I guess July 4 is in the second half of the year but not by much!

It is like Sunak said he had had enough and wanted the earliest possible date in the second half of the year

honestly it's been great to have your account here, along with @anon_opin.

Masto tends to be a bit smaller but with more proper (and usually nicer) interaction in my experience. It's less broadcasty than Twitter is/was, and I think these accounts are a good fit for that vibe.

@EmilyGB2023 On breast development:

There is virtually no research that's more than an early slice of transition. Just doesn't exist.

On prog: maybe direct her to the WPATH Standards of Care v8 statement on it--which comes down to "there's no good data, but the risk is heckin' low, so it seems fine if people want it."

@Specialist_Being_677 Agreed! And the hard part is that a lot of times, community wisdom and common sense (and this is WAY more than a trans community thing) have turned out to be nothing more than an instance of the correlation/causation fallacy.

It's such a frustrating place to be. We can build knowledge, but it's sooooo fucking slow.

My experience with schools teaching this stuff is that they're doing just fine at the moment with how and when they introduce things.

I remember in the eighties this vague stench of bishops permeating bedrooms. These days it's cabinet ministers which are having folk rush to throw open the classroom windows.

I don't know how they're phrasing the consent stuff, but my niece is being brought up *from babyhood* with "no-one is allowed to touch you if you don't want them to".

Not in a sexual sense — though of course that would be subsumed by the rule — just in a bodily-autonomy sense. That means that e.g. elderly relatives are firmly told that no, if she doesn't want to kiss you she doesn't have to.

(I think she's been told there's an exception for medical professionals)