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[genderqueerpositivity]

I just wish that more people could understand how common and dangerous this transphobic conservative "protect our daughters" rhetoric is.

It's weaponized against trans women and transfeminine people all the time. This is visible in bans against transfeminine people playing on girls and women's sports teams, and it's visible in bathroom bans.

However, it is also weaponized against trans men and transmasculine people in different, but less discussed, ways.

We're infantilized. Regarded as impressionable, lacking in self-awareness, and easily influenced. We are victims of our doctors, gender therapists, big pharma, liberal teachers, and social media. We are misled, brainwashed. We don't choose to transition, we are "transed". We have no true agency of our own, we're manipulated. (And if we are neurodivergent, that adds tax; we aren't competent, we aren't capable of understanding the significance of transitioning or of fully consenting to gender affirming care, we are exploited.)

The "permanent" and "irreversible damage" that conservatives refer to is nearly always loss of fertility. We are "poisoned" by testosterone, "mutilated" by hysterectomies that leave us unable to have babies and mastectomies that leave us unable to breastfeed. "Damaged" pitiable things that can no longer fulfill our true "biological purpose".

Or course all of this is bullshit. But this narrative is absolutely a driving force behind trans healthcare bans. It's the reason behind the outrage over a few pages in a body image book aimed at teen girls.

It's fucked that more people don't see this for what it is.

[fletcherwilbury]

@sicktember Day 17: Alt Prompt 4: Forehead Kisses

Warning for Doctor setting, surgery mention, eye trauma mention, vomiting, misgendering, exhaustion

[toadsrbutch]

What was the recovering from your hysterectomy like? Definitely looking at that for myself down the line

honestly it wasn’t too bad! if you opt for a laparoscopic hysterectomy (the most common now from my understanding), you don’t have many external wounds—one incision through your bellybutton, and then 2 other ones on either side of your stomach. that can give you a false sense of “I’m fine” so you do have to remind yourself to take it easy (my doctor really didn’t want me to overdo it so she recommended 2 months off of work, though I could have gone back sooner), which can be an adjustment for some.

I did opt to have my cervix removed so I would not have to get Pap smears in the future, which is why I had a slightly longer recovery time. probably the worst part for me was the internal tugging feeling as everything healed, definitely a weird sensation. I wouldn’t call it painful, more unsettling if anything. that and nausea immediately after surgery from anesthesia but everyone reacts to it differently.

I hope that helps, please feel free to reach out if you have other questions!

[empatheticagent]

[surgery in a couple of days -may the 4th- so understandably, my mind hasn't been very focused. Can't guarantee how quickly I'll pick back up.

We'll see how things go. I'm not gonna pressure myself with estimated return to being active dates that I can't be sure of.

I am happy to chat/try plot, especially on discord however in the meantime.]

[sclarflared]

hello ! the name is jae ( she/they ) and i was super excited to stumble upon this rp because of my love of cyberpunk and scifi. i present to you all today, yoon jaehyun, local ansan who has lived here pretty much all his life and honestly hasn't known any other place but the city itself. a dj at orbital and one of the better known ones within the last few years, known for sometimes producing his own tracks and intermingling them with well-known songs in popular culture. more about him under the read more. also i ask that you please bear with me, last weekend i broke my humerus bone in my right arm, had surgery, and am recovering. my arm is splinted and i sometimes wear a sling, but my right hand is free so i'm able to type and stuff. i'm excited to plot with you all and if you have discord, i'd especially love to chat with you there ! edit : he now has a pinterest board ! and a stats page !

born and raised in ansan, he grew up with a single mother and a father that was never in the picture. when he was old enough to understand, his mother eventually told him that right after he was born his father earned a one way ticket to astra and didn't think twice and left them behind.

though he's never left ansan, this has largely colored his idea of the colony and he wouldn't give two shits if someone said he could leave tomorrow to the colony above. if he won a ticket in the lottery, he'd give that ticket to someone else in a heartbeat.

currently 24 years old, has a birthday in january, so he'll be 25 early next year. accepts he/they pronouns and is asked for a label would describe himself as a demi-male. often experiments with his clothes when it comes to usual gender norms and rarely has a normal hair color. currently rocking blue hair ( because i'm still over here crying and missing hongjoong's blue hair ).

lived just barely above the poverty line growing up as his mother didn't have a lot of skills or any kind of degree to help with that. she ended up working on average two to three jobs as he was growing up just so they could pay rent, pay for food, and try to give him fun things growing up when possible. grew up really close with his mom and as an adult he tries to help her in anyway that he can since he makes more money than she ever could.

