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Hey so you know how people always talk about transmasc erasure? Coming across that paper on Tumblr discourse on transandrophobia reminded me of something.

Psst...psst...come over here; I want to tell you a secret.

People get mad @ me when I point out that one of the major hurdles to overcoming anti-vaccine conspiracies amongst the general populace is that the medical-industrial complex has repeatedly demonstrated itself to be unworthy of trust, but listen. Listen.

But as my mom got bigger the rest of the world felt that it was important that we all know that this was killing her. Mom was too big and even as she swung us around in the bedroom until we were dizzy and tossed us onto the bed like professional wrestlers in the ring while we laughed hysterically - even then she was dying, from fat. “You have to talk to your mom,” family members would say, “tell her you want her to go on a diet. She’s going to eat herself to death.” But we didn’t tell our mom to go on a diet, not once. We didn’t need to. We could see how every single person in mom’s life was already telling her. For her birthday, for Christmas, almost every year someone would buy her a membership to Jenny Craig or send large boxes of disgusting weight loss shakes to our apartment. We were so poor then, eating at times exclusively from food banks and church soup kitchens. We had no phone for years at a time, often our electric service would be cut off. Nobody ever had money to help us with that. “You should budget better,” they would say. But we regularly got offers from people who were willing to shell out hundreds, if not thousands, of dollars to enroll my mom in the latest weight loss program. When my mom developed sleep apnea I was sure this was proof that mom was dying.

Often when discussing fatphobia, we'll talk about medical fatphobia and the impact on the healthcare of fat people. And we'll talk about the "fat tax" - how plus-sized clothing costs much more for lower quality goods.

Related to the fat tax comment - another aspect that's generally overlooked is the additional difficulty and expense of obtaining household items sized for larger bodies and rated for higher weights. Beds. Chairs. Step stools. Ladders. Toilets. Showers.

But as my mom got bigger the rest of the world felt that it was important that we all know that this was killing her. Mom was too big and even as she swung us around in the bedroom until we were dizzy and tossed us onto the bed like professional wrestlers in the ring while we laughed hysterically - even then she was dying, from fat. “You have to talk to your mom,” family members would say, “tell her you want her to go on a diet. She’s going to eat herself to death.” But we didn’t tell our mom to go on a diet, not once. We didn’t need to. We could see how every single person in mom’s life was already telling her. For her birthday, for Christmas, almost every year someone would buy her a membership to Jenny Craig or send large boxes of disgusting weight loss shakes to our apartment. We were so poor then, eating at times exclusively from food banks and church soup kitchens. We had no phone for years at a time, often our electric service would be cut off. Nobody ever had money to help us with that. “You should budget better,” they would say. But we regularly got offers from people who were willing to shell out hundreds, if not thousands, of dollars to enroll my mom in the latest weight loss program. When my mom developed sleep apnea I was sure this was proof that mom was dying.

Often when discussing fatphobia, we'll talk about medical fatphobia and the impact on the healthcare of fat people. And we'll talk about the "fat tax" - how plus-sized clothing costs much more for lower quality goods.

i think transfems should be allowed to be good at sports.

“Anti-inclusion politicians have made the conversation around trans athletes in sports so muddied and full of false fearmongering that brands lacking moral clarity are running from mere association,” Rapinoe added. The two-time Olympic medalist and two-time World Cup champion went on to argue that the conservative right’s attack on trans athletes — and weaponization of misinformation about athletic fairness — is a distraction from issues that cause harm to the very “women and girls” they claim to protect.