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Unapologetically trans. Apologetic about the rest. Non-binary trans femme (they/them)
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Starting a "feats of strength" thread so that I can keep track of my lifts. Yeah I log them, but it's satisfying having the video to share.
Reason why she's Princess "Peach" while presiding over the Mushroom Kingdom.
If you're not friends with a few exes, that's reasonable.

If you're not friends with ANY of your exes, that's a red flag in my book.
It’s wild how many people look at me like I’m insane when I tell them I’m still friends with all of my exes. Like, if one relationship type didn’t work with that person, why wouldn’t I want to keep a friendship that does?
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I mean, I'd hope folks would learn to aim well in public bathrooms too.
In fairness, so many romance movies are inadvertently hilarious.
Seems like a skill issue. I just aim well.
I stand to pee, which is actually extremely feminine, since women often claim the first thing they'd do if they had a penis would be to pee standing up.
there's nothing more common among cis women than casual penis envy so when you think about it being a trans woman without bottom dysphoria means i'm a cis woman who got lucky
There's also a lot of people who just *generally* have a lot of bad behavior they need to unlearn. Casual racism, transphobia, homophobia, fatphobia. There's a ton of it in the blue wave that came here a year ago.

It's reasonable to think that the year-later wave will be worse.
I sincerely doubt anyone who remained on Twitter for that long is fully inoculated against fascism.

Like, they might not *be* fash, but they sure as hell are going to have a lot of unexamined tendencies and behaviors they'll have to unlearn.
My friend challenged me 2 months ago to a wrestling match that's finally gonna happen this weekend. She's been hyping it up and talking shit the whole time despite me having 20 lbs on her and actually hitting the gym.

And then you go and post this just in time. She's gonna be so mad. :)
I'd say it's 95% correct at best.

There are certain high-profile people where they're just outright known quantities.

You don't have to wait til JD Vance or Jesse Singal do what they're known for doing *here*, to kick them out.

You can just say, "no, you're not welcome here." Really.
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Listen. If you didn't want to be seen as the Twitter escape pod, you shouldn't have deliberately fostered a community of people so united by their contempt for arbitrary authority and love of absolute free speech that they were willing to abandon a platform they'd been using for 15 years
I love them very much, but I believe you.

Thank you for loaning your car. 💚
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Younger veteran: "How old are you, man?"

Older veteran: “87.”

Younger veteran: “Out here getting arrested, raising hell at 87.”

Older veteran: “It’s just beginning.”

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hey girl are you polonium 210 because you are dangerously unstable and can only come in small amounts
I might bring it up with my PCP at my next physical, but at the same time, it seems like a *lot* of trans women describe period symptoms. Way more than the 2% rate that the general population is intersex.

If there's a higher prevalence of intersex conditions in trans women, that could be of note.
I love your guide, but I'd ask that you reconsider/rewrite 11.11 ("myth" about periods). This post today wasn't about you (it was about Instagram comments), but it is my actual, lived experience.

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I am so tired of cis women denying the lived experience of trans women, and doubly so when it's because they have a poor grasp of their own anatomy and biology.

To wit: trans women CAN get periods. Not all of us do, but it happens, it's real, and honestly, it sucks.
"-phobic" in its sense in English means "repulsed" rather than "fearing," anyway.

We talk about "hydrophobic" substances. These substances do not have fear. They repel water and are repelled by water.

Transphobes are definitely repulsed by us.
It's not something I'm necessarily looking to eliminate, even.

It's a part of my body; it's just wild that people would deny that it's happening and that it's possible!
To be clear, it's not *that* bad.

I push myself very hard at the gym, and there's a palpable difference in what I can lift or how I feel the day after depending on cycle, but I always make it to the gym.

Emotion-wise, I just feel things a bit stronger, it doesn't plunge me into a spiral.
Yeah. The funny thing is that some other trans women don't get them and are envious because it'd be affirming for them.

The grass is always greener, and fortunately I don't get *massive cramps* like some folks I know, but yeah, I could definitely do without!
We've barely studied cis women's bodies enough, that's well known! How the heck should we expect that trans women's bodies and cycles are well-understood?

All I'm asking for is that people believe women, even trans women, when we describe our experiences. Just say, "wow" instead of "no." That's it.
"Oh but how could you have a period? Your hormones don't cycle like a cis woman's!"

Well, what if the hormone cycle doesn't cause the period, but is the *symptom* of the period? What if you're assuming A causes B, but B causes A?

Maybe my hormone levels are changing, but we don't measure that?