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Fiat El Sabry 850 

This 1976 Fiat El Sabry 850 is one of just 80 examples built by Sanremo based coachbuilder GAMC BALDI. Based on an 850 Sport Coupe, it features a fiberglass body with a fixed windscreen, luggage compartment, removable top, and seating for four. The 843cc overhead-valve inline four was recently rebuilt and fitted with a reproduction Abarth silencer, new radiator, and water pump. It sends power to a four-speed manual gearbox, which was also recently rebuilt. 

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wait Amelie how does one go about watching this most recent episode of dropout. I am confused and intrigued and slightly terrified. I would like to see firsthand exactly what the wenis dance is and also how everybody knows it in advance. how do I find this

HI MARIN!!!!!! so dropout is like a streaming service so idk where u can find the full ep if you dont have a subscription but i woukd HUGHLY RECCOMEND getting one its 5$ a month and it is so so worthi t to support an amazing independent comedy service. i think so. at least. andi f you cant do that you can probably find someone to share an acc with? my parents pay for mine and their email and card info is on it so i dont share mine w anyone 😭 but there are some ppl that share their accs!!!!!

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Viani. Emozioni dell’umanità

Allievo di Nomellini e Fattori, conosce a Parigi l’espressionismo tedesco che influenza le sue opere dedicate ai diseredati

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if making annoying posts and then immediately logging off was a job well brother. id stop having to look into disability benefits.

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The leader of the group had found himself running late, of all things. He had been so caught up in trying to make sure he got everything around the cafe done, that he completely forgot about heading off to take care of some things elsewhere -- Mainly going to see his doctor for more... Medication-

But he was quick to catch sight of the other, having been in the middle of grabbing his bag to take with him, feeling Morgana already inside and ready to go. "Good morning, Yusuke," He adjusted his bag as he spoke, making sure it was comfortable for the cat within, "I had just lost track of time, is all. I have an appointment with the doctor."

But he thought about it for a minute, gaze moving off to the side. "But once I'm done, I plan on coming back here. If you're around when I get back, would you like to go and find some inspiration?" It would be nice to see him working on another piece of artwork. He was always so enthralled with it, it was nice to see him committing to his passion.

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"Good morning Ren. You seem to be in a rush today." Yusuke looked up from his spot at the Leblanc table, sketchbook laid out in front of him with a cup of water to the side. Normally Ren was able to stay and chat for at least a moment, but he seemed particularly busy today.

"Is there anything that I can assist you with?"

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Blow Up, 1966

© GAMC Ferrara

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Title: Gender dysphoria in adolescents with Ehlers–Danlos syndrome

Date: Dec 2022 Published in: SAGE Open Medicine Publicly available: Yes

Citation: Jones, J. T., Black, W. R., Moser, C. N., Rush, E. T., & Malloy Walton, L. (2022). Gender dysphoria in adolescents with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome. SAGE open medicine, 10, 20503121221146074. https://doi.org/10.1177/20503121221146074

Abbreviations:

EDS: Ehlers-Danlos syndrome

GAMC: gender affirming medical care

HSD: hypermobility spectrum disorder

TGD: transgender and gender diverse

Article Summary

Abstract

Introduction

Ehlers-Danlos syndrome represents a family of connective tissue disorders with overlapping features that commonly include joint hypermobility, tissue fragility, and skin hyperextensibility. it occurs in an estimated 1 in 2500 to 5000 babies worldwide anually.

There are currently 14 recognised subtypes, the most common of which is hypermobile EDS (hEDS) representing 80%-90% of all EDS cases with a suspected prevalence of up to 20 in 1000 babies. Molecular confirmation is used to diagnose all subtypes except hEDS although a genetic basis is suspected. The hEDS phenotype commonly includes neurological, cardiovascular, gastrointestinal, musculoskeletal, and mental health symptoms.

Some patients are hypermobile but do not fulfull the 2017 hEDS criteria and are diagnosed with hypermobility spectrum disorder HSD

Multidisciplinary care is recommended for the treatment of EDS. One area of unrecognised need is the support of transgender and gender diverse identity and gender-affirming treatment.

