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January 30th: Hi everyone, Iâm Gemma and Iâm so sorry to have to ask this again but, I desperately need some help to pay my rent and overdrawn balance.
If anyone has been following me for any amount of time, youâll know how much Iâve been struggling these past few months, due to my welfare benefits (U.C & Housing Benefit) being revoked. And due to my health assessments and DWP mess-ups, my benefits have been on and off sanctions for over a year now and so far, Iâve been managing to get by with help of some of the kindest people in the world, but as itâs now winter where I live Iâve been struggling horribly to keep my electricity/heating on, with most nights being -5°C/23°F and a snowstorm coming.
I am currently under a 56-day Fitness for Work note with my GP and have been diagnosed with Endogenous Depression my GP has also upped the dosage of my anti-depressants (Sertraline) to try to help me. This will eventually prompt the DWP to send me for a medical and Iâm hoping that this will fix my benefits and offer me more assistance.
However, this can take weeks and often months for the process and paperwork to go through and right now, my electricity is almost on its emergency credit, Â my account is in the negative and my housing association still havenât resolved the issues with my benefit and my rent (ÂŁ358) is due next week. I have absolutely no income to pay these until the end of next month and I really, desperately need help.
If anyone could spare any amount to help me, even if itâs just ÂŁ1/$1/âŹ1, it would literally save my life and keep me warm and sharing definitely helps just as much as donations. Nobody is obligated in any way to donate if they canât or donât want to, I know weâre all struggling. Thank you for your help đ
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Please consider helping out guys if you possibly can, I desperately need help to get by. Literally anything helps right now. đđ
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The sun? Gay
The moon? Lesbian
The stars? Aro/Ace
The ocean? Pan
The forests? Queer
The sky? Bi
The planets? Trans
Each of these things? Absolutely wonderful
Can I get pride flags of these?
These aren't the best but I hope you like them!
[lesbian flag by @apersnicketylemon ]
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TRANS WOMEN: HERE'S SOME SHIT YOUR DOCTOR WONT TELL YOU ABOUT HRT
1. Progesterone: not for everyone, but for many people it may increase sex drive and WILL make your boobs bigger. Also effects mood in ways that many find positive (but some find negative). Most doctors wonât prescribe this to you unless you ask. Most trans girls I know swear by it.
2. Injectible estrogen: is more effective than pill or patch form. Get on it if you can bear needles bc you will see more effects more quickly.
3. Estradiol Cypionate: There is currently a shortage of injectible estradiol valerate. There is no shortage of estradiol cypionate. Functionally they do the same shit.
4. Bicalutamide: This is an anti-androgen that has almost none of the side-effects of spironolactone or finasteride. The girls I know who are on it are evangelical about it.
@euryale-dreams
Are there HRT medications that donât increase blood clot risk? Iâm already at risk because of my blood pressure, and my doctor wonât prescribe HRT that increases clot risk while Iâm on the medication - and I may never not be on the medication.
Absolutely.
The concerns surrounding venous thromboembolic events as a side-effect of hormone replacement therapy can mostly be traced back to one particular study known as the Womenâs Health Initiative. This study was an enormous undertaking which, unfortunately, demonstrated significant adverse effects of the hormone therapies studied. As a result of this the use of hormone replacement therapy in postmenopausal cis women was dramatically reduced as the medical community began to question whether or not the therapy caused more harm than good.
Naturally, trans women have been suffering from this fall-out ever since.
What physicians seem to fail to recognize is that the study examined a very specific hormone regimen which was, arguably, outmoded at the time the study was conducted: It examined the use of conjugated equine estrogen (Premarin) with or without the use of medroxyprogesterone acetate. Neither of these drugs is regularly used for the treatment of transgender women.
The estrogen most commonly used to treat transgender women nowadays is 17β-estradiol either in pill form or in the form of a sticky patch that you apply to your skin. Esters of estrogen (e.g. estradiol valerate) are also sometimes used either in a pill form or as an intramuscular injection.
Transdermal estradiol patches are the gold standard when it comes to treating women who are at high risk of a venous thromboembolic event. It simply does not increase the risk of developing a venous thromboembolism. The only thing you should keep in mind is that patches are not always well tolerated because of the lifestyle changes required to keep them from falling off and the fact that they tend to irritate the skin.
