Ok But Like Im So Interested To Hear How The Republicans Would Check If Someone Was A Furry, Like At

are you sure you dont want to talk about it?

Sighh...

i think theyre less bigoted because it would be impossible to get mad at a community that has so many queer people

I feel like folks talking like Tumblr is the last bastion of reason on the Internet are forgetting that the owner of Tumblr is demonstrably cut from the same cloth as Zuckerberg and Musk. Tumblr's moderation policies aren't less bigoted, they're just less competently implemented.

the reason its getting banned is because the law makers dont even meet any kids whove gotten it, the only thing they learn about transgender people is from transphobes, and documentaries about detransitioners

So today I want to talk about puberty blockers for transgender kids, because despite being cisgender, this is a subject I’m actually well-versed in. Specifically, I want to talk about how far backwards things have gone.

This story starts almost 20 years ago, and it’s kind of long, but I think it’s important to give you the full history. At the time, I was working as an administrative assistant for a pediatric endocrinologist in a red state. Not a deep deep red state like Alabama, we had a little bit of a purple trend, but still very much red. (I don’t want to say the state at the risk of doxxing myself.) And I took a phone call from a woman who said, “My son is transgender. Does your doctor do hormone therapy?”

I said, “Good question! Let me find out.”

I went into the back and found the doctor playing Solitaire on his computer and said, “Do you do hormone therapy for transgender kids?” It had literally never come up before. He had opened his practice there in the early 2000s. This was roughly 2006, and the first time someone asked. Without looking up from his game of Solitaire, the doctor said, “I’ve never done it before, but I know how it works, so sure.”

I got back on the phone and told the mom, who was overjoyed, and scheduled an appointment for her son. He was the first transgender child we treated with puberty blockers. But not, by far, the first child we treated with puberty blockers, period. Because puberty blockers are used very commonly for children with precocious puberty (early-onset puberty). I would say about twenty percent of the kids our doctor treated were for precocious puberty and were on puberty blockers. They have been well studied and are widely used, safe, and effective.

Well. It turned out, the doctor I worked for was the only doctor in the state who was willing to do this. And word spread pretty fast in the tight-knit community of ‘parents of transgender children in a red state’. We started seeing more kids. A better drug came out. We saw some kids who were at the age where they were past puberty, and prescribed them estrogen or testosterone. Our doctor became, I’m fairly sure, a small folk hero to this community. 

Insurance coverage was a struggle. I remember copying articles and pages out of the Endocrine Society Manual to submit with prior authorization requests for the medications. Insurance coverage was a struggle for a lot of what we did, though. Growth hormone for kids with severe idiopathic short stature. Insulin pumps, which weren’t as common at the time, and then continuous glucose monitoring, when that came out. Insurance struggles were just part and parcel of the job.

I remember vividly when CVS Caremark, a pharmaceutical management company, changed their criteria and included gender dysphoria as a covered diagnosis for puberty blockers. I thought they had put the option on the questionnaire to trigger an automatic denial. But no - it triggered an approval. Medicaid started to cover it. I got so good at getting approvals with my by then tidy packet of articles and documentation that I actually had people in other states calling me to see what I was submitting (the pharmaceutical rep gave them my number because they wanted more people on their drug, which, shady, but sure. He did ask me if it was okay first).

And here’s the key point of this story:

At no point, during any of this, did it ever even occur to any of us that we might have to worry about whether or not what we were doing was legal.

It just never even came up. It was the medically recommended treatment so we did it. And seeing what’s happening in the UK and certain states in America is both terrifying and genuinely shocking to me, as someone who did this for almost fifteen years, without ever even wondering about the legality of it.

The doctor retired some years ago, at which point there were two other doctors in the state who were willing to prescribe the medications for transgender kids. I truly think that he would still be working if nobody else had been willing to take those kids on as patients. He was, by the way, a white cisgender heterosexual Boomer. I remember when he was introduced to the concept of ‘genderfluid’ because one of our patients on HRT wanted to go off. He said ‘that’s so interesting!’ and immediately went to Google to learn more about it. 

