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To clarify because a lot of people are under this misconception:

Hard does not refer to penis, as none of the ones I'm in possession of still have blood. My rigid exoskeleton, however, is hard enough to bash in an ICE agents head (or your own resident occupying military force). Thank you for your understanding, and feel free to test this claim at your earliest convenience <3

Not to legitimize this website but what is the point of "save post as image" if it doesn't integrate gifs? How is this not just a worse version of screenshotting

tpwrtrmnky

Think tanks explicitly founded to "abolish transgenderism" will publish a report that's like "there's no evidence that trans healthcare works if you ignore all the evidence" and be taken seriously, meanwhile actual researchers go "there's seriously NO evidence that gatekeeping helps" and get ignored

tpwrtrmnky

Like on the one hand there's new papers each year going "So it turns out that there's literally no fucking reason to restrict transition access based on these arbitrary criteria, and in fact, they were explicitly made up by some Danish fuck because he was personally obsessed with the idea that trans people were demons, and as it turns out the only measurable impacts of this policy are to increase risks to the patient" that have no impact on the healthcare systems they're criticizing whatsoever.

And then, on the other hand, you've got "Shockingly, this life-altering treatment that massively impacts how the patient is perceived by others in all facets of life is primarily supported by observational studies, as opposed to the enormous violations of bodily autonomy and human dignity necessary to perform a true randomized control trial. We recommend that treatment ceases immediately because you don't understand how evidence-based medicine works." And that becomes a linchpin of the politics of multiple European countries' trans healthcare politics for the next several years.

It's fucking clown world. Nobody who enabled this should be in a position of any power whatsoever.

aismallard

So for those of us who are less familiar with medical studies, what exactly are cissexist institutions like this saying should be done?

Like, I keep hearing "gold standard" thrown around in anti-trans news articles when it comes to double-blind studies. As a layperson I understand it as a way of combatting the placebo effect when studying, say, the effectiveness of some specific pill. (Versus what you said about transition affecting your life so much overall that it's better measured observationally than trying to isolate it down to one specific variable)

Basically, I'm trying to understand what kinds of violations of bodily autonomy and human dignity these think tanks are suggesting we should undertake to "actually prove transgenderism" or whatever. Like, what does a blinded study even mean for HRT? Give someone a placebo for 5 years and gaslight them into thinking it's actually feminizing/masculinizing them when it's not?

tpwrtrmnky

Well how do you do a double-blind study, i.e. one where neither patient nor doctor knows who's getting the placebo, of a treatment that visibly changes your body, while remaining within ethical constraints?

You don't.

Not only is it impossible to actually remain unaware of who's getting placebo'd for long, recruitment would be a nightmare. You ask a bunch of trans people to sign up for a 50% chance at committing to x number of years spent not transitioning, you're going to get a lot of people saying "fuck that" and going elsewhere.

The surveillance and violations of bodily autonomy that would be needed to begin to approximate a true double-blind study on this are directly downstream from how ridiculous the idea is.

mikes-hard-official

Double blind study on transmasculine top surgery where they just kinda cut the chest open and don't do anything and see if that has the same positive effect as actually doing the surgery when they open the chest

foreos

mildly annoying to see people quibbling over what vesper can and can’t do based on her being nosferatu when there’s no evidence she is

mikes-hard-official

The reverend does describe Mitch and Vesper collectively as "the two most shameful examples of my clan" but honestly I do think he's wrong

My personal theory is that one half of each duo from the trailer is either mistaken or lying about what clan they were embraced into, and it's going to become A Thing as the season goes on

#why the reverend would call her part of his clan is because she was brought to the camarilla by Mitch who is a noe #and thus in absence of her actual clan they just kind of treat her as a nos until it causes problems #fully theres no mention of penalty or even Aaron acting like anything's weird about her when they're in the library #other than the like 'hey why the fuck are you here. who are you. are you actively getting sex trafficed by these men'

missstrogen

So did rin penrose transition

mikes-hard-official

I'm pretty sure they transitioned before making their first model, and the masc appearance was to specifically differentiate their nonbinary identity from the girls only agency around them rather than indicating boyness

So yes! They left a societal niche forcing them to portray themselves as more masculine than they were and embraced femininity within their identity! Transition win

#idk what they were assigned at birth before coming out as nonbinary #and if I'm being honest I don't think it matters #this redebut is a form of transfeminine transition and they are indeed experiencing transmisogyny towards their new model already

taliabhattwrites

"Estro Junkies" is (partly) a heartwarming story of a small-town queer boy* hopelessly falling in love with a desi man* in an arranged marriage.

... It starts off rough.

*CONDITIONS APPLY. Author is not responsible for any shifts in identity and experience due to queer self-discovery.

taliabhattwrites

Four roommates enroll in a competition for men, to grow the biggest breasts. Surely they're not all secretly trans women... Right? Preorder now on Amazon, Itch, or other storefronts!

#boss makes a dollar I make a dime. thats why I reread Ranked Competitive Breast Growth in prep for the estro junkies release on company time

kitchen1

I wish I took a better pic of this writing in a bar bathroom in toronto bc I think of it so often. Be So Completely Yourself That No One Is Attracted To You Or Wants To Employ You

#I'm growing out my hair and one of the guys at my work keeps asking my pronouns because of it (he might think I'm tma and closeted tbh)#and I swear I'd say it/it's if it wouldn't get me fired #maybe I'll get another pin for my denim jacket

tankie-transfeminist

daily reminder that Black trans women are the backbone of transfeminism, and you need to go out of your way to follow them. If the only transfeminists you follow are white you're just racist.

