Climbing fog
Misconceptions about Gender Reassignment Surgery and HRT
That they are performing surgeries on children left and right, and pumping children full of hormones. All of it the same day someone waltzes into a clinic on a whim.
- If a child is prepubescent, literally all that's needed is the social transition, meaning a new name/clothes/haircut.
- If a child starts to hit puberty and still wants to transition, most go on puberty blockers, which need the permission of both a parent and a psychologist, as well as a gender dysphoria diagnosis. Puberty blockers are 100% reversible and harmless.
- If a child realizes they aren't trans later, they can simply stop taking them and go through puberty as normal.
- If a child still wants to transition after this, they can usually start HRT around age 15/16, again with permission from a parent and psych. Bottom surgery is never performed on children, the lowest age being 18.
Again, usually, this requires having been on HRT for at least a year, as well as 3 letters from a therapist, psychiatrist, and the clinic providing HRT. These surgeries are also expensive as hell and rarely covered by insurance - most save for years and fly to another country to have them done.
The reactionary "they're mutilating our kids" narrative is simply bullsh8t fearmongering.
Spent the last four hours or so starting on a new project: mapping the locations of famous horror movies set in America. It’s a work in progress, y’all’ see more when I’m done.
this is like when the RAF tried to figure out where to armour their bombers by looking at the distribution of bullet holes; the empty area on the map is where nobody lived to tell the tale.
It follows population density pretty closely except that the desert Southwest is over represented. Is that because it’s close to Hollywood? Cheap to shoot in? High density of chupacabras?
the-real-numbers
That’s just where the spooky is. Everything else is just noise from large populations.
Since @argumate brought this back, here’s what the map looks like today:
I started adding any horror movie at all, not just well-known ones. Also, it’s global now!
@cominyern Subgenre!
- Red is killer/slasher/psychological
- Blue is monster/creature
- Yellow is ghost/spirit/demon
- Green is alien
- Black is zombies
- Purple is vampires
It lets you look at some cool regional trends, like how ghosts are huge in New England while aliens and vampires have a cluster in the Southwest.
that the original had a lot of black in Pittsburgh is unsurprising, given where a certain George Romero came from, but it now has an interesting relative density and variety.
(i blame the Tom Savini practical effects school in Monessen, personally)
I wish this was an interactive map I want to find and watch my “local” horror movies!
Ask and you shall receive! Here’s a link to explore the map for your local horror movies!
while I’m here
If you watched the NIMONA movie, enjoyed it, and want to support it and other (gay) media like it, consider slamming that double-thumbs-up button on Netflix. I know what you’re thinking: Netflix has a double-thumbs-up button?! That’s what I said too. But I have it on good authority that this is a metric with serious weight for Netflix and it’s something they take into account when deciding whether to invest in other similar (gay) properties. So send Netflix a message and give that sucker the ol’
Summer was a hard time as a young trans girl. I couldn’t swim with friends because my parents refused to get a swimsuit from the girls’ section. It was embarrassing and the other children teased me for wearing a shirt. I stopped swimming around age 11, barely treading water for years. As the unofficial beginning of summer this weekend, let’s keep our hearts open for the trans people (and anyone!) who may not want to swim. It’s a great time to respect people’s swimming decisions when over half of U.S. adults can’t swim safely and only a handful of companies make gender-neutral swimsuits. I hope in the future, we won’t have to worry about gendered swimsuits at all! For now, let’s celebrate bodies in all their amazing forms.
Reblogging for 2023 hot trans summer.
I liked this post, scrolled for like another minute before I went “SHIT FUCK SHIT” and scrolled back to reblog it
I always reblog this one when I see it on my dash. When someone posts their own art, writing, or music here they are really hoping you will share it.
"You can tell that there was a wealth of love that went into making this film so I hope people can take just a little bit of that love out with them." - Eugene Lee Yang | Go Behind The Animation for Nimona
13. A giraffe’s neck is so long because a snake got in there and fuuuuuck it loves eating leaves.