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I've written a short guide to creating intersex characters! It's 100% free to read on my Patreon.
General disclaimer that I am only a single intersex person with a single person's opinions, but I hope folks out there find it helpful! <3
Today, October 26, is Intersex Awareness Day! It kicks off Intersex Awareness Week, which you can learn more about at this link.
may we live to see the day where the first photo results of your intersex variation aren't graphic photos of igm
In setting up Intersex Wiki one of the decisions I have been feeling really good about is the policy/practice that the first photos in any article on an intersex variation need to be photos of clothed individuals with their faces visible. Ideally smiling for the camera.
I'm so tired of articles on intersex variations where the visuals are graphic images of genitals & obviously uncomfortable (semi-)naked people with their faces cropped or blurred out.
It has really been a breath of fresh air to instead have humanizing photos of actual (often famous) intersex individuals as the illustrations for intersex variations, e.g.:
It's not always possible to find humanizing photos since some intersex variations are very rare, but I personally think it's been worth the effort to try and hunt down these kinds of photos! 💜
in case y'all ain't seen this yet, it has resources on:
Prison Abolition
Police Abolition
Abolitionist Toolkits
Abolition and Coronavirus
Origin Stories
Criminalizing Blackness
Sexual Violence and Anti-Carceral Feminism
Restorative and Transformative Justice
Disability Justice
The Perils of Reform
Prison Organizing, Past and Present
Private Prisons and Prison Labor
Mutual Aid and/as Abolition
Child Welfare and Family Regulation
The Nonprofit Industrial Complex
Climate (In)Justice and Prisons
Crimmigration
LGBTQ Criminalization
Christianity and Prison Abolition
Abolition for Parents and Young People
Abolition, Surveillance, and “(Counter)Terrorism”
Should Killer Cops Go To Prison?
Abolition and Gun Violence/Control
“Sex Offenses” and Civil Commitment
Sex Work Decriminalization
Hate Crimes and White Supremacist Violence
Abolition and Universities
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This guide contains resources on the abolition of policing, prisons, and punishment. You can find another resource hub, created by Mariame K
Does anybody have any resources for safe binders? I know GC2B has completely lowered their production quality and are unsafe at this point, and I know that Underworks is a decent alternative (though they're mostly made for cis men with gynecomastia). Any tips?
one of the most depressing things to explain to people just starting transition is that there's a 60/40 chance their doctors are either genuinely ignorant about their care needs or else they genuinely want their trans patients to go on a menopause crash-out dose so they go insane from imbalanced hormone levels, think "transitioning is actually making me worse and unhappier," and quit. and both of these doctors will prescribe you 150mg spiro and 1mg oral estradiol and say things like "most transgender women actually prefer to not use progesterone supplements"
It's okay! Here's all I know about progesterone, as dumbed down as possible:
First of all, Progesterone DOES have some side effects like increased libido & drowsiness, so docs usually recommend:
Start with 100mg til you figure out how it affects you
Most tgirls i know move their dose up to 200mg+ eventually
Only use micronized progesterone (the soft gelcaps), NOT progestin (the pressed pills).
Every doctor will prescribe progesterone "FOR ORAL USE ONLY", but it absorbs better if taken rectally.
Side effects are also different between oral & rectal dosing
It's more fun to take rectally imo :p
Progesterone will raise your t levels, so be aware & adjust your E dose accordingly
Hope this helps!
Also shout-out to Transfeminine Science if you're interested in looking at the research yourself:
Articles - Transfeminine Science
I want to make a note of this, but EVEN IF a form of oppression somehow ONLY EFFECTS the minority it targets, IT IS STILL SOMETHING WORTH FIGHTING AGAINST!!! I'm getting really tired of seeing cis women talking about "Here's how transmisogyny effects us too!!" when like! Honestly! That is the last thing we should be focused on! Like I'm sorry that is happening to you, but genuinely I think we should be more worried about the trans women being directly oppressed by this! Perhaps they deserve love and respect and protection when they are the ones being actively oppressed!!
