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ebel aurora | map data witch<p>I'm in a touristy area, and yes, it's very annoying that the stall sellers are calling you over.</p><p>But damn, being called "madam" never gets old for making a part of me smile. ☺️☺️</p><p><a href="https://moytura.org/tags/trans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>trans</span></a> <a href="https://moytura.org/tags/transfemme" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>transfemme</span></a> <a href="https://moytura.org/tags/transfeminine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>transfeminine</span></a> <a href="https://moytura.org/tags/transwoman" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>transwoman</span></a> <a href="https://moytura.org/tags/transwomen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>transwomen</span></a> <a href="https://moytura.org/tags/GenderEuphora" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GenderEuphora</span></a></p>
Droppie [infosec] 🐨:archlinux: :kde: :firefox_nightly: :thunderbird: :vegan:​<p>This <em>might</em> not be the entire article; i'm not sure. It's quite horrific. Why are these ghastly magamorons so utterly hideous? 😢 😭 🥺</p><p><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01029-8" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nature.com/articles/d41586-025</span><span class="invisible">-01029-8</span></a><br>[edited to include the url, above]</p><p><u><strong>Quote</strong></u></p><p>After cancelling nearly all NIH projects studying transgender health, Trump’s team instructs the US biomedical agency to study negative consequences of transitioning. </p><p>As the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) continues to defund nearly every research project on transgender health, the White House has directed the agency to focus on studying “regret” after a person transitions to align their body with their gender identity. Several NIH employees, who were granted anonymity because they are not authorized to speak to the press, confirmed the directive to Nature.</p><p>Two weeks ago, Matthew Memoli, who was acting NIH director at the time, sent an e-mail to the directors of several NIH institutes. It said that the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), which is the NIH’s parent agency, “has been directed to fund research on a few specific areas” related to what it calls “chemical and surgical mutilation” of children and adults — a reference to gender-affirming care and surgery. “This is very important to the President and the Secretary” of the HHS, Robert F. Kennedy Jr, the e-mail added.</p><p>Based on its priorities, the White House sometimes directs the NIH — the world’s largest public funder of biomedical science — to study certain broad topics, such as cancer or women’s health, but the latest directive’s specificity, inflammatory language and focus on a hyper-polarizing topic are unprecedented, the NIH employees say. Although the White House can sometimes “push us on various different things, we normally get to chart out the approach”, a staff member says.</p><p>Many scientists, reeling from the abrupt cancellation of more than US$180 million in NIH funding for research on transgender health, slammed the proposed studies as ideologically driven.</p><p>“It’s really pigeonholing trans people into this medical lens where the only thing important to know about them is that they seek medical transition” and regret it, says Harry Barbee, who studies the health of people from gender and sexual minorities (LGBT+) at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, Maryland, and identifies as non-binary and queer. “When ideology is prioritized over scientific merit, that threatens the entire scientific enterprise.”</p><p>The NIH and the White House did not respond to Nature’s queries about the new research priorities or scientists’ concerns with their apparent ideological bent. The HHS said that the “NIH is prioritizing research that serves the best interests of public health, not ideological agendas, and will continue to support studies that provide clear, objective data — particularly regarding the long-term effects of gender transitions.”</p><p>Estimates suggest that 1.6 million people in the United States identify as transgender, and about one-quarter of them obtain gender-affirming surgeries. Research suggests1 that access to these procedures can reduce anxiety, depression and suicidal ideation in transgender people.</p><p>US President Donald Trump signed an executive order on his first day in office on 20 January that directed the US government to stop acknowledging that gender can differ from sex at birth. The cancellation of many trans-health research grants quickly followed, and now the agency seems to be shifting the type of research it funds. The e-mail from Memoli, obtained by Nature, specifies two areas of research that the Trump administration wishes to fund about “social transition”, which is when a person changes how they express their gender to others — for example, by changing their name or appearance.</p><p>These include “regret and detransition following social transition as well as chemical and surgical mutilation of children and adults” and “outcomes from children who have undergone social transition and/or chemical and surgical mutilation”, the e-mail says.</p><p>More research on the experience of trans people — including understanding reasons for dissatisfaction after transition — is direly needed, Barbee says. But they worry that the sole focus on negative consequences is misplaced: fewer than 1% of transgender people who undergo gender-affirming surgery regret it, according to an analysis published by Barbee and their colleagues2. By comparison, 14.4% of the broader population reports regret after any kind of surgery3.</p><p>So far, about 187 NIH grants funding trans-health research have been terminated, according to an online effort to track the Trump team’s research cuts by Brittany Charlton, an epidemiologist at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in Boston, Massachusetts, who studies LGBT+ health, and her colleagues. In 2023, the NIH funded about 180 projects in this field, according to another NIH employee.</p><p>If these proposed studies move forwards, it will create a “a distorted research ecosystem where only politically favourable findings are permitted to exist” and an “evidence vacuum for clinicians who are trying to do right by their patients”, Barbee says.</p><p><u><strong>Unquote</strong></u></p><p><a href="https://infosec.space/tags/LGBTQIA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LGBTQIA</span></a>+ <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/GenderDysphoria" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GenderDysphoria</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Transmisia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Transmisia</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Transphobia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Transphobia</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Trans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trans</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/TransRightsAreHumanRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TransRightsAreHumanRights</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/FsckThePatriarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FsckThePatriarchy</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/fsckALLreligion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fsckALLreligion</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/RWNJs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RWNJs</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/FsckRWNJs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FsckRWNJs</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/FsckChristoFacists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FsckChristoFacists</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/ChangeTheSystem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