yeah, it does seem like this will be a way to obstruct trans people escaping the country 😬

sexual excitement feels like electricity coursing through the middle of my body now in ways that never happened before HRT

it also significantly improved depression, anxiety, and suicidal ideation

omg this looks amazing!

This doesn’t even really belong here but I can’t think of a place it does and I feel compelled to tell the story.

I think this clearly belongs here, it’s a common trans experience to feel these things. I feel them too, and I’ve had similar dreams before. All I can say is that you are not alone.

Also, and maybe this is the wrong thing to say, but I personally find it adaptive to feel peace with dying even if it’s because I suffer so much in my life. Obviously there is something dysfunctional there, but this attitude has been adaptive during major life-threatening physical traumas I have experienced, and so there is a weird silver lining there.

Anyway, I hope you are able to comfort yourself and find a way to feel safe and happy - however you are able to.

I mean, it’s not unreasonable - my local Planned Parenthood was burned down by arsonists

yes, clear clickbait

From the fires in LA, not from arson, just to be clear, lol

oh man, that sounds like so much work 😅

I hope the project goes well and your back is OK afterwards, lol

Definitely looking forward to seeing whatever you make, but esp. if you decide to make enchiladas too! 👀

thank you, it turned out really well. I make the beans, red sauce, and cheese sauce from scratch which I think helps.

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me when I see a woman:

The only intent I derive from the photo is that he’s trying to get her attention. Do you think the photo provides sufficient context to say he’s trying to get her attention?

you think you can trick me that easily? well you did, I had to upload a photo 😠

sorry, I’m not following - I don’t think I derived much from the picture, other than maybe that it’s a man reaching to touch a woman to grab her attention. Beyond that there is the understanding / interpretation of the man as being a particular man, i.e. Olaf Scholz, and likewise that the woman is Annalena Baerbock, but that context is provided by the title more than the photo.

The norms about when it is acceptable to touch people, the way gender alters those dynamics, and so on doesn’t derive from the photo at all, it’s the other way around - interpretation being applied to the photo.

So are you saying I assume too much, that I am lacking context to muse about gender norms like this, or something else?

Not sure I need you to keep copying the comments in both places, but to respond here as well, yes - I agree.

Yes, completely agree.

Right, I am not super familiar but I know LW and Beehaw Hexbear don’t talk (not sure who defederated from whom or why), but in that case Blahaj and LW are the same in relation to Beehaw Hexbear.

Sorry, I’m just not sure what you mean by this or what it has to do with my comment.

Sorry can you say more? I am not connecting the dots between my comment and yours. I am only trying to answer blackn1ght’s question about what the ideological differences were between 196 mods and the Blahaj admins.

I don’t think this is about defederation …

But to answer your question, I know Beehaw Hexbear defederated from Blahaj. I can’t remember all the reasons, I think Blahaj was considering defederating from them, and they defederated from Blahaj first, claiming Blahaj users were disrupting them (similar claims were being made about Beehaw Hexbear users on Blahaj).

I think Blahaj defederates from other instances, usually because those instances don’t moderate or remove transphobic and queerphobic content. I don’t know of any other cases where an instance defederated from Blahaj other than Beehaw Hexbear, though.