no newspaper in this country wants to cover a story about the ways that media charlatans like themselves have forced a young man to react to their discussions of "the transgender question" as a serious threat to his own future with a woman he loves.

the straights are not ok includes women

I'd sure die trying

the thing that makes all of the "oh [she] isn't really trans" in silence of the lambs just lip service is that textually Lecter denies her care like this. All this "UWU you shouldn't push people to start hrt" shit is such a nothing problem. They're -still- doing the opposite

Also femme lesbian is still not the thing they are looking for too, which is i think hard for queer folks who haven't had to face this directly to wrap their heads around. Or to be denied care because even though you did all the things, the doctor just thought you would be ugly or whatever

I do also forget that informed consent is mostly a US thing too, that's so fair. I was pretty femme when I got back on HRT in 2017, but my butch friend who had the same endo a few years earlier, even though she had the therapist stuff all covered for years, had to pull teeth to get her to cooperate

yeah like, this was still extremely the case before Informed Consent became as common as it is.

Yeah every time this comes up I feel very old and tired and "do not cite the deep magic to me" about it

Being negatively polarized into being big ass babies who are largely well paid for what they do. If you aren’t one of the ones getting paid, it’s even more confusing tbqf lol. Temporarily embarrassed industry thought leader lol.