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recently when im tempted to say 'i'm gonna kill myself' i try to correct it into saying "im gonna walk into the river and become a trout" or some other form of that. this is my new thing
btw this has graduated into me just saying "the trout population will be affected" and then not elaborating
this post has genuinely helped me so i used it as inspiration for today’s hand lettering practice
i wish we were able to talk about women's rights without someone mentioning how much they do or don't want to have sex with them. i don't care if you're a lesbian Stop finding worth in women purely from their perceived attractiveness
"I think women should not be expected to shave for societal respect / to avoid discrimination" "yeah🤤 i love bush" ok well that's not what we're talking about is it.
i hate how many posts about trans women deserving respect always devolve into "I love girldick" or "trans rights but I don't want to date a trans person" because that's entirely unrelated to the topic at hand. you should not respond to feminism with "YESSS I loveeee you because I see you as nothing but a sex object" you people sound like other men I get stuck talking with that end up saying "free the nipple so I can see boobies in public" and thinking they're feminists. why can't we just respect women regardless of your attraction to them or not. why does it need to be brought up in every conversation regarding their rights
A cis women's right to comfort should not be more valued then a trans man's right to medical care.
A cis women's right to comfort should not be more valued then a trans man's right for safe housing.
A cis women's right to comfort should not be more valued then a trans man's acsess to SA recovery recourses.
A queer person's right to comfort should not be more valued then a trans man's right to take space in their community.
A queer person's right to comfort should not be more valued that a trans man's acsess to queer recourses.
A queer persons right to comfort should not be move valued than a trans man's right to hrt, srs, or medical transition.
I do not care if cis women and some other queer people are uncomfortable with "passing" trans men being at the gynecologist, at the planned parenthood, at the homeless shelter, at the SA survivor meeting, at the trans pride event, at the queer resource center, or with us just existing. Trans men's right to exist and to be treated like human beings should not be disrespected or disregarded becouse some of you think testosterone or facial hair or butchness or masculinity or phalloplasty somehow gives you cooties.
I recently participated in this trans heart health study and they urgently need more participants before their funding runs out this summer (in 2026) as they've had less than 10(!!!) so far (it's crazy).
If you're a trans person in the UK who's been on HRT for 2+ years and can reasonably get to Leicester (they reimbourse travel expenses and buy you lunch), consider participating!
You'd be doing a good thing for our community at large, get a heart check-up while you're at it, and if you do the MRI scan you even get to see a video of your heart beating, it's really cool!
The study is run by some lovely people who are trying to establish normal values for trans people's heart health cause apparently heart size varies by sex, and HRT changes it, so cardiologists currently straight up don't know what is normal for trans patients.
The study involves pedalling on an exercise bike and getting an MRI scan as the two main bits, but all parts are optional if you're not comfortable with any of them. (They're happy to accomodate for any access needs and can give you more detail when you email them.)
Naila, the researcher from the above study, is currently running a short, anonymous survey exploring what stops some transgender people from taking part in research studies.
It takes about 4 minutes to complete, and all responses are confidential!
Consider participating or sharing it! :)
Halfway!
Today is day 16, which is officially halfway through this year's big annual survey on identity words, pronouns, titles and family/relationship terms for people whose experience of their gender(s) or lack thereof defy or fall outside of the binary model of gender.
[ Take part here! ]
Usually at this point we'd be 80-90% of the way to the eventual total number of participants, because the responses come in very fast at the beginning and then slow down a lot after the first week, and continue to slow more gradually until the end. This year looks like this so far, with the red line being 2026:
[Those of you using screen readers may have an easier time on the original Google Sheets table of data here.]
So I would guess that we're heading for about 30,000 participants in total. This is pretty low compared to the last couple of years, so I got curious and added a few more years of data:
[Those of you using screen readers may have an easier time on the original Google Sheets table of data here.]
Yeah, it's low! The lowest since 2020. (The three lines below the 2026 lines are 2018, 2019 and 2020. All the more recent lines are way higher up.) And I think I've figured it out.
2020 is when SmartSurvey (the previous survey provider) changed their premium plan so that I would have to pay a lot more to be able to edit the "thank you" page that people see after they've submitted the form.
Before 2020, when I could edit the "thanks for taking part" page, that's where I put the "hey can you also share this survey?" social media links. So, in 2021 when SmartSurvey wouldn't let me edit it without paying extra, I put a page right after the consent checkboxes like, "before we get started, can you share the survey please?" I.e. I was asking people to share the survey right at the beginning, before they had entered any information.
I remember at the time being concerned that having the survey sharing links at the start of the survey would make people click away and I would lose participants, but it seems to have basically doubled participation for 2021 and onwards, presumably through extra sharing. Numbers got so high that it was a good idea to limit the survey to one month, even.
At the time it wasn't really possible to know for sure whether the huge jump in participation was down to the sharing page being at the start of the survey or just some other thing, like a critical mass of social media followers/mailing list subscribers. I left it there at the start because SmartSurvey didn't change that rule for several years. And this year I twitched to Trello, who do let you edit the "thank you" page, so since I was remaking the survey from scratch I figured I may as well put the sharing links at the end where people expect to see them.
Participation has been wayyyyy down. For the first few days I couldn't tell by looking at social media/emails/anon asks, because the volume is always too high to deal with and this year was no exception. But I was distracted by the aforementioned technical difficulties, and other life stuff. However, by the end of day 2 it was clear that participation was very low, and I just blamed myself for not having time to do as much promotion as usual.
