@graysongoal
🏳️🌈♿️🏳️⚧️ writer, researcher, educator, & leftist dog pop | SE OH I do too many things | LGBTQ+, AuDHD, disability, SJIA, patient-involved research, rheumatology, health tech, sex & sexual health, health equity, access, games, etc. Links: graysongoal.carrd.co
Before I got top surgery, I really liked the ones from Gender Bender. They even have some that zip up in the front for easier wearing.
genderbenderllc.com/collections/...
fun fact: more people regret rotator cuff surgery than regret gender affirming surgery
as my followers are aware I got fired (for being AuDHD) which means I'm now uninsured and I had to spend $180 to talk to my psych yesterday to get my $130 meds and the advice was take as little as possible for affordability (even tho I'm like useless w/o them)
Must read from @janus.bsky.social about how “age verification” laws are paving the way for the online version of what just happened to trans people in Kansas (gift link!) www.theverge.com/policy/89207...
We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.
If gender were the immutable biological reality they claim to believe it is, they wouldn't need to spend so much energy policing it like this.
I shouldn’t have watched this. No one needs to feel like smacking someone really really hard first thing in the morning.
Despair (1894), Edvard Munch: A person is standing looking down, they appear sad. They have brown hair, and are wearing a brown sweater. They are leaning on a fence and appear to be on a bridge walkway. There is a group of people in the distance. In the background is a sunset with orange, yellow, and blue colors that is set over dark blue water, with a green hillside lining the waterway. The text reads, “The Sick Times. My child and I both have Long COVID. Even in COVID-aware spaces, we are excluded because of their pre-existing disability. By eZme Fern, aka MadMaskedMxma.”
Medical facilities have handled Long COVID the same way they have the ongoing pandemic: ignore it and hope it goes away. - My child and I both have Long COVID. Even in COVID-aware spaces, we are excluded because of their pre-existing disability.
eZme Fern and their ten-year-old both have #LongCOVID, but they’ve discovered that even in COVID-aware spaces, they're excluded because of their child’s pre-existing disability. They argue that COVID-aware communities must provide safe spaces for generationally disabled families. bit.ly/4sAkobN
The cost in human lives will be in the thousands before this is over.
Slaughter of a defenseless and oppressed populations.
Iran War thread for March 9.
Oil is at $95 from a high of $118 last night.
But Dow Jones is now at 47,000. It was 50,000 a month ago.
Asian markets have recovered some losses from last night, but they are still down.
also tell them what it means, what about their brains pointed to that diagnosis, who else in their life is autistic (if you don't know any yet, 1. yes you do, and 2. get safe enough they'll tell you), which tv characters they love are autistic, what you love about them that is related to autism...
Maybe they relied on AI to pick targets. But they bombed the school twice, hitting it again 40 minutes after the initial strike, in order to kill survivors and first responders. The mere *existence* of AI means no one has to be held responsible for this crime against humanity
Cis people need to pay attention to the way they communicate this. They freely admit that after all of their research, they came up with zero evidence that HRT was harmful.
Then they banned it anyway, claiming their inability to find a reason is a reason in of itself.
Men’s Health publishes a list of CDC LGBTQ+ resources deleted under the Trump administration
"We are closely tracking developments to determine appropriate next steps," says the president of Doctors for America @drsmeena.bsky.social
www.attitude.co.uk/news/mens-he...
It's Patient Safety Awareness Week! Patients with disabilities are more likely to experience adverse events & preventable harm in healthcare. Reducing these disparities should be a part of any patient safety conversation. DEC can help you start: www.disabilityequitycollaborative.org/healthcare-r...
If you've been following the journey of me getting access to treatment, know that the fight is STILL happening.
On Monday, I spoke at City Council begging them for better oversight over the vendors related to the health plan.
Now I'm speaking with reporters.
athensindependent.com/acc-030226-e...
"For the next phase of my career, I look forward to some independence and finding new spaces to share my work in line with my personal goals."
Another CBS News journalist leaving and talking about independence. Bit of a not-so-subtle hint at what's happening over there.
I know people are very sensitive about the use of the word “genocide” but the attempts to medically eliminate trans children is very clearly meets the standard because they are trying to eliminate a population and also they know some of those kids are going to kill themselves
Has anyone done research on how many people have migraines during the weeks following time change?
Between the sleep deficit and weather changes that happen during the same time, I wouldn't be surprised if those numbers would be high AF.
It's normal to restrict or move away from treatments when evidence of harms starts to outweigh evidence of benefits.
It's not normal to restrict or move away from treatments when there is evidence of benefits and none of harms, even if the evidence of benefits is "low quality."
“Piracy is the most effective form of artistic distribution these days. So be it.”
-Werner Herzog on NPR just now 🔥
Carmen Sandiego from the 90s cartoon
Happy International Women's Day to the original International Woman
I need every single male artist that follows me to read this. It's not very long. You need to bear witness to this shit. You have to see it with your own eyes because you never will in your everyday life.
I'm serious, read it all please
Leaving a public comment is easy and took me less than a minute. Link toward bottom of article. Super worth-it.
This is repulsive
This led to denied vaccines, delays in accessing medications, and denied visit claims due to a mismatched gender marker.
If I had not been out to my HCPs, this would've outed me to the ones I saw for months and it's a major safety concern.
These vendors constantly put plan members at risk.
I will also share that this same insurance vendor, EBSC, changed my gender marker to F — I've never been on their insurance as female — without verifying with me if that was accurate.
I still have no answers about why this happened, but it took months to fully correct.
The whole situation is wildly unsettling, and I can't believe that it's been three years of constantly fighting with EBSC to try to access treatment — or just having to go around them, because they have no sense of urgency in helping their members.
As I've mentioned before, this is a failing by multiple pieces in the healthcare ecosystem.
EBSC and TrueScripts (and their vendors) have repeatedly stalled my ability to access treatment that keeps me mobile, safe, and alive.
Novartis failed me and others by butchering their assistance program.
