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trans children deserve to go through the correct puberty at the same time as their peers

there needs to be a third option . going through a puberty that causes distress or staying in an underdeveloped body for years until its decided youre allowed to make decisions over your own body is not a good choice !

selfpoweredoxygenmachine

informed consent + bodily autonomy for children is a really really important goal in healthcare and that includes trans healthcare . trans kids deserve to decide for themselves the steps they want to take + have access to the necessary information to help them make that decision . why is this an insane opinion to have even within the trans community

lensdeer

I made a little web app to generate xkcd 2501 edits right from your browser

#xkcd

guileless-beast

the solution to shipping non repulsed aspec characters is literally just keeping them aspec in a relationship. and i dont mean treating them the same as any other character in a relationship. yes, aces can have sex with other people, but they probably won’t enjoy it the same way an allo would. give them other reasons to like it. maybe they like the expression on their partner’s face. maybe they like making others feel good. maybe they have specific hangups about it- they can have sex with someone but only if their partner can’t see them. they can have sex with someone so long as it’s really romantic, or soft, or rough, or silly, or with no strings attached, or anything else. maybe they’d rather not be touched at all and just want to watch.

yes, aros can be in a romantic relationship with someone. but they won’t feel the same way as their partner does about it (or if they do, it’s gonna take a while. ex: greyros, demiros). give them more complex feelings about it: maybe they feel completely platonic love for their partner, but deep enough for them to want to be in a romantic relationship with their partner. maybe they feel queerplatonic about their partner. maybe they wish they could feel romantic feelings for their partner (cupiro). maybe they like kissing for sexual reasons but not romantic ones. maybe they like cuddling but not kissing because it feels gross. maybe all they like are kisses that arent on the lips. maybe they only like kisses that are. maybe they like having sex with their partner. maybe they don’t. maybe they want an open relationship. maybe they only want to fuck their partner.

and these are just the parts of the a-spectrum that i’m on (asexual, aromantic). i didn’t put anything down for aplatonics because i’m admittedly undereducated on the aplatonic parts of our spectrum :( any aplatonics or microlabels that would like to reblog with some ideas for other aspec identities in relationships are extremely encouraged!! i love hearing from our community!!

(Also, just to be clear, please don’t ship repulsed aspec characters. Don’t put repulsed aros into a romantic relationship, don’t make repulsed aces have sex, don’t force repulsed apls into having a friend. That’s erasure, just like how shipping a lesbian with a man or a gay with a woman is erasing their queerness. Please remember we are a part of the queer community to be respected, too, and taking our rep from us doesn’t help anyone. Yes, even if it’s yaoi or yuri. Leave them alone.)

charlesoberonn

Heartwarming story: Little girl doesn’t have to do anything to fund her dad’s surgery because his expenses are covered by his country’s universal healthcare.

charlesoberonn

Human determination: Man bikes 18 miles to work every morning because he wants to and not because he can’t afford a car and would be fired if he’s late.

charlesoberonn

Spirit of Brotherhood: Neighbors host housewarming party for elderly resident who doesn’t need help in paying rent because his pension is more than enough.

hyperlexichypatia

SO INSPIRING: Local middle school students bake dozens of cupcakes because their home economics class is doing a baking unit. Their school is fully funded with everything they need.

blandandtasteless

This feels like calibrating my normal detector

Ok I think this might be funnier with context actually. This is a review for a strip club in Toronto.

depsidase

brainstemz

"gender i was assigned at birth" and "gender i was raised as" and "gender i want to be seen as" and "gender i am seen as" are all different things. sometimes none of them line up with eachother. some of them change multiple times throughout life.

brainstemz

This post has been reblogged so much, that perisex rebloggers have lost the point. This post is—very specifically—about the fact that intersex people can, and often are, assigned one gender at birth, raised as a different gender, and then forcibly treated as a different gender again after puberty. This post is about intersex experiences.