#black transfeminists get banned at disproportionate rates which I'm sure means nothing about this hate campaign #but you need to follow them into the depths anyway. if you won't minorly inconvenience yourself to listen to marginalized people #how do you ever expect to fight for change in a meaningful way

mikes-hard-official

I'd just like to point out to everyone that with Zaeth and Bat Child on the stolen motorcycle, and Darkness Man being trash, that leaves Madelaine alone in the Volkswagen with HJ and Lavonte. And you know those motherfuckers don't shut up for shit, the homoerotic businessman rambling never stops and she is in third wheel hell

mikes-hard-official

Also Lavonte tells Zaeth not to get caught by the cops when he goes off on the stolen motorcycle, and he doesn't succeed but he does burn his last willpower on trying to avoid the cops.

#bratboy needs an authority figure to rebel against but ultimately obey with everything he's got

#city council of darkness #la contesse madelaine d'artois #hj wingstreet #lavonte worthy #save her lmao #I'm imagining her in the middle of the backseat so she can see both of them #but instead of flirting like she was expecting to she's just watching in horror as these two talk to each other like they're alone #they're coked out and insane. hj is still bleeding from the ranch. they're so in sync they've mind melded

not-a-smartass-just-a-nerd

ship name for Bat Child and Madelaine?

Contesspers

Contessbat

Madebat

GhostNoble (or NobleGhost)

Vespelaine

other? (comment/tag/reblog below)

Voting ended onApr 25

I might be late on this, but help me out here and also leave suggestions if you think there's one I don't have here that's getting popular or is very promising

mikes-hard-official

I feel like it's gotta be BatContesse? Replacing one descriptor noun with the other yknow

autistichalsin

Gimmick blog starts

Gimmick blog amasses a large following

Trans man asks if they are welcome on this blog

Gimmick blog says vile hateful garbage about transmascs

Trans men get sad and open a new similar gimmick blog to offer themselves healing and a sense of community in the face of this exclusion

Trans men get accused of appropriating transfemme culture/being sensitive whiny bitches/TMEs/birthday boys and told they don't need their own special space

New gimmick blog gets harassed into turning off asks or outright deactivating by the original gimmick blog's followers

Fans of the original blog celebrate while also lamenting that ISFF's blog being terminated for violating Tumblr's anti-harassment policy was the exact same as literal lynching so this is just revenge for that

Trans men find a new gimmick blog to follow

Trans man asks if the gimmick blog is a safe space for trans men and gets a reply that they will never be welcome on that gimmick blog

yay-bunnies-zone

(chuckling warmly) i did do that

mikes-hard-official

Fun fact you can be welcome anywhere if you just shut the fuck up. I note that nobody's sending haiku bot annoying asks about "are men allowed on your blog???". The ninja turtles guy doesn't have to make up a variation on "men are so totally valid" that fits the beat.

Putting in my vote for what Madelaine's deal is before we're told

I think she's an actual French woman who was turned a long, long time ago. And I think she has not been back to France since she turned, out of a deep fear that she will return home and find it just as dull and drab as she has found everything since she turned. Her accent has become a parody of itself, she doesn't quite remember her native tongue, but she can't go home because she hasn't had a home there since the night she died

That's okay though. She can make her own home, right here in Purpee, Oregon. Doesn't that sound fun Madeleine?

#I also think this is why she uses the spelling that translates to the italian contessa rather than comtesse which is the real french title #she doesn't remember which titles were foreign and which were for her home. she's as good as foreign herself for how long she's been gone #la contesse madeleine d’artois #la contesse madelaine d'artois #city council of darkness #dimension 20

I know that I can't boycott every single grocery store in my zip code and no ethical consumption under capitalism does actually apply here but damn if it doesn't cause me psychic damage to pass fucking butterbeer popcorn in the aisle while shopping. The fact that it's still profitable for companies to carry her merch pains me

Murderhelion except ART is represented by wikiloop galaxy and MB is represented by a factorio screenshot

#yknow that one post about late game factorio where you stop viewing the player character as 'you' and instead view the factory as 'you'#the murderbot diaries #tmbd #murderbot #murderhelion #asshole research transport

You wanna know one thing I despise?

I have my phone set to motion reduce to save battery, and in deference to that tumblr has everything set to never autoplay video or gifs, and doesn't allow me to turn back on autoplay until motion reduce is off. That part is good and fine and dandy.

So why the everloving FUCK are ADVERTISEMENTS allowed to autoplay on MY feed, draining MY battery, to advertise FUCKING GAMBLING to me

Literally feels like I should be entitled to financial compensation and I'm not kidding

tpwrtrmnky

This is the "problem" tumblr staff wants to find a fix for. Not the harassment culture. This.

tpwrtrmnky

Since timestamps are off by default and information from staff doesn't circulate all that well: This is about the way they talked about "crediting" reblogs as a problem they still want to "solve" after reverting the change.

mikes-hard-official

There will be a place for discussion on how prompts get all the notes for their promptfills and people can't really tell how many notes their particular reblog branch has. But like after we stop intentionally allowing people to block dodge and continue harassing their victims maybe?

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