Fortunately, oral 17β-estradiol appears to be safe, regardless of the increased risk. At least one large study has shown that the use of oral estradiol in trans women is not associated with venous thromboembolic events. An individual womanâs risk would need to be substantial in order to contraindicate the use of oral estradiol.
For those who have significant risk of venous thromboembolism because they have had a previous thromboembolic event, because they are paralyzed, or because of some other factor it is good to know the relative risk between oral and transdermal estrogen. The latest research indicates that the use of transdermal estrogen lowers your risk of a thromboembolism to 80% of what your risk would be using oral estrogens.
Itâs difficult to find hard numbers regarding the relative risk of venous thromboembolic events with regards to hypertension. The best I could find after an hour or so of searching was this study regarding VTE in lung cancer patients. Hypertension increased the risk by a factor of 1.8.
However, to put that into perspective being of African descent increases your relative risk for deep vein thrombosis by a factor of 1.3 when compared to Europeans. Europeans are, themselves, at increased risk when compared to Asians and Pacific Islanders by a considerable margin: a four-fold increase.
I should point out that being âmaleâ is also a risk factor for developing a thromboembolism and hormones are likely to be a contributing factor. Also, menopause is another serious risk factor. Given this information it is likely that the use of transdermal estradiol will lower your risk of thromboembolic events significantly.
As far as the anti-androgen is concerned: The primary use for spironolactone for cisgender people is as an antihypertensive.
Even if the risk of thromboembolism was truly significant with modern hormone replacement therapy it wouldnât justify what your doctor is doing to you. The fact is that mortality in the transgender community from suicideâcaused in part due to the lack of access to hormone therapyâis substantial. The quality of life lost when a trans woman is denied hormone therapy is substantial. The fact that your doctor does not appear to be taking this into consideration when they weigh the risk of thromboembolism against not receiving necessary medical care is deeply concerning.
I strongly recommend that you seek a doctor who is more sensitive to your medical needs as a transgender woman.
Edit: Fixed a minor, but embarrassing, error.
oh wow this is so helpful & good info
Everyone who cares about transfem people please reblog this
this was really fucking helpful
I know a lot of trans women dont have acess to information like this and its very helpful.
Articles I can use against truscum
I have got your back. Here are those damn sources
There is not enough difference in male or female brains to tell them apart
A gender-neutral pronouns other that they/them has existed since 1858, thonÂ
There are more than 2 genders (tons of sources in the description that if i tried to write them all here i would die of age)
âââTranstrendersâââ arenât actually transitioning and then regretting:Â 1Â Â 2Â Â 3Â 4Â Â 5Â
Biological binary sex isnât a thing:Â 1Â 2 3Â 4
in the wikipedia page for social construct of gender category sex and sex category the sources are 7 27 28Â
He indeed is
Being trans is not a mental illness/ you donât need dysphoria to be trans: 1 2  3  4 5 6 7 (this one is massive) 8 (also if you want a living example of a cis person with dysphoria search godflex here on tumblr, careful itâs nsfw)
From here
This might be updated in the future

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Thursday, December 6th: Hi everyone, Iâm Gemma and Iâm so sorry to have to ask this but, I desperately need help to get through the winter months, especially Christmas & New Year due to my benefit cuts and my overdrawn account.
If anyone has been following me for any amount of time, youâll know how much Iâve been struggling these past few months due to my welfare benefits (Universal Credit & Housing Benefit) being revoked under the UKâs controversial changes to how benefits are assessed and assigned. And if anyone has ever had their benefits sanctioned or capped, then youâll understand how much of a struggle and death sentence it is.
So far, Iâve been managing to get by with help of some of the kindest people in the world, but as itâs now winter where I live, Iâm struggling to get through the festive period and to make things worse, my bank acct is overdrawn by ÂŁ169.24 and Iâm not due to receive a partial-benefit payment until the New Year. Thankfully, Iâve managed to pay Decemberâs rent but I desperately need help to get groceries and keep my heating/water on to stay warm. Iâm literally freezing, hungry and drowning in debt at the moment because of my sanctions and since this situation has been ongoing for so long, government aid/food banks are unable to offer me any more assistance
So Iâve created a wishlist with some essential items to help me get by (thermal clothing, boots etc..) and as many of the items are from the marketplace, youâll need to join my list to buy any items. *I am unsure of how to fix this*
If anyone could spare any amount to help me, even if itâs just ÂŁ1/$1/âŹ1, it would literally save my life and keep me warm and sharing definitely helps just as much as donations. Nobody is obligated in any way to buy anything off my wishlist or donate if they canât or donât want to, I know weâre all struggling. Thank you for your help đ
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It would really mean so much to me guys if anyone could possibly help out, I desperately need help to get through Christmas and New Year and Iâm struggling so much to do so. Literally anything helps right now. đđ
I wish you the best, love!! And I hope things work out for you!!
