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OOOH, that sounds interesting.

I always thought that a human vessel wouldn't be able to handle Zalgo for very long. The body would break out into eyeballs and teeth until it completely dissipates.

Use the medications properly to prevent interactions with healthcare providers. The pills are very effective, but they have to be used right. Carefully follow the instructions provided on the How to Use Abortion Pill website. Note that misoprostol tablets should always be taken by dissolving them under the tongue. Do NOT insert misoprostol vaginally if you are self-managing an abortion. While this is medically safe, it can leave incriminating pill remnants that can be detected in the vagina during a pelvic exam if you end up needing to seek medical care. 

If it’s not an emergency but you need expert health advice, use a free calling service like Google Voice to call or text the Miscarriage + Abortion Hotline at 1-833-246-2632. Medical complications are very uncommon with abortion pills, but they’re not impossible. The M+A Hotline is safe to use and is staffed by trustworthy clinicians who volunteer their time to help those who choose SMA. Do not use your own phone number to call as this will create a record that is visible to your cell service provider. 

Don’t disclose any information about SMA to emergency room staff if you do need to seek medical care. This is how most people who are arrested for SMA are reported. Healthcare providers are almost always who calls the police in cases of SMA criminalization. Contrary to popular belief, HIPAA does not protect your private health information from being shared with police if you are suspected of doing something that could be considered a crime. If you believe you need to seek urgent medical care, do not hesitate to go. Say “I think I’m having a miscarriage” and provide your symptoms. Do not mention any use of or purchase of abortion pills. There is no widely available test to detect misoprostol in your bloodstream. If you do not disclose it, there is no way for a medical provider to tell the difference between a medication abortion and a spontaneous miscarriage.

The harm against trans men is often described as erasure and while I believe that's accurate, it doesn't do a proper job at conveying the violence we face as a result. I want to take the time to spell out how dangerous things are for transmascs are right now.

If you didn't already know, when a trans man becomes pregnant, and he wants to carry the baby to term, he must go off of testosterone for the duration of the pregnancy. Effectively he must "detransition" for a period of time. For many, the mere concept of pregnancy is horribly dysphoric, they may have plans to get a hysterectomy in the future. For others, having to go off T is a major deterrent even if having children isn't necessarily. And still some who want to get pregnant when the time is right and return back to taking T afterwards.

All these options for trans men are cut off with the repeal of Roe v Wade. If a trans man in the first category finds himself pregnant it is incredibly likely he will resort to risky measures to terminate the pregnancy. Or he could consider something more permanent, over half of all transmasculine people have attempted suicide at least once in their lives and that was with Roe v Wade in place.

(I highly encourage all transmasculine people to connect with your local queer community for support. Mutual aide and organization is the name of the game right now and there are people who want to and WILL help you.)

Even under normal circumstances, trans men's access to reproductive health care is sketchy. It is not at all uncommon for trans men to be turned away from gynecologists or have doctors refuse to treat them because they pass too well or have legally changed their sex to male. This significantly raises the risk of complications during pregnancy and is why trans men who decide to get pregnant go through extensive planning and preparation.

But for transmasculine people in any category, a pregnancy now means a forced detransition. Birth control is on the chopping block next and it feels as though the walls are closing in. Abstinence? The rates of lifetime sexual assault for transmasculine people is over 50%, the highest in the queer community. The practice of corrective rape as a form of conversion therapy for queer people has been well documented and is also on the table for legalization.

The rhetoric around trans men in the anti-trans legislation push leading up to this should not be ignored. The idea that we are sacrificing our sacred female fertility by transitioning. That trans ideology will carve up and rip apart the bodies of young innocent girls. This is language specifically targeted against trans men, we shouldn't have ignored it then and we should not ignore it now.

It’s not “proving that crickets can be traumatized”. It’s proving that *animals can genetically pass on the stress that a dangerous situation causes, and the offspring will instinctually respond to the same situation without ever having personally experienced it.*

And that’s a big deal for many things, including human psychology.

When Nazis invaded The Netherlands, local Dutch peoples were under extreme emotional and physical duress. The Nazi army took their food for the soldiers, starving the population. They patrolled the streets and harshly reinforced their new laws. Existence was horrible and some parents had to give their children away to wealthier families because they couldn’t feed them anymore. This event is known as the Hongerwinter, or Dutch Famine.

One generation later, the children of mothers who were pregnant at the time of the famine have been proven to exhibit intense reactions to stress, and heightened fight or flight responses. They also experience more obesity because their bodies are prepared for starvation.

Some of these children were never personally exposed to the famine. Their mothers gave birth after conditions had improved, or even after moving to another country. But the effects are there, and those people are now adults who can recognize this and attest that they didn’t experience something else traumatic during childhood. It was passed on in the womb.

You can read about it here: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2018/01/31/science/dutch-famine-genes.amp.html

This is called epigenetics. It’s essential to understanding how the human brain and body works. That our responses to stress can be passed on genetically. That it can show up in how we look physically, our physical health, our mental responses, our instinctual reactions. It’s especially important for people who are in therapy and need to understand *why* they act a certain way before they can actually work on it.