Opinion: Trans people have existed for millenniums. New legislation won’t change that https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-trans-people-have-existed-for-millenniums-new-legislation-wont-change/?cu_id=CU%2FoRza8EzClpm09hY5M%2BA%3D%3D

It's a miracle! I wish she'd included citations - many of these were new to me! #HumanRights #biology #transgender

Did you know intersex people are as common as redheads?

Did you also know that infants are often forced into operations just to ensure they conform to society's notion of gender?

Let's learn about Intersex identities this #IntersexAwarenessDay 💛💜💛
https://www.gendergp.com/celebrating-intersex-awareness-day/?MA=23

"Excuse me, your highness, but are you the princess who... um..."

"Who kissed a frog? Yes." the princess said.

"And it turned into a prince?"

"It was a prince all along. My kiss merely revealed it."

"May... may I have a kiss?"

The princess smiled at the servant girl. "Of course."
#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories

I love good news. This, this is good news.

This teenager has developed a way to make your dirty ol' car to become a hybrid EV. Your first 30 (100 ed.) kilometers of travel on electric, for ABOUT FIVE GRAND.

"Burton is a bachelor's student in industrial design and sustainable systems engineering at RMIT University in Melbourne"

The motor is put between the axel and wheel.

A million engineers should buy him dinner, one a a time.

Lets go!

#Climate #Klima #Climat

https://www.dezeen.com/2023/10/09/alexander-burton-revr-electric-car-conversion-kit/

Yikes.

It's not an exaggeration to say that the plastics we make are taking over the world.
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🟧 To date, humans have created around 11 billion metric tons of plastic. This amount surpasses the biomass of ALL animals, both terrestrial and marine, according to a 2020 study published in Nature.

🟪 Currently, about 430 million tons of plastic is produced yearly — significantly more than the weight of ALL human beings combined.

🟧 One-third of this total takes the form of single-use plastics, which humans interact with for seconds or minutes before discarding.

🟪 Most of the plastic we make, 72%, ends up in landfills or the environment. Only 9% of the plastic ever produced has been recycled, and 19% has been incinerated.

🟧 Half of all plastics in existence have been produced in just the last two decades. Production is projected to continue growing at about 5% annually. If current trends continue, humans will have produced 34 billion tons of plastics by 2050 — three times the current total.
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ARTICLE -- "Think your plastic is being recycled? Think again."
https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/10/12/1081129/plastic-recycling-climate-change-microplastics/

#Plastic #Pollution #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange

From @ErinInTheMorn:

Fascists use clickbait headlines to spread misinformation about gender-affirming care.

No, Trans Hormone Therapy Does Not “Increase Heart Disease By 95%” https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/no-trans-hormone-therapy-does-not

#fascism #transphobia

My local pharmacy has a policy that they will only use the name on the insurance as the name on the prescriptions. Months ago, I was picking up my meds, and the woman behind the counter looked at what I was picking up, looked at the meds under my name in the computer, gave me a little smile, lowered her voice a bit, and told me "You know, if you want, I can put a different name in the system for you. I can't change the legal name because of policy, but I can add a chosen name in parenthesis."

Ever since then, she and I have always had a smile for each other, and when she's the person on when I pick up meds, we chat.

I've told the story of that kindness before, but last night something rather special happened. (1/2)

#Trans #Kindness