Boost this. Malicious fucking compliance y'all. Tie up their legal system with tens of thousands of cases. Burn their state government’s cash on this issue. Force them to play by the Nth degree of this idiotic rule.
i love uncivil obedience. follow the letter of the law so close that it shows just how ridiculous and unfair the law is
This is so great because if anyone is caught impeding or messing with these deliveries, it’s MAIL, that makes it a FEDERAL crime, whoever fucks with these packages gets charged FEDERALLY, they face up to five years in prison.
[ID: A tweet by @ nytimes that reads, “Breaking News: Women can get abortion pills by mail for pregnancies up to 10 weeks without seeing a doctor in person, the FDA ruled. The decision comes as the Supreme Court considers whether to roll back abortion rights or even overturn Roe v. Wade.” Attached is a link to the article and a screenshot of the title and subtitle of the article. The article was published Dec 16, 2021. The title reads, “F.D.A. Will Permanently Allow Abortion Pills by Mail” and the subtitle reads, “The decision will broaden access to medication abortion, an increasingly common method, but many conservative states are already mobilizing against it.” /end ID]
This is great but do remember to check if there’s a weight limit on the brand you take. Idk about abortion pills but I do believe you have to take two plan B if your above a certain weight.
This picture has been circulating all over social media and I have more to add:
Delete all period cycle tracking apps off your phone today.
Do not tell anyone why you want to take your trip, especially over text/apps.
Do not tell anyone the real state/destination of your trip.
Have everyone on your trip turn off their phones. Use written directions or a burner phone. Do not use burner phone to open any personal apps. Dispose of after trip.
Only use cash while purchasing ANYTHING on your trip.
Take “vacation” photos to post later. Be cautious of geo-tags/only post screenshots of the original photos.
Some people might say this is being extra or overly precautious, but this really is the reality we are facing. People have been imprisoned with murder charges in certain states- some for literal miscarriages. If you are a person that ends up in this situation, the state can and will use your data against you as evidence in court. Do not leave a paper trail. If they want to treat us like criminals, we’re gonna move like criminals.
This is a reminder that Roe v Wade wasn’t just about abortion.
It was about privacy.
It didn’t state abortion is legal.
It stated that you had the right to do whatever you want, and we can’t determine if you’ve had an abortion without invading your privacy.
To see how abortion bans are a violation of privacy look at the abortion cases in Texas. Neighbors are sueing neighbors because, “You were pregnant. You left the state. Now you’re not. That’s strange. I think you left to have an abortion.”
Do you WANT people in your business like that? Sneakily checking the addresses on your mail to see if you’re ordering abortion meds? To stalk you to the point where they can tell if you’re pregnant and when you’re suddenly not anymore? Companies going through your search history to see if you’re on abortion websites?
Remember that people who aren’t women also need and want abortions. Include and protect trans and intersex people in this conversation. Keep watch for terf rhetoric and dogwhistles. Terfs will use this as ammunition.
And when we push for gender-inclusive language in legal and healthcare contexts, it’s not just because being called the wrong word makes us feel bad. If the language of a healthcare law or regulation uses specifically gendered language, that creates a loophole that can be used to deny trans people coverage. Ask any trans man who’s had to try and find gynecological care, or any trans woman who has ever needed a prostate exam. Yes, it is difficult and often humiliating to be called the wrong words, but what we’re mostly worried about is losing our access to the healthcare we need alltogether.
One day in January 1952 when the Fatherland Liberation War was at its height, President Kim Il Sung summoned a health official. On his table lay a document about the germ warfare perpetrated by the enemy and the countermeasure against it submitted by the officials concerned sometime ago. The leader who had been looking over the paper for a long time with a serious face asked the official how much the people were charged for the doctor’s fee.
