Fun fact, the French word for a settler is appropriately “colon”. Eg:

I’m in for saying riot police should quit their jobs in shame following the Roe v Wade ruling. Nowadays I’m blocked from even accessing reddit.com for some fucking reason, even without a VPN

Drag does shows at the libraries to tech trans kids. That’s the part I’m confused about.

That sounds like it might be a local thing then, it’s certainly not the norm. I’d be as confused as you are.

The letters never fragmented, other than a weird fringe group of conservative gays but no one likes them. In fact, intersectional queerness expands beyond gender and sexuality. In my city the queer community supports everything from immigrant and homeless rights to accessibility and bike lanes.

Capitalism cannot collapse fast enough

Maybe that’s the real reason he has to wear diapers

So seeing it for kids now is confusing, especially when it’s under the guise of helping trans kids.

This is the part I’m confused about. Drag has never had anything to do with trans kids?

In fact, one of my frustrations is that during pride all the gigs go to drag queens and only a few go to trans performers (in particular trans PoC). One of the complaints I see most often too is that so much of the queer community is dominated by gay men, and in turn drag, that it leaves the rest of us feeling excluded.

I’m asking why the children’s drag shows at libraries? Wouldn’t trans speakers make more sense?

Why not both? One is entertainment, the other is education. Typically drag reading hours at libraries use entertainment to encourage children to read from an early age. In reality, the real reason you probably don’t see more trans speakers is because our existence is seen as “woke”

Btw not a conservative by any means. More of a free loving hippie type who thinks everybody should be loved and treated equally. This trans stuff is new even for us old lefties

Wasn’t accusing you of being one, they’re just the ones responsible for the current culture war. We just want to live in peace.

I would however like to point out that we’ve been around for all of humanity. Maybe not in name but in experience. A big part of why there’s been so little awareness of trans people is because the Nazis did such a thorough job of eliminating us and any research into us, but the Internet allowed us to find each other. A good starting point to learn more is the Looting of the Institute of Sexology.

The first sex reassignment surgery happened in 1906, before Hitler’s rise to power. Going even further back, we’re all over ancient mythology. Loki was famously a gender bender, Caenis was an invulnerable trans warrior in the Illiad, Iphis was transformed into a man by an Egyptian goddess. Really it’s just the Abrahamic religions that like to exclude us.

There isn’t one. Trans and drag are entirely separate things. We may cross paths often as allies but it’s not inherent.

As trans people, we may advocate for better care for trans children (typically in the form of social support and at most informed access to puberty delayers) but that has nothing to do with drag shows. We just exist, much like anyone else, living 24/7 as our preferred gender. You wouldn’t notice if you passed us on the street:

Drag performers on the other hand are just that, performers. They entertain audiences much like a juggler or a magician might. Sometimes that’s performing in adult-only shows (typically in bars), other times it’s reading to children or lip syncing Lady Gaga. They wear over the top costumes and act dramatically but at the end of the day it’s just a costume. You’d know if you passed a drag performer on the street:

I don’t blame you for any confusion since conservatives have been trying to muddle the waters ever since they learned the word drag, in part as a scare tactic to demonize trans people and make us scarier than we are. But there’s no reason to fear either.

As a transgender performer myself who constantly has to deal with people thinking I’m a drag performer because I’m trans, please don’t conflate the two. Drag is a costume. Trans is not. It is possible to be trans and do drag, but it’s not even the default tbh. It’s mostly gay cis men in my experience.

Also, there’s nothing inherently sexual about a corset otherwise you wouldn’t see them all over renfaires and comic conventions. Same with bras, half the population wears them on a daily basis

Would a burlesque show be available for children?

Yes, burlesque performers sometimes do family friendly events. They typically do outfit changes or character work, not strip teases for obvious reason.

Regardless, drag isn’t inherently sexual. It can be made sexual for an adult context but on its own, it’s costuming and character work.

Drag performers sometimes do child friendly events such as story time, but there’s nothing sexual about those events. In fact, it’s no question why kids would be drawn to being read stories by someone in a whimsical costume.