ChangeTheSystem</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/FuckAroundAndFindOut" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FuckAroundAndFindOut</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Misanthropy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Misanthropy</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/TransRepresentation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TransRepresentation</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/transwoman" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>transwoman</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/transwomen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>transwomen</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/transkids" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>transkids</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/TuckFrump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TuckFrump</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/FuckRWNJs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FuckRWNJs</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/magamorons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>magamorons</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/FuckChristoFascists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FuckChristoFascists</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/FuckAllReligion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FuckAllReligion</span></a></p>
ErosBlog Bacchus<p>I've mentioned here before that I've got a persistent MAGA troll on ErosBlog. One of his complaints: I "post too much gay shit".</p><p>Wednesday I posted 8 seconds of video from TikTok of the cutest imaginable blonde trans bunny girl being insufferably cute (to you or to me) but in a way guaranteed to get a MAGA asshole up and bouncing on his trampoline and crying. Do come see! </p><p><a href="https://www.erosblog.com/2025/04/02/ur-a-gay-now/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">erosblog.com/2025/04/02/ur-a-g</span><span class="invisible">ay-now/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kinkyelephant.com/tags/Troll" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Troll</span></a> <a href="https://kinkyelephant.com/tags/Bunny" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Bunny</span></a> <a href="https://kinkyelephant.com/tags/Blonde" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Blonde</span></a> <a href="https://kinkyelephant.com/tags/Trans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trans</span></a> <a href="https://kinkyelephant.com/tags/Transgender" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Transgender</span></a> <a href="https://kinkyelephant.com/tags/Transwoman" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Transwoman</span></a> <a href="https://kinkyelephant.com/tags/Cute" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Cute</span></a> <a href="https://kinkyelephant.com/tags/BunnyGirl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BunnyGirl</span></a> <a href="https://kinkyelephant.com/tags/RoziRabbit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RoziRabbit</span></a> <a href="https://kinkyelephant.com/tags/gay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gay</span></a></p>
mootchoowal aid requests<p>URGENT! please help a <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/transWoman" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>transWoman</span></a> &amp; <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/artist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>artist</span></a> who is gatekept from employment. clara needs help with groceries, meds, new shoes, &amp; essentials. check out her <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/sciFi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sciFi</span></a> &amp; <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/horror" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>horror</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/art" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>art</span></a>; commissions are open! </p><p>$0/200</p><p>Paypal: peruzzisancio@gmail.com<br>IG: @deny_sentience<br>E-mail for Commissions: clarasthr [at] live [dot] com</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/mutualAid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mutualAid</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MutualAidRequest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MutualAidRequest</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/transMutualAid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>transMutualAid</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/transCrowdfund" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>transCrowdfund</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/queer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>queer</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BlackMutualAid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BlackMutualAid</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LGBTQIA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LGBTQIA</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LGBTQ" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LGBTQ</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/transFem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>transFem</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/queerMutualAid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>queerMutualAid</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/queerCrowdfund" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>queerCrowdfund</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/trans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>trans</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OriginalArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OriginalArt</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MastoArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MastoArt</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FediArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FediArt</span></a></p>
ebel aurora | map data witch<p>“I don't think the best part about looking in the mirror after transition is that I see a woman.</p><p>I think the best part is that I see me”</p><p>Oof. So much this. 💯💯💯</p><p><a href="https://moytura.org/tags/trans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>trans</span></a> <a href="https://moytura.org/tags/transfemme" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>transfemme</span></a> <a href="https://moytura.org/tags/transwoman" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>transwoman</span></a> <a href="https://moytura.org/tags/transwomen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>transwomen</span></a></p>