This unexpected question confused the official who had been thinking the President would give his views on the document. So he remained dumb for a moment before he answered that the workers and office clerks were given free medical care under the social insurance programme of the state while the peasants and private merchants and industrial entrepreneurs were charged a very small fee for medical treatment and the dependents of workers and office employees were paying about 40 percent of the outpatient’s bill.
At this, the President said that the people were fighting for victory in the war at the front and in the rear at the risk of their lives and that nothing should be spared for such patriotic self-sacrificing people. Then he proposed to adopt a free medical service system for the entire people. As a result, the Cabinet decision about the introduction of a universal free medical service system was announced in November 1952. The introduction of such a system in a hard war time when every penny was needed for conducting the war surpassed all imagination of people.
detransitioning stories that don’t need more publicity:
i detransitioned because my feelings were entirely due to internalized misogyny, and I believe that all trans people are just gnc people of their birth assigned gender who either suffer from internalized misogyny or are fetishizing women
i detransitioned because i was confused about my identity and I blame doctors / trans people
i detransitioned because transition isn’t God’s plan for anyone
detransitioning stories that need to be boosted:
i detransitioned because my identity changed, and i don’t regret my transition.
i detransitioned because i was confused about my identity, and I regret transition, but i don’t blame other people for my own choices, and I don’t believe that my experience is representative of most people who transition. i believe that further restrictions on who is allowed to medically transition would do more harm than good.
i detransitioned for my safety, because I live in a place where it’s not safe for me to transition socially or medically.
terfs prey on detransitioning people. detransitioning people are at great risk of getting sucked into terf echo chambers. we trans people need to support detransitioning people because they are not our enemies. the trauma of heteronormative gender roles can be difficult to tease apart from dysphoria, and we need to be sensitive to our fellow humans who just want to feel comfortable in their skin. we need to make it okay for people to change their identities, and try out identities to see if they work.
fearmongering directed at young trans people like “make sure you’re REALLY trans before you [medically] transition, because if you’re not it will give you dysphoria” introduces social pressure to prove to other trans people that you’re really trans, which actually increases the likelihood that a person will transition and regret it. because you’re holding validation of their current identity hostage. if someone eventually detransitions, you shouldn’t add to their trauma later by now giving them an inner “i told you so, you weren’t really trans” voice.
Other detransition narratives that need to be boosted and respected:
4. I detransitioned because it was simply far too expensive for me to be able to afford a body that reflected my identity, and I decided that I would rather live in my sad-but-familiar form than an expensive hybrid.
5. I detransitioned because I did not have the necessary time and energy to keep up the absurd amount of work that it took to reliably pass as female.
6. I detransitioned for my mental and social health, because I live in a place/situation where the act of transition was causing me to be cut off from all support.
7. I detransitioned because my medical circumstances were incompatible with continued physical transition.
These, like #3 above, are not situations where detransition is particularly voluntary, but are a product of the circumstances and society in which a person transitions. I’ve known several people who have detransitioned for precisely these reasons, and it was certainly not an easy choice for them or one that they took lightly. Their identities have not changed (to the best of my knowledge), and if they could wake up tomorrow in a body that matched their identity they would. But that’s unfortunately the way life goes sometimes.
I recently found out that one of my dearest friends has a brain tumor. He’s getting it removed this week, but he’s only 29 and the whole thing is just wildly depressing and honestly completely fucking shocking. He’s on Medicaid, and he won’t be able to work for at least a month after his surgery — plus we have no idea if they’ll be able to remove the whole tumor and if he’ll need chemo and radiation when all is said and done. The harsh reality is that this could be the first of several surgeries.
Hugh, my buddy, is one of the nicest people I’ve ever met. He was there for me when I had COVID, literally the only person who visited me when I was sick. He spent most of 2020 unemployed and volunteering to delivery groceries to high risk folks in our neighborhood while also organizing for Black Lives Matter.
His activism, open-heartedness, and die-hard baseball fanaticism make him an easy guy to love. He’s also a charming, sane member of the kink community and always ready with a story or advice. His friendship means the world to me.