Fwiw, even burlesque performers sometimes do family friendly events (for obvious reason they do an outfit change rather than a strip tease). Anyone who does adult shows is very aware of the line between family friendly and not, and likely knows the local blue laws better than anyone else

If you donate blood, depending on the org, you might get a card that has your blood info on it. Seems like a good thing to keep in your wallet :)

For example, men having heart attacks are more likely to present with the classic chest pain radiating to their arm. Women can have chest pain, but often present as sudden onset of nausea and vomiting with no pain. That’s a rare presentation of a heart attack in a man, so a man complaining of severe nausea is more likely to be thought of as GI in nature, but if you know he’s trans then alarm bells start screaming that this might be cardiac and you need to do an EKG now.

This is why we need more medical research focused on trans and intersex bodies. It’s honestly a travesty that it hasn’t been studied much, largely due to the pushback from oppressive governments and transphobes. The problem extends beyond trans people, so much medical research is modeled on white cis male bodies, but I’m sure you’re already aware of that issue.

Transition affects nearly every part of the body. It’s already known that trans brains more closely resemble their cis counterparts rather than their sex assigned at birth (citations: NIH.gov, Scientific American). It wouldn’t make sense to treat a trans woman as a cis man for brain imaging. In trans men, testosterone deepens the vocal chords and can even slow down or stop periods. In trans women, estrogen shrinks the prostate and can even reverse male pattern baldness. Surely there are other effects on internal medicine, both positive and negative

Part of trans liberation involves sponsoring more research in this topic. In your heart attack example, has it been scientifically proven that the symptoms are immutable with transition? Does the amount of time someone’s been transitioning affect it? These are genuine questions, I don’t know the answers to them

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You’re Just Asking Questions™ eh? Alright I’ll bite, mainly for anyone else coming through.

Firstly, so much of the world is actively hostile to trans people that trying to use it as a defense would backfire in the vast majority of courts. The trans panic defense is unfortunately a very real thing that lets killers and rapists get away with heinous crimes. A recent example of this is in Tennessee, where a court overturned a murder conviction upon finding out that the VICTIM was trans, as if that somehow makes it ok - news article.

Secondly, assuming said strawman does make it to a court where they have to plead, under oath, that they are trans and should be sent to a women’s prison, and that argument doesn’t backfire- the court is going to want to see hard evidence for this claim. A random cis dude claiming to be a woman is very unlikely to have any kind of evidence to show.

Sidebar, I don’t think you understand how much emotional and physical labor (and money) is actually involved in transition. Just getting approval for HRT is usually a huge ask, with people sometimes waiting years for approval, and that’s just the first step. Mind you this is not an argument for transmedicalism- there are trans people who don’t seek the medical route but are still valid. Such a theoretical case would be exceedingly rare and require a level of nuance and scrutiny that I have zero faith the courts can provide, but even then an actual trans person is likely to have a recorded history of dysphoria, social transition, or a name change. It really is not feasible to just “identify as a woman” overnight, and implying as such shows a complete lack of understanding

Finally, it’s worth mentioning that trans people are overwhelmingly more likely to be the victims of violent crime rather than the ones committing it - source

I find it particularly interesting that you assume being in the US would benefit you as it’s literally heading towards a trans genocide. Fwiw, I fled the US a while ago when I saw the writing on the wall.

Please take some time to meet actual trans people and talk to us, rather than resorting to strawmen

As someone who’s been transitioning for 12+ years, I guarantee my body fat and hormones are literally nowhere near “genetic male”. Medically confirmed in fact, repeatedly. You’re making big assumptions about trans bodies that aren’t necessarily true.

I’d love to see what emergency meds you’re talking about that are more dependent on body fat composition rather than something like BMI, allergies, medical conditions, or age. But even then- soft tissues are the most affected by medical transition and are more closely aligned to their cis targets. That’s kinda the whole point. Not to mention the medical expertise behind whoever is administering said drugs.

Edit: oh you’re from lemmy.ml, that explains a lot

That’s not how that works

“Biological sex” says jack shit about a trans person’s biological characteristics, especially deep into transition. It’s more often than not a dogwhistle that transphobes use to imply that trans women have the same violent sexual tendencies as many cis men, and to imply that those characteristics are somehow immutable.

The state does not need to get involved in a medical discussion between a trans patient and their doctor.

The US does that on purpose. Read up on a barbaric practice called v-coding

We don’t.