#yoga principles

[missfaithmunich]

Slow Down and Savor: A Mindful Approach to Meal Times

Mindful Meal Times: Bringing Yoga Principles to the Dinner Table In our fast-paced world, family meals often become rushed affairs. Everyone eats quickly and the focus shifts to simply getting through the meal. We can bring mindfulness ...

Slow Down and Savor: A Mindful Approach to Meal Times In our fast-paced world, family meals often become rushed affairs. Everyone eats quickly and the focus shifts to simply getting through the meal. We can bring mindfulness into our dining experience. We draw inspiration from the principles of yoga. These moments can become meaningful opportunities for connection, gratitude, and…

[theorigins23]

Proper Exercises (Asanas): Yoga postures are designed to strengthen, stretch, and balance the body. They can also help to improve flexibility, reduce stress, and promote relaxation.

Proper Breathing (Pranayama): Yoga breathing exercises help to regulate the breath and improve the flow of oxygen throughout the body. They can also help to reduce stress, improve focus, and increase energy levels.

Proper Relaxation: Yoga relaxation techniques, such as savasana (corpse pose), help to calm the mind and body. They can be beneficial for reducing stress, improving sleep, and promoting overall well-being.

Proper Diet and Nutrition: A healthy diet is essential for overall health and well-being. Yoga practitioners are encouraged to eat a balanced diet that includes plenty of fruits, vegetables, and whole grains.

Meditation and Positive Thinking: Meditation and positive thinking are important aspects of yoga practice. Meditation can help to quiet the mind and focus the attention, while positive thinking can help to cultivate a more optimistic outlook on life.

[forkaround]

When the fuck will my parents realize that the reason I’m even remotely functioning is because of meds and no amount of yoga is going to change the fact that I have an under active thyroid! They can’t handle me on meds, as a reasonably okay person! What makes them think fucking it up will help!

[yogacareforyou]

Yoga Care Using Principles of Vinyasa

At Yoga Care for You, we utilize yoga care using principles of Vinyasa to create a flowing practice that connects movement with breath. This approach enhances mindfulness and presence, promoting physical and mental well-being. Each class incorporates yoga asanas for cancer patients, helping participants build strength, flexibility, and balance while encouraging relaxation. Our experienced instructors provide personalized guidance, making Vinyasa yoga a transformative experience for all practitioners. Whether you are a beginner or a seasoned yogi, you’ll discover that yoga for anxiety and stress can significantly improve your overall well-being.

[dkscore]

Love Marriage Yoga, Combinations ,Timing and Navamsa Chart in Vedic Astrology: A Comprehensive Guide

In Vedic astrology, the analysis of love marriage combination in vedic astrology involves examining specific planetary positions, aspects, and house lords. This guide delves into the astrological combinations that indicate love marriage yoga in astrology and the timing of marriage based on various astrological principles. Read more >>

[tusharoshrink]

Mental Health Matters: Unlocking Secrets to a Happy Life

Nowadays, mental health is the most important things in this world. It affects how we think, feel and behave. Our mental health defines literally everything about us, from how we deal with stress to what kind of relationships at work or in general do attract as well. But, sadly still mental health is an area that continues to go unnoticed and missed.

The objective of this article is to help you understand why mental health matters and what we can do about it. This article will delve deeper into what mental health is, difference between mental health and mental illness as well as why mental health awareness is important.

Understanding Mental Health: The Foundation of Well-being

Mental health includes our emotional, psychological and social well-being. It impacts how we think, feel and conduct ourselves when dealing with stress, relating to other and making choices. Mental well-being is much more than the absence of mental illness. Good mental health enables us to manage life, develop and maintain healthy relationships with one another and be able to operate independently.

Our mental health is an important pillar to overall well-being that include our thoughts, emotions and actions as we care to understand them. Putting our mental health first can help to create more balance and joy in life.

Difference Between Mental Health and Mental Illness

Although the terms "mental health" and "mental illness" are often used interchangeably, they mainly mean different things. Mental health refers to your wellbeing, whereas mental illness includes symptoms of medications such as depression, anxiety or bipolar disorder. Mental illness is a condition that affects person's thinking, feeling or mood and it may affect daily functioning.

Mental health awareness focuses on differentiating mental health and mental illness. It reminds us all that we deal with mental health in the same way how everyone deals physical health. Mental illness exists on a spectrum and you can have poor mental health without suffering from ant formal diagnosis, just as it is possible to experience good mental health with a diagnosed pathology.