Little is known about children and adolescents with EDS who have gender dysphoria and/or express trans identity. A recent study of adults undergoing gender-affirming surgery found that 2.6% had a diagnosis of EDS, 130 times higher than the general population. Gender affirming clinics have noted a disproportionate number of patients with EDS although this data is more limited and localised. A recent case report of adults with EDS noted a range of psychological symptoms associated with transvestism [sic].

Gender dysphoria is defined as an incongruence between one's affirmed gender and gender assigned at birth (Table 1 details the DSM-5 criteria) and has a prevalence of 0.7% to 1.3% in children and adolescents (higher when self-reported). Gender dysphoria is associated with significant psychological distress (including anxiety, depression , social withdrawal, and suicidal ideation). Poorer psycological function is associated with social intolerance of gender dysphoria and gender nonconformity. Gender affirming medical care (GAMC) is shown to improve mental health and well-being of TGD children and adolescents

Methods and materials

A retrospective chart review was performed betwween January 2020 and May 2022, including patients seen in a multidiscliplinary EDS clinic who had an EDS or HSD diagnosis as well as reported gender dysphoria or transgender identity.

Statistical analysis

Ethical approval and informed consent

Results

28 patients were included in they analysis. Statistics on assigned gender at birth, hEDS/HSD diagnosis, age at diagnosis, and gender identity are provided

Symptom frequency and frequency of treatments are listed in Tables 2 and 3 respectively.

Discussion

17% of the EDS population in the multidisciplinary clinic self-report as TGD, dramatically higher than the 1.3% national average. The cause of this association is unclear but the findings indicated a need for increased awareness of TGD comorbid presentations in paediatric EDS patients. As GAMC is important to improce mental health and well-being, providers should ask relevant screening questions to identify gender identity.

There have been many reports of impairments in psychosocial and emotional functioning in children and adolescents with TGD (including depression , suicidality, self-harm, and eating disorders) and similar reports in individuals with EDS suggesting that both groups have a significant mental health burden.

The majority (89%) in this study identified as transmasculine (assigned female at birth but do not identify as female presently). This is higher than previous reports' suggestion that 55%-61% of TGD adolescents identify as transmasculine. Prior to 2005, the sex ratio of individuals with TGD was around 1:1 but there has been a shift since 2006. The reason is unclear. Over 90% of adolescents seen in the multidisciplinary EDS clinic are assigned femail at birth, likely introducing a sex bias in this study.

Most of the individuals in this study reported previous subspecialty care and many other visits across several other specialties which can be common since healthcare utilisation is high for EDS patients. Subspecialty care includes GAMC provided through the endocrine gender specialty clinic.

This study suggests that multidisciplinary EDS should adopt GAMC practices when possible (e.g., chosen pronoun usage, use of multiple gender labels for demographic information) which may require the development of clinic screening measures. A listing of gender specialty paediatric clinics in the United States is referenced.

Study limitations include the limited number of individuals and possible underestimation of individuals identifying as TGD (retrospective review), potentially unreliable documentation of co-occurring psychiatric diagnoses, a potential sample bias of increased clinical severity and need. The percentage of TGD seen at this clinic could be underestimated. Sample size calculations were not completed, formal measures were not obtained, and no comparisons were made between patients with TGD and EDS to those with EDS only

The study cannot answer why children with EDS are at higher risk for gender dysphoria but they speculate that minority stress affecting TGD children can exacerbate EDS symptoms

hEDS was the only EDS subtype represented likely reflective of the prevalence of hEDS compared to other subtypes; however, these findings could be unique to hEDS

This study may be capturing an overall increase in rates of TGD among youth in the US rather than a higher incidence of TGD in EDS patients as compared to the wider population

Conclusion

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Una mostra su Achille Funi a Ferrara

