One of my least favorite parts of being a fat trans girl: Thinking it would be REALLY cool to lose an inch or two of height from estrogen magic, and then remembering that would completely fuck me over with the BMI calculations used to decide if I'm worthy of medical care.

Look, if there's one thing we know about people with penises who like having penises, it's that they stumble into penis removal situations CONSTANTLY. Poor little dears.

7% *that we know of*. If I'd killed myself as a teenager because of the misery and confusion of unnamed gender dysphoria (and I thought about it), I'd have been filed in the 93%.

I've been fighting with my insurer every step of the way to SRS/FFS consults, and what REALLY makes the process soulkilling is that I just know all the bureaucratic bullshit navigation is going to end at "Lol, no- you're too fat." Sometimes I'm afraid I'm addicted to the illusion of forward motion.

Agreed. But don't be like my mom and say "is that REALLY what you want to sound like?"

Everyone should read this. I should read it again.

100% Though also so *many* transitions feel like they are later in life. The internet is flooded with folks in their 20s who need to be shown its not too late. Sure, I hate them a *LITTLE*, but in a sisterly way. And I'm sure those starting in their 50s+ hate me a little too when I whine.

I wish this project well. I also wish someone had asked Heidecker about trans comedians he likes or similar. Something to make it clear that the idea is to treat trans people as valid artists, not JUST as tools for the conceptual joke by a cis man.

Why are you trans? (Wrong answers only) Homemade little kid Father's day gifts suck.

This is true, though it doesn't mean that group lacks lonely men- rather that the answer for those men is not related to some broader sociocultural epidemic. In my case, the answer was Estrogen.

There is a medical conference in Boston on Sunday at 8am at the Menino convention center that will be featuring a panel on trans health moderated by a Trump HHS co-author along with SPLC designated hate group SEGM affiliates.

I stumbled on 20-year-old images of me doing college theater, and I'm thrown by how I was, like, legitimately cute? I was there! I clearly recall being a fat hideous troll! MY DYSPHORIA WAS VERY CLEAR ON THIS! (And then I remember I kept being cast as soft boy romantic leads....oh! OH!)

the scene at the northern virginia democrats' redistricting party is wild. as balloons and streamers fall, party members are rolling their eyes back in their heads and levitating in a circle as chants of "blood. blood. blood" echo through the auditorium. it's exciting to see the base this fired up

I'm less than 2 years in- and being trans is not part of my career like Evan- but the question interests me. I definitely take being trans and receiving the right care from childhood over being a cis girl. But transitioning at 37? It hurts and is limited and it huuuurts. I'm shallow and weak!

My hot take is that the median social system breaks under too much optimization pressure, and we should stop trying to optimize things

When I was 12, I thought Robert E. Lee was a hero. I'm from Arlington, VA. The local High School was named after Lee. The big street near my house was Lee Highway. I got taught Lost Cause History. I'm still angry and ashamed. Today is in part the FUCK YOU to old Virginia I've needed ever since.

THAT'S RIGHT REPUBLICANS

I feel like not enough reviewers know they had to remake the entire final third of the Michael Jackson movie because it falsely exonerated him, and it turned out the kid’s lawyer foresaw that shit in the 1990s and made sure to include a clause that the estate could never ever do that on film.

This. Every time you see a "successful" trans person, know we are just one transphobe away from losing everything. This is one reason why it is important for allies to actually ally when we're not around -- transphobes should know their views aren't acceptable to anyone.

VERY COOL PERSON: It's four-twenty, you know what that means? ME: Hell yeah! [starts shoving blackbirds into a pie]

Right now, in another timeline, a very different variant of the person I used to be is sitting down at a table for one with a brutally hoppy IPA and an equally bitter sense of ennui. I hope she works it out. 💕

if you go to another country for this, they should be allowed to hunt you for sport

Breaking: HHS’s ban on gender-affirming care is struck down. Rarely have I read a ruling this sharply worded. “This case is one of a long list of examples of how a leader’s wanton disregard for the rule of law causes very real harm to very real people.” www.advocate.com/politics/nat...

The cis reaction Caitlyn Jenner stuff is like if every time a Kash Patel was in the news, the reaction online was mostly people calling him racial slurs and mocking his name for being Indian. If you want to know if someone is transphobic, watch how they talk about trans people they don't like.