The Importance of Mental Health Awareness: A Global Priority

The importance of mental health awareness is evident in developing a society that identifies and tackles with its troubles. Educating society will help stigmatize mental disability and help individuals in seeking assistance which they need. It also helps individuals in sharing their feelings and they do not feel hesistate to talk about their mental health issues without being embarrased.

Understanding these characteristics of mental health helps us recognize the earliest distress signs, so that we can be proactive in addressing them. Mental health programs and awareness campaigns are important means of probbing the public to discuss openly their mental health issues. They offer much of the necessary resources and aid for everyone else including all forms of practice to gain a better understanding and culture further acceptance.

Empowering Mental Health Awareness in the Workplace

Work is where we spent most of our lives, so it is important to prioritize mental health awareness in the workplace. A workplace must generate an environment supportive of mental health and hygiene that result in enhanced satisfaction, effeciency as well as retention.

Employers can lead the way in helping to raise mental health awareness through offering programs addressing policy change, availabililty of resources and cultural acceptance for speaking up. When mental health is given the importance that it deserves within a company setting, employees will feel more cared for and successful in their overall well-being.

Factors Affecting Mental Health

Mental health is the result of a multitude of factors, many due to genetics and environment or lifestyle habits, mixed with their experiences. There are lots of things that have an impact on mental health, some general ones include:

Knowing these things is key in keeping a healthy mind and understanding when you may need to contact the professionals on hand. But we must not forget that mental health is dynamic as it evolves with time and different circumstances of life.

Yoga for Mental Health: A Path to Inner Peace

Yoga is not just limited to the body but also keeps a person mentally fit. Yoga weaves physical posture, breathing execises and meditation together to decrease stress levels of an individual, enhance focus abilities as well as safeguard emotional resilience. According to research, consistent practice of yoga can improve mental health and reduce symptoms of anxiety, depression and stress.

Yoga encourages mindfulness or presence in the moment without judgement. In short, what it means is that by training attentional control and non-judgement in mindfulness can actually lead to elimination of all the wrong way thinking pattern to optimal emotional regulation or activation through balanced levels. Moreover, yoga is a physical practice which means that it can also help alleviate tension in the body, allowing us to rest and calm.

Principles of Mental Health: Building a Resilient Mind

Given below are the principles of mental health:

These principles will form the basis of mental health and resilience that lasts.

How to Check Your Mental Health: A Practical Guide

You should evaluate your mental health regularly. Check out the given guide on how to look after your mental health:

If your self-assessment reveals areas of concern it may be time to speak with a professional or make some changes in lifestyle that could better protect and improve overall mental health.

Mental Health and Hygiene: Everyday Practices for a Healthy Mind

There is an intimate connection between mental health and our hygiene. The same way physical hygiene is neccessary for stopping us from falling sick, mental hygience avoids the chances of us having a problem in mental health. Preventative mental hygiene practices such as promoting a work-life balance, sleeping well and keeping in contact with your loved ones.

By keeping your mind clean and clear, this would be a great way to protect against mental health issues. Mental hygiene should be part of our daily routine, equivalent to physical hygiene.

Following are a few habits to pursue in order to maintain the mental hygiene:

Adding these things to your everyday routine can make you mentally stable, accomplishing more balance and satisfaction of life.

Mental Health Matters: The Road Ahead

Remember that 'Mental Health Matters' as it can affect our overall well-being and nature. Improving mental health awareness can help to address the stigma, spark discussion and empower people along their path towards achieving optimal well-being. We all have a role in increasing mental health awareness whether that be through education, advocacy or simply looking after ourselves.

Given below are few suggestions of ways to contribute in mental health awareness:

Conclusion: Embrace Mental Health as a Priority

Mental health is something that should always be in the forefront of our lives for better and richer experiences. Ultimately, our ability to differentiate between mental health and mental illness, practicing good mental hygiene daily and spreading the word about supporting other will create a world where everyone can achieve their limitless potential. As always, remember that mental health matters, so, take of yourself and those around you! Prioritize your mental health and embrace the fact that taking care of yourself should be core to the way you live and how those around you shall perceive it!

To get more information about Mental Health and to book therapy or counselling session, visit us at Oshrink.com.

