I think every movie regardless of time period or tone should have at least 1 (one) trans person in it. Like at the beginning of The Godfather some Sicilian tgirl should come to Vito and be like “Godfadda, I need money for my breast implants” and Vito should be like “I’ll never forget what you’ve done for this family. I’ll find you the best surgeon in New York”

Trans experiences: wearing a hijab as a trans man.

TT post by @ starboy.cherie (he/him).

This entire comment section ended up being a lot better than expected.

In incredible last-day-of-trans-visibility-week news:

f1nn5ter has successfully set up her trans healthcare non-profit Anne Health

• It is already the highest rated trans healthcare provider in the country apparently
• Here's the page on what they actually offer
• For HRT it seems to largely be about shared care agreements with GPs (-> they provide the expert info needed but your GP provides the actual meds -> better than *AHEM* other people's subscription models bc this means you can actually get your privately-prescribed meds on the NHS (how I got mine back in the day), but the downside is your GP has to be cool and not a transphobic dickhead about it (which I would generally recommend as a trait to look for in your GP))
• *They can do surgical referrals but you need to check with your surgery provider if they accept them (correction bc I had not checked the FAQ properly!)
• It includes trans youth!!! At least for therapy and advice around puberty blockers (again they do not provide any meds themselves)
• Co-founders are former CEO of mermaids (THE trans kids charity in the UK) and founder of Think2Speak (peer support organisation)
• It's a non-profit, so any money made outside of what is used on operational costs goes back into a pot to fund/subsidise people's care who can't afford it
• even if you don't want to use the service itself, they also have a FAQ/resource page for general useful info
• you can donate to it!!!! (there's a big donate button on the top of the page)

(also tiny, (big) bummer correction: the news clip at the beginning citing 8k+ people on the waiting list - yea it's double that meanwhile, and that's only the London GIC, and only the not-yet-seen waiting list (they're currently booking in ppl who got referred in 2020 for first appointments) if I am not mistaken, so not counting everyone already in the system having wait for years between appointments (hi), other services across the country, and private services' waiting lists)

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Got that fantasy bleach job

Transmascs and transfems have more in common than not.

Attempts to divide us are a distraction from the real issue at hand - the removal of trans rights by conservatives in power.

Don't let them win. Work with your fellow trans people, both the same and of different genders than you.

So I follow N. D. Stevenson (comics writer and animator, most famous for Nimona and She-Ra and the Princesses of Power) and his husband Lee Ostertag (also a comics writer and animator) on Instagram. When I started following them, they were both publicly presenting as women, and then a few years ago N. D. came out as transmasc nonbinary, and then earlier this year Lee also came out as transmasc. Anyway this is all setup to say that Lee had the chance to make the funniest post of all time and he took it:

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Absolutely iconic.

IF YOU ARE A TRANS FEMME GET YOUR THYROID CHECKED, ESPECIALLY IF YOUVE NOTICED A DROP IN LIBIDO OR AN INABILITY TO MAINTAIN A STABLE WEIGHT

It isn’t a big deal if you have hypothyroidism, you just need to take an artificial thyroid hormone called Levothyroxine…but don’t let it go untreated!!! It’s super fucked up doctors don’t regularly check our thyroid when we start HRT

Do we have any advice for the young trans woman besides yelling "start hrt" at her

• by Laerte Coutinho

Free pdf.