minimarRussian parliament bans gender reassignment surgery for trans people
BobI legitimately can’t imagine how awful it must be to be trans in Russia. Well, pretty much anywhere really, now that I think of it. Trans people just can’t catch a break. I feel so bad for them.
Like you said, I think it’s pretty awful in the majority of countries with few exceptions
I imagine this is why many people that might consider it just dont. It’s easier sometimes to just do the expected things at the expense of one’s self.
DreamerOfImprobableDreamsTrue, but there are definitely places where it's much better to be trans than others, and Russia's near the bottom of the pack.
The D QuuuuuillRussia is a tough place to be human
Unless you are a white straight russian man
I’m sure all the teenagers getting drafted to die in Ukraine agree!
MeldrikIt’s also tough being a Slavic Russian, but still worse to be of any other ethnic group in Russia I think.
ilfiNot really, there are no laws prohibiting any ethnicity to work in the government. Ethnic language and culture is allowed and supported in these ethnic regions.
Official Russian sources stated that draft took place mainly in central and western regions. And well, Victoria Maladaeva is stating all this information while living abroad, so I wouldn’t trust her.
Oh cool, so there’s no racism in Russia, then?
such_lettuce7970Here in Ontario is pretty good for me as a trans person, well at least in terms of my being trans. I feel fortunate.
I’m glad you feel comfortable in Ontario. I hope we can keep it that way here.
You and me both, fam. I can’t even imagine how it must be for a trans person to live in the US south - it is just mind-baffling to think of what it must be in other countries that barely even recognize any of those rights or are even outright hostile to the identity.
I can’t speak for every trans person in the South, but for me, it’s pretty fucking awful.
Part of it is my area(lot of old white conservatives). They really don’t give a fuck. I have had to listen to 10 minute rants about gender politics because they want a pink gender reveal cake.
We did multiple cake variations for Valentine’s. All stick figures. We “dared” to put rainbows on a couple of them. We had to get rid of them because people complained about STICK FIGURES
most of russian people doesn’t support lgbt whatsoever
Betty White In HDFound the shitty Ruski.
“Не волнуйся мы в туалете вас поймаем. Мы и в сортире вас замочим.”
Move to lemm.eeUnfortunately they’re right though. The majority of the population is.
The fact that it’s prohibited by law certainly contributes to that though, and actively preventing any attempt to change it is politically popular.
I have no idea what it’s like to have gender dysphoria, but I’d imagine they’d just not come out. But idk how that works, or if they’re willing to get bullied by like every Russian ever.
slstIt can affect everyone differently but not coming out and getting things done can lead to terrible mental health and depression, leading to suicide. Transitionning is the only way we know to supress those symptoms.
That isn’t entirely true. Transitioning is very recent idea. Being trans and transitioning is also intimately tied to pharma capital complex.
Though not this precise point a good text to read : en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Testo_Junkie
oatscoopProbably because those people didn’t have a choice due to the limitations of medicine.
Same as how treatment for depression was “suck it up or abuse drugs” and the treatment for serious trauma was “die”.
Again depression is a modern conception which is a symptom of a society that has erased notions such as melancholia and mourning.
Reference: books.google.co.in/books/…/The_New_Black.html?id=…
The point is that these new ideas pretend that they are all neutral and they have arrived at the truth. In the process the constitue their own subjects who are interpellated in these frames. The people who believe and fall for this new discourses are produced by these new technological and scientific advances. It isn’t a truth waiting to be grasped out there.
The point is that alternative routes of making meaning of these phenonemon have been erased and other alternative pathways are blocked by suggesting that this is it.
The New Black
What happens when we lose someone we love? A death, a separation or the break-up of a relationship are some of the hardest times we have to live through. We may fall into a nightmare of depression, lose the will to live and see no hope for the future. What matters at this crucial point is whether or not we are able to mourn. In this important and groundbreaking book, acclaimed psychoanalyst and writer Darian Leader urges us to look beyond the catch-all concept of depression to explore the deeper, unconscious ways in which we respond to the experience of loss. In so doing, we can loosen the grip it may have upon our lives.
Alienated not only from the products of our labour, but increasingly the original tool of our labour; that is, our bodies. That’s the likely cause of the ideological cart overtaking the materialist horse when it comes to gender. At least, in my opinion.
You put it well. Thank you for that clarification.
Historical_GeneralHow about we decide to do the seensible thing and take advantage of modern medicine??
Yes. Not against modern medicine. While you are at it please also look into the pharma complex which oversells modern medicine.
Of course, but that’s the case for medicine in the US across the board. It’s not so much a problem elsewhere.
Hey, germs are a modern conception, too, so I guess it would be fine if you surgeons stopped washing their hands.
There is no analogical reasoning between germ theory and psychiatry which is relatively weak science.
Being mentally ill sucks anywhere.
At the very best that’s an “all lives matter” kind of comment. But if you’re implying that being trans is mental illness, FO.
eupraxiaIt’s pretty damn great where I am, where I have access to medical and mental care. Just sucks that some think they know what to do with us better than we do.
I really hope some countries will provide asylum, but I doubt that