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Uninformed Pollyanna Opinion Time: the progressive and activist equivalent to 60s/70s drag is modern trans culture, not modern drag culture
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ate all the Oreos posted:i guess the historical view i always got of drag was that it originally involved a lot of transpeople who did it because "being trans" wasn't really something most people knew was possible let alone at all acceptable, then later on once transpeople could start actually being themselves they mostly left and it just kinda became this insular thing cis gays do. it's good to know there's much more to it than that though Yeah, it sounds like your local drag scene is dire. It definitely varies with the area. New york or LA are going to have way better scenes than like St Pete.
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Mar 6, 2018 21:13
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Pollyanna posted:Uninformed Pollyanna Opinion Time: the progressive and activist equivalent to 60s/70s drag is modern trans culture, not modern drag culture Kinda, yeah.
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Mar 6, 2018 21:14
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Improbable Lobster posted:God bless this gay-rear end sea. username post combo also: the sounds on that part of the video haha
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So, if anyone cares, I had a revelation today that made me go from "huh, maybe I’m trans" to "yeah, probably." It’s really stupid, but no mocking, please. When I play online games I almost always pick a female character with a female name (this part wasn’t the revelation). I would never use voice chat, only text. And I was always disappointed when people just assumed I was a guy. So I was thinking about that. It wasn’t a "aww, I didn’t trick them" disappointment, but "why am I so obviously a guy?" And that got me thinking, with remote work and online gaming and such, just how much has that helped trans people in giving space to figure things out by being semi-anonymous? The internet is both terrible and great.
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Mar 7, 2018 01:43
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Avenging_Mikon posted:
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Avenging_Mikon posted:And that got me thinking, with remote work and online gaming and such, just how much has that helped trans people in giving space to figure things out by being semi-anonymous? The internet is both terrible and great. This is definitely a common thing with a lot of transpeeps I know. You're absolutely not alone there.
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Forer posted:This is definitely a common thing with a lot of transpeeps I know. You're absolutely not alone there. The morag tong lady assassin Hikari Blackhands can attest to this (god I'm such a dork)
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Mar 7, 2018 02:36
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i picked lady characters since childhood and role played as a lady once or twice its p common
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Mar 7, 2018 13:06
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I always roleplayed as a super androgynous bard character. vidya games are 50/50, my main in WoW was a buff night elf dude. always go for femshep. male boss in saints row. depends on how badly sexualized the female characters are I guess. idk if I'd call myself genderqueer or w/e but I don't think I feel gender dysphoria the same was as a lot of girls. there are lots of days where gender doesn't bother me, some days I actually like dressing like a sharp male. but I'd still rather not have a peenor, or be legally male
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Mar 7, 2018 14:44
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Forer posted:This is definitely a common thing with a lot of transpeeps I know. You're absolutely not alone there. Thank you both, that really helped. I promise I’m not crying right now.
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gently caress. I just had someone inadvertently outed to me today, and I feel horrible. Super nice lady stopped by to have me reset some equipment bequeathed to her by the person previously in the position. While doing that, found out they didn't have access to a system yet. Looking in to it, we hadn't gotten an email with their name in it yet with the information we needed to make the account. Turns out she had it, so I put in the request. Curious about why the mix-up, I reverse search the information and find out it's tied to a different name that we'd never been informed of. I'm trying to subtly raise this with my supervisor so that something like this doesn't happen again. Phrasing it as missing people who give us a different preferred name as opposed to legal name. I might have to go directly to HR though.
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Avenging_Mikon posted:I'm trying to subtly raise this with my supervisor so that something like this doesn't happen again. Phrasing it as missing people who give us a different preferred name as opposed to legal name. I might have to go directly to HR though. be prepared to have to push the right thing through your department regardless because hr will probably care more about legal compliance than doing right by your fellow workers
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If my department does push-back, I already have my bomb for HR ready to go to force compliance. Being in Canada and a post-secondary institution gives some leverage.
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Avenging_Mikon posted:If my department does push-back, I already have my bomb for HR ready to go to force compliance. Being in Canada and a post-secondary institution gives some leverage. oh hell yeah
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speaking of work, aclu just won against an org that fired a worker for coming out as trans: https://twitter.com/aclu/status/971472463044497409?s=21
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evil_bunnY posted:speaking of work, aclu just won against an org that fired a worker for coming out as trans: this will just make companies fire trans people for unrelated reasons or no reasons at all, and just refuse to hire trans people at all this isnt enough
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i dont know how to solve the problem of companies just lying about the truth tho
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Pollyanna posted:this will just make companies fire trans people for unrelated reasons or no reasons at all, and just refuse to hire trans people at all it is nowhere near enough but there is a pretty massive difference between employers having to make up an excuse and it being legally acceptable to just straight out fire someone for their gender identity. at the very least this will make HR departments more vigilant and probably will end up costing some bigots that couldn't even manage to fake an excuse a lot of money.