Trans women will never be free until people stop having strong emotions about penises. Like we, as a society, have got to stop caring about dicks! Dicks have to stop symbolizing maleness, obviously, but they also have to stop symbolizing power, dominance, sexual agency and aggression, violence, and even sex itself. Like trans women can’t be free if the very conceptual presence of a penis represents an intrusion(!) of unwanted(!) sexuality(!) in public life. Like that’s why trans women are abhorrent to both male chauvinists and radical feminists, because both groups have extremely strong feelings about what a penis *represents*, and find the conceptual and actual presence of a woman with a penis to be simultaneously vile and nonsensical because they’ve loaded so much symbolic baggage onto both women and penises.
Anyway dicks are totally neutral body parts and seeing a dick, or a bulge in a swimsuit, or simply knowing that there’s a dick somewhere in the same bathroom as you isn’t harmful or violent
hey! donate to uk trans charities today because it’s gonna be a rough one
Folks in the UK, could we have some trusted links to charities?
There's Mermaids which is always a great option, and then Scotland-specific there's LGBT Youth Scotland, to give you just a couple. There will absolutely be more that other people can suggest though!
switchboard.lgbt and akt.org.uk are two i regularly support, and there’s always stonewall !
Gendered intelligence is a trans-led charity that works to improve the lives of trans people in the UK
cannot recommend LGBT Youth Scotland enough, they are sound as hell and seriously leading the way on a lot of trans support in the 3rd sector
also, sticking with Scottish orgs, LGBT Health & Wellbeing have trans-specific support for people of all ages, including over 60s, and took over the Lothian Gay and Lesbian Switchboard which was the first LGBTQ+ helpline in the UK. they are solid.
Scottish Trans have a list of trans support organisations here but some of them (like ERCC) have lost some ground in the last few years. still, most of them are sound.
And this one isn't specifically trans but the Good Law Project has been involved in defending teams rights in court in several recent cases, notably appealing the puberty blocker ban following the Cass Review.
genuinely so scary that you can't access the page on the ssc website that guides you through changing your sex designation. so so fucking scary. they are already making our lives harder. they are already taking what little resources we have.
update on this, if people want to reblog this to spread information to any trans person who is getting their gender marker changed with social security after the executive order:
today i went and was able to change my gender marker along with my name with social security. even though the page that guides you has been taken down you are STILL ABLE to do so. here is a link to the way back machine for the page and here is a link to the form you will need and here is another source that can help you prepare for federal crackdowns
don't be deterred by the removal of the page. there is still time, but possibly not a lot of it. if you can do this fast, do it.
it's worth noting that it's FREE to change your gender marker with social security. when you change your gender marker with social security, what you change it to does NOT have to match your other current IDs.
double check your state policies, and what you will personally need, but the overall message of this post is that there is STILL TIME despite the executive order. don't give up hope.
hey transfems, i don't know which of you need to hear this but it's okay to never use your penis during sex if you don't want to. it's okay to tell your partner not to touch it, to ignore it even, and hold them to respecting that boundary, no matter how many times you've had sex with them, or even if you've had sex with them with your penis involved.
you're not weird or broken for having needs or having boundaries, and you deserve lovers who respect those needs and boundaries. as someone who knows first hand, it's not worth it not to speak up.
this is a post for bottoms, switches, and tops. for subs or dom/mes. for anyone who feels like their no will go unheard or that the only reason people are sexually interested in you are those who want a woman with a dick. i promise you there are people who are out there who will listen, who will get you, and who will treat you how you deserve.
in fact? that's the absolute base line that anyone deserves during sex, and you deserve that and so much more.
Certified Sex Ed Post!
finally making a new monthly post:
Help a disabled Black trans couple in TX get by
i (left) and my wife (right) are a disabled Black trans couple without income currently, and i am making this post to ask for community support to help us stay afloat. i have the main 3 apps, and we have a shared ko-fi + patreon, as well as a registry! any support (whether thats reblogging and/or contributing in any way) is appreciated, but PLEASE DO NOT TAG THIS POST WHEN REBLOGGING!
more info on why we are ebegging under the cut for anyone curious
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we only need $390.22 to be able to pay our rent; please keep donating to my wife! thanks so so much 💜
ok since jk Rowling has picked a new woman of color to harass i feel the need to remind everyone that she's not doing anything strange or like. out of the ordinary. and that women of color (both cis and trans) have always had to fight to be acknowledged as real women in white society. like yes she is being transmisogynistic but she is also continuing a very long lasting racist & white supremacist tradition of denying women of color our womanhood.
like a lot of the people who like to mock her treat these incidents as isolated instances of black-mold induced transphobia that is misdirected at women of color. which is not true. she is literally just doing something white women have done to women of color for centuries. gatekeeping being a woman behind whiteness.
