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@raddagher / raddagher.tumblr.com

i can beat every single scp in a fight || trans rights are human rights! || I BLOCK UNTITLED BLOGS
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I need minors to learn how to lie online again. Your name is Derek, you’re 25 and work in accounting now. Please for your own safety learn how to fucking lie. And if you don’t want to lie, then don’t put your age anywhere. Don’t even say whether you’re a minor or not. It is perfectly easy to avoid adult spaces without signposting that you are doing so because you’re a child.

Stating your age doesn’t protect you this only makes you a target.

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tpwrtrmnky

Posting all of the pills that make you green comics here now, enjoy? I guess?

regret rates

proof

talking points

you problem

owned

modern invention

unethical experiments

typology

think of the children

side effects

facts

making sense

rushing

drawings

research

this rocks

valid

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thesituation

history repeats itself only because conditions don’t change drastically enough to halt the cycle from reoccurring and that’s why studying history gives you an intellectual leg up cause you can raise your hand and be like this happened already guys idk if you remember but this happened☝️we know the answer guys ☝️

and yknow what nobody fucking listens anyways. but at least you’ll know you tried

suuuch a good set of tags thank you

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if TME/TMA were truly useless terms then we wouldnt have a phrase as funny as "TMA bugs bunny"

for the record i am never not thinking about her

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deadryn

I drew TMA Mickey Mouse a few weeks ago and I feel like I captured the existential anguish of being publicly transfem

HEY WHAT THE FUCK

@staff THIS IS THE IMAGE IN THE SECOND REBLOG. I DREW IT WITH MY DAUGHTER.

THE FIRST IMAGE IS FROM A FUCKING CARTOON SHOWN ON CARTOON NETWORK.

IN WHAT WAY DID EITHER OF THESE IMAGES VIOLATE TUMBLR'S TOS?

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so matt's absolutely giving scorched earth orders behind the scenes right. Not only are publically visible transfems dropping like flies, but every third person who musters up the audacity to comment negatively on Staff or Matt about this vanishes fucking instantly

Wuhoh this is quickly catching on. If I'm deactivated anytime soon, it's cuz I got nuked. I'm not going down without a fight. Y'all remember that.

someone reblog this version for posterity. If the only copy is on my blog, that vanishes with me. I honestly doubt i'll get smote but better safe than sorry yeah? I'll be fine, but if I'm not, I'm making sure the crime scene is as damning as it gets.

First of all, the archive link for this post: https://web.archive.org/web/20240613035708/https://www.tumblr.com/problemnyatic/753122508917587968/someone-reblog-this-version-for-posterity-if-the

With that out of the way..

If I don't get nuked, by the way, my intent is to keep talking about this. The idea is to put staff in a damning position. If I disappear, if the people in my tags saying they have no plans to delete disappear, then y'all know exactly what happened and why. If I don't, then I'm still here, making sure y'all keep hearing the news about who they've nuked this time.

This shit has gone on long enough. It's fucking pride month, and Staff has been scorching and salting the earth on transfems here more strongly than ever. Vetted Palestinian blogs are vanishing in complete silence. People of color are on worse egg shells than ever. We have to stand together.

I could not be more gravely serious when I say make this a PR nightmare for them. Get journalists looking at this case. Make the story inescapable. Tumblr is erasing all the trans women. Tumblr is erasing dissent. Tumblr is sliding into full draconian lockdown and is using sheer administrative force to try to take control of the narrative.

Make it backfire.

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jdragsky

the problem with posts like this is that i want so badly to be like 🤓 erm but have u considered Seven Part Pact , a game of my own invention , in wjich the fun part is that the rules hate you and limit your ability to do the things you want to do emotionally"

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raddagher

What I've learned from living with a game theorist who edited indie ttrpgs full time for like 3 years: play whatever you want however you want because most ttrpgs are bad anyway. The industry is fucked and like 80% of books only exist to make a bajillion dollars on Kickstarter and then sit on a shelf forever. The rules don't matter and the games don't matter either. Don't get a new game, get a module. Get an adventure, not a system

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Insane to me that the UK government is slowly trying to legislate trans people out of existence and I have not seen a single person talk about it

Single sex toilets are now legally required in all new buildings, the cass review may lead to a complete shutdown of all trans healthcare, single sex wards are being introduced to HOSPITALS and claims that trans people will be treated in private rooms is almost laughable given the current bed shortages, ensuring that trans people will be forced to wait even longer for life-saving procedures. Trans teenagers are being murdered and the government does not care. We are slowly being driven out of all public spaces and all healthcare.

