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Hey everyone. So we're really struggling to catch up financially lately and it's at a point where I need to reach out for some help. If there is anything you can do to help us get through this right now, it would be so appreciated. You've all been incredibly good to me and I want to keep bringing my best for you too. Thank you for everything <3Â
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My 6th tranniversary
Todayâs my tranniversary â 6 years since I started taking estrogen! Transitioning has been so helpful for my personal growth, and itâs changed my life for the better in countless ways. Hereâs just some of what Iâve learned from my experiences in transition:
https://genderanalysis.net/articles/that-was-dysphoria-8-signs-and-symptoms-of-indirect-gender-dysphoria/
https://genderanalysis.net/2015/09/3-years-of-hrt-and-8-things-ive-learned-gender-analysis-11/
https://genderanalysis.net/articles/some-emotional-effects-of-hrt/
https://genderanalysis.net/2018/09/why-cant-you-just-be-gay-why-i-a-trans-lesbian-cant-just-be-a-gay-man/
https://genderanalysis.net/2017/06/depersonalization-in-gender-dysphoria-widespread-and-widely-unrecognized/Â
This has been the most amazing experience and itâs made me who I am today, and Iâm so happy to get to share it with all of you. If you like my work, feel free to send a tranniversary gift!
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How the WSJ handles the inconvenient facts of ârapid onset gender dysphoriaâ
Previously:Â Rapid onset gender dysphoria study misunderstands trans depersonalization;Â My letter to the Brown Daily Herald, and Lisa Littmanâs response
I was recently consulted on an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal about the dispute over Lisa Littmanâs study of a supposed new ârapid onset gender dysphoriaâ condition said to be contagiously spreading among youth. Jillian Kay Melchior describes my involvement in this controversy:
Ideologues try to suppress a study on the increasing prevalence of ârapid onset gender dysphoria.â âŠ
Dr. Littmanâs detractors also accuse her of bigotry. Her work ânegates the experience of many transgender youth,â according to Diane Ehrensaft, of the Child and Adolescent Gender Center Clinic at the University of California San Franciscoâs Benioff Childrenâs Hospital.
Transgender activist Brynn Tannehill calls Dr. Littmanâs research âa naked attempt to legitimize anti-transgender animus with a veneer of academic responsibility.â And Zinnia Jones, founder of the website Gender Analysis, called rapid-onset gender dysphoria a âhoax diagnosisâ perpetuated by those who would deny transgender children âacceptance and affirmation.â The motto of Ms. Jonesâs website: âThe personal is empirical.â
The effort at suppression had an effect. âŠ
⊠As for Dr. Littmanâs critics, they equate caution with bias, even hatred, and encourage teens to go through hormone therapy or surgeryâdrastic interventions whose effects are irreversible.
For background, I spoke with Melchior a week before her op-ed was published. She asked me to confirm that the two sentences about me were accurate, and I agreed they were. However, I informed her that the problems with the study are much more substantial:
My letter to the Brown Daily Herald on ârapid onset gender dysphoriaâ, and Lisa Littmanâs response
Previously:Â âRapid onset gender dysphoriaâ study misunderstands trans depersonalization
This weekend, I wrote in to the Brown Daily Herald on the controversy over a recent study on ârapid onset gender dysphoriaâ by Brown assistant professor Lisa Littman:
I am writing in reference to a Herald article, âGender dysphoria study criticism,â published Sept. 4. Much of the backlash following the removal of a press release on Assistant Professor of the Practice of Behavioral and Social Sciences Lisa Littmanâs ârapid onset gender dysphoriaâ study has focused on questions of academic freedom and institutional support for faculty who conduct controversial research. In these discussions, the actual content and underlying soundness of this research have largely been considered an afterthought. For me, however, the content of the study could not be more relevant.