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Help Make My Stepfathers Last Christmas Great
Hi all,
My stepfather Darcy has been diagnosed with stage 3 lung cancer, but his treatment has been ineffective. He is now on a treatment called immunotherapy that will prolong his life, but usually does not shrink the tumour. Yesterday, we found out that this will be his last Christmas with us (most likely).
Our family doesnât have a lot of money so we were wondering if you had anything you can spare to help us.
His PayPal is as follows:
Go to paypal.me/darcymunshaw and type in the amount. Since itâs PayPal, it's easy and secure. Donât have a PayPal account? No worries.
Thanks so much!
I'm not able to donate but I hope others can!
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Hey would you mind reblogging my most recent post? It could be my stepfathers last Christmas with us and I want to make it special
Of course! I'm sorry to hear about your stepfather but I hope you'll have a grand ole time together đ
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Give Us Roses While Weâre Still Here Transgender Day of Remembrance // Nov. 20th
This is just a poster I made the other day. I love all of my trans family, and I hope you take the day for remembrance & self care.Â
no one is saying you have to stop calling yourself queer, and its great that you can reclaim a slur!! Its amazing to bring piwer to urself!!! But some ppl have trauma with the word and that needs to be respected by not using it on lgbt who are uncomfy with ut
Y'all are some of the most disingenuous motherfuckers. I am exhausted. And I am really done with this trauma argument.
A confession: I have been harassed and verbally abused with it/its pronouns before.
I donât fully understand why some trans people choose to use it pronouns for themselves, and I donât follow anyone who does anymore because seeing someone referred to as âitâ upsets me.
However, I do not shame or belittle trans folks who use it/its pronouns in a reclaiming fashion because itâs none of my business and I am not a piece of obnoxious shit.
If you have trauma associated with the word queer, then you need to respect me and yourself enough to not interact with my blog.
This blog literally has QUEER in its url, name, and description. Every other post on this blog contains the word QUEER. This blog is about QUEER people, for QUEER people, by a QUEER person.
No one is forcing you to interact with this blog. No one is forcing you to interact with the QUEER community. No one is forcing you to apply the word QUEER to your own identity.
Block blogs that have queer in their url. Add the word QUEER to your Tumblr tag blacklist. Download one of the many different apps and browser extensions that exist and use it to hide posts with the word QUEER in them.
Try taking at least some responsibility for your own mental health.
You arenât queer? You donât like the word? Thatâs fine. Your feelings and your trauma are valid.
But hear this: y'all need to leave QUEER people the FUCK alone.
Stop adding âqueer is a slurâ to our posts.
Stop inviting yourselves onto our posts to whine about the phrase âqueer communityâ.
Donât reblog our posts if youâre going to tag them with â#q slurâ.
Stop making discourse of our genders and sexualities.
Stop trying to create rules over who is allowed to call themselves queer when you yourself are not queer.
Stop sending us invasive messages demanding to know âhowâ weâre queer or if weâre âreally lgbtâ.
Stop trying to make the queer community responsible for your personal baggage, as if we arenât surviving with our own.
Let QUEER people live.
god yes OP
âStop trying to make the queer community responsible for your personal baggage, as if we arenât surviving with our own.â
Holy shit. Exactly.

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Look I have no problem with aces being part of the community, but historically queer was never used as a slur against them, so as someone who has been called queer as a derogatory insult plenty of times, I'm pretty uncomfortable with them using it. Reclaiming the word queer is fine, but not if it wasn't directed at you in the first place.
Hey.
