...But He Refused.

Man, he/him, 30, nurse for 5.5 years, Omnivore. Gay. I support human rights and do stuff. Wash your hands Don’t be an asshole Mostly 18+. Begone, TERFs! Intersectional feminist, trans rights are human rights, listen to women, hold men accountable, pro-bodily autonomy.

[cool-deltarune-fun-facts]

Deltarune Fun Fact:

Noelle will get stronger. This is a threat.

[sugarlover1225]

WEIRD ROUTE SUSELLE

Sprite!!!!

[yellbug]

modesty

[aspiderfrogjack]

“Don’t smile too much, you’ll get smile lines!”

But what if I WANT my face to show how much love and joy I see in the world? What if I WANT my face to reflect how I’ve lived and survived and throughout all of my pain, that I’m still here? That I still smile and find joy, despite it all?

My smile lines are as deep as the love I give to the world, my body is a testament to how I’ve lived and survived, and you cannot take either from me

[starblaster]

i have never met an unpsychotic person who knows what it actually means to “not encourage the delusion” …not a single one

[starblaster]

what “don’t encourage the delusion” means:

don’t argue with or challenge the delusion—attempting to disprove someone’s delusions is not helpful at all and will result in that person not trusting you

assure the delusional person that they are safe; be open and honest at all times

encourage them to verbalize their feelings and offer protection to prevent injury to themselves or, possibly, others

start building a trusting relationship with them rather than acting on a desire to control their symptoms

do not confirm or feed into the delusion by asking questions about it when the person is not experiencing a psychotic episode

what it does not mean:

insisting to a psychotic person experiencing psychosis that what they’re experiencing isn’t real

[gayskrillex]

I don’t mean to trivialize psychosis by making a weird comparison, but this guide also serves as a handy checklist for helping someone through a bad drug trip. In both cases your number one priority is to get the person through whatever they’re dealing with unharmed.

[starblaster]

i don’t think it’s trivializing at all, nor a weird comparison—as a psychotic person who has had psychotic episodes inadvertently triggered by drug use and/or worsened while trying to self-medicate with drugs, i think this is an important addition.

[an-indecisive-nerd]

This is also very similar to what you should do when people with Alzheimer’s have paranoia episodes

[mathew]

[so-much-for-subtlety]

[chopnuts]

SHE THINKS HER LAUGH IS A SONG SO SHE SINGS BACK

[stupid-twink-girl]

eurasian bullfinch :)

[hyssteria]

mcr x pride!! (f2u)

[oh-good]

Please reblog this picture of my beautiful son.

[uncahier]

[fuckyeahsapphics]

HAPPY PRIDE MONTH HONEYS!👩🏾‍❤️‍💋‍👩🏾🏳️‍🌈✨

[kayla-denker]

Hey, you, cis girl that's very (correctly) vocal about women being allowed to talk about their periods, do you include trans women in that?

I ask because every single time I've tried to talk about it to anyone that isn't a trans woman they get fucking angry. Which has caused me to have to just suffer in silence every single month. So I really relate to cis women when they talk about literally the exact same thing; being shamed by everyone around them their whole lives for talking about their periods, so they just suffer in silence every month as it negatively impacts their work and social lives. But I don't even feel like I can voice that I am literally dealing with the same exact thing because most of y'all react like you want to throw me in front of a bus for saying it, even those of you who act like your such big great transfem allies.

[kayla-denker]

I guess I'll take this opportunity to talk about trans women periods. The first thing any tme person thinks when they hear this is always "how can trans women have periods? They don't have uteruses!"

The answer is: the uterus isn't what causes your period, it is effected by your period. What causes your period and what causes trans women's periods is the same thing: the endocrine system.

HRT changes the sex of your endocrine system. Feminizing HRT makes it a female endocrine system, giving us a 28-day hormone cycle just like cis women. At the end of that cycle, the hypothalamus floods the body with prostaglandins. Those are what cause all but one of the period symptoms, because they make muscles inflame and contract. They are what make the uterus shed its lining, they are what cause intestinal cramps, they are what cause body aches, they are what cause headaches and migraines. The only period symptom not causes by the release of prostaglandins throughout the body is depression, and that is caused by your endocrine system simply not processing as much estrogen and from simply feeling like shit.

So, the only symptoms trans women don't get every 28 days is menstrual cramps, because yes we do not menstruate since we don't have uteruses. But migraines, depression, body aches, intestinal cramps, and the infamous "period shits" don't exactly add up to us having any better of a time. Except we have to pretend that we're fine and nothing is different because no one believes that we get periods, not even cis women.

"But you can't call it a period then because that refers to MENSTRUATION!" is another one I hear all the time. This is incorrect. You use the word "period" instead of just "menstruation" because it doesn't just refer to menstruation. It refers to a period at the end of the hormone cycle where we experience a host of symptoms. And not all cis women experience all of the symptoms that encompass the period. Not all cis women get migraines, or body aches, or have severe depression. If a cis woman gets a hysterectomy she doesn't menstruate either! In that instance she experiences an identical period to what trans women experience. Yet, I doubt you'd insist that cis women who've had hysterectomies don't have periods.

