A shout out to trans Twitter. A new teen NB patient the other day, hearing their new Dr use terms like ‘deadname’, ‘pass’, ‘enby’, and noting ‘they/them’ as their pronouns (not ‘preferred’), & watching them relax, and smile, is all because of you..
I publicly came out as trans right when I turned 40. I had been quietly on HRT for several years before that & would shave my face everyday to avoid coming out. It wasn’t an easy thing for me to do.
I didn’t want to be trans. I was full of internalized transphobia. I tried everything under the sun for it not to be true. No, I wasn’t trans. No way. Not me.
Then I turned 40 and threw the doors wide open to my own personal trans liberation. Best decision ever.
Transphobes think this is just something we wake up and decide to be one day. Nothing could be further from the truth for a lot of us. We struggle, we deny, we wrestle with it. Until one day, I just couldn’t deny that I was simply transgender 🏳️⚧️
Watching #Eurovision from Australia, and our jaws all dropped watching Nemo. What musical talent. What a beautiful message. My vote is 12 points to Switzerland!! #Nemo#eurovision2024
Watching #Eurovision from Australia, and our jaws all dropped watching Nemo. What musical talent. What a beautiful message. My vote is 12 points to Switzerland!! #Nemo#eurovision2024
A thread about our depraved healthcare system, and a plea.
In 2021, my friend Carole was diagnosed with terminal stage four cancer. A single parent with two kids, she had just turned 43. In 2017, she had watched her brother Chris die of the same cancer. He too was in his 40s.
"Cis" refers to gender identity, not sexual orientation, which means it's entirely unrelated to whether or not someone is heterosexual. So, even your attempt to falsely frame it as a slur is a few degrees removed from logic.
Apparently the next big ticket item on the conservative’s new political darling, Jacinta Price’s agenda is going to be involving trans children’s rights.
She’s gunning for them (and most likely, me) already.
The referendum in Australia was fundamentally flawed. Asking colonizers to voluntarily share power is inherently problematic. They knowingly, or unknowingly, acknowledge that they are on stolen land. #auspol
Fucking horrifying. We aren't the lucky country, we aren't friendly. We're a pack of easily manipulated ignorant dickheads who'd rather listen to xenophobes and bigots than the world's oldest, and proudest continuous culture. I am bitterly ashamed of my country.
#Referendum2023