All this to say, there’s a GoFundMe for Hugh and I know it’s a lot to ask, but every little bit counts and if you might be willing to donate what you can to a stranger I would be forever grateful. And no matter what, I hope you might share this post for me and for Hugh. I hate that America is the kind of place where this is necessary, but such is the world we live in.
I wasn’t going to waste my time with this but it’s bothering me so!
Let’s look at this tweet someone shared
This is actively harmful
The point of rating your pain on a scale of one to ten isn’t to find out How Much Pain your body is experiencing at the moment. It’s not, like, figuring out how many Gs your body is being exposed to. Pain is subjective. Duh.
The pain scale is not used to compare other people’s pain to each other’s. Why would it be? That would be silly and kinda useless (except maybe in times of extreme medicine shortage, I guess?) Like, it’s not “Well, this patient says they’re at a 2, this patient says they’re at a 7, so this patient gets pain meds and this one doesn’t.”
It’s to compare your pain to your pain. Both where your pain is in relation to what you feel you can handle, and where your pain is before treatment and aftertreatment.
How you gauge your pain is important for treating that pain. It doesn’t matter that another person might be able to handle the pain better and just need a ‘small’ pain med to handle that. Who fucking cares if the person in room 2102 could handle your pain with just Tylenol if you can’t? That’s irrelevant.
Even more, knowing where you’re pain is before treatment (say, a ten) to where your pain is after treatment (say, a 3) is crucial. That shows if the treatment is effective in reducing your pain. Otherwise, if your pain is at a ten before and after treatment—or a seven before treatment and has increased to a nine after treatment—there’s obviously an issue that needs to be addressed.
There’s also a really sloppy argument being made about how individuals manage pain in relation to each other that just… isn’t true. Someone who has a lot of experience with one type of pain may bear that same type of pain better than someone who doesn’t, yes. That’s often true. But other types of pain that they don’t experience often may feel just as ‘omg I’m fucking dying’. And someone who for one reason or another has in the past experienced a lot of pain but is no longer experiencing that pain in their day-to-day lives isn’t going to bear the pain better than someone who has experienced less overall pain but more recently.
And certain long-term illnesses can actually make the same thing more painful. Like, a cancer patient might interpret every little movement as excruciating pain. That happens, and it’s not because pain was rare for them before.
And here’s how it’s harmful: people are ashamed of their pain. Yes, even including Good Nobly Suffering Disabled and Chronically Ill People that this tweet is meant to acknowledge.
People in pain feel they shouldn’t complain, shouldn’t cry, shouldn’t ask for pain management because Someone Somewhere is hurting worse, Someone Somewhere is going through more, or they themselves have been through worse.
But pain is not felt nor treated in relation to other people’s experience of pain. What an ugly—and more hostile to people in pain!—world that would be.
If anything, the pain scale (and treating pain as a vital sign) helps protect patients, those who are dealing with chronic and acute pain.
Anyway! The pain scale works because of the criticized dynamic, not in spite of it. There’s so many good ways to acknowledge that people with chronic pain may experience pain differently, including underreporting pain, and encouraging people with chronic pain to not underreport pain because they can theoretically handle it without… This mess.
A piece for a Texas Observer essay where a doctor working at a free clinic describes the convoluted system they and their patients must traverse in order to get the most basic of healthcare.
Sara Josephine Baker was an American physician notable for making contributions to public health, especially in the immigrant communities of New York City. Her fight against the damage that widespread urban poverty and ignorance caused to children, especially newborns, is perhaps her most lasting legacy.
Baker spent much of the later part of her life with Ida Alexa Ross Wylie, a novelist, essayist, and Hollywood scriptwriter from Australia who identified as a “woman-oriented woman”. She became the first woman to receive a doctorate in public health, and to be a professional representative to the League of Nations when she served on the Health Committee for the United States from 1922 to 1924.
