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I think the thing that affected me the most as a kid (and considering that I'm still a kid.. I think this sounds bad) is the fact that my parents wouldn't believe me whenever I cried.
I have to think about this.. I don't really want to specify anything like who or why, but...
since they were 'crocodile tears' and I wasn't pouring my eyes out I was obviously faking it.
It just hurt me so much.. and still hurts.
I think it's the reason why I get so scared when someone thinks I'm lying when I'm telling the truth. Mainly a close person too.
I just feel... I don't know. It just hurts so much and j don't know how to make it stop.
What's worse is that my behaviour is just self destructive so I end up proving everyone else right... I wish I could just do better.
be better.
but now, that's just wishful thinking..
#low self esteem#self destructing#idk#i am also gaslighting myself so self gaslighting??#just..#i get scared and when i get scared i just stop working. i just run away from my fears and struggle to work on it because im scared of..#im scared of failing over and over and over#im scared of never getting anything right#i dont want to be a failure#but i already know i am#i identify as a failure#lol#anyways yeah post about why I suck 😃👍#does this count as trauma?#like childhood trauma or?#yay gaslighting mysef again..#prolly over reacting or over exaggerating..#yh.#i suck i guess#expresso the depresso#naes vent posts#ugh#what#what?
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coming in hot with my first take on antisemitism in a while after trying to limit my time on this cesspit of jew hatred: being an ally is not something you can identify as, it is something that you become through actions and are deemed so by the minority you are allying with. 99% of you who identify as an ally of the jewish people are actually raging antisemites. if we are scared of you (we are) you are not an ally, not matter how much you identify as one.
#one of the biggest failures we are witnessing among this rise of antisemitism#is people identify as not being antisemitic#so they believe they can't be antisemitic#which isn't true#you can't decide you aren't antisemitic and if a jew calls you antisemitic#and you ignore it#because 'i'm an ally i can't be antisemitic'#guess what you aren't an ally#jewish#jumblr#antisemitism
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#school of rock#jack black#dewey finn#00's#00s#I serve the Tumblr society with rock#because my real society sucks#In my real society I'm an idiot#a failure#but who cares? I want everyone to die!#movies#comedy movies#I totally identify with Dewey Finn#my gif#gifs#my edit#gif#text
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Happy birthday to!! my own oc!!
(May 8th is Haru's birthday)
He gets to have some introspection. This references a whole bunch of character arcs he's gone through that uh. I haven't, posted, anywhere.
But its mostly coming to terms with loss and lingering attachments, and learning you are loved, in the end.
#kn8 oc#haru eizaki (oc)#anyways#theres a buncha other people there but#if you can identify them good for you is what im stickin with i think ghjhgjgh#you can maybe tell i was loosing steam at th last page or so#its FIVE FULL BODIES#i dont know how legs work man#also its the tags i can go wild so#basic rundown#for me#future me#and also you. if youd like it#but haru has had issues with kind of. resenting his parents#and also missing them#for a very long time#and its just#this whole thing of#hey they werent perfect but they also are not nearly as bad as you remeber them being#(you convinced yourself they were terrible because how else could you handle the loss?)#and also he has. been loved. had friends. had a kind of family#but he never quite realized it bcs uh. caught up in his own greif and also#the 'ideal' relationship betwen himself and others#and also his own failures#yknow how it goes#and also smth smth acknowledging your own greif and the fact that you miss people who were not perfect#letting them go (and being let go in return)#smth smth greif and moving on#anyways its like 2am i gotta go bed#enn art
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guys real question, what did you think of the tokrev ending? i'm low-key begging for opinions rn🙏. also, what ship do you hate that everyone loves and what ship do you love that everyone hates? you can answer both or one of these questions.
#i don't wanna start discourse but i just need to know if i'm the unreasonable one#i can argue a case without it turning into a fight so i would love a civil conversation please#i can also respect people's opinions without shitting on them and calling people stupid like i feel like that's a bit unnecessary#and it can be on anon! i doubt anyone's gonna reply to this because i don't get that many asks but if you do#maybe use something to identify you like an emoji#i ask for asks then i panic when i get them😭#if this post flops i'll delete it by the end of the day and you guys will pretend it didn't happen 🚶♀️#it's around 10am for me rn so ig if no one asks by 10pm i'ma just accept failure and be humiliated#tokyo revengers#tokyo revengers ending#tokrev#tokyo rev#tokyo revengers manga
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"it takes a village to raise a child" is kind of an interesting saying. it isn't "it takes a family to raise a child," or "it takes a roster to raise a child," or even "it takes a lot of people to raise a child." it's specifically a village-- a group of people united by geographic circumstance alone.
