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I have many issues with hexbear, but transphobia is not one of them. They are explicitly and aggressively trans inclusive

Axe wielding driller reporting for duty

I'd watch that show

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 :)

2 or 3

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.