Quick tip.Â
You are not the Queer Pope. You donât get to decide who is and isnât queer.Â
Also, get off my blog.Â
Not only is anon not Queer Pope, theyâre also factually incorrect. For others champing at the bit to be the next grayface too chickenshit to be wrong with their URL attached:Â
Google âthe spinster movementâ. 1920â˛s and 1930â˛s. Ace women considered âqueerâ by straight society for not complying with the demands of compulsory heterosexuality (i.e. marry, let your husband fuck you whenever he wants, produce hordes of children, probably die of tuberculosis (well, that last bitâs not compulsory heterosexuality, but I digress)).Â
Better yet, look up stuff from the research of Alfred Kinsey and/or Magnus Hirschfield (of the Institut fĂźr Sexualwissenschaft- the Nazis burned it for advancing knowledge and acceptance of ace, trans, and gays & lesbians- all enemies of the State because their existence undercut the Aryan call for men FATHER MANY ARYAN BABIES and to FIGHT FOR THE FATHERLAAAAAND and for the women to manage Kinder, KĂźche, and Kirche (children, kitchen, church).Â
Hereâs a nice excerpt from a 1935 newspaper on how asexual women should be barred from teaching (one of the very few jobs a woman could hold in those days) based on their sexuality:Â âThe women who have the responsibility of teaching these girls are many of them themselves embittered, sexless or homosexual hoydens who try to mould the girls into their own patten.â
In the Victorian era, there was a movement for decades in favor of evicting spinsters (read: asexual and lesbian women) over 30 from Britain, and send them to Canada, Australia, or the United States instead.Â
They were at best, âsurplus femalesâ, and at worst? Hereâs another quote! This one is from Eliza Linton, a Victorian writer quoted in a more modern work analyzing Victorian families, describing spinsters in contrast with ânaturallyâ celibate women, that is, widows: âUnnatural and alien: Painted and wrinkled, padded and bedizened, with her coarse thoughts, bold words, and leering eyes, [the wrong kind of spinster] has in herself all the disgust which lies around a Bacchante and a Hecate in oneâŚ. Such an old maid as this stands as a warning to men and women alike of what and whom to avoid.â
TL;DR YOU EXCLUSIONIST SHITHEADS KNOW NOTHING ABOUT THE HISTORY OF YOUR OWN COMMUNITIES, LET ALONE BROADER QUEER HISTORY. SHUT YOUR MOUTHS, OPEN A FEW WEBPAGES, AND READ.Â
I legally acquired a government issued birth certificate which says that my legally recognized sex is nonbinary, WITHOUT MY BIOLOGICAL SEX BEING INTERSEX.
My birth certificate PROVES that ANYONE can LEGALLY HAVE THEIR GENDER AFFIRMED AS NONBINARY WITHOUT PROVING INTERSEX STATUS and without PROVING THAT THEY ARE âBIOLOGICALLYâ NONBINARY/INTERSEX.
IT IS ILLEGAL TO DENY PEOPLE LIKE US BIRTH CERTIFICATES THAT ALLIGN WITH OUR GENDER.
GO GET YOUR NONBINARY BIRTH CERTIFICATE TODAY!!!
JOIN THE REVOLUTION, get your nonbinary birth certificate, SHOW TRUMP THAT HE has no legal jurisdiction to ROLL BACK ESTABLISHED LAWS. Trump has sworn to UPHOLD United States law, which INCLUDES THIS LEGAL PRECIDENT!!!!!!
What he is trying to do is illegal by legal precident.
YOU CAN HELP BY GETTING YOUR NONINTERSEX NONBINARY BIRTH CERTIFICATE TOO!!!
Message me if you need help with your case.
We are here for you.
No one can or will erase us. We are here to stay!!
You are valid!! Give yourself the ultimate gift of legal validation today!!!!
You deserve it!!!!
Please please spread this. Anyone can reblog, please help get the word out!!
Also just a reminder that this blog has a dni (in the bio)! So please check that before following/interacting!
Just cuz I noticed we've gotten follows and interactions from people who are under the dni!
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300 followers q&a/ama
hey now that I have about 300 followers can y'all flood my inbox with questions, random shit, etc?
I feel like this milestone deserves a Q&A so like ask me anything babes!!! (the inbox is always open 24/7 so like itâs not just for this)
Hey y'all! I just reached a milestone on my main so I'd appreciate if y'all participated in a q&a/ama if you're curious about me!
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are aces lgbt?
