I know I’ve been over this but man HRT is good stuff. I wanna shake the hand of whoever invented it. It’s a crime that I don’t know who that is actually. They’re more important than Einstein
id also been really curious about the history of hrt so i had some tabs open:
The first hrt treatments were mostly estrogen extracted during pregnancies to be used for menopause symptoms, but the first usage of those medicines for trans women is credited to the world’s first Trans Clinic, opened in pre-WW2 Germany by Magnus Hirschfield, a gay jewish man.
Oh he looks delightful
Thank you grandpa
The comparasion to Einstein was actually made at the time too! He was commonly refered to as “the Einstein of sex”, to which he supposedly once replied that he would rather Einstein be called “the Hirschfeld of physics” lmao
Oh my god
He was also gay himself. He is our most academically esteemed queer elder.
Insurance is stupid we should have free healthcare but since we don’t I think insurance should have family plans with no age limit, like if you’re paying for a family of 5 your children shouldn’t get cut off at 25, if you are the person buying insurance you should be able to put your parents on it, you should be able to pay for insurance family plan for 2 and give insurance to your friend without having to just pay for insurance twice
other people have said this but elon musk might actually be the dumbest person alive for thinking it’s a good idea to limit views on a website that makes money through advertising
a bunch of ppl who run websites have pointed out that the first thing that platforms/hosts will do if u don’t pay your bills is to rate limit you, the limiting views thing is just elon’s PR copefest in my opinion
The Mad Max franchise absolutely crushes it when it comes to naming characters, honestly. Like nothing I ever come up with will come close to Rictus Erectus or The Lord Humongous or The Splendid Angharad
Tbh one of my favorite parts of Fury Road is when Furiosa meets up with her tribe and they confirm that her mom did in fact name her Furiosa when she was born. I like to imagine she has a really prosaic middle name, like her full name is Furiosa Marybeth Jobassa.
excuse me, this is Toast the Knowing erasure
All the more hilarious that the titular character is just Max.
Well to be fair his last name is Rockatanski
Replacing every instance of the name Max with the name Rockatanski is a huge improvement.
Petition to make George Miller release the Rockatanski Cuts
Digitally remastered with Mel Gibson’s face replaced by Popeye to closer match Miller’s original artistic vision.
saw a post the other day that said that psych survivors were overexaggerating and fearmongering for saying that people should be aware that having diagnoses on your record can be a danger + impede your life. and the more i think about it the more annoyed i am. because i think people need to know that there are exceptions to health privacy laws that can make having psych diagnoses and psych hospitalization history on your record risky depending on your circumstances. diagnoses follow you through your health interactions-you do not have to consent to have your information shared between providers. judicial proceedings are also an exception to the HIPAA privacy rule, so for things like custody battles, guardianship, getting orders of protection–the court can petition for medical records. there’s so many other situations where even if they can’t legally access your information without your authorization, people will require you to disclose diagnoses, records, previous hospitalizations and refuse to give you services/hire you/whatever unless you share that information with them. for example in many states anyone (a provider, a cop, friends and family) can disclose that you have certain psych diagnoses like bipolar to the DMV which then might require that you undergo drivers license review as frequently as every 3 months. my university is actively trying to kick me out right now because i had to disclose my medical record, psych diagnoses, and hospitalization history to them as a requirement to stay enrolled.
and i don’t want to scare people or make people think that having a diagnosis on their records is automatically going to mean that it is weaponized against us. because i do know plenty of people who have never faced issues with their records. but i do expect that the community supports the people speaking out about the ways that we have been harmed by diagnoses creating barriers to accessing necessary parts of our life. instead of attacking us or saying that we’re lying about things we are currently experiencing.
in my brain theres a pettiness scale that measures my actions before taking them where “this is petty, i shouldnt do this” is on one side and the other is “this is the equivalent of shooting a rock you tripped on with a hand gun” and that means i have to do it
