no doubt. the fact that i’m even out is due in part to that trend. it’s a reddit-wide community canvas essentially
there definitely toxic and shady communities but some are really great. there are several safe and well moderated trans subreddits
Felt the same for the longest but have since started visiting. They have some decent forms for sports streams, sneakers, old tv shows I used to watch and the neighborhoods I grew up in. I stay away from anything I find toxic on there.
On April fool’s, Reddit has their r/place event. Each user is allowed to color a single pixel once every few (5?) minutes on a large blank canvas. Many communities strategize their artwork and its execution. It’s quite entertaining to see the timelapse.
Public freak outs, fight porn and shitty food porn are my go to on Reddit. I don’t actually read any of the replies or anything like that just watch the videos and lol at pics.
Nascar had a policy that if you had a direct contact with someone with COVID you were out 5 days from date of exposure but only 3 days if you were vaccinated. One guy had an exposure and missed a race when he wouldn't have if he had been vaccinated. I was looking for somewhere to call him an idiot and reddit was the place.
Palm Springs trying out UBI for trans population - $900 a month https://www.npr.org/2022/04/07/1091...versal-basic-income-pilot-for-trans-residents
another way to directly help the kids being attacked by these bills: https://www.magiccityacceptancecenter.org/donate it’s the only place like it in the state, and one of the only in the entire southeast. it has a lot of community programs for trans people of all ages and their families.
TIL: had a trans patient come in as a new patient exam last night and mentioned that they just started transitioning at planned parenthood. don’t know if that’s a service based on region but i had no idea PP was an option for those wanting to transition
i know lots of people from birmingham go to the PP in nashville because they just do straight informed consent. you can get your hormones in a couple of weeks. from when i first talked with the dr in birmingham to actually starting hrt was like 5 months. and that was after already getting a clinical gender dysphoria diagnosis
it’s this shit that makes me scared in public. i legitimately get nervous when i’m around people’s kids sometimes, especially in the bathroom. the conservative (social) media sphere is pushing that “groomer” bullshit and i worry some asshole is going to be all amped up to “protect his daughter”
No longer holding my tongue fuck these gutter trash conservative cult members . This country is trash
wow can't believe people who had to grow up as queer through the 70s-80s might've had horrible difficulty while balancing their own sense of place/identity on the cutting edge of medical science and at the time nascent psychological approaches. For someone who pretends to have read her study, she's extremely certain that the suicides were due to "regret about the surgery" and not any number of other things trans people are subject to. Her paper even says evolving therapies occurred at times where outcomes became better Edit: Tfw you're actually all about the well being of children
I don’t Reddit but evidently a personal friend used to be a big deal in that community. Andrewsmith1986
my mom is always pushing the detransition stuff on me. i love the new data but it wont mean anything to anyone who is willing to write off mainstream media. hell, my mom believes the entire mental healthcare system is in coordination to push “trans ideology”. bigots will write off the new study as biased lefty fake science and keep on hating
That fucking sucks. Ur better than me, my mom and dad would be lucky to even have my number if they couldn’t accept me for who I was
Man oh man would she hate finding out the different, innumerable ways one's molecular/developmental biology emerge and intertwine with their experiences within a culture to form an identity. Some of the most fervent people I've met who were early (early for me meeting people i mean, not through the whole movement) proponents for trans rights were developmental/molecular biologists. Turns out nature, nurture, whatever, doesn't always happen the same way for every individual. Better force people to lie to themselves and others for the rest of their lives because some jerks can't handle that.
i have her number blocked along with my dad and younger sister. fuck ‘em all. i’ve got new family members who love and support me. blood relation only means so much