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Ugh, here I go making this post for the millionth time but
I’m a Brazilian trans woman, and I need money to leave my house before my transphobic extended family comes for the christmas. So, I’m offering some tarot readings! Prices and details under the read more below. If you don’t want a reading but still want to donate, my paypal is [email protected]. Please ignore my deadname. Also, please reblog if you can’t donate, that would be a lot of help <3
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Wednesday, November 14th - Hi everyone, I’m Gemma and I’m so sorry to ask this again so soon from my previous post but, is anyone able to send me a few £’s so I can eat this month and December?
As many of you may already know, I have been struggling horribly these past few months to make ends meet and pay off my bills due to my welfare benefits (Universal Credit and Housing Benefit) having been revoked because of my mental illnesses. And despite my numerous job applications, I haven’t been successful and without any government help, I’ve been struggling to get by and bills are constantly popping up, leaving me further in debt.
I am not due to receive a partial benefit payment of £185 until November 25th, all of which will most likely go towards my rent, leaving me with nothing for bills and food and I know that I have asked this a lot these past few months and all the help I have previously received has literally helped me from spiraling into more debt and helped me to eat and stay warm so far and I absolutely hate to ask for more help but I have no one else to turn to. I’m literally freezing, hungry and drowning in debt at the moment because of my sanctions and since this situation has been ongoing for so long, government aid/food banks are unable to offer me any more assistance.
If anyone could spare any amount to help me, even if it’s just £1/$1/€1, it would literally save my life and, sharing definitely helps just as much as donations. Nobody has to donate if they can’t or don’t want to, I know we’re all struggling. Thank you for your help 💖
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{no pronouns, keep it simple!} my name is Hannibal, this is a damned old pic of me, and i’m a transmasc + nonbinary biracial Jew. i’m a pretty rad lil creature, i like to think. and now, my biggest dream has finally come true:
I GOT MY TOP SURGERY DATE– DECEMBER 19!!!
from my acting job and freelancing online, i’ve managed to save up most of what i need for the bill. a lovely, elderly relative had given me the full amount for Yule last year– but i had to spend all of it on severe medical issues and therapy. i’m mentally ill and physically disabled, so i can only work this part-time currently (it’s wearing me ragged and then some) and all of my wages have gone into this. i’m so so so so close to where i need to be.
i need to make another $1,500 by November 25!!!
i’m accepting donations at paypal.me/HannibalGrimm (please ignore my old auxiliary name, it’s about to be changed) but i’m also doing commissions of all sorts– writing (fanfics, poetry, school papers if you’re in a pinch, etc), doing divination and other psychic stuff (click here for more info), various NSFW things (sorry not sorry), and offering just about ANYTHING else i can think of. pretty please hit me up for details if you’re interested in any of that or have something in mind (within reason) that i could do for you!!!
***please don’t just ‘like’ this post– reblogs are extremely necessary. i need as many people as possible to see this!!!!***
Some more positivity for y’all trans folks!!
I am ashamed to be trans
There’s nothing to be ashamed of, being trans is a beautiful thing.
I know it’s hard to accept yourself for it, but being trans and loving yourself unconditionally and without fail is the most important thing you can do for yourself.
OUR COMMUNE NEEDS HELP!!!
Don’t let the silly photo trick you! Our LGBT+ commune Majakka, or Lighthouse in English, is in concrete need for help pretty much immediately. Because of abusive members of the community leaving and taking a large chunk of money with them, we’re in a need to get that missing part of the rent from somewhere. If we don’t succeed in making this money up by the start of next month, we could be evicted two weeks in October. This would lead to nearly ten vulnerable queer and trans teens and adults, children, and mentally ill people becoming homeless.
We have tried everything these last few months, individually going from getting a job, going to school, and frantically looking for new tenants. But it looks like miracles aren’t going to happen and we’ll be missing at least 600€, which would be devastating as it would currently give our landlord cause to evict us.
If you care about LGBT+ and mentally ill people trying to survive together in communities, please help us keep our home and our future! We all need this place in order to continue living a life that’s worth living. There are no words for how grateful we are for every single cent that any of you can share, and for every bit of attention people can give by sharing this post.
Thank you for your time, Best regards, Everybody from Majakka
The paypal to donate to can be found here: https://www.paypal.me/fenastrand and if you have any questions, you can just send me a message here and I’ll respond.