developed anxiety and depressive issues in his middle years around eight or nine years old. was pulled out of school for years because he couldn't handle it and it would be years before his mother could afford something to help him, had some mood regulators that allowed him to enroll back and finish high school, but hasn't used any such since he was about eighteen years old.

always had a love for music and did odd jobs in his teenage years to afford meager producing equipment and a barely passable computer where he could create his own music. if you asked his opinion on his early stuff, it was mediocre at best but as the years have passed and he's gotten better equipment and learned new techniques.

posted some of his tracks on whatever the soundcloud equivalent would be and that gets him noticed slowly but surely. goes by the alias shadowstorm when he first posts his music and it sticks. finds the opportunity to to do some amateur dj gigs, before he finds out that orbital as looking to hire some new djs and were offering opportunities to those generally unknown in the nightclub scene.

surprises everyone when his one night audition is sort of a hit and is asked to become one of the alternate djs at the club. a few years pass and he becomes one of the regular djs headlining several nights during the week and weekend.

still goes by his alias for his stage name and is always seen with a mask that obscures the lower half of his face and large headphones that further obscure things when the dark lights of club strobe around him. he prefers that bit of anonymity that it gives him that not everyone would recognize who he is if he were passing them down the street during the day.

deals with his anxiety and depression issues through recreational drug use. it's not hard for him to acquire considering life revolves around nightlife and orbital most days. usually keeps it under wraps that it's more than just something fun to do and that he uses it as a coping mechanism. still refuses to use mood regulators again because he never liked how it made him feel.

lives in one of the lower floors of la mariposa in a studio apartment. being a dj and royalties from some songs that he had produced haven't made him super rich or anything, but much better off than he used to be. considering he uses some of his money to help his mother out, you won't find him in a bigger apartment or one of of the penthouses that the absurdly rich could afford.

personality wise ; headstrong to boot once he gets his mind on something it's hard to get him to stop. stubborn as hell, doesn't often like to be told what to do. sarcastic and isn't above a bit of dark humor when it suits him. unless you're close with him or known him for years, he's not the type to easily open up to others readily. seeks thrill from time to time and can be a bit reckless at times. if defined, is an introvert who pretends and thinks he's an extrovert but actually isn't and doesn't realize why he just crashes after a long night at orbital.

plots

if they live in la mariposa, someone he's seen in passing ? maybe they've run into each other at the gym, or simply in walking in and out of the building and on that hello i've seen you a few times basis.

fellow bad influence that he regularly does drugs with ? maybe they help supply each other with certain substances that the other isn't able to get easily and often have nights where they party and get wasted together and end up waking up half clothed on the floor of one of their apartments.

some flings and exes ? definitely see him as pansexual but has leanings toward masc presenting/nonbinary folks. give him an ex that really broke his heart and it's been hard on him to let anyone in like that since then ?

close friends he's known all his life, works for those who have lived in ansan for a long time or all their life as well.

anything really ? we can plot it out.

[variousqueerthings]

would you trust BJ with those surgeries or did you just not mention him in the context of those specific gifs?

it was just in connection with those gifs, because henry is talking about trapper and hawkeye in the scene as looking like "freelance abortionists" and my instinct being, "I think that's a compliment actually" (although ofc the disclaimer there is that some people offering abortions before it was legal were not good/caused a lot of violence and death and used desperate people for money/were not real doctors --so really what henry is saying is that they look disreputable)

(but the point still stands of course)

(the other even more tangenty point I feel like I need to make is that many trans people throughout time have also received surgeries from people who were everything from unprofessional to straight-up murderers, so these communities really ought to stand together for safe access to healthcare)

so in conclusion: in the fantasy that exists of accessing decent healthcare, hawkeye, trapper, and bj would all be supportive! also potter, whom I started headcanoning as trans and now I cannot unsee that. henry depends on how you want to read him, but I think he would after the war if he'd survived, he's been radicalised enough. and charles has helped out several of honoria's friends personally.

[mastcrmiind]

“look, i don’t know what to tell you.” the brunette sighed, eyes meeting with the person who had stopped her outside the hospital “you should probably go talk to a gp about that, or maybe visit the emergency department. i’m just a neurosurgery resident, and you definitely don’t need brain surgery.” she spoke, trying to keep a calming expression on her face “ and i’m trying to eat my lunch.”

