ID: Text in the style of the “the more you know” slogan which says “remember your roots”. Under the text instead of a shooting star with a rainbow trail is a red brick with a sparkly progress flag as its trail

  • 0laura@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    45·
    8 days ago

    help trans people by teaching them about diy hrt. it’s way more effective than putting pronouns in your bio. read up on how HRT works on https://transfemscience.org and learn about which sellers have been tested by a third party on https://transharmreduction.org/hrt-testing

    edit for context: the frustration in this comment isn’t directed at op but at LGBT people that are like “be gay do crime!” but when it comes to actually doing crimes and being LGBT they suddenly care a lot about what the law says trans people should be allowed to do. all bark no bite. though that’s not relevant to my point, I mostly just want people to learn about diy hrt

    • jawa21@lemmy.sdf.org
      14·
      7 days ago

      This is all incredibly valid, salient, and informative. However, it should be stressed that DIY is inherently dangerous and can really go bad. Only do so if you are more than confident in your ability to do everything involved.

      I started transition in the early 2000’s before the terms “transition” or even “transgender” were even remotely mainstream. HRT wasn’t a real thing that you could just get prescribed.

      I guess what I’m saying here is that if you have the option and capability, it is worth it (and safer) to do HRT legit. Don’t wind up like me with bare bones information and skill, winding up going through a weird pseudo menopause in your 20’s.

      I have nothing against the idea of DIY, but please stay safe and informed. Don’t trust a single source of information.

    • ShareMySims@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
      5·
      8 days ago

      the frustration in this comment isn’t directed at op

      You’re good, and so are any resources that can help people get through this.

  • blindbunny@lemmy.mlEnglish
    171·
    8 days ago

    If you can’t leave you should be looking into firearms education look up SRA, Pink Pistols, and concealed carry as often as possible. Seek out LGBTQ firearms education like farenough_42

    • ShareMySims@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
      104·
      8 days ago

      Good to know some people see accessibility as abusive…

      This is definitely a you problem. Deal with it, ableist.

      • aeharding@vger.social
        12·
        7 days ago

        Im just trying to help. The post body doesn’t federate to mastodon, so nobody there will see it. Alt text e.g. captions does though. This is one of the main reasons image captions were added to Lemmy.

        Nobody is stopping you from using both either. However is you have an accessibility concern with captions, you should definitely report is to the Lemmy devs so they know and can make the implementation better.

      • caden@lemmy.sdf.org
        81·
        7 days ago

        Huh? In what world is it ableist to advocate for/promote the use of a real accessibility feature over a workaround that doesn’t work on all platforms on which people might be seeing this content??

        • ShareMySims@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
          33·
          7 days ago

          In a world where the person “advocating” a feature who isn’t actually advocating for anything at all, doesn’t even consider that not everyone on the fediverse uses lemmy, and that not everyone running lemmy has it up to date, but most importantly, calls an existing and perfectly valid and literally harmless accessibility solution “abuse” because they don’t like it for whatever reason.

          • aeharding@vger.social
            8·
            7 days ago

            literally harmless accessibility solution “abuse” because they don’t like it for whatever reason.

            Well, I am calling it “abusing the post body” because it doesn’t federate to all services. Captions (or as Lemmy calls them, alt text) does federate better as it was designed to use a more standard federation data type that Mastodon understands.

            So, using the post body for captions actually kinda is harmful in the lens of Mastodon users, and other federated services that don’t support Lemmy’s post body.