inherently, the idea of a child raised in part by their community involves a child being raised in part by strangers. when you let your eight-year-old walk to the corner store to spend their allowance on a chocolate bar, they practice following traffic signals by copying the other people at the crosswalk. they learn that it's polite to smile when someone makes eye contact from all the grown-ups who smile as they walk by. they pet someone's service dog, and the owner stops them to explain why that's not okay, and that's their reminder to ask before they touch. they practice math with the teenager working the cash register, who tells them the difference between a nickel and a quarter and patiently picks through their fistful of change.
it takes a lot of trust to let your kid do this. in fact, I'll go a step further-- it takes a lot of faith. you are trusting that if your child screams, someone will come running. you are trusting that if they get lost, someone will walk them home. you are trusting that if they are vulnerable, nobody will take advantage of them-- and that if anyone tries to, someone else will interfere. and by and large, this faith is not misplaced. there's really no data in support of helicopter parenting. it doesn't lead to better long-term outcomes when you hyper-supervise your kid, and in fact, it often leads to far worse ones.
#children are also extremely good at identifying their own abilities and meeting their own needs. if you suggest to your kid that they walk t#and they're excited about the idea#they're probably ready for it!#if you offer your kid the option of going to the park alone but you misjudged & they're not quite ready yet#19 times out of 20 they just... won't go.#and for that 1 in 20 where they DO catastrophically overestimate their own abilities#(and i say catastrophically bc kids often overestimate their abilities-- but that usually leads to safe + healthy failure#that doesn't require any grown-up intervention)#someone will help them.#they probably will not get hit by a car and die. someone will notice them wandering aimlessly and go Hey kid are you lost.#and help them get home.#anyways uh ive been writing this post for . an hour . which is really unfortunate . i need my meds adjusted LMAO#idk i just. i like kids. we should let them be a little more feral.#they'll be ok.
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The floorboards of Fail Clockworks have sizable gaps and holes. This means any screw dropped is almost certainly lost to the inaccessible cellar.
#it's really hard for people to sneak around on the bottom floor because if they step too hard there's a rattling sound from the floorboards#they haven't identified the reason for this problem. btw#they just think their house sounds like that#failure: a love story#failure a love story#fail clockworks est 1900#ignore the fact that i haven't posted in 82924038498 years i've been busy#give me a couple weeks and I swear the fic will be published#*sweats in 111 days since i've opened the doc*#pinkie promise?
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the thing thats always missing in conversations about gender in general is the fact that 'cis', as an identity, is not a innate Thing Some People Are, but rather a state of acceptance society grooms us into from birth
#im sorry but no one is inherently 'cis' bc gender is inherently not real (saying this in cool trans way not transphobe way).#being 'cis' just means you live as the gender youve been assigned. being 'genuinely' cis in a way where youre not repressing anything and#you're truly happy to be that way means you're the ideal and desired endgame of the whole gendered culture and have been successfully#groomed into accepting only half of yourself (the half that can exist in the gender role you inhabit)#Like every culture agrees that people have both 'masculine' and 'feminine' within them but on entry to the earth the vast majority of peopl#are placed within a role that rewards either 'masculine' or 'feminine' but not both. and of course everyone continues to be both but#theyve still been placed in one role.#To be honest i think we need to rid ourselves of the idea of gender as something innate even though its nice to teach to well-meaning#liberal cis people. 'born this way' dogma was a useful vehicle to pitch existence in but its unhelpful when queer people actually act like#its the whole truth and nothing but the truth.#dont get me wrong i couldnt be a girl cause i self destructed and died and that was just something within me. totally that is a thing 100%.#hashtag born this way. but just because it doesnt go that far for some people doesnt mean that theyre Innately Cis. it means they accept#their circumstance and r priviledged to be able to do so. thats what cis means#to be clear: i say being cis is the result of grooming. thats not to say that people who reject cisness are smarter or more radical#necessarily or doing the right thing. some people stay cis and push the boundaries of that role wherever possible and thats just as radical#i think in fact its more radical than trans people who ruthlessly uphold gender roles#tldr its not a moral failure to identify with ur assigned gender and to argue that would be incredibly ridiculous#but the only reason u feel identification with it at all is because of the grooming. shrug emoji.#oliver talks#gender#gender abolition#gender assignment is grooming & its violence & its awful#ted talk over#Disclaimer if anyone wants to pick a fight that i do literally identify as trans so take of that what you will
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ChatGPT is NOT the same thing as a calculator
A calculator doesn't give you wrong answers.
