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@shiftythrifting - adult, queer, disabled and still fucking here
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the thing about disability is it really does sometimes boil down to "wow i wish i could do that" and then you can't. and it sucks.

accomodations are important but i think they miss the point of this post. sometimes you can't do it. at all. someone needs to do it for you or it will never happen.

"and then you force yourself anyway" folks im starting to think some of you really do not understand what it means to not be able to do things.

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just an FYI for trans people in the US right now

[id: reddit post by user spaghettishoestrings titled "(UPDATE) Just lost my healthcare !" with the flair "Celebratory."

Post reads:

Original post is viewable through my profile. Apologies, since I’m on mobile, I couldn’t hyperlink. The TLDR: my doctor called me on Monday and informed me that their practice would no longer be providing treatment for gender affirming care as a result of a recent presidential Executive Order, even though the EO was for people under 19. Even though I’m 25.

Also, because it was asked a few times, this happened in Michigan, and I’ve been on HRT for 5+ years. It’s a practice that includes like 15+ physicians, and I think that the decision was made over my PCP’s head, given that she once told me that she literally moved states to be able to provide gender affirming care here.

First off, genuinely, thank you so much for all the replies and messages. I genuinely felt frozen after that phone call and didn’t know where to start, and you all really helped me get my feet off the ground.

A couple people mentioned contacting the ACLU, which, truthfully, I thought, “there’s no way that the ACLU will get back to me” but I sent a message anyway. They actually called me a few hours after my post and we talked about the Executive Orders and my rights. They offered to fax my provider a letter reminding them of my rights and some other legal terms. It’s crazy how a post on reddit resulted in my name being on the official ACLU letterhead.

Anyway, today my doctor’s physician assistant called me and shared that their practice is reversing their decision and they will continue to provide gender affirming care. I’m still keeping a bunch of the resources that y’all shared saved, including Planned Parenthood, Plume, and looking into a private endocrinologist.

This whole experience just reminded me how great this community is. I appreciate y’all <3"

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[id: reddit user copurrs commented:]

You should contact Chase Strangio from the ACLU, I believe he is looking for reports of folks being denied their GAC due to these EOs. He's @chasestrangio on IG and Threads.

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i’m very quickly getting sick of left leaning dudes being like “eh well getting rid of DEI isn’t really the worst thing he could do” like congratulations you dumb fucks you fell for the fascist propaganda

they want you to think of DEI as the corny workplace training you had to take that one time so you’ll shrug it off as they axe every program that suggests minorities should have equal rights

Also he's not 'just' talking about getting rid of DEI, he's talking about getting rid of EMPLOYEES who he considers to be "mediocre" or "of low intelligence". He's used blatantly ableist rhetoric, blaming the Potomac crash on "severely disabled" and "mentally disabled" employees the FAA probably hired through DEI (and went on to imply that PoC and women have lower IQs as always, but he specifically attacked disabled people and then fell back on the idea of intelligence tests, IQ tests and "superiority" in blatantly eugencist ways).

The push for in-person return-to-work is also blatantly (including from Musk's PoV) in part about forcing disabled employees out of jobs. This is about NOT HIRING minorities and FIRING ones who currently work for the government by making them into scapegoats.

"DEI" is a dogwhistle for "Having employees who aren't cishet white men".

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We need to start saying "So you support homogeneity, discrimination, and exclusion?" like this person started.

[alt: a comment on LinkedIn by Pearl Brady. "

“So you support homogeneity, discrimination, and exclusion, then? That’s weird.”

Been using that comment more than a few times as late"]

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