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I know that HRT gives you secondary sex characteristics in one direction or another, but we HAVE to stop telling nonbinary people that they “can’t pick and choose.” Of course, you can’t tell your testosterone that you’d rather not grow chest hair, but there are things you can do!

You could go on T so your voice drops and start shaving so you don’t grow a beard. You could start HRT and then stop once you get the permanent changes you like. You can pursue sterilization instead of bottom surgery. You can get top surgery without being on T. You can go on E and work out a bunch to bulk out your muscles. You can pursue laser hair removal or electrolysis to remove unwanted hair, with or without HRT. You could even just start hormones to see if you like it and then stop if it isn’t to your taste.

Obviously, you can’t order secondary sex characteristics a la carte, but we have to stop being so awful to nonbinary people. We should discuss the options we have, not shut down the conversation with “that’s what you get.”

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> read library book

> it's good

Thank you library

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a central transfeminist point that it's difficult for tmes to wrap their heads around is that trans women do in fact interact with society as women, and are treated as women, even when they're being misgendered. misgendering isn't just misunderstanding, it's a deliberate act of violence targeting a particularly vulnerable class of women

this seemingly paradoxical nature of transmisogyny is what makes talking about these things so maddening

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I was standing in the crowd, just trying to get a bag of flour for my family. I didn’t even have a ration card—just hope and empty hands. Then the shooting started. People were screaming, falling. Blood on the ground, flour in the air. I survived, somehow… but what I saw there will haunt me forever.

I can’t go back. I won’t risk my life again just to bring home bread. My family needs flour—not death. If there’s any way you can help, any donation, any support… please. Don’t let that place be the only option left for us.

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I need people on this site to stop acting like the Indigenous groups of North America are gone. They are still alive, they are still trying to live. Yes they are the victims of genocide, yes a lot of their cultures and languages have been lost, but acting like they are completely gone helps no one but the genocidal.

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Article by Billy Lane, the first trans man to win Seattle Mr. Leather - FTM Newsletter (1998)

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proximity

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The portrayal of white people who have been violently separated from their own culture stealing the power of black culture and music to try to get reconnected was SO literal and somehow not at ALL heavy-handed or trite. Fkn remarkable.

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I think it’s funny when euro leftist try to make meaningful critiques about the US and they always fumble into the idea that all people im the US are white and all indigenous people died a long time ago.

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Will Graham in Hannibal Lecter's kitchen

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by @beetlemoses

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STOP! before you decide you are irretrievable doomed, try one of the following options:

transition

bdsm

iron supplements

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Catholic church doesnt even allow divorce if domestic violence is involved and vatican city wouldnt exist nowadays without the help of Benito fucking Mussolini and yet theres always some motherfucker being like i hope the next pope is pro gay marriage. I hope I get a house from Santa Claus this year. I hope a horse is going to buy me cheese in the grocery store

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Everyone's like "The new Pope isnt welcoming to gay people and has covered up child abuse" like. Fork found in kitchen?

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I have no idea why people forgot about Catholicism's collective cover-up of CSA within the church and how nothing was done about it. I have no idea why people think Catholicism is anything other than the institution that sat comfortably by when fascism emerged in Italy.