Marlo also interviewed Meredith Lee/Derek Moo who identifies as "dual gender." They have been out publicly for six years, and in "various semi-private spaces" for up to 20 years. "I pretty much live openly as either presentation, and it seems to work. I go to work as either Meredith or Derek. My kids are fine, my kids are almost adults. All of my family knows, all of my relatives know," they say. "The software company I work for has been pretty proactive in terms of the whole diversity and inclusion thing. I was the first openly trans person in the company, to my knowledge. "When I first presented as Merri, it was at one of the Christmas parties, which is the classic way to do it, right? Might as well wear a dress to the party!"
from this article about trans and gender-diverse elders in Australia. I just love hearing about older multigender people so much <3
you can preorder marlo w's book as either a physical copy or an ebook from his website :)
TRANS WOMEN: HERE'S SOME SHIT YOUR DOCTOR WONT TELL YOU ABOUT HRT
1. Progesterone: not for everyone, but for many people it may increase sex drive and WILL make your boobs bigger. Also effects mood in ways that many find positive (but some find negative). Most doctors won’t prescribe this to you unless you ask. Most trans girls I know swear by it.
2. Injectible estrogen: is more effective than pill or patch form. Get on it if you can bear needles bc you will see more effects more quickly.
3. Estradiol Cypionate: There is currently a shortage of injectible estradiol valerate. There is no shortage of estradiol cypionate. Functionally they do the same shit.
4. Bicalutamide: This is an anti-androgen that has almost none of the side-effects of spironolactone or finasteride. The girls I know who are on it are evangelical about it.
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Are there HRT medications that don’t increase blood clot risk? I’m already at risk because of my blood pressure, and my doctor won’t prescribe HRT that increases clot risk while I’m on the medication - and I may never not be on the medication.
Absolutely.
The concerns surrounding venous thromboembolic events as a side-effect of hormone replacement therapy can mostly be traced back to one particular study known as the Women’s Health Initiative. This study was an enormous undertaking which, unfortunately, demonstrated significant adverse effects of the hormone therapies studied. As a result of this the use of hormone replacement therapy in postmenopausal cis women was dramatically reduced as the medical community began to question whether or not the therapy caused more harm than good.
Naturally, trans women have been suffering from this fall-out ever since.
What physicians seem to fail to recognize is that the study examined a very specific hormone regimen which was, arguably, outmoded at the time the study was conducted: It examined the use of conjugated equine estrogen (Premarin) with or without the use of medroxyprogesterone acetate. Neither of these drugs is regularly used for the treatment of transgender women.
The estrogen most commonly used to treat transgender women nowadays is 17β-estradiol either in pill form or in the form of a sticky patch that you apply to your skin. Esters of estrogen (e.g. estradiol valerate) are also sometimes used either in a pill form or as an intramuscular injection.
Transdermal estradiol patches are the gold standard when it comes to treating women who are at high risk of a venous thromboembolic event. It simply does not increase the risk of developing a venous thromboembolism. The only thing you should keep in mind is that patches are not always well tolerated because of the lifestyle changes required to keep them from falling off and the fact that they tend to irritate the skin.
Fortunately, oral 17β-estradiol appears to be safe, regardless of the increased risk. At least one large study has shown that the use of oral estradiol in trans women is not associated with venous thromboembolic events. An individual woman’s risk would need to be substantial in order to contraindicate the use of oral estradiol.
For those who have significant risk of venous thromboembolism because they have had a previous thromboembolic event, because they are paralyzed, or because of some other factor it is good to know the relative risk between oral and transdermal estrogen. The latest research indicates that the use of transdermal estrogen lowers your risk of a thromboembolism to 80% of what your risk would be using oral estrogens.
