#queue: inactive

There should be equal or greater attention given to trans organizations in UK (even global ones too), trans creators, trans fundraisers, trans resources, trans safety, trans joy, and actual support (especially to transfems)

Not just of doomscroll. Not just focusing on seeing unfiltered TERF rhetoric, JKR's non-stop hatred of trans women, and Harry Potter discourse over n over.

Too much hopelessness and frustration can be deadly !

To start a few generic links:

charity UK org http://mermaidsuk.org.uk

advocacy UK org http://transactual.org.uk

HRT info http://hrtcafe.net & http://diyhrt.wiki & http://transfemscience.org/articles/transfem-intro

online vr trans community http://transacademy.org

positive trans-related news https://www.goodgoodgood.co/search?query=trans

trans self-defense resource https://traction-project.org/ & transfem + TMA self-defense resource https://www.tiktok.com/@queersneverdie & a self-defense study guide

masterpost of transfeminist of color theory and reading (magz post)

other than that...

its very easy to find lists of popular "goodreads" trans books, trans musicians, trans actors, trans video creators, trans game makers, trans streamers, etc.

but is also satisfying to find your own niche trans friend creators + indie + regular people around yourself.

For the others considering moving to U.S. a lot.

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3 COVID Experts on Why the CDC’s Isolation Guidelines Are Bad for Public Health

You can still be contagious if you’re fever-free and feeling better.

Article Date: March 7, 2024

Article Blurb:

Given that COVID is still very contagious, Lara Jirmanus, MD, MPH, a clinical instructor at Harvard Medical School and fellow at the FXB Center at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, says the newest guidelines are more confusing—and that they’re even misleading. She tells SELF that the CDC’s messaging implicitly communicates two falsehoods: that COVID has “ceased to be a threat,” and that it “stops being transmitted when people stop having a fever.” According to Dr. Jirmanus, infectiousness has little to do with specific symptoms, since you can be sick (and contagious) without a fever and with few, mild, or even no symptoms at all. And if you’re testing positive on rapid tests, you’re very likely still able to infect others, even if you feel fine.

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“Shortening isolation below five days supports economic interests and is not in the interest of protecting health, as the contagious period can vary with current variants,” Kaitlin Sundling, MD, PhD, director of cytology at Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health and member of the People’s CDC, tells SELF. She believes that the CDC’s updated recommendations are moving in the wrong direction. “COVID isolation should be expanded, not reduced or eliminated. There is no change in the scientific evidence around COVID transmission that would support reducing the recommended isolation period below five days,” she says. “Extending isolation beyond five days would be a safer approach, both to prevent viral spread and to allow people adequate time to recover.”