The thing that really gets me is that the same people who cry "children can't make decisions about their gender until 18, maybe even 25!" are perfectly happy to call a 15 year old Gazan child who throws a rock and gets arrested an "adult."

@whynot-wx4dc

22 күн бұрын

But what children are really getting surgery? Think it through! This still validated that trans community and the need for transition care

@trav8694

22 күн бұрын

Oh, they justify killing the infants using the argument that they will become Hamas one day. No children exist in Gaza, only Hamas members and potential Hamas members, both equally bad.

Health care should not be dictated by politicians, period. The only exception should be to stop surgeries done on people without THEIR consent (Intersex babies for example.)

Why is it a child when they want a block access to care? But when it commits a crime at the same age, they try them as an adult?

@AlastorTheNPDemon

26 күн бұрын

Control over an impressionable mind.

@DorianPaige00

25 күн бұрын

It's called "greasing the wheel" and "setting the stage".

As a transfem minor, I am so terrified for a future. This is absolutely terrifying that I'm gonna have to deal with this. I honestly really want to move anywhere else than the us, but here I am. I personally am not suicidal in the slightest, but it becomes clearer and clearer why other trans minors may commit it. If you are having suicidal thoughts, I wish you luck and you matter ❤️

Project 2025 scares the livin' shit outta me 😰 And as you asked, do we get it now, or do we get it in 4 or 8 years? Because they aren't going to stop. This is our reality now.

@datmofugga

26 күн бұрын

Stop the duopoly vote Chase Oliver

@TacticalGamingFool

26 күн бұрын

At least if we push it back 4 more years theres time for Trump to fall off completely...tho that makes it sound like I jave more faith in the 2 party system than I do...

@sgt.johnsonytp7643

25 күн бұрын

@@TacticalGamingFoolProject 2025 extends far beyond Trump.

@TacticalGamingFool

25 күн бұрын

@sgt.johnsonytp7643 I get that but trump is like theyre god king, he gets too old then who is going to take up the reigns?

@sgt.johnsonytp7643

25 күн бұрын

@@TacticalGamingFool Trump’s son or another GOP member that will do so because not allowing democrats into the elections will be considered an official act to the Supreme Court/ GOP candidates.

If they’re old enough to join the military and fight and die, they’re more than old enough to choose if they want boobs or not. Insanity

The identity documents situation is insane, you can have a valid passport with your preference that's good as proof of your preference in 188 other countries, but not valid in your home state, absolutely insane. Please be sure to update the long form of your social security, they'll do this for you!

Miners are not really getting surgery

@JordanP.

26 күн бұрын

some guys will get top surgery but that's literally it and it takes years of therapy and tons of money.

@user-mm2kx9kd7d

26 күн бұрын

@@JordanP. I know, but it’s all political calculation. A vast majority of the population are straight up reactionary when it comes to “chopping off kids body parts”. Which is how they see it.

@zugetzuzu

26 күн бұрын

@@JordanP. IIRC there has been like 1 or 2 documented cases of trans women who've gotten bottom surgery before 18, both were 17 and only a few months away from being 18 and had expressed being their desired gender since before age 6 but otherwise (not including your example) it's impossible to really find under 18s getting surgery for trans related reasons, but plenty for cis children

@rainkidwell2467

24 күн бұрын

I mean sometimes they need it to restore lost limbs and stuff, or for the cancer they tend to pick up down there, but it's not super common that they actually get healthcare anyway so.. Oh, not that type of miner 😅

In more conservative countries (for example, in the Eastern Europe), there are always the risk of not just restrictions but blanket bans on legal transition and trans health care, including adult one. Hungary did so in 2020, Russia in 2023, Georgia is now on the blink of banning it. And spillovers from anti-trans hysteria in the West contribute to this.

But have you considered Pokemon Going to the polls?

Resist Tyranny.

@whynot-wx4dc

22 күн бұрын

Tyranny? Stop and take a look at how far we've come! You obviously never saw the pink panic of the seventies and the anti gay laws that existed. The trans community has an ally in Biden because it is still a change in the right direction.

Im 6 months away from 40 and im su*c*dally dysphoric and i have absolutely no money for top surgery. I don’t make enough to be able to save up. I’ve tried a grant but not getting accepted is what triggered me into su*c*dal feelings. I just need a damn miracle, like last year!! Just a fucking miracle where i can get top surgery and peacefully exist happily without fear and worry. Thats all i want!