It’s difficult to find hard numbers regarding the relative risk of venous thromboembolic events with regards to hypertension. The best I could find after an hour or so of searching was this study regarding VTE in lung cancer patients. Hypertension increased the risk by a factor of 1.8.
However, to put that into perspective being of African descent increases your relative risk for deep vein thrombosis by a factor of 1.3 when compared to Europeans. Europeans are, themselves, at increased risk when compared to Asians and Pacific Islanders by a considerable margin: a four-fold increase.
I should point out that being ‘male’ is also a risk factor for developing a thromboembolism and hormones are likely to be a contributing factor. Also, menopause is another serious risk factor. Given this information it is likely that the use of transdermal estradiol will lower your risk of thromboembolic events significantly.
As far as the anti-androgen is concerned: The primary use for spironolactone for cisgender people is as an antihypertensive.
Even if the risk of thromboembolism was truly significant with modern hormone replacement therapy it wouldn’t justify what your doctor is doing to you. The fact is that mortality in the transgender community from suicide–caused in part due to the lack of access to hormone therapy–is substantial. The quality of life lost when a trans woman is denied hormone therapy is substantial. The fact that your doctor does not appear to be taking this into consideration when they weigh the risk of thromboembolism against not receiving necessary medical care is deeply concerning.
I strongly recommend that you seek a doctor who is more sensitive to your medical needs as a transgender woman.
Edit: Fixed a minor, but embarrassing, error.
oh wow this is so helpful & good info
Everyone who cares about transfem people please reblog this
this was really fucking helpful
I know a lot of trans women dont have acess to information like this and its very helpful.
Honestly if you're a baby tgirl - never devalue yourself as a woman. Never deny yourself a space or a life to make people comfortable. Never hold your tounge because people will call you a bitch for not going along with their transmisogyny. You are not a man, and never were. Don't beg for scraps. You're worth more than begging people for an ounce of acceptance. Don't tone down yourself, or hold back from talking to people, because you'll feel like a predator. Assume the best of people, but never, ever, ever be afraid to take up space.
Don't be afraid to live.
okay :D
the va apparently has not processed my papers for my college so i won’t be getting paid for the schoolwork i’ve done so far until october 1st, where i’ll also be paid my full amount but this means we don’t have money for transportation, food, or the rent portion. i’ve already asked my classmates if hey can drive me around and unfortunately we live too far away
rent will be 300 and is due the 15th, and we also need food and transportation money so yeah :,]
0/300
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i’m so sorry, this is extremely unforeseen and i feel like an absolutely horrible person for asking for money again but the VA is a bastard
Go to paypal.me/blucheavy3 and type in the amount. Since it’s PayPal, it's easy and secure. Don’t have a PayPal account? No worries.
also i asked the school about help for it and they reccomend the same thing we did last time that turned out to only be available to people being evicted so
we only have 5 dollars :]
95/300, basically a third of the way there already
okay looks like my rent went up without me knowing and i’m short twelve dollars
rent paid, now we have 0 dollars and still have to worry about the 300 dollar portion on the 15th
help a cheavy out please, we only have 6 dollars now and fasfa seemingly does not want to process and i’m just having a very bad week
26/300
god i hate the VA
53/300
hey school’s tomorrow and the bus routes here are so absurdly inconvenient that it’s better to just uber so :|
rents due the 15th which is in 12 days
11 days, got nothin today
10 days and we’re not even a third yet i will have a panic attack
still ain’t got nothing brothers :,]
78/300
hey we have ten days left and i’m getting really scared so :]
transreads.org is a fantastic resource for queer literature and history, and the best part is that it's FREE! There's no excuse to be ignorant when the information is being handed to you like this.
Leslie Feinberg also has all of hir works free online if you are particularly interested in lesbian history and literature. They are available as downloadable PDFs, and I believe they are on the internet archive aswell.
transreads.org also has a great section on Palestinian queer literature if that's something that interests you, it's important that we learn about queerness outside of America. I've dabbled in a few of these books and essays and poems and they're very cool! I really do enjoy learning about queerness in other cultures, I hope you all can find joy in that too!!
if you have any good queer resources that you'd like to share pls comment or add it to a reblog!! I'll probably make a bigger masterpost later, or perhaps a Google document.
