Why Did I Do This To Myself

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Now, you can go to Península Valdés and find that the whale population there is growing year after year, people can see them from their windows. In Iberá, where yaguaretés were extinct for over 70 years, there's now a population of 35 and growing, after being reintroduced just five years ago. As for rainforests?

We've becoming very, very good on restoring them. Natural environments, when given space and time to heal, can return to that they were. And after all, all natural enviroments are managed by human societies. It is up to us to implement a good management, un buen gobierno.

I firmly believe our children and grandchildren will see a restoration of Earth like never before.

Spix's Macaws were extinct in the wild for 70 years, and now captive breeding and conservation groups have reintroduced a small population (with more on the way) and there are babies being successfully raised in the wild again.

And what else is there, but hope? We exist for the grace of hope. Those who have lost all hope don't stay here. If you are here to send an ask like this, it is not because you have given up, it's that you are hoping someone will show you that that hope is worth having.

It is!! It always is!!

The population of an entire island working together to eradicate every last rat and mouse to save the native bird populations. They had to trap a bunch of the birds and keep them in captivity so they wouldn’t be hurt by the rodenticides, and released them after the rodents were gone. Normal residents helped by phoning in tips whenever they saw rodents. And they did it. Lord Howe Island, last I read, remains rodent free, and the native bird populations are rebounding!

Acid rain and the hole in the ozone layer, both of which were terrifying specters of my childhood, have been largely dealt with. Ecosystems devastated by acid rain are also recovering.

In 1991, the first captive-raised condors were re-introduced to Big Sur, Pinnacles, and Bitter Creek.

In 2006, three months before I turned eighteen, the first wild pair of condors was seen nesting in Big Sur in over a hundred years. A hundred years.

We did that. We fixed it.

How about another example.

When my mom was small, in the 1960s, there were many, many days of the year she was not allowed outside. Days and days they had recess indoors, because the air was so poisonous to breathe. Here's an article about it, with some good pictures.

My mom was 13 in the picture on the left. She was 50 in the picture on the right.

In 1987, there were 27 California Condors in the world, all captive.

In 2024, there were 566.

369 of them fly free.

That happened within my lifetime, and I'm not even 40 yet.

When you lose hope, think of our stories we're telling you. Recount them to yourself like a prayer. That's what I do.

There are 369 California Condors flying free in the sky right now.

There is no more acid rain.

There is an ozone.

There are wild tigers.

There are still birds on Lord Howe Island.

The answer is: the uterus isn't what causes your period, it is effected by your period. What causes your period and what causes trans women's periods is the same thing: the endocrine system.

HRT changes the sex of your endocrine system. Feminizing HRT makes it a female endocrine system, giving us a 28-day hormone cycle just like cis women. At the end of that cycle, the hypothalamus floods the body with prostaglandins. Those are what cause all but one of the period symptoms, because they make muscles inflame and contract. They are what make the uterus shed its lining, they are what cause intestinal cramps, they are what cause body aches, they are what cause headaches and migraines. The only period symptom not causes by the release of prostaglandins throughout the body is depression, and that is caused by your endocrine system simply not processing as much estrogen and from simply feeling like shit.

So, the only symptoms trans women don't get every 28 days is menstrual cramps, because yes we do not menstruate since we don't have uteruses. But migraines, depression, body aches, intestinal cramps, and the infamous "period shits" don't exactly add up to us having any better of a time. Except we have to pretend that we're fine and nothing is different because no one believes that we get periods, not even cis women.

Genuine question: is it possible for trans women to get endometriosis without a uterus? Because the whole Thing about endo is your body putting menses in Not The Uterus and that's SUPER bad for you and your insides.

Tbh this is probably one of those things that's just gone utterly unstudied because lol who even studies endo in people who *do* have uteri.

I ask because if it's possible, 1) I am so sorry and 2) this is a reason a trans woman might need hormonal birth control in addition to HRT. Because birth control prevents the formation of menses and is a literal lifesaver in terms of keeping your body from fucking itself up. My own endo is probably what screwed up my kidneys and bladder, for instance.

this was inspired by an ask I got on my straw page but I added the rest of the squad for fun, so thank you to them for the idea. Hope you like them and if you're interested you can get these as a keychain and stickers under the cut 👀

As in, do any of your memories take place during the 90s (yes, a single memory from 1999 counts).

If you are using Henry Nowak's death to 'prove' that white people are somehow oppressed fuck you. Fuck you. Fuck you.

You are actively going against his families' wishes. They have literally stated they do not want his death to be used to create division.

Don't compare it to George Floyd I know for fucking certain you did not give a shit about George Floyd you have no right to compare it to George Floyd when I can tell you did not care. Don't say shit like white lives matter you fundamentally misunderstand why black lives matter exists as a movement. I know for certain you people would not care if he wasn't white.

The police can still be to blame without it being that they have some anti-white bias. Maybe we should consider the fact that the police have the power to arrest someone who is dying and that maybe they shouldn't have that power.

Yes the police are to blame for his death, they were negligent. Doesn't mean it's some reverse racism bullshit.