iscorichieJul 4, 2023
Jocelynephiliac 

Just saw a really shit cis take, so I’m just gonna say this plain.

Blocking access to cross-sex hormone treatments is trans genocide. Full stop.

It is as surely genocide as blocking access to thyroid medication, heart medication, or diabetes medication.

“You’ll live, it’ll just be harder” is such a colossally tone deaf response that it produces an inverse waveform that nullifies everything you say after it.

Jul 3, 2023 at 9:24pmWeb
Show threadJennifer Kayla | Theogrin 🦊Jul 3, 2023

@twipped

"You can live without it" is a phrase which, honestly, does not compute. Ever. Okay, you can live without all those things that give life meaning, you can live without television or (for most) internet access, you can live without music, you can live without books or games or jigsaw puzzles or pets. You can live without sex, you can live without anyone calling you by the name you know is yours, you can live without touch or attention or love.

For a certain value of 'living'.

Show threadRuth O’DayJul 3, 2023

@theogrin @twipped

The cis phrase “You’ll live, it’ll just be harder” is translated by the trans phrase “You’ll exist, it’ll just be a charade.”

Show threadSventheslothJul 4, 2023
@theogrin @twipped just replace living with existing. living implys some sort of live existence with meaning once all those things are removed, it's less living, and more just existing. Or atlest thats how i see it
Show threadchicatingOct 30, 2023
@theogrin @twipped Never thought about it quite that way, but not living as your full self would seem like not real life.
Does maybe make me think many of my cisgender sisters and brothers(Maybe myself included) have tried to become used to living at less than full throttle? Even think of it as--beware this thought- normal in some way?
Show threadJennifer Kayla | Theogrin 🦊Oct 30, 2023

@chicating @twipped

Disassociation and depersonalization are certainly not unique to trans folks, and are exceedingly commonplace amongst ... well, a lot of folks these days. Whether that be from exhaustion, stress, lack of money, abuse, all of the above and more...

It becomes so hard to be ourselves in full that we gradually acclimatize to it and think of it as 'normal', because trying is frightening and even more stressful and requires energy we oftentimes don't have.

Show threadchicatingOct 30, 2023
@theogrin @twipped I'm not trans, but as a person on disability, this made me think that maybe I don't even know what my absolutely unchecked self is like, much less if I'm really living it or not.("Living life to the fullest" is kind of on my mind right now. Not sure what that means for me, either)
Show threadchicatingOct 30, 2023
@theogrin And, seriously, very little that's good for people, especially we atypical people, comes out of thoughts with "normal" attached. Even though we're all taught to look for it.
Show threadDiabetic HeihachiJul 3, 2023

@twipped
My Gramma had to get her thyroid desiccant compounded illegally, she would have passed in her 70s if she didn't, the big pharma meds offered to replace it didn't work for her.

Yee, that take is Steven Seagal levels of shitty.

Show threadKikoKateJul 4, 2023
@twipped This. THIS! T. H. I. S!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Show threadFinley ⓋJul 4, 2023
@twipped I mean even if they're correct, isn't making trans lives harder enough reason to oppose HRT bans? Like they're basically saying "I don't really care unless it's a full-on genocide."
Show threadJocelynephiliac Jul 4, 2023
@finley no, what they’re saying is “I don’t believe you when you say this is life saving medicine”
Show threadSedunkerJul 14, 2023

@twipped I haven’t come across this sentiment personally, but I wonder how many of the people expressing it are on, for example, antidepressants, anti-anxiety drugs or ADHD medications.

You can live without those too, eh?