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even if being asexual was straight, UNITED WE STAND DIVIDED WE FALL

hot take that shouldn’t be hot:

asexual/aromantic/aspec people who are also cis and straight should be welcomed and accepted in the queer community

ok lets try to flip it, a terrorist donates all their money to charity, does that mean terrorism is good? Fuck no. lets say even 50% of terrorists donate to charity, does that mean the other 50% is good? FUCK NO, lets say 99% of terrorists donate just some amount of money in their life, does that mean all terrorism is good? well its certainly warranting an investigation, and proper tax deduction for the 99% that did it, but it does not make terrorism good.

the only difference [that isnt it being flipped] is that the non-survival crimes among immigrant isnt anywhere NEAR 50%

IF YOU REMOVE THE ENDANGERED ANIMAL'S VERY TINY SPACE THEY CAN NATURALLY LIVE IN, THEN THEY CAN NOT LIVE NATURALLY, AKA: THEY CANT LIVE IN THE WILD, AKA: *********THEY ARE NOW UN-REINTRODUCABLE*********, which means that they are effectively EXTINCT,

On April 16th 2025 the US federal government has proposed to change the interpretation of the endangered species act so that it no longer protects habitat.

This is open for public comment until the end of May 19th. Please comment and make your voice heard.

Wildlife need their habitat. If the ESA redefines harm so that habitat is no longer protected, the implications for wildlife would be catastrophic.

i think the only way to show terf's irony is via greentext

>"men are going to be in womens toilets!"

>forces ftm trans people into female toilets

>"men in womens sports!"

>ignores studies that mtf trans people have no bonus in female only sports

>"im doing it for the kids!"

>kicks out trans children from sports they like (its not even college football or anything, its like 11 year olds getting kicked out from a school club they participate in)

>"im doing it for womens rights!"

>petitions for cops to legally strip search random people on suspicions they are trans

>"LGB rights!"

>inforces anti-freedom-of-expression ideas

transphobia arguement flow chart.

fell free to use this

the thing that bigots forget is that "they"re actuall people, trans people arent just a statistics farm, theyre people whove struggled with stigma, the people whove died in gaza arent just war casualties, they were just as un-involved in wars as you are. 90% of bigotry just stems from only hearing stories and seeing pictures on twitter, but not getting that they were people, just as important as yourself, the trans people whove been killed were just living as themselves

i 100% agree, but you know that the ableists will use this as a "look at them theyre rabid beasts"

disabled people should get louder and meaner and angrier. disabled people listen to me. we need to get louder and meaner and angrier.

some people have a specific word they just think is evil, no matter the context, like the word pronouns

im tired of people having these little nuances like i was talking about the word hate and i said “i hate nazis” and my friend was like hmm hates a strong word. for nazis ? no the fuck it is not. i could use stronger words too. i could curbstomp their sorry asses. i hate nazis and you all better hate nazis too

are you sure you dont want to talk about it?

Sighh...

the reason its getting banned is because the law makers dont even meet any kids whove gotten it, the only thing they learn about transgender people is from transphobes, and documentaries about detransitioners

So today I want to talk about puberty blockers for transgender kids, because despite being cisgender, this is a subject I’m actually well-versed in. Specifically, I want to talk about how far backwards things have gone.

This story starts almost 20 years ago, and it’s kind of long, but I think it’s important to give you the full history. At the time, I was working as an administrative assistant for a pediatric endocrinologist in a red state. Not a deep deep red state like Alabama, we had a little bit of a purple trend, but still very much red. (I don’t want to say the state at the risk of doxxing myself.) And I took a phone call from a woman who said, “My son is transgender. Does your doctor do hormone therapy?”

I said, “Good question! Let me find out.”

I went into the back and found the doctor playing Solitaire on his computer and said, “Do you do hormone therapy for transgender kids?” It had literally never come up before. He had opened his practice there in the early 2000s. This was roughly 2006, and the first time someone asked. Without looking up from his game of Solitaire, the doctor said, “I’ve never done it before, but I know how it works, so sure.”

I got back on the phone and told the mom, who was overjoyed, and scheduled an appointment for her son. He was the first transgender child we treated with puberty blockers. But not, by far, the first child we treated with puberty blockers, period. Because puberty blockers are used very commonly for children with precocious puberty (early-onset puberty). I would say about twenty percent of the kids our doctor treated were for precocious puberty and were on puberty blockers. They have been well studied and are widely used, safe, and effective.

Well. It turned out, the doctor I worked for was the only doctor in the state who was willing to do this. And word spread pretty fast in the tight-knit community of ‘parents of transgender children in a red state’. We started seeing more kids. A better drug came out. We saw some kids who were at the age where they were past puberty, and prescribed them estrogen or testosterone. Our doctor became, I’m fairly sure, a small folk hero to this community. 

Insurance coverage was a struggle. I remember copying articles and pages out of the Endocrine Society Manual to submit with prior authorization requests for the medications. Insurance coverage was a struggle for a lot of what we did, though. Growth hormone for kids with severe idiopathic short stature. Insulin pumps, which weren’t as common at the time, and then continuous glucose monitoring, when that came out. Insurance struggles were just part and parcel of the job.

I remember vividly when CVS Caremark, a pharmaceutical management company, changed their criteria and included gender dysphoria as a covered diagnosis for puberty blockers. I thought they had put the option on the questionnaire to trigger an automatic denial. But no - it triggered an approval. Medicaid started to cover it. I got so good at getting approvals with my by then tidy packet of articles and documentation that I actually had people in other states calling me to see what I was submitting (the pharmaceutical rep gave them my number because they wanted more people on their drug, which, shady, but sure. He did ask me if it was okay first).

And here’s the key point of this story:

At no point, during any of this, did it ever even occur to any of us that we might have to worry about whether or not what we were doing was legal.

It just never even came up. It was the medically recommended treatment so we did it. And seeing what’s happening in the UK and certain states in America is both terrifying and genuinely shocking to me, as someone who did this for almost fifteen years, without ever even wondering about the legality of it.

The doctor retired some years ago, at which point there were two other doctors in the state who were willing to prescribe the medications for transgender kids. I truly think that he would still be working if nobody else had been willing to take those kids on as patients. He was, by the way, a white cisgender heterosexual Boomer. I remember when he was introduced to the concept of ‘genderfluid’ because one of our patients on HRT wanted to go off. He said ‘that’s so interesting!’ and immediately went to Google to learn more about it. 

I watched these kids transform. I saw them come into the office the first time, sometimes anxious and uncertain, sometimes sullen and angry. I saw them come in the subsequent times, once they were on hormone therapy, how they gradually became happy and confident in themselves. I saw the smiles on their faces when I gave them a gender marker letter for the DMV. I heard them cheer when I called to tell them I’d gotten HRT approved by insurance and we were calling in a prescription. It was honestly amazing and I will always consider the work I did in that red state with those kids to be something I am incredibly proud of. I was honored to be a part of it.

When I see all this transgender backlash, it’s horrifying, because it was well on the way to become standard and accepted treatment. Insurances started to cover it. Other doctors were learning to prescribe it. And now … it’s fucking illegal? Like what the actual fuck. We have gone so far backwards that it makes me want to cry. I don’t know how to stop this slide. But I wrote this so people would understand exactly how steep the slide is.