Evelyn Starshine's Space Adventure

I'm crying she basically just said

this shows up when transfems make posts for and about other transfems, and invariably transmascs will come along to try and make it about them as well. they dont see it as a womens post, they see it as a Trans post that hasnt mentioned transmascs yet

this also shows up in discussions of transmisogyny. transfems discuss the intersectional bigotry we face and transmascs will get defensive that the conversation centres us and not the Trans Demographic as a whole. this is where "transandrophobia" theory comes in, from transmascs misconstruing transmisogyny as just "transphobia for girls" and insisting there must be a transphobia for boys in return, and to deny "transandrophobia" legitimacy is to deny that transmascs face any transphobia. its morphed into its own transmisogynist violence at this point but its inception was very clearly fueled by the transmasc insecurity over there not being one Trans Experience. transmascs think there has to be a blue version, because they dont conceive of transfems belonging to a different demographic than them

i think no small part of this is that transmasculine transition doesnt force them to reckon with transmisogyny the same way transfeminine transition does. of course, it would be wrong to claim no transfem falls victim to this, but far more transfems do have that reckoning because we are forcibly subjected to transmisogyny. and because transmascs flatten the demographic to just Trans, they believe themselves to have a postion of authority to speak on trans issues without ever being forced to interrogate their inherent transmisogynist biases from living in a transmisogynist society and understand the misogyny within the demographic, and any pushback against them is pushback against the Trans Demographic as a whole

the science direct article FULL STUDY. there is so much in this article that I don't even know where to start in pulling out highlights because the entire thing feels like it's made up of them.

So instead i'll just drop the "what did we learn?" portion of the summary that was released by the PRIDEStudy research. (links to the summary/press releases for all the pridestudy research since 2019. i suggest ctrl-f)

What Did We Learn?

Participants most often discussed these topics as most important to them:

pelvic pain,

genital atrophy (thinning and dryness of genital tissue), and

repeat infections, such as urinary tract infections and yeast infections.

Many participants had doctors who didn't know how to help them because they were on testosterone. As one participant's doctor put it plainly: "I don't know how to treat you."

We found six connected patterns in what people told us:

1. Erasure – Healthcare systems, research, and providers often failed to recognize or account for transmasculine bodies and identities. This included:

experiences with systems not built for transmasculine patients,

a lack of research and provider training, and

providers making incorrect assumptions about participants' body parts or identity.

2. Authority of knowledge – Providers trusted test results over what patients knew about their own bodies. This left many participants feeling dismissed even when they had clear symptoms.

3. Navigating uncertainty – Confusion, for both patients and providers, about whether symptoms were caused by testosterone. There was also a lack of guidance on long-term effects of using testosterone.

4. Prolonged and fragmented care – Being sent through repeated referrals and rounds of testing, sometimes for years, without ever getting a clear diagnosis or explanation.

5. Cumulative exposure – The toll of these experiences built up over time and led to exhaustion, medical trauma, and, for some, avoiding care altogether.

6. Resistance and agency – Participants proactively used different approaches to try to receive good care, including:

advocating for themselves,

using community networks for trustworthy information, and

trying non-medical treatments.

Participants found real relief, validation, and joy when they did get good care.

It's never done that before so I looked it up and turns out Roku TVs have added all sorts of creepy things in the privacy section since I last checked.

One of which being they take screenshots from what you're watching and send them to third parties to identify it.

Fucking hell! Remember when every fucking device in your life wasn't a spy implanted in your home and working against your interests to try and sell your data? Remember how nice that was??

Remember when the TV was just a tool that would play the things you plugged into it?