Littmanâs study directly quotes an article I wrote in 2013 on my experiences of gender dysphoria as a transgender woman. She labels such experiences âvague and nonspecific symptoms called signs of (gender dysphoria)â and implicates my work in her theory that online forums allow transgender identities to spread among the youth like âsocial contagion.â This could not be further from the truth. The symptoms I described are those of depersonalization disorder, a known condition of âfeelings of unrealityâ that is disproportionately common among trans people and often remits following transitioning. It strains belief that Littman would be unaware of the research on this disorder in trans people.
As a result of this oversight, her study suggests that my own work and outreach to the trans community on this real condition is instead a causative factor in a supposedly new disease. This is more than a question of academic freedom. It is a matter of academic responsibility â and in her misrepresentation of my work, Littman has failed to exercise that responsibility.
âRapid onset gender dysphoriaâ study misunderstands trans depersonalization, ends up blaming Zinnia Jones
Previously:
Fresh trans myths of 2017: ârapid onset gender dysphoriaâ
âRapid onset gender dysphoriaâ: What a hoax diagnosis looks like
Depersonalization in gender dysphoria: widespread and widely unrecognized
Lisa Littmanâs long-awaited ârapid onset gender dysphoriaâ (ROGD) study was finally published in full on August 16 in PLOS One (Littman, 2018), and its findings have turned out to be just as underwhelming and tenuous as suggested by her 2017 poster abstract (Littman, 2017). The paper has offered new insight into the full scope of incompetence, logical leaps, and sheer guesswork tying this hypothesis together. Its methodological issues alone â using anti-trans groups to recruit parents who donât believe their kids are trans, and then accepting this as evidence that these kids arenât trans â have already been widely criticized, to the point that her employer, Brown University, withdrew their press release about the study. The staff of PLOS One have also left a note on her paper indicating that they are aware of these serious issues, and that they will be seeking further expert review.
Methodology aside, thereâs still much, much more to find fault with in this gum-and-paperclips study, and Iâm already in the process of assisting PLOS One with their review of its findings. Why? Because the study misrepresents my work, and directly implicates me in the contagious spread of a new âdiseaseâ.
This is going to take some explaining.
So Iâm going to be bitter and old here for a minute.
The absolute refusal to allow anyone to use queer as an umbrella is both novel and regressive (I know, I know). For decades, queer was an accepted and neutral way to concisely refer to a coalition of loosely connected communities and identities. Queer theory, queer film, queer spaces, queer history.
This use came after another few decades of committed work in reclaiming the word from oppressors who flat out stole it from us.
It took a lot of effort to wrestle it back out of their hands, and now Iâm expected to just give it over to them because decades of unity and collective action and shared experience donât matter because a handful of (usually white, almost exclusively american) kids on this godawful website have deicded itâs illegal for me to âforce it on othersâ and that I should instead just let them for LGBT or gay or whatever else on me.
Like, fuck off?
Fuck off.
I am going to refer to my community in the way that I have been doing for an entire lifetime. Not just my specific identity, which is queer as fuck, but the whole fucking shebang.
And I will not hand the word back over to straight people with a nice little ribbon and a coat of polish and say âhere, some kids decided it was cool if I let you stab them with this word so here you goâ like
Fucking, why would I ever.
Frankly, and I know how people are going to react to this but, frankly?
I damned well will use queer to refer to my community as well as myself, and anyone who wants to take it away from me can take it over my COLD DEAD QUEER LITTLE FINGERS.
I will not sit by and let antsy, nervous kids who donât know a damn thing about our history talk down to me about how âwell, actuallyâ when they canât even recognize the fact that trans people were still being policed out of here literally three fucking years ago.
The presumption and the ignorance are staggering.
So yeah.
Queer as in fuck you people in particular.
And, to my followers who are made uncomfortable by this, well. I will regret losing you on some level, but not enough to stop.
I fully intend to use queer as the umbrella term it has been for my entire life. LGBT never did my intersex, pansexual ass any favours anyway.
