Right, but I’m still going to insist that glossing over that monumental advance that seems-to-be-coming in surgical improvements, is an incredibly antagonistic statement that does disservice to the trans community as a whole, not uplifting the very personal decisions each of us would make before going under the knife.

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Sure.

How about choosing surgical techniques for that leave minimal appearance of intervention? Different techniques (and some doctors) leave more of a mark, have a longer recovery time, and can result in a laundry list of potential complications as a result of surgery. Don’t you think something many trans women spend… Read more

I do what I can for my friends and neighbors.
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For sure.

To be honest, there’s a lot of variation, so the things I’ve listed are just a couple to consider. There are other restricting ideas like which providers can accept insurance coverage and which are only able to provide confirmation surgery for trans folx who are able to afford their surgeries out-of-pocket.… Read more

Generally speaking for trans women, there are different surgeons whose different techniques tend to yield slightly different results (in apperance, sensation, depth, function, etc): Read more

Right, but that’s never a caveat when people go out and demonize ‘designer pussies.’ I get the nuanced approach, but don’t pretend like it’s a bad idea to want your pussy to represent how you feel about your body. Yes, body pride, but sometimes that psychological formula is obviously more complicated. Read more

As a trans woman, I actually *do* want a pretty designer pussy. You know, since I’ma have to have one constructed anyway. But that’s not what this article is about. Read more

Yup. Your derisive, dismissive, patronizing, ‘I’m disappointed in you’ commentary has absolutely no self-serving component. Cheers. Read more

Also, again, you missed the part where Gorsuch straight up ruled against two transgender people litigating on behalf of their own rights, the ones you keep saying “he’s going to do the least damage to.” HE ALREADY HAS A RECORD ON THIS TOPIC AND IT IS BAD FOR US. Read more

I’m gonna hard pass on that logic. When we hold the line, that means holding the line for everybody that is going to be affected. If we’re facing a looming fascist republic, the courts are the last check to the puppet Administration and Congress running through the worst parts of the conservative agenda. If we concede… Read more

Please see my commentary above, including the linked post here. Gorsuch ruled directly against transgender litigants in two separate cases. The first refused to acknowledge that it’s not okay to put trans women in an all-male detention facility, and also justified withholding estrogen treatment because Gorsuch doesn’t… Read more

I actually think it’s the least ‘under attack,’ and more under threat of being swept under the rug again because at least we got marriage equality and progress for transgender people ‘just takes time’ that we’re ‘just going to have to wait’ to see.
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I literally just posted this, but I think there’s a really dangerous trend of erasure on transgender equality happening, and a lot of it is centered around this discussion that 45's Gorsuch nomination isn’t that bad for ‘gay rights.’

‘Gay rights’ =/= ‘trans rights.’ Neil Gorsuch is a lot more dangerous for transgender… Read more

That’s worringly the indication (to me) that this seems to be one of the next wave strategies of TRAP regulation — intentional legal delay, at least up to and beyond what courts have determined may constitute a ‘reasonable’ restriction on abortion. :(

It’s at least not *unreasonable* to hypothesize that they’d test… Read more

Who pays for the requested paternity test?
Is the theoretically-aborting woman criminally liable if she’s wrong about the paternity suit?
Does she even get to have the abortion if she’s wrong, even though she honestly thought she *was* right? Is there any way to verify she believed she was telling the truth? How… Read more

I’ll point out that they actually even had trans* colors (white/pink/blue), and she didn’t shy away from singing the word ‘transgender’ on national TV during the superbowl. I literally cried at home watching her performance.

See: colors.

You know, she fights for ‘women,’ as long as those are cis women.. Screw her *and* her brand of ‘feminism.’ Read more

I don’t want Rousey’s advocacy anywhere near our budding movement. She is a trans-exclusionary bigot, an ally to be taken at face value only.

She made a big part of her career talking mad transphobic shit about Fallon Fox, and so for her refusal to fight Fallon (and willing dissemination of quack transphobic science)… Read more