I watched these kids transform. I saw them come into the office the first time, sometimes anxious and uncertain, sometimes sullen and angry. I saw them come in the subsequent times, once they were on hormone therapy, how they gradually became happy and confident in themselves. I saw the smiles on their faces when I gave them a gender marker letter for the DMV. I heard them cheer when I called to tell them I’d gotten HRT approved by insurance and we were calling in a prescription. It was honestly amazing and I will always consider the work I did in that red state with those kids to be something I am incredibly proud of. I was honored to be a part of it.

When I see all this transgender backlash, it’s horrifying, because it was well on the way to become standard and accepted treatment. Insurances started to cover it. Other doctors were learning to prescribe it. And now … it’s fucking illegal? Like what the actual fuck. We have gone so far backwards that it makes me want to cry. I don’t know how to stop this slide. But I wrote this so people would understand exactly how steep the slide is.

its there a-fuckin'-gain, same video too, WHAT REASON WOULD THERE BE TO MAKE A PORN BOT. cyberflashing should be some kind of punishable

*opens community*

oh thats porn, as the first user post, above some pinned posts.

was it- was it on top of the water?

Yesterday there was a massive spider in my tub, so I got a napkin to kill it (time-sensitive spider). I crushed it, then lifted the napkin to see a completely unharmed spider. so I did it again, and once again, the spider was perfectly unharmed. I started to panic, this had never happened to me before. So I started pummeling him. I just kept pummeling and pummeling, bashing and bashing. I was actually punching him, no other word for it. I reared my fist to see a half-living spider. Still this fucker was alive. One more set of pummels, pummels fit for a man, and then, finally, he was gone. But god, what a life he lived.

i 100% agree, but you know that the ableists will use this as a "look at them theyre rabid beasts"

disabled people should get louder and meaner and angrier. disabled people listen to me. we need to get louder and meaner and angrier.

yk what i find really odd?

how tumblr constantly posts about stuff trump does thats extremely bad, but i seem to never be able to find anything about those situations on any other place, especially not on t*it***.

transphobia arguement flow chart.

fell free to use this

I WILL

Guess it's my turn now

1 note : I'll clean my room 10 - 100 notes : And I will draw one of my main OCs for every 10 notes (I'll post them here) 150 notes : I will do my hair 200 notes : I will finish Omori at least once 500 notes : I will try to actually talk to people irl 750 notes : I will stop biting my nails or the skin of my fingers 800 notes : I will stop biting my lips 1000 notes : I will buy make up / do my nails again 1500 notes : I will come out to my dad 1750 notes : I will come out to my mom (maybe)

2000 notes : I will start making a game on my own

here you go have fun, but please don't make me go over 200

an estimated 1-5% (so lets say 2.5) of the world population is ace, now lets half that for the 50-50 gender split, thats 1.25, and 80% of asexual women have experienced rape at some point in their life, thats 1%.

instead of ...not... hating on 1% of the population whove faced rape (and are women), she protects a bassicly non-existent group of likely hundreds-...- well just hundreds, at the cost of two whole groups of people (0.6%~, and 2.5%~).

shes being extremely hateful and bigoted towards 248,000,000~ people, whilst """protecting""" (people can go in the oppisite sex's bathroom anyway) a miniscule group of just a few hundred, even having a significant (about 1/3) of that group having experienced something she should be concretely against (rape towards women) according to her entire **CLAIMED** belief.

shes either delicately misinformed, or just bigoted, and in neither one she is a feminist, because she just isnt.

The fact that jkr doesnt seem to realise that the freedom to remove and decenter sex from your lifestyles and relationships, to not be told that sexual experience gives you measurable value, or to simply not be forced to be sexual when you dont want to be is such a massive part of women's liberation just cements what I already suspected: that shes never been a feminist at all, just a racist old creep with no life outside of her hatred