katt, migrating 🌟 🌈 @starkatt@awoo.space

I'm a sworn enemy to linear time.

@Oneironott @KawaSeadrake @mawr Do you know if Alex Reed is trans? 'Cause, uh.

@mawr it's the most fucking postfurry shit :D

@mawr fair enough 💜

tfw you start something, walk away, go back to check on it, and realize you didn't turn the cooktop on.

@mawr :D :D I'm surprised you didn't see me going on about it earlier.

@mawr it's my album of the year 2017.

@mawr deleted and reposted with the full album name.

@mawr It's from SOL a self-banishment ritual, which uhh I can't get out of my head as a whole.

shimmering with impossibilities

I can't get that phrase out of my head.

@literorrery @mawr @green @mxsparks :applause:

also it sure sounds like that applies to your current healthcare struggles.

@mawr @literorrery @green @mxsparks Yeah I don't trust clinicians as a whole to treat scales as anything *but* gospel. Some know better, but far, far too many don't.

@literorrery @green @mxsparks @mawr Absolutely.

@mawr @literorrery @green @mxsparks I feel like the history of the last 50 years of trans people is clinicians saying "trans people must be x" and then a whole bunch of trans folks saying "uhh we're not x but are absolutely trans."

@mawr @literorrery @green @mxsparks Okay, fair. I still don't feel like a clinical scale is the best way to assess that, though? I'm just so, so afraid of it leaving people out in the cold.

@mawr @literorrery @green @mxsparks

"The idea of strict diagnostic criteria for assessing whether someone is trans or not is immoral and violent. We know who we are better than assessing clinicians. Any attempt to make a diagnostic cutoff for whether someone is "really" trans or not will inevitably lead to people being unfairly excluded if they don't match the criteria.

It's not your job to tell us whether we're trans or not. We know. "

@mawr @literorrery @green @mxsparks okay that makes me more tempted to take it and do the same.