a friend of mine is a truck driver and today he was training a new hire, who he described as "an old redneck dude". he said it was going alright until the old dude said "you know about them transgender folks?"
... uh oh
"yeah I'm thinking if them transgender folks can get such nice beards with testosterone maybe i should see if i can get it too, maybe finally get a nice beard growing in here..."
everything turned out better than expected!
gender affirming care for everyone!
@tarajdactyl We readily accept cis-gender affirming care, breast implants, plastic surgery, liposuction, and other “body” enhancements. We even accept “age altering” care (I can’t call it affirming). If we are going to ban gender affirming care because it doesn’t reflect the biological sex at birth then I think we should ban surgery that changes the nose, the breasts, the lips and butt you were born with and anything that alters the natural aging process.
I am stepping off my soap box now.
@tarajdactyl I was trying to hitch a ride the other day from a trucker and I was super nervous because I had a rainbow pride lanyard around my neck. The dude pulled up and said I could hop a board to get a ride to the end of the street and I took him up on it.
Because the trailer said Old Dominion I just assumed that he was some kind of christofash trash but was quite surprised when he complimented me on my beard. It's nice to have a man compliment another man on facial hair and I must have been blushing. 😅⚓🔱
@sleepylemur for future reference "old dominion" just means he's from northern Virginia 😁
(at least that company is based there. used to see a lot of those trucks when i lived near DC)
@tarajdactyl @sleepylemur These days, it just means he's a company employee.
Old Dominion (ODFL) is an enormous multinational freight company from Virginia, publicly listed on NASDAQ, part of the S&P 500, with 23k employees worldwide and ~$4B/yr global revenues.
@tarajdactyl I LOVE this.
I’m transmasc and you’d be surprised how many men I’m friends with have decided to give T a try because they saw it made such a big difference in my mental health and they started wondering if there’s was low because some of their depression sounded like a much less severe form of my dysphoria
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