If you're cis, I'd like you to read this article and learn that Missouri is about to enact a full ban on transition healthcare for transgender people. The deadline is April 27.

No cisgender person I've shared this with has had any idea that this is a ban, not a regulation - the requirements are impossible to meet.

I would also ask that you share this information with three other cis people today, preferably ones in or near #Missouri .

Thank you. (Update: The ban is temporarily restrained until July 24, with a new hearing about a preliminary injunction on July 20. The ban cannot be implemented until then. But the Missouri GOP is determined to ban youth trans care and sports participation, and keep allowing literal children to get married.) (Update late May: The Missouri legislature ended trans healthcare coverage for ALL minors, all people on Medicaid, and all incarcerated people. This is an absolute disaster - it means that all anyone needs to do to restrict trans healthcare for paying adults is to declare us criminals - but it is at least not a flagrant violation of the lawmaking process like Bailey's "emergency rule" was.)

https://gizmodo.com/missouri-trans-gender-affirming-care-ban-adults-order-1850337858

Emergency Rule Seriously Restricts Trans Health Care For Adults, Minors in Missouri

Via a sweeping emergency rule, the state's Attorney General has made it nearly impossible for trans people in Missouri to receive standard medical treatment.

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@holyramenempire Fragile cis dudes are out here getting their legs extended surgically so they can feel tall and more manly but GOD FORBID I take a pill that makes me hate my body less.
@robotfactory i kinda want leg extensions now so that my torso doesn't feel as big...

@robotfactory @holyramenempire I was just in Las Vegas for work. Goddamn, that place...

So, brief background: One of my friends was talking about "comphet". I'd not heard that term before, so I assumed it was _competitive_ heterosexuality, not _compulsory_ heterosexuality. I've had this brainworm ever since. Big stupid truck? Competitive heterosexuality... Etc...

Back to Las Vegas: I'm watching the most painfully awful cishet people that look miserable to be around, lots of plastic surgery, etc. I come up with a new term: "Competitively cisgender" Compcis is, of course, totally OK and enshrined in law 🙃

@imwillow @holyramenempire "Compcis" also sounds like compensating for something. I like it.

@robotfactory
I wouldn't want to be the pharmacist that has to tell those same fragile cis dudes that they can't fill their prescription anymore for the low dose Estradiol that they use to treat their receding hairline.

@holyramenempire

@mnemonicoverload Wait, is that a thing? Not just, like finasteride and the like?