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Pollyanna posted:this will just make companies fire trans people for unrelated reasons or no reasons at all, and just refuse to hire trans people at all the aclu is a civil liberties organization. why do you want them to fix every single problem rather than just the ones that their members have trained specifically to address? e Pollyanna posted:i dont know how to solve the problem of companies just lying about the truth tho the answer to this is labor protections that prevent abrupt firings entirely or guarantee full compensation for people who are fired, but it's a different department of law from the aclu and if it ever does exist it'll need to exist alongside specific protections for minorities too Venuz Patrol fucked around with this message at 01:36 on Mar 8, 2018 |
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Venuz Patrol posted:the answer to this is labor protections that prevent abrupt firings entirely or guarantee full compensation for people who are fired, but it's a different department of law from the aclu and if it ever does exist it'll need to exist alongside specific protections for minorities too No, if you are abruptly fired or discriminated against because of who you are it is pretty squarely a civil rights case. The point is to reduce the attack surface, so that if someone wants to fire you because they hate your orientation or skin color or gender identity, they now need to do a lot more work to fabricate an excuse (along with a paper trail) and face a much higher risk of a lawsuit if the lie comes out. All this is of course predicated on law enforcement authorities giving people's complaints equal scrutiny instead of tossing all LGBTQI+ complaints directly into the trash. There probably would not be a need for wording like "specific protections for minorities" if already existing laws were not applied selectively. PS. hello thread, I am a cishet white male who has probably only experienced discrimination in a "foreigner in japan" sense. During the last year - thanks to sources of information like this thread - I have come to realise both how incomplete and wrong my view of things is. Thank you.
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lol, i have a numb area on my underboob. numb as in "novocaine". it's weird as gently caress. supposedly it will either resolve with a bunch of insane shooty pains going through it for months or just stay that way. i can straight up prick it with a pin and nothing. so, like, watch out for that if ya getting boobs
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Mar 13, 2018 06:36
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Yeah, nerves going dead and doing weird stuff. A whole chunk of my back was kind of numb then as it all got hooked back up weeks after the surgery its uuuuugh pins and needles
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half my knee is still completely numb after i sliced it open as a kid, at least i didn't get any weird shooting pains though i guess 
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cis autodrag posted:lol, i have a numb area on my underboob. numb as in "novocaine". it's weird as gently caress. supposedly it will either resolve with a bunch of insane shooty pains going through it for months or just stay that way. i can straight up prick it with a pin and nothing. Sounds like you have a fun party trick, currently.
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Mar 13, 2018 15:32
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weed job interview went well
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Improbable Lobster posted:weed job interview went well Congrats!
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Avenging_Mikon posted:Sounds like you have a fun party trick, currently. Lol, like I go to parties.
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cis autodrag posted:Congrats! thanks second round of interviews isn't until april so fingers crossed. seems pretty simple though, i've worked for the lcbo a lot and the ocrc seems like it's going to be very similar
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Mar 13, 2018 21:37
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here's a question for trans folks itt: is testosterone/estrogen something you keep taking for the rest of your life or does your body eventually figure things out? i assume the former. the guy i mentioned dating a while back started the process of getting on testosterone and it sorta got me thinking
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Improbable Lobster posted:here's a question for trans folks itt: is testosterone/estrogen something you keep taking for the rest of your life or does your body eventually figure things out? i assume the former. the guy i mentioned dating a while back started the process of getting on testosterone and it sorta got me thinking It's forever. Trans women get to stop Spiro and other t blockers after surgery, but you need the hormones forever or you start losing some of your changes (and also your bones will get brittle without some type of sex hormones).
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even if you don't get surgery, after taking the hormones long enough you generally need em' forever because your body eventually figures out "oh maybe i should stop some of these secretions" not all the secretions unfortunately, but enough of them to gently caress you up if you don't keep taking meds 
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ate all the Oreos posted:even if you don't get surgery, after taking the hormones long enough you generally need em' forever because your body eventually figures out "oh maybe i should stop some of these secretions" Yeah. If you go off for years you might get back to your old levels but you're going to look like your dead self again and have brittle bird bones.
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Mar 14, 2018 01:28
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Improbable Lobster posted:bones are important Bones are the foundation of calcium
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Improbable Lobster posted:bones are important I disagree. I always get boneless chicken for instance. First appointment with a gender issues specific therapist on Thursday. Kinda nervous.
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Improbable Lobster posted:thanks is it april 20th by any chance?
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Mar 14, 2018 08:46
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seems like a good day for a weed interview is all im sayin
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Progressive JPEG posted:seems like a good day for a weed interview is all im sayin alternatively: every day
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