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i'll go first my parents almost named me felicity. which would've been so cool but i definitely would've been like 5x crazier if i was named that

by Jaeyoun Ryu

Customer: (not on record) DMV: CRIPPLE? SAME GUY AS ABOVE Verdict: DENIED

Customer: (not on record) DMV: HATE-? IED-IMPROVISED EXPLOSIVE DEVICE. VET PLATE Verdict: DENIED

Customer: (not on record) DMV: BONG IS SOMETHING YOU SMOKE MARIJUANA IN Verdict: DENIED

the sydney stabbings were an incel terrorist attack but once again "mental health" is the villain of the day, not blatant fucking misogyny

this is a way better model... you'll still get transphobic & intersexist drs of course but i prefer this to male / female or even having separate questions for gender & sex.

[we can't see the full form, but i'd suggest having a "something else" option and dominant hormone question too.]

as a cis woman who's had a hysterectomy and partial oophorectomy, this would be helpful for me, too! it'd be pointless to try to diagnose me for disorders that affect organs I don't have anymore, after all.

being inclusive helps us ALL. 💖

Jfc

I don’t think they got all the lead out the paint because what is this?! Your body is not just meat with a few “star” organs. It is an interconnected system of systems!

A trans identified man who has inverted his penis will call that thing a vagina but a vagina is attached to a system. His groin canal is attached to nothing. Female and male tell a physician what SYSTEMS are supposed to look like in your body so they can pursue any abnormalities, you goddamn imbeciles.

Also, he's ticked "breasts" along with penis and balls lmaoooo. Like we all don't know those aren't silicone mounds and not actual female mammary organs. How are giant balloons of silicone sitting over the chest supposed to have any effect on your hormone balance lmaooo

Most patients can't even accurately self-report whether or not they've had surgery, and now they're supposed to self-report whether they have a cervix when 80% of sex ed doesn't include its location or function? And the option for uterus is listed separately from cervix even though hysterectomies remove the cervix so as to not have an open entry into the abdominal cavity??? This is both moronic and actively hostile to many women who already struggle with lack of healthcare access and education.

weird, all of these arguments like "pointless trying to diagnose for parts i no longer have" or whatever is already not an issue under the current system of: Patient is a 27y/o F s/p elective BL mastectomy 8/11/2020

and yes! there are differences between a conventional medically necessary mastectomy & the surgeries that are considered "gender affirming" or done for similar reasons that aren't breast cancer. but 1, that's only tangentially relevant here, and 2, the method I displayed above is actually MORE conducive to having this discussion with your doctor than not checking the breast box off. I'm not just a female who happens to have no breasts: this is a SURGICAL HISTORY not a birth defect or any other potential explanation. stating it as an elective bilateral mastectomy is usually adequate for what the doctor needs to know. if for whatever reason, the doctor needs more specific information on the details of your mastectomy, they will let you know. when I go to Gyn for my annual, they want to check my scarring, my chest, and my axillary lymph nodes. did you know that "top surgery" sometimes removes these lymph nodes, sometimes does not? I didn't, until last month's Gyn checkup - almost 4 years after my surgery. and I spent YEARS educating myself prior to getting that surgery and have worked in medicine for years.

these methods are being proposed by people who have exposure to healthcare as patients - sometimes a lot more exposure than "healthy" laypeople - but that doesn't mean they have the knowledge to understand why things are done the way they're done. do they know how EHR systems organize patient charts? do they understand medical shorthand and its purpose and importance? do they get that one way of wording/presenting something can prompt a different inference than another way? these systems don't exist out of "assuming everyone is cis" or whatever - and in fact, work quite well even for trans patients when utilized honestly and accurately. unnecessarily overhauling it really won't help anyone, and WILL cause problems that, in some cases, WILL hurt patients.

bathtub in château laurens, france

"SURVIVING"

I love the message and artstyle but did they have to give the cute lovable gator depression? T^T carry on lil buddy, this too shall pass

The gator is the whole point. It's a stand-in for the author that has felt the need to suppress the aspects of themself that others find unappealing, their anger, their sadness, the things people find abrasive or just "weird" in order to make themself more digestible for the people around them because the alternative is to be alone. The gator is only "cute" and "lovable" because it was not allowed to be anything else.

"If you smile too much you'll get laugh lines."

What a horrible curse, to be afraid of having happiness permanently placed onto your body.

Teachers find fossils of extinct hippo-like mammals on the Oregon Coast

Rare fossils that likely came from extinct hippo-like mammals, which existed between 21 and 23 million years ago, were recently discovered by two different beachcombers on the Oregon Coast.

https://www.koin.com/local/oregon-coast/teachers-finds-fossils-of-extinct-hippo-like-mammals-on-the-oregon-coast/

Circus cyaneus [ハイイロチュウヒ,Hen harrier]

狩りをするハイチュウ😍

Minding your own business and some fucking scarab just rolls a big ball of shit over you

How do you go on with life after that?