It will ALWAYS give you the correct result based on your input.
If you feed it the wrong information, the answer to your problem will be wrong, but you can identify and correct it fairly easily because the logic is straightforward and consistent.
If you feed input into ChatGPT, you will not know if the output is right or wrong. You will not get the chance to easily identify whether it's right or wrong. There is no logic to the output, which is NOT an answer. Your output will be different every time for invisible, inconsistent reasons which will be impossible for you to determine. You must examine, in excruciating detail, every aspect of what it gives you to determine if it's correct and useful. You must examine every source it makes up to determine if it's real and relevant.
"ChatGPT is right 80%" of the time
"ChatGPT is right 90%" of the time
Unless ChatGPT is right 100% of the time, it is literally useless. You will spend more time and effort verifying the output than you would if you just did your own research and wrote something yourself.
ChatGPT is not a research tool, and it was never MEANT to be a research tool. There is no concept of "right" in the context of a ChatGPT output because that is not what ChatGPT is designed to do. It doesn't give you "right" or "wrong"; it gives you words that sound natural ... to a limited extent.
If all you need is output that sounds natural, regardless of the content, that is what ChatGPT can do.
If you need specific content, if you need research, facts, math, conclusions, actual THOUGHT applied to something, ChatGPT quite literally cannot do that.
If the output is sounding to you like it HAS done that, then that is the insidiousness of ChatGPT's lies.
If your teachers and professors actually advocate for ChatGPT, they are failing their job. You should care about that, because you're paying for them to develop your skills.
You should also care about that because that line of (zero) critical thought will give us "professionals" in industries who generate critically important documents which have hidden falsehoods and errors, which other people and other industries will rely upon.
If you want your leaders and researchers and officers and reporters and everybody else to give you imaginary information, then this is definitely the path we should be on.
This was never an issue with calculators.
Oh, but is it too hard to catch students using ChatGPT?
Cry me a damn river. Do your fucking job.
#this is a rant and only a rant#met some 'classroom instructors' (lol) today#who advocate for everyone to use chatgpt for all their reports#and started comparing chatgpt in schools to calculators in school#I have never been exposed to such raw and insulting ignorance in all my life#if you're a teacher and you're struggling to catch and penalize students for chatgpt you have my sympathies!!#the tech to identify it will get better i promise#if you're a teacher and you're just telling students to go full steam ahead and chatgpt everything??? you're not a teacher you're a FAILURE#and you should lose your job#8)#there is some feedback that will be delivered in a steaming pile to this school#the only question is how vicious I feel like being with it#AI#commentary
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Absolutely zero offence to jariktig, I'm just using their outsider perspective as an example to jump off of, but I feel like the fanon idea that "Autobots get praised for the same things Decepticons get villified for" is SO FUCKING WEIRD because I don't understand how you could possibly think this unless you either haven't read phase 2 of IDW1 or just??? Didn't fucking pay attention to the story whatsoever?????
