Yeah that kid will look back in 15 years and wonder why the fuck his parents didn't try to hold someone accountable. So many people failed to protect this child, he doesn't even realize it.

Okay, i happen to actually have narcolepsy & be gender nc, and have a trans partner, i feel like i can speak with some authority on this.

Gender affirming surgery can be the opposite of health care

Every surgery can be, but gender affirming care is one of the least regretted surgeries in existence. By opening this way, you frame the argument as different for trans healthcare. Its not.

We're also not children. Dont infantilize trans people. We have the same right to make choices others don't understand, just like cis folks can.

And narcolepsy is a chronic inability to get delta wave sleep. Extra sleep is absolutely treatment. I can see what your getting at, but you're choosing examples you don't understand and misinforming people.

Damn right, im slutty with all the genders now

Nobody hates gay women, and that’s why you can say ‘dyke.’

... thats fucking news to me, joe

When my wife was newly transitioned, we were out in a big box store and she remarks, exasperated, "everyone is just stopping in my way or way invading my personal space today! Wtf!"

Nope, thats just how people treat women in public lol.

You never needed to earn being yourself via suffering, no one owes that to anyone, but I have witnessed personally just how authentically the public mistreats all femme people.

Exactly.

My wife, AMAB, had gynecomastia- she grew breasts during puberty, and they were removed in what started as a LOCALIZED ANESTHETIC operation, and when the pain was too much she was put under.

She started hormones years later and fortunately grew breast tissue again, but why did someone cut her up like that in the first place, huh?

Where was her protection?

Oh right, its fine to force surgery on kids if its cis gender affirmation, but can't allow them to make any other decisions.

he has “taken to using violence against other inmates to relieve his frustrations with his self-inflicted predicament.”

Oh yes

I appreciate you. I had a good lawyer take up my wrongful termination case, back when i was idealistic.

He knew i was right, but on paper they skirted the law. He put in the work to get me unemployment & keep me housed, and he never even billed me.

Thank you for trying. I know its hard.

A good steak pun is a rare medium done well.

Framed as well meaning, oh-honey advice from older women, I've heard that or some shade of it at least 100 times since around 8yo, I don't think it's rare, unfortunately.

It went hand it hand with "the bellies that show are the first to swell", which my store manager said to me at 17yo, the comments that other girls should keep their boyfriends (my friends) away from me, all the weird punishing ingrained misogyny bullshit women do to each other in US gender culture.

As soon as I got secondary sex characteristics, I started getting in trouble for just, like, existing

Also any job one might be passionate about pays the bare minimum it can, because not hating your job is basically a rare perk now.

Absolute bullshit.

I'm nonbinary, married to a trans woman. Every time I lean into my more masc presenting side, part of me is sad that we don't appear MORE queer, and part of me wonders if I'm subconsciously wanting to pass as a straight couple. Isn't identity a fuckin trip?

The way I see it, people have been putting us in boxes our whole lives.

Straight afab didn't fit me, bisexual kinda does, lesbian was better, now trans nonbinary omnisexual is me, lol.

Language is imperfect. All we can do is use that imperfect language to tell each other about our real selves, and anyone giving you shit for that is really missing the point... We're queer because we looked at our assigned boxes and said "nope" 💜