This Is In No Way The Best Way To Post It But It Is The Only Way I Could Get The Format To Stay

This is in no way the best way to post it but it is the only way I could get the format to stay

The kinning got so bad I downloaded the lizard customizer mod and taught myself how it worked just to make myself in it

Mostly a pink lizard, but with some cyan stuff for fun and some extra legs

-Emyr (he/it)

Having some serious brainrot over the Rain World lizards. Might be a kin? They’re so me. Just silly little guys.

My brain is biased towards the pink lizards since they can be purple and that’s My Color™️ but we’ll see if that holds true if I can manage to push forward and progress in this game and see more species of lizards firsthand (I’m still kinda trash at the game but I’m getting a little better? And I’m determined to get places, eventually)

So in other words, jury’s still out on the type.

-Emyr (he/it)

I'm fairly certain I don't kin yellow lizards but there's something about them that is so delightful to my brain. They're so Friend Shaped and idk why. Is it the antennae? Is it their unique pack nature and cooperation that I find appealing? Is it their nice colors? Idk they're just really neato imo and I just get really pleased when I see one in game.

Maybe it's my brain hinting at a new split or maybe it means nothing at all, who knows.

-Emyr (he/it)

Assuming you wanted first name so I picked shorter, bc Emyr is a very short name. My deadname was more of a medium length.

My last name, though, is much longer- can’t tell you either the old or new name obviously, for safety reasons :}

-Emyr (he/it)

Measured in letters, not syllables. Please do *not* put your deadname in the tags, I don't want to know that

being transmasc agender is like being a little creature that got a gender vessel but they sent me the wrong model- like imagine a cis man and his vessel is male and fits him perfectly and im just there like

Medical stuff I wish cisgender people knew

Medical transition does not make someone a man or a woman. A trans woman is a woman, and a trans man is a man, regardless of what medical treatment they have or have not had. Medical treatment just makes life a hell of a lot easier for a lot of people

It is not true that 40% of trans people commit suicide. The infamous 40% statistic refers specifically to rates of suicide attempts which occur before transition. Most of these attempts fail and the person survives.

Transition vastly reduces risk of suicide attempts from 40% down to around the national average, while dramatically improving mental health, social functionality, and quality of life for those who need it.

Being trans is not classified as a mental illness by either the American Psychological Association or the World Health Organization. Gender dysphoria (in the DSM) or incongruence (in the ICD) is recognized by both as a medical condition, and transition is the only treatment recognized as effective and appropriate medical response to this condition

When able to transition young, with access to appropriate medical care, and spared abuse and discrimination, trans people are as psychologically healthy as the general public

Transition-related medical treatment is not new or experimental; it has existed for over a century

Transition-related medical care is recognized as necessary, frequently life saving medical treatment by every major US and world medical authority

Transition is the only treatment for dysphoria that has proven to be effective. Attempts to "cure" trans people, alleviating dysphoria by changing the patient victims' gender identity to match their appearance at birth (aka "conversion therapy" or "gender identity change efforts"), are such utterly worthless and actively destructive train wrecks that this "therapy" is condemned as pseudo-scientific abuse by all major medical authorities

Transition is a very individual process; not everyone needs or wants the same things

"Regret" rates among trans surgical patients are vanishingly rare, consistently found to be about 1% and falling. This 1% includes people who are very happy they transitioned, and often are still glad they got reconstructive surgery, but regret only that medical error or shitty luck led to sub-optimal surgical results. That's a risk in any medical treatment, and a success rate of about 99% is astonishingly good. And only about 6% of trans people have had reconstructive surgery, so rates of surgical regret among trans people as a whole are about 0.06%.

Transition "regret" is vanishingly rare. Of everyone who starts even the preliminary steps of transition, like trying a new name or pronouns socially, only about 0.4% eventually realize it is not right for them (see p108-111). Most realize this soon after starting transition, when physical changes are minimal or nonexistent. Many do not regret exploring transition as an option, even if ultimately it wasn't what they needed.

Hormone therapy is pretty cheap, is generally the first line of treatment most trans people get, and dramatically impacts one's appearance

Most trans people socially transition long before they get reconstructive genital surgery, if they ever get it at all. Not everyone needs or wants surgery, and even those who do need it are often unable to afford it. Genital surgery for trans women costs tens of thousands of dollars out of pocket. Surgery for trans men can cost between tens of thousands to over $100k, depending on the procedure one is getting.

25 US states currently have laws prohibiting health insurance companies from having "trans exclusion" policies, where they categorically refuse to cover medically necessary transition-related treatment. This means that a small but growing number of people are able to get treatment, including surgery, covered by insurance

When a child or adolescent transitions that does not mean they are being rushed into irreversible surgery

Transition for predolescent children is 100% social; changing hair, clothes, name, pronouns, and/or the gender they are recognized as by their family and community. No medical treatment is necessary or provided before the start of puberty

The first line of medical care for trans adolescence is puberty-delaying treatment. It is gentle, fully reversible, and has been used for decades to delay puberty in kids who would otherwise have started it too young. It does nothing but buy time, and has no long term effects

Transition-related hormone supplements do not cause serious long term health problems

Reconstructive genital surgery for both trans women and trans men can provide excellent results