Alright My Readers In The Middling Parts Of The Country Need Help. Our Survivalists, Let’s Make A Master

Alright my readers in the middling parts of the country need help. Our survivalists, let’s make a master post. We have people with no power, some with power but no water. Throw your survival items here.

Scientific American article points out there is no real reason to exclude transgender athletes

The Scientific American is one of the world’s leading science journals, so when they print an article about transgender athletes, it is a safe bet that it is science based.

Jack Turban is a fellow in child and adolescent psychiatry at the Stanford University School of Medicine, where he researches the mental health of transgender youth.

He addresses the arguments behind the American anti-trans bills:

There is no epidemic of transgender girls dominating female sports. Attempts to force transgender girls to play on the boys’ teams are unconscionable attacks on already marginalized transgender children, and they don’t address a real problem. They’re unscientific, and they would cause serious mental health damage to both cisgender and transgender youth…

The notion of transgender girls having an unfair advantage comes from the idea that testosterone causes physical changes such as an increase in muscle mass. But transgender girls are not the only girls with high testosterone levels. An estimated 10 percent of women have polycystic ovarian syndrome, which results in elevated testosterone levels. They are not banned from female sports.

Transgender girls on puberty blockers, on the other hand, have negligible testosterone levels. Yet these state bills would force them to play with the boys. Plus, the athletic advantage conferred by testosterone is equivocal.

As Katrina Karkazis, a senior visiting fellow and expert on testosterone and bioethics at Yale University explains, “Studies of testosterone levels in athletes do not show any clear, consistent relationship between testosterone and athletic performance. Sometimes testosterone is associated with better performance, but other studies show weak links or no links. And yet others show testosterone is associated with worse performance.” The bills’ premises lack scientific validity.

Read the whole article here!

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2 years ago

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4 years ago

So what I’ve learned from the past couple months of being really loud about being a bi woman on Tumblr is: A lot of young/new LGBT+ people on this site do not understand that some of the stuff they’re saying comes across to other LGBT+ people as offensive, aggressive, or threatening. And when they actually find out the history and context, a lot of them go, “Oh my god, I’m so sorry, I never meant to say that.”

Like, “queer is a slur”: I get the impression that people saying this are like… oh, how I might react if I heard someone refer to all gay men as “f*gs”. Like, “Oh wow, that’s a super loaded word with a bunch of negative freight behind it, are you really sure you want to put that word on people who are still very raw and would be alarmed, upset, or offended if they heard you call them it, no matter what you intended?”

So they’re really surprised when self-described queers respond with a LOT of hostility to what feels like a well-intentioned reminder that some people might not like it.

That’s because there’s a history of “political lesbians”, like Sheila Jeffreys, who believe that no matter their sexual orientation, women should cut off all social contact with men, who are fundamentally evil, and only date the “correct” sex, which is other women. Political lesbians claim that relationships between women, especially ones that don’t contain lust, are fundamentally pure, good, and unproblematic. They therefore regard most of the LGBT community with deep suspicion, because its members are either way too into sex, into the wrong kind of sex, into sex with men, are men themselves, or somehow challenge the very definitions of sex and gender.

When “queer theory” arrived in the 1980s and 1990s as an organized attempt by many diverse LGBT+ people in academia to sit down and talk about the social oppressions they face, political lesbians like Jeffreys attacked it harshly, publishing articles like “The Queer Disappearance of Lesbians”, arguing that because queer theory said it was okay to be a man or stop being a man or want to have sex with a man, it was fundamentally evil and destructive. And this attitude has echoed through the years; many LGBT+ people have experience being harshly criticized by radical feminists because being anything but a cis “gold star lesbian” (another phrase that gives me war flashbacks) was considered patriarchal, oppressive, and basically evil.

And when those arguments happened, “queer” was a good umbrella to shelter under, even when people didn’t know the intricacies of academic queer theory; people who identified as “queer” were more likely to be accepting and understanding, and “queer” was often the only label or community bisexual and nonbinary people didn’t get chased out of. If someone didn’t disagree that people got to call themselves queer, but didn’t want to be called queer themselves, they could just say “I don’t like being called queer” and that was that. Being “queer” was to being LGBT as being a “feminist” was to being a woman; it was opt-in.

But this history isn’t evident when these interactions happen. We don’t sit down and say, “Okay, so forty years ago there was this woman named Sheila, and…” Instead we queers go POP! like pufferfish, instantly on the defensive, a red haze descending over our vision, and bellow, “DO NOT TELL ME WHAT WORDS I CANNOT USE,” because we cannot find a way to say, “This word is so vital and precious to me, I wouldn’t be alive in the same way if I lost it.” And then the people who just pointed out that this word has a history, JEEZ, way to overreact, go away very confused and off-put, because they were just trying to say.

But I’ve found that once this is explained, a lot of people go, “Oh wow, okay, I did NOT mean to insinuate that, I didn’t realize that I was also saying something with a lot of painful freight to it.”