@alexzacuber

26 күн бұрын

I really hope you get surgery somehow, somewhere.

I fucking knew this was gonna happen. I KNEW Biden won't save us. 🤬😢

@TransNationNorthAmerica

26 күн бұрын

We have to save ourselves. We need to get so strong, so angry, and so much more aggressive in our tone, that we can match up with the aggression that the right wing shows us. Period. We are on our own. 💪

@Vahlee-A

26 күн бұрын

@@TransNationNorthAmerica- I should start firearms training. And I need to buy a safe to put it in so I don't put my roommates in danger. I and my roommates are all queer.

@datmofugga

26 күн бұрын

Look at Chase Oliver he actually supports lgbtqi people

@TransNationNorthAmerica

26 күн бұрын

@@Vahlee-A Nice! That's awesome! Sadly I'm in a very gun-regulated city. But I have my ways 😜

@Vahlee-A

26 күн бұрын

@@TransNationNorthAmerica- I live in Spokane Valley, Washington, a smaller, more conservative city. Assault rifles or other machine guns aren't allowed in Washington, but since we are so close to Idaho, nobody in this city gives a fuq.

Imagine telling a teen boy with gynecomastia he has to wait until 16 because what if he ends up identifying as a girl and wants them in the future?

Are you kidding me?

If adolescent or any patient is suicidal, surgery will not be performed until patient is in better state of mind.

Fuck us I guess

@whynot-wx4dc

22 күн бұрын

Who said that? Biden is fighting for trans rights by fighting for transition care. How many trans minors are getting surgery? And yet you feel betrayed because the president has stated that minors are entitled to HRT and even therapy? Change takes time and this is the long fight. Regulations have loosened and we must take the ground gained in our victories as our new limits. Let us celebrate this victory and fortify this line

Yay guys this so fun! Remember y'all, change doesn't come from voting but rather something that rhymes with evolution.

@submersedsword4949

26 күн бұрын

Maybe we need more AI evolution 😂

@LuNa_097

26 күн бұрын

We need to do what the French did in the 1800s

@submersedsword4949

24 күн бұрын

@@LuNa_097 I didn't go to pride because I felt scared and alone, plus I have regrets.

@submersedsword4949

24 күн бұрын

@@LuNa_097 I can agree however we don't have enough movement for that, due to people like Destiny and Hunter Avallone muddying the waters with civility politics...

@submersedsword4949

24 күн бұрын

@@LuNa_097 At this point, just hold your nose and vote for Biden.

The point is not to vote FOR Biden, but to vote AGAINST Trump. If he gets into office, there is a 90% possibility that he will mever leave, then simply pass on his autocracy to his sons or someone equally despicable.

That story about the intersex kid being lied to reminds me of this movie called Born to be Human. I recommend it, but lol I walked out of that movie livid, like SUPER angry

I need to start to research where I can immigrate to.

Oh luxander, Joe Biden had a big pride party in Capitol Hill during pride month with all the pride colors isn’t enough! What were you expecting meaningful legislation?

@datmofugga

26 күн бұрын

Follow chase Oliver For President

What can I do to support trans people and the rest of the LGBT community?

@monicadaniels784

26 күн бұрын

Vote blue. They aren't perfect but we desperately need the Repub's gone. Be kind to people in your life. When you hear lies, speak up with the facts. My suggestions! Stats and the medical societies are very indicative of the success of trans healthcare.

@LuxanderReal

26 күн бұрын

You can look up rainbowpassage.org and see if there's any volunteer work you can do regarding helping get people out of red states into more progressive areas. You can donate to people's fundraisers when they're moving to safer places, or offer your couch for someone to stay at on their way to safer places. Things that directly materially help folks

@AlastorTheNPDemon

26 күн бұрын

@@LuxanderReal Thank you. Every suggestion helps.

7:33 RE: Hygiene and showering: I literally was one of these people. Before transition, I used to shower, like, literally maybe two or three times A YEAR. Now, eight months into HRT, I'm showering at least once a week. Sometimes twice.

@J.J.DoeArt

16 күн бұрын

Yes! Thank you! Due to a combination of ADHD and heavy dysphoria that makes me just now want to see my chest out of a binder at all, my mum has said several times that those aren't excuses, even though ADHD literally impacts executive functioning and dysphoria is a nightmare. Seriously, thank you for saying this, makes me actually acknowledge that I'm n0ot mad, just need medical help that I am not getting.