#squiggposting#genuinely i dont even know where to start#first of all some characters getting in universe punishment or hetting off scot free#doesnt mean that the authors condone or approve of what they did#second of all#(deep breath)#HAVE YOU AND I READ THE SAME FUCKING COMICS????#IN WHAT WORLD IS IDW OPTIMUS VALORIZED BY THE NARRATIVE#IN WHAT FUCKING WORLD WERE THE AUTOBOTS AS BAD AS THE DECEPTICONS#yes there were things like MTOs on both sides and also prowl exists but like#one side was fine with colonizing occupied planets and the other side was not#also there are multiple stories like the wreckers which show morally gray autobots#the autocracy trilogy where the autobots are widely criticized and distrusted and seen as failures#EVERY FUCKING THING BARBER WROTE ABOUT OPTIMUS#IN WHAT WORLD DO PEOPLE THINK THE IDW AUTOBOTS WERE PORTRAYED AS UNIVERSAL HEROES#OR THAT THE AUTHORS WERE TRYING TO PORTRAY THEM AS UNIVERSAL HEROES#IN. WHAT. FUCKING. WORLD??.???#s2g i hate sharing this fandom where people who can't read dictate fanon#and then people who don't read spread that fanon#half the shit self identified fans of idw1 believe in literally isnt true#idw op being valorized in universe (by a specific group of people only) doesnt mean that the narrative#is valorizing him and saying he's a flawless hero#jfc#like i understand if people think like that just by listening to fandom#but people who read the comics have no excuse
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Having a body sucks guys
#I miss being a human ghost a little bit#I have so many…. Feelings#it’s like#why?#self awareness sucks#especially when you are also a fucking dumbass who cannot identify the sensations#vague unease or hunger?#organ failure or normal levels of empathy?#who knows#certainly not I#whining#personal
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#just a lil vent in ths tags dont mind me#for some reason today has just sucked ASS#which is a shame bc i was excited for notn#im doing a cbt course atm and a decent part of it is like. identifying what was the cause of ur upset#but theres days like this where its just everything and also nothing#having shit luck for notn so far. maybe reading smth a lil too angsty in my spare time#not doing art like i had planned bc it didnt go well and i was already upset#and doing art while upset is a recipe for disaster#and then repeatedly getting exposed to t//e//rfs#and how do i put that all in one cbt cycle huh???#i should probably just do the lessons my advisor recommended me. ugh#AND im tired#i feel like a failure. i was planning on doing so much art but its not looking likely anymore#i get bonus art each year for the ssat and i just never manage it myself#this sucks!#this whole year blows. and i really need to do the negative thinking patterns course#:(#bleh. im going to bed now and hoping tomorrow is easier#not fr#negative
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idk if people on tumblr know about this but a cybersecurity software called crowdstrike just did what is probably the single biggest fuck up in any sector in the past 10 years. it's monumentally bad. literally the most horror-inducing nightmare scenario for a tech company.
some info, crowdstrike is essentially an antivirus software for enterprises. which means normal laypeople cant really get it, they're for businesses and organisations and important stuff.
so, on a friday evening (it of course wasnt friday everywhere but it was friday evening in oceania which is where it first started causing damage due to europe and na being asleep), crowdstrike pushed out an update to their windows users that caused a bug.
before i get into what the bug is, know that friday evening is the worst possible time to do this because people are going home. the weekend is starting. offices dont have people in them. this is just one of many perfectly placed failures in the rube goldburg machine of crowdstrike. there's a reason friday is called 'dont push to live friday' or more to the point 'dont fuck it up friday'
so, at 3pm at friday, an update comes rolling into crowdstrike users which is automatically implemented. this update immediately causes the computer to blue screen of death. very very bad. but it's not simply a 'you need to restart' crash, because the computer then gets stuck into a boot loop.
this is the worst possible thing because, in a boot loop state, a computer is never really able to get to a point where it can do anything. like download a fix. so there is nothing crowdstrike can do to remedy this death update anymore. it is now left to the end users.
it was pretty quickly identified what the problem was. you had to boot it in safe mode, and a very small file needed to be deleted. or you could just rename crowdstrike to something else so windows never attempts to use it.
it's a fairly easy fix in the grand scheme of things, but the issue is that it is effecting enterprises. which can have a looooot of computers. in many different locations. so an IT person would need to manually fix hundreds of computers, sometimes in whole other cities and perhaps even other countries if theyre big enough.
another fuck up crowdstrike did was they did not stagger the update, so they could catch any mistakes before they wrecked havoc. (and also how how HOW do you not catch this before deploying it. this isn't a code oopsie this is a complete failure of quality ensurance that probably permeates the whole company to not realise their update was an instant kill). they rolled it out to everyone of their clients in the world at the same time.
and this seems pretty hilarious on the surface. i was havin a good chuckle as eftpos went down in the store i was working at, chaos was definitely ensuring lmao. im in aus, and banking was literally down nationwide.
but then you start hearing about the entire country's planes being grounded because the airport's computers are bricked. and hospitals having no computers anymore. emergency call centres crashing. and you realised that, wow. crowdstrike just killed people probably. this is literally the worst thing possible for a company like this to do.
crowdstrike was kinda on the come up too, they were starting to become a big name in the tech world as a new face. but that has definitely vanished now. to fuck up at this many places, is almost extremely impressive. its hard to even think of a comparable fuckup.
a friday evening simultaneous rollout boot loop is a phrase that haunts IT people in their darkest hours. it's the monster that drags people down into the swamp. it's the big bag in the horror movie. it's the end of the road. and for crowdstrike, that reaper of souls just knocked on their doorstep.