My point is, Iâm not going to be referring to the âLGBTâ community at all, anymore. Itâs going to be 100% queer here, in a more conscious and consistent way than it has been before. Because, you see, even people who do use queer as an identity unashamedly have gotten into this pattern of being apologetic or conditional about it, with a constant, overbearing tone that even when we do use queer as a community term with have to hedge it and gentle it because itâs so dangerous.
but itâs fuckign not.
We spent decades pulling the danger out of it.
And âm not going to let it sneak back in.
Every time someone says âqueer is a slur, you shouldnât use itâ I feel like theyâre trying to fucking gaslight me. Like, I was there when it got reclaimed. I read âQueer Scienceâ, I saw the âQueer Studies Departmentsâ in college and the majors in Queer Theory. Kids do not get to invalidate my life out of ignorance. And I canât help but think that someone who knows exactly what they are doing was behind it to begin with, because how would the kids who donât know what the fuck theyâre talking about know to invalidate that word?
You go. Reclaim that reclamation. Iâll probably use LGBT+ and queer interchangeably, like I always have, and if some kid tries to lecture my 47-year-old ass on the matter Iâm just going to have to look at them over my imaginary librarian glasses and tell them âno. youâre wrong. Go back to school, kid, you need to remember youâre sharing the world with adults and there is a consensual reality you have entered into. You donât get to make it up from scratch any more than I did.â
@alarajrogers hit the nail on the head with this:Â
And I canât help but think that someone who knows exactly what they are doing was behind it to begin with
Because itâs absolutely surreal to see someone who is fifteen years old speak as if queerâs been used to constantly attack and smear and belittle and insult them, when theyâre about twenty years too late, at the very least, to have gone through that as a teenager. Iâve seen it happen so many times, with so many teenagers on here, that it reads honestly like a script â like a Discourse Point someoneâs taught them that they need to trot out as an argument, always and forever, amen. I made this connection over a year ago, when the screaming against âqueerâ started in earnest on here and thought about it more in-depth when a number of very young activists both here and on Twitter told me unironically and with a straight face that they took all of their discourse points from the likes of leftbians and other exclusionists, starting with your garden-variety aphobes and biphobes and ending with outright radfems / TWERFs / SWERFs.Â
That was the lightbulb moment for me. Question:Â
what group has managed to spread their posts and their ideas far and wide on Tumblr, because people reblog without checking the source or reading between the lines?Â
and what group has had a vicious ideological axe to grind against âqueerâ as both a self-descriptor and an umbrella-term for decades now?
The answer to both is radfems. I was there ten years ago when they were absolutely driving themselves into a frothing lather over the fact that a very large number of LGBTQIAP+ youth were describing ourselves and our communities as queer uncontroversially â seriously, this was so common on the English-speaking queer youth forums I used to frequent back then that no one batted an eyelash, specifically because the work of reclamation had already been done for decades and if, asked, the vast majority of people answered that they preferred queer because it was INCLUSIVE (which is and has always been the kryptonite for groups of people whose ideas revolved around gatekeeping the community and their precious selves being the arbiters of who gets in and who stays out), Radfems quickly realized that they werenât going to be able to demonize the word in the eyes of Gen Xers or people at the older end of the Gen Y generation in the community, because weâd either contributed to the work of reclamation or spent our whole fucking lives in communities where queer was a badge of pride.Â
So, in what is honestly an absolutely brilliant move and which Iâd be almost tempted to admire, if I didnât want to spit everyone involved right between the eyes, radfems and other exclusionists targeted much younger LGBTQIAP+ people, leapfrogging a generation. Tumblr, in this sense, has been absolutely vital, both in giving them access to very young people who were just discovering themselves and whose knowledge of community history was nonexistent and in being built in such a way that radfems could make their posts go viral and attract tens of thousands of reblogs, if not more, if they knew to word them in just the right way (Iâve lost count of the number of what, at a shallow glance, seem like very decent PSAs on consent, but that at a closer reading were actually anti-BDSM screeds, easy to see for anyone who knows the dogwhistles).Â