@clara_cross

16 күн бұрын

@@J.J.DoeArt I'm ADHD too, sweetie, so I get it af. I'm sorry you have to be going through that with your family. It shouldn't be so farfetched that someone who experiences great emotional distress from their body would be hesitant to expose it to themselves. But here we are. And ADHD is so misunderstood by neurotyps, which doesn't help either.

@J.J.DoeArt

16 күн бұрын

@@clara_cross what makes it worse is my mum is one of those people who has a very specific idea of what something is, and if you don't fit it exactly, she calls bullshit. In her mind, I am too feminine and girl to be a trans guy, which is the same thought that it so hard for me to figure it out myself, and that if I had ADHD it would have been diagnosed as a kid, even though it takes a literal google search to find out that most people with ADHD are either undiagnosed or diagnosed as adults. She really does seem to think she knows everything, and when I say something that goes against what she thinks, I'm the one with the false info even if I have multiple credible sources. Sorry for the rant, I'm so happy you are able to feel more comfortable in your body, that is so amazing! I hope to get to that some day, I bet having a body that fits better makes getting in the shower a lot less daunting and possibly even a good experience. Keep it up!

@clara_cross

16 күн бұрын

@@J.J.DoeArt Yeah, it sounds like your mom is disingenuously feigning that she doesn't understand that gender identity and gender presentation aren't the same thing. In reality, she probably *does* understand that, because she surely knows that tomboys exist (female gender identity, masc gender presentation), but is conveniently ignoring that distinction to suit her narrative in the moment. That sure sounds familiar. And yeah, she is just patently wrong when she says you would have been diagnosed as a kid. I wasn't diagnosed until 30. And a LOT of people go undiagnosed as kids because our neurodivergence gets perceived as just "bad behaviour", and so we end up punished instead of helped, perpetuating the cycle of ignorance. Femboys are a thing. Undiagnosed kids are common. And trans identities are valid. It's nobody else's place to prescribe an identity onto you. u.u I'm so sorry you're needing to go through that. I'm no stranger to transphobic families, though. It's taken my mother over three years to just BEGIN to VERY TEPIDLY start accepting my identity. And I'm just full no-contact with my Matt-Walsh-giving brother. Though, yes, my body is growing more livable with each passing week, and it makes showering so much more pleasant. It's increased my quality of life in literally every conceivable metric. And I'm only eight months in to HRT. I can't wait to see where I'm at in another year and a half. And you can get there too, sweetie, if you persevere. 💖 I believe in you. You got this.

@J.J.DoeArt

16 күн бұрын

@@clara_cross ...God damn it, how is it that online transfemmes are more like a mother to me than my actual mother sometimes? Can we just set up a thing for baby trans folks to find their new trans parents?

gun safety and training are important. just saying. oh and also I won't tell anyone not to vote, but I would instead tell people to think about their own values when voting. a broken spine is no good, both medically and metaphorically.

@datmofugga

26 күн бұрын

Best candidate for lgbtqia rights is chase Oliver

I still maintain that voting for the lesser of 2 evils is still always the BETTER choice. If this is true, it sucks, but Biden is still better than Trump

ffs you can do the barest bare minimum to halt full on fascism and still do a revolution, why is this even a discourse

What's the harm in voting, regardless of if it works or not? Back then we were discouraged to vote, & when we actually did, it made a difference. I live in a gerrymandered state as well & unfortunately voted for the candidates below Biden, but I highly encourage you to vote as well, even if it doesn't lead to anywhere.. Not voting is a vote for the person you hate the most.

@LuxanderReal

26 күн бұрын

Not voting is not a vote for the other person, that rhetoric is beyond irritating. I vote locally and downballot, and I have voted for the democratic president all of the past 3 elections, but since my vote isn't going to make an impact on the presidential vote, I think it sends a clearer message to vote Uncommitted or something similar. It's, I guess almost a privilege that I get to use my vote to make a point since, again, it literally will not make any impact on the actual election

@ausnetscience

26 күн бұрын

@@LuxanderRealin your system, yes. If you’re vote won’t stop the evil then I get why not to vote. In swing states and seats the statement is true and I think that’s the point.

I'm gender fluid, sometimes I feel feminine other times I'm masculine but most of the time I'm neither. But one thing never changed, I hate my breast. I cry in front of the mirror looking at myself. I don't understand why they would prevent people from surgery that will make them confident and happy with their own body. It's not fair.

