When you have a chronic illness, after a few years you reach The State Of Meh.
That's when your body exhibits A Formerly Unknown Thing that is non-healthy and might be a symptom of something new (or not) and you're just like: "Whatever, man. I just work here."
tbh when I see other lgbts in public like a gay couple or like a trans person with pride flag and pronoun pins i try and give them a Look like telepathically communicate like yes hello peers like when two bus drivers pass
but I know if they ever notice me I probably look like this
On one hand I get that the push to move out is driven by like, nuclear family values etc, but like also 90% of ppl I meet who are unhappy would have most of their problems fixed by simply no longer living w their parents. It's made me very pro moving out. If you're feeling stiffled, controlled, or constantly anxious, I think you should start working on moving tf out.
Note, I am finding these threads on the twitter feeds of ICU nurses who are now dreading the horrors that Roe falling will bring to their hospitals. This, on top of the horrors that they’ve seen and continue to see because of the pandemic. They were already exhausted and hanging by a thread.
“no no in the comics shehulk has her green tall sexy girl form, her human form, and her trueeee hulked out form but it’s mostly just the green tall sexy form teehee because she’s got super control. theyre being accurate it isn’t sexist that the lady hulk is 99% of the time just a sexy tall model with long fabio hair and a skinnier face while even professor hulk is still buff and beefy and has that weird little face.”
im sorry but if you think giving me the explanation that sexist male comic writers from the 80s who proved time and time again women werent allowed to exist in comics without sexualization or being eye candy or love interests (even if they had good plots!!!) then im not interested. shocker. every superhero woman is sexy and slender with long flowing hair and huge tits and little waists no matter what her powers are meant to be or what her male counterpart looks like. wow, it’s almost like the convoluted explanations of their sexiness is just an excuse to not have women be anything but what the male gaze wants them to be. men are designed for the power fantasy and women are designed for the sexual.
I've seen a considerable number of people discussing how lack of accessible, safe abortion will force pregnant trans people on T off of it. That's a good conversation, and I'm glad it's happening. I now want to add another dimension to the conversation. Testosterone is not the only medication that is considered unsafe for pregnancy.
An incomplete list of medications that are not considered safe for pregnancy:
-All current stimulant medications for ADHD
-Lithium, for bipolar disorder
-Some medicines to control seizures, such as valproic acid
-ACE inhibitors, for blood pressure
-Xanax and Valium, for anxiety
-Diabetes medication other than insulin
-All pain medication except for Tylenol, which can cause liver damage if overused
Most of these medications can be approved for use during pregnancy if your doctor considers the risk of not using them higher than the risk to the fetus. However, many pregnant people are forced onto medications that do not work well for them because the medication that they use is strongly discouraged. In addition, the changing of medications can wreak havoc on if your insurance is willing to pay for what you've changed to- an additional expense on top of the usual financial burden of pregnancy care.
This is hard enough for disabled people to deal with when they are pregnant voluntarily. If abortion is criminalized, then use of medications that may cause defects or miscarriage will likely be considered criminal if there is a miscarriage. This is especially true if there is no exception for the life of the pregnant person.
This only scratches the surface of the problems that disabled people will face if abortion is made inaccessible. For this and many other reasons, maternal mortality and/or morbidity is strongly elevated for disabled people. I strongly encourage you to consider disabled people as a particularly vulnerable group in regards to this issue, and to consider our needs important.
Further reading on disabled people and pregnancy mortality or morbidity is linked below. They refer to all pregnant people as mothers and women, but the data that they have collated is still important.
"adjusted relative risk of severe maternal morbidity or death was 29% higher among women with a physical disability, 14% higher among women with a sensory disability, 57% higher among women with an intellectual/developmental disability, and 74% higher among women with 2 or more disabilities."