vintagegeekculture

1947

dat-soldier

kid had a great week

cultivating-wildflowers

happy 77 years to the best week of this kid's life

arretoskore

One of my favorite recurring gags in Leverage is how Hardison weaponizes the fear people have to actually be called out as racist/homophobic/transphobic and just uses it to its full advantage every time

shimmywhenyoucantbounce

HE DOES DO THIS AND I LOVE HIM FOR IT

Some favorites:

-Hardison (Black) infiltrates building as janitor in janitor gear, changes into a suit in the elevator, and leaves the building in a suit. Someone (not Black) who saw him in janitor mode tries to question him, saying, “hey, weren’t you the guy cleaning earlier?” at which point Hardison hits them with a “Oh, so we all look the same to you?” 🤨 and walks out the door while they’re spluttering about not being racist

-Hardison and Eliot (white) are at a hospital trying to get in to visit their mark (white). Eliot says he’s the mark’s brother; Hardison says he’s with Eliot. The receptionist tells him sorry, only visits from family. At this point, I thought Hardison was going to say he was adopted (which he is, incidentally, and so is Eliot—in Leverage Redemption we meet his adoptive father, who is Black), but Hardison went in a different direction. He put his hand on Eliot’s arm and said, “No—I’m with him,” and the flustered receptionist let in the supposed brother and his supposed partner.

-arguably my favorite, for personal reasons. Hardison steals an ID to gain access to a guarded door (I think they were anticipating the guard wouldn’t check ID as long as they scanned in okay?). The guard takes a look at it and the woman’s photo it bears and says, “This is you?” Hardison draws himself up and tells the guard that he is a proud, trans man, and the guard is caught out and lets him in.

Hardison uses this skill effectively and well, turns the tables with a glee, and goes to bat for groups we know him to be a part of and groups we don’t. I like to think that even if he is queer that he’d still defend someone else’s community in this way as readily as he does his own. He’s really great and I love him.

jewishpangolin

And this scene:

bisexualhunterbiden

I need to remember that 90% of the people discussing politics on here are basically operating at this level of historical literacy.

ghostblogging

it really is crazy that I have heard so little abt the events in India from communists on here. 300 million on strike! 300 million! by god!

ghostblogging

since this is such a big number I think it glances off your brain but to make it clear if all the strikers formed one nation it would be the fourth most populated nation on Earth. wow

what-even-is-thiss

Maybe I should make a fictional monarchy that always passes its secession to an opposite gendered child. Just to create new forms of court drama you understand.

what-even-is-thiss

Like the crown passes from father to daughter to son to daughter to son and so on.

Is there any irl society that would do this? No. Would it add an extra layer to who’s trying to kill which sibling and why? Yes.

what-even-is-thiss

What happens if there’s a nonbinary, intersex, or otherwise weirdly gendered child, you ask? Easy. Even more court drama.

tsscat

I don’t think people realize what keeping the internet running and producing most tech they use entails like. Physically, labor-wise, energy-wise.

tsscat

Purposefully included some older articles here so people can see how baked in this is:

Labor Conditions of Content Moderators (2021)

Inside AOL's "Cyber-Sweatshop" (1999)

Digital Labor and Imperialism (2016)

Amazon Mechanical Turk: The Digital Sweatshop (2012)

Gig Economy, Algorithmic Control, and Migrant Labor (2022)

The Rise of Cyber-Coolies (2003)

Ecological Impact of Computation and the Cloud (2022)

The Environmental Sustainability of Digital Content Consumption (2024)

Carbon Footprint of the Internet (2010)

I think a lot of times I see people talk about this stuff in relation to AI. It's right to talk about it, but I hate when people act like AI is the only tech that has these problems. What you see with AI now is a reflection of the broader tech and internet industry that has grown for the past 20-30 years.

tsscat

Listen, you can take away anything you want from this but just as a suggestion given a lot of responses I’ve seen here.

Conclusions from this which are not very productive: the Internet overall is bad and we should destroy it.

Conclusions that are perhaps more productive: Currently the Internet, which many lives depend on, takes up a lot of resources, has a climate impact, and runs on exploited labor. We need to find out how we can avoid this (it’s certainly possible), and work together to achieve this.