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Writing Notes & References

Alchemy ⚜ Antidote to Anxiety ⚜ Attachment ⚜ Autopsy

Art: Elements ⚜ Principles ⚜ Photographs ⚜ Watercolour

Bruises ⚜ Caffeine ⚜ Color Blindness ⚜ Cruise Ships

Children ⚜ Children's Dialogue ⚜ Childhood Bilingualism

Dangerousness ⚜ Drowning ⚜ Dystopia ⚜ Dystopian World

Culture ⚜ Culture Shock ⚜ Ethnocentrism & Cultural Relativism

Emotions: Anger ⚜ Fear ⚜ Happiness ⚜ Sadness

Emotional Intelligence ⚜ Genius (Giftedness) ⚜ Quirks

Facial Expressions ⚜ Laughter & Humour ⚜ Swearing & Taboo

Fantasy Creatures ⚜ Fantasy World Building

Generations ⚜ Literary & Character Tropes

Fight Scenes ⚜ Kill Adverbs

Food: Cooking Basics ⚜ Herbs & Spices ⚜ Sauces ⚜ Wine-tasting ⚜ Aphrodisiacs ⚜ List of Aphrodisiacs ⚜ Food History ⚜ Cocktails ⚜ Literary & Hollywood Cocktails ⚜ Liqueurs

Genre: Crime ⚜ Horror ⚜ Fantasy ⚜ Speculative Biology

Hate ⚜ Love ⚜ Kinds of Love ⚜ The Physiology of Love

How to Write: Food ⚜ Colours ⚜ Drunkenness

Jargon ⚜ Logical Fallacies ⚜ Memory ⚜ Memoir

Magic: Magic System ⚜ 10 Uncommon ⚜ How to Choose

Moon: Part 1 2 ⚜ Related Words

Mystical Items & Objects ⚜ Talisman ⚜ Relics ⚜ Poison

Pain ⚜ Pain & Violence ⚜ Poison Ivy & Poison Oak

Realistic Injuries 1 2 ⚜ Rejection ⚜ Structural Issues ⚜ Villains

Symbolism: Colors ⚜ Food ⚜ Numbers ⚜ Storms

Thinking ⚜ Thinking Styles ⚜ Thought Distortions

Terms of Endearment ⚜ Ways of Saying "No" ⚜ Yoga

Compilations: Plot ⚜ Character ⚜ Worldbuilding ⚜ For Poets ⚜ Tips & Advice

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[raffaellopalandri]

The best time to change

The best time to change is when you are ready to commit with all your being. Dare finding your purpose, values, and principles and live accordingly.

[lifetimeyogi]

What is Salamander Yoga?  5 Amazing Ways while Connecting with Nature's Grace

#yoga #yogapractice #yogainspiration #yogalife #yogaeverydamnday #meditation #yogalove #yogateacher #yogini #yogaeveryday #namaste #yogaeverywhere #fitness #yogagirl #love #yogapose #yogachallenge #yogisofinstagram #mindfulness #asana #yogajourney #india

What is Salamander Yoga?  5 Amazing Ways while Connecting with Nature’s Grace Introduction Yoga, an ancient practice that seeks to harmonize the mind, body, and spirit, has taken various forms throughout its long history. While many are familiar with traditional styles like Hatha or Vinyasa, there’s a lesser-known, yet deeply profound, variation that draws its inspiration from nature:…

[moonstonediaz]

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[michelehauswirth]

Yoga Philosophy & Asana Beginners Course?

Understand the key concepts or core principles of yoga philosophy. Yoga philosophy is described in the "Yoga Sutras of Patanjali", where he describes the eight limbs or stages, that must be followed in order to attain salvation. The eight limbs include the yamas and niyamas, asanas—physical exercises. It is a stable comfortable state of body and mind. The Yoga Philosophy course enables you to learn and it is really beneficial for a person going for an asana course or teacher training which also helps students to deepen their yoga practice.

[luiscagreen]

A Quick Way To Learn The Basic Principles Of Yoga

[ros3ybabe]

2024 goals & resolutions 🎀

with 2024 right around the corner I figured it would be a good idea to list out some of my 2024 goals in the different areas of my life. I will have financial goals, health goals, fitness goals, academic goals, and relationship goals.

