#or there’s a medical reason

[applejee]

home from the blood bank and i wonder…….

[vogelys]

TF2 will always have a special place in my heart

[catboybiologist]

By now, there's lots of people have heard about the internal CDC memos for all newly prepared manuscripts (like future scientific papers waiting to be published):

There's so much to comment on, and I'm seeing it all right now. What the state of science is. What this means for the queer community. All of that.

But fuck, I think I might genuinely start crying over this. As a transgender biologist, this feels like a brutally personal blow. I slowly accepted my gender alongside my biology education. The more misinformation that was spewed about "biological sex" by mainstream media, the more my professors, colleagues, and primary sources would casually drop information that proved they have no idea what they're talking about. I'm not an expert on sex determination, gender, or transgender biology specifically by any means. But my worldview has been crafted by my studies in genetics and molecular biology.

Engaging with this research helped me demystify transition. It helped me optimize my transition. It helped me explain how HRT and other steps of trans healthcare work to other people. And it helped me overcome my own internalized transphobia, and finally start transitioning, despite knowing I wanted to since my preteen years.

Who knows how enforceable internal guidelines like this will be. But its certainly going to scare a lot of researchers away from transgender healthcare and science in the coming years, and that breaks my heart.

There's a lot I can say here, but fuck. I just needed to vent for a moment. Fuck.

[schizoaffectively]

You are well within your right to be angry about the help you didn't get and should have gotten.

You are well within your right to be angry about having your needs neglected.

You are well within your right to be angry.

[adhdandcomics]

"adhd is the easiest disability to have" “sure plenty of people have adhd but most people are faking” “people are abusing the resources that WE need so that’s why i can’t get my adderall!”

there has been an artificial shortage of all adhd medication for the past 4 years in the US. every investigation into this shortage has returned with the unequivocal result that simply nobody thinks we need it enough to solve the problem.

so they point fingers at the “faker” gaming the system to get adderall who “thinks” they have adhd or is “abusing stimulants to get ahead” for a problem that Our system MANUFACTURED.

so we would be at each others throats instead of realizing that our government and big pharma is to blame for all of this. because their First priority is to punish addicts and to punish folks with adhd and to punish anyone who relies on medication. over everything else. even over profit.

[thebibliosphere]

Still not over the head of cardiology, who said she wouldn't formally diagnose me with dysautonomia because she didn't want me to think of myself as disabled.

As if good vibes and a can-do attitude can stabalize autonomic dysfunction.

[dailyheavymedic]

day 49

(14)

[syrren]

“The artist becomes the canvas!” - TMAGP 002: Making Adjustments

[quazies]

Putting things back together..

[rottmnt-residuum]

Part 27 of Arc II (Part 53)

you know, i realise now that stopping here might be slightly anxiety enducing... ah well c'est la vie

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[lockandkeyblade]

Not so Fun Anymore

Gotham is good for a lot of reasons. Excessive amounts of death leading to a lot of ambient ectoplasm, a (mostly) quiet ghost population, and enough problems that Danny could have his slice of the Obsession with protection cake and eat it, too.

There's also Red Hood.

He's not exactly sure what the man is yet. Excessively Liminal or Revenant or some kind of halfa, but that is, admittedly, part of the attraction. Red Hood finds him when he's flying close to the roof tops of Crime Alley-- one moment Phantom is flying through the air, the next there's a hand around his wrist that slams him down into the concrete. Pinning him beneath a body that's got more bulk than his little undead body will ever have.

And... he's a halfa. In that moment, he is strictly more ghost than human, and what Red Hood just did? It's an invitation. An open house opportunity to have some tussles, communicate with the undead like he's used to. So he phases out from underneath the man, chuckling quietly to himself, and pins him right back.

This escalates. This escalates drastically.

Because Red Hood seems to have it out for him now. It takes Phantom far too long to realize that they aren't playing the same game, and by the time he does the Not A Game has culminated into being shot at and grabbed and pinned down the second Red Hood registers him in the vicinity.

He doesn't mind that part. He doesn't mind being held down with another man panting heavily into his ear, and he doesn't think Red Hood is protesting that, either.

But Red Hood seems to find him no matter where he is, these days. And it's still escalating. They're starting to fall off rooftops, several storeys at a time. And though the bullets are honestly useless, there's something... not good, when Red Hood solely aims for places that would likely down a human and stop them from getting back up.

It starts to become worrying. Then, it stops being fun. It stops being fun the day Red Hood comes across him in his human form.

At least he genuinely seems freaked out about the blood staining Danny's shirt, thanks to the bullet he just put in his shoulder.

[transgendz]

My roommates and I are all queer and disabled, I am make the majority of the income, and I was just fired from one of my jobs without pay suddenly right before pride month. I have been applying for jobs but we badly need to cover bills.

I had a post up for this, but we didn't make much progress and got more late fees. The power in particular is urgent because our power will be turned off in a couple of days if we can't pay, and that will make it impossible for me to continue my remote work. Somewhat less urgent, we also need to fill two prescriptions, one for me, and one for my roommate. We only refill this one every few months and I didn't realize we needed to pick it up this week.

Dm me for proof or details. I will do art for anyone who helps with this, just contact me at my art blog @theartistrans I also sell the finished stuff I've done on there so don't be shy to ask about that too.

PP--V--$C--kofi

$314/$706

[swordy-da-goat]

A warlock whose expertise is in the medical field. They use their insectoid and arachnid appendages as surgical tools. Don’t worry, they always wash their hands. They are a professional after all.

[segretecose]

one thing about male pharmacists they love shouting the name of your pussy medication especially when there’s a queue and like i personally dgaf i’ll tell people i have a yeast infection for free but not everybody’s like that and it doesn’t help that medication names are always like gyno 3000 cleanvaginerr plus

[dailyheavymedic]

day 29

Medic is the only one who can do that and live to tell the tale

[zarla-s]

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we were in the middle of something, do you MIND

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