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‘We were horrified’: parents heartbroken as baby girl registered as male
Parents told Nottinghamshire registrar’s error on birth certificate cannot be changedAmelia Hill (The Guardian)
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Need a catchy name for the group of countries like the US, Russia, Israel, North Korea.
I’m thinking “The Axis of Can You Just Not?”
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*I'm from one of them after all.
Just got this Reddit ad for US ambulance chasers implying hormonal birth control is dangerous and causing mass health problems.
It’s starting. We (trans women) bloody warned you.
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When I was 15, I got a new pair of shoes for school. They were too tight and caused hyperkeratosis on the ridges of my big toes. This got so bad that the skin started painfully splitting.
The right one slowly resolved itself over time. The left has got worse and worse. 36 years later it has spread to three toes on that foot and despite trying to control it with debriding, salicylic acid, and steroids, it gets worse, and frequently cracks to the point it bleeds.
I have searched and searched and searched on the internet for the same presentation, but it’s always the other side of the foot. Never on the ridges of the toe joints.
Until yesterday. I saw the exact same thing in a photo on duck duck go.
I clicked through.
“Patient told to stop sitting on foot”.
I looked down. I was sitting on my left foot.
Fucksake.
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Burning a candle for Ponte Vasco da Gama to regain its crown here.
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Studied WW1 in school but never went hard on the July Crisis that started it.
Read up on it now and feeling like the Treaty of Versailles was a lot less unfair than I previously thought.
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@goatsarah Starts Episode 465 with a 4 parter on the Assassination of Franz Ferdinand
therestishistory.com/465-the-m…
followed by 6 episodes on "The Road to War"
465. The Murder of Franz Ferdinand: The Killer (Part 1) - The Rest is History
The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to one of the world’s greatest empires, in June 1914, set in motion a series of events that would culminate in the First World War, where more than 15 million people would lose their lives.Bryan Dooley (The Rest is History)
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Yes, even TERF island.
We are getting some #trans folks writing who are terribly concerned to find the 'safest' #EU country. Everywhere in western #europe is safer than the #USA by a significant margin.
You are better selecting a destination in Europe based on other factors than just some "safety" ranking.
You are going to have to live your life once you're out. Don't pass up the great job offer from Germany because a website says Portugal is 1 point higher on a ranking.
#TransRights
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@Sion [main] Musk was profiting from SLS either way because he had the contract to provide the lander.
But he isn’t really competition. SLS was never a viable launch system; more a way to endlessly launder money to corporate donors.
"Cis people love to say they support us until it requires literally anything material at all
cis people think support is 'using the right pronoun' which is frankly beyond pathetic"
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Even many cis liberals treat trans people as a fetish culture they indulge so as not to look like prudes.
The silence you get over trans kids is even more damning than the women's sports shit they've been brainwashed to say.
When I was a trans kid, I needed a hug, validation, and healthcare because I was suicidal, not smarmy condescension from people who've never thought about anything ever.
Like, isn't it weird how our suicide stats just sort of faded out of the discussion after a point?
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I would think the first real flashpoint will be in four years time. If Trump's still functioning, I can't see him quietly retiring.
I'm slightly less worried about Project 2025 after seeing his cabinet picks. A societal collapse is more likely now.
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Dear Apple, when the device is localised (see that S there?) into British English, "chips" does NOT go under "confectionary" in the shopping list.
Goddam fuckmuppet seppo nonsense.
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A prediction:
The EU is going to decide that it needs to protect itself against Putin’s aggression.
Trump will abandon Europe to Putin.
Starmer will be like, “I’ll align with the second guy”.
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Western progressive parties stop doing this challenge 2024:
“The other guys are right. Don’t vote for them!”
The obvious thing happens.
“The other guys are REALLY right. Don’t vote for them”
Why are you like this?
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Just been reading about a horrible bully who stabbed and brutally killed a critically endangered animal that was just minding its own business by a tumtum tree.
Disgusting
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The day after the Brexit vote, I was stuck in bed having panic attacks on repeat.
It shoved me out of my comfort zone and now my life, in Portugal, is better for it (immigrant stress is real though), but it was a profoundly shitty thing to go through, and my heart utterly goes out to the millions of Americans, especially the young women, the LGBT people, and the terrified immigrants, and others now experiencing the same thing.
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A lot of people, probably the majority, see things in irredeemable scum bags, like Trump, like Boris Johnson, like LePen, and going back, like Hitler, which they like.
And I just don’t get it.