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pakilumang flag!! the term was coined by @niemis of @witchgays and im very thankful for it!! as a pakilumang bakla maraming salamat po ahihi
pakilumang (definition taken from witchgays):
pakilumang is a portmanteau of the tagalog words “pakiramdam” meaning “a feeling” and “lumang” meaning “old” which i think captures this pretty well.
i should also explicitly state that “queer” is NOT synonymous with pakilumang. there is no direct english equivalent of this and there will never be–and that is the entire point of the word.
using this label is rejecting the western gender binary that was enforced violently on our ancestors. using this label is acknowledging the pain that still lingers in your blood. it is a label to find recovery and solace in, it is a label to reconnect with your lost culture.
color meanings:
blue- the wisdom and strength it took for us to reject colonialist ideals and find community with one another
red- anger at having our culture torn from us
white- liberty and family
yellow- joy of having found freedom from colonialism and the west
TRANS WOMEN: HERE'S SOME SHIT YOUR DOCTOR WONT TELL YOU ABOUT HRT
1. Progesterone: not for everyone, but for many people it may increase sex drive and WILL make your boobs bigger. Also effects mood in ways that many find positive (but some find negative). Most doctors won’t prescribe this to you unless you ask. Most trans girls I know swear by it.
2. Injectible estrogen: is more effective than pill or patch form. Get on it if you can bear needles bc you will see more effects more quickly.
3. Estradiol Cypionate: There is currently a shortage of injectible estradiol valerate. There is no shortage of estradiol cypionate. Functionally they do the same shit.
4. Bicalutamide: This is an anti-androgen that has almost none of the side-effects of spironolactone or finasteride. The girls I know who are on it are evangelical about it.
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Are there HRT medications that don’t increase blood clot risk? I’m already at risk because of my blood pressure, and my doctor won’t prescribe HRT that increases clot risk while I’m on the medication - and I may never not be on the medication.
Absolutely.
The concerns surrounding venous thromboembolic events as a side-effect of hormone replacement therapy can mostly be traced back to one particular study known as the Women’s Health Initiative. This study was an enormous undertaking which, unfortunately, demonstrated significant adverse effects of the hormone therapies studied. As a result of this the use of hormone replacement therapy in postmenopausal cis women was dramatically reduced as the medical community began to question whether or not the therapy caused more harm than good.
Naturally, trans women have been suffering from this fall-out ever since.
What physicians seem to fail to recognize is that the study examined a very specific hormone regimen which was, arguably, outmoded at the time the study was conducted: It examined the use of conjugated equine estrogen (Premarin) with or without the use of medroxyprogesterone acetate. Neither of these drugs is regularly used for the treatment of transgender women.
The estrogen most commonly used to treat transgender women nowadays is 17β-estradiol either in pill form or in the form of a sticky patch that you apply to your skin. Esters of estrogen (e.g. estradiol valerate) are also sometimes used either in a pill form or as an intramuscular injection.
Transdermal estradiol patches are the gold standard when it comes to treating women who are at high risk of a venous thromboembolic event. It simply does not increase the risk of developing a venous thromboembolism. The only thing you should keep in mind is that patches are not always well tolerated because of the lifestyle changes required to keep them from falling off and the fact that they tend to irritate the skin.
Fortunately, oral 17β-estradiol appears to be safe, regardless of the increased risk. At least one large study has shown that the use of oral estradiol in trans women is not associated with venous thromboembolic events. An individual woman’s risk would need to be substantial in order to contraindicate the use of oral estradiol.
For those who have significant risk of venous thromboembolism because they have had a previous thromboembolic event, because they are paralyzed, or because of some other factor it is good to know the relative risk between oral and transdermal estrogen. The latest research indicates that the use of transdermal estrogen lowers your risk of a thromboembolism to 80% of what your risk would be using oral estrogens.
It’s difficult to find hard numbers regarding the relative risk of venous thromboembolic events with regards to hypertension. The best I could find after an hour or so of searching was this study regarding VTE in lung cancer patients. Hypertension increased the risk by a factor of 1.8.
However, to put that into perspective being of African descent increases your relative risk for deep vein thrombosis by a factor of 1.3 when compared to Europeans. Europeans are, themselves, at increased risk when compared to Asians and Pacific Islanders by a considerable margin: a four-fold increase.
