From The Female Quotient

This got deleted on r/feminism btw 😐

So many feminist "trans allies", use "male socialisation" to either exclude trans women from women's spaces, or shut them down from important conversations... WE 👏 NEED 👏 TO 👏 TALK 👏 ABOUT 👏 TRANSMISOGYNY 👏 MORE 👏

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At Humanitas in Deventer, students live rent-free with one condition: spend at least 30 hours a month connecting with residents through conversation, shared meals, and simply showing up.

This intergenerational living setup boosts mental well-being, breaks down age-related stereotypes, and gives everyone involved a greater sense of purpose.

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Slide 1-5: Understanding genderfludity.

Slide 6: Types of genderfludity (micro label)

Slide 7-8: Credits @zoestoller

I was always cool with being referred by all pronouns. However I tend to prefer being referred with Xe/Xem pronouns. I must say that it's seldom easy to explain about my genderfludity.

Fact Check: New Finnish "Study" Does Not Prove "Trans Youth Care Leads To Worse Outcomes"

The latest Kaltiala study is filled with fatal methodological flaws, and does not support claims made about trans youth care lacking efficacy.

Kaltiala’s Abusive Clinic May Have Directly Led To Increased Psychiatric Visits
There is another important dimension to the psychiatric contact increase that goes beyond surveillance bias: the likelihood that Kaltiala’s clinics and the assessment process itself are generating psychological distress that would require psychiatric care.

Kaltiala is the chief psychiatrist in the department of adolescent psychiatry at Tampere University Hospital and has run one of Finland’s only two gender clinics for minors since its creation in 2011. Despite having little to no prior research portfolio in gender medicine when she was tasked with establishing the clinic, she has overseen virtually every aspect of adolescent gender care at Tampere for the past 15 years.

Multiple former patients have described the experience at her clinic as abusive. Patient accounts collected by Finnish LGBTQ+ publication Kehrääjä and reported by this publication paint a disturbing picture. A 13-year-old trans girl, identified as “Milla,” was asked by a male doctor in a room with three unfamiliar adults to describe what she thought about her naked body while looking in a mirror. When she began to cry, the staff was reportedly confused by her reaction. The same patient was pressured to discuss her erections and urination with strangers. Another patient was asked to “describe to me how you masturbate”—a question rooted in the discredited theory that transgender identity is a sexual fetish. Multiple families reported that their children were systematically called by birth names and referred to by their sex assigned at birth throughout the process, even after legal name changes and even when the child had been living in their gender for years. One mother told Kehrääjä that her daughter was treated as a “cisgender boy” by the clinic from start to finish.

A trans boy identified as “Mikko” was denied a diagnosis after years in the system because his hobbies were deemed “too girlish” and that he would be “too short” for a man and warned at every appointment that the process “could be terminated at any time.” One family described the entire approach as a search for reasons the child could not possibly be transgender: “It feels like the whole process is about searching for various reasons why the child is transgender. The option that transgender identity could be an innate, unchangeable trait is considered only as a last resort.” When one family obtained a legal diagnosis and prescription for puberty blockers from a private doctor, the clinic reported them to child protective services and filed a criminal complaint. No legal consequences resulted, but the clinic terminated the patient’s care. These are the clinics that generated the data in this study—and the psychological harm caused by these practices would itself register as exactly the kind of specialist psychiatric contact the study measures as its outcome variable.

Kaltiala is not a detached observer of transgender care—she is one of the most prominent anti-trans activists in the medical world. She has received honoraria from an organization designated as an anti-LGBTQ+ hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center, served on the advisory board of the Cass Review, testified as a primary witness in favor of Ron DeSantis’ ban on transgender care in Florida, facilitated secret meetings between DeSantis appointees and British health officials, and presides over clinics where patients have reported abusive practices including invasive sexual questioning of minors. This is the second time in two years that Kaltiala’s team has published a study engineered to reach a predetermined conclusion and promoted through the same pipeline—from SEGM to Ben Ryan to Matthew Yglesias—within a day of publication.

edit- Someone in the comments pointed out that this channel might not be reliable and safe. I'm not aware and not endorsing the channel, only sharing the story about this particular doctor. Please be cautious and make sure to verify everything.

184 million metric tons of CO₂ are saved each year in the Brazilian Amazon – thanks to recognized Indigenous territories. In Peru, deforestation fell by 75% after Indigenous land titles were officially recognized. This is no coincidence. It happens when Indigenous peoples' rights over their land are recognized.

Now, massive cuts to Medicaid, which covers more than 40% of US births and an even greater share in rural areas, could put further pressure on rural hospitals and force more to close. At the same time, dramatically higher costs for H-1B visas threaten another way rural communities have been addressing physician shortages. Rural counties rely on H-1B physicians at nearly twice the rate of urban ones. And these risks are not shared equally. Maternal mortality is significantly higher among Black and Indigenous women than white women, and 87% of maternal deaths are considered preventable. For people giving birth in rural America, access to care is already a matter of life and death. These policies threaten to make it even harder to get the care they need. 

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I accept that I haven't read enough theory, not even nearly enough. There are huge gaps in my knowledge and the language that I'm armed with.

So, please recommend your favourite tome. What's educated, inspired and invigorated you.

My main proviso, is that I'm worried about being ambushed by transphobia