The exclusionist argument always seems to boil down to, âI donât hear aces describing any experiences I relate to, so theyâre not lgbt.âÂ
I think weâre going about this backwards.Â
If thatâs the way people want to define it, we should be listing things that are obviously examples of âlgbtâ oppression,â like ⢠being kicked out, ⢠getting raped by someone who wants to change your sexual orientation, not just because you said no or because misogyny, ⢠harassed at church, work, or school, ⢠being threatened with or sent to conversion therapy, etc.,Â
and then seeing if aces also experience them.Â
Sorry, I put kind of a lot of examples of these in the first section. It was really hard to restrain myself because there were just SO MANY. I tried not to do 5 examples for every single one at leastâŚ.Â
Step 1: what kind of oppression do lgbt+ people experience? Â
â˘Â 30% more harassment, 221% more sexual assault, 100% more intimate partner violence, and 277% more stalking than straight people.
conversion therapy and rejection at church
1. âI was sent [to conversion therapy by my church] to be barraged [with] self doubt and shame until I became afraid to even look at the same genderâŚ. The distinction is often made that [conversion therapy would] be âagainst your willâ but that isnât nearly as cut and dry as it sounds. When you are publicly shamed by your congregation (if âaccusedâ in a religious setting) you may very well agree to conversion therapy as your only option. Especially if your a minor like I was. â
2. âWhen a preacher found out [about my sexual orientation] he recommended conversion therapy â even before i had come out as pan or transâŚ. guess who was told by members of their church to go to hell when they came outâŚ? Me!âÂ
3. âSo, Iâm a Christian. Was raised by and still live with a super conservative Christian family. Babysit for a super conservative Christian small group. Live in a super conservative Christian neighbourhood. Went to a super conservative Christian summer camp literally every summer of my life.Â
âBasically Iâve met a lot of conservative ChristiansâŚ. [What they tell me is people like me] are âunnaturalâ. That itâs a shame theyâll never be able to fulfill their âGod given dutyâ AKA get married and create lots of little conservative Christians. That theyâre sick and should be treated so they can experience true happiness some day AKA marriage and creating lots of little conservative Christians.â
4. âIâm a victim of corrective assault, been threatened with conversion therapy, been forced to medicate to âfixâ my sexuality and been threatened by pastors of my church. Iâm just so upset.â
5. â[My mom] believes its a mental issue and wants me to start corrective therapy Monday. Why canât she just accept me as me, why do I need âfixedâ"
corrective rape
1. â[When we talk about corrective rape], weâre talking about the so-called friend, the ex boyfriend, who I got along with just fine after we stopped trying to date, right up until he cornered me outside of Prom. Weâre talking about the guy whoâd been told by someone else I considered a friend all about [me questioning my sexual orientation]. Who kept oh-so-considerately telling me that he was doing this for my sake, that after I understood how good it felt, Iâd be normal.âÂ
2. âmy ex-boyfriend⌠decided to trick me into drinking, manipulate me emotionally, and force me into sexual situations after I came out to him because he thought he could fix me and didnât stop even after multiple failed attempts.â
3. â[my rope partner] decided to trick me into drinking, manipulate me emotionally, and force me into sexual situations after I came out to him because he thought he could convince me I wasnât.â
4. âWhen I came out [to my mum], she starting to force me to date girls so I would have sex with them (to âfixâ me) and even took me to the doctors and my endocrinologist to get my hormones checked since she was convinced there was something really wrong with me.â
5. âHe started by pressuring me assuming it was a mental health issue, he already knew I had many, he assumed if I had adequate access to counselling I would be âfixedâ He blamed it on everything from my childhood to my self esteem.