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I went to the small pizzeria in a nearby village last month and asked for a calzone, and when she brought it to me the owner had a look on her face I can only describe as bitter.
Naturally my first assumption was that she was judging me for my food order (maybe calzones are too easy compared to other pizzas and she felt under-challenged as a pizza chef?), but then I looked at my calzone and the more I looked at it, the more I felt like it might have been a failed attempt at a cat calzone.
(I didn't ask for a cat calzone, just a calzone.)
If I had immediately identified it as a cat calzone I would have of course said something about it, such as "Aww that's so cute! You made it in the shape of a cat!! Thank you!" — but it was too late. I hesitated too long, and it was just failed enough that I wasn't sure it was meant to be a cat.
I think this poor woman knew her cat calzone was a failure and I wouldn't be able to recognise her effort for what it was, hence the bitterness in her eyes when she brought it to me.
I asked my friend if my pizza looked like a cat to her, and she said "Are you saying this because of the olives? I think they were just placed randomly."
no, I think they were meant to be eyes, and a cat nose. And those are the ears. Wait, I'll turn it in your direction so you can see
Friend: "It's just a pointy calzone... Maybe you should ask the chef if she meant to make it a cat?"
If I tried to make a cat calzone and the recipient of this gift went like 'hey, sorry, is this weird-looking thing meant to be cat?' I would sell my pizza restaurant and drown myself in the river.
After considering this, my friend said we could brainstorm a better phrasing—but then we ended up agreeing that since the chef didn't go 'haha sorry I tried to make a cat and failed!!' when she brought my pizza, the options were a) she didn't try to make a cat; b) she feels humiliated by her failure, and either way it's better to say nothing.
But I felt deeply curious about this unresolved mystery, so this week when I went back to the pizzeria I asked for a calzone again.
The options were now: a) the chef brings me a better, recognisable cat calzone and I immediately remark upon it and she's happy and we erase the failed cat calzone from the historical record and never mention it ever;
or b) the chef brings me a normal calzone, which suggests that the vague cat shape from last time was accidental and just another instance of chronic cat pareidolia.
(I refused to consider option c) The chef brings me another failed, hardly-recognisable cat. She just doesn't seem like the kind of person who would let that happen to her twice.)
Here's the photo of the failed cat calzone from last time, which, according to my friend, just looks like a pointy calzone with randomly-placed olives and not a deliberate attempt to make a cat:
And here's what the chef brought me this time:
THAT'S A CAT.
I knew it!!!!
And it looks so sad!! This cat calzone looks like it will burst into olive oil tears if you once again fail to identify it as the cat that it is
But I didn't; I was so ready this time. I went "A cat!!!!! It's so cute!" and the chef went like yes!!! I tried to make one last time but it looked weird :(
I said I was pretty sure it was a cat last time and apologised for not bringing it up and she said no, it's my responsibility to make it a decent cat. She also said she was glad I'd come back and ordered another calzone because she was really bothered ("vraiment embêtée") by that first failed attempt, and wondering if I'd noticed an attempt was made (and failed)
That's so relatable. It's like when you make a really embarrassing spelling mistake in a text and you're not sure if the other person has seen it and is judging you for it. Should you bring it up? Can it go unnoticed if you don't? It's the cat calzone equivalent of that. I'm so glad we were able to clear the air.
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look idk but I feel like defining sapphic as ‘nonmen loving nonmen’ is a little bit. Hm. Idk I’m not sapphic but a really large percentage of my friends are/have been and. Maybe this is just my discomfort with the use of the term nonmen by proto-bioessentialist spaces but. It feels a little weird. Like you’re sapphic if you’re women-aligned loving women-aligned. There’s enbies who aren’t men and like women and aren’t sapphic bc they feel aligned with masculinity strong enough that their attraction to women, while queer, isn’t sapphic. Fuck there’s enbies I know who’ve dated straight women. Not a man dating not a man IS NOT necessarily sapphic! There’s achillean folks dating achillean folks (whom I know personally), neither of whom are/identify as men, but also ARE. NOT. SAPPHIC.
Sapphic attraction, I have to say, IS a term for liking women in a gay way! It’s queer attraction to women!! Im losing my mind!!
