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valentinsylve · 2 days ago

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"We [can't be] sitting here looking for, 'oh, please, please give us things!' No, we're going to f***ing take them," says Ní Fhlannagáin. "This is the thing folks don't realise about trans folks: if you make it so that I can't get access to the things I need to survive, I'm going to find a way to do it. We are a clever people. We will figure out a f***ing way to do it."

extremely cool article you should read if you haven’t already

#oh wow this is so important #everyone read this #diy surgery is something that really scares me and it's amazing to read about people who did good with it #and they were even doing these surgeries legally which is also fucking great - they just met the standards and did it #while reading i thought 'this is like the trans women's jane collective' and IT TOTALLY IS #(these women are also abortion activists - and of course they knew about the janes in the 60s-70s)#(in fact one of these women is also an abortion doctor)#trans history #underground medical care #anarchist medical care #trans medicine #trans women #orchiectomy #women helping women #diy healthcare #very interesting note as well on how being in a rural area was a great stealth shield because rural women don't tend to look like city wome #in fact in my experience a lot of blue collar women look what city ppl think of as 'gender nonconforming'#i have mistaken many many cis het blue collar/rural women for lesbians because of this deeply-rooted sexist assumption #but of course farm lesbians are very much a thing #i DIGRESS

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