Sure Looked Strange To Me

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I wanted to use what ‘reach’ I may have here to share the Carolina Wildlife Center’s urgent plea for donations. If they are unable to raise $75,000 to cover ongoing and future care of their wildlife patients, the center will have to close July 20th, 2026. The services provided by CWC to the community are incredibly valuable, and without them, many wild animals will suffer without the care they need.

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A person can go from no symptoms at all to being profoundly debilitated all in one day.

Some have baseline symptoms so low and flares so high, that things can go from 1 to 10 very quickly.

The 60% claim comes from here, and it's based on incomplete data which examines only a fraction of trans prisoners, and the person above has actually only used the statistic for trans women. For reference, 19% of the overall prison population are incarcerated for sexual offences. This is because trans prisoners' existence is only recorded in the cases where a "local case board" was arranged to deliberate on how a trans person should be treated with regards to their gender. These local case boards often won't be held for lesser offenses and are most likely to be held (unsurprisingly) for sex crimes, and also are not held if the trans person decides not to disclose that they are trans (which we can do even if visibly medically transitioning).

This data was also collected before the recent legal guidelines changes which make trans people guilty of sexual offenses if we don't disclose we're trans before sex. This will of course skew the data even further, because these actually will be treated as sex offenses.

I'm admittedly especially frustrated that I found this level of misinformation shared by a blog supposedly dedicated to pointing out and challenging whorephobia. (@this-is-whorephobia)

i'm thinking extra hard about how we've ended up where we are, with trans kids at the center of so much hatred, because children are not seen as people with interiority or an ability to narrate their own experiences. we've decided it's alright to lock children up for horrible diagnoses that psychs throw around like they're nothing, to strip their autonomy completely and force them through humiliation, invasions of privacy, and endless torment by "professionals" whose power over every waking moment of their lives has no end. these things cannot be separated.

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