If radfems have managed to mire this place in their ideas intensely enough that theyâve turned their anti-kink crusade into an omnipresent thing in certain progressive communities on Tumblr, itâs not impossible to make the logical leap that theyâve managed to do so with their decades-long anti-queer crusade as well. Â Â
Iâd laugh and clap at the ingeniousness of it all, if it didnât involve obliterating decades of community history, solidarity and reclamation efforts.Â
#oh ABSOLUTELY#queer things#the SUDDEN BACKLASH against queer again is 100% from terfs#even back in like 2014 people were using queer on here without anybody batting an eyelash#and then one day all of a sudden in 2015 if you called yourself queer#suddenly you were getting a fucking 15 year old calling you âviolently lgbtphobicâ like. lol what the fuck#(real thing that happened)#and yeah 100% on the âI feel like Iâm being gaslitâ#I TOOK QUEER THEORY COURSES IN COLLEGE#THEY DONâT FUCKING PUT SLURS IN THE NAMES OF COLLEGE COURSES#THEY PUT ACCEPTABLE COMMUNITY TERMS IN THE NAMES OF COLLEGE COURSES#like#oh my god#the rise of âq slurâ is honestly gaslighting that originated in the terf/radfem corners and spread until people thought it was the norm#itâs notÂ
Please note this. Regardless of how you personally feel about the word, this backlash against it happened much more recently than many people seem to think. And itâs worth pointing out who benefits from the backlash, and it sure as hell isnât the people who gave decades of their lives to make the word a sign of inclusivity and acceptance.
Reblogging again to add this: The same vehemently, violently transphobic website that published this vile, reductive, evil trash [TW: misogynistic violence, transmisogyny; also note: this is an archive link, to avoid giving them web traffic], Feminist Current, also published this trash: âTodayâs Shameless Lesbians Wonât Be Queeredâ [archive link; the whole article is full of biphobic and transphobic trash, like most of that vile website].
I quote:
Queers hurl âlesbianâ sneeringly at assigned-female-at-birth homosexual women, recharacterizing females as âcisâ women, which in the twisted logic of queer is equated to âprivileged women.â In the superwoke queer community, privilege is finally, inexorably, another way of saying âyou need to shut up, take up less space, and admit that itâs an unearned honour to have had your life shoved into a tiny pink box.â This cannot come as a surprise, as the term lesbian has always been weaponized to silence and deride women.
Itâs right there, itâs text: they hate âqueerâ because the term âqueerâ is built on inclusion, on commonality, and what they want is a whole mess of gatekeeping that keeps icky tr*nnies like me out of their spaces alongside my bisexual and pansexual and queer as fuck siblings.
So fuck them, and fuck anyone else who fights back against âqueerâ as a term for us. I am a queer gay homosexual female tranny dyke and you can have have my reclaimed slurs approximately fucking never.
âŠdo I even
zinnia jones wont stop until the entire world is repulsed by him lol
troons be out here having paraphilias and thinking that women donât already know this
Hi dickheads
So Iâm going to be bitter and old here for a minute.
The absolute refusal to allow anyone to use queer as an umbrella is both novel and regressive (I know, I know). For decades, queer was an accepted and neutral way to concisely refer to a coalition of loosely connected communities and identities. Queer theory, queer film, queer spaces, queer history.
This use came after another few decades of committed work in reclaiming the word from oppressors who flat out stole it from us.
It took a lot of effort to wrestle it back out of their hands, and now Iâm expected to just give it over to them because decades of unity and collective action and shared experience donât matter because a handful of (usually white, almost exclusively american) kids on this godawful website have deicded itâs illegal for me to âforce it on othersâ and that I should instead just let them for LGBT or gay or whatever else on me.
Like, fuck off?
Fuck off.
I am going to refer to my community in the way that I have been doing for an entire lifetime. Not just my specific identity, which is queer as fuck, but the whole fucking shebang.
And I will not hand the word back over to straight people with a nice little ribbon and a coat of polish and say âhere, some kids decided it was cool if I let you stab them with this word so here you goâ like
Fucking, why would I ever.
