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it's june! they're at pride

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Coffin Texts, spell 714

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I'm really grateful to Kai Cheng Thom for such a sparkling endorsement. I'm genuinely overwhelmed and so moved😭

Reminder that Trans/Rad/Fem drops on January 24th, and the preorder is available now!

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do you hear me? YOU LOST HER. you’ve trapped her in a human body. SHE’LL GO MAD.

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#'trans womens feminism is actually just overcompensatory dysphoric cope' and other sentences that deserve the death penalty

Welcome back gamergate!

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every pile has a dirty casino. the caSINo in Dogpile is a bit dirtier than most.

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”21時38分　気温22℃　親戚宅” by soleil [Twitter/X] ※Illustration shared with permission from the artist. If you like this artwork please support the artist by visiting the source.

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Intellectual Culture of the Hudson Bay Eskimo, Knud Rasmussen

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we need to talk about this btw.

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They can’t enjoy anything

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Liberals when trans women are in the line of fire: "This is so bad! This is fascism! *deep breath* REMEMBER YOU HAVE TO STAY ALIVE." *won't even reblog any transfem's dono posts begging for rent and grocery and medicine money.*

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having a freeze response to stress is so funny in the context of normal adult stressors. millions of years of evolution are trying to tell me that the email will not find me if i stay very still and do nothing

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and now joes calling herself a baeddel. SAD! she calls herself a baeddel despite the fact she's dating a cis woman. i know. it's true. a cis woman, think her name's kamela. (crowd boos) i know, and she's not even using it's/its pronouns (sotto pause, taking in the rally).. lemme see you in the audience, i see you.. using those it's/its pronouns, that's right. it's/its.. and joe's still using she/they. it's very sad. any good baeddel uses it's/its and everyone knows it. we all do. there's not a single theta delta at any of her rallies. terrible, really. and let me tell you- let me tell you people, she hasn't done any of the reading. she hasn't read deleuze, she hasn't read lacan, she hasn't even skimmed that hot, allostatic, load. and it's just so sad i mean- what a mess, am i right? i did the reading, people. i read baedan, anyone at this rally hear about that baedan? (crowd cheers) yeah we love baedan here! that gendered nightmare? it is just so terrible

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It's very easy to get in a mindset where there is a particular, specific way for a life to be good, well-lived. And then, when one inevitably becomes aware that there are many ways for life to be good that are not available to you, that you will never be a princess or a genius (so to speak, but many more common things may be barred to you), it is easy to get very emo about this fact, because it feels that a good life is then barred to you. And I think the idea of the multiplicity of the good (life, but also the good itself), in addition to being true, is very therapeutic re: this fact. It is sad, that there are nice things barred to you. But there are many nixe things, of very different kinds

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saw a post abt trans fem hrt in china earlier, and its got me interested in the differences in hrt around the world. like in australia, doctors will not prescribe injected estradiol, when thats one of the most common forms in other countries.

long post so heres yr break, cw for discussion of minor surgery

here mostly you start on pills (either zumenon, progynova, or, rarely, if theres shortages, estrofem), maybe go to patches or gel. theres an option in some places for something a bit different tho. used to be only one endocrinologist did this, in sydney, but about 5 years ago it became much more widespread.

you have to order them from one of a handful of compounding pharmacies, but, they take 100 or 200mg of estradiol, and some binding agents, and compress it into a fused, crystalline pellet.

under local anaesthetic they make a small incision over some fatty tissue like your hips, or butt, insert a tool to the depth and location (about an inch sideways from the incision) and then place the pellets inside. it takes like 20 minutes, most of which is waiting for the local anaesthetic to infiltrate tissue.

i find it a bit stressful, but, i have my own problems.

anyway once thats done they put steri-strips and a waterproof dressing on it, it heals over a week or two, and begins to dissolve.

it lasts about 8 to 12 months, and for most of that time will maintain steady levels of estrogen, tailing off towards the end. its often used while aiming for quite high levels of estrogen (900 to 1200 pmol/L), and at those levels it will suppress T production on its own. you can aim for lower levels as well, its just associated with that because of the guy who used to be the only one doing it. costs like 350aud including the surgery and the implants, which is cheaper than the cost of enough progynova to maintain those levels for me.

havent rlly heard abt anyone outside aus doing these.

anyway im healing up from getting like 400mg of estradiol shoved into my hip last week, and then hitting the implant site on a doorknob so hard it is still bruised, the following night. you cannot tell where the pellets are, also

anyway tell me abt different elements of hrt in your country! curious how different it gets

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It's tiring how every time there's a new anti-trans law a million liberals try to um actually 🤓☝️ the wording as if conservative politicians are fairies who will melt away as a result of a law being poorly worded. Yay everyone is technically considered female now because of a bad definition of female-ness, how does that fact help me not get unpersoned? It really only matters if you're a lawyer arguing in court

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alright, here's the actual text of the antitrans EO

not sure what the timeframe will be like on its enforcement so get those documents changed fast if you still can

if you get all liberal on this post i will block you this is a communist post