Also in the last few days new NHS England guidance was leaked to the Good Law Project that states that the 6000+ kids on the wait list for NHS gender affirming care are going to be invited to deceptive face-to-face "mental health assessments" with their provider (in some areas starting as soon as 30th June 2024), and if they're found to be accessing transition care outside the NHS they may be advised to stop, and if they don't may face a safeguarding referral to local authorities. We don't know how serious this will get yet, but it's potentially extremely bad. The Good Law Project has said "It's reasonable to describe this as an attempt to force people to detransition".

I'm sorry I haven't seen any actionable steps to take about this yet as it's a developing issue, other than that it's very important you don't tell anyone if you or your child (or anyone else) are accessing gender affirming care outside the NHS.

This article has more details, and the author is a good person to follow for updates, as well as the Good Law Project themselves. Don't forget this isn't a time for panic, but instead to stay informed as best you can, care for each other, and get involved in pushing back against this.

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pluralzalpha

Every trans person I know has had to access gender affirming treatment through private means because the alternative is waiting years to even be seen. This is ludicrous

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robotpussy

not new news at all but fascism is really swallowing the world whole rn

the resurgence of slurs and (mainly white) people claiming it's reclaimation while they refuse to do or understand the work that comes with reclaiming slurs, straight up racist and bigoted memes unironically being spread around under the guise of people laughing at how outrageous they are rather than being horrified that this stuff exists, the obsession with phrenology, but making it part of whatever aesthetic core is hot and new, genocides are watched in real time on our phones and people are slowly becoming desensitized to the macabre horrors imperial powers are encroaching on the world

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the reality is that israel rejected every ceasefire proposal and every hostage exchange in order to kill and kill and kill. for some reason the western media is reacting like they are the israeli public, whose largest grievance with the genocide and netanyahu was that it would affect the israeli hostages. now that the genocide has saved four hostages (still less than the number of hostages it has killed) it is perhaps a Salvageable genocide to the western onlookers, who insofar had been unimpressed with the genocide that was too transparently a genocide to be called a hostage rescue operation.

because they don't have a real problem with wiping palestinians off the map, they can only be critical of how gauche it all is to do so while publicly killing israelis in the process. but if the genocide can be seen to save some israelis, well—that makes it worth it. the western liberal can accept the most loathsome reality as long as it preserves the status quo. killing israelis is not the status quo, but killing palestinians is. they can watch the brains spill out of a child's skull and rationalize it as "legal killing" because it saved a hostage who could've been released through negotiation six months ago. because in truth, killing palestinians is far preferable to zionists than negotiating with them. this only presented a problem with some people realized killing israelis might also be preferable to negotiating with palestinians. violence and subjugation above all. we will never speak the same language. everyone should die first.

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My people in the homeland are dying and suffering from the heat. Mexico has always been hot but climate change is making it unbearable. The people of the global south are not the cause of climate change [not that we don’t have pollution or local pollution issues, but not to the degree of rich nations. I am specifically speaking of Mexico here] but they are made to pay the costs, the ultimate toll.

61 lives this month alone. This is not natural. What’s scary is today I saw an article questioning what are the limits of heat a human body can sustain. This is not normal!

What did these 61 humans do? What crime did they commit to be punished for the sin of global pollution. I promise you they must have been the most poor. Who couldn’t afford ac and maybe not even afford an electric fan.

The rich countries pollute and pollute while the global south suffers

The animals are dying, and it’s not good, but it just feels like insult to injury to see a bunch of results over the animals before as many about my dead countrymen.