And that? That gives me hope for the future.

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Here’s a chance to change some black trans lives

Saw this on facebook and am keeping the momentum going. I’ve copied all the fundraiser links below, and here’s the link to the original post in case you’d prefer to look at the list that way.

screenshot of Facebook post by Quinlan Malloy “Remember what I said about funding black trans people’s surgeries? Yeah, here’s your chance. BEHOLD, a thread of ways to help save black trans lives.”

Help me get home, please! $1,729/10,000 《《 high priority

Gender Fluid Human In Need Of Help $1,670/3,500

Adopted Trans Woman seeking safety & medical help $17,085/29,000

Shane’s Top Surgery $2,101/7,750 《《 this one has been up for over a year and he’s still waiting

Help J Remove Themselves from Toxic Household $1,372/2,500 《《 needs more contributions

Grace Mwangi’s Gender Confirmation Surgery $2,986/38,000

Nyne’s top surgery $2,943/8,000

Help Grayson start transition $1,201/2,000 《《 keep this going!

Skyler’s Transition Fund €458/3,000 《《 needs more contributions

Londynn’s New Life $8,828/15,000

NYIEMÄ’S GENDER CONFIRMATION FUND $8,770/37,000

Zoeys transition fund £4,224/10,000

Supporting Black Trans Elders cashapp $fakerapper $16,397/100,000

Top Surgery For Yadriel Acazio $1,817/11,000 《《 this one needs a boost

Coco’s Medical Transition Fund $3,430/15,000

Maya’s Transition & Recovery Fund $1,987/35,744 《《 needs more contributions

Help Create Corbyn $1,943/4,000

Flora’s Transition Fund $800/5,000 《《 needs more contributions

Amina Transition And Rent Fund €3,437/5,000

Help Guilly Get Top Surgery!! $3,070/7,500

Atticus’ homeless fund $5,598/10,000

HOUSING FOR TRANS WOMEN OF COLOR $7,553/60,000

Ahren’s Top Surgery $3,961/7,500

Malakai’s Top Surgery $1,119/10,000 《《 needs more contributions

Top Surgery $7,675/8,000 《《 so close; let’s close the gap!

Phoenix gotta move! $987/45,000 《《 needs more contributions

Kiana’s Gender Transition $2,140/35,000

Jacobs top surgery $6,870/8,000

Skye’s Top Surgery $2,037/8,500

Hunter’s Top Surgery $4,805/12,000 《《 time sensitive, get this funded before September!

Alexandria’s Transition fund $3,562/40,000

Myles’s Tracheal Shave Procedure $2,980/8,450

Zeke’s Top Surgery Fund $4,469/9,000

help koo start a new life $1,154/25,000 《《 needs more contributions

Landon’s Top Surgery! $950/2,000 《《 it’s a small goal, but so vital to covering what insurance doesn’t

Donate to Myla’s Breast Augmentation $1,992/6,000

Vanessa L. Naisha needs support to seek justice! $14,588/15,000 《《 so close! Let’s close the final gap

Travis’ Transition Fund $15,435/30,000

Disabled Enby Needing Help For Top Surgery! $2,672/8,500 《《 NEEDS FUNDING BEFORE AUGUST 4TH

Tyler’s Transition Fund $13,285/30,000

Clarabelle’s Gender Affirmation Surgery $10,637/20,000

help deluca get top surgery ! $4,907/7,000

Help Black Trans Woman Transition $18,495/20,700

Wriply’s surgery/ continued living fund $8,642/26,520 《《 this one has been up since 2018. I found Wriply’s socials and she’s still active, still waiting. Let’s get this fulfilled

Help a black trans woman w/ advanced cancer in ATL $21,826/25,000 《《 keep the momentum going

Help Harmony, a Black Trans Woman Survive $7,676/20,000

Help a black trans-man get FTM top surgery! $6,069/15,000

Malikais Top Surgery $4,097/7,500

Finn’s Therapy & Wellness Fund $2,960/7,000

Kyo’s (aka Key) Transition Fund $13,514/25,000

Transition Funds for Dallas $6,790/15,000

Help a Black Trans Woman from homelessness $6,606/8,000 《《 let’s get this goal met asap

Bottom Surgery and Electrolysis $6,329/40,000

Noelle’s Breast Augmentation $11,155/13,000

Aeri’s Moving Out & Transition Fund $14,859/20,000 《《 more than halfway; keep it going

SAVE A TEENAGE TRANSMAN’S LIFE $4,520/25,000

Cody’s Top Surgery $2,628/7,000

Help Kit get Top Surgery $1,820/6,000

Help Erika Begin Her Transition $4,433/10,000

I will periodically update the progress amounts. As the goals are met, I’ll mark them as funded and change the colors from green to pink to make it clear. I’m also tagging the ones that could use more attention with red.

Been hearing a lot about “reparations” lately? Well, this is one way to start working towards that, since those in power certainly won’t.