It's transphobia. The Harry Benjamin standards of care gatekept trans folk from medical transition unless they were able to cis pass, and were willing to leave their lives behind and start again. Basically, the only trans people they wanted were trans people that they could pretend don't exist.
And the whole presentation thing was part of their assessment. People who didn't jump through their hoops were denied care.
That's from the 70s and 80s.
This is the lingering after effects of those standards of care, hurting gender diverse folk decades later...
Yep, Iguazú. I likely felt it because my Spanish is not great, so even though I could make myself understood by Argentinians, the poor Brasilians stood no chance as I murdered Spanish in an attempt to communicate :)
I speak a little Spanish, but no Portuguese, and my time in Brazil right near the border with two Spanish speaking countries was a challenge, because most folks there didn't speak Spanish despite the location.
Some folks do of course, but most people I encountered didn't have any Spanish
I have zero idea how representative that is of other borders
carrying a bulky Z fold phone in my pocket only to be able to have a tablet once in a while and watch a movie is not interesting enough.
It suits my needs perfectly though! You can take my folding phone out of my cold dead hands
Until some folks can't afford to cleanse their genes and are denied the right to have children for "safety reasons" and suddenly, fertility and genetics are under state control.
It's not hard.
If you meet a trans woman, treat her as you would any other woman and don't ask invasive personal questions.
If you don't know someone's pronouns, then don't assume you do, and use gender neutral terms until either they or one of their friends/colleagues communicates their pronouns.
The whole "walking on eggshells" thing is because there are transphobes out there who deliberately paint us that way. They push and push until they get a reaction, and then use that reaction to push some more. If you're not doing that, it'll be ok, even if you fuck up
I can call you Betty And Betty, when you call me. You can call me AI
Subscribed - Scaled, followed by Subscribed - New, followed by All - Scaled
Though I'm currently testing out Quiblr, to see how its custom feed works for me.
I was responding to someone who saw no need for Wayland to exist, not advocating for everyone to use it
New camera in hand, we made a deal with some local gulls. We provide the chips if they pose for us so I can get some photos!
And didn't they oblige!
This fine gull is a Silver Gull (not a Herring Gull) from Australia, and you'll be pleased to know, the chip was caught!
You should have Undetermined selected and any languages you speak. Or you can just select them all
Your posts are there and visible
My guess would be your language settings aren't setup correctly. You need to have any languages you speak selected and "Undetermined"
You won't see any posts tagged with languages you haven't enabled, and if you don't enable "Undetermined" you won't see posts in which people haven't set a language tag
but it works
For some definitions of "works"
Our biggest cities normally have bus and train. About half of them have some sort of light rail/tram equivalent too. The coverage isn't completely comprehensive, so it's possible to find suburbs that don't have great coverage, but by and large, it's pretty good. Footpaths and bicycle paths are common too. The cycling infrastructure is often gappy, so you on commutes etc, you can find yourself navigating spaces without dedicated cycling infrastructure, but generally, you can get a good portion of a cycle commute on dedicated bike spaces. The only roads without a pedestrian corridor of some sort are generally major highways
In our smaller and medium cities, the trains are normally inter city, not local, so they're not so much use as public transport, but there are generally buses, though with less coverage. Good pedestrian infrastructure even in smaller cities though. It's harder to survive in smaller cities without a car, but possible.
Once you get out of smaller cities and in to towns and villages though, it gets harder again.
Australian manages pretty good urban public transport, with a much lower density than the US
(Our rural public transport effectively doesn't exist though)
It's not a matter of "fixing" so much as things moving around. After bottom surgery, the vaginal canal sits between the prostate and the anal canal, so sensation to the prostate is reduced with anal sex. However, the prostate ends up sitting approximately where the "g spot" is in AFAB folk, and so is more easily accessed via the vaginal canal
It's not so much AMAB/AFAB as vaginal canal vs no vaginal canal. A person with a prostate and a vaginal canal doesn't get as much pressure on the prostate from anal.
"Are cars always this awful" you ask, whilst shitting on the alternative...
what’s stopping you from making one
The fact that it's discord...
Nicolás Mihanovich, an abandoned cruise ship sits moored on the bank of Rio Iguazú, Puerto Iguazú, Argentina, at the apex of the borders between Argentina, Paraguay and Brasil.
