esoomris

[esoomris]

Two years after being tasked with commissioning a review of medical evidence surrounding gender-affirming care for trans youth, Utah’s own state health department has concluded that trans healthcare bans “cannot be justified.” The Republicans who commissioned the study aren’t too happy about it.

Back in 2023, Utah Governor Spencer Cox signed a bill that placed an indefinite “moratorium” on doctors prescribing gender-affirming care like hormone therapy and puberty blockers to trans youth. That bill ordered the Utah Department of Health and Human Services to compile their report in order to produce recommendations for the state government on whether or not to lift the moratorium.

This week, the department delivered their long-awaited, over 1,000-page report — which is dated August 6, 2024 — to Utah lawmakers. The report’s authors found that “the consensus of the evidence supports that the treatments are effective in terms of mental health, psychosocial outcomes, and the induction of body changes consistent with the affirmed gender in pediatric GD [gender dysphoria] patients.”

The authors added that “the evidence also supports that the treatments are safe in terms of changes to bone density, cardiovascular risk factors, metabolic changes, and cancer.” Trans youth who had received gender-affirming care were within the bounds of normal, non-pathological ranges for these conditions.

y’all this is huge. please don’t “water is wet” all over it! I understand that we all already know this… The point is that the world doesn’t know or care or believe and so these studies really fucking matter!

[esoomris]

let the hard animal of your body hate what it hates

[esoomris]

[esoomris]

[esoomris]

I have a disorder that makes me want to headcanon every nonhuman character with the ability to purr regardless if it makes sense for their kind or not. It's called being right. With enough research i could justify a tree purring if i wanted to

[esoomris]

but its important

[esoomris]

The neurodivergent urge to do this

[esoomris]

how write book?

[esoomris]

Drew donuts, only take one 🍩

[esoomris]

Today in niche genres of joke that I can never get enough of and will probably still be secretly thinking about four years later

[esoomris]

shut up and look at this photo of Marsha P. Johnson smiling and holding a Snoopy plush.

[esoomris]

Walter Street, Takapau, Hawke's Bay, New Zealand.

[esoomris]

[esoomris]

this is going to be a generalized take, so please forgive me, but women are an underrated enforcer of femininity.

I’ve noticed this with hairdressers. multiple times I’ve gone to lady hairdressers and said “cut it all off,” and they’ve gone “hmm alright,” and basically just trimmed the split ends. meanwhile I can go to a dude and say “hey, can you make my hair slightly shorter?” and he’ll go “on it boss,” and shave me bald.

twice now, I’ve also had lady tattoo artists add pink to femme up a tattoo, despite that not being on the initial design.

god, also thinking about this brought back a memory. my mom once threw a fit because my shoes were “too masculine” (they were black women’s flats), saying that I’d upset my dad and ruin the formal event we were going to. I wore the shoes, my dad didn’t give a shit.

I dunno. it just feels like the misogyny is coming from inside the house sometimes.

[esoomris]

When I was in 8th grade my friend had this app where you could put in a picture and it would add randomly generated text to create memes. Those painfully 2010s top text / bottom text memes. and i remember getting so mad at her when we were at camp for doing it with really bad pictures of me. it's been 13 years and i haven't spoken to her in 7 and i've changed my mind this is actually the funniest thing i've ever seen

[esoomris]

the group chat when i ask whos available to hang out next week

[esoomris]

The majority of the Earth’s rodents: How do you survive environments with practically zero oxygen, feel no pain, and live for decades when none of the rest of us can???

Naked mole-rats: