Krav Maga +1, it’s very useful!

Cars are inefficient, they can carry much fewer people and are also a lot more polluting.

Also, they are dirty and you need to watch traffic. In train you can study, read, actually develop instead of being miserable.

Would be terrible if we actually cared about people before the Almighty God of Profit!

Congratulations !

Dunno for other countries. In the NL, you need a referral to preserve, but it is pretty straightforward.

Best is to freeze before going on HRT. Then you can continue it without stress of having to stop temporarily (because then you may get hot flashes which aren’t always fun).

Rent control is a good first step. Building more is second.

Cooperations crying that controlled rent is bad bc it doesn’t let them build more… have they tried reducing the CEOs’ pay? And asking for government intervention in building houses?

How about spray/gel?

Adding to that, you can be a woman without having two XX chromosomes. If you have XY for example, but your SRY gene is disabled, then you grow up with a feminine body.

Vice versa, XX but where the SRY gen is turned on… or there is XYY, XXY, and even XX,XY.

As much as terfs like to pride themselves on being “real”, there is nothing that sets them apart from other women (or whom they incorrectly label as men, or women), aside from being utter asses.

I feel a bit of hip pain and I’m 27. Might be the outlier though, and I’m not sure if that’s the growth…

Dandelion, I kneel to you. This should be an unofficial guide.

Personally what I heard people do, is:

to people you know would be def allies, disclose if you want; and to those that one is unsure about, try to run with it. Those I think would not be, you might as well not disclose. But always, this goes: never feel bad for not disclosing. Your safety goes above everything.

For like online dating, I heard people say they disclose before starting something. If they then say, “even better” in a creepy tone (chaser), or something like “ew, disgusting/oh so you’re a (wrong gender) in (right gender)'s clothes” (transphobe), that’s a sign to avoid them.

Bluesky isn’t part of the Fediverse, it uses the AT protocol, not ActivityPub or the likes of it.

This is the concept behind ‘embrace, extend, extinguish’, basically.

Wholesome

Thank you for the source o7

You do not need to be, but a LGBTQ+ person will probably have more ‘experience’ with this discrimination and thus know when it’s bad. They can often recognise it earlier and better, exactly because they themselves often are the victims of it, and experience the effects.

If you’re not LGBTQ+, you don’t really experience homophobia yourself. That said, you should still call it out.