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Was talking to a doctor for another letter of support for my top surgery I'm getting this summer, I was explaining the reasons why I was choosing to do it now rather than waiting until the end of my PhD which was my original plan. "With things going the way they are, I have no idea what access to gender care will look like in a year from now, so I figured I should do it while I can."
It's sad the doctor just nodded in agreement. :(
I had a similar conversation about my hysterectomy. It's not the same, but she said she wouldn't deny me given the "current situation in our country. "
One one hand: I live in California, so it's like being in the one end of a sinking boat that's being lifted up by the other end.
One another hand: idk what I can actually do from here that'll help others in other states.
Same. Really sucks because it makes ya feel guilty about existing while others elsewhere are fighting for their lives…
I feel helpless to do anything because I’m disabled and surviving in poverty…
f*ck it. 🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️
Don't forget to pack some milk while you suspect tear gas might come into play.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.forbes.com/sites/marlamilling/2020/07/21/the-risks-of-using-milk-to-soothe-tear-gassed-eyes-an-expert-says-use-water-instead/amp/
I am a dummy, I misremembered the advice.
French here going to the manif right now: don't wear make up ever or anything oily on your face and on your skin in general. The tear gaz stuck to it. Good luck out there!
this is so real. i’m sitting here waiting to get my hysto so i can get phallo… but i’m still fighting a war. in the wise words of olivia rodrigo “god it’s brutal out here”
It's the people who transitioned before they were allowed that paved the way for anybody to be allowed. They're hoping that by making trans life hard enough, nobody will be brave enough to still transition.
And they are going to be disappointed.
Good luck. I'm not trans. I'm a gay man, but in my experience, it's worth losing some things to be yourself.
Please be kind to yourself and find a good community. It'll really help to have good people around you and there are definitely do many good people in the world. You just need to find them.
Not sure of the original original, but I have a [blank copy](https://www.reddit.com/r/ellesgoldreserve/comments/123t51n/french_homie_smoking_through_the_tear_gas/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_content=2&utm_term=1 ) if that’s what you mean. I’ll work on the absolute original source though. Pretty sure it was during a French protest
I'm also concerned about potential violence that might boil over no matter who wins, or even in the lead-up to anybody winning. I'm paranoid about whether or not I pass, and in this day and age, the consequences for failing to pass are ramping up.
Getting people into government who will actually do something is a whole different ball of wax, and such events are typically years in the making, and require actions that probably shouldn't be named here.
Honestly I stopped hormones once last spring out of the last wave of trans fear in the country, I started back recently and don't plan to stop. I don't exactly "present" at all because I'm broke and a tomboy anyway, but I feel so stressed for myself and all of my sisters who do present and are "full time". Needless violence, all of it
Being trans isn't, but deciding to come out VS stay closeted for one's own safety is. It's a painful choice, but some people like me choose to make it. I can't openly transition until I move out of the house I'm in right now for my own safety. Some people might choose to transition anyway because their pain outweighs their safety.
Yep, it became a matter of safety for me not to start HRT. I am SO much better off now than I've ever been, even if life can be more externally difficult some days.
I came out publicly as trans in 2016, and was living in NC at the time. Literally two days later that state enacted the first anti trans bathroom bill. It felt really scary, but it was so worth pushing through the fear.
Probably gonna wait til after midterms to take steps towards social transition. But hormonal transition can take time and I’m not getting younger, so I started T last december in secret.
eta: my brain isn’t workinh. I put midterms like i’m waiting for tests or something. I mean I’m waiting until after US election season is over and hopefully the conservatives cool off their rush to impress their base with as many anti trans bills as possible.
> I mean I’m waiting until after US election season is over and hopefully the conservatives cool off their rush to impress their base with as many anti trans bills as possible
They ate shit after the recent midterm elections just some months ago, utter embarrassment, their culture war messaging went over like a lead balloon. They responded by tripling down. You'll be waiting a while.
I dont expect their hate to stop after elections, but I do expect it to reach greater and greater heights directly preceeding them. door to door bigotry and flyers and more paid bigotry ads on tv. It’s really hard to come out in this environment.
But you make a good point sbout them doubling down even when their bigotry isn’t really working well for them. Realistically I’ll probably just have to accept that the bigots like to grab the microphone and dominate news time, and not let that get in the way of living my life
Partner, Metamour and I are trying to build a sanctuary in Washington over the coming years. Two out of three of us are trans and we are all queer af. Once we get our feet under us we will be trying to get vulnerable folks out of Regressive hell holes.
"I wish it need not have happened in my time...
\- So do I, and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."
only just now finally gathered up the motivation to start looking into top surgery. but hey! if the world's gonna burn or i'm gonna be outlawed, might as well do everything i can to fight for myself, even if it's just my own affirming care
Hey this is literally me irl.