[kayla-denker]

Oh, another thing that I personally discovered after bottom surgery: vaginal odor changes for trans women during our periods too. I was not expecting that because I always thought it was just from menstruation. But nope, the ph levels of a trans woman's vagina are the same of as a cis woman's vagina, and it changes during our periods just the same.

[bi-kisses]

I do find these incredibly confident, condescending, yet entirely incorrect posts fascinating. It sounds so succinct and seems to make sense, yet any bit of research makes it fall apart.

During a period, the uterus is what releases the prostaglandins, first of all. So that kind of completely negates the scientific basis for your post. Secondly, post-hysterectomy cis women do not experience half the things posts like these insist occur for trans women. Third and most importantly, your endocrine system doesn't actually switch over to producing estrogen on its own. That's the whole point of anti androgens and, well, taking HRT at all. So how would your body have any kind of regulated cycle related to hormone production?

I want to dive into the weeds of menses a bit more for this post in particular trying to sound like it has a legitimate scientific basis for everything. You do not suddenly have a "female endocrine system" when you're on HRT. The endocrine system is a complicated assortment of moving parts, which, in cis women, is largely dependent on the ovaries and uterus. Do you know what a granulosa or a theca cell are? Do you understand that HRT doesn't implant those parts of anatomy into an otherwise male body? Do you have any clue how that "cycle" is regulated so that it fits between 25-38 days? Because it isn't a nebulous "endocrine system", it's a series of chain reactions where trans women are unfortunately missing many of the links in said chain. Have a read through of this article and count how many aspects do not apply to somebody without a uterus or ovaries. You will note that the follicle that develops on ovaries during this cycle secretes a lot of estrogen. Something HRT cannot replicate. You will see that the release of prostaglandins is triggered by a spike in LH, which is itself created by the follicle. It's not as simple as your body noticing that you have a lot more estrogen than testosterone and sending some other hormones to your abdomen; how would they travel there specifically and why would they stay concentrated in that area? These are questions you need to ask if you're going to make big claims about what effects those hormones are having on your body.

The truth of the matter is that some trans women get regular hormone injections, which cause a lot of estrogen and progesterone to enter their system all at once, giving PMS-like symptoms. That's a "period" in its own right. But the biological reality is that most trans women will NOT experience this "period" even after being on HRT for years, which is fine!! Trying to paint it as a genuine expectation for this pseudo-period to occur in every trans woman on E has real consequences.

DO NOT BRUSH OFF SEVERE ABDOMINAL PAIN OR ODD BODY ODOURS AS BEING PART OF YOUR HORMONAL CYCLE IF YOU DO NOT **HAVE** A HORMONAL CYCLE. You are not any less of a woman, trans or otherwise, for not having a period.

EDIT: This may not be common knowledge, but cis women who have hysterectomies rarely get their ovaries removed unless there's a specific medical reason to do so. This is because of how important ovaries are to their hormonal cycle. Trans women do not have ovaries and will therefore not have the same experiences as your average cis woman post hysterectomy.

[brightgoat]

[quakerjoe]

[mintsky420]

these miis are driving me nuts

[catchymemes]

MANIFESTING A GOOD JUNE MANIFESTING A GOOD JUNE MANIFESTING A GOOD JUNE MANIFESTING A GOOD JUNE MANIFESTING A GOOD JUNE MANIFESTING A GOOD JUNE MANIFESTING A GOOD JUNE MANIFESTING A GOOD JUNE MANIFESTING A GOOD JUNE MANIFESTING A GOOD JUNE MANIFESTING A GOOD JUNE MANIFESTING A GOOD JUNE

[catchymemes]

MANIFESTING A GOOD JUNE MANIFESTING A GOOD JUNE MANIFESTING A GOOD JUNE MANIFESTING A GOOD JUNE MANIFESTING A GOOD JUNE MANIFESTING A GOOD JUNE MANIFESTING A GOOD JUNE MANIFESTING A GOOD JUNE MANIFESTING A GOOD JUNE MANIFESTING A GOOD JUNE MANIFESTING A GOOD JUNE MANIFESTING A GOOD JUNE

[infestuous]

Wally Dion, Green Star Quilt, 2019 circuit boards, brass wire, copper tube

[chekhovs-raygun]

I SAW THIS IN THE PORTLAND ART MUSEUM! ITS HUGE!

it shimmers like no gemstones i've ever seen: green as malachite and emerald but shot through with opal, gold, copper. photographs can't do it justice because of how it shines, as well as the way the actual material elements have their own dimensions. you can lean in and study all the fine lines of the circuits or step back and admire how the rearranged whole forms new patterns. it's one of the most beautiful creations i've ever seen.

[sophsun1]

Malcolm in the Middle – 4.09: Grandma Sues