Frankly, and I know how people are going to react to this but, frankly?
I damned well will use queer to refer to my community as well as myself, and anyone who wants to take it away from me can take it over my COLD DEAD QUEER LITTLE FINGERS.
I will not sit by and let antsy, nervous kids who donât know a damn thing about our history talk down to me about how âwell, actuallyâ when they canât even recognize the fact that trans people were still being policed out of here literally three fucking years ago.
The presumption and the ignorance are staggering.
So yeah.
Queer as in fuck you people in particular.
And, to my followers who are made uncomfortable by this, well. I will regret losing you on some level, but not enough to stop.
I fully intend to use queer as the umbrella term it has been for my entire life. LGBT never did my intersex, pansexual ass any favours anyway.
My point is, Iâm not going to be referring to the âLGBTâ community at all, anymore. Itâs going to be 100% queer here, in a more conscious and consistent way than it has been before. Because, you see, even people who do use queer as an identity unashamedly have gotten into this pattern of being apologetic or conditional about it, with a constant, overbearing tone that even when we do use queer as a community term with have to hedge it and gentle it because itâs so dangerous.
but itâs fuckign not.
We spent decades pulling the danger out of it.
And âm not going to let it sneak back in.
Every time someone says âqueer is a slur, you shouldnât use itâ I feel like theyâre trying to fucking gaslight me. Like, I was there when it got reclaimed. I read âQueer Scienceâ, I saw the âQueer Studies Departmentsâ in college and the majors in Queer Theory. Kids do not get to invalidate my life out of ignorance. And I canât help but think that someone who knows exactly what they are doing was behind it to begin with, because how would the kids who donât know what the fuck theyâre talking about know to invalidate that word?
You go. Reclaim that reclamation. Iâll probably use LGBT+ and queer interchangeably, like I always have, and if some kid tries to lecture my 47-year-old ass on the matter Iâm just going to have to look at them over my imaginary librarian glasses and tell them âno. youâre wrong. Go back to school, kid, you need to remember youâre sharing the world with adults and there is a consensual reality you have entered into. You donât get to make it up from scratch any more than I did.â
@alarajrogers hit the nail on the head with this:Â
And I canât help but think that someone who knows exactly what they are doing was behind it to begin with
Because itâs absolutely surreal to see someone who is fifteen years old speak as if queerâs been used to constantly attack and smear and belittle and insult them, when theyâre about twenty years too late, at the very least, to have gone through that as a teenager. Iâve seen it happen so many times, with so many teenagers on here, that it reads honestly like a script â like a Discourse Point someoneâs taught them that they need to trot out as an argument, always and forever, amen. I made this connection over a year ago, when the screaming against âqueerâ started in earnest on here and thought about it more in-depth when a number of very young activists both here and on Twitter told me unironically and with a straight face that they took all of their discourse points from the likes of leftbians and other exclusionists, starting with your garden-variety aphobes and biphobes and ending with outright radfems / TWERFs / SWERFs.Â
That was the lightbulb moment for me. Question:Â
what group has managed to spread their posts and their ideas far and wide on Tumblr, because people reblog without checking the source or reading between the lines?Â
and what group has had a vicious ideological axe to grind against âqueerâ as both a self-descriptor and an umbrella-term for decades now?
