The Canadian team is playing FREAKING OLYMPIC HOCKEY in face masks. I never want to hear another weak, pathetic, antivaxxer complain about having to wear a face mask in the grocery store ever again.
Maybe we need to replace all of those “tough guy” truckers with the Canadian women’s hockey team.
7yr old children are tougher than these whiney snowflakes.
SN: if you cannot wear a mask bc of legitimate medical reasons, then this post obviously isn’t referring to you
LGBT activists have been vocal about intersex issues for several decades, because establishing the legal right to bodily autonomy for intersex persons is basically inseparable from establishing the right of trans persons to that same legal autonomy over their own bodies. many intersex persons prefer not to be grouped together with LGBT causes; however, the vast majority of LGBT activists would agree that performing “corrective” surgery on intersex infants - to force them to adhere to a largely fictional gender binary - is pretty fucking evil.
There’s a lot of bullshit around the gender binary and the “basic biology” arguement that breaks down the second you look in any college-level textbook. The amount of people born intersex clocks in at 1.7% of the world’s population and people try to pretend it doesn’t exist because of that low percentage. However, following that logic, they must also believe that people born with naturally red hair, 2% of the world’s population, must also be fictitious. Except that clearly isn’t the case. One hundred and thirty-two MILLION people are born intersex and the vast majority of them have their bodily autonomy ripped away. That shit has to stop.
[ID: a series of tweets by #EndIntersexSurgery (@pidgejen)
Anyways, let’s start with what I thought I once knew about myself. When I was 18, I discovered I wasn’t like other girls. My medical records read “male pseudo-hermaphrodite 46 XY” & other BS terminology that pathologised my healthy/beautiful intersex body.
I discovered then that I had been diagnosed with partial androgen insensitivity syndrome (PAIS); my XY body couldn’t fully utilise androgens (like T) and so I developed mostly like a typical female person externally.
For me, this meant that I had a somewhat “ambiguous” looking body (aka a non-binary body) and the doctors performed 3 unnecessary cosmetic surgeries to make me look more like a “normal” girl:
gonadectomy
Clitorectomy
Vaginoplasty
Not to mention, they lied to me about ALL OF THIS and then forced me to take Premarin (a low dose of estrogen made from extracting the hormone from pregnant mare’s urine)
Anyways, I got in touch with a new endocrinologist recently thanks to my therapist at @RushMedical who suggested I see him.
He did something no other doctor has ever done. He asked me if he could see my medical records, all of them, and then took time to read of them.
He even reached out to other experts in his field when he was confused by something.
Wow. We love humility in medicine.
Anyways, he ends up suspecting something is up and that perhaps my PAIS diagnosis is wrong.
He then orders me a genetic test. Thanks to covid it took almost half a year to get the results, but a month or so ago I got them back.
Turns out, I don’t have PAIS, I actually have something known as NR-5A1. Now this is big news mostly because 1. It supports my thesis that docs who deal with intersex kids don’t know shit…
And 2. P/AIS intersex folks are believed to not be able to utilise androgens and so we’re often only given estrogen (never T), forcibly “feminised” with fucked up “cosmetic” surgeries, and forcibly assigned female.
Doing what they did to me was fucked up enough, but now realising that they didn’t even have the diagnosis right – and that I can utilise androgens – is fucking infuriating beyond belief.
We need to #EndIntersexSurgery y’all like yesterday.
Starting HRT is genuinely so freeing. I'm getting "sir"d more often and I feel more comfortable being feminine
She looks like a good mama
[captions]
pink shirt: mom
mom: yeah?
ps: what are you cooking?
mom: oh, i’m makin’ blueberry jam!
ps: can i say a curse word in front of you?
mom: no you may not.
ps: mom! just one!
mom: no, you don’t- one’s too much.
ps: look at me!
mom: no.
ps: mom! [laughing] mom, come here!
mom: no, i’m not gonna ‘come here’.
ps: it’s one! it’s the b-word! and it’s the only b word- just look at me!- it’s the only b-word i’d say in front of you. beautiful. i think you’re beautiful. [mom stammers but doesn’t say words] isn’t that nice?
mom: that’s very nice!
ps: i love you bitch
[mom cracks up]
Honestly one of my favorite videos. So wholesome 🥰
turn on the sound to hear a woman DESTROY her mother
and the Iraqi people welcomed the Americans with flowers. I wanted to set a historical event to teach Bush a lesson from the Iraqis, telling him you lied, we did not welcome you with flowers, and instead we are saying goodbye with our shoes.“
Muntaza Al Zaidi, the Iraqi reporter who became known as the guy who threw a shoe at Bush and later ended up in jail for three years because of it.
happy 12 years to bush shoeing incident
Today in History: December 14. The Bush shoeing incident
Happy bush shoeing anniversary :-) ❤️🎉
I have had this queued since December 15th.
so can we start hunting down white liberals now or what
The full picture is even more heart breaking after you open the uncropped version. Just a heads-up, it's rough
Nah let’s post it. Let’s feel it. Don’t look away.
I notice alot of my followers on here skipping these posts just to mess with my lgbt ones, suspiciously the white popular ones.
Heres a not so friendly reminder, as an lgbt metis person, i dont give a single fuck what your blog is themed or if this is too painful for you to look at. Reblog this post. Reblog this post with the sources of the 751 children who were found.
Your compliance and silence as well as the compliance and silence of your ancestors is what allowed these schools to open and kill first nations children. The children of MY people.
Dont follow me if you cant reblog this post or the one with sources to your political blog or your most popular blog. Add trigger warnings if you must but if your political blog is only focused on the harms you personally face like being lgbt then you need to see some bigger pictures and stop being afraid of angering your racist mutural or actually saying some shit about racism. If you can reblog some antifa graphics or add blm to your bio to be a surface level ally, you can reblog some sources on the genocide first nations people faced and still face today.
I’d like to add this photo I took last night in Victoria of the statue of Captain Cook. Though I myself am not indigenous, I 100% agree that these murderers, kidnappers and rapists shouldn’t have huge statues and plaques that decorate them and say how “great” they were.
Here’s another photo of the legislative assembly from yesterday. Later on there were more items, candles and signs at the memorial, as well as a big poster with 1505 painted on it but I didn’t get a picture
People need to see this. Not just quickly glance at the photos and keep on scrolling. They need to see this.
Reblog this or just stop following me
I had seen the first picture of the church, but not the second.
I went to a “Cancel Canada Day” event and burst into tears - not because I was surprised to learn of the unmarked graves (survivors told us they were there. Our government pushed it aside, and we let them), but because seeing all the people gathered in mourning drove it home: They. Were. Children.
This is my country’s legacy - and it’s not history. The last schools closed during my lifetime. My Father went to school with students who lived at the local residential school, after it was changed to a boarding house (read: holding centre) for indigenous youth who went to local schools.
They were all children, injured, abused, and killed in my country’s attempt to erase them. I want the world to see this and hold the state accountable to *active* reconciliation> I mean we could at least truly adopt UNDRIP in action instead of words for god’s sake.