It was originally designed as a luxury ferry between Argentina and Uruguay, but plans were made to turn it in to a floating Casino. The plans stalled, and now the ship sits, largely abandoned
Image description: An abandoned cruise ship sits moored on the bank of Rio Iguazú. The riverbank is steep, and covered with greenery. The ship itself is 6 stories in height and white in colour, but discoloured by water stains and rust
Image description: A great egret, neck extended high in to the air, wading through wetlands
#bird #egret #heron #birds #australianbirds #kedronBrook #wetlands
Image description: A long exposure of the Brisbane River of an evening, just before Riverfire. The photo is taken from near the base of the Kangaroo Point side of the Captain Cook bridge, showing the curve of the river, with Brisbane City on the left bank, and the Kangaroo Point cliffs visible on the right bank.
Image description: A long exposure of the Brisbane River of an evening, just before Riverfire. The photo is taken from near the base of the Kangaroo Point side of the Captain Cook bridge, showing the curve of the river, with Brisbane City on the left bank, and the Kangaroo Point cliffs visible on the right bank.
Image description: A kookaburra sitting on a street light, with a clear blue sky behind. A jet fills most of the frame in the sky behind the bird
Image description: A kookaburra sitting on a street light, with a clear blue sky behind. A jet fills most of the frame in the sky behind the bird
Image description: The main entrance of Toombul, looking through to a gutted interior. The area to the right of the main entrance, that used to be the bulk of the shopping center is now just open terrain, with several pieces of construction machinery gathering rubble and scrap
Kaity has been working away for hours, and had to recompile ImageMagick from scratch to get things work, but now, they're working!
As a bonus, you should be able to upload a wider variety of image formats now.
And as an extra bonus, here is a photo of a random Australian Water Dragon we encountered last weekend!
Image description: An Australasian Darter standing on a sandy riverbank, wings outstretched to dry in the sun, water lapping at its feet
Image description: Headshot of a silver gull, with a bright orange red beak. The gulls head is tilted to the left as it looks towards, but slightly to the right of the photographer taking the photo.
Image description: A pied stilt, seen from behind, wading in the shallows of a wetland, head tilted towards the ground, as if about to grab some food
#bird #dailyBird #australianBirds #kedronBrook #wetlands #stilt #piedStilt
For those of you who don't know, the Blahaj Zone admin team runs a matrix space for gender diverse folk. Similar to lemmy, it's designed with a few "official" channels, but is otherwise a community curated space, with channels run by our members. You don't have to be a blahaj zone user to join.
If you're already a matrix user, you can head straight to our application room https://matrix.to/#/#gv-apply:chat.blahaj.zone, or by searching for #gv-apply:chat.blahaj.zone from within your matrix client.
If you're new to matrix, you can find some more details and an instruction video on how to get up and running here https://chat.blahaj.zone/c/genderverse/
For those of you who don't know, the Blahaj Zone admin team runs a matrix space for gender diverse folk. Similar to lemmy, it's designed with a few "official" channels, but is otherwise a community curated space, with channels run by our members. You don't have to be a blahaj zone user to join.
If you're already a matrix user, you can head straight to our application room https://matrix.to/#/#gv-apply:chat.blahaj.zone, or by searching for #gv-apply:chat.blahaj.zone from within your matrix client.
If you're new to matrix, you can find some more details and an instruction video on how to get up and running here https://chat.blahaj.zone/c/genderverse/
For those of you who don't know, the Blahaj Zone admin team runs a matrix space for gender diverse folk. Similar to lemmy, it's designed with a few "official" channels, but is otherwise a community curated space, with channels run by our members. You don't have to be a blahaj zone user to join.
If you're already a matrix user, you can head straight to our application room https://matrix.to/#/#gv-apply:chat.blahaj.zone, or by searching for #gv-apply:chat.blahaj.zone from within your matrix client.
If you're new to matrix, you can find some more details and an instruction video on how to get up and running here https://chat.blahaj.zone/c/genderverse/
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I can also be found on the microblog fediverse at @ada@blahaj.zone or on matrix at @ada:chat.blahaj.zone