Queen_Potato

Happy International Women's Day!

It suggests the only difference is dosage or intent, when modern care uses bioidentical estradiol rather than the synthetic compounds used historically.

And it minimizes the horror of the state-imposed chemical castration Turing was subjected to.
7/7

When TERFs say "Turing was given similar feminizing hormones” it creates a misleading equivalence.

It implies trans healthcare uses the same substances, which is factually wrong.
6/7

The problem with calling DES “estrogen” is that it ignores an important distinction between a toxic synthetic compound historically used for forced chemical castration and bioidentical human hormones used in voluntary gender affirming care.
5/7

Calling DES “estrogen” is like calling mercury a blood-pressure medicine because it changes cardiovascular activity.
DES only mimics estrogen signaling, while bioidentical estradiol is the exact hormone the human body produces.
4/7

17-beta estradiol is a steroidal hormone with the same chemical structure as the estrogen naturally produced by the human body.

3/7

DES is called an "estrogen" because it activates estrogen receptors, but thats where the similarity ends.

It's a non-steroidal synthetic compound that is structurally completely different from estrogen produced in human bodies.
Essentially a chemical mimic that fits into estrogen receptors
2/7

Terfs are so annoying with this disinformation.

Alan Turing was given a chemical called DES (diethylstilbestrol) it's a non steroidal estrogen. Technically accurate in a pharmacological sense, but deeply misleading in a chemical and biological makeup.

A mini 🧵
1/7

What is with this administration's naming...

During my social transition phase, I had the mindset that I couldn't be trans because of certain qualifiers.

One of them was liking women, I had the idea that the only way I could really be a trans woman is to be into men.

I had a lot of interalized transphobia I had to grow out of.

P.s. if anyone knows who to credit plz 🫰

When they misunderstand the propaganda.

🙃

It's so disorienting to walk in somewhere and be the same height as 12 yr olds

During my egg phase I had considered me liking women didn't qualify me to be trans. IDK why I had even considered that at the time.

How my parent's questioned me when I came out.

Today it's trans Kansans. Tomorrow it's whoever else doesn't fit the mold of the current administration.
Either we all have the right to exist in public life, or none of us do.

And here's what history keeps trying to teach you: when a government tests how far it can push one marginalized group, it's never really about just that group. It's about seeing what the rest of us will tolerate.
What we'll normalize.
What we'll let slide.

you're allowed to be. It should be what THEY deem is correct.

This is happening right now in Kansas no grace period, no transition plan, just a demand to surrender your license immediately, or face fines and imprisonment. All so they can hand you back another "license".

Now you are receiving a letter telling you that key is being taken away. Not because you did anything wrong. Not because you pose any risk. But because lawmakers decided your identity doesn't match their definition of who

A driver's license isn't just a plastic card in your wallet. It's how you prove who you are to your employer, to your landlord, to the bank, to the hospital, to any organization that requires an ID.

It's the key that unlocks a job, an apartment, a loan, medical care. To VOTE!

So... How are trans people the "most protected class"?....

I literally work 3 jobs, if I'm in lingerie and referencing a stereotype I'm doing the third job, and with the way the economy is going I'm gonna need to pick up a 4th.

We don't need to focus on the wrong things. 😕

That's because they are trans kids, you troglodyte.

Never let this divorced dad troll go unchecked.

America being one of the most anti communist countries in the world while the people suffer under the worst effects of capitalism among the OECD nations is ironic to say the least.

Me today 🥲
(fk u dysphoria)

😩😩😩😩 guess I'll get another rifle

Shout-out to the girlies with septum rings.