Droppie [infosec] 🐨:archlinux: :kde: :firefox_nightly: :thunderbird: :vegan:​<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://aus.social/@Tooden" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Tooden</span></a></span> Not gonna dispute that, but simply augment it. "Reversibility" is only a factor if one chooses to stop. The vast majority of our tiny minority know that something is profoundly wrong, from an early age, i'm not talking teens, but say 5 - 7. Back in my childhood nothing was publicly known about this, there was no language for it, no way to have conversations, no references, no support etc. I knew "something" was very wrong, but unfortunately it took me many decades to discover what, why, &amp; how to ameliorate it [albeit too late wrt all the major external physiological changes caused by that despised wrong hormone]. That's all ancient history &amp; now largely irrelevant, coz today much is known of &amp; about <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/GenderDysphoria" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GenderDysphoria</span></a>, so kids &amp; their parents are easily able to identify &amp; grasp not only what is going on, but what they can do about it. For the parents, &amp; especially the kids, i can think of little that is more existentially devastating than to know they have safe effective options to stave off the evil wrong puberty until they are able to acquire their vital life-affirming surgeries later, with bodies not ruined by that otherwise flood of hated wrong hormones... but be prevented from doing so, by ignorant hating RWNJs &amp; ChristoFascists. It's beyond revolting, &amp; cruel beyond measure. </p><p><a href="https://infosec.space/tags/LGBTQIA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LGBTQIA</span></a>+ <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/GenderDysphoria" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GenderDysphoria</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Transmisia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Transmisia</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Transphobia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Transphobia</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Trans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trans</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/TransRightsAreHumanRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TransRightsAreHumanRights</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/FsckThePatriarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FsckThePatriarchy</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/fsckALLreligion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fsckALLreligion</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/RWNJs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RWNJs</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/FsckRWNJs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FsckRWNJs</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/FsckChristoFacists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FsckChristoFacists</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/ChangeTheSystem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ChangeTheSystem</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/FuckAroundAndFindOut" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FuckAroundAndFindOut</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Misanthropy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Misanthropy</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/TransRepresentation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TransRepresentation</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/transwoman" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>transwoman</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/transwomen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>transwomen</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/transkids" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>transkids</span></a></p>
LashLet's make sure this stays true!<br> <br> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/meme?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#meme</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/memes?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#memes</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/trans?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#trans</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/transgender?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#transgender</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/mtf?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#mtf</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/transwoman?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#transwoman</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/queer?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#queer</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/lgbtq?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#lgbtq</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/lgbtqia?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#lgbtqia</a>
LashTruth<br> <br> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/meme?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#meme</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/memes?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#memes</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/queer?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#queer</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/lgbtq?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#lgbtq</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/lgbtqia?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#lgbtqia</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/trans?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#trans</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/transgender?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#transgender</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/mtf?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#mtf</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/transwoman?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#transwoman</a>
Lash<p>Truth</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/meme" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>meme</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/memes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>memes</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/queer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>queer</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/lgbtq" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>lgbtq</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/lgbtqia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>lgbtqia</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/trans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>trans</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/transgender" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>transgender</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/mtf" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mtf</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/transwoman" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>transwoman</span></a></p>
TransActual<p>Research request:<br>Sapphic Bison is conducting a study on fertility in the transfeminine community, especially those who haven’t accessed fertility services.</p><p>Help shape the future of UK trans healthcare! Take the 10-min anonymous survey now: <a href="https://forms.office.com/e/24LtsYuGAQ" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">forms.office.com/e/24LtsYuGAQ</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Trans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trans</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Transfemme" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Transfemme</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TransWoman" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TransWoman</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Nonbinary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Nonbinary</span></a></p>

@essjayjay This day, which surprises me each year as i never expect it [i'm completely apart from / outside of any sense of any "community", & events like this & Pride & Mardi Gras etc aren't even on my calendar so i never know they've happened til i read of them], always reinforces to me how very "other" i am. As a post-op transwoman who regards her transition as a failure [not coz i did it, only that it turned out so poorly], "visibility" is the thing most of all that is anathema to me. My entire objective & hope was for "invisibility". There's so much hype & razzmatazz around these days for being different including being visibly different [which i wanna emphasise is excellent & beautiful for all who derive succour & validation from that]. It makes me feel even more odd than already, knowing as i do how much i do not want nor enjoy being visibly different. 🤷‍♀️