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Fun fact, I take hormones. I have LOTS of cis friends who receive HRT (hormone replacement therapy) for a variety of reasons.
HRT does NOT make humans transgender.
HRT CANNOT make MICE transgender.
NO MONEY HAS EVER GONE TOWARD "MAKING MICE TRANSGENDER."
Research has been done on mice regarding the effects of HRT. None of it "makes mice transgender." Said research can be beneficial to trans folks. It is ALSO beneficial to the MANY MANY CIS FOLKS (that's "not transgender" for those of you who just can't bring yourself to acknowledge that cis is a descriptor and not a fucking insult) who take hormones for any reason.
So no, absolutely zero dollars has gone into "making mice transgender," and defunding research on the effects of hormone therapies will potentially cause future harm to ANYONE TAKING HORMONE THERAPY, including quite possibly YOU or someone you care about.
Also fuck propaganda. Stop swallowing lies just because someone claims they agree with your biases.
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Hey.
You're reading this, which means you've gotten this far into the day.
Well done! Shit is hard. You're still kicking. That's all "succeeding at life" actually is.
All the other shit is just window dressing.
💖
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I hate feeling low because whenever I do, I'm afraid someone is going to randomly use me as their personal emotional punching bag while my defenses are down.
'Cause that's happened a LOT.
FYI, Literally no one is "making mice transgender." It's not actually possible to "make mice transgender."
Research HAS been done on the health effects of hormone therapy (which a LOT of people get who aren't trans, btw - particularly women dealing w menopause, PCOS, and hormone imbalances) on health, including some cancer research. This is actually important research to protect people from things like CANCER.
I don't know what the current admin has against cancer research but they're defunding it all over the place. I'm sure that won't cause any problems (sarcasm.) Not like anyone needs CANCER RESEARCH.
Realizing that I'm kind of a fucking mess ATM, more than I have been wanting to admit to myself.
Sigh that's frustrating.
Hearing some of the American-conservative hate-on for Ukraine is just surreal. Like, the hell did they do to you? How did they hurt you by being invaded and having a despot bombing their cities and hospitals and killing their kids?
Oh, they need help. I forgot how much some folks despise people who need help. 🙄
Cool, I'm sure it's better for the country to cozy up to a dictator. (That's sarcasm. I'm doing a sarcasm. Because it's stupid.
Just wanna be clear.)
Random personal opinion: spin kills credibility and thus damages if not destroys the ability to have conversations and even debates. If your argument is provably factually inaccurate it doesn't matter how "right" you are, the conversation is done and nobody believes you.
That's why even when I understand the justifications for it and may agree with the POV of the person sharing the spin, I still hate spin. It's counterproductive. And I'd rather arguments I agree with not include spin. Because it ruins the point and keeps it from actually being heard and understood.
Just my opinion. I can see merits of it, but I hate it. Especially when "my side" does it.
It's probably also sometimes a necessary evil. But it's still like nails on a chalkboard for me.
If you suffer from anxiety in any real form and you do things that need to be done anyway even though they make your anxiety levels spike and kinda freak you out?
You, my friend, are a badass. Courage isn't the lack of fear, courage is doing things that you're scared of. EVEN IF THAT FEAR SEEMS "SILLY."
Doesn't matter. If it scares you and you do it anyway, you're a badass.
Yep. You.
Carry on. ;)
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Shoulder playing up again. Slept for crap and am on 3 different pain meds.
But it's doctor day (general physical) so that's kinda lucky. Gives me a chance to tell him what's going on.
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In other news, I apparently thought it was a great idea to schedule ALL THE DOCTOR'S APPOINTMENTS this week, so that's fun and slightly overwhelming.
But I'm here for getting it over with all at once. 🤷♀️
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Heya party people. I hope y'all are hangin' in.
Take a moment today to meditate on something that you appreciate. I know it sounds trite, but gratitude does help. Doesn't fix all the bad, but it helps to remind yourself that there is also good.
Alright, back to battle. Love y'all.
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So I decided that I wanna make my way through Studio Ghibli movies I haven't seen yet.
So I watched Grave of the Fireflies last night. Beautiful and hearbreaking. I was VERY well prepared so it wasn't the punch in the face I think a lot of people experience.
I think it's an incredibly important story. I'm glad I watched it.
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in reply to Crys Wolf • •I resent that I was not put on HRT when I started perimenopause early.
I didn't read about "making mice transgender." I'm not even sure what that would look like. I'd guess that treating male mice with female mouse hormones would create some physical and behavioral changes, but there's no way to determine whether those changes make the mice feel more like themselves or not.