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Kemp signs bill banning gender-affirming care for transgender inmates

Let me make this gravely clear: if the state can just decide to legally mandate forced detransition upon trans people, the message that is sending is that a person's continued existence as a transitioned person is conditional. I shouldn't have to tell you how chilling it is to set a precedent that transition can just be revoked by the state.

This is like stripping diabetic people of insulin, or schizophrenic people of antipsychotics (both of which are allowed in prison btw). The media's reporting of this also colossally fails to mention anything about the devastating effects people suffer when forcibly cut off from HRT because of these cruel, heartless politicians. The alarm needed to be sounded yesterday.

And this is in addition to the inhumane treatment of trans women in prison in general (because of course they will be forced into men's prisons because of these cretins). Read up on v-coding for some info on that.

I want you to read these stories from post-op trans women who have experienced involuntary removal of HRT, in response to the question of whether one would suffer debilitating health problems. And keep in mind this will be orders of magnitude worse in male prisons. Sourced from this Reddit thread.

QuoteYou end up with osteoporosis. Your bones dissolve and break. I had the orchi in 1990. I was on HRT for 3yrs and my doc moved to Florida and my shrink moved to California. I spent the next 10yrs fighting through gatekeepers trying to find anyone who would help. I was denied help by the University of Minnesota and Sanford Hospitals. I found help occasionally in the private sector but in the end, had a 63% bone density and shattered my elbow from a simple fall. It still doesn't work right. I was put on HRT and Reclast. You will have hot flashes for quite some time. You will not die though you may wish you had. 

QuoteIt is true. Die is a bit extreme. But the body needs hormones to function. Without gonads, post-op people do not produce their own hormones, so they need to get them from medicine.

Many cis women suffer through/after menopause. But there is no need to, we have the technology. My 72 year old mom takes estrogen.

QuoteWhile yes they get menopause like symptoms, it's actually worse than that. A cis person will still produce some hormones from their gonads which can at least help stave off bone loss and other symptoms. Post op folks have such low natural hormones that once you remove their medication, they'll fairly rapidly lose bone density. This has happened before to a trans woman in prison. All it took was five years before a simple fall was enough to break her hip when she was in her thirties. Without hormones the bones don't heal well and such an injury is very life threatening which is why so many people scream not to take an hormone blocker unless you supplement with the other hormone.

QuoteMenopause symptoms, including low bone density? Yeah. That happens when someone's sex hormones go poof.

Dying from it? Well, it's complicated... We know that doing HRT soon after menopause in cis women lowers all-cause mortality by making heart attacks (and other bad things) less likely. From that we can reasonably infer that running out of them hormones is not nice to the heart, and it would be really not-nice to force someone into menopause. She will be more likely to die earlier, but you can't quite pin that solely on stopping HRT.

It's pretty curel stuff.

QuoteYes you could.

Your body needs at least enough of one sex hormone to function. It's mainly bad for your bones but it can also affect brain and kidney function and yes over long periods of time could lead to death.

QuoteMenopause, osteoporosis, and a long drawn out disability that could be permanent in a bad case of it. If you're lucky you'll have a very drawn out and likely painful death. Not good but marginally better than living in constant pain and breaking bones easily.

This is the kind of stuff I'm trying my best to spread to anyone who still thinks republicans have some baseline of humanity toward trans people, that their goals with regards to treatment of trans people are reasonable or measured in any way. The complicit mainstream media are going to continue framing trans people's human rights as a "debate" where there is any "side" that is valid to take besides "don't fucking torture and cripple people". At this point it's not "debating talking points", it's pleading for our humanity to be recognized.

I've used ChatGPT like half-a-dozen times (not sure that needs hyphens but Lisna will correct me in due course) and one thing I've noticed is that AI is very impersonal. It will never say what it itself thinks. It never uses the first person singular.

I personally like using the first person singular on regular occasions, especially when I wish to give my subjective opinion. But I do rein it in, otherwise most of my posts would be "me me me". So a balance has to be struck.

Listening to this young London band for a few years. I don't really know anymore if it's jazz funk, frisky lounge jazz, or high-end backing track material. But it's bloody good.

Golden Mean - "Rinse and Repeat" (2021)

There's a lot of people out there whose brains are completely broken without being part of any larger movement like NOI, so I don't find it odd that Ye was able to find some black dudes to chant brain-broken Nazi shit. There's significant neo-Nazi movements in Slavic nations among people whose ancestors were being fed into ovens. Some Hindu nationalists roll Nazism into their worldviews. It's all over. Fascism is inherently irrational, so when you see anyone hollering "heil Hitler" you can bank on the the thought process that led them to that moment not making a lot of rational or coherent sense.

Love how the CCs on the YouTube video say "Heat Heat" during the chorus. Not sure that's accurate lol

Quote from: velocity on May 08, 2025, 02:24 PMThis is a complex and sensitive topic, often sparking strong opinions from various sides of the debate. The discussion about transgender individuals in sports and in gender-specific spaces like prisons is deeply tied to questions of fairness, safety, and inclusion.

Some argue that biological differences between men and women, particularly in terms of strength and endurance, give an unfair advantage in certain sports. Others emphasize the importance of inclusivity and the rights of transgender people to participate in activities aligned with their gender identity, including sports. This often leads to differing views on how to balance those two factors—fairness in competition and inclusivity for transgender individuals.

It's clear that this issue is evolving, with new policies and discussions shaping the landscape of both sports and societal norms.

Imagine saying so much and absolutely nothing at the same time

Quote from: DJChameleon on May 08, 2025, 09:45 PMYou know what's funny about this? I saw a video last week where this girl interviewed a neighbor next to this warehouse where they filmed this and he thought Kanye was in a secret cult because he would hear the chanting but in reality they were filming this video lol.

Also, at this point, if there's anything Kanye keeps secret, I'm not sure I wanna know about it.

Quote from: jimmy jazz on May 08, 2025, 10:30 AMSong is now out with music video.

https://x.com/kanyewest/status/1920387087049572704

He's actually sampled Adolf Hitler.

You know what's funny about this? I saw a video last week where this girl interviewed a neighbor next to this warehouse where they filmed this and he thought Kanye was in a secret cult because he would hear the chanting but in reality they were filming this video lol.

Quote from: Trollheart on May 08, 2025, 08:19 PMThe new pope is American for the first time in history. Don't you know Trump is gonna crow over this one? 


News Alert: The new pope is Cardinal Robert Prevost


The new pope is revealed as Robert Prevost of the US, the first American pontiff in history.

Chicago got a pope before they got a 4000 yd passer for the Bears. Just shameful.