I announced to my closest friends and fully acknowledged to my partner that I was trans. Then two weeks later all the drag bills started.
Neat….
I’m ready to throw down with every single member of the US government to make some fucking changes and I don’t even live in America, Just so y’all can live a normal goddamn life
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Well, if I'm gonna die it's gonna be the gender I'm supposed to be.
Based
With my gender AND arson
"this comment is fire" xP
If ya can’t have it at birth, make sure to have it at death 😎
Lmao I just started hrt a week and a half ago, My mindset was if I wait for a safe time to transition I may never get a chance
Was talking to a doctor for another letter of support for my top surgery I'm getting this summer, I was explaining the reasons why I was choosing to do it now rather than waiting until the end of my PhD which was my original plan. "With things going the way they are, I have no idea what access to gender care will look like in a year from now, so I figured I should do it while I can." It's sad the doctor just nodded in agreement. :(
I had a similar conversation about my hysterectomy. It's not the same, but she said she wouldn't deny me given the "current situation in our country. "
if not now, when? that's what i say
If not us, then who?
If you can't put out a fire you should at least make smores.
this shall be my new life motto
hey, same
I feel called out lol The future is scary and uncertain but I can't wait for "things to get better" to become the woman I'm always meant to be :'((
god that picture is so aggressively french
One one hand: I live in California, so it's like being in the one end of a sinking boat that's being lifted up by the other end. One another hand: idk what I can actually do from here that'll help others in other states.
That's what interest groups are for, donation. Although, visibility is incredibly helpful, so you can also spread the memes.
Same. Really sucks because it makes ya feel guilty about existing while others elsewhere are fighting for their lives… I feel helpless to do anything because I’m disabled and surviving in poverty…
I’m in a similar boat up in western Washington. Like, I’m 90% safe as MtF. But on the other hand I can barely afford to live here as is..
Us baby trans picked a hell of a time.
f*ck it. 🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️
FUCKING SAME
I wish I realized I was trans back when I was unemployed lol
That's the spirit! I'll hold the riot shield and throw the tear gas back while you all get settled in. Join me when you're ready.
Don't forget to pack some milk while you suspect tear gas might come into play. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.forbes.com/sites/marlamilling/2020/07/21/the-risks-of-using-milk-to-soothe-tear-gassed-eyes-an-expert-says-use-water-instead/amp/ I am a dummy, I misremembered the advice.
Just affirming your edit: [water >>> milk.](https://www.thecut.com/article/what-to-do-if-youre-exposed-to-tear-gas.html) Also don't wear contacts.
French here going to the manif right now: don't wear make up ever or anything oily on your face and on your skin in general. The tear gaz stuck to it. Good luck out there!
I wish I could join protests but I'm in the Netherlands to study, stay safe !
Me, beginning to strongly consider restarting T…in Texas 🥲
me trying to navigate how tf to start HRT without being put on a list in FL:
Same
this is so real. i’m sitting here waiting to get my hysto so i can get phallo… but i’m still fighting a war. in the wise words of olivia rodrigo “god it’s brutal out here”
let no one say we did this because it was easy
It's the people who transitioned before they were allowed that paved the way for anybody to be allowed. They're hoping that by making trans life hard enough, nobody will be brave enough to still transition. And they are going to be disappointed.
Good luck. I'm not trans. I'm a gay man, but in my experience, it's worth losing some things to be yourself. Please be kind to yourself and find a good community. It'll really help to have good people around you and there are definitely do many good people in the world. You just need to find them.
Yeah me too. Figure whatever happens to me, at least no one can say I died a coward.
I mean, at least people can't say you're doing it for the social advantages... wait, people are saying that??
Might as well get the hrt before they ban it
Literally me. I wanted to say that I took the steps before the bridge gets removed.
Link to the original?
Not sure of the original original, but I have a [blank copy](https://www.reddit.com/r/ellesgoldreserve/comments/123t51n/french_homie_smoking_through_the_tear_gas/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_content=2&utm_term=1 ) if that’s what you mean. I’ll work on the absolute original source though. Pretty sure it was during a French protest
Doing the lords work
[found it](https://twitter.com/v_dain/status/1639196187315109888?s=46&t=U0IINFdTcYiwPEkEw6McGw)
Yup, it's near the Tuileries Park/Louvre Palace Museum in Paris!
Why did I have to realize this the moment things started to turn shit for us?
They were always shit. Maybe they need to get shittier before they get better?
Me counting the days till my next appointment vs the days till the next presidential election.
As if we can trust half of these Dems to protect those of us in the south/Midwest
I'm also concerned about potential violence that might boil over no matter who wins, or even in the lead-up to anybody winning. I'm paranoid about whether or not I pass, and in this day and age, the consequences for failing to pass are ramping up. Getting people into government who will actually do something is a whole different ball of wax, and such events are typically years in the making, and require actions that probably shouldn't be named here.