A couple of days ago (survey day 14) I remembered about my suspicion several years back re: the sharing page being near the beginning causing the jump in participation. I put a "please share the survey" links page right after the consent checkboxes again just to see what happened, and I know we're in the final stretch now but participation does seem to have been bolstered. I feel like it's taking less promotional work from me to keep the numbers up.
Thus concludes my interesting discovery of the year! But while I've got your attention...
If you had to return your gender due to a manufacturing fault, please click here to participate in our annual gender language survey!
It closes on 13th August 2026. :)
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no outside force has access to ur thoughts like dude i pinky promise that you and only you have access to ur noggin's notes app you also do not attract good or bad events just by thinking good or bad things ESPECIALLY IF U SUFFER FROM INTRUSIVE THOUGHTS your head is a safe & secure place that only you have access to
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actually I think you should be normal about ordinary citizens of authoritarian countries and yes that applies even to that country you're thinking of right now
Free service with ads: Well, if I'm not paying for it they have to foot the bill somehow.
Paid service with no ads: Well, if they're not funding it with ad revenue, they need to charge us something.
Paid service with ads: Well that's bullshit.
"We used to be a paid service without ads, but now we're putting ads in it! If you want the ad-free version you have to pay more for preeeeemium": Fuck you fuck you fuck you
Free service with no ads: Okay so these guys are stealing my data
This post is so funny literally proving OOP’s point. Most of “transfeminist” Tumblr can’t handle how queer people described themselves in the 90’s either. Ntm that at least 50% of these are clearly transfems describing themselves, which it’s pretty fucking transmisogynistic to police the language they’re using. The only possible issue is the use of the h-word if said person wasn’t intersex but it’s the 90’s. All these people sound cool as fuck and would probably call OP a cop
Once you start noticing the erasure and exclusion of trans mascs in everything from media to academics you can never stop noticing it
Back when I was in university we were asked to do a brief research exercise on a health condition impacting a community. Can't remember what I wanted to look at now, but it was something to do with the trans community.
Whatever it was, to put it this way, if there were 10 studies on the trans community as a whole, there were 3 on trans women and trans fems and 0 on trans men and trans mascs, and 0 on nonbinary people. All of the mixed studies were also pretty much useless for my purposes as well because they were all so lopsided.
I think I swapped to a bunch of different things - addiction rates, smoking, depression, mental health in general - nothing that was even roughly equal in looking at all of us. Trans men, trans mascs and nonbinary people are so under researched as to be nonexistent.
To keep this brief since I've rambled a bunch - this is a major issue health wise since we have not a lot of literature on what testosterone does to certain bodies. This can lead to major health complications, not because of the testosterone itself, but because there might be an interaction thats missed or a complication that's not noticed (which is the same for any medication that's under researched on certain bodies. This is not me scaring people off of hrt, this is me pointing out its a medication like any other.)
#the therapist who wrote my permission slip for hrt was a trans man#and during that appointment we talked about the erasure of trans men from basically everything#and i talked about an article i had read a week or so earlier about trans people and hiv#it very in depth about risks prevention treatment etc#except that it exclusively referenced trans women with a single sentence at the end basically saying 'oh trans men are at risk too'#less than a year later i saw that same therapist speaking at an hiv organization fundraising event#he talked about how he had just recently been diagnosed with hiv#and had to sit there while this doctor told him all about how the treatment options had never been tested on trans men#none of them#they knew that the treatment would work#but not how effective it would be in comparison to its effectiveness in other demographics#no idea what kind of side effects he might experience#how it would interact with his body and his hormones#what the long term effects would be#nothing#he had to sit there while his doctor told him he would have to be a guinea pig but its not like he has a choice#the only alternative is dying from aids#that whole thing was kind of a wake up call for me#and i started paying more attention getting tested regularly myself and all that sruff you're supposed to do#and over time i befriended the person who did most of my testing#they were also trans masc and we would talk about this kind of stuff#and i told them i wanted to get on prep but every doctor i asked had a wildly different answer on if i even could take it#which verison i could take etc#and they said that only one form of prep has been approved fot trans men but its never actually been tested on trans men#and that one version isnt good for long term use because it has some pretty serious side effects long term#and they said that they regularly go to conferences and meet with representatives from all these drug companies#and they ask 'wheres the data on trans men' 'when are you doing clinical studies on trans men'#and the answer#every single time is: we have not done any studies on trans men and we have no intention to ever do studies on trans men#this is not some passive result of trans masc invisibility it is an active act of erasure that needs to be recognized as an act of violence
I remember years ago, long enough ago that I was still using either Tiktok or Instagram regularly, because that's where I saw this, long enough ago that unfortunately I do not remember the username, I saw an older trans woman responding to a comment asking "how come we see trans women from your generation, but never trans men?" And her response was simple. "Unfortunately, it's because most of them are dead." Between lack of safe and legal abortions (which, hey, look what's an issue again), the HIV/AIDs crisis (which still is lacking in approved treatments for trans men, and they're still likely to be denied PrEP/PEP even when they should be eligible as sexually active queer men), and how many of them chose to take their own lives after being forced into marriages and other women's roles, a lot of the trans men that should be elderly right now did not make it.
And now, when I find myself making the mistake of going on Instagram, I get to see trans men themselves talking about how historically, trans men didn't do anything for the community, and so we need to step up now. Which, first of all, that isn't true, but second of all, if trans men's contributions are lesser, that makes a lot of sense if we listen to that trans woman talking about the trans men she was in community with back in the day. It's very hard to advance the trans cause if you're not alive.
Anyway. It's a really chilling answer. "Where are all the elderly trans men?" "They're dead." And I just wish more people saw that tiktok and listened to it and really took it to heart, now that we're in the age of "well obviously trans men have it so much easier."
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