On a more serious note, can you imagine how many more trans people would still be alive if access like this was the standard practice? This is one reason why I’m not welcoming to transmedicalists. The gatekeeping, exclusionist practices they favor cost lives.
Getting HRT with informed consent is wild because my whole life I was taught transition was an agonizing struggle through years of therapy and having to jump through absurd performative hoops of toxic gender stereotypes (and at times it was and in some places it. still is), but with informed consent I walk into a clinic, sign a form, and they just go okay that seems fine. They pop out some blood to make sure nothing’s amiss and ask how I’m doing and that’s it. Deciding to try progesterone was as easy as saying I wanted to try and she just discussed the dose and that was it.
“because children NEED hormones or they’ll die just like all the other dead trans people!” where are your numbers? what is this biased argument and why is it always the one TRA’s fall back on? because its emotionally charged, factually inaccurate, and shocking. thats what all of the arguments advocating for informed consent (and children taking hormones in general) have in common.
the real issue is minors and very new adults making PERMANENT, BODY ALTERING decisions that (1) they may not want later in life or change their minds about (which children, teens, and young adults do on a continuous basis, because they are GROWING) and (2) will give them complicated hormonal health issues for the rest of their life that are not easily dealt with. many of these health issues are permanent body modifications on your god damn genitals. you people don’t want to understand the weight of medical transition.
the vibe on tumblr for the last 6 or so years has been a fuzzy haze on the reality of this “you need to transition or you’ll be miserable forever/won’t live your true life/won’t find happiness” mindset. excluding people, who most likely do not need hormones, from hormones, will not “cost lives”. its just so illogical and biased
「 モブサイコ100 II // Mob Psycho 100 II 」 Episode 8
Key animator: Kaneko Yūto ( 金子 雄人 )
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my new roommate said that her last roommate had an eating disorder and then talked to me about her clean eating and weight loss goals and how she buys clothes that are a little snug to motivate her to lose more
and like honestly? i have anorexia but this is why i constantly talk about the dangers of the “health and fitness” industry and diet culture bc we have essentially normalized certain symptoms of disordered eating but it’s ok if it’s under the guise of health i guess???
like how is calling it “clean” eating NOT a way to moralize food
how is intermittent fasting NOT the same thing as skipping meals
how come when i buy clothes that don’t fit, it’s something i have to tell my therapist about because it means i am putting pressure on myself to fit into them, but if a “normal” person does it then it’s just motivation for them?
where is the fucking line???
and more importantly when are we going to start acknowledging that the entire world is pro-ana but that’s too harsh of a description so we slap some health buzzwords on it to make it palatable
when are we going to take responsibility for encouraging disordered behavior instead of labeling those of us with EDs as the crazy/imbalanced ones
your fucking Whole30 or keto or whatever “clean” diet you’re on is just as restrictive as the diets we create for ourselves due to our disorders. but we are the crazy ones, right
“The bragging was the worst. I hear this in schools all over the country, in cafés and restaurants, in bars, on the Internet, for Pete’s sake, on buses, on sidewalks; Women yammering about how little they eat. Oh, I’m starving, I haven’t eaten all day, I think I’ll have a great big piece of lettuce, I’m not hungry, I don’t like to eat in the morning (in the afternoon, in the evening, on Tuesdays, when my nails aren’t painted, when my shin hurts, when it’s raining, when it’s sunny, on national holidays, after or before 2 A.M.) I heard it in the hospital, that terrible ironic whine from the chapped lips of women starving to death. But I’m not hun - greeee. To hear women tell it, we’re never hungry. We live on little Ms. Pac-Man power pellets. Food makes us queasy, food makes us itchy, food is too messy, all I really like to eat is celery. To hear women tell it, we’re ethereal beings who eat with the greatest distaste, scraping scraps of food between our teeth with our upper lips curled.
For your edification, it’s bullshit.”
- Marya Hornbacher, Wasted (1998)
Let’s fight.
What’s the worst household chore? Clearly it’s doing laundry.