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So glad I got my nervous breakdown response to this shit out of the way after the Brexit referendum.
My deepest, most profound sympathies for anyone going through anything similar today. It’s fucking horrible.
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I keep seeing US commentators saying you guys have the greatest democracy in the world and...
Sorry but it's shit.
Two party system.
Electoral college.
Partisan control of process.
I mean, I could go on but why bother. Could you sort this shit out some time in the century? The electoral college is a mechanism designed largely to prevent dickheads like Trump being elected, at the cost of the anti-democratic dilution of one person one vote. It failed. Bin it.
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So I know it’s all very funny, ha ha, but here’s why the orcas don’t go after the boats of the ultra rich.
Two photos. One a multi million euro luxury yacht. Notice it has two props. They steer by vectoring the thrust. There is no rudder.
The other, my boat. It costs what a new car costs (like if you were buying a low end Tesla. Expensive, but not stupid money). It has a rudder because it’s a sailboat. It can’t rely on thrust being present.
No rudder - no orca attack. People who can afford sailboats, which the orcas are attacking, cannot afford luxury motor yachts, which they aren’t.
A sailboat is like a mouldy caravan, but floating, and slower.
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Something happen to make you offer this generous discount, did it?
How about you fuck off 500 miles, and then fuck off 500 more, WaPo?
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Oh no! They got beer and ketchup all over their legally protected beliefs!
Patrons douse TERFS in drinks & ketchup for staging an anti-trans protest at barlgbtqnation.com/2024/10/patron…
#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
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Reactionaries:
- deeply terrified of the "woke mind virus"
- go out of their way to catch actual viruses, because "they have an immune system"
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Really pleased with the comet photos I got
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Go to sleep. Wake up with clocks having gone back. Get on plane to France. Clocks go forward again.
So basically my return from daylight saving is delayed a week.
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I am begging heterosexual men to stop watching stupid YouTube videos that are convincing you that women give a shit about your height.
I assure you that plenty, if not most, of us do not.
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@coyets Honestly, were I attracted towards men, I would be much more interested in whether they clean their arse properly and don’t piss on the floor.
Low bar there, boys. Wanna wow the girls? Actually quite easy.
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in reply to Sarah Brown • • •Thanks @Sarah Brown. As I wrote that bit about sex organ related disease, I was thinking about who, other than the individual, would be rightly concerned about our sex organs. So my point is, I know details about my sex organs, my wife Wendy knows and has legitimate interest and during a doctor's visit, medical professionals of my choosing may concern and interest. But a co-worker? Ah, no! A fellow congregate at church? Ah, again, no. Some random poster on Reddit? Most certainly not.
"if you tried to find my prostate in the traditional manner, you’d discover that my vagina is in the way" 😀 You are so open! Us cis gender folks can learn so much by just listening to members of the trans community.
Thanks for the trust comment. That makes sense. The relationships you have with wider cis gender world would involve levels of trust you and a cis gender friend reach. However, in the wider world, discrimination
... show moreThanks @Sarah Brown. As I wrote that bit about sex organ related disease, I was thinking about who, other than the individual, would be rightly concerned about our sex organs. So my point is, I know details about my sex organs, my wife Wendy knows and has legitimate interest and during a doctor's visit, medical professionals of my choosing may concern and interest. But a co-worker? Ah, no! A fellow congregate at church? Ah, again, no. Some random poster on Reddit? Most certainly not.
"if you tried to find my prostate in the traditional manner, you’d discover that my vagina is in the way" 😀 You are so open! Us cis gender folks can learn so much by just listening to members of the trans community.
Thanks for the trust comment. That makes sense. The relationships you have with wider cis gender world would involve levels of trust you and a cis gender friend reach. However, in the wider world, discrimination should be unlawful wherein an anti-trans individuals or groups are prevented from bringing harm. That so many Americans have recently decided to throw trans and other minority under the bus, is awful.
I'd only ask folks outside of the USA to appreciate many of us here are deeply concerned about the road ahead and are looking for ways to help shield minorities from harm.
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in reply to Alanna • •@Alanna yeah. There’s a bit of guesswork because our breasts tend to be younger, and lots of us don’t take progesterone. They don’t know enough.
I had my first mammogram in Portugal at 49, but I never told them I’m trans.
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in reply to Ailbhe • •@Ailbhe @John_Loader first line treatment for prostate cancer is the drugs that the media insists on calling “puberty blockers” (yes, exact same ones).
And since we already take blockers, or are castrated … well.
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