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@teethofbrass
My deepest darkest fantasy is that I collapse on the street and I am rushed to the hospital. They perform a bunch of tests and find out I am severely deficient in some kind of vitamin. Then I start taking the vitamin and I become the happiest cleverest person alive because all my problems were caused by this one deficiency
Moreover, everyone gathers around to be tremulously compassionate and discreetly admiring: all this time, you lacked the Vitamin? And yet you persevered?
Too be honest, probably the four most neglected topics in leftist spaces as a whole is landback/indigenous rights, nonwhite rights and experiences (black communist/anarchist movements etc.), feminism (especially radicalized militant feminism), and disability accessibility/experiences (both physical and mental(like cluster B disorders especially). Not in that order btw, I believe all 4 of those are interconnected.
My one tip for people getting into leftist spaces, no matter which one it is, is to learn about the most neglected topics especially and to listen to people apart of the above groups. It is going to frustrate the shit out of you and you're going to learn a lot of the leftists around you hold onto the Patriarchy/White Supremacy etc. But you are going to empower both yourself and those around you for the better by educating yourself.
This is the worst political advice ever.
'Focus on the most niche causes and the most unworkable criticism possible'.
If your politics stem from, "in a perfect world, disabled people wouldn't have to exist to suffer their disability!" you are just a eugenicist.
So often, people seem to forget that eugenics isn't "being mean," so when eugenics are framed as kindness, compassion, empathy, and as a service done unto the people they are helping (see: eradicating), it isn't seen as eugenics - it's seen as a kindness. In what way would disabled people "not exist" in society if it were "made perfect"? In what way would we be deemed not to be "suffering a life of disability," and how is it measured?
The "kind" eugenicist is still operating with the same tools that the "dyed-in-the-wool" eugenicist uses. The kind eugenicist relies on people taking what they say in good faith, that they actually want to help the people they seek to eliminate.
The above post is a good example of something that's irritated me for a while is the use of 'eugenics' as a smear, a thought-terminating cliché. Some argument is chained together leading to the word and therefore we are to assume the thing in contention must automatically be *bad*.
The issue is, many sensible and laudable preventative medical practices are eugenics by this token.
We encourage expectant mothers to begin taking folic acid before they've even conceived in order to prevent neutral tube defects such as spina bifida. In a sense, by doing this we are preventing a disabled person being born, since NTDs can lead to difficulties with mobility all the way to being unable to walk.
When prescribing antibiotics to children, we carefully monitor the doses of those antibiotics that are known to be ototoxic, that can lead to deafness as a side effect. If the child is an infant, a few months old and therefore hadn't developed any significant speech and language capacity yet, why bother? Since much deafness is acquired or manifests following birth, aren't we preventing a deaf person from existing.
The issue seems to be that many advocates of extremist social model accounts of disability haven't really considered the sheer scope of what can be called eugenics and why that actually makes those practices bad. It's a reactive and kneejerk attitude.
Another area where very-online 'social model advocates' haven't really thought deeply is prenatal Down Syndrome screening. To keep it brief, Down Syndrome leaves an individual with many congenial health issues that guarantee a lower quality of life and shorter life expectancy. A parent shouldn't be forced to bear a child that they will likely outlive, whether by state policy or by the peer pressure of 'social justice' activism.
I feel one of the fundamental issues is an essentialism of disability. A deaf person is a kind of person, Down Syndrome defines a kind of person, paraplegia is a state of humanity. It isn't really considered that these are, with improving knowledge and techniques, actually mutable states or else conditions that can be dealt with via preventative medical therapy. (There's also a sinister undercurrent to insisting that healthy individuals continue to reproduce Down Syndrome since the condition actually impairs fertility anyway, like a breeding programme).
In short, consider that the term eugenics can apply to so many uncontroversial practices we do to ensure the healthy physical development of children.
I'm back in "reading scholarly articles by people advocating for major policy and education program change" mode and, subsequently, back in "disgusted by the amount of mask-off shit people just straight up say that you get called a conspiracy theorist for repeating to people who don't read this garbage even though these fuckers publish their insanity" mode. Presumably, these people expect that no one outside of their circles reads their stuff, so they can put it in ink. Although I guess it also helps that they use a lot of deceptive language and contradictions to try and snag people who aren't thinking too hard about what they read.
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization has a book available for free digital download in which they argue for some pretty insane shit (claiming to support academic freedom while also mentioning they want certain research subjects suppressed, wanting more politicized disciplines to have equal input to things like chemistry and biology in medical research, and new ranking for schools based on how well they comply with this guideline rather than the quality of their research or how good they are at teaching.) I tried telling someone about it IRL and they told me that whoever I heard about it from must have been lying. When I told them I was specifically citing UNESCO's official publication on their website, this person concluded that the only logical explanation was that the UN was hacked and someone wrote and posted a 100 page hoax paper for nebulous false flag reasons, and the UN has been unable to take the fake paper down and unwilling to release a statement saying it's fake for a year now.
But. like, in defense of the people who haven't read this stuff and also don't believe it when you talk about it, I've checked four different times to make sure that the author of Drag Pedagogy is an actual person affiliated with Drag Queen Story Hour events and not some intern Ted Cruz paid to write a false flag article. Sometimes shit gets so mask-off that I struggle to believe my own eyes.
Finding and Losing Identity Politics, Part 1
Your fears that you don't have a body that will transition "well" are, sure, understandable, but there isn't truly such thing as a body that's unworthy of transition. Perhaps your changing body won't suit everybody's taste, but would you rather live for yourself or for the whims of random people who don't care about your happiness as long as they're attracted to what they see?
Transition is for anybody who wants it. It's okay to be fearful. It's okay to be uncertain. But it isn't the end of the world. You are in control, and if you choose to transition to any capacity, it should be at your behest. You and your body are worthy of transition. I hope you are able to seize transition and do what you truly want for yourself.
If I had a post-pubescent body that would allow me to pass for female easily I'd probably be years into full transition, possibly even stealth. However, I delayed for years because that wasn't the case and I'd probably need to do a lot of stuff about the appearance of my face in order to pass.
The delay of several years and reaching the end of my twenties combined seemed to give my dysphoria a chance to settle. Nowadays, I'm not on anything and I'm borderline comfortable living as a gender nonconforming man. I'd encourage people to reflect on whether they really need to rush their transition and also to take seriously the idea of regret following appearance-altering treatments like laser hair removal. I'd strongly encourage some real counselling or therapy if you suffer from body image issues, distorted self-perceptions or are on the autistic spectrum (all three applied to my case).
So, in my case, passing might have made the difference between being a trans woman or not.
is this the guy you want making medical decisions for your kid?
i know i have my defenses. let's get together.
Read @turbinepaints bio, imagine how they look and smell irl and then behold them making fun of someone else's appearance.
It's been a few years since I've posted on here and the discourse is so low energy yet even worse somehow. Is everyone just going through the motions?
I'm uncertain of where to start though a few topics com to mind: detransition and the pressure to rush into medical interventions, the dubious ethical arguments of the crip and fatlib movements and the connection of the old social justice activist praxis and milieu to anxiety and cognitive behavioural therapy...
May also try a little bit of careful autobiographical writing.
