#NEISvoid a new discord is in the works folks! Don't worry. Just need to make it all tidy again before we open it to the general public. If you know folks affected by the discord deletion, please let them know to follow @bennessb for updates!
Did I ever mention how I almost ended up not transitioning at all?
When I looked at the community from the outside I really didn't see anyone like me. All the popular well known trans people were all white.
So I started to think maybe it's only for white people.
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When MAID has become the sixth leading cause of death in Canada we are well beyond "extraordinary circumstances" and "untreatable suffering".
We've reached the "anyone who is somewhat inconvenient to treat" and are headed rapidly to "everyone who fails cost-benefit analysis".
There's a genocide happening in Canada! Disabled people are being coerced to die in Canada via MAiD (euthanasia). Due to lack of access to medical treatment, safe housing, food, and enough money! So they're being driven to die since that's the only choice they're being given.
Florida has just added Puberty Blockers, Hormone Therapy, and GRS as "not medically necessary" to treat gender dysphoria. It will pull all Floridians who receive hormone therapy off of their coverage for their medication.
This is trans ADULTS.
Private insurances might follow.
My son has set the house up with a Pi-Hole. It’s a raspberry pi running Ad blocking on the whole house’s network.
We’re a few hours in and we’re seeing effects, as well as some teething problems.
Any analysis of Gaza that neglects to mention that its people are survivors of Israel's ethnic cleansing, who were expelled from their villages and corralled into a thin strip of land so that foreign settlers can take their place, is misleading and incomplete.
One part of growing up as white evangelical woman I don’t quite think gets enough air time is being raised to be arrogant. It fits weirdly with a lot of gender issues in the church, which might not be why we talk about it. On one hand, girls and women are raised with a sense
hello psa for all my oblivious friends:
you should not be in pain every day!! that is not normal!!!
i did not know this until way too late, i thought everyone was in pain all the time, and i could've gotten help sooner so this is for all of you who are in pain everyday <33
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The level trauma of being a neurodivergent person raised in an ableist world is absolutely underestimated. Many of the clients I encounter have levels of trauma that could qualify them for a diagnosis of PTSD.
We need to reframe this completely. /1
"imagine if we didn't have to eat!!"
"imagine if we didn't have to sleep!!"
"imagine how much time we'd save!"
like. thanks. i like eating and sleeping. i like the physicality of my flesh and the rhythm of its needs.
we invented time as we know it - I'd rather get rid of that