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mcr transed my gender

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they/it (more at my pronoun page: en.pronouns.page/@lyd_likes_bread)
this is basically a strange cursed window to my soul, which makes sense, considering that my soul is also mostly mcr. here’s my linktree if you wanna see what else i do. https://linktr.ee/lyd1bug

why hello there, fellow creature.

i see you have found my blog.

you must have been sitting around for a while, so remember to:

drink some water.

eat a little something, anything.

stand up. sit up. move in some way or another.

remember that you are a beautiful creature and you have every reason to live.

farewell!

❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

Round 1: Left Side - Ants (from real life) vs. Tony Stark (MCU)

As someone in the suburbs, we get a little invasion of ants every spring. I don't kill them (on purpose) but the rest of my family will smash them on sight. Sometimes the ants don't die immediately and wriggle around in pain until the killing blow comes. I once saw an ant on the kitchen counter that had accidentally been squished under my mom's tea kettle, meaning it was cooked and flattened at the same time.

On top of that, an ant's life really blows. They spend the entirety of it serving their queen, and in the meantime are at the mercy of people, birds, spiders, bigger insects, and parasites. If an ant loses its way back to the colony, it wallows around in loneliness until it dies. There's literally a species of ants that only serve to be a food reserve for the rest of the colony. Sometimes ants come in and kidnap each other's babies to raise as slaves.

At least Tony got to be a big superhero.

This is fucking embarrassing ‘journalism’ from the BBC.

Guy goes to an NHS doctor, flat-out states the nature of his investigation and gets behind the scenes information on assessments.

Then he hits up three private clinics actively looking for an ADHD diagnosis, has his friends fill out witness forms, and is shocked when he receives a diagnosis.

An utter disgrace.

Turns out, if you go and lie about your symptoms, they’ll diagnose you.

Consider me fucking shocked.

thank you, random white man, for this insight on the condition known to be underdiagnosed in women and people of color

i found the article and it's like, comparing and contrasting private and public clinics I think? It's a little opaque to me (American) what the significance of this is

I'm not sure what the point of this was. Like, the article doesn't really even touch on what his methodology was—it doesn't actually state whether he was filling out the forms honestly, and knowing how an evaluation works and going into the evaluation with the goal of "demonstrating" something about an evaluation infuses inherent bias into everything

this is just yet another thing that serves to create paranoia about people getting prescribed stimulant meds. Something that, in the USA, is difficult to the point that it blocks people from obtaining the care that they need all the time, and i know in many other countries it's even harder

Like, why did he feel the need to do this to begin with. I'm sure that if he went to several different doctors trying to get a diagnosis of chronic constipation, he would get one, because listening to a patient when they bring a concern up to you is Your Job as a doctor

@headspace-hotel uk person checking in! when you go public for an adhd assessment, waiting lists are YEARS long with often no indication of when you'll finally be seen. thus, many people – who are desperate for care – will pay money (which you don't have to do for public healthcare) to go private.

so basically it's stigmatising people who were so desperate that they were willing to find £1,000 to get help.

So this asshole was actively taking precious opportunities and resources away from people who need them?

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Is your conclusion “he tried to prove that private clinics are bad, something something, less people will be able to go to private clinics for these resources as a result” or “he took 3 diagnoses in private clinics which could have been 3 other people’s diagnoses and resources”?

He seems to have bypassed the atrociously long waiting list for the NHS appointment - which he biased anyway by disclosing his investigation to the NHS doctor.

He then fabricated symptoms to three private clinics which require two other people to validate his symptoms - all in a bid to frame them as predatory.

This could have been an investigation into underfunding of the NHS and absurd waiting lines forcing people to use private clinics. Instead the story became ‘ADHD is a fun trend and you can just pay to get a diagnosis’.

It’s malicious journalism that casts doubt in the public’s mind. Some people are now not going to believe other people’s ADHD diagnosis on the back of it.

we also want to challenge his assumption that private clinics apparently taking less time to diagnose obvious adhd is a reflection on their lack of diligence - it's much more a reflection on how much more gatekeepy the nhs is encouraged to be, especially when it's about "invisible" or mental health or neurodivergent conditions (we had 11 hours of meetings before getting diagnosed autistic by the nhs at 55 - a diagnosis six different other autistic people had spotted right away)

you see this with gender care too, nhs gender care (assuming you ever make it to the top of a six year waiting list) is like "yes come and see us for a year before we'll consider hrt for you - but not if you're fat or have mental health conditions because fuck you" while private clinics are like "yes we confirm that you are trans, why on earth would we make you wait?"

Yeah, I wonder if the NHS considers the entire time from the start of assessment. Their ‘thorough assessment’ is someone else’s frequent misdiagnosis and the doctor even not believing them at face value.

you might recall that i posted three character designs last spring and asked for name suggestions. well, the characters are back!! in comic form!! im happy to launch my comic about three transgender guys sharing a flat!!! <3

this comic is gonna be a chill slice of life comic strip about queer stuff and life in general, because i think trans people deserve a break from hostility and negativity at this point.

i’ll post the strips on my patreon about a week earlier than they’re posted publicly, so head over there if you wanna see the comics before everyone else!

i hope you’ll enjoy!! <3 big thanks to my boyfriend for supporting me in the process of getting to this point!!

throwback to an old cute comic about three trans guys who live together for trans day of visibility! take care of and stand up for each other today ⚧ <3

Comic about trans men in the health care system I made for magazine Ottar last autumn! Please note that it presents a Swedish perspective unless stated otherwise, as it is mostly based on Swedish studies. I would however argue that it has implications on the state of healthcare for trans people in other places as well. Thank you so much Hedvig for translating this!

throwback to a comic about trans men’s health for trans day of visibility! ⚧

“The human sat down. Their colleagues looked as she began to eat poisoned food, a cup of venom by her side, all quiet on their horrors as casual conversation died out.

She looked up, her cold eyes filling the table with dread.

“Did something happen?”

“Y-”

“No”, a tall musician interrupted. “We were just… Talking about…”

“Food”, a historian completed, pointing at their own plate. “It’s… Uh. Delicious. Very good”.

The human nodded along. The musician almost sighed, giving a signal out to the new linguist. They would have to talk, later, about what to do in this sorts of situations, while trying to ignore how the human ate the poison with such satisfaction.

“The food supply we got was very good”, she agreed. “We should get more of it”.

The linguist looked around.

Everyone kept eating.

The human’s eyes began to tear up with poison.

Everyone kept eating.

The woman drank more of her venom, a bit distraught.

Everyone kept eating.

She smiled, showing her sharp, predatory teeth.

Everyone stopped.

The human put her poisons aside.

“So…”, she whimpered, more poison coming out of her eyes. “Ignore the crying. I just realised it wasn’t a good idea for me to eat hot-dog with pepper sauce and orange juice”.

I feel like US conservatives went from a 3/4 to 7 on transgender people over the course of a year and a half.

Basically, if this passes, the state Florida will take away your children if you are transgender or one of your children is transgender (as the bill notes it will take away cis children if they have a trans sibling).

Absolutely monstrous.