âAnd then he decided it was because Iâd never had sex. He raped me at least 6 times, I dissociated a lot of the relationship but I know there were 6 places where it happened, I donât know how many times it happened in any given place though. He told me that I should be happy because it proved I was wanted, that eventually Iâll like it, and that he needed to make me âwholeâ He said that he knew that there was a straight girl underneath everything who just needed to know that it was âokay to be sexual.ââ
getting kicked out
1. âmy mom threatens to throw me out if I so much as bring it upâ
2. âWhen I was house hopping, basically homeless as a young adult, my roommates would kick me out for not having sex with them. [Being out of the closet] got me homeless and back with my abusive mother.â
3. âIâm an 17 year old⌠and a junior in high school. I came out⌠to my family the other day and it went so horribly wrong. My own parents accused me of being some odd freak thatâs not human and just⌠kicked me out. I only have my clothes, computer and such electronics, 100 dollars and my cat. Iâm living in a friendâs basement. I wanted to go to college and earn a masters degree⌠but I have nothing. Iâm so lost. I donât know what to do.â
4. âI know for a fact if my mom finds out Iâll be homeless on the streets myself.â
5. âI [was] forced to have intercourse to try keeping my abuser from making me homeless⌠constantly [using my sexual orientation to]⌠threaten to kick me out 24/7.â
general familial rejection
1. âiâve heard âi was threatened with being kicked out of my houseâ so, so many times. also âi was abused/hit when i came outâ. most ppl just went back into the closet and lied.âÂ
2. âMy ex boyfriend sexually assaulted me [when I came out]. People have mocked me constantly for it. My parents put me in therapy for it.â
3. âIâve tried to come out to my parents so many times and my dad doesnât believe me, and my mom thinks it means thereâs something wrong with me!â
4. âI just recently went to a family reunion and⌠I confided in a cousin about [my sexual orientation] and of course he told everyone, then they all legit got angry at me [for it]. Asking me how it happened, telling me it wasnât real, it got to the point where they screamed at me then my aunt started setting me up with guys in her neighborhood.â
5. âMi padre dice que⌠es una moda y que son âsubnormalesâ les que lo son.  Me quiero ir de casa. [broken heart emoji]â (translation: âMy father says that [my sexual orientation is] a fad and that people like that are âsubnormal.â I want to leave the house. [broken heart emoji]â)
harassment at work or school
1. âi overheard my boss discussing ways to get me to leave. somehow, and i donât know how, he saw some of my tweets talking about [my sexual orientation]. heâs of the option that [it] is some disease, that it goes hand in hand with being devoid of emotions somehow, and that because of that i canât possibly be a good teacher because i am incapable of empathy for the children and i am mentally ill.
âsure. he canât fire me for that. but he sure can make my work environment so stressful, uncomfortable, and downright hostile. and he can do that so much it will make me quit. i didnât want to let him win, but like. i was legitimately suicidal because of the environment at work and i felt like i had to quit.â
2. âIâm actually one of those⌠who have been denied a job simply because of my [sexuality]! last year the college I go to was looking for a counselor for the younger classes, something Iâve wanted to do! a week after I applied, I got an email saying that while I was qualified they saw my⌠posts [about sexual orientation] on my FB and didnt want to hire me because they were afraid I wouldnât be able to positively connect to others!â
3. âIâd like to chime in on the whole workplace thing. In my experience, yes, [even if youâre not out], they can tell. Theyâll notice that you donât have [or at least donât talk about] a significant other. Theyâll notice when you donât join in certain conversations, especially ones talking about relationships and âhotâ people. Theyâll notice. And, if my experiences are any indication, theyâll talk about you behind your back.â
4. âI spent half of my freshman year math class tensed up in terror, trying to ignore the boy with his hand up my shirt because heâd threatened to out me to my parents if I told a soul - and my parents would have put me in therapyâŚ.â
abuse within the mental health system
1. âi have severe depression and about a year ago i had checked myself into a mental hospital because i knew i couldnât keep myself safe. the hospital felt like a safe space to me and at one point during conversation i came outâŚ. one of the patients, a male much older than me, began to tell me how⌠he would [sexually] touch me. he was very graphic about how and where he would touch me. everyone in the room cheered and laughed. i was terrifiedâŚ. two days later i attempted suicide. i was immediately sent to another mental hospital. this time involuntarily.âÂ
2. âHow do I quantify my experience with that therapist? Do I drop names? Iâm certain heâs still billing himself as a gender specialistâŚ. And I mean, I was extra-complicated, is it really his fault I got messed up, that CBT backfired so hard?
âYes, actually. Yes, itâs his fault.
âSometimes now I even call that experience abusive. Certainly gaslighting.
âThere was so much âyou overattach to labels and overthink everythingâ as a Solution? But most of all, the âthis again?â was the worst. The âweâve covered this, youâre not X, thatâs your disordered thinking again.â
âAnd any time I mentioned that, it was all awkward and unanticipated and sorry-you-feel-that-way(-itâs-your-brain-again)(-couldnât-have-known).
