[-] ada@piefed.blahaj.zone 24 points 1 week ago

Racism/White As The Default

[-] ada@piefed.blahaj.zone 26 points 1 month ago

My state (in Australia) made all public transport across the state cost 50 cents, no matter how far you go.

Very similar results, and it ultimately became successful that both major political parties promised to keep it and make it permanent if elected (which they have since done)

[-] ada@piefed.blahaj.zone 25 points 4 months ago

A good chunk of lab values have different ranges for male vs female.

You've actually hit on a major reason why disclosing isn't as simple as you think it is.

Sure, a good chunk of values have different ranges for male vs female, but the normal ranges for cis folk and trans folk are not the same.

Hormones are the obvious example, but there are large parts of the body that respond to the endocrine profile that we have after hormone replacement. Heart attack symptoms, body fat percentages, resting heart rate, blood oxygen levels, iron levels etc, are all shaped by our hormone profile, not the hormone profiles of cis folk.

That said, I have no idea if those are intrinsic to the sex, or to the hormone levels, so HRT might completely negate or flip those differences.

It entirely depends on the specific medical issue, but in general, it's the latter more often than the former.

I'd run this by your HRT doc.

It's not always that simple. On top of the fact that it's not realistic to see the HRT doc every time you have an unrelated medical issue, the other aspect is, as you're probably aware, sometimes, the patient knows more about their health care needs than the treating doctor, because we need to become experts in a way that a GP does not. If your doctor isn't a specialist in trans care, they're just as likely to give you conservative, incorrect information that was drafted in a time when trans health care even less understood than it is now.

As you're a nursing student, I want to give you some advice. When you are dealing with a patient that isn't "new" to their situation, whether it's trans health care, or long term illness etc, you need to allow for the fact that the patient likely has a lot of lived expertise in dealing with their situation, and broad, general advice is rarely going to be useful to them.

[-] ada@piefed.blahaj.zone 26 points 4 months ago

Getting away from a community that exists only for trans people to self flagellate is probably a good idea...

Communities like that exist only to hurt trans folk, and they're used by trans folk who think they deserve to be hurt.

[-] ada@piefed.blahaj.zone 25 points 4 months ago

She wears a placid, pretty expression

That is not how I'd describe her expression. To me, that expression looks smug/condescending/knowing

[-] ada@piefed.blahaj.zone 27 points 5 months ago

Drag is banned from blahaj. Gatekeeping people's identities and pronouns is still against the rules.

[-] ada@piefed.blahaj.zone 27 points 5 months ago

He left Mozilla (chased out because he's a homophobe) and went on to found Brave, where he still remains

[-] ada@piefed.blahaj.zone 26 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

That is a lot of bathrooms, and all of them require going in to someones bedroom for access!

[-] ada@piefed.blahaj.zone 25 points 5 months ago

I mean, people still defend Rowling's work, and use Hyprland, so this shouldn't surprise me, but somehow, it still does...

[-] ada@piefed.blahaj.zone 26 points 6 months ago

There's nothing I can do at the system level to stop them from being posted, but I am happy to remove them if they appear! Just report them or DM me

[-] ada@piefed.blahaj.zone 24 points 6 months ago

Threadiverse was a thing before Threads was a thing...

And it specifically refers to the subset of "reddit like" ActivityPub platforms, so it's more specific than Fediverse. Threadiverse instances are part of the Fediverse too, but they're quite distinct from Mastodon etc

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