That's why we the default should be if YOU are TRANS—nb, gender, sexual or w/e—YOU are ENTITLED to access to resources and care. YOU DO NOT BURDEN OTHERS by being entitled to this access. even if you don't need these resources, you DO need to be entitled to them. like everyone else with human rights

our tap water is brown again right as i went to make dinner........

same, even though I transitioned as early as I physically could. I'm grateful every day that I had access to the words to describe what I was experiencing. I only wish society had been kinder. I have hope for a future where the abuse + medical neglect of trans kids is recognized for what it is.

Sometimes I regret not documenting my transition better, but I was so busy I didn't pay milestones much mind. I think of it in chunks of years instead of months. I was giving early T advice to a guy, and he started asking what Exact months I got which changes. Brother I don't know. Years 1-5.

ive been freezing a lot lately and its making it difficult to do stuff. breaking out of it is hard. i'll just sit and stare at a wall unable to really move. need my husband to pelt me with rocks if i dont get up and walk every 15 minutes.

So many friends can be found in real life queer scenes too, whether you've taken steps towards your social transition or not. You can absolutely hang, you simply have to say it. It is enough just to know you're closeted and questioning.

important PSA from link regarding the impending cessation of SNAP benefits (give cash, not food)

This article quotes the university president saying Lia was on the women's swimming and diving team, but she's not on this year's roster on their athletic department website. The NCAA banned her from being on the team when Trump first took office.

i have a meeting-filled week

thinking now about just how torturous social transition without HRT felt. how much every resource we had was just utterly failing me and my trans peers that age through all of our teenage years. like, even on the supportive end, it felt like dysphoria was conveyed as an insecurity to overcome?

I call myself transsexual in part as a way to honor that I finally made it to the point of changing my sex. I spent too many years out while being denied medical care. 6 damn years I spent, knowing I was dysphoric, begging for HRT, abused + treated like shit, ending up disowned before receiving care

hysto+oopho without salpingectomy, just someone leaving the tubes free-floating in there, as a treat

New Comic SUPERCRUSH!!! that I'm going to write as a little side project. I'll be posting it here on this thread as I work on it. About an android catboy who fucks and murders. CW for NSFW and Violence

censoring that first name…

smoke alarms simply like to beep. in nature it's theorized to be a form of communication similar to birdsong. it was only in the late 20th century that their extreme aversion and loud reaction to smoke was first discovered and they began to be domesticated and put to use as fire safety devices

really been out of control with the oats lately

WE GOT THE COLONEL SANDERS PARTNER UNLOCK

“Ernie! Look what you’re doing—take those shoes off this instant!”

“Now go to sleep, Kevin—or once again I’ll have to knock three times and summon the Floating Head of Death.”

Omg it would change halfway through the tunnel incredible

Informed Consent Doesn't Go Far Enough: The Case for Hormones Over-the-Counter www.assignedmedia.or... #transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

you can do anything with oats.

how many different flavor combinations do you think you can get away with when making oats? they're just a grain, right? has anyone tried pizza oats?

the day that society at large understands that testosterone and estrogen are necessary hormones in your body regardless of your sex, and that hormone supplementation is a health question rather than a loaded emotional question, will be one of the greatest days in human history.

the way people talk about menopause is so fucked up. menopause is basically a god damn hardware bug in the human body that induces suffering in swathes of people which through the wonders of modern medicine we have the ability to mitigate, yet people moralize that it's natural divine suffering. evil

Pʀᴏɢʀᴇss ᴛʜʀᴏᴜɢʜ Aᴍᴇʀɪᴄᴀɴ Cᴇɴᴛᴜʀʏ ᴏғ Hᴜᴍɪʟɪᴀᴛɪᴏɴ ▓░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ 9.32%

you dont have to have an opinion on new video game pricing if you primarily only play games that are 10+ years old 🤓

i definitely experienced things that should have given me textbook cptsd, but for some reason i only meet the criteria for standard ptsd. i cant tell if this means im overlooking something, or if our clinical understanding of prolonged childhood trauma is just somewhat underdeveloped.

have been having a continuous crisis ever since the whole career change thing. like i dont really know what im supposed to go into for work or what to do with myself to give my life purpose outside of work. im trying. im seeking things. it would be easier if the current moment wasnt what it is.

Whenever you demand state bureaucratic classification to enshrine some supposed underlying real thing, what you're actually doing is making the state classification process the real thing.

coworker who i thought was around my age just mentioned having a 16 year old kid. maybe i dont actually have eyes.

The backlash against trans people is entirely artificial and top-down. Billionaires bought up media outlets and purged pro-trans journalists, before instituting anti-trans editorial policies. They spend hundreds of millions of dollars on anti-trans messaging. What were we SUPPOSED to do?

Lest this be mistaken for dooming - they have dumped a literal fortune, literal billions of dollars, into trying to make people hate us, and have moved the needle only about 5%. The biggest impact has not been convincing people to hate us, but in convincing *politicians* that people hate us.

idk what it is with the being weird about autism but literally i just treat people with autism like how i would want to be treated and i've never had any communication issues, let alone any personal weirdness or complexes about the idea of autism. and i'm like, fucking stupid.

Lean Six Sugma

Under duress, I keep trying to use AI to automate the most tedious and brainless parts of my job. It can't even do those tasks. Can't alphabetize a list of documents without hallucinating. Utterly useless

experiencing a workplace """AI transformation""" firsthand is what has kept me sane + grounded about the whole AI "taking jobs" fear. it's just... not. it isn't capable of it. they'll surely use it as an excuse to reduce labor, yeah, but AI is not bridging that gap. not at all.

wow that's crazy. you mean the exact thing every autistic software engineer pointed out was going to happen 3 years ago. this is what happens when ppl listen to 0 braincell grindset tech fellaters that think they're smart for the novel invention of "lying" instead of people who build real software

With the AWS outage, now‘s as good a time as any to post this old strip.

As a kid i would vacuum up whole cups of water and my dad would be like why is the vacuum bag wet and i would be like idk

husband and i are back in phantasy star portable 2

remote work is like birth control or UBI atp where there’s overwhelming research consensus they improve quality of life for people they apply to, yet access is impeded or blocked by the ruling class because the thought of marginalized ppl having rich full lives makes steam come out their ears

I didn't take pics but the feeling of being in a group of people with no visible beginning or end was so thrilling. The opposite of online anomie, and a living counterpoint to the wary, isolated, compartmentalized world the shitheads want to make. It's simple and obvious I guess but it means a lot.

could expand my mind and do something creative OR i could 100% a crash bandicoot game again. hm.

the year is 2030. your daughter (cis) gets sent to the principle's office for calling a boy in her class a "theyfab" (he is also cis). she comes home and says that her principle (also cis) is such a "gigahon" as she tells you (a cis person) what happened. you are living in hell.

notice the general mood of the timeline? how everyone is in a good mood and there’s a lot less misery and dooming? how there’s a lot of “we’re going to beat these assholes”? anyway that’s why these events are important

turnout here was easily double what it was last time (?). it extended wayyyyyy further and had way more young people. healing my soul.

WORE MY TRANS FLAG SWEATER TO THE FUNCTION AND A DAD OF A TRANS KID APPROACHED ME TO TALK FOR A MINUTE