Brown bodies died. The rich European countries do not care. India, too, is suffering from climate change.

You don’t even hear about the people dead in India unless you go out of your way to seek news about climate change.

The global south burns to death, the poor are the most affected for a crime and sin they had no part in. My heart aches for my Mexico, and all other global south nations disproportionally effected by climate change

The oil companies knew about the cumulative effect of greenhouse gas emissions as far back as the 1960’s. Yet they kept their knowledge a secret. Every oil executive has blood on their hands.

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god scp sucks so bad its so fucking good. its like if a really good media was bad

this can be interpreted as anything regarding scp but i need to note this is specifically about 173 because its so fucking stupid it drives me up the wall im obsessed with it

constantly thinking of the original scp-173 article. look at it. beautiful. can you believe they entirely rewrote this on the wikidot

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Anonymous asked:

“As a biologist, the terms biological woman and man don’t make any sense to me” okay then you’re an idiot and a terrible biologist. I swear to god, morons like you only become biologists just so you can hold it over others, when in reality, if biology deniers like you can become biologists, then being one really doesn’t mean much anyway. But this probably just gave an autogynophile like you a boner to read, anyway.

Oh fun! Haven't gotten one of these in a while. Disregarding the fact that you somehow think the qualification for being a biologist entirely hinges on defining womanhood, I do need to ask some clarification. I know I'm feeding the trolls here, but here we go: does your definition of "biological woman" mean:

Sociological woman? Eh, context dependent, I'm not fully out of the closet, but oftentimes, I am and present femme. So let's call that one 50/50.

Psychological woman? Because I am one.

Neurological woman? Because I am one [1].

Physical woman? My soft tissue redistribution is handling that well.

Hormonal woman? My blood tests are within cis female ranges.

Transcriptional woman? As a signalling molecule, the downstream effects of estrogen have broad transcriptional effects, completely changing the profile of gene expression and functional genomics of my cells. [2]

Genetic woman? I mean, see my above point- as far as my genes that are actually active, I have all of the same transcripts being produced, controlling which genes are expressed.

Karyotypic woman? I actually have a few signs pre-HRT that might point to a non-XY chromosome pair, but I haven't had a karyotype. We'll put that down as unknown. And hell, even if its XY, there's plenty of cis women who are karyotypically XY, with suppressed sry or complete androgen insensitivity. Interestingly enough, a completely androgen insesitive woman can go her whole life without knowing- and functionally, is very similar to a trans woman, actually. Fancy that. [3]

Reproductive woman? I can't produce an egg cell, but neither can significant fractions of cis women. Also, this is all gonna change soon, which is fun. [4]

There's also a lot of understudied aspects to the biology of HRT and even pre-HRT that are emerging, largely demonstrating widespread cellular and genetic remodeling of trans individuals undergoing hormone therapy. The field is a bit behind due to constant political pressure to revoke funding, but a lot of the results are extremely exciting in both testosterone and estrogen hormone therapies. I'm sure that, as a self professed biology As someone who presumably has a lot of expertise in biology, I'm assuming that you're aware of all of this cutting edge research, and are keeping up with modern papers, including but not limited to these cool findings:

  1. Trans men on HRT exhibit significant genetic and transcriptional changes that make them biochemically male. [5][6]. It's a good hypothesis that the same happens with estrogen treatment, but those studies don't exist yet- I'm sure you're reserving judgment until more publications exist, of course.
  2. Trans men on HRT develop male cell types and tissues. [7]
  3. Trans women experience muscular and blood cell changes that align with cis women moreso than cis men [8]
  4. And many, many more! This is an exciting, underserved, and groundbreaking field of research, and I'm sure you're keeping up with the latest in scientific journals about it.

I'm sure, of course, that you understand that it becomes impossible to draw a distinct line anywhere in here, and that words like "woman" are shorthand for the myriad of traits that invisibly synthesize in our mind and in society to represent a concept? I'm sure you understand that science is fundamentally descriptive, not prescriptive? I'm sure that you understand that these findings, while really cool and interesting, actually don't mean jack shit about what the word "woman" means or not?

