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HAPPY BIRTHDAY LEMON DEMON ‼️‼️

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transness exists in such a frustrating space right now where psychiatry as an apparatus & industry will swear up and down that while they used to classify transness itself as a mental disorder, now they just have the authority to diagnose Gender Dysphoria(TM) which is supposedly "non-stigmatizing" and just to facilitate trans people getting insurance to cover care.

(not acknowledging that getting this diagnosis from a psychiatric authority of some sort is pretty much the only way to legally access gender affirming healthcare that is outside of what's permitted for your birth assignment, and the only way to get insurance to cover any of it).

so they're constantly trying to pitch the line: "sure psychiatry used to be transphobic but now we just have near exclusive power over trans bodies--but that's totally different and not structurally transphobic at all <3"

psychiatry is like "we provide access to trans health care" & it's like, oh for sure, just like how landlords "provide housing."

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u heard him ladies

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guy who doesnt realize hes commanding a small army and thinks a lot of people are just going along with his bit

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dragon girl

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What do you believe in now?

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lol i went to delete a twitter account for reasons (i ran a satire account of my university’s president) and it wouldn’t let me.

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it’s so wild that trumps executive order has that bit about sex being assigned at conception.

I assume this is the anti-abortion position being encoded into the anti-trans legislation. no one is testing what gametes their embryo has— such a thing isn’t possible (embryos don’t produce them yet; there are primordial germ cells, but they aren’t differentiated as sperm or egg cells).

it just goes to show that gender/sex policing is never based on any science— there is no "scientific" definition to what “female sex” or "male sex" is. It doesn’t exist as a material reality. It is a legal construct that is assigned with the first legal documentation assigned to a subject—the birth certificate.

and that isn’t based on chromosomes or gametes. it’s a decision based on whether a doctor thinks the infant will be mostly likely to be capable of penetrative heterosexual sex as “female” or “male.” because penetrative heterosexual sex is the point, the determination is based on whether the clitoris is long enough to penetrate (in which case “it’s a boy”) and if not whether there is a vaginal canal deep enough for penetration (in which case “it’s a girl”) and if neither or both are true the child’s body is forcibly surgically altered.

they can't define sex "biologically" because it is not a "biological" reality. it will be determined, as always, punitively, on a case by case basis on varying traits and legal documentation, to enforce patriarchal economic systems that depend on misogyny and transmisogyny.

one of the most telling parts from the executive order, to me, was this (emphasis mine):

"The erasure of sex in language and policy has a corrosive impact not just on women but on the validity of the entire American system. Basing Federal policy on truth is critical to scientific inquiry, public safety, morale, and trust in government itself."

this bit gives the game away with how important the institution and enforcement of sex assignment is to capitalism, the united states economy, the carceral/legal system, and the ideological buy-in to us-american hegemony.

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So are we ready to admit the world is doomed yet <3

No cuz I'm not a little bitch

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Dinocember Week 4+

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Luigi is the king of the jeans nap I bet he never quite knows what day it is

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whenever people say they can't watch/play/read anything slightly upsetting or scary or challenging because it's... upsetting or scary or challenging all i can think of is this lol

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People I met for a few moments that live in my head forever.

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alright, I’m annoyed with the class that I’m taking. it’s about writing novels, and I thought it would have cool stuff about balancing your narrative and developing themes etc, but instead she spent the first class talking about how every book fits into the Hero’s Journey (the monomyth template). and I was somewhat of a contrarian, and said “can you give us examples of books that don’t fit into this template?” and she said “no. because all books fit.”

but I dunno man, I just finished reading this Korean book where the plot is just the character having a string of hookups and reflecting on them without changing in any way. I don’t know if it’s possible to contort that into the Hero’s Journey.

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you are grounded, for til cock

FOR TIL COCK????????

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redraw of an old artwork :3