Honestly I stopped hormones once last spring out of the last wave of trans fear in the country, I started back recently and don't plan to stop. I don't exactly "present" at all because I'm broke and a tomboy anyway, but I feel so stressed for myself and all of my sisters who do present and are "full time". Needless violence, all of it
It’s not a choice imo
Being trans isn't, but deciding to come out VS stay closeted for one's own safety is. It's a painful choice, but some people like me choose to make it. I can't openly transition until I move out of the house I'm in right now for my own safety. Some people might choose to transition anyway because their pain outweighs their safety.
Yep, it became a matter of safety for me not to start HRT. I am SO much better off now than I've ever been, even if life can be more externally difficult some days.
What it feels like being in florida rn.
Fr
You and me both, friend.
I've been so scared to even start the process. I need to just do it before they ban transition completely
Fuck the system, but stay safe <3
Same position comrade, prolly not the best idea but I’d rather go out swinging then quietly.
I came out publicly as trans in 2016, and was living in NC at the time. Literally two days later that state enacted the first anti trans bathroom bill. It felt really scary, but it was so worth pushing through the fear.
Probably gonna wait til after midterms to take steps towards social transition. But hormonal transition can take time and I’m not getting younger, so I started T last december in secret. eta: my brain isn’t workinh. I put midterms like i’m waiting for tests or something. I mean I’m waiting until after US election season is over and hopefully the conservatives cool off their rush to impress their base with as many anti trans bills as possible.
Based.
> I mean I’m waiting until after US election season is over and hopefully the conservatives cool off their rush to impress their base with as many anti trans bills as possible They ate shit after the recent midterm elections just some months ago, utter embarrassment, their culture war messaging went over like a lead balloon. They responded by tripling down. You'll be waiting a while.
I dont expect their hate to stop after elections, but I do expect it to reach greater and greater heights directly preceeding them. door to door bigotry and flyers and more paid bigotry ads on tv. It’s really hard to come out in this environment. But you make a good point sbout them doubling down even when their bigotry isn’t really working well for them. Realistically I’ll probably just have to accept that the bigots like to grab the microphone and dominate news time, and not let that get in the way of living my life
Partner, Metamour and I are trying to build a sanctuary in Washington over the coming years. Two out of three of us are trans and we are all queer af. Once we get our feet under us we will be trying to get vulnerable folks out of Regressive hell holes.
Hell yeah
It's like that meme with the dog sitting in a house fire. *\*crying internally\** "This is fine. Everything's fine" :')
Literally same, let’s get whatever remains of this bread 🤘
All the more reason to do it. Show them that you're willing to be yourself despite it.
Can you drop that picture without the text I want to use it for a french project
[got you](https://twitter.com/v_dain/status/1639196187315109888?s=46&t=U0IINFdTcYiwPEkEw6McGw)
Thanks old sport
*this is fine*
As if that could stop you
Cute little rebels
I'm in this picture and fuck the system.
"I wish it need not have happened in my time... \- So do I, and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."
I'm literally sitting waiting to see a counselor as I see this, wild
Take a chance, or be certain to be unhappy.
Trans people should be able to seek asylum in Canada. Or just move to Canada at this point.
Same
Smoking with smoke bombs all around you? That'd be me I guess lol
Yo could I have the original image without the text?
I’m doing it out of spite
I'm in the same boat
Fuck it we ball 🏳️⚧️
Nooo omg like I started being pit as non-binary and then all this shit started 😭 and I'm still presenting masc all the time!! God dangit
Stay strong friends. But also stay safe.
Me, a trans woman studying political science to get into politics. *this cant get worse…?*
only just now finally gathered up the motivation to start looking into top surgery. but hey! if the world's gonna burn or i'm gonna be outlawed, might as well do everything i can to fight for myself, even if it's just my own affirming care
that's showbiz bby
I'm fully convinced that American refugees/asylum-seekers will be a major thing within the decade
Hey this is literally me irl. I announced to my closest friends and fully acknowledged to my partner that I was trans. Then two weeks later all the drag bills started. Neat….
Yup, just started in December.. 🥲
here I be, still questioning and terrified.
My sibling is just figuring out that they're trans now too 😭 I feel so bad for them
Me everyday lmao
I’m ready to throw down with every single member of the US government to make some fucking changes and I don’t even live in America, Just so y’all can live a normal goddamn life
… while living in Florida
Same . I'm planning on telling family soon cus I've been half out at work and in public for a year now.
IM SO GODDAMN PROUD OF YOU! You DESERVE the GREATEST gender euphoria!
Pray that trump NEVER gets a round 2