Posts by athena_rose922@mstdn.social
 (DIR) Post #AVSftyHqXGwWJ23Wmu by athena_rose922@mstdn.social
       2023-05-09T00:01:45Z
       
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       When I'm trying to explain what gender affirming care is to people who think it's something new I think of that joke about two goldfish in a bowl and one says "The water's nice" and the other replies "What's water?"Cis people don't tend to notice it because they've had it their whole lives.
       
 (DIR) Post #AVSftzCZ8OJT8wapCC by athena_rose922@mstdn.social
       2023-05-09T00:03:20Z
       
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       Another good illustration of the double standard around gender affirming care has to do with a drug called Risperidone. It's an antipsychotic medication and after it was approved for use in adolescents it was discovered that a common side effect was gynecomastia in adolescent males. No one thought twice about offering those boys reductions.Now compare it to top surgery for trans men. It's the same procedure.
       
 (DIR) Post #AVSftzyQGSatXMz2n2 by athena_rose922@mstdn.social
       2023-05-09T00:06:06Z
       
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       And transphobes will often try to bash top surgery for trans men by describing it as "removing healthy breast tissue" or "mutilation" but when you ask then why removing it for boys who got gynecomastia from Risperidone is any different the reasons they list are the exact same ones trans men cite. No one thinks twice about the "healthy breast tissue" of the boys on Risperidone.Why? Because it's gender affirming care.
       
 (DIR) Post #AmUZ5ZuoJm12KJgzRY by athena_rose922@mstdn.social
       2024-09-29T09:58:01Z
       
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       @futurebird mine does that with thunder and lightning like I can make it stop