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So, this is actually an example of medical sexism, and is a glaring reason why you should be critical of how the psych field is run.

When people talk about "girl this" and "boy that", what they're actually referring to is the way in which psychologists feed into gender essentialism.

The "boy version" of conditions are loud, rambunctious, misbehaving, or violent. The "girl version" of conditions are reserved, fearful, secluded - or hysterical, overly emotional, illogical.

For example - boys with autism are stereotyped as rude, aggressive, loud. Girls with autism are stereotyped as shy, confused, quiet. This is because that's how professionals in medical field actually diagnose them. Even if it's not written in the criteria, professionals are trained to have gender biases in their evaluations, either intentionally or unintentionally.

And y'know what that means? It means that if they have the "opposite" traits, they usually won't get diagnosed. For example, if a girl is loud and intense, they often won't be diagnosed as autistic, because "that's not how autistic girls act."

This same thing happens with entire categories of conditions, too. For example, women are more likely to be diagnosed with borderline personality disorder, while men are more likely to be diagnosed with antisocial personality disorder, even if they exhibit the exact same symptoms as one another.

Gendered biases are a huge issue in the psych field, and are a reason why some people can't get diagnosed at all, or get constantly misdiagnosed.

I am sorry that I am posting this so close to the deadline but! The FCC is open to comments right now about if or not stories about trans people should require a mandatory content warning in the same way that graphic violence, sexual acts, and coarse language must be warned for.

It is not too late to submit a comment. The more comments they recieve the harder we are to ignore. Make it clear that trans people are NOT inappropriate content and we do not need to be censored.

The comment process is extremely simple and the link above provides some ideas for your comment to make writing it easier.

The deadline is 12:00 EST.

Make your voice heard.

Do not let them treat our trans siblings as appalling content on the same level as violence and gore.

Remember that this will not stop with us. History has shown us this shit before. Make it clear here and now that this is unacceptable.

*(Read: Assertive of our boundaries and stood firm on the fact that our identities are deserving of respect)

We should be allowed to make a sour face or take a cold tone with someone when they carelessly misgender us for the fifth time in a row despite multiple corrections. We should be allowed to complain about erasure and ask where our needs and experiences come into play when we hear people reinforcing binary normativity in their discussions of gender related issues. We should be allowed to be visibly/audibly angry with other trans people when they try to forcibly categorize us as fem or masc, or imply that our enbyness is a mere phase that will eventually lead to "real/full" (binary to binary) transition.

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"attended white women patients who suffered from vaginismus, a disorder marked by painful vaginal muscle contractions that prevent the entering of the penis, making intercourse impossible. Complaining husbands approached Sims, who regularly etherized their wives, rendering them unconscious so that their husbands could have sex with them."

I sure wouldn't be better off if this didn't exist! I do gain help from the field of gynecology and Planned Parenthood, indeed!

And now we're gonna quote J. Marion Sims, said father of gynecology, here, one of the people whose actions we should let go because even though they're racist, these ideas help us now in the future:

"As a plantation doctor, Sims attended many children, but he used only the Black infants at subjects for dangerous experiments in tetany, a long-misunderstood children's neuromuscular disease characterized by convulsions and muscle spasms. The tetany that was epidemic among enslaved children was actually the result of severe calcium, magnesium, and vitamin D deficiency caused by chronic malnutrition, but Sims was erroneously convinced that it was caused by the displacement of skull bones during birth.

He took a sick Black baby from its mother, made incisions in its scalp, then wielded a cobbler's tool to pry the skull bones into new positions: "During this time, I would occasionally puncture the scalp over the lambdoidal suture, with the point of a crooked all, and prize out the edges of the parietal bones always, with the effect of greatly modifying the rigid fleure of the extremities..."

So, in terrible news, Trump's trying to pull some strings to pass this massive internet censorship bill, featuring all the kinds of internet censorship we're terrified of, including mandatory ID for accessing basically any website, specifically to crush state regulation of AI, because apparently this man will always see the moral bottom of the barrel and start digging.

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