EmptySlime

"Got too far ahead of public opinion" my ass. The right was allowed to lie pervasively about trans people for years with barely any pushback. They were allowed to drag public opinion away from us. What little pushback there was often capitulated to right-wing framing on the subject.

To be fair, that's a very hard connection to break because it is just everywhere and still gets repeated as gospel. But it does make a lot of sense when you think about it. There are many more opportunities to identify an internal feeling like one's gender identity than there are for something external like who they may be attracted to.

I myself knew that being a boy felt wrong as early as 10. I'd had some run-ins with that feeling before then because of the way my father treated me. Things like getting berated for being too emotional, and him getting rid of a baby doll that I carried around and took care of when my Mom was doing things for my baby brother that I couldn't help with. With the stated reason that he didn't want me to grow up to be some kind of queer (though the word he used was much worse). But 10 is where I first remember recognizing the feeling of my body being wrong.

Of course I didn't have the words for it at the time so I didn't know what I was experiencing was dysphoria. Nor did i know that nonbinary was even a thing you could be. I understood that trans women existed, but no matter how hard I thought about it over the next few years I didn't feel like a girl either. It took until I was 26 before I finally realized with the benefit of hindsight that I'm nonbinary. So I'd already been forced into a male puberty which hit me like a train. I'm 6'2" (~188cm) and built like a balding fridge in a fursuit. I'm almost 35 now and because of other medical issues I haven't been able to transition so it is very hard to not feel like it's too late for me even though I know it's not. Especially in the current political climate.

The big things to remember with this discourse is that one, the regret rates for going through transition are exceedingly low. Like so low it's virtually unheard of for almost any other medical intervention. This heavily implies that not only is the current standard of care very good at weeding out people for whom transition is not the correct treatment, but that it might even be too good and there's a significant cohort of people for whom transition would be the best treatment but they get filtered out because they don't present as being trans enough. Furthermore when you dig deeper into those regret and detransition rates you find that most of the time the reason for detransition was external. Meaning things like can't afford the medication, discrimination, getting kicked out of housing, etc.

The second big thing was already mentioned and it's that there isn't a neutral option. Imagine telling a 13 year old girl "how do you know you're not a boy unless you go on testosterone for a few years?" Just because we're talking about the puberty that they'd naturally go through without intervention doesn't mean that it's good.

But realistically the most any kid younger than ~16 is gonna get when they show up to the gender clinic saying they're trans is therapy, social transition so things like trying out a new name, pronouns, and/or clothes, and at most puberty blockers. Puberty blockers by the way have been proven safe for trans kids since the 90s. Then if they still want to transition they might start HRT after months if not years of this therapy.

Livestreaming the encounter could also potentially work. But yeah, ideally you probably want as many different camera angles and recordings as you can.

The overriding principle with TERFs is that they hate men with every fiber of their being. Seriously, that's the gist of it. They see trans women as men who are trying to invade women's spaces for nefarious purposes, and they see trans men as poor brainwashed women that internalized so much misogyny that they deluded themselves into believing they aren't actually women. Nonbinary people just get lumped into whatever box corresponds to their gender assigned at birth.

The irony is that all this trans hate always inevitably blows back on cis women. Cis women like my wife who I cannot tell you how many times she's been harassed in the restroom because she's got broad shoulders, an undercut, and a very Butch Lesbian aesthetic. Or my daughter who when she was around 2 a lady tried to steal a baby doll that we were going to buy her while loudly proclaiming that she should be the one to buy it because her daughter (emphasis hers) really wanted a baby doll and there were none left. This lady straight up thought we had twin boys but we just let one of them wear a dress because my daughter wanted her hair cut like her Mommy and had a really short undercut.

If I had to guess assuming that is the case, it's probably because those individuals have qualifications and clearances that would allow them to get a good job after discharge in other circumstances. Discharging them like this would bar them from any of those jobs outside of the military. Whereas for a random grunt all they can really do is kick them out and make them ineligible for benefits. So it's just the Trump Regime being as cruel as they think they can legally get away with.

Can't wait to see what kind of "evidence" they've put together. Cuz it really felt like from that indictment they were charging him with "human trafficking" for being the one driving himself and some undocumented coworkers to a job site.

A few months ago the NCAA President testified that he was aware of less than 10 in the over 500k athletes that are part of the NCAA. Most estimates I've seen hover around the 40-50 range in the entire US.

My oblivious ass absolutely would have done the same. Doesn't help that I'm nonbinary myself so I don't have a very good sense of "girl stuff" vs "boy stuff" at all. So brain would have absolutely went "Homie committed to the bit and found a bunch of stuff they actually liked. That's amusing."

Thanks for the well wishes. It'll get better once the rain stops fluctuating so hard. I'm apparently just sensitive to rapid pressure swings. It'll be fine

6 as well. That's the exact face I'm making right now because of this migraine that's been going on for like 4 days now because the damn barometric pressure has been an absolute roller coaster and my head dislikes it. Feels like someone's trying to cave my skull in with a sledge hammer just above my right eye.

Guess the ketamine finally wore off.