#Pathways Into

[dragonkid11]

Step Below Hell by Olivia Bittner & Pathways Into by serenityatdusk are both third-party supplement for Magnagothica Maleghast that both gives 6 more 'houses' for the players to play as in new interesting styles

[vintagehomecollection]

The Los Angeles House: Decoration and Design in America's 20th-Century City, 1995

[archiepelago]

first image is courtesy of @tenmillionmice!

[feliformiaboy]

more lazy pathways art because i've got a Disease in my brain

[allura-raine]

[theabigailthorn]

What in the academic fuck is a GIC assesment

A GIC assessment (Gender Identity Clinic) assessment is the psychiatric interrogation you have to go through in Britain if you want permission to medically transition (and some aspects of legal transition too). Also called a Gender Dysphoria Assessment.

It involves answering a bunch of medically irrelevant, repetitive, deeply humiliating, repetitive questions like how you masturbate, what you wear when you masturbate, your sexual history, your childhood history, what toys you played with as a child, your employment, the clothes you like to wear, your relationship with your partners and family, etc. The classic is "Do you imagine yourself as a woman when you masturbate?" It also involves various psychiatric tests to check whether you're psychotic, which are deeply stigmatising. You will likely have to suffer this interrogation more than once if you want certain medical and legal doors to open. If you do not answer these questions "correctly" you may be refused transition.

If you want to get it for free, you'll need to wait several years, possibly decades depending on where you live, to be admitted to a Gender Identity Clinic.

If you want to go private, it will cost you about £500 a go, maybe more. (It's not technically a GIC Assessment unless it takes place at an NHS GIC; otherwise it's just sparkling humiliation.)

At the end of your interrogation you will - if you answered correctly - be diagnosed with "gender dysphoria." There is no way for them to check whether the answers you gave were truthful or whether you just told them what they want to hear. In Britain, about a third of trans people surveyed said they lied or withheld information during these assessments. There was no way for the 2015 American Psychiatric Association Working Group on gender dysphoria - the cis people who created the diagnosis* - to know that the interview data they based it on wasn't also full of people telling doctors what they wanted to hear! The unreliability of that data, some researchers have said, calls into serious question the use and sense of the diagnosis! * Fun fact: Ray Blanchard and Kenneth Zucker were both on that working group!

The NHS spends somewhere between 20 and 90 million pounds a year (depending on how you count it) on doing this.

Contrast that process to, say, the treatment pathway for menopause, where a cis woman who wants hormone replacement therapy can just get it from her family doctor 🙃

If you'd like to know more about this, I spoke about it here in more detail with citations

And wrote about it here

[whitejays-galaxy]

I had to

Meanwhile Dooku and Palpatine

[illustratus]

The Pathway by Carlos de Haes

[aestum]

(by Josh Hild)

[happyheidi]

𝖬𝗈𝗈𝗇 𝗀𝖺𝗍𝖾𝗌 𝖺𝗇𝖽 𝗉𝖺𝗍𝗁𝗐𝖺𝗒𝗌 ‧₊˚✩

[unholyeldritch]

I just wanna take a walk...

[archiepelago]

[feliformiaboy]

does it know? 🤔

[jvstinderosa]

Your journey is worthwhile

[zoriac]

The brainrot oh god the brainrot

I drew this shit under an hour with a broken pen and my finger. I am not doing what I am supposed to be doing currently in favour of the hoes depicted

[unbfacts]

The Norwegian government employs Sherpas from Nepal to build mountain pathways, paying them so well that a summer’s work in Norway can match more than a decade’s earnings in Nepal.