While I was attending an appointment with a friend, her doctor claimed that aromatase would convert higher E to T. He was either dangerously clueless or trying to scare her into accepting incredibly low levels of E (<150 pmol/L). I'm so glad I was there to push back against it.
A gift card that reads "Eve, Happy Valentine's Day! I love you so much ?? x" The sender's name has been edited out with a white square.
Still giggling because an encoding issue means thay my Valentine's flowers came with a gift card that makes it seem as if my partner isn't certain about loving me. The ?? was supposed to be a heart emoji
Beyond how reprehensible and callous this is, lack of legal recognition causing people to be outed at work and subject to mistreatment was central to the Goodwin/I decisions. It's so bizarre.
“We would expect support for full social transition to be agreed very rarely”
There you have it, the gov wants trans kids to rot in the closet
something about the angle and shoulder shape feels very David Byrne's giant suit
FWIW this was a big part of the strategy of Action 4 Trans Health, in doing things like collectivising training for trans people to do electrolysis and have machines for it so that we'd have practitioners within the community and reduce costs generally.
So it turns out there’s loads of us who are online enough to encounter the phrase “Butlerian Jihad” regularly, nerdy enough to know who Judith Butler is, but not the right kind of nerd to know it’s actually from Dune. My mind is blown by this revelation.
Same here. I'm deeply unhappy that he was parachuted into the constituency. He seems to spend most of his time co-opting local campaigns or using social media to desperately appeal to Reform voters by behaving like a caricature of the 'red wall'. It's pathetic, obviously patronising, and insulting.
This is the moment that made me less worried about her successfully hiding her bigotry. The desperate waffling in response to a bunch of other questions made it clear that she knows almost nothing about other protected groups too
again: the UK has never once taken action anything like this with regards to any medication at all whatsoever.
It is completely unprecedented for emergency powers to have been used to ban a medication for a specific group or for that to have been extended indefinitely pending (unethical) trials.
To me, a few of the early edits also actually remedied a problem with the BBC making it seem as if Peggie was suspended for 'complaining' about refusing to share a changing room. The later edits have not only reverted to that incorrect framing but also made it the second paragraph. Typical. :/
I assume it doesn't change anything but, unless I'm being really oblivious, I'm surprised that hasn't been corrected too
There was a purported quote from Lee v Ashers that I didn't recognise, and I can't find it in the judgment itself or press summary. After checking, the closest aspect of the judgment seems to be the quote from Kokkinakis v Greece
Yeah, it's so tragic. Having been put through hell by the NHS as a kid in the mid-00s, I really believed that future generations would be increasingly free of the trauma.
Now they've fully returned to all of the awful things I remember, I'm letting my rage at the memories fuel me. They can't win
I am fucking begging you all to stop trying to frame being annoyed by other trans people's behaviour online in terms of oppressor/oppressed dynamics that do not actually apply here.
Especially pathetic because Nandy wore a custom 'protect the dolls' t-shirt at a local pride, one given to her by a naïve and blinkered local councillor.
Seeing it in the discussions around misogynists being "gay" because they hate women by people who enjoy fantasies where misogynist men can be distanced and demeaned through connection to homosexuality.
Seeing it through discussions around right wing transphobia targeting trans sexual health tech.
Sadly, I think is predictable for Mangan :/
Danny DeVito as Frank Reynolds in a scene from Always Sunny in Philadelphia. Danny DeVito/Frank is leaning to look down upon a kneeling man. He has an expression of menacing glee on his face. The kneeling man is in front of a photocopier. They are in an office setting and wearing suits. A white caption text at the bottom reads: “Did I just do your job for you?”
Wouldn't usually bother with the BBC, let alone complaining, but a recent inaccuracy really annoyed me. They've quietly removed the error and changed the phrasing to what I suggested.
Obviously the only response I got was a mass reply about a totally unrelated thing
This is why I don't even mention the girltype I associate with now. There's a couple of notable examples of it but I'm hoping it never becomes more noticed
As much as I have ideological issues with the EU (not Brexit ones), I miss the ability to side-step cruelty/mess of domestic law and some parts of the judiciary with CJEU referrals and purposive interpretation of directives
I imagine it's a total coincidence, but this looks really similar to a pic from a woman's mid-2000s blog that convinced me to try self-medding hrt as a teen (family intervened, sadly).
I'd forgotten how grateful I was to her, so thanks for indirectly reminding me of it
Ah, I think I've just figured it out and, yeah, this is a large part of why I didn't go on to practice in that area. There was an event in the early 2010s that made me realise I might be required to collaborate in horrible ways
A Christmas tree with fairly eclectic decorations and LED lights. The lights have been programmed to mimic the blue, pink, and white bands of the trans flag. There is also a stylised print of Roxas from Kingdom Hearts on a wall in the background.
We told a friend that our new Christmas tree lights are programmable so, obviously, he insisted on making the trans flag tree
As the person who does most of the VM socials, let me tell you this: bluesky is absolutely the worst platform of the bunch for slapping random adult content warnings on innocent posts to bury them. Would super appreciate if you share the post below like hell, and donate a fiver!
If you happen to know, was she openly like this before Bell v Tavi and the CoA's rebuke? Or is this another case of bigotry being predicative of worsening behaviour?
Witnessing a nerdy trans woman playing Guess The Game is amazing because she'll see 2 pixels of a screenshot and say 'ohhhh that's Crongle Bonk 2 on the SNES'
And anyone who has watched magistrates nod-along with prosecution evidence in the mags courts will know exactly what I mean.
Even in Corbett v Corbett, Ormrod LJ used 'she' for post-transition. Somehow, the judiciary was able to use our pronouns for decades without it creating any supposed appearance of bias, but now it routinely degenders and misgenders us. It's such transparent bigotry and/or cowardice.
Going to avoid it too, but largely because I was put through traumatising conversion therapy by the local NHS as a teen because they didn't know what to do with a trans teen. The idea that the UK is rigging this trial so the NHS can compel future children to go through the same thing is horrifying
