normalize calling viagra and menopausal hormone treatments gender affirming care

the absolute terror people have about transgender hrt is diminished when you point out that actually, my mom does the same thing and so does yours probably 🤷‍♀️ pretty banal in reality

Posts like these are the leftist equivalent of Ben Shapiro tweets. Just so misinformed, ignorant, and based solely in personal opinion or emotion, that you can't even begin to properly address it without teaching a college course.

Gender affirming therapies are good, but these things are clearly not GATs. I don't know why you would say this, but it's annoying. I am tired of people sprinkling the right dressing onto their word salad and getting huge traction from an unthinking, uninformed userbase.

Hi, I'm Kay. I was a pharmacy technician for fifteen years, ten of which were at an independently owned pharmacy. I read pharmacological studies and assisted in compounding medications as requested by the doctors in my area.

Erectile dysfunction medications absolutely are gender affirming therapy. Their primary function is to allow cisgender men to maintain an erection. They are outright referred to as "male enhancement" medications. A significant portion of cis men who are unable to maintain a erection feel like less of a man. Medications like Viagra and Cialis allow them to feel like a man again. If that's not affirming one's gender, I don't know what is.

Similarly, menopausal hormone treatments are used when someone's body begins to stop creating estrogens and progestins as cisgender women age. What happens when a body used to those hormones suddenly doesn't have them anymore? Well, the latent testosterone levels in a cis woman's body is enough to cause darker and thicker body hair, acne, a change in sex drive, and even thinning hair or balding. Cis women going through menopause don't feel like women because their hormones have shifted. Again, gender affirming therapy.

The term "gender affirming therapy" doesn't refer to specifically transgender people's medications. The medical term therapy refers not only to medication, but also medical procedures and surgeries. If a medical therapy affirms one's gender (no matter the gender), it's gender affirming therapy.

see also: cis men who have top surgery for gynocomastia, cis women who get laser hair removal on their face, cis women who get boob implants, cis men who get hair implants/treatments like bosley or rogane

this is my entire life philosophy in a simple ben montero comic

Empire Strikes Back Luke >>>

May the 4th be with you ⭐️

That relatable moment when you dress up real cute for the family reunion but your dad still tears your jacket apart and cuts off your hand. Commission by @afraid-of-thunder

Luke Skywalker in Star Wars (1977)

Mark Hamill for Rag & Bone by Andreas Laszlo Konrath

Blah blah... reblog for larger test group... blah blah.... explain your answer in the tags... blah blah... 😆

Its important to me that everyone is aware of r/whatismycookiecutter

I saw Slither. I know what happens next.

Maybe she should be in a jar for safety.

Another MTR fan animatic could be imminent! In the meantime, here’s the previous one!

I was half asleep and thinking about all the stories like She’s The Man and Mulan (1999) where a woman dresses up like a man in order to do something ManlyTM and how they all inevitably fall in love with the masculinity of it all while still being women (or not, I guess, fiction is flexible and gender is more so)

and I went “give me a man who chooses to dress as a woman instead of resorting to violence. Give me a man who, in finding femininity and softness, can find himself. Give me a man who chooses kindness and love over war and aggression, but the only way he can do so is finding solace in the feminine. Not because femininity is inherently softer, but because society has told him as such. Give me a man who, through trial and error, finds himself learning to love the traditional women’s tasks he’s been clumsily attempting. Give me a man who could never truly fit in with other men, and the women around him protect him and love him unconditionally. Give me a man who cannot stand for himself at first, and then rises stronger together with the people who took him in”

And I realized that “give me a man who dresses as a woman in order to avoid going to war” is just. Achilles. And I want that classically animated movie now. I don’t even care if it’s sanitized like the Disney Renaissance Mulan or Hercules, in fact I’d enjoy that. I want Achilles to choose kindness and love and beauty over the war he never wanted to fight. I want a lighthearted, playful version of Achilles where there’s a happy ending. I know it’s a tragedy, but so were a lot of things that got animated at the time (not even Disney, Anastasia and Quest for Camelot come to mind as well) and I think he and Patroclus can have a happily ever after, too

I also want it to be gay, but I think that goes without saying

I have cochlear implants and I can only buy parts to fix them or upgrade then from 1 corporation bc of tech exclusivity. upgrades to get new processors for both ears cost $23k & insurance only covers 90% (and it’s “good” insurance)

cyberpunk dystopia is already here for the disabled. fight for universal healthcare, fight against capitalism NOW.

Cyberpunk dystopia is already here for the disabled.

as someone who detransitioned and now identifies as gnc i will never ever understand other detrans people who hate the trans community. like they loved you. they loved you when no one else would. i am forever grateful for the guys and dolls in my life personally. i will love them and fight alongside them until i die

official anti terf post

Because it’s happened to us on a trek, if you see abandoned clothes, stop and search for anyone nearby. Late-stage hypotherima causes a thing called paradoxical undressing where the person feels too hot and starts taking their clothes off.

for a little bit of an order for this if it isn’t obvious: Take any wet clothes off (including sweaty clothes!! underlayers can become soaked with sweat while working in the cold and lead to hypothermia later) BEFORE you wrap the person in warm dry blankets/clothing. 

Also I cannot stress the ‘do not rub’ thing enough. If you have a frozen steak, let it thaw a little bit and then give it a good rub. Take a peek at it via a hand lens. You’ll see tons of little cuts/gashes. That’s from the ice crystals cutting into the flesh. NEVER rub the skin of a hypothermia/extreme cold exposed person to warm them up unless you want the same damn thing happening to their flesh.

Don’t warm the extremities (hands/feet) too quickly. Not only would it be extremely painful, but the vessels in said extremities opening too quickly can lead to shock (part of the direct heat issue).

This deserves another reblog

For writers, AND real life, as places get VERY cold with limited heating being allowed to the people…

Stay DRY, stay warm.

Meet the Robinsons is like an accidentally great way to show kids that growing up doesn’t mean getting boring and only focusing on having kids and taxes but you can continue doing the things you love and being as crazy as you want because you’re an adult and have control over your life

Weird question. Is there anyone on Tumblr from the Totono O’Odham tribe who can tell me if there are any particularly auspicious motifs or colors I could incorporate into a baby blanket? We’re doing a baby shower for one of my coworkers whose daughter just had twin girls, and she’s part of the tribe. (Would’ve been nice if I’d known with more than two weeks’ warning before the party, but I’ll make it work. My poor wrists.)

I don’t want to ask her directly because I’d prefer it to be a surprise, and I absolutely don’t trust online resources because they’re so very often deeply full of shit. So if anyone here knows, it’d be a big help.

Chicago Tribune, Illinois, November 19, 1920

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A hundred and one years of getting narsty!

A hundred and two years of getting narsty!

A hundred and three years of getting narsty!