So im one in the shower club, luckily they would have to try really hard to put my boobies back.

I spent 30 years not realizing that I was trans (AFAB) and decided to have a child so that I could get access to sterilization and top surgery without doctors denying me solely for not having procreated and used my organs "for their intended purposes." I still had doctors opt out of giving me my hysterectomy because they didn't want to impede future pregnancies. I'm not mad at them, I don't think anyone should have to do something they disagree with, but the fact that the government wants to make health care more complicated than it already is just makes me so mad. Government should not be meddling in something so individualized. Period.

@vendetta.02

26 күн бұрын

why do you not put blame on bigoted doctors tho

@ausnetscience

26 күн бұрын

I know 40+ year old guys who still have that problem. They’re basically menopausal before T, they know what they are doing.

Hey! Did you see that this position was clarified?

@LuxanderReal

13 күн бұрын

Yeah he clarified that they don't support surgery for trans minors

I'd rather die than vote for Biden no matter WHAT state I live in. Unfortunately, I'm stuck in Kansas. I'm nonbinary, and I'm having increasingly bad dysphoria over my breasts. I DON'T want them, but I can't afford the surgery. I also don't have enough money saved up to hold steady during recovery. 😓

We (queers) need to abandon America. I moved from Florida to Washington. Now I'm trying to figure out how to leave this country before the civil war. It is coming.

@Nemo12417

26 күн бұрын

Where to? America's chief export is fascism.

@alexzacuber

26 күн бұрын

​@@Nemo12417Europe. Specifically countries with high ILGA and HDI rankings.

@Nemo12417

26 күн бұрын

@@alexzacuber that might work for white GRSM. But I hear transphobia is winning elections in many countries there too.

@AngelTail

25 күн бұрын

'sending solidaridad from our part of the world in the Global South in Las Islas Filipinas to friends in the US...! Moi hopes peeps could find community, connection and common cause with various progressive/anarchist/socialist movements there, all just waiting for each other to come and organize...! The Palestine solidarity movement, the working-class union movement, the LandBack movement, even organizing efforts carried out by different local queer collectives and communities there... I hope lucyalienlove-san, alexzacuber-san and everyone else with feelings of hopelessness could see some hope in organizing and in really intersecting with other folks... You can do it! Hope's not lost when people come together! No one's free unless everyone is! By helping take the power back from those that hate us and rule over us with different systems of control, queer peeps in the US and all peeps with hearts can win! Let me share this rally chant said by progressive movements here in the islands of the Philippines: _Makibaka, huwag matakot!_ The beki-queer version: _Makibeki, huwag mashokot!_ Join the struggle, don't be afraid! 🍉🏳‍⚧✊🏽

@yulebones

25 күн бұрын

I mean I'm glad you can. Those of us with disabilities (epilepsy, in my case) would be unable to leave because even the most "liberal" nations won't take us, and will be left alone without allies or anywhere safe to go.

I'm holding out hope we get a replacement for Biden before the election. That'd be great first off because Biden is just so uniquely sh-t that I have a hard time, even with Trump as a threat, seeing him winning the election. And if Trump were to somehow be replaced with a more _presentable_ and likable candidate (maybe Trump passes away) but who will still do all the things the far right already has planned... yeah, that's a confirmed loss for Biden at that point. Of course, it's very hard to find _likeable_ republicans or general right-wingers who could take Trump's spot. But it'd also be great to get another Dem to replace Biden because Biden is awful. He's a genocide supporter and enabler. He holds very right-wing views, and can't be trusted to DO anything. And on top of all that, while _others_ in his admin will try to do some good here and there -- but at a glacial pace and almost never addressing the root of a problem, but rather the symptom of a symptom -- Biden himself will enact very similar policy as Trump, just at a much slower pace. See the border situation, Israel's slaughter of Palestinians with US arms Biden sold him, and the complete indifference to the accumulating anti-trans laws from various far-right legislatures. And yes, the dissolution of what restricted Democracy we had in the us is still occurring under Biden -- the alleged Democracy-Protector. I want to avoid Trump by all means. But I won't pretend that Biden isn't just a slower-paced Trump. I have no reason to believe Biden is opposed to fascism, he just likes maintaining a false folksy aesthetic (while clearly being so elderly that he drops in and out of consciousness outside of the middle of the day). Much of his admin is okay, some maybe even edging toward "good" if also fairly weak. But the slow death of the US under Biden really isn't a great counter to Trump. The far right still has a LOT of control of the country even without holding the executive at this moment. Center-Right 90's Republicans presenting as Dems aren't a solution. If anything, it's the presidents like Clinton, Obama, and Biden that have gotten us here. I'll happily take Kamala right now, but that's only because it's an extremely low bar to clear for "Better than Biden and Trump". Which is exactly what the Capitalists want. To have pro-worker, pro-commoner options as far from achievable as possible. Bernie is the real centrist, and in a rational country would have been the safe and easy choice -- instead of being represented as "radical" by the media. AOC would be the youthful centrist who has loose ties to some mild leftists. No, we _should_ be having a real counter-Trump option. Someone who is all about abolishing corporate ownership, abolishing private ownership of public areas and institutions. Enshrining human rights for all and being aggressively anti-colonialist. Simplifying and making superbly available any and all science-based medical care for trans people. Universal and complete healthcare for every single person. Abolishing prison and reinventing our approach to resolving "crime" and other injustices.