💕 Financial Goals

build my savings account to a minimum of 1000$ by the end of the year

save enough (~800$) to move into an apartment with my boyfriend

pay off my two credit cards, then use them sparingly

begin investing my money

use a monthly budget spreadsheet (loosely)

💕 Health Goals

Follow a semi anti inflammatory diet using the 80/20 principle

get closer to my goal weight range (healthy weight for my height)

only eat out on occasions, otherwise cook at home only

incorporate more whole foods into my diet

stay hydrated on a consistent level

💕 Fitness Goals

walk 7k-10k steps daily

keep a consistent weight lifting/cardio routine

begin attending pilates/workout classes

don't skip any of my yoga classes at my university

work on improving health and reaching my dream physique

💕 Academic Goals

raise my GPA closer to a 4.0

pass spring/fall classes with all B's/A's

keep a consistent study routine

turn in all assignments conplete and on time

increase class attendance as I am paying for my education and should utilize class time

💕 Relationship Goals

join one to two on campus clubs

make a friend or two within my major

take myself on solo dates

weekly dates with my boyfriend

keep in contact with all friends I make

💕 Random Goals

Read at least 3 books in their entirety throughout the year

Move into a new apartment/rented house

Continue regular posts on my tumblr

Get to N5/N4 level of Japanese proficiency

Get to conversational fluency in Spanish

Those are my goals for the next year! Given that there are 365 days in a year, I should be able to accomplish at least 85% of these!

til next time lovelies 🩷

[feelingbat-ty]

This is inspired by @aflamboyanceofflamingos post about Tim choosing to publicly hate Robin as Tim Drake, cause to love or hate someone is the best way to hide a secret identity.

I started thinking about Tim coming into contact with his teammates as a civilian and Tim using this as an opportunity to take out all the grievances he has for his team in a way, that 1) Won't cause tension and fights. And 2) let him get away with being a petty arsehole, cause it's not like superheros can just go and beat up random civilians.

And well... my hand slipped.

--- You Can't Spell Spite Without Timothy Jackson Drake ---

The amount of times YJ comes across Tim Drake in the wild would be concerning if Tim didn't stalk them as often as his busy schedule allows (which turns out to be quite often). The Beta tube in the Batcave and another secret Beta tube in the bowls of Wayne enterprise's Francisco building allows Tim easy and direct access whenever he so desires.

And well, Tim never did grow out of his stalking phase.

It would be comical - if it wasn't maddening - how often they don't realise he's there. Most of the time he's stalking trailing a member of the team he's not trying to hide his presence, it wouldn't make sense for him to, not as Tim Drake.

The team have a tally board that sits in the common room, it's at 85.

85.

His team's situational awareness is absolutely appalling. 85, they've noticed him only 85 of the hundreds of times he's followed them around?

He complains to Dick about it, a lot. He's hoping Dick will give him some tips on how to beat situational awareness into his teammates thick skulls. He was the leader of the Titans, so he has to have something!

Dick - like the asshole he secretly is - just laughs at him.

He asks Cassie about it once. Why they don't find it concerning that they encounter Tim Drake: famous for being the civilian who 'beat Robin in a fight' every other week?

"I mean, You're usually right about these sorts of things, Rob. If you don't think Drakes an issue, then we trust you."

Tim can't figure out whether to feel warm and giddy at the fact that they apparently trust him, or to be annoyed at the fact that they follow after him like sheep. Not even doing their own research and recon (Cassie probably did. Kon and Bart? Yeah, hell would have a better chance at freezing over).

The first time was a coincidence. Tim had needed some space (from Bruce. From his deadlines. From his own mind...) and ended up wondering the streets of San Francisco with no real destination in mind.

An impulse turn led him onto the boardwalk and from there right to Superboy.

It was a bright and sunny day in Fran and Kon was glowing. Literally, because of the sun and figuratively from pride after he stopped a would-be pick pocket-er from pick pocketing an elderly lady.

He shouldn't. He knows he shouldn't, not when the team know of Tim Drake, know his face and all about how he hates Robin and makes it his whole personality. Not when the only thing that stops them putting Tim Drake on Baby Super villain watch is Tims general blasé attitude about, well... himself.

But is it oh, so tempting.

Especially because the month before, Kon had accidentally smashed Tim's favourite coffee mug in a series of event's (involving a yoga ball, shearing scissors, laser vision and a will from God himself) so convoluted that Tim was convinced it had been orchestrated for a solid week.

Was it a cheap mug from Kmart? Yes, but it's the principle of the matter!

As Tim’s left shoe impacts the side of Superboys face, a sense of manic glee overtakes him. Tim takes special care to seer this memory of Superboy getting hit in the head with Tim's shoe and the stupid face he makes as the ratty converse collides with his cheek, into his brain.