As someone who is the ultimate decider in what a biologist is, I'm sure you know that bioessentiallism is a childish mindset that completely ignores and disregards the constantly changing, dynamic nature of biological systems, something that extends well beyond biological sex and its relation to gender.

I'm sure that also, that you understand that beyond just this, that the role of science in society is to advise how to achieve our moral principles, not create moral principles in themselves. And I'm sure that understanding means you know that trans affirming healthcare and supportive societal treatment leads to reduced mortality and increased happiness for everyone, right?

So great to talk to someone who is surely a scientist on this. You are a biologist, if you're talking like this, I assume? I assume you're not going to spit complete misreadings of scientific language from the background sections of these papers that only reveal you've never read a scientific paper in your life if you're thinking this way? I assume you have experience interpreting data like this?

Also, imagining my genitalia while writing this? Ew. Please stop projecting your fetishes into my inbox.

Works cited:

  1. Kurth F, Gaser C, Sánchez FJ, Luders E. Brain Sex in Transgender Women Is Shifted towards Gender Identity. J Clin Med. 2022 Mar 13;11(6):1582. doi: 10.3390/jcm11061582. PMID: 35329908; PMCID: PMC8955456.
  2. Fuentes N, Silveyra P. Estrogen receptor signaling mechanisms. Adv Protein Chem Struct Biol. 2019;116:135-170. doi: 10.1016/bs.apcsb.2019.01.001. Epub 2019 Feb 4. PMID: 31036290; PMCID: PMC6533072.
  3. Gottlieb B, Trifiro MA. Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome. 1999 Mar 24 [Updated 2017 May 11]. In: Adam MP, Feldman J, Mirzaa GM, et al., editors. GeneReviews® [Internet]. Seattle (WA): University of Washington, Seattle; 1993-2024. Available from: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK1429/
  4. Murakami, K., Hamazaki, N., Hamada, N. et al. Generation of functional oocytes from male mice in vitro. Nature 615, 900–906 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-05834-x
  5. Pallotti F, Senofonte G, Konstantinidou F, Di Chiano S, Faja F, Rizzo F, Cargnelutti F, Krausz C, Paoli D, Lenzi A, Stuppia L, Gatta V, Lombardo F. Epigenetic Effects of Gender-Affirming Hormone Treatment: A Pilot Study of the ESR2 Promoter's Methylation in AFAB People. Biomedicines. 2022 Feb 16;10(2):459. doi: 10.3390/biomedicines10020459. PMID: 35203670; PMCID: PMC8962414.
  6. Florian Raths, Mehran Karimzadeh, Nathan Ing, Andrew Martinez, Yoona Yang, Ying Qu, Tian-Yu Lee, Brianna Mulligan, Suzanne Devkota, Wayne T. Tilley, Theresa E. Hickey, Bo Wang, Armando E. Giuliano, Shikha Bose, Hani Goodarzi, Edward C. Ray, Xiaojiang Cui, Simon R.V. Knott, The molecular consequences of androgen activity in the human breast, Cell Genomics, Volume 3, Issue 3, 2023, 100272, ISSN 2666-979X, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.xgen.2023.100272. (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666979X23000320)
  7. Xu R, Diamond DA, Borer JG, Estrada C, Yu R, Anderson WJ, Vargas SO. Prostatic metaplasia of the vagina in transmasculine individuals. World J Urol. 2022 Mar;40(3):849-855. doi: 10.1007/s00345-021-03907-y. Epub 2022 Jan 16. PMID: 35034167.
  8. Harper J, O'Donnell E, Sorouri Khorashad B, McDermott H, Witcomb GL. How does hormone transition in transgender women change body composition, muscle strength and haemoglobin? Systematic review with a focus on the implications for sport participation. Br J Sports Med. 2021 Aug;55(15):865-872. doi: 10.1136/bjsports-2020-103106. Epub 2021 Mar 1. PMID: 33648944; PMCID: PMC8311086.
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hi-sierra

Reblogging to this blog so this is easier to find!

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kryspiekream

h holy shit I think I'm more attracted to you than ever

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