Every trans person experiences being in the closet or being an egg differently, but worth acknowledging that that period (which can last for decades!) can be extremely traumatic.
In her speech at Genspect's Lisbon conference, Sex Matters' Helen Joyce pitched an explicit plan to use bans on puberty pausers as the starting point for a cascade of restrictions leading to all-ages bathroom bans: archive.ph/1XZqT
The Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System, a tool the CDC uses to track things about high schoolers, found that 3.3% of all high schoolers are trans & 2.2% are questioning. Here's what that means, and the asterisks you need to know about the data. (1/?) www.transvitae.com/cdc-survey-f...
CDC's first national survey reveals transgender teens face heightened risks of bullying and mental health crises, urging schools to foster safer environments.
the more i look into the biochemistry of hrt and its omnipresent and varied effects the more i'm like, i'm doing what to myself?! (in the best possible way)
while not experimental it feels like a superdrug to me. estradiol, as a steroid, permeates every cell in your body attaching to omnipresent estrogen receptors which communicate to your X-chrom to produce proteins to biochemically rewrite each cell's function in different ways. feels quite wild to me
We need to protect trans kids by listening to them and standing up when people say bigoted things about them and to them Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2024/10/08/h...
A survey by the C.D.C. found high rates of sadness, bullying and suicide attempts among transgender and gender-questioning teenagers.
How can it not be about the trans experience? Many trans people in the 80s, 90s and 00s decided it was far too dangerous to be culturally 'salient'. You might benefit from pondering some confounding variables here about who felt safe enough to even exist publicly
besides enjoying the before and after pics, i've been having fun watching videos and images of the actual surgeries. fascinating what can be done to the face (+ enjoyable to think of the results on my own mug)
yeah, that seems as safe as is possible. i've definitely been blasé about hurricanes coming through in the past, but this time i just have this pit in my stomach about it
I've lived in St. Pete for 19 years and Helene followed by Milton is incomparable to anything before. My partner and I are trying, a bit futilely, to determine a best course of action. Stay safe, and good luck.