The answer to both is radfems. I was there ten years ago when they were absolutely driving themselves into a frothing lather over the fact that a very large number of LGBTQIAP+ youth were describing ourselves and our communities as queer uncontroversially â seriously, this was so common on the English-speaking queer youth forums I used to frequent back then that no one batted an eyelash, specifically because the work of reclamation had already been done for decades and if, asked, the vast majority of people answered that they preferred queer because it was INCLUSIVE (which is and has always been the kryptonite for groups of people whose ideas revolved around gatekeeping the community and their precious selves being the arbiters of who gets in and who stays out), Radfems quickly realized that they werenât going to be able to demonize the word in the eyes of Gen Xers or people at the older end of the Gen Y generation in the community, because weâd either contributed to the work of reclamation or spent our whole fucking lives in communities where queer was a badge of pride.Â
So, in what is honestly an absolutely brilliant move and which Iâd be almost tempted to admire, if I didnât want to spit everyone involved right between the eyes, radfems and other exclusionists targeted much younger LGBTQIAP+ people, leapfrogging a generation. Tumblr, in this sense, has been absolutely vital, both in giving them access to very young people who were just discovering themselves and whose knowledge of community history was nonexistent and in being built in such a way that radfems could make their posts go viral and attract tens of thousands of reblogs, if not more, if they knew to word them in just the right way (Iâve lost count of the number of what, at a shallow glance, seem like very decent PSAs on consent, but that at a closer reading were actually anti-BDSM screeds, easy to see for anyone who knows the dogwhistles).Â
If radfems have managed to mire this place in their ideas intensely enough that theyâve turned their anti-kink crusade into an omnipresent thing in certain progressive communities on Tumblr, itâs not impossible to make the logical leap that theyâve managed to do so with their decades-long anti-queer crusade as well. Â Â
Iâd laugh and clap at the ingeniousness of it all, if it didnât involve obliterating decades of community history, solidarity and reclamation efforts.Â
#oh ABSOLUTELY#queer things#the SUDDEN BACKLASH against queer again is 100% from terfs#even back in like 2014 people were using queer on here without anybody batting an eyelash#and then one day all of a sudden in 2015 if you called yourself queer#suddenly you were getting a fucking 15 year old calling you âviolently lgbtphobicâ like. lol what the fuck#(real thing that happened)#and yeah 100% on the âI feel like Iâm being gaslitâ#I TOOK QUEER THEORY COURSES IN COLLEGE#THEY DONâT FUCKING PUT SLURS IN THE NAMES OF COLLEGE COURSES#THEY PUT ACCEPTABLE COMMUNITY TERMS IN THE NAMES OF COLLEGE COURSES#like#oh my god#the rise of âq slurâ is honestly gaslighting that originated in the terf/radfem corners and spread until people thought it was the norm#itâs notÂ
Please note this. Regardless of how you personally feel about the word, this backlash against it happened much more recently than many people seem to think. And itâs worth pointing out who benefits from the backlash, and it sure as hell isnât the people who gave decades of their lives to make the word a sign of inclusivity and acceptance.
Reblogging again to add this: The same vehemently, violently transphobic website that published this vile, reductive, evil trash [TW: misogynistic violence, transmisogyny; also note: this is an archive link, to avoid giving them web traffic], Feminist Current, also published this trash: âTodayâs Shameless Lesbians Wonât Be Queeredâ [archive link; the whole article is full of biphobic and transphobic trash, like most of that vile website].
I quote:
Queers hurl âlesbianâ sneeringly at assigned-female-at-birth homosexual women, recharacterizing females as âcisâ women, which in the twisted logic of queer is equated to âprivileged women.â In the superwoke queer community, privilege is finally, inexorably, another way of saying âyou need to shut up, take up less space, and admit that itâs an unearned honour to have had your life shoved into a tiny pink box.â This cannot come as a surprise, as the term lesbian has always been weaponized to silence and deride women.
Itâs right there, itâs text: they hate âqueerâ because the term âqueerâ is built on inclusion, on commonality, and what they want is a whole mess of gatekeeping that keeps icky tr*nnies like me out of their spaces alongside my bisexual and pansexual and queer as fuck siblings.
So fuck them, and fuck anyone else who fights back against âqueerâ as a term for us. I am a queer gay homosexual female tranny dyke and you can have have my reclaimed slurs approximately fucking never.
help us survive
Hey friends. So here's the situation: Patreon decided to switch to an overseas bank without telling anyone and this resulted in a massive amount of unexpected declined charges - which ended up fucking me out of $600. On top of that, Heather was unceremoniously fired from her new job after just two weeks. We're really struggling to make rent. It's bad. Literally anything you can throw our way would be very appreciated :( https://www.paypal.me/zinniajones https://cash.me/$ZinniaJones.