I should point out that being ‘male’ is also a risk factor for developing a thromboembolism and hormones are likely to be a contributing factor. Also, menopause is another serious risk factor. Given this information it is likely that the use of transdermal estradiol will lower your risk of thromboembolic events significantly.
As far as the anti-androgen is concerned: The primary use for spironolactone for cisgender people is as an antihypertensive.
Even if the risk of thromboembolism was truly significant with modern hormone replacement therapy it wouldn’t justify what your doctor is doing to you. The fact is that mortality in the transgender community from suicide–caused in part due to the lack of access to hormone therapy–is substantial. The quality of life lost when a trans woman is denied hormone therapy is substantial. The fact that your doctor does not appear to be taking this into consideration when they weigh the risk of thromboembolism against not receiving necessary medical care is deeply concerning.
I strongly recommend that you seek a doctor who is more sensitive to your medical needs as a transgender woman.
Edit: Fixed a minor, but embarrassing, error.
oh wow this is so helpful & good info
Everyone who cares about transfem people please reblog this
this was really fucking helpful
I know a lot of trans women dont have acess to information like this and its very helpful.
Here’s some stuff I could have used being told when I started HRT:
If you do HRT, you are seizing control of and reconfiguring an aspect of your own metabolism, which is fucking cool and amazing, but despite what medical literature and community knowledge exists, you must always be your own advocate in the process (even if you think you have good doctors). As someone who deals with hypervigilance, I’m not going to tell anyone to be more vigilant, but HRT has myriad and subtle impacts on your body and mind (duh). Some of these you probably want, some of these you probably don’t, but telling the difference can be more tricky than you think.
Really watch yourself for side effects. I don’t mean relatively rare side effects like liver damage or blood clots, but simpler stuff that’s much easier to dismiss as just being transient or bearable, like nausea or mood swings. Such side effects are likely to be be small and easy to deal with in the beginning, easily borne, but if they become more serious over time they can do so so slowly that you don’t realize your quality of life is being reduced, especially if you’re loving many of the effects of HRT at the same time. Don’t accept any side effects of your meds as unavoidable, or akin to a price you have to pay for HRT’s benefits. Just adjusting the dosage of your meds, the times you take them, how you take them, and what you take them with can have a huge impact, but doctors can leave out that this is a process of experimentation, and that finding the right combinations of meds and dosages can take time.
Evangelical is not a word I ever thought I’d use for myself, and I’ve only been on bicalutamide for a week, but wow. If you are using spiro and experience any nausea or stomach pain while on HRT, even if you think it has other causes, or if you’re someone like me who carries their anxiety or fear in their stomach, I’d highly suggest at least trialing bicalutamide in place of spiro, just to make sure you know what’s causing that pain and/or nausea. I took 300 mg/day of spiro for about a year, and was waking up in pain and nausea every day without connecting the dots. Now that I’ve switched anti-androgens and tapered off spiro, in just a week I have twice the appetite and almost no stomach pain. What pain I do have dimishes every morning. So far, bica has been literally life-changing for me.
But I only found out about bica from another trans woman, here on tumblr ( @social-justice-cleric ) . My doctor insists he mentioned it as an alternative, more than a year ago, but frankly he stood by as my stomach pain became worse and worse, and only switched me to bica when I did my own research and asked him to. Don’t underestimate the importance of community and its accumulated knowledge- make sure you find other trans people you can talk about your transition without fear of judgment, especially including talking about any and all biomedical components of it. This is especially important for trans women who tend to socially isolate ourselves in response to stress or uncertainty (aka, me).
And as someone who really wanted results from HRT as quickly as possible, it’s ok if you end up wanting to step back your dosages, or if a medication doesn’t work out. This should seem obvious, but it doesn’t make you less of a woman to slow down or even stop doing HRT. Additionally, don’t assume that the speed at which your appearance changes is necessarily correlated to the amount of meds you take- there is for everyone a threshold of dosage past which there is no benefit (and instead just increased risk). For instance, I just finished a two month trial of progesterone- maybe my breasts developed a little more than they otherwise would have, but mostly I just had slight mood swings that trended slightly more to the negatives than the positive, so I’m not going to keep taking the stuff. And if spiro was the only anti-androgen out there, I might have stopped taking one entirely rather than stay on it. But decisions like these are hard, and intensely personal- your doctor can’t, or at least shouldn’t, make them for you.
