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Typical vaccines work by training your immune system to see something as a threat, so your body will attack harmful bacteria and viruses before they can get established or do serious damage.

"Tolerogenic vaccines", also called "inverse vaccines", do the opposite, and teach your immune system that something isn't a threat and therefore it shouldn't be attacked. At the moment, the only way to stop someone's immune system from attacking one thing is to suppress it entirely, which makes that person vulnerable to many other infections.

Tolerogenic vaccines could be a huge help for illnesses where your immune system has started attacking your own body, like multiple sclerosis (attacking nerve cells), type 1 diabetes (attacking insulin-producing pancreatic cells), and rheumatoid arthritis (attacking joints).

They could also be used to tell a person's immune system not to attack a transplanted organ. Right now, anyone who gets a transplant can expect to need to take immunosuppressants for the rest of their life, just to prevent their immune system from killing the transplant. Inverse vaccines could change that!

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There’s also this part near the end of her essay which stood out to me concerning transandrophobia. Not only did she already say that she failed to acknowledge transmascs/men in her book (I forgot where I saw that, if anyone has a link I’d love to add it in) but she seems to actively acknowledge the mistreatment transmascs/men face!

The essay is linked at the end

This feels… I don’t know if ironic is the right word but it’s definitely odd that many transandrophobes cite the book Whipping Girl yet the creator is against the mistreatment of transmascs/men. Huh, some food for thought.

I want you to T-pose. Turn your right thumb up and your left thumb doen and look at your right thumb. Move your arms up and down a bit until you feel a nerve running from your armpit to your palm. Now turn your right thumb down and your left thumb up, and look at your left thumb. Keep your chest facing forward and your shoulders back. Move your arms again until you feel that nerve again. Keep alternating between these two for a minute, or look at each thumb thirty times each.

Now sit down. Put your left hand firmly under your left buttock, palm down. Keep your shoulders back and put your right hand over the crown of your head, very gently pulling it to the right. Do this for thirty seconds, then do it again but with your right hand under your right buttock.