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posts/2021-02-24.1345.B70F59/index.md

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-Secondly, there is no such thing as "appropriating" being trans. I know how easy it is to fall into this trap, because before my own wakeup call I also was afraid to ever mention my feelings around my gender because I thought it would be insensitive or appropriative of "actual" trans people. That's bullshit! If you do not feel a *strong* connection to your birth assigned gender, you're trans!
+Secondly, there is no such thing as “appropriating” being trans. If you do not feel a strong connection to your assigned gender, you can call yourself trans! You aren’t offending anyone (at least, anyone whose opinion matters).
+
+I know how easy it is to fall into this trap, because before my own wakeup call I also was afraid to ever mention my feelings around my gender. I thought it would be insensitive or appropriative of “actual” trans people. It’s laughable when I think of that now.
 
 
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-It doesn't matter if the world still thinks you're cis. You still know who you are, the people who know you know who you are, and that isn't invalidated simply because you haven't "transgressed" cisgender norms.
+It doesn't matter if the world still thinks you're cis, you know who you are, the people who know you know who you are, and that isn't invalidated simply because you haven't "transgressed" cisgender norms.
 
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-A couple years ago Ada Powers did a fantastic thread about how mixed pronouns work, which partly forked off into a conversation on gender expression. I've extracted the relevant pieces below, but [the entire thread](https://twitter.com/mspowahs/status/1192192265898336257?s=20) is worth exploring.
+Ada Powers did a fantastic thread a few years back about how mixed pronouns work, which partly forked off into a conversation on gender expression across the cis/trans divide. I've extracted the relevant pieces below, but [the entire thread](https://twitter.com/mspowahs/status/1192192265898336257?s=20) is worth exploring.
 
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posts/2021-04-26.0858.AA7731/index.md

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+---
+id: "AA7731"
+date: "2021-04-26T15:58:12.836Z"
+title: "Trans Healthcare is Broken"
+description: "Stop making us have to repeatedly justify our existence."
+tags:
+  - Medical
+  - Transgender
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+Imagine that, having been diagnosed with a heart condition, or hypothyroidism, or asthma, or any number of other long term medical conditions, you had to get re-diagnosed every single time you went in for treatment. If every time you change doctors, you had to justify to that doctor that your previous diagnosis was accurate. If you had to prove that, yes, I am actually sick, even when you have been taking the medications for years.
+
+That is the state of trans healthcare. Every every time you change prescribers, you have to prove to the doctor that, yes, I really am the gender I say I am and that's why I've been on hormone therapy for five years. Every gender affirming surgery you pursue, even ones that don't require pre-auth to do on cis people (such as breast augmentations/reductions), requires multiple _new_ letters (they wont take the old ones) affirming that, yes, you are the gender you say you are and no you are not delusional or suffering from psychosis. This continues to be required no matter how long you have lived as your true self.
+
+Even though I look like a woman, have been living as a woman for over three years, have been taking estrogen for nearly four years, and *have no freaking testicles*, I will yet again have to justify that I am actually transgender in order to pursue any future surgeries. Even trans people who have had bottom surgery still experience these hoops.
+
+Yet conservative pundits and legislators would have you believe that we just walk into a clinic and they hand us a prescription, that a female assigned person can just dial up a surgeon and have their uterus removed (even cis women have to jump through hoops to make that happen).

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