#look. I’m a man right. But even when I was iding as nonbinary I would not have gone into a ‘safe space for nonmen’ just bc. yknow.#In ten minutes there’s either terfs bioessentialism or second wave feminism up in that space. and I’ll bet you a fiver there’s ace exclusio#anyways. GOD. niche and irritating but so often I see people talking about queerness in a way that excludes masculinity and it is a—#— failure of imagination. A lot of queer internet folks see feminism as this girlboss feminism and like yeah girlboss but also antipatriarc#Like the. the goal of feminism is not to girlboss the goal of feminism is to deconstruct the patriarchy by deconstructing the gender binary#Like. Gender roles are the enemy of feminism. We all get that. Right. I see we don’t all get that but we need to#also I know trans men who still identify as lesbians. you have literally constructed the meaning of sapphic to exclude Leslie feinberg.#anyways. You can just say women loving women. Or queer love of women. We can just Not Use the dogwhistle.
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"The first modern attempt at transferring a uterus from one human to another occurred at the turn of the millennium. But surgeons had to remove the organ, which had become necrotic, 99 days later. The first successful transplant was performed in 2011 — but even then, the recipient wasn’t immediately able to get pregnant and deliver a baby. It took three more years for the first person in the world with a transplanted uterus to give birth.
More than 70 such babies have been born globally in the decade since. “It’s a complete new world,” said Giuliano Testa, chief of abdominal transplant at Baylor University Medical Center.
Almost a third of those babies — 22 and counting — have been born in Dallas at Baylor. On Thursday, Testa and his team published a major cohort study in JAMA analyzing the results from the program’s first 20 patients. All women were of reproductive age and had no uterus (most having been born without one), but had at least one functioning ovary. Most of the uteri came from living donors, but two came from deceased donors.
Fourteen women had successful transplants, all of whom were able to have at least one baby.
“That success rate is extraordinary, and I want that to get out there,” said Liza Johannesson, the medical director of uterus transplants at Baylor, who works with Testa and co-authored the study. “We want this to be an option for all women out there that need it.”
Six patients had transplant failures, all within two weeks of the procedure. Part of the problem may have been a learning curve: The study initially included only 10 patients, and five of the six with failed transplants were in that first group. These were “technical” failures, Testa said, involving aspects of the surgery such as how surgeons connected the organ’s blood vessels, what material was used for sutures, and selecting a uterus that would work well in a transplant.
The team saw only one transplant fail in the second group of 10 people, the researchers said. All 20 transplants took place between September 2016 and August 2019.
Only one other cohort study has previously been published on uterus transplants, in 2022. A Swedish team, which included Johannesson before she moved to Baylor, performed seven successful transplants out of nine attempts. Six women, including the first transplant recipient to ever deliver a baby back in 2014, gave birth.
“It’s hard to extract data from that, because they were the first ones that did it,” Johannesson said. “This is the first time we can actually see the safety and efficacy of this procedure properly.”
So far, the signs are good: High success rates for transplants and live births, safe and healthy children so far, and early signs that immunosuppressants — typically given to transplant recipients so their bodies don’t reject the new organ — may not cause long-term harm, the researchers said. (The uterine transplants are removed after recipients no longer need them to deliver children.) And the Baylor team has figured out how to identify the right uterus for transfer: It should be from a donor who has had a baby before, is premenopausal, and, of course, who matches the blood type of the recipient, Testa said...
“They’ve really embraced the idea of practicing improvement as you go along, to understand how to make this safer or more effective. And that’s reflected in the results,” said Jessica Walter, an assistant professor of reproductive endocrinology and infertility at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, who co-authored an editorial on the research in JAMA...
Walter was a skeptic herself when she first learned about uterine transplants. The procedure seemed invasive and complicated. But she did her fellowship training at Penn Medicine, home to one of just four programs in the U.S. doing uterine transplants.
“The firsts — the first time the patient received a transplant, the first time she got her period after the transplant, the positive pregnancy test,” Walter said. “Immersing myself in the science, the patients, the practitioners, and researchers — it really changed my opinion that this is science, and this is an innovation like anything else.” ...
Many transgender women are hopeful that uterine transplants might someday be available for them, but it’s likely a far-off possibility. Scientists need to rewind and do animal studies on how a uterus might fare in a different “hormonal milieu” before doing any clinical trials of the procedure with trans people, Wagner said.
Among cisgender women, more long-term research is still needed on the donors, recipients, and the children they have, experts said.
“We want other centers to start up,” Johannesson said. “Our main goal is to publish all of our data, as much as we can.”"
-via Stat, August 16, 2024
#infertility#uterus#organ transplant#reproductive health#public health#medical news#childbirth#good news#hope#pregnancy#cw pregnancy
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