Droppie [infosec] 🐨:archlinux: :kde: :firefox_nightly: :thunderbird: :vegan:<p><a href="https://infosec.space/@MsDropbear42/114370526306995540" translate="no" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">infosec.space/@MsDropbear42/11</span><span class="invisible">4370526306995540</span></a> </p><p>I've begun a new thread here coz though the idea sprang from my OP about <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/cant_get_you_out_of_my_head_tv_series" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cant_get_you_out_of_my_head_tv_series</span></a>, this topic is quite different to most of that series. In Ep 4 of that series, <a href="https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=WoRlN1hQZP0&feature=shared" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=WoRlN1h</span><span class="invisible">QZP0&feature=shared</span></a> <em>"But What If the People Are Stupid?"</em>, i was taken by surprise by what at first i mistook as yet another abrupt visual <em>non sequitur</em>, being various scenes featuring Julia Grant [<a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia_Grant_(transgender_activist)" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia_</span><span class="invisible">Grant_(transgender_activist)</span></a>]. </p><p>It was impossible for me to watch those painful scenes without simultaneously thinking of two other things; my own transition, & the recent / current UK legal imbroglio about transwomen. </p><p>Each & every time i learn of horrible political &/or physical attacks on trans peeps generally but transwomen specifically, thru my upset i ask one repeating question; why are we so hated & despised for firstly having been born with the curse of gender dysphoria, then secondly for trying to find ourselves & ameliorate the pain? </p><p>Though i regard my hitherto GD as an unambiguous curse, i was comparatively fortunate to be able to eventually fully transition, albeit sadly several decades too late [with all the adverse implications]. To do so i had to navigate medical gatekeeping, as was <em>de rigueur</em> under the <em>Harry Benjamin Standards of Care (HBSOC)</em> that "ruled the roost" back in my day 20 years ago in Australia, Thailand, USA & [i assume] UK. Anyway, the shock of seeing the unexpected scenes mentioned above made me think of the present UK mess, & the extent to which historically many poor desperate transwomen were blocked from being able to properly transition [to whatever extent they desired] by overbearing medical gatekeeping... especially when applied so despicably per the following. Then, roll forward to now, they find themselves thrice assaulted... once at birth, twice at thwarted transition, thrice by legal exclusion. It's just such agony.</p><p>So, in Ep 4, two scenes illustrating awful bigoted, sexist, if not maybe also misogynistic & even outright transmisic, gatekeeping by a NHS psychiatrist. He is arrogant, scornful, argumentative, & utterly dismissive of her faltering attempts to explain her inner world to him. </p><ul><li> 7:17 - 9:17</li><li> 23:43 - 25:17</li></ul><p>I'm not a Pom & have never been to Pommyland, so had never experienced that painful mistreatment there. Also, this is several decades old, so i don't know if the contemporary scenario is better or even worse. </p><p>However i did personally experience a milder version of it myself, right near the end of my pre-transition "exploring" phase in 2003, when i had decided that i'd finally come to understand myself after all the confused distressing decades, & was required to consult a psych to proceed. The first one suggested to me was preposterously unsuitable. He did not take me seriously, seemed more inclined to tell me about his d0g than actually consult me, but then at the end of that one & only session declared his belief that i was <em>"prolly just a gay guy"</em>. Ugh; idiot. Had i no other psych options than him, i'd never have been able to proceed with the surgical parts of my transition, as the Strayan, Merkan & Thai surgeons all required patients present a psych commendation [per HBSOC]. </p><p>Ergo, i really felt deeply for the sadly departed Julia's dilemma, & feel deeply for what my UK sisters are now being forced to endure. But yeah, RWNJs, fine, go ahead & attack <em>us</em>, coz clearly it's <em>us</em> that's the problem... 🙄🤦♀️</p><p><a href="https://infosec.space/tags/LGBTQIA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LGBTQIA</span></a>+ <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/GenderDysphoria" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GenderDysphoria</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Transmisia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Transmisia</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Transphobia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Transphobia</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Trans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trans</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/TransRightsAreHumanRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TransRightsAreHumanRights</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/FsckThePatriarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FsckThePatriarchy</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/fsckALLreligion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fsckALLreligion</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/RWNJs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RWNJs</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/FsckRWNJs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FsckRWNJs</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/FsckChristoFacists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FsckChristoFacists</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/ChangeTheSystem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ChangeTheSystem</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/FuckAroundAndFindOut" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FuckAroundAndFindOut</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Misanthropy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Misanthropy</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/TransRepresentation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TransRepresentation</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/transwoman" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>transwoman</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/transwomen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>transwomen</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/transkids" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>transkids</span></a></p>