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hey I hate transbian for the same reason we say “trans woman” not “transwoman” without the space. you can be a trans lesbian. you can be a t4t lesbian. You don’t need a different word. You’re still a lesbian, and you deserve to be a part of the larger lesbian community, if you so desire.

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oh? 👀

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why are people pretending that sex is the only axis upon which some people willingly enjoy things that hurt/scare them

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i am a girlboss i am a war criminal i am a lunatic . i am clinically insane & the next virgin mary & i am never going to die

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peace and love on Earth..

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youtube is pulling this bullshit again

praying for the firefox gods to save me once more...

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Fun, sparkly, casual gender nonconformity is awesome and wonderful, but it's also not the only type. Gender nonconformity can be serious, and it should have a respected place in society.

It's not inappropriate for a man to wear a dress to a business meeting. It's not inappropriate for a woman to wear a three-piece suit to a funeral. It's not inappropriate for someone to dress androgynous for an interview. Gender nonconformity is, for many people, just a part of expression. It's not just a performance or a fun weekend thing (although, again, that's good too)!

If gender nonconformity is only viewed as "casual", and is still punished in professional spaces for being "inappropriate", trans, genderqueer and gender nonconforming people will never be free. If you only treat gender nonconformity with respect in drag bars and pride festivals, you don't actually respect gender nonconformity.

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Ngl I totally forgot fandom discourse was a thing. I don’t care man, I have car payments

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I've been trying not to fan the flames of the NG stuff with useless posts but I feel like I need to say this.

The thing that sucks is that even if one were to give Neil the benefit of the doubt, which he has in no way earned with the way he dropped off the face of the planet, his best-case scenario is "yeah I took advantage of vulnerable women including a fan, a nanny, and a tenant I evicted." Not even to mention the discrepancy between "it was definitely consensual" and the fucked up "I'm autistic so I didn't notice I was violating boundaries :/"

I personally don't advocate for GO or Sandman to be canceled. It's shitty to fire hundreds of cast and crew members because one guy who's already been paid for his work couldn't keep it in his pants.

But I really think that it's important to, like, not start worshipping him again when the new seasons come out and casual fans (who know nothing of the accusations) come back. People ARE going to return, and I'm pretty sure NG will also come back around then and pretend nothing happened. Tell new people WITHOUT HARASSING THEM about this. Don't sweep it under the rug because you want to ask him about established post-canon Ineffable Husbands or whatever. Let that be the domain of fanfic.

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Bad Content #31

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saw some take earlier (i’m not gonna link it here bc i try to be conscious about my gargantuan reach lol, plus it wasn’t actually that bad) about how using monsters as a way to represent marginalized people is all well and good but if they’re killing people the analogy doesn’t work, and i got mad about it at the time but then i had time to think about it, and i still disagree but now i have an actual reason

i think its ok to use monsters as a way to represent people, yeah, but i also think that includes the darker, more emotionally challenging side of that. sometimes people are gonna have different needs that will make them fundamentally incompatible no matter how much they love each other, and i think something like vampirism or lycanthropy or what have you can make a fantastic analogy for that when done right

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My foster dog’s adventures in motherhood

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This is a month and a half old so I don't know if anybody else has shared this article already. Also sharing a couple excerpts but please read the article in full. Especially with things flying around like the Texas Attorney General trying to obtain a list of transgender people and recently not allowing anybody to change their legal gender marker anymore (although, to be clear, Texas requires subpoena for access to this information currently). I don't know, if this informs your choice on what route you want to go with HRT for the better (i.e. DIY), I'm glad to have posted it.

Here is the map (check alt text for text list):

Because testosterone is already a scheduled drug, this is more immediately a concern for people taking masculinizing HRT. But there is definitely concern for estrogen facing the same treatment:

(PDMP is prescription drug monitoring program)

Here's the conclusion of the article, which I really hope you click on, but is important enough to attach anyway:

Obviously the election has passed. With the knowledge that Trump will be imminently president, please consider your options if you plan on starting HRT.