It’s a hoverfly. They’re bee mimics

I worked with a supportive group of folk, and I told them that I’ll be voice training, and that I’ll sound ridiculous for a while, and that I’m super self conscious about it, and so whilst we’re all good to stir each other a bit as we have always done, I asked them to not use my voice as a target.

They were cool with that, and so I was able to just train it by using it every day.

Ultimately, I ended up getting VFS too, but my training before that was still helpful, because vocal surgery is a way of getting more for less with your training, more than a way of avoiding training altogether.

It’s transphobia. The Harry Benjamin standards of care gatekept trans folk from medical transition unless they were able to cis pass, and were willing to leave their lives behind and start again. Basically, the only trans people they wanted were trans people that they could pretend don’t exist.

And the whole presentation thing was part of their assessment. People who didn’t jump through their hoops were denied care.

That’s from the 70s and 80s.

This is the lingering after effects of those standards of care, hurting gender diverse folk decades later…

Yep, Iguazú. I likely felt it because my Spanish is not great, so even though I could make myself understood by Argentinians, the poor Brasilians stood no chance as I murdered Spanish in an attempt to communicate :)

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I speak a little Spanish, but no Portuguese, and my time in Brazil right near the border with two Spanish speaking countries was a challenge, because most folks there didn’t speak Spanish despite the location.

Some folks do of course, but most people I encountered didn’t have any Spanish

I have zero idea how representative that is of other borders

Forgot what it’s called

Penis. It’s called a penis

carrying a bulky Z fold phone in my pocket only to be able to have a tablet once in a while and watch a movie is not interesting enough.

It suits my needs perfectly though! You can take my folding phone out of my cold dead hands

Until some folks can’t afford to cleanse their genes and are denied the right to have children for “safety reasons” and suddenly, fertility and genetics are under state control.

It’s not hard.

If you meet a trans woman, treat her as you would any other woman and don’t ask invasive personal questions.

If you don’t know someone’s pronouns, then don’t assume you do, and use gender neutral terms until either they or one of their friends/colleagues communicates their pronouns.

The whole “walking on eggshells” thing is because there are transphobes out there who deliberately paint us that way. They push and push until they get a reaction, and then use that reaction to push some more. If you’re not doing that, it’ll be ok, even if you fuck up

I can call you Betty And Betty, when you call me. You can call me AI

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Though I’m currently testing out Quiblr, to see how its custom feed works for me.

I was responding to someone who saw no need for Wayland to exist, not advocating for everyone to use it

You should have Undetermined selected and any languages you speak. Or you can just select them all

Your posts are there and visible

My guess would be your language settings aren’t setup correctly. You need to have any languages you speak selected and “Undetermined”

You won’t see any posts tagged with languages you haven’t enabled, and if you don’t enable “Undetermined” you won’t see posts in which people haven’t set a language tag

but it works

For some definitions of “works”

Our biggest cities normally have bus and train. About half of them have some sort of light rail/tram equivalent too. The coverage isn’t completely comprehensive, so it’s possible to find suburbs that don’t have great coverage, but by and large, it’s pretty good. Footpaths and bicycle paths are common too. The cycling infrastructure is often gappy, so you on commutes etc, you can find yourself navigating spaces without dedicated cycling infrastructure, but generally, you can get a good portion of a cycle commute on dedicated bike spaces. The only roads without a pedestrian corridor of some sort are generally major highways

In our smaller and medium cities, the trains are normally inter city, not local, so they’re not so much use as public transport, but there are generally buses, though with less coverage. Good pedestrian infrastructure even in smaller cities though. It’s harder to survive in smaller cities without a car, but possible.

Once you get out of smaller cities and in to towns and villages though, it gets harder again.

Australian manages pretty good urban public transport, with a much lower density than the US

(Our rural public transport effectively doesn’t exist though)

It’s not a matter of “fixing” so much as things moving around. After bottom surgery, the vaginal canal sits between the prostate and the anal canal, so sensation to the prostate is reduced with anal sex. However, the prostate ends up sitting approximately where the “g spot” is in AFAB folk, and so is more easily accessed via the vaginal canal

It’s not so much AMAB/AFAB as vaginal canal vs no vaginal canal. A person with a prostate and a vaginal canal doesn’t get as much pressure on the prostate from anal.