Transguy/genderqueer Virginian Gentleman/person.
I believe in something worth looking for.
"There is too much love to be enough nonsense"
When people argue against transitioning by citing the dangers of taking testosterone, I just want to laugh/scream. Let’s list all the diseases that are significantly more common in FAAB (female-assigned-at-birth) people, shall we?
- fibromyalgia
- depression
- lupus
- multiple sclerosis
- scleroderma
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To protest a bill that would require women to undergo an ultrasound before having an abortion, Virginia State Sen. Janet Howell (D-Fairfax) on Monday attached an amendment that would require men to have a rectal exam and a cardiac stress test before obtaining a prescription for erectile dysfunction medication.
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Holy crap, this is practically going viral! If I can get a $10 donation from every person who “liked” or reblogged my snark, I will blow past my goal! The Richmond Reproductive Freedom Project is a volunteer-based nonprofit that provides practical and financial support for abortion services in VA and our surrounding communities. Every amount helps. Donate here: http://bowlathon.nnaf.org/nnafbowl/participantpage.asp?uid=2679&fundid=714How one Virginia woman is responding to her state legislators that voted in favor of VA’s forced ultrasound bill.
She posts this message on each one of their Facebook pages:
Hi Senator _____________! I just wanted to let you know, since you’re concerned with women’s health, that my period started today! Color looks good, flow not too heavy. Cramps are pretty manageable but don’t worry - I’ll make sure to let you know if that changes! Thanks again for caring so much about women and our bodies!
If legislators in your state or those representing you at the federal level have voted for anti-choice bills, this is a great way to *thank* them.
Brilliant.
As a transman who is yet to get on T, I might just whip this one out.
And the guys we’re playing against are like:
A limerick in honor of Ms. Spurzem, composed by my family (mom, dad, and little brother) and I over dinner:
There once was a Smithie outrageous
Who burned Simone Beauvoir’s pages
So in chains of cashmere
and pearls so austere,
She said, “Ladies, return to your cages!”Lily Samuels, Class of 2011
Trans people are told by the law, state agencies, private discriminators, and our families that we are impossible people who cannot exist, cannot be seen, cannot be classified, and cannot fit anywhere. We are told by the better-funded lesbian and gay rights groups, as they continually leave us aside, that we are not politically viable our lives are not a political possibility that can be conceived. Inside this impossibility, I argue, lies our specific political potential—a potential to formulate demands and strategies to meet those demands that exceed the containment of neoliberal politics. A critical trans politics is emerging that refuses empty promises of “equal opportunity” and “safety” underwritten by settler colonialism, racist, sexist, classist, ableist, and xenophobic imprisonment, and ever-growing wealth disparity. This politics aims to center the concerns and leadership of the most vulnerable to build transformative change through mobilization. It is reconceptualizing the role of law reform in social movements, acknowledging that legal equality demands are a feature of systemic injustice, not a remedy. It is confronting the harms that come to trans people at the hands of violent systems structured through law itself—not by demanding recognition and inclusion in those systems, but by working to dismantle them while simultaneously supporting those most exposed to their harms.
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I HATE when girls act like they get pressured to look a certain way, when guys are really the ones that have to look one way. Guys like girls that look all different kind of ways. But typically the good looking guy looks ONE way. Tall dark…
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Contains, as you may imagine from the title, a graphic description of medical complications from and treatment for an unsafe abortion.
I was in clinic when I heard the overhead STAT page to the emergency room.
As I sprinted down the stairs, I ran through the possible scenarios. I wasn’t on call, so the day to day gynecologic emergencies weren’t my purview. I hadn’t operated on anyone in the past few weeks, so unlikely to be one of my own patients with a complication.
Logically there was only one conclusion.
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