This is so true. And look- I've had times where I've broken down crying thinking of how my transition has made my daughter more vulnerable. How could I put myself before her? AM I BAD MOM? But I know what I did was right- for me and for her.

This is exciting! The comic, not the film. Though I bear the film no specific I'll will.

Indeed. Though everyone else should read Stone Butch Blues too. It's so good! Probably the book I most wish someone had handed me as a teenager.

Yeah, I think one of the most incredible things about the pope-off is that when previous popes have done similar things, it had to go through a translation barrier, but no nuance and no shade is lost when the American pope is being bitchy [complimentary]

there’s actually not a scholarly consensus about that. the reformation happened at a time of explosive construction in the church, not only for modern st. peter’s but of churches all throughout europe, resulting in way more belltowers clanging out the time google “sonic inflation” to learn more

It is appaling this frames the story overwhelmingly in terms of dumb patients being tricked by diet culture as opposed to material issues of cost and access.

Texas' only licensed Hindi, Punjabi, and Urdu legal interpreter is now languishing in a Raymondville detention center. She’s lived in America for 35 years: www.texasobserver.org/immigration-...

I had a good twenty years where somebody saying "Hey, ever consider you might be an egg?" might have been lifechanging. It took saying some INSANELY eggy shit for me to ask the question on my own. Of course that's just one path to transness- but I'm not that special.

Seems like all narrative designers are beautiful funny women with great opinions

I'm mostly here to laugh at Chad Bianco. I like when bad things happen to racist murderers! As for Steyer....well...he'll probably be better than Newsome.

The other key aspect of this bill is a public list of doctors- the point here is to escalate harassment to the point where it stops all care. Fuck these monsters, and my heart is with my sisters and other siblings in Tennessee.

I think this is actually too conservative. As a species *we've always been broke*. There's never been a time without a morally reprehensible amount of want and precarity. It's absolutely true that the material conditions of the present are not OK. But the past was even worse!

To all trans people living openly: Thank you for being the mirrors I never had growing up. Seeing you allowed me to finally see myself.

As one of the formerly 'Fine', I can't help but wonder how many similarly 'fine' folks are out there, denied something so much better by ignorance and bigotry.

The worst. Honestly, This is one of the more vile assholes living in my head. I'd never think this about other trans lesbians of course- that would be so cruel and even more stupid! But me? I'm built different. The fakest of the trans.

1. I think Molly Shah knows exactly what she's doing. 2. As a former fucking attorney (fancy Ivy league degree, ten years of practice), I think people underestimate how little that credential indicates knowing anything.

God: Hey check out this cool new third gender I made! Angel: You've fucked up a perfectly good trans woman is what you've done. Look at her, she has no epistemic authority in the academy

Alleluia! Good riddance to abusive scum. My timeline has been full of people taking as given that 'libs' sticking with Swalwell is evidence of their utter awfulness, and it seems worth noting that at an institutional level that's not happening here.

Drop the r-word, the frankly even worse made-up variations of that word, or any ableist slur and you catch an immediate block, no questions asked. This shit is personal, and even if it weren’t, get fucked.

Yesterday I got bangs. I definitely spend more hours angsting over that choice than I had over transitioning. My receded hairline is maybe the center of my physical dysphoria, and bangs felt like a well...SOMETHING. And...they're kind of terrible! But I had to try. No regrets.

we don’t owe the “why didn’t she report it” crowd a single response

That said, there's a big difference between 'why didn't this person break the story' and 'why did this person *endorse the candidate they had a pretty good idea what an abuser*'. very different things!

This reporting is extremely thorough and the allegations are horrific. Swalwell’s attorney is trying to undermine this woman’s credibility by saying she kept working for him afterward. It’s tired victim-blaming rhetoric. She was 21 when it started. I believe her and I hope she is okay.

reskeet this if you’re a trans woman who has never been on 4chan or kiwifarms. Just trying to see something

Repost with your first crush Christine Baranski on Cybil. No regrets on that front.

This stuff makes me so tired. No, Trump talking about which women he finds hot as he dispenses his favor, AND associating that quality with being cis, AND talking about being trans as "being a man" is not 'good content. It's misogynist and trans-misogynist sludge.