âI lose sleep at night on this.â
Using a separate model, Future of Religion and Secular Transitions (forest), the team found that people tend to secularize when four factors are present: existential security (you have enough money and food), personal freedom (youâre free to choose whether to believe or not), pluralism (you have a welcoming attitude to diversity), and education (youâve got some training in the sciences and humanities). If even one of these factors is absent, the whole secularization process slows down. This, they believe, is why the U.S. is secularizing at a slower rate than Western and Northern Europe.
âThe U.S. has found ways to limit the effects of education by keeping it local, and in private schools, anything can happen,â said Shultsâs collaborator, Wesley Wildman, a professor of philosophy and ethics at Boston University. âLately, thereâs been encouragement from the highest levels of government to take a less than welcoming cultural attitude to pluralism. These are forms of resistance to secularization.â
From Follow-up of Females with Gender Identity Disorders by Elizabeth McCauley, PhD and Anke Ehrhardt, PhD.
The above is a description of therapy for gender dysphoric female people preformed at a gender clinic during the seventies. Iâm not a fan of language like âgender confusionâ but a lot of what they describe sounds like things Iâve heard detransitioned women say wouldâve been helpful. In particular working out if their dysphoria was related to internalized homophobia or other sexuality issues and having their whole life situation addressed, not just their gender issues.
These quotes come from a follow-up study of 15 people interested in transitioning female to male who were evaluated at the above-mentioned gender clinic. The clinic saw 60 people total, 19 of whom were FtM. Four of those 19 never completed the evaluation process. The remaining fifteen were the subjects of the study. At the time of follow-up, four of the original applicants were living as lesbians. One of the lesbians had lived as a man, took testosterone for two years, got a mastectomy and later detransitioned. Nine were living as men and had medically transitioned to some extent and two were still interested in transitioning and presented as men in some aspects of their life and as women in other parts.
I have all kinds of feelings about this article. Itâs intense just to read about other lesbians in the past who dealt with gender dysphoria and to find out that it used to be more common for clinicians to try to work out if gender dysphoria was connected to internalized homophobia. This is not the only article Iâve read that talks about homophobia contributing to dysphoria. âSelf-stigmatizing homosexualsâ used to be something you looked out for if you were a therapist specializing in gender dysphoria. Finding out that clinicians have been writing about women like me since at least the seventies has been both reassuring and infuriating. Some clinicians had already come up with therapy that couldâve helped some detransitioned women if theyâd had access to it. At least some of our suffering couldâve been avoided. If things had gone differently, there could already be more resources for women with gender dysphoria. Instead, weâve just started building them in the last few years and we have to fight to get our needs taken seriously. So Iâm glad to learn about my history but Iâm also pissed off because now I can see more clearly that our suffering was not inevitable.
I mean, youâre literally applauding gatekeeping. https://genderanalysis.net/2014/12/transition-as-gender-freedom-gender-analysis-03/
like whats the average lifespan of an asgardian? like yeah thor is 1500 but what if thats just like 23 in human termsÂ
googled âasgardian lifespanâ found this,
so if thor is currently 1500 years old (said in infinity war)
5100/1500 = 3.4
so thors current age times 3.4 would be the average lifespan of an asgardian
to change that to human terms the average lifespan of a human is about 80 so
80/3.4Â
lsdmkfgjdfjsd oh my GodâŠÂ
thor really out here having the worst time of his life and hes like 23
thor ainât special, weâre all out here having the worst time of our life at 23
so out of curiosity i went to lokiâs wiki and looked up his age and it says heâs about 1052-1053 so i did the same math
5100/1052 = 4.85
then to change to human terms
80/4.85 = 16.4948
LOKI WAS 16 THIS ENTIRE GODDAMN TIME
you say that like it doesnât explain every goddamn thing about Loki
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