I'm trans. Labels are beginning to drift, but I vibe with transsexual and don't consider myself to be queer. Gay, bigender, and grey aroace if you're wanting something more specific
I work primarily as a Stadium Tour Guide for Newcastle United, and as a private carer.
I'm a big football fan, and support Leeds United and Manchester United
I'm looking for more music with this theme. Something like "In Or Out" by Ani DiFranco.
Lyrics:
"In Or Out"
guess there's something wrong with me
guess I don't fit in
no one wants to touch it
no one knows where to begin
I've got more than one membership
to more than one club
and I owe my life
to the people that I love
he looks me up and down
like he knows what time it is
like he's got my number
like he thinks it's his
he says,
call me, Miss DiFranco,
if there's anything I can do
I say,
It's Mr. DiFranco to you
somedays the line I walk
turns out to be straight
other days the line tends to
deviate
I've got no criteria for sex or race
I just want to hear your voice
I just want to see your face
she looks me up and down
like she thinks that I'll mature
like she's got my number
like it belongs to her
she says,
call me, Ms. DiFranco
if there's anything I can do
I say, I've got spots
I've got
stripes, too
their eyes are all asking
are you in, or are you out
and I think, oh man,
what is this about?
tonight you can't put me
up on any shelf
'cause I came here alone
I'm gonna leave by myself
I just want to show you
the way that I feel
and when I get tired
you can take the wheel
to me what's more important
is the person that I bring
not just getting to the same restaraunt
and eating the same thing
guess there's something wrong with me
guess I don't fit in
no one wants to touch it
no one knows where to begin
I've more than one membership
to more than one club
and I owe my life to the people that I love
We would love to believe that this is being done in good faith, but NHS England has never been on the side of trans people.¹ As such, we believe that the best we can realistically hope for at this stage is damage limitation :FaceExhaling:
current, and recent, patients who have been seen at one, or more, of the [Gender Dysphoria Clinics] in the past five years
family and friends of patients who have used services in the past five years
current staff members, and those who have worked at one, or more, of the centres in the past five years
Even if it doesn't change a thing, we should make our voices heard loudly and defiantly ✊ :TransHeart: :NonBinaryHeart: :AgenderHeart: :BiGenderHeart: :GenderfluidHeart: :GenderqueerHeart: :DemiBoyHeart: :DemiGirlHeart:
So let's go all out and tell them what we actually want:
Depathologisation.
Desegregation.
Informed consent.
We don't want better gender clinics: we want them to be dismantled entirely, in favour of desegregated healthcare.
We don't want to be forced to get a formal medical diagnosis of being trans to access basic GAHT / HRT, to have the right to consent to gender-affirming surgeries, or to change our legal gender.
We want world leading gender-affirming healthcare, beyond the nonsense, unscientific biases that still exist even in WPATH SOC8.
They don't want to offer us this, and will do everything in their power to ignore us, but that doesn't mean that our voices shouldn't be heard.
Maybe trans liberation won't come today, but we need to fight for it at every stage :AnarchySymbol:
Boosts are very welcome and will be very much appreciated, by the by :BoostsOKPrideSymbol:
... and anyone else who falls under the broad trans umbrella :TransHeart:
As it stands, our follow list has a bias towards trans woman, trans fems, and fembies. We want to balance out our feed and see your posts, thoughts, problems, questions, and joy that we're not currently seeing.
The problem we're having is that we genuinely have not been able to find many by searching 😭
For example, if we do a search from our instance for #TransMasc, we only see about 13 profiles and a handful of posts, probably due to our server not fully searching across fedi 😞
(FYI, any tech recommendations on additionally relays or ways to solve this search / federation issue on a Glitch-SOC server would be very much welcomed.)
So, please can y'all either reply back for us to follow you, have some recommendations of folk we can follow, or have thoughts on getting around our search / federation issue, we'd be super grateful :PinkHeart: