would you believe me if i said people find transsexual an icky term because of a years-long effort to decouple being trans from material transition aimed to help justify depriving us of medical care and legal recognition?
i went to a private clinic in Amsterdam to get a BA, fully private, paid in full with my money.
they gave me a consultation and we almost planned everything, but then i mentioned that im trans (just in case! what if it's important?) and the surgeon ran off to "check something with the colleagues".
she returned to tell me that since it's a "gender affirming surgery" i need it approved by my "gender therapist".
i explained that i've had all my legal stuff changed years before moving to the Netherlands, and that i've never gone through any of the Dutch "trans processes" as i don't really need to.
getting into "the system" would take years of waiting, then years of "sessions", and only then i'd be at a stage where i can request for my "gender affirming" surgery to be "approved". a humiliating process people here have to go through that was completely irrelevant to me, because i've completed all of this years ago in a different country.
despite me being a woman with zero "trans record" from the legal standpoint, the surgeon insisted that i had to go through all the hoops described above, because "uhhh... this is how we normally do it with trans people... i don't know... legal requirement".
- okay, doctor, if that's a legal requirement, how would you know that i'm trans?
- well you just told me you are
- but what if i didn't?
- uhh ... hmm...
after some more heated argument about discrimnation and shit, i left, very disappointed. a few days later they called me to say that they've discussed this internally and are allowing me to pay them €5000 to have two blobs of silicone put under my skin.
i went with it, because that's what i wanted in the first place, and other than this nonsense incident the treatment was very nice and professional.
however i'll never forget this as an example of how a single mention of "trans" can shift the way you are seen and treated, and how "professionals" would rather brush someone off "just in case" than try and understand what's going on
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Eventually, even digital data will no longer be owned by individuals on their own initiative. Whenever there is a major change or accident in the world, in a country, in a government, in an idea, in a trend, access to it may suddenly be cut off.
Nintendo of America provided Brazil an internet link containing 41 minutes of Metroid Ravenous content to rate the game.
If Nintendo has their usual Direct in September, this would be a good prediction.
Source: @necrolipe
tb os digo q entre alguien q organiza, revisa y comparte recursos para facilitar acceso a hrt pero dice paridas en tuiter y alguien q intenta asesinar socialmente a gente trans en redes x decir paridas tengo claro a quien prefiero en mi comunidad
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cualquiera que vea mi cuenta estos días se piensa que me dedico a tener discourse hit tuits en vez de hablar lo que realmente importa, yuri y juegos que encuentro jocosos