Virgilio Socrate Achille Funi (Ferrara, 1890 - Appiano Gentile, 1972) visse da protagonista i principali movimenti che hanno caratterizzato la cultura italiana della prima metà del Novecento e, dopo essersi distinto nel Futurismo, divenne uno tra i grandi interpreti del Realismo magico, del moderno classicismo di Novecento e del muralismo degli anni Trenta, pur mantenendo sempre una spiccata autonomia. Innamorato dei miti classici, Funi assimilò dai maestri dell'Officina ferrarese uno sguardo legato alla tradizione figurativa antica come al linguaggio più attuale di Cézanne, Picasso, Derain, de Chirico. Ora Ferrara, fino al 25 febbraio 2024,  gli rende omaggio con una vasta rassegna antologica al Palazzo dei Diamanti, organizzata dalla Fondazione Ferrara Arte e dal Servizio Musei d'Arte del Comune di Ferrara. La mostra, a cura di Nicoletta Colombo, Serena Redaelli e Chiara Vorrasi, ripercorre la vita del pittore attraverso più di centotrenta opere, provenienti da prestigiose collezioni pubbliche e private, italiane e straniere, tra cui figurano i suoi capolavori, come dipinti a olio e a tempera, acquerelli e disegni a carboncino e a sanguigna, nonch�� cartoni preparatori per i grandi affreschi e mosaici, che offrono al pubblico l'occasione di scoprire lo straordinario talento di uno dei più grandi maestri del Novecento. L'esposizione prende avvio dalle prime prove del giovane Funi, per poi lasciare spazio ai capolavori futuristi, come Uomo che scende dal tram e Il motociclista del 1914, che suscitarono l'ammirazione dell'amico Umberto Boccioni poi, dopo le testimonianze della prima guerra mondiale, il percorso mette in luce il cruciale apporto dell'artista alla stagione del Ritorno all'ordine e alla restaurazione delle forme classiche. La fase del dopoguerra è rappresentata da opere nel segno di Cézanne, della pittura metafisica e di  Leonardo, come Genealogia (La mia famiglia) del Mart di Rovereto o Il bel cadavere (Le villeggianti) del Museo del Novecento di Milano, cui seguono i capolavori del Realismo magico, la cui atmosfera di stupore attinge alla cultura figurativa quattro-cinquecentesca e, oltre a Maternità e La terra, c’è anche L'acqua, presentata in questa occasione per la prima volta dopo oltre un secolo. Sono inoltre esposte alcuni lavori di Novecento, il movimento coordinato da Margherita Sarfatti, che raduna i più autorevoli esponenti di un moderno e maestoso classicismo, come il leonardesco Autoritratto da giovane del Museo d'arte della Svizzera Italiana di Lugano, la picassiana Saffo, la raffaellesca Lettura domenicale della GNAM di Roma o l'androgina Venere del Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts di Losanna. Negli anni Trenta e Quaranta Funi cercò i segreti dei maestri antichi rileggendo i generi della storia dell'arte in una chiave moderna, dal ritratto alla pittura storico-mitologica, testimoniata da Publio Orazio uccide la sorella della Nationalgalerie di Berlino, dalla natura morta al paesaggio di Il Foro romano delle GAMC di Ferrara. L'esposizione si conclude con la stagione della pittura murale dove, assieme a Sironi, Funi diede un nuovo slancio alla tradizione italiana dell'affresco e del mosaico, impegnandosi nelle campagne decorative con i miti della nazione sulle pareti di edifici monumentali. La rassegna offre l'occasione per riscoprire Il Mito di Ferrara, impresa decorativa che Funi ha realizzato per la Sala dell'Arengo del Palazzo Municipale della città estense, che rappresenta la summa dei grandi progetti murali che il pittore ferrarese ha affrescato negli anni Trenta e Quaranta a Milano, Trieste, Roma e Tripoli, di cui si può ammirare nell’esposizione una selezione di cartoni preparatori. Read the full article

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You said it was "hard to understand the intense anger at you" when I asked a nice, calm, clarifying question on anon. Jfc. I usually try to be level headed and give grace, however, I wasn't before but /now/ I'm angry. Stop tone policing minorities correcting you.

Implying needing HRT is an overlapping experience w intersex is implying it's an intersex thing to need HRT, you asked "that sounds like an intersex experience doesn't it?", after mentioning HRT. Otherwise, there wouldn't be an overlap like you say. Also, no, not all trans people need GAMC.