It's not much, but it's justice all the same for his once beloved mug.

Tim... might just be a tad sleep-deprived.

Superboy startles and lets out a frantic “Shit!” Assuming he’s being attacked by a surprise enemy (the kind that isn’t just civilians throwing shoes) he looks around, taking stock of his surroundings and looking for any immediate threats before glancing down at the shoe and visibly doing a double take.

His face is blank as he stares - undoubtably confused - at the shoe. A second later he's lifting his gaze, following the direction the show came from and staring right at Tim.

Tim, who (like an idiot) is still, for some reason, positioned how he was when he threw the shoe - arm outstretched and leg back to brace himself.

There is absolutely no way he wasn't the one who threw the shoe. If the stance didn't give it away, then him having one shoe (that shoe being a near identical ratty rad converse) probably did.

“What?” Superboy asks. He looks befuddled. A little amused, but mostly just confused. He's got a small, polite smile on his face that just reeks of Clark Kent's influence. Kon is obviously trying to model himself off of Superman - specifically Superman's polite and approachable "Grandma pinching worthy" vibe and not his fashion choices, since he's still got the leather jacket and sunglasses.

Tim makes a mental note to tell Kon that he has a really expressive face. Tim is literally reading all his emotions in 4K. They should probably work on that, it could be a liability in the field.

Tim briefly considers playing dumb and acting like it wasn’t him that threw the shoe, before dismissing that idea, Kon can be clueless at times, but he’s not a complete idiot.

So instead, he says, “that was a very open-ended question.”

And well, it was.

At the look Superboy gives him, he elaborates, “What, when said in that context, could mean literally anything! Like, ‘what was the purpose of that?’ ‘What’s your name, so I can in-prison you’ ‘What shoe size was that?’ Seriously, dude, be more specific!”

Superboy’s befuddlement takes a sudden nosedive to incredulity. “Okay, fine. Why did you throw a shoe at me?”

“Cause you work with Robin.” He says simply. He'd say 'justice' but then he'd sound like batman and like, thanks but no thanks.

“Cause I- what? You physically assaulted me with a shoe because I work on the same team as Robin?”

Tim, personally, thinks assault is a strong word to use for this situation, but he’s glad that at least some of his lessons on the proper terms and vocabulary are paying off.

He nods, cause that is indeed what he just did, he crosses his arms across his chest, and stares Superboy down.

Superboy who, looks like he’s regretting everything that led him to this moment. Tim relishes in that for just a little too long to be healthy. Probably.

Tim doesn’t really care. He told Kon (as Robin) that he’d regret breaking Tim’s favourite mug (accident or not, he's still not over it.) yeah, this might not be how either of them envisioned it, but Tim thinks this might just be better than beating Kon up as Robin in their next team training session. What better way to get someone back than to publicly humiliate them in front of all their peers? Shame he can't do that anymore.

Eh, who is he kidding? He’s still going to do that anyway.

“You’re only gonna throw one?” Superboy has a look on his face that’s similar to the one Bruce gets when he’s decided to give up and play along with the crazy. The one where he'll smile and nod, slowly inching out of the room, as Duke and Damian (There has truly never been a more terrifying duo) explain to him in vivid detail how they're going to use psychological warfare to make a shitty teacher at their school resign.

“Yes.” Why’d he throw both his shoes? He’d have no shoes!

“… Right. Why did you throw this one?”

All these questions!

“I like that one the least,” he shrugs, and it's true, the converse on his right foot has a little bi flag that Steph sewed into it back when they were dating. A throw pillow was the closest thing in reach at the time, so he sewed a little pan flag on it for her (he later did one on the breast pocket of one of her denim jackets).

“You are so freakin’ weird, dude! You throw a shoe at me! Because I work with Robin!”

Uh, yeah, we've already established that.

“How did you even get it off that fast!”

To be Honest, Tim is also surprised at how fast he was able to get his shoe off. One second he’s looking at Superboy the next he’s lobbing a shoe at his thick head.

Instead of saying any of that, Tim channels his inner Janet Drake, sticking his nose into the air and scoffing like Kon is the literal gum stuck on the sole of his shoe.

Kon, - because he’s no longer Superboy, he’s too fired up to hold onto the mask - shakes his head. It’s mocking, when he says, “You must be really shitty at throwing a punch if you had to resort to throwing shoes.”