[me-myself-and-my-fos]

Been thinking about the first kiss with Casey…

It doesn’t happen on the first date. His mom raised him better than that. He waits a bit, and makes sure he asks for permission first

But it would happen after I have a particularly long and hard shift. Not a lot of good news and more stillborns than I ever want to deliver, and right before my shift is up so he and I can go on our date, I end up having to perform some emergency surgery. It takes way longer than I want and I ask someone to go tell Casey I’m sorry but the date won’t happen but I’d love a rain check

He ends up waiting for me to get off, dropping by my office when he hears the surgery is over and was successful. He’s happy my shift can end on a positive note, and as I’m packing up he knocks on the doorframe. And we have a little chat, I apologize for cancelling but he waves it off. And then he says he’s ready for the rain check if I am and holds up two containers from my favorite Chinese buffet. He tells me he remembers me mentioning it’s my favorite place on our first date and how I said I go there after a shift when I don’t have any energy

I’d be so taken back by that and find it so sweet, jokingly asking how he hasn’t been taken yet when he’s such a catch. And Casey replies that it’s because he only has eyes for one person

And during this whole thing we slowly had been getting closer, and when we’re right in front of each other he quietly asks if he can kiss me. I say yes, and Casey tucks some hair behind my ear before kissing me softly

It’s breathless and he tastes like coffee and potato chips. Not an attractive combination but it’s heavenly while he’s kissing me and holding me against him. It’s a little sloppy because haven’t done it before, but I can’t get enough of him and Casey chuckles into the kiss as I push on my toes to kiss him a little deeper. It ends when we have to pull away for air, and we decide to go down and eat dinner in the front seat of my car in the hospital parking lot while talking about our day and making plans for a proper date

[sansfilter]

putting under a readmore for the content, but surgery update: MY NIECE’S SURGERY WENT REALLY WELL AND THEY EXPECT A FULL RECOVERY

[thalissateixeira]

my little brother is getting top surgery right before christmas and i want to put together a care package for him during his recovery- i have a few things in mind and am consulting lists of things that are good to have on hand, but i’d love any recommendations!

 i’m thinking a button up or two as they seem widely suggested and he doesn’t have any, dry shampoo, pedialyte/gatorade, some of his favourite snacks- but any other suggestions would be great! currently he’s just telling me he doesn’t have anything for his recovery (and doesn’t get paid until the day after surgery to purchase items) but hasn’t given me a list no matter how many times i ask, do I’d love suggestions of things that might be useful!

thank you so much in advance if you have any advice! <3 <3

[mythvoiced]

-. nyoom gonna be even less active cus helping take care of my neighbour post-surgery~ TAKE CARE~

[oflostinfound]

[ Some short info about Hax’s Hands ] 

[  Hax has a condition called ectrodactyly, defined as “a condition characterized by absence or malformation of one or more of the fingers or toes”, otherwise Hax would have hands and feet with five fingers and toes. 

Now people with ectrodactally don’t usually have such symmetrical hands / feet like Hax does- and Hax hands in particular didn’t always look as they did. 

Trigger Warnings Include: surgery mention, light medical discussion, - Though I do not go deep into detail 

I have drawn references, detailed below, of what their hands look like now vs when they were first brought into the world, 

These are Hax’s hands currently. I don’t draw it normally due to style and size of the scars, but they do have small scars on their hands as shown above due to their parents forcing them to have a surgery done on their hands as a baby. Which >:( 

These were Hax’s hands at birth, their left hand had three fingers and was missing a thumb, and their right technically had five- save for the bone of the first and middle finger was fused together, and the pinky was actually lacking said bone (also know as Polydactyly). 

I am still doing a bit of research on this subject (and have been for the last couple years to make sure I'm accurate depicting it), but I did want to clarify just a few small things about how Hax’s hands used to look vs how they look now and as to why ]

[tendergothic]

i can't decide on a top surgeon because the ones i like are too far away, since i live in a rural area. i love the options in Cleveland, but would have to find a place to stay up there in order to keep post op appointments. i can't afford that.

it's also deeply frustrating that different surgeons require all these different letters from doctors and therapists, when my insurance already requires them in the first place. if someone can get a dramatic breast reduction or implants (these things are perfectly fine, i'm not judging anyone who elects to have these procedures done. nor do i think it should be more difficult to obtain them) without jumping through a million hoops, i should be allowed to have this procedure in the same circumstances. the only difference is how i identify myself. i've been taking testosterone for three years, i'm pretty fucking sure i won't "change my mind" or anything like that. being warned that it's a permanent change to my body is silly. uh yeah, i sure hope it does?

i'm also pissed that my insurance provider changed at the start of this year. i didn't used to need doctor and therapy letters for top surgery.

[theyaoiconnoisseur]

Got out of surgery, doing great :3

[empatheticagent]

//still unwell (needs surgery to fix, so yay more waiting)

and moving this weekend so busy

maybe send some asks to one of my characters? would really appreciate some little things i can work on easier in the meantime <3

[vigilant-shadow]

//Putting this out there: I'm getting eye surgery to fix my eyesight tomorrow, so, sknce I'll be effectively blind, I'll be off the bext couple of days.