sewage service as late as the 1970s.
Today, more than 90 percent of residents living in Boxtownâs ZIP code are Black, with a median household income of $36,000, according to the Census Bureau. Itâs also home to more than 17 industrial facilities â some of which share an industrial park with xAI â that release enough toxic pollution to require registration with EPAâs Toxics Release Inventory.
âI canât breathe at home, it smells like gas outside,â Boxtown resident Alexis Humphreys said through tears, holding up her asthma inhaler during a public hearing about the turbines on April 25. âHow come I canât breathe at home and yâall get to breathe at home?â
"Move fast and break things" except the "things" are people's lungs
im just so happy i live in a time period where actual meaningful biological transition is possible. even if we lose rights or the ability to exist in public, nothing can turn back the clock on that, and just by having any sort of access to that our lives are made immensely better. millions of our sisters throughout history would never have dreamed of a day where they could have what HRT does for us.
please don't lose the plot of this. if you're a trans person on HRT you're a living miracle, the dream of hundreds of millions of your ancestors. your lives are all deeply meaningful no matter what anyone says.
There's a fundamental issue with gynecology as a field in that they often don't bother doing any tests or investigating any symptoms unless the patient is having trouble getting pregnant... which means if you never try to get pregnant, you simply won't get healthcare, unless you're able to advocate for yourself and really fight for it. Because it's not a field that concerns itself with the patient's quality of life all that much. It's not high on their priority list.
I feel incredibly grateful and lucky that mine was never severe. I know so many people spend decades suffering from PMDD, endometriosis and other conditions. Like, it makes sense why so many people's mothers have this kinda resigned attitude about how 'you'll suffer every month for the next 40 years and that's just how the cookie crumbles'. It's already difficult to advocate for yourself in medical settings and anything that has to do with menstrual/uterine/gyno care is on top of that.
Especially since gynecological issues run in families. You have periods that last over a week and require you to wear the thickest pads you can get that aren't diapers and also terrible cramps, anemia and sometimes you pass out? Well that's normal, your mother does too, and she still has to work, do housework and take care of you, so who are you to complain?
literally my mom who is an obgyn at 13 year old me who would spend sleepless nights from period cramps so bad I'd throw up: after you have your first kid the cramps will get easier!
my first kid??? I'm a trans man đ i was lucky enough for t to stop my menstrual cycle almost instantly at age 20 but at 13 i only knew i a. didn't wanna get pregnant ever and b. this meant my torment would last 30-40 years unless i had a hysterectomy so i immediately asked my mom for a hysterectomy and she shrugged it off
then I proceeded to get ovarian cysts 7cm across every month that would go away by rupturing and causing internal bleeding OR they had the possibility of slowly getting absorbed by my body if i didn't move at all during the worst days and didn't even sit at a 90° angle, I'd go to school and sit uncomfortably leaning backwards so my cyst didn't get too squished :) and that was apparently not that alarming either so i was put on the pill for years until i decided to stop taking it because of how uncomfortable my massive boobs were making me :))))) and then my period was even more irregular and painful, i even spent an entire month bleeding constantly sometimes!
fun stuff
Jesus, that's terrible, I'm sorry you had to go through all that. Someone told me they literally lied that they were trying and struggling to get pregnant to get a gynecologist to examine them properly and order tests. If you have health issues that aren't infertility they just don't care, no matter how bad it is for you.
I'd be fine with keeping my uterus if there was a medical field that actually concerned itself with making it less miserable, but with the state of gynecology as it is, I'd rather just have it yeeted.
It's so hard to find a gynecologist who doesn't fucking suck. Especially if you're trans and don't want kids.
thank you... i'm not sure if having a family member as my obgyn made matters better for how i was treated or worse (by downplaying/ignoring things she thought i could handle? idk) but ik others are heard even less and feel even more lost when faced with doctors (esp gynos) who are completely desensitized to others' pain. at least ik some parts of how they think from the inside? lying to doctors or manipulating them somehow so that they think they figured the problem out themselves is sth I've also had to learn to do and i wish i was even better at it :') i can't get over how a lot of the time if you go to them with your own ideas/suspicions that's the first thing they'll completely rule out as a reaction?? so I'm not at all surprised someone would lie about wanting to conceive
I've also said if things were different I'd even consider getting pregnant since i do want to have a family one day but i don't think i can handle, on top of the dysphoria, the combination of transphobia and ableism and general lack of fucks given for other human beings in the medical field that could make a risky and difficult thing even worse
it's hard to find a gynecologist who doesn't fucking suck indeed