It is not "cosmetic surgery", that erases the severity of the human rights violation that occurs. It is called intersex genital mutilation, IGM for short.

You are speaking on experiences you haven't lived through, making assertions about similarities that you haven't personally faced. It's not your place to draw these comparisons. It's better to amplify the voices of those more marginalized than yourself: the intersex trans individuals (link) who DO have the lived experience and insight to speak on these issues, rather than fighting for the right to speak on something you've never lived through

It's honestly funny your doctor corrected you, informing you it is a common trans experience, yet still affirm it overlaps w intersex. No part of it implies it being about the overlap of society fighting against what's healthier for us.

You completely dismissed the concern (link) as to how you are framing intersex medicalization as what's healthier. You later blame the minority for pointing out the issues in your posts, minimizing the issue, and deflecting from any responsibility, editing in to say it's their fault for not reading into the apparent opposition that was never mentioned. One would be an "extremely mean person" for discussing the faults in your post. You say pointing out biases is a "gotcha", he asked you "please don't talk about an experience you do not understand" and you said they were "cruel" and "trying to scare you from speaking".

The perisex fragility is strong here

Don't bullshit us with how it "was not meant to imply" and that it's "quite easy to misunderstand if you don't read it carefully"...

You literally said the "experience commonly involves being born as a human being who naturaly requires gender-affirming medical intervention [...] in order to be a baseline of healthy [...] Which can also be said of many intersex experiences, even cis ones. We really have that in common".

I do not know how else to take that except that you missed a sentence or something. There's now been at least two to say that, possibly three depending if anon was Henry or not (idk n idc)

This part may be just me but I feel "being dispensed with testosterone" sounds like your were coerced and speaking as a intersex trans individual. You were not "sort of" (link) coerced onto exogenous testosterone, facing puberty due to medical neglect is not the same as facing it though forced medicalization. I read half the post thinking you were talking from your expierence of being both. I think maybe something like "when I started producing my own testosterone as expected" or something like "once I experienced the expected typical attributes of puberty as expected" could avoid such positioning

The transgender experience can have a lot of overlap with being intersex. On a raw physical level, before I even knew what gender was, my entire body shut down once puberty hit.

This is not something that I was conscious of at the time. This is something I'm only piecing together in retrospect when I look back at my life and compare the timetables of various severe physical and mental health issues with the timeline of when puberty caused what change.

Once I was being dispensed with testosterone and experiencing normal male changes, every physical sense became muted or numb, from taste to hearing to my ability to sense pain and discomfort. My mental faculties took a plunge. My mind was nothing but fog and anxiety and forced masking. My emotions disappeared and were replaced with only either anger or comfort. I began to suffer from a severe chemical imbalance style of depression. My sense of self disappeared and I literally developed face blindness. And I couldn't stop unconsciously chasing after various ways to use medications and behaviors to reproduce some of what would eventually happen automatically on estrogen. Even my genitals stopped functioning in a way that I understood how to cope with and became deeply unhealthy. On a sexual, physical level, before I had a sense of gender, I was already a woman born with the wrong genitals and the wrong hormonal production system. And it all start to go away and get better when I started HRT.

This sounds a lot like an intersex experience, doesn't it? But I just got done speaking to an actual doctor about that to really find that out. We haven't taken the blood test to check my actual chromosomes, but even with that entire story, there is actually no indication that my body is not the result of a standard XY pair. She told me that my story is in fact very common for trans people. On a scientific level, the trans perisex experience commonly involves being born as a human being who naturally requires gender-affirming medical intervention that alters sexuality itself in order to be a baseline of healthy in any and every way, even if a conscious understanding of gender or identity is missing. Which can also be said of many intersex experiences, even cis ones. We really have that in common.

EDIT: It seems to be bothering some people, so I do want to clarify, intersex folks often also have sort of an opposite experience, in which the medical intervention is exactly what they need to *not* go through to be healthy. This post was not meant to imply otherwise, and I do not feel that it did, but it is quite easy to misunderstand if you don't read it carefully.

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IL CARNEVALE DI NINO MIGLIORI

Straordinaria documentazione fotografica di Nino Migliori del Carnevale di Viareggio 2023