It makes me so, so angry when I see those posts that are like “HORRIFYING EARLY PLASTIC SURGERY RESULTS FROM WW2,” because all of those lists are full of images that aren’t the final result and are used for pure shock value. Harold Gillies, who performed most of those surgeries, was an incredibly talented surgeon. Here are some images of the full results of his surgeries.
I need to emphasize that I can’t post the “before” pictures that go with these because the men did not have faces. The injuries were so extensive that these men were missing nearly all of their facial features, and through cutting-edge techniques that “looked scary” at the time (e.g. extensive skin grafts), Gillies saved these men from a medical nightmare.
Gillies performed the world’s first ftm bottom surgery for trans man Michael Dillon and pioneered mtf bottom surgery! Respect his legacy.
Shinjuku Boys(1995).Tatsu, a transgender man, jokes with his barber about his changing appearance, and his newly masculine features.
TRANSCRIPT:
BARBER: So you go regularly to the hospital for your hormone injection? TATSU: [nods] BARBER: Does it hurt? TATSU: Not at all. BARBER: You have more facial hair. It must be the hormones. You’ll get a moustache soon. TATSU: I’ll look distinguished! They’ve made quite the difference. I never thought I’d change so much. Most customers say I’m like a man. BARBER: Really? TATSU: [laughing] They say, “You look like a man. You’re not cute.” BARBER: [laughs]
END TRANSCRIPT.
I love seeing this, because I’ve looked for many things about trans guys in Japan (in trying to understand how Japan views transgender people on the whole) and other than a few recent things, everything was exclusively about trans women.
“just not seeing enough people talking about carl clemons-hopkins, the first out nonbinary actor to be nominated for an emmy, and the nonbinary flag gown they wore last night”
“if you want a HP shirt/necklace/earrings/whatever, make your own!!” except if you wear it in public, you’re still promoting jkr
“if you want to read the books, just get them from your library!” except libraries pay attention to what people take out, and you are still supporting an author if you library their books
“just play the games!” money goes to her for that
“well, just stream the movies!” she gets money for that
“well, you can always only tell your friend group about HP–” your friends are people! you are promoting HP to other people!
JKR is transphobic. She hates trans people. Just the other day she tweeted something transphobic–specifically, transmisogynistic. In the past she’s been transphobic to all types of trans people. She’s also bigoted in manyother ways.
There are better series. There are other series. Stop coming up with ways to keep the books and fandom alive.
Trans lives are more important than harry potter.
kinda pointless rebloging this given that if you disagree i dont want you following, me but imma do it anyway.
^^^^^ Its not just her being transphobic on twitter or normalizing transmysogyny. She uses her fortune to fund terf groups and she has been cited in UK legislature. She actively works towards pushing trans rights back and she uses her Harry Potter money to do it.
Keep seeing pronoun positivity posts is about he/they and she/theys. That’s cool and all but this one’s for the she/hes. If you’re a she/he I love you and you can take as much mint as you want from our garden
Is this a positivity post or a secret cry for help? OP, how bad is the mint situation?
It’s both the mint situation is fucking severe
My spearmint brings all the he/shes to the yard, and they’re like
Brother (increasingly frantic): Yeah but I’m, I don’t wanna fuck it up. Is it— what does that mean you said she/they and then you said “oh wait no use they/she,” which one do I use?
Person filming: They- they more than she.
Brother: Oh god
[laughter from the person filming]
Brother: Okay, like, how- how much more though? Is it like if- do I- am I being an asshole if I say, like, they maybe like 4 times and she 2 times?
aren’t we all just trying to be morticia addams just a little bit
Some of us are trying to be Gomez actually
honorable. respectable. where would we be without you
An excerpt from the essay “Powerful T4T Energy in Steve Martin’s The Jerk” by Daniel M. Lavery, from his book Something That May Shock and Discredit You
Interviewer: What do you think about starting an initiative on campus here at UK, to be more inclusive to women who have penises? So we can put urinals in the womens restroom for them.
Student: Sounds fantastic.
Interviewer: Oh, does it?
Student: Yeah.
Interviewer: What about- Let’s take it one step closer, y'know more- for inclusivity here on campus, but free tampons and pads in the mens restroom for men who have periods?
Student: Sounds great.
Interviewer: Ok- You dont see anything wrong with those statements?
Student: No.
Interviewer: What men do you know with periods?
Student: I generally use- ones like in Willy T* have pads, I use them pretty often.
*(Willy T is the college nickname for their library I’ve heard.)
I attend this school and I can confirm 2 things. Yes, our big library is indeed called Willy T AND the day that this stank bitch came to campus everyone was losing their MINDS and kept walking by in hopes of getting chosen to call her out. Immaculate.
i. am on the floor. wheezing. the moment she realizes that not only is she talking to a trans man,, but that SHE COULDN’T CLOCK HIM,, this is high art and i want it written in Big Wedge sharpie on my wall
okay, idk where the clip was, but there was another bit where she was talking to this frat-boy looking dude:
bennett: so do you think we should put tampons and pads in the men’s restroom? dude: sure, I mean, I don’t really care. if a dude needs a tampon, he can have one. bennett: but would he need one? like, what would he use it for? dude, thoroughly unimpressed:I don’t know, that’s hisproblem.
and I just love that guy’s energy. So much of the trans bathroom talk is invasive and way too personal, and then there’s this guy like “yeah, why the fuck would I need to know? why do youneed to know, you weirdo?”
