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Tee - 27 - they/them - i guess this is it huh?
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HETEROSEXUAL CIS-PEOPLE LOOK HERE

Snaps my fingers at you as you scroll past this post

Look at me. Listen.

I'm not the best at serious posts, but that article up there reminded me of how important it is that people like you stand up for us. So hold on while I try to get this out of my mushy end-of-work-day brain.

We could fight this fight ourselves for decades trying to reach the equal laws, gender affirming trans healthcare that doesn't have a 2-5+ soul-eating years of waiting time, medical care with equal knowledge of lgbtqia+ bodies, and, what is often forgotten, inclusion in the little everyday areas of life like our way of speaking or things being set up or designed with the existence of queer people in mind.

But you joining in could get us there so much faster.

The power you have as a hetero cis person is that you set the standard for what is seen as the average way of treating us among other hetero cis people. You have been given the power of deciding what's "normal" and I'm begging you to use it.

Richard Green is a great example of to what extent your actions can help our situation, and smaller ways of support still add up to a great impact on society, and could make the days of the queer people you interact with.

Educate yourself before you speak up, but don't be silent.

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xenasaur

to all the cis ppl reading this right now, remember what OP said. you've been given the power of deciding what's "normal." use it. please.

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beaft

i'm not a doctor or a nutritionist, but sometimes i hear women talking about their diets and it takes all i have to not be like "this is not normal. you have an eating disorder and you are in a cult."

saw a magazine article yesterday called something like "how i lost 3 stone without setting foot in a gym" and when i read it i discovered that the secret to her weight loss was... eating under 500 calories a day. girl that's not a diet that's just anorexia

and everyone's like "why are so many girls nowadays developing eating disorders" as if diet culture isn't an entire industry specifically designed to profit off women's misery and dysmorphia and self-hatred. this is the bad place!!!!!

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Watching Voyager

[ID: A Star Trek: Voyager comic. Tom smiles and exclaims, "Hey, Tuvok!" and Tuvok doesn't look up from his Padd as he responds, "Yes, Paris?" Tom smirks and asks, "I was just wondering, have you ever heard of 'ligma'?" He snickers.

Tuvok turns around and says coolly, "Yes. We had discussed the topic while I was stationed at Sawcon." Tom frowns and asks, "'Sawcon'? What?" and Tuvok says, "Sawcon these nuts."

Tom looks comically betrayed, blue eyes going huge and wet. The lighting turns dramatic and ominous as Tuvok walks away, telling a trembling and teary Tom, "No one will ever believe you." End ID]

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