âThen last summer I realized I was autistic, and he laughed at the mere idea, and I isolated until I ended up in the psych hospital.â
3. âWhen I was 19, I was in therapy trying to deal with depression and anxiety (and honestly a lot of child abuse I didnât realize was abuse at the time).  My therapist⌠made a lot of homophobic statements, didnât believe bisexuality was a thing either⌠INSISTED that I âjust didnât want to get betterââŚ. He gave a male client my contact information, pushed me to go on a date for multiple sessions, and pressured me to have sex when I said I didnât want to.
âI was raped.â
4. âI love not being able to talk to my psychologist about my issues [around sexuality] because if we do sheâll suggest conversion therapy for me again. Feels good, feels organicâÂ
Step 2. compare the above to studies that include aces, and to the personal stories of aces
wait, we donât have to.Â
all of the above examples are actually by and about aces.Â
and no, the study results linked at the top are not from the âgroup xâ one about who people imagine theyâd discriminate against. itâs a totally separate university study that asked about what people had actually experienced.

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ace discourse reminds me so much of that one snl sketch: a found poem
literally, nothing exclusionists do, and nothing you say to an exclusionist, will ever matter. nothing will ever get a response beyond ânuh uh!â theyâll phrase it different ways every time: âaces are cishet. cishets are cishet. they just wanna be oppressed so bad. theyâre literally not oppressed in any way. they donât experience homophobia or transphobia. they benefit from homophobia and transphobia. they are lying. that never happened.Â
âyou canât use their tumblr posts as proof. you canât use studies about them as proof. you canât use every real-life org including them as proof. you canât use our communityâs own oral history as proof. you canât use our communityâs own written historical documents as proof.Â
âlmao iâm not a terf, iâm literally an nb lesbian. lmao iâm not quoting terf rhetoric, iâm literally an nb lesbian. lmao iâm not consistently attacking trans women inclusionists, iâm literally an nb lesbian. lmao our movement isnât full of terfs, we literally called out a terf once. lmao how dare you show me a blocklist of hundreds of terf exclusionists to call out, Iâm literally an nb lesbian.
âanyway the community literally started to combat homophobia and transphobia. anyway itâs always been lgbtpn. anyway itâs always been lgbt. anyway cishets arenât lgbt.âÂ
some of the things that canonically Donât Even Matter and are clearly Fake News:Â
aces as a group experience 30% more harassment, 221% more sexual assault, 100% more intimate partner violence, and 277% more stalking than straight people.
aces are as likely to be suicidal as gay or bi people, and twice as likely as straight people
aces do, in fact, get sent to conversion therapy specifically for being ace. have to leave schools and jobs specifically for being ace. lose housing because they are ace. get rejected by their families for being ace. get sexually assaulted specifically for being ace, not for âbeing womenâ or âdeclining sex.âÂ
aces, as a group, consistently experience ALL types of sexual assault and abuse at higher rates than their gay and lesbian peers. only bisexuals consistently experience these things at a higher rate as a group, than aces.
trans people who are also asexual are 25% more likely to have attempted suicide than hetero trans people. (Gay, lesbian, OR bi trans people: 10% more likely than het trans people. LESS likely than ace trans people.)Â
Ace trans people are also 50% more likely than het, gay, lesbian, OR bi trans people to have been homeless. And about 33% more likely to have been evicted for being trans. (Same study: A higher percentage of trans aces are harassed at work than of trans LGBQ people. A much higher percentage of trans aces have had to quit school because of harassment, than of trans LGBQ people. A higher percentage of trans aces have experienced family rejection, than of trans LGBQ people. A higher percentage of trans aces lack health insurance, than of trans LGBQ people.)Â
âThe first study that gave empirical data about asexuals was published in 1983 by Paula Nurius, concerning the relationship between sexual orientation and mental health.⌠Results showed that asexuals were more likely to have low self-esteem and more likely to be depressed than members of other sexual orientationsâ.Â
In 2015, Russia took away the rights of asexual, binary trans people, and many groups of nonbinary trans people, to have driverâs licenses. Thanks to the fact that every diagnostic manual for mental illness in the world still considers âlack of sexual desireâ to be a mental illness.