Ultimately, all the biomedical means of transitioning are for is getting the changes you want to your body and/or mind. And despite the legal-functionary and regulatory components of biomedical transistion, these means do not make you into a woman. Regardless of whether or not you apply these biomedical technologies to your own transition, you are a woman. Some of us trans women come to accept increased medical risks, or endure physical discomfort, in pursuit of the self and life we want. In this, we are hardly alone among women. And, as is the case for any patient heading into a doctor’s office, what medical experts tell us must always be judged against our own embodied expertise.
Biomedically transitioning shouldn’t be seen as a necessary stage of one’s gender transition- it should be an opportunity available to all of us, but not one we all must take, or need to take, to be happy. Since we live in such a cissexist and transphobic society, biomedically transitioning is for many of us a desperately needed means of survival. And at the same time, and in equal measure, it is also for many of us a source of incredible joy. Listen to your doctor, listen to the community, listen especially to your body and to your own heart, and see what works for you.
Also, as a trans woman who has a chronic liver disease, bicalutamide can be hepatotoxic (damaging to the liver) and so far Spiro is the safest antiandrogen if you are a trans woman or AMAB nb in a similar situation as me. However, bicalutimide has not been tested in hrt doses, which are much smaller than the doses bicalutimide was originally for. Feminization begins as low as 12.5mg and the doses tested were 150mg.
estradiol depot is good replacement for valerate as well. 2nding the injections over pills. you can get so much more estrogen into your system SAFELY when it doesn’t have to be processed by your liver (which is what pills have to do).
Hey! So we’re two good ol’ Jewish gay people who are disabled, penniless, and stuck in a filthy apartment complex with a roach problem. I’m on the left, my fiance @watsonarchetype is on the right.
A little under a year ago, my mother kicked us out of my family home. She left nothing of my recently deceased fathers’ money to me, despite knowing I would struggle. You may have seen us around before talking about this same situation; there’s a post from a few months ago where we’re asking for help with the same issue, but the longer these things are around, the slower things get.
Both of us are disabled and while I have been able to work a part-time retail job, it has mentally and physically taken a severe toll on me. Both of us are in constant pain of varying degrees; with my fiance’s declining mobility, the flight of stairs up to our apartment is becoming a serious problem.
I have Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome and cannot currently afford my medications, the cost of gas to get to and from doctor’s appointments, or even the cost of gas to get to work.
We have not been able to grocery shop in several months. We are required to choose between paying rent and eating food.
We can’t afford our rent if we plan on continuing to live. Our only chance is to move out, and we desperately need help to fund that.
The apartment complex has a systemic roach problem. The contracted pest control company has been unable to eradicate them because they live in the walls. There are sexual predators living very close to us who have threatened us more than once. Management is only sporadically available and has zero interest in the quality of life of their tenants. (More on the garbage apartment here.) We have no outside help and cannot seem to raise the money to get out of this place. The situation is becoming desperate.
If you can, please donate at:
paypal: paypal.me/alexandriarain cashapp: $runefire venmo: @niarkos
I also have poetry for purchase at payhip.com/raccoon and I take writing commissions here at @holmesarchetype.
Thank you so much for reading & sharing. We appreciate it beyond all words. Love & light. x
hey guys we’ve managed to pay rent this month but we’ve been left with almost nothing for stuff like food & gas. we’re not sure how we’re going to recover from the combined cost of rent + medical bills this month. please please help if you can
thank you so much for enjoying our content & sticking by us through this difficult time. we adore you. <3 stay safe and please share or donate if you can!
The language that nonbinary people use for ourselves is intensely personal.
Some of us may choose to retain connections to binary language, such as pronouns and terminology, while others might forego their use entirely. The nonbinary experience is as innumerably variable as there are nonbinary people out there, and the idea that there is no one right way to be nonbinary rings nothing but true.
