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quick what is everyone doing right now

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I'm crying my eyes out

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Horrifying news out of New York. I caution all trans folks to be careful if you look into the circumstances of Sam’s death.

I am so sorry to the entire Black and trans community in Oakdale. You and he both deserve so so much better than this.

(Edited to correct where Sam was from.)

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I know that HRT gives you secondary sex characteristics in one direction or another, but we HAVE to stop telling nonbinary people that they “can’t pick and choose.” Of course, you can’t tell your testosterone that you’d rather not grow chest hair, but there are things you can do!

You could go on T so your voice drops and start shaving so you don’t grow a beard. You could start HRT and then stop once you get the permanent changes you like. You can pursue sterilization instead of bottom surgery. You can get top surgery without being on T. You can go on E and work out a bunch to bulk out your muscles. You can pursue laser hair removal or electrolysis to remove unwanted hair, with or without HRT. You could even just start hormones to see if you like it and then stop if it isn’t to your taste.

Obviously, you can’t order secondary sex characteristics a la carte, but we have to stop being so awful to nonbinary people. We should discuss the options we have, not shut down the conversation with “that’s what you get.”

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watch out when listening to new music! it will sound like the month and year you discovered it in probably forever

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I want to talk about how there are two distinct forms of androgyny;

Neutral trait androgyny: possessing sex traits which cannot be categorized as "female" or "male" individually. (example, having a middle-pitched voice, small almost-flat breasts/pecs, a nondescript build that is not read as "feminine" or "masculine", a unisex hair style, etc)

Mixed trait androgyny: possessing traits which individually can be categorized as "female" or "male", but in 'wrong' combination. (example, a very low voice + large breasts, facial hair + curvy build, etc "confusing" combinations of traits generally read as "feminine" or "masculine")

I find personally that these forms of androgyny are generally met with a very different reaction from society generally.

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At the risk of destroying my notifications again, I'm back with another fundamentalist Christian translation.

A friend of mine who is studying to become a nurse mentioned that the CDC website on STI treatments had been taken down and she needed for her homework. I tried getting it myself and couldn't. I then tried accessing alternative guidelines I remembered and couldn't get those either.

She was frustrated and said "Why would they do that? Treatment is like the least controversial thing!"

And I was like "Well..."

On the less extreme end, I know lots of fundies who don't want information on STI treatments to be available because then people will think they can go sin without consequences.

The ideal sexual life in fundamentalist Christianity is to be a virgin, court and marry another virgin, and then get married and only ever have sex with that person for your entire life (and have lots of kids). And STIs are seen as proof of that because the only way (in their mind) to avoid them, is abstinence so it must be what God intended.

On the more extreme end, there is the occasional fundie who thinks that treating an STI (of someone who got it through sinning) is actually immoral because "the wages of sin is death" and that is God's design. This was not most people I knew but I certainly heard it enough.

Look, you can poke holes in this all you want but at least spare my notifications of it. Make your own post. I was in sex education on the practical and research side for a few years in part because of this specific issue so it hits close to home.

I mention it so people can know what to expect from this administration and hopefully prepare. Collect quality information especially on marginalized health conditions and be ready to spread it around. If you or a group you belong to have the equipment to run tests and treat them, stock up on supplies.

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I wish being plural weren't stigmatized. How fun would it be for me and my head mates to talk to my coworkers about stuff?

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It's hard to take transphobes' claims about "biological truth" seriously when they don't realize that *everyone* pees.

If you have a messed up urethra and aren't male, no urologist for you.

If your kidney ain't kidney-ing right, no urologist for you.

If the gyno can't figure it out, too bad.

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I loved this post just because all the comments flipped between sincere appreciation and mockery of the birds

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