all this hate from both sides really makes me want a glass of sweet lemonade

I'm so sick of being told to vote for Biden he's done nothing and all of this is happening WHILE he's president

@davidpacifico1019

26 күн бұрын

The problem is, the alternative is much worse. Better take the one shit than the double shit.

@EvelynIsDeprecated

26 күн бұрын

Yes, the two party system is so bad for this reason because all votes that go to third parties are basically useless because the two main partys always win. I just wish Biden passes at this point so someone more qualified can take the role.

@zugetzuzu

26 күн бұрын

Voting Biden is to vote conservative, to vote trump is to vote authoritarian, it's a lose lose but one just happens to be notably worse short term

Yeah, if the Dems do not very vocally switch on this topic and push for trans rights, then I am actually gonna vote Trump just to see this worthless nation burn. If things get bad I'll move away from here.

@davidpacifico1019

26 күн бұрын

And screw all the people who are left there over? Do you know what empathy is?

@MMASD-mj6zi

26 күн бұрын

​@davidpacifico1019 I mean realisitically it's gonna take more than just one spiteful voter to make Trump win, and if he did that means a plurality of americans likely voted against their best self interests which would be entirely on them at that point, besides unless the op is in a purple state then their vote won't make a difference regardless I actually respect their decision, America is a very evil country since it's founding that deserves to be burnt down. I'm both mixed race and trans, and with the ways things are going, it doesn't matter if Trump gets elected or not, this country likely won't remain safe for ppl like me over the next few years or so, for any trans person really

@runascarlet2623

26 күн бұрын

@davidpacifico1019 dude don’t worry about this pansy here in the comments. Their brain’s so smooth they think voting for Trump out of spite is a-okay. I mean it’s not like our lives and democracy are at stake or anything 🙄.

@EvelynIsDeprecated

26 күн бұрын

But some of us CAN'T move, because it is expensive among many other reasons.

@MMASD-mj6zi

26 күн бұрын

@EvelynMakesThings i understand, but sometimes in life, for one's own wellbeing and safety, have to make some sacrifices and do whatever they can to make plans to move to a more hospitable area I'm speaking from experience as a homeless person I've had to do the same, am gonna have to do it again in the near future, but it won't be nearly as easy this time

I realize no matter how much i listen to "El panadero con el pan" the world wont be as simple as being a baker with bread 😢😔

🎩🫴Trump is far worse

@Vahlee-A

26 күн бұрын

@@josephbearpaw- Biden still has to earn my vote, and right now he's too old to remember his own name. Neither of them are helping queer people, ao neither of them get my vote.

@jeremysweat8957

26 күн бұрын

​@@Vahlee-ABiden maybe hasn't "helped" queer people, but at least he isn't actively trying to hurt us. Come on, you really cannot see one is definitely better than the other....

@niamhleeson3522

26 күн бұрын

@@jeremysweat8957 if u can't see how trying to deny medical care for people who need it is actively trying to hurt us idk what to tell u

@LuxanderReal

26 күн бұрын

duh, why are so many people appointing themselves Captain Obvious nowadays?

@datmofugga

26 күн бұрын

​@@Vahlee-Alook up Chase Oliver. Don't give the duopoly power show the duoply that we are not gonna take this anymore