Help Vynne Keep their Family off the street
This is an update to the previous post titled Critical Emergency Hello, I am Vynne, the resident 23 year old Non Binary fuckup, and things still aren’t great. On the plus side, my mother’s help has improved enough to help work at one of the local theatres. On the minus side, this work is hardly consistent and reliable. Couple that with my minimum wage job and living expenses and you get a dicey situation. So, I am trying to supplement the income with things like writing commissions and tarot readings. I have also thought about going back to game streaming when I’m not at work as I have the means to do so. Writing Commissions: 1 cent per word, fiction, can research the source material beforehand. You want something written about your D&D character hiding out in Neverwinter? You got it! Want a self-indulgent story with your Nerevarine from Morrowind that you’ve never quite finished with? Sure! If I don’t know it, I’ll immerse myself in it. It will just take some time. Tarot Readings: I can do 3 card past-present-future spreads for $3 a piece and I can do 10 card Celtic Cross readings for $15. Spreads of similar size follow the same price points, anything in between can easily be negotiated. These are done via discord, message me on Tumblr for more details. The deck I practice with is the old Homestuck Tarot deck. Game Streaming: My Twitch is HERE! I love video games! I don’t have that many, but I’d love to stream and entertain with what I have! There’s a tip link on that page! Don’t forget to follow, I like the attention. Donations: Donations are always an option and very much beloved. Because I didn’t make the goal from the last post, I am still fairly behind. I feel cumbersome in asking for help (which is why I have commissions and the like up), but I will not turn it away. My cash.me page is HERE! This goes straight to my card and is the fastest method of payement. My ko-fi is HERE! This is connected to my PayPal which uses my legal name. I don’t like that name. Use whatever is comfortable to you, and let me know if you need some cards read or some stories written. I love you all, take care. Vynne
the bills are coming up soon, so i need this circulated a bit more. those that have helped already, I can’t thank you enough! if you’ve donated any and want a reading, message me and I can coordinate something. if you want to purchase a reading, message me on here and we can schedule it! love you all~
so i need to make sure the $325 rent is at *least* taken care of by next wednesday and I only have enough to try and keep the electricity from being turned off (and the fee for turning that back on is too steep). Please spread this like wildfire, i’m running out of time
there’s still not much progress going on and time keeps passing me by. i am terrified. please help how you can
wow somehow the post absolutely ballooned! i’m floored. shocked even! the support is delightful. it’s wednesday and i’ve only $30 of the $325 to show for it. i want to be hopeful. good vibes all around. don’t forget that if you want a reading that you just gotta message me! thank you all. love, vynne
"My mother’s reaction was everything I could have hoped for—she was happy for me, and although she didn’t entirely understand what being non-binary meant, she was open to learning. The rest of my family has opened their arms with acceptance and the desire to learn, too. And thanks to colonialism, they do have to learn."
This can be a tough read for those who struggle with gender identity and disordered eating, but it’s also so lovely to see someone flourish.
Remember to reach out for help if you need it. We’ve collected a list of resources that may help. Take care of yourselves, Tumblr.
I hate having to do this but could you guys please check this out and share or donate if you can? I don’t expect anyone to do anything they aren’t comfy with but i’d appreciate it. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1p0SH5SnsO0d-K7gHwOFfIVCXEFI7SWMIT5gYDCbgEMI/edit?usp=sharing
UPDATE: Things are still pretty bad and seemingly are getting worse everyday. Since I have a lot of freetime now, I can do simple sketches/headshots if you wanna donate for one or two of those. I’m not the best at art but i can try. Just put what you’d like in the note bit and your username and i can post it here and @ you. Nothing NSFW please.
UPDATE V2: Still getting pretty bad, But I really appreciate any reblogs even if you can’t help. Thank you guys so much.
Update V3: Things have stopped getting worse for the time being but i have only a month or two before I need to move and I can’t really do that without money.
UPDATE V4: I’ve run out of Testosterone and Don’t really have much time to get what I need for it. I’m still doing 5$ drawings if anyone is interested! The same rules above apply.
UPDATE V5: My parents have now sold my car because they were the ones paying the insurance on it due to me losing my job, and i’ve been denied unemployment. Anything helps, even reblogs
L-XL dress giveaway for trans women/girls
as i slowly come into my butch and nonbinary identity, i feel more and more comfortable in my own skin, and less and less comfortable in dresses. i want to give back to the trans community that i have joined this past year as i came out as nonbinary. dresses can be expensive and it can be hard to get a new wardrobe that makes you comfortable after realizing you’re trans, especially on a budget.
these are first-come-first-serve, no more than 2 per person, and you have to be comfortable giving out a mailing address so i know where to send them. no reblogs/likes necessary, just send an ask (or an IM if ur a mutual)
dresses & details of each one under the readmore!! there are 11 to start, i will remove them as they get claimed and edit this post appropriately once they are all gone. all dresses are either a women’s L or women’s XL.
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i’m going to be awful but i’m broke as fuck cause of rent
help me eat food and survive?
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