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“this character can’t/shouldn’t be trans because it doesn’t have a purpose or serve their narrative” god who the fuck cares. sometimes people are just trans.

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i wish he would come down from heaven & kill every instagram fitness liquid diet ozempic green juice low calorie food blogger

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burning food is an inherited trait

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Yoink

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The rise of doctors describing functional or psychogenic symptoms as "not real" symptoms should genuinely disturb everyone.

It harms those with functional/psychogenic symptoms, because yes, the symptoms are real, regardless of a lack of organic cause. They aren't lying or faking them, they're just not organic in nature.

And even if you don't give a shit about individuals with those types of symptoms (you should), it should still worry you if you're disabled, especially if you're a part of another marginalised group (especially women tbh). You're more likely to be assumed to have functional/psychogenic symptoms, and if doctors believe you do, they won't test for other stuff, or only do very basic tests. Like having any kind of functional/psychogenic diagnosis or suspected diagnosis on your records will hinder any other attempts to seek medical help because everything gets blamed on that, even if (like me!) you have proof that there's other stuff going on (eg positive test results). This means that you can be very definitely physically organically ill, and still be refused tests and treatments based on assumptions.

And then when those symptoms get labelled as "not real"...well, suddenly those with functional/psychogenic problems are basically being called liars, fakers, etc, and can't get the help they need to a, recover/improve, and b, get the support they need whilst/when they have symptoms. (And hey, guess what, if you have neither of those things, you're not gonna get better and may in fact get worse!) And those who've just been assumed to have them are going to get labelled increasingly as liars and fakers as they get increasingly sicker from the "not real" symptoms, risking long term damage from the "not real" symptoms.

(Post inspired by a conference I went to in which an actual doctor stood up in front of hundreds of people and described how it's hard to tell if a teenage girl with anxiety has real stomach pain or not. Because if your stomach hurts from anxiety, it's actually fake, the pain doesn't exist I guess.)

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Don't worry, he can catch it

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Whenever someone tries to hypothesize a bad faith scenario in which trans mascs have male privilege they always reveal their lack of knowledge on the trans masc experience.

"But what if your name on your application says John", well what if I chose an anti-assimilate name? What if I never changed my legal name? What if my name identifies me as a minority of another kind? What if my appearance doesn't match my name? What if my gender marker still says F? What if I don't pass? What if everyone already knows I'm trans because it's a small town and people gossip?

When people create these scenarios, they're imagining a trans man with no complication. His transition was successful in assimilating him into cishet society, no one knows who he was prior, all his documents were successfully changed, he has no other axis of oppression to hold over him. He's basically THE Chad trans man, the Chads Man, if you will.

The problem obviously is, this man basically doesn't exist. And even if he did, the security of his entire existence would require him to keep his mouth shut, don't advocate for himself or other trans people, and to be so deep stealth that he never allows himself to be vulnerable with another human being ever again. If he opens up to anyone about being trans, he immediately loses all those privileges.

All this meant to say...

Pease Stop talking about Chads Man. Chads Man doesn't exist. Your local trans man is most likely a disabled punk with stick n poke tats who doesn't believe in documentation lol.

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need everyone to know that the current mlb home run leader for 2025 is nicknamed Big Dumper. because he has a huge ass

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“Imagine passionately defending plastic straws” imagine getting mad because someone’s meemaw or child can drink liquids without also wearing them all over their body and clothes and the floor. shut the fuck up you hypersensitive ableist crybaby

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kicking off the "do non-queer allies belong at pride" discourse with a resounding YES

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If you've ever told a person who's had to be bedbound for a period of time that you wish you could "just stay in bed", DO IT.

Stay in bed. For days. But don't get up if someone needs you to, or you get bored, or you get antsy. Don't do anything other than rest. Just lie in your bed, whether you need to get stuff done around the house or socialize or anything else "productive". You'll have to cancel on people, you'll disappoint them, they won't understand.

And if you're thinking, "well, i CAN'T just be in bed. There's stuff that has to be done - I have plans", maybe ask yourself why you assumed a disabled person doesn't have plans or things to do or desires.

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Y'know, I would care a lot less about the memeification of male pregnancy if there wasn't such a massive overlap between people who memeify it and people who throw a massive tantrum when trans men and mascs ask for even the bare minimum of inclusion in reproductive rights.

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doesn’t matter if a specific act of ableism happened to you 100x in your lifetime or if it happens to you every single day multiple times a day. a sheltered abled idiot whos never spoken to you before will go “this doesn’t REALLY happen does it??? Omg LOL what discourse iceberg did I just pass by????”

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able bodied people will freak out when they see an ambulatory mobility aid user not using their aids but won't question it when a hiker only uses a walking stick or trekking poles when they're hiking. they're the same thing.

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I think that it's really important for people to realize that being disabled is traumatic. genuinely. your body and brain feel like they are breaking down and wrong. you are in constant heavy stress from stuff like chronic pain. most disabled people i know have a somewhat regular emotional break down from the trauma of it all. and we are expected to just smile through it by society, to not be in the way, to not be an issue.

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what is it with able bodied people saying “get well soon” after you say that you’re chronically ill?? like? i am not gonna? and i once literally responded with “i’m not gonna, it’s chronic, as in permanent.” and they went like “oh well, hope you get better!” like bro 💀