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the top one is the recent one, i just wanted a little collection of "parents can support their trans kids and no one went on fire or died"

and one for siblings:

There's no need to feel down,

I MEAN YOUNG THEY!

The simple yet useful Arabic numeral:

This is very stupid but it’s genuinely what I think about every time I consider skipping dinner after work

Hospitals can’t give you a blood transfusion with anything other than O- without testing your blood type first, even if it’s listed on your medical records already. The test is pretty quick and getting the wrong blood type is incredibly dangerous and possibly fatal, so they don’t take chances.

Blood type tests are only valid for like 3 days after they’re done, so if you have to get more than one transfusion more than a few days apart, they have to retest your blood every time. Even though your blood type never changes, they have to screen for antibodies that might react to the donor blood, and those do change. They will also reverify your blood type when they retest, because they can’t just assume it was recorded correctly the previous time, because of how dangerous getting the wrong blood type is.

The only time they won’t test your blood type is if there isn’t enough time to run the test. In an extreme emergency, they’ll give you O-, which is why O- is so vital to have available.

Also, just like with gender, the general understanding of how blood types work is incredibly simplified. Like, my blood type is A+, but that does not automatically mean I can accept blood from anyone who is A+, because there are hundreds of A antigens that can possibly cause an adverse reaction to each other. The “+” only specifies the Rh factor of my blood (Rh is a protein that you either have or don’t have), but gives zero information about any other antigens. It’s not enough information.

O- doesn’t have A or B antigens, and it also doesn’t have the Rh protein, which is why it’s considered universal. It’s extremely rare (but not impossible) that someone would have an adverse reaction to O-.