Holy fucking shit of all the possibilities I did not see that one coming.

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Here's the link to the thread, but even with context it's just as incomprehensible.

no no he's on to something

everyone gives carol a hard time for ignoring her daughter so hard she triggered no one really considers the bravery and, dare i say, devotion it takes for a woman who's half basketball to even step inside a school gymnasium

if someone starts a sentence with "white trans women" and they are not themselves a trans woman of colour then you know you're about to hear some of the most vile matt walsh tier transmisogyny you've ever heard in your life

Them [the news website] having a lot of articles on top surgery and bottom growth but like no info on the affects of estrogen/progesterone on your genitals and bottom surgery is so...blatantly a bigotry issue.

good lord, the difference in register in this article on transfem HRT vs this article on bottom growth on transmasc HRT is just so gross?

like, the bylines:

good lord.

the transfem HRT article is fucking full of half-truths and outright mis- and dis- information

jesus christ that's also an effect of estradiol! ESTRADIOL LITERALLY CAN DO ALL THAT ON ITS OWN.

SHUT THE FUCK UP. SHUT THE FUCK UP.

"patients will begin by taking anti-androgen drugs to reduce T levels before beginning to take estradiol" WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT.

THAT'S LITERALLY JUST BAD FUCKING PRACTICE YOU FUCKING ASS.

there is no evidence for any of this being the case at a higher risk than just a given cis woman existing.

for who asshole. for who??

and you know what, i'll give them credit, at least the writer and the medical provider, Dallas Ducar, they got to do this crap are both transfeminine, but jesus christ. this article fucking sucks ass.

A more fair comparison is between their article on masculinising HRT and the one mentioned above.

bylines:

"Feminizing HRT, or hormone replacement therapy, is a common treatment for gender dysphoria"

and

"Testosterone HRT, or hormone replacement therapy, can leave people feeling more confident, alleviate gender dysphoria, and in many cases saves lives"

Make of that what you will

Following this both describe their HRT in broard strokes, in terms of physical effects both speak plainly. However their concluding sentences are phrased diffrently

"For some people, feminizing HRT can make their body feel more in line with their mind."

"People who take masculinizing HRT have reported feeling less psychological distress, experiencing more sexual satisfaction, and otherwise help them feel more comfortable in their body and mind."

Now one difference that will immediately jump out at you is the length difference, I don't know and won't guess why that is the case.

What I will say is that one of these articles seems much more interested in emphasising how few people benefit from it then the other and, that one of these seems less willing to elaborate on what the tangible benefits are.

But something I find quite interesting is on the preceding line in the mHRT article:

"Taking HRT has been shown to greatly improve the mental health of many trans people and in many cases save lives"

A plainly stated sentence that emphasises the life saving nature of HRT? I'm sure they had something like that in the fHRT article, I mean this sentence even talks about HRT generically so they could even just copy and paste it!

They don't say even once that feminising HRT saves lives. Not once. So that's an interesting decision.

Of course that isn't the only interesting thing. Both articles do state that one doesn't need to take HRT to be trans, however I, just for fun, decided to count how many instances of that sentiment were stated in each article:

the fHRT article states that you don't need to take HRT to be trans seven times. the mHRT article only says it once.

7 to 1

Now that on its own wouldn't be an issue if the fHRT article didn't seem to spend every other moment talking about how few people benefit from feminising HRT.

Now also for fun I decided to count how many times each article says that there is only a chance that HRT provides any benefits.

8 to 1

I'm starting to see a pattern.

humour me just one more time, how many times does each state HRT is life saving?

0 to 4

I hope this isn't to poorly written, I came into this trying to do my usual unfeeling disection of articles, but these articles managed to quite piss me off.

Transmisogyny

netflix subtitles are great for when you want to read a caption with like 50% resemblance to what's being spoken

character in a movie: buddy, i'm gonna tell you what i've got to do

netflix subtitles: i'll say what i must do

character in a movie: *exhales*

netflix subtitles: (blows raspberry)

character in a movie: ciao!

netflix subtitles: (in italian) bye!

*character in a movie: ciao!

netflix subtitles: (speaks foreign language)

IF YOU LIVE IN THE USA

THIS IS ILLEGAL

REPORT THEM TO THE FCC

THEY HAVE A LINK ON THEIR WEBSITE TO RWPORT IT

ITS REQUIRED BY THE ADA THAT SUBTITLES EXACTLY MATCH THE DIALOGUE

i reported basically every Star Trek show on Paramount+ because the subtitles were all fucked up. they sent me auto emails to let me know they were working on it, and then a real life human being got in touch with me after they had fixed it, to ask if i was still experiencing the issue. they WILL do something, they are required by FEDERAL LAW to do something.

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not so smug now

I literally cannot take anything lance armstrong says about trans people ever seriously for obvious reasons but also because there's a museum somewhat near my house in the scottish borders which is a museum to clan armstrong, who were famous border reivers, i.e. people who would go across the scottish-english border and dismember people for their cattle and whatnot + at this museum they have portraits of all of these famous armstrongs, most of whom spent their entire lives turning half the population of cumbria into mincemeat, up in a hall, from which only 1 person's portrait has been removed for poor conduct that shamed the family. can u guess whose

now more than ever I think it's important for people to remember that puberty blockers *were* the compromise position.

if you start from a position that trans people should have equal rights in society, then it becomes obvious that all the faux concern about "irreversible changes" is utter bs, because puberty itself is irreversible, and these people want all trans people to be forced to go through the wrong one

the people calling for our healthcare to be banned don't give a single solitary fuck about the "irreversible changes" that they want every single trans person to be forcibly subjected to

actually the funniest thing that could happen right now would be Biden up and dying of old man disease so Kamala is a lame duck president for two months and technically the first woman president so they have to add a bunch of qualifiers like "first woman ELECTED president" when Hawk Tuah Girl wins in 2032

No, I'm sorry. In 2032, my sister will be old enough to run, so SHE'S gonna president. And let me tell you, I've heard her plans, and they be a'ight. I won't hate her as president, even if her political views do not mirror my own exactly.

At this point, literally ANYONE is better than Trump.

rip to your sister but she's gonna lose to someone with "Walk Tuah Polling Place" as a slogan

wheres seasons greasons

its that time of year again

It doesn’t have to be

its not optional

I think it's funny that, after a year or two of sustained pushback against the concept, the liberals of the oppressed sections of the US population are demonstrating how powerful their US citizenship is, by en-masse advocating the deportation and imprisonment in internment camps of noncitizens, as a reaction to their electoral failure.

like hey, turns out if you have the ability to ruin the lives of a certain type of person and have them imprisoned on a whim just because you had a bad day and want to let off some steam, that means you have privilege over them!

also it annoys me that when trans men complain about how bad it feels to be excluded from women's spaces now that they're recognized as men, they're often met with sympathy, and many women's spaces make an exception for them because biological essentialism matters more to them than anything else. meanwhile, when trans women express sorrow over having been excluded from even something as minute as friend groups of all girls, we just get shrugged at and told to get over it. meanwhile we're still excluded from women's spaces. it's almost like there's a systemic form of oppression that specifically targets transfems or something.