[–] 1 point 13 hours ago*

Yes, I'm aware of the cissexual trans people, and the political conflict within the community revolving around them, though I think you're certainly confused about the modern understanding of a lot of this within the trans community. If you're going to draw a line anywhere, hormones are a much better place than bottom surgery, speaking as someone who's undergone both. Hell, there are even nonbinary bottom surgeries these days, with both and neither being on the table.

All of this is however generally unrelated to the fact that how people use the words male and female right now is kinda a shitshow. You've got people like me using them as the adjective of gender, others using them like you, then still others using them to refer to assigned sex at birth (especially among those who reject the idea that most aspects of sex are mutable or that sex is a bimodal distribution of many traits, most of which are bimodally distributed themselves, but instead argue it's a binary based on a single trait).

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  • [–] 3 points 14 hours ago

    On the user side: it just works as far as any in America can. It's free and you don't have co-pays or any of that shit. You do have pretty restricted choices in who you see though because of the other sides to it

    On the provider side: it's more complicated and has restrictions on how much you can charge, but it's been thoroughly gamed where possible. Many offices don't take it

    On the internal side: it's a cluster fuck. It's a highly regulated service that the government pays for, but is provided by private insurers. Some states have public options, but most states are just giving you the medicaid plan of your choice of health insurance company. This is the ultimate reason why medicaid for all is a bad idea, it lets the source of the problem fester

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  • [–] 4 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

    Hell, at that point why compromise.

    Semi related, some states have started mandating hearing be covered by health insurance and it's something the feds really should have done years ago. It really sucks being a 20 something who needs to scrape together a couple thousand dollars to be able to hear (and thus be more employable)

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    Yeah finally got around to watching it tonight and I was basically sobbing the whole time. It wasn't quite what I expected, but it was so amazingly good. In addition to capturing the feeling of being an egg and seeing someone like you. The connection hit really hard as well. It also just did an amazing job of conveying dysphoric disassociation. I also loved the use of monochrome lighting and fluorescent coloring to blur the feeling of real and unreal.

    So yeah, absolutely amazing cathartic cry movie, though IDK if it's a great one to show to cis loved ones to show how it feels.

    And it's made me feel the need to get around to watching Veneno, which I've been putting off for several years. I suppose I don't get to complain about not having enough great trans media if it exists and I don't watch it, so I guess I gotta go watch it. When I do I'll try to remember to post a review of it too. I've already seen the first episode and loved it.

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