I Wish I Hadn't Been Socialized To Think That Smooth Legs Are Sexy. I Wish I Hadn't Grown Up Trading

I wish I hadn't been socialized to think that smooth legs are sexy. I wish I hadn't grown up trading stories with friends about the best ways to get absolutely baby smooth legs in the summer. I wish every magazine I've ever read hadn't shown me models with hairless legs and underarms and Brazilian waxes. I wish my friends hadn't asked with shock "you don't shave your bikini area?!" in tenth grade, while we changing in the same room. I wish I hadn't immediately conformed to meet that expectation. I wish that every swimsuit I looked at online wasn't on a body hairless model. And while I hate the idea that women's worth is equated with their looks, I still wish someone had told me that body hair is beautiful.

Wisconsin!

I know I say this all the time but seriously if you’re a radfem you need to gather with other radical women. It’s vital for you and them. Maybe you can only make it to one gathering, a festival, maybe start a meetup. Maybe it’ll only be 3 of you there, but it’s something and it really changes everything.

You’re not alone and you don’t have to be. Connect. Gather.

Oh you have to be kidding me. Listen, @jacine-the-queen , I regret to inform you that it has not, in fact "already been proven" that transition helps with dysphoria. In fact, long term outcomes show the exact opposite. You really going to discount the data from 1331 individuals who underwent hormone replacement therapy?

Asscheman 2011 (Netherlands) considered the outcomes of 1331 post-HRT transsexuals with an 18.4yr average length since beginning of treatment. The outcomes for the female-to-males seemed generally positive but in the much larger male-to-female group, comprising 72.6% of the total, “total mortality was 51% higher than in the general population, mainly from increased mortality rates due to suicide, acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, cardiovascular disease, drug abuse, and unknown cause.” Breaking this down further they state, “the increased mortality risk in MtF in our cohort was characterized by a high SMR [standard mortality rate] of suicide (of 5.70), AIDS (of 30.2), and illicit drug-related deaths (of 13.2).” The timing of the suicides also provides some important information.  None occurred within 2 years of treatment, consistent with the “honeymoon period” mentioned so often in the literature. However, “there were six suicides after 2–5 years, seven after 5–10 years, and four after more than 10 years of cross-sex hormone treatment”.

And the next study is even more damning:

Dhejne 2011 (Sweden) is among the most well-known studies on transition outcomes, partially due to its surprisingly negative results and partially due to differences among authors in interpreting the data. The sample was 324 post-surgery transsexuals with median follow-up time of over 10 years, the largest study of those post-SRS [sex-reassignment surgery]. One advantage to the study was that Dhejne compared the sample not only to population data, as with Asscheman, but to matched non-trans controls. Findings included 7.6 times higher suicide attempts than controls and 19 times higher completed suicides. Pyschiatric hospitalization was 2.8 times higher, even after adjusting for prior psychiatric morbidity.

So yeah. Data.

Some information about what is happening in the UK with regards to trans rights. Thank you @wxntersolider for the screenshots.

And men, on average, have more free time than women, (Sources: here, here, and here) so you would think they would be the ones doing more interesting things with it. But no, instead women just do everything and then get super creative with our free time and then we get burnout because we don't get any extra time to just lounge around and do nothing.

Men are boring.

Women's free time as told by Rapunzel GIFs:

It's so wild how when you ask ppl about how they like to spend their free time it's always men going "sports and games" and women like "oh i dunno i like to dance and paint and play music and bake and write and sing and draw and cook food and read and tend to my plants/pets and make crafts" yet women are stereotyped as vapid??? ppl will debate you about whether women ever did anything in world history?? helloooooo????

I'm straight, but I 100% support lesbians, and I agree that Ted Bundy is ugly.

Ted bundy isn't ugly, you're just a lesbian

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