my binder was about $50, i only got free shipping because of the country i happen to live in. i use minoxidil for facial hear, a box of that was around $40. going to a barber instead of a hairdresser so i don't get a femme hair cut, that's $30 and i'd have to do it regularly. i still have to wear a pronoun pin to remind people i'm not a girl, that was around $10. if i want to go on T without a perscription, it'll be in the 100s, but even with medicare it's about $5 a bottle and again that's a repeated, regular purchase that will stack up over time. even before surgery, my gender conformity gets expensive.

and here's the kicker: i'm intersex. i've already got masculine features like an adam's apple and some facial hair and an androgynous voice despite being assigned female when i was born, and i still need to do all of this to not get misgendered. so imagine how expensive that is for a trans person who isn't intersex, who has to try even harder.

I think about this tweet all the time because they would've been SO powerful...

Like Brendan IS the lovable "oaf" superhero, and Sandra IS the no-nonsense, competitive journalist. The VISION:

Pizza was voted the 9th best thing, making it the best food. Bees weren't in the top 10 best things, but they won 77% of matchups to be selected as the best creature, followed by emperor penguins and hedgehogs. Bisexuality didn't place in the top 10 either, but it won 73% of matchups compared to heterosexuality winning only 45%. (Orgasms were the highest ranked sexual thing, and were miraculously ranked at number 69.) I think the windmill is supposed to stand for electricity, which was the second place winner. And the winner of "best thing" was sleep.