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funfactory

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tlirsgender

What I don't think white people realize is that when you're not white you've been taking -1hp from poison damage your whole life & probably didn't even realize it until you were an adult. On like an interpersonal level, people who happen to be white just hate you for no discernible reason. And you start believing them cause you think like surely ALL OF THEM for as long as you can remember can't be wrong, right? So I'm the problem? I was born with something fundamentally wrong with me? & then you're like Wait. The racism.

tlirsgender

Of course there's the more overt shit that happens and you go "ah, the racism" but there's also a lot more of just... not being treated the same as them. The people who self identify as racist and will tell you Blargh! I'm Racist! Are relatively few and far between compared to the ever looming omnipresent subconscious biases of white people who think that they're nice

tlirsgender

And my "I was born with something fundamentally wrong with me" is also very much an Autism Thing. But I need you to understand that I still get this feeling of alienation from white autistic people. In a room full of people who act exactly like me, I'm still Different Than Them, and they still think I'm Worse for some inexplicable reason. Because they don't think they're racist, they just think I'm a bitch. There's a level of psychological torture here that, like... I want to say we should talk about more, but poc talk about this a lot, actually, and I just didn't think it would happen to Me :3 until the realization hit

jayalaw

So you know why I judge POC that are white supremacists or ally with them? And why I call them masochistic category traitors?

*points upward*

This shit is why.

alexselbyart

We Are Here pt 1/?

kingtwicesex-deactivated2025072

Jennie allow us to do something

technofeudalism

swarnpert

she asked me if i cain kill her with a rock i said i might be abel to

venompinks

BLACKPINK ⟡ 뛰어(JUMP) MV

cipheramnesia

I wish every trans girl who is dysphoric about her height could just give me all those extra inches.

cipheramnesia

OF HEIGHT

EXTRA INCHES OF HEIGHT

damazcuz

"What were you doing at the devils sacrament" jarking my whole thing off. Next quiestuon.

spicychickenfingerings-deactiva

normal-horoscopes

Everyone shut up and look at this carving of a whale from the 1200-600 CE Chumash culture

theslowesthnery

ohhhhhh my godddddd

velvetvexations

Good morning. Random take for today: there should be more autoimmune disease awareness within the trans community.

Not for the sake of fearmongering obvi but like. I developed an autoimmune after abruptly stopping T (causing my E levels to spike, which some autoimmunes apparently love) and it’s kinda striking how many trans women I’ve seen around community spaces for those with the same disease. There are trans men & enbys around too but the only actual studies I could find on my disease & transgender patients were pertaining to trans women and idk it’s just interesting, one of the “solutions” to lessening symptoms was downright mortifying and I just. Really wish it weren’t widely considered a TERF dogwhistle to talk about having a disease that reacts to hormones 😭 because disabled trans people desperately need to be uplifted. Like talking about our issues is the only way to bring attention to them and if we can do that maybe someone will finally figure out a treatment that helps sick trans people without forcibly detransitioning them!! Why the fuck should we care about the opinions of TERFs when trans people are dying! But every trans person w this disease that I’ve spoken to personally tends to keep to themselves about it for fear of handing ammo to transmisogynist pieces of shit who could turn around and fire it off at young trans women to keep them from transitioning. And I can’t say I really blame them, I do the same. We’re all so defeated because most of us were either forced to detransition (an attempt to put the disease into remission) or carry on as normal (only to get sicker because nobody cares to find a solution beyond detransition) & expected never to complain or actually be ill. The invisibility & general lack of research/treatment options is made even worse since this specific illness is more common in black and/or indigenous populations so in turn it’s black + ndn trans people suffering for it, namely black trans women from the studies I’ve seen.

I just wish that we weren’t made to feel like skeletons in the closet of the trans community. And it feels exceptionally shitty to see posts like “I hope XYZ gender trans people get cancer and die” because that is the reality for some of us. More than people who haven’t been there probably assume. And those kinds of posts don’t hurt anybody like they do us.

I don't know anything about this so I'm putting it in #I just work here. Corrections are welcome.

velvetvexations

vergess

So the role of estrogen and testosterone on the immune system are fairly well understood compared to, say, 40 years ago, mostly as a result of extensive studies on and around AIDS.

I'm about to severely, severely over simplify some stuff here.

In a very loose sense, high estrogen hormone levels make you more prone to autoimmune diseases but less susceptible to external infections, and high testosterone levels do the inverse.

So estrogen users who are genetically predisposed to autoimmune diseases will see those symptoms start popping up during HRT, but an overall reduction in the severity of non-chronic symptoms from acute infections.

Likewise, testosterone users who previously had mild to moderate symptoms from infectious diseases like the flu will tend to see more severe symptoms, but their chronic autoimmune symptoms should lessen in severity too.

This is mirrored in the cisgender population, as well. Ask any cishetero woman about what the cishetero men in her life are like when they're sick, and watch in bewildered awe as she starts going the fuck off about how men are whiny babies who can't keep doing housework when they have a cold. Or, more compellingly, check out the handful of studies on the subject, some of which are summarized in plain language here for convenience.

This trend also contributes to why western medicine is So Fucking Good at dealing with acute injury and illness, and so fucking bad at dealing with chronic illness. Acute illness hits cis men harder and more lethally, whereas chronic illness tends to be more common in cis women.

So anyway, I don't know it any of that information was helpful, but I hope it clarified at least a little.

canadianwheatpirates

Worth noting that from the few studies we have, transmascs seem to have higher rates of endometriosis than cis women (~25% compared to an average of 10%). It isn't clear whether this is a sampling fluke, since some studies of cis women show that rate, or whether there's something else going on. Doesn't help that the exact cause of endometriosis still isn't known, either.

addamatic

One of the reasons I take T is to suppress my estrogen levels because it dramatically reduces the symptoms of MCAS and several other chronic diseases I have. Absolutely nothing has been as effective as suppressing my estrogen. The research my doctor was doing has now had its funding cut.