And an ace-inclusive Russian LGBTI+ youth site, the only one in that country, was shut down a few years ago thanks to a 2013 law against âpropaganda causing minors to form non-traditional sexual predispositions.â
aces were being studied, as well as being trashed as not-actually-oppressed by the mainstream gay community, almost 50 years ago.
ace invisibility and its effects were already being written about in academia almost 20 years ago.
lesbian and gay publications were casually referencing asexuals almost 50 years ago
mainstream publications were casually referencing asexuals as part of the LGBT+ community 40+ years ago
lots of gen x bisexuals considered aces part of the bi community, before there was a strong separate ace community, because they experienced equal attraction across genders (even though it was an equal lack of attraction in their case) and thousands of aces on Tumblr have shared their present-day experiences (in the notes on this link) with initially thinking they must be bi for the same reason
exclusionists have consistently singled out trans converts to Judaism for personal harassment, and going so far as to doxx one and try to get the rabbi to not let them and their family convert
exclusionists consistently both suicide-bait and defend suicide-baiting
exclusionists have faked screenshots to claim that a (non-ace, non-aro, inclusionist) transfem sexual abuse survivor was boasting publicly about sexually abusing children
ace exclusionists have been lying about ace inclusionists and enabling real predators in the process since at least fall 2016 tbh
I had no idea about any of these facts. Have so far tried not to get involved but according to these stats itâs a lot more important than I thought
honestly, getting involved in Discourse is probably pointless. It seems like the only exclusionists left are people who are so invested in their beliefs that they canât or wonât even look at other information; they just insist everythingâs all lies, and make fun of it without reading.
But getting involved in supporting aces in whatever ways they need/want, or raising awareness among the rest of us? Thatâs always worth doing. đ
i was talking to my bi ace genderqueer cousin about this and pulled up the post again and likeâŚ.
i just want to highlight this part. This list is all from the National Transgender Discrimination Survey, which had a sample size of something like 15,000 people. Which is fucking huge for that type of study.Â
trans people who are also asexual are 25% more likely to have attempted suicide than hetero trans people. (Gay, lesbian, OR bi trans people: 10% more likely than het trans people. LESS likely than ace trans people.
Ace trans people. Are more likely than any other trans people. To have attempted suicide.)
Ace trans people are also 50% more likely than het, gay, lesbian, OR bi trans people to have been homeless. And about 33% more likely to have been evicted for being trans. A higher percentage of trans aces are harassed at work than of trans LGBQ people.Â
A much higher percentage of trans aces have had to quit school because of harassment, than of trans LGBQ people.Â
A higher percentage of trans aces have experienced family rejection, than of trans LGBQ people.Â
A higher percentage of trans aces lack health insurance, than of trans LGBQ people.
None of this is because we are trans. If it were because we were trans, then the numbers would be similar to the numbers in the other groups. The difference between the groups is that weâre ace.Â
I need to point that out, because Iâm pretty sure the knee-jerk exclusionist reaction to this would be âbut theyâre trans, so it is just because theyâre trans.â
And itâs not a surprising difference. It parallels what happens when studies of things like suicide, poverty, et cetera, in gay+bi vs straight people, actually separate out the gay and bi people. It always turns out that the bi people have the highest rates of whatever is being studied.Â
This is just the same thing happening again. The groups that get the least attention have the worst outcomes, gosh gee I wonder how that could be⌠and then that makes it harder for us to advocate for ourselves, which continues the vicious cycle.Â
basically, a lot of exclusionists have seized upon Pride Month as a great time to double down on claiming that âaces arenât oppressed in any wayâ this list is my gift to everyone who sees those posts and has to be like, âI mean, we might not die or be kicked out or assaulted for being ace, but that doesnât mean itâs easyâ or âso we should take a backseat, but we deserve to be in the carâÂ
print it out, crumple it into a ball, and throw it at an exclusionist today!Â
°~Daily reminder~°
You donât need dysphoria to be trans.
You donât need to be suffering and miserable to be trans.
Trans people are allowed to be happy/okay with their bodies.
Not every trans person will be getting surgery/hrt.
Sometimes just a social transition is enough for someone.
There isnât just one way to be trans.
@a-knight-in-the-night I think you should read the notes before commenting on posts to check if op has addressed the same point before. Just to save face and not waste people's time.
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