Tim shrugs, “Well, I woulda thrown a fist, but you’re not worth a fist.”

Kon is silent and doing an amazing impression of a blobfish.

Tim turns and struts away before Kon has the chance to come up with a rebuttal, or just decides to punch him in the face.

He’ll grab his shoe later, after Kon leaves.

The basted incinerated his shoe.

[whatbigotspost]

That baby naming job post has got me remembering…the answer to “how can you make a living doing THAT??” is almost always:

“… there’s this whole subculture of people who are obsessed with things that would be considered ‘luxury brands.’ They believe prestige is purchased. They actually have the belief fully throughout their worldview so strongly, that if something is more expensive, it must be worth it. It must be better. This is most often true because they are (if not ultra wealthy) at least the landlord class and/or the kind of people who have money to burn and are trying to figure out ways to spend it. It is an unshakable principle to them if something has a giant price tag on it, it is something that you should want because it is better and ‘for you’ because it’s special because it’s for the people who have money.”

They love a “boutique” or “bespoke” illusion. Anything to feel like The Normies can’t also have this. And the saddest thing is that there is a whole other subculture of people under the “I am a Luxury Brand Person” umbrella who don’t even have the money who just go into debt trying to keep up the appearances of this kind of lifestyle because they want to be luxury people that badly. And luxury brands and niche services like life coaching or naming your kid or getting your kid into The Best School DEPEND on exploiting these people for profit by dangling the tantalizing concept of “it’s special and expensiveeeeee” to said socio-economic social climbers who think spending money they don’t have will ultimately result in having said money.

And it doesn’t, actually.

Anyway, happy labor day and as always: solidarity forever. The landlord class and the ultra wealthy don’t give a fuck about us and the best we can do is take full big “that’s so goddamn stupid” shits on anything they tell us special. Liiike….

Your cyber truck is a hideous abomination.

Your gentrifier white gray and beige house is exchangeable with any other and it made me puke anyway.

That Burberry is just plaid you idiots.

The local gym or a casual walk is just as effective for getting adequate exercise as your personal trainer.

Your life coach is a snake oil salesman.

A target tote is cuter than your birkin bag.

That lululemons gonna be see through as hell on your ass when your bend over at your thin white lady only yoga class.

$400 Prada sunglasses still break if you sit on them just like the free pair from your eye doctor.

You never needed a smart fridge, you colossal fool.

You look like a fucking clown in those balenciaga shoes.

The emperor has no goddamn clothes.

[tanadrin]

I'm imagining the very unfortunate 13 year old trans boy who has top surgery and then grows more later as puberty progresses.

(I know that 13 year olds don't get top surgery unless there's something VERY weird/wrong [for instance: cancer] going on with the kid's body.)

Minors absolutely can and do get, for instance, breast implants--but only if they're cis, and only with parental permission. The fucked up thing is that a lot of medical procedures that are considered perfectly safe and uncontroversial as long as you're cis (puberty blockers, HRT, various kinds of plastic surgery) get rhetorically transformed into a big scary cloud of evil for trans people, and even transphobes who are nominally opposed to, say, breast implants for sixteen year olds certainly aren't going to spend nearly as much time, if any at all, railing against that sort of thing in public. Because all of this is a post-hoc justification for an intense disgust they feel at gender nonconformity, not actually a principled defense of anybody's rights.

This is also why you can't rhetorically pin them down on any single point. They'll lie about GCS; and when you point out that's a lie, they'll go "well, what about puberty blockers?" And if you point out that puberty blockers are pretty safe, were invented to treat precocious puberty in cis kids, and their effects are entirely reversible, they'll leap to bathrooms or FUD about nebulous issues of "women's rights," and if you try to pin them down about that, they'll circle right back around to lying about GCS, hoping any onlookers have forgotten about or missed that part of the discussion.

I have very little sympathy for people who argue so transparently in bad faith and whose pyschosexual obsessions are so nakedly on display. Books like Irreversible Damage lay bear the extent to which transphobia is almost wholly about cis peoples' anxiety about their own gender and gender expression, in the same way that homophobia is often straight people twisting themselves into knots about their own sexuality. What these people really need is therapy, or an ayahuasca retreat, or to do some yoga about it, but that would require the uncomfortable process of cultivating self-knowledge, so plan B is "make sure I don't have to be confronted with evidence that the human experience is more diverse and complicated than I have been previously willing to believe."