So, let’s keep it simple to start.

How have you been? Where are you in your journey?

I’ve been on an emotional rollercoaster of sorts for a while but we won’t get into that.

I’ve just hit 6mo on HRT and last week I learned…

drumroll please

I finally love myself! Something that has taken me 30 years to learn to do. And that final piece of the puzzle was to embrace myself as Olivia ❤️

So, how have you been? What’s on your mind?

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  • Ginny [they/she]English
    18·
    5 months ago

    England is currently having a bunch of race riots while simultaneously throwing a shit fit over two women’s boxers who aren’t even trans, so I’m not feeling great about that.

    • dandelionEnglish
      6·
      5 months ago

      I was just reading that the riots were started by misinformation campaigns on the internet, claiming the attack was by a Muslim immigrant. Sorry that insanity is going on - I hope you are able to stay safe.

      EDIT:

      I had to look up the controversy about the boxers, here’s what I found:

      https://www.npr.org/2024/08/02/nx-s1-5061280/olympic-womens-boxing-gender-imane-khelif-lin-yuting

      tl;dr it looks like the International Boxing Association (IBA) tested and claimed these two women boxers have XY chromosomes, which was disqualifying at the time; but now the International Olympics Committee (IOC) oversees Olympic boxing events and the two women qualify under the IOC rules to compete.

      Conservatives and other right-wing political actors are raising objections to these two women being allowed to compete, claiming they are men. (Most likely these boxers are women with “disorders of sexual development”.)

      • Ginny [they/she]English
        11·
        5 months ago

        Just to add on to your TL;DR (not that any of it is wrong)

        The boxers had been competing and passing all eligibility requirements for years until suddenly last year, a few days after Khelif defeated a Russian boxer, the Russian-run IBA announced they had failed sex eligibility tests. Also they refuse to go into specifics about what tests were run and what the results were.

        • dandelionEnglish
          5·
          5 months ago

          Yeah, reading more last night it looks like the IBA was corrupt:

          Khelif and Lin came under scrutiny last week after Khelif’s first victory, when it emerged that they had both been disqualified from the 2023 women’s world championships for supposedly failing unspecified sex eligibility tests.

          Those championships were run by the Russian-led International Boxing Association (IBA), which no longer governs Olympic boxing. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) withdrew its recognition of the body in June 2023 over concerns about its governance, finances and ethics

          source: https://www.npr.org/2024/08/05/nx-s1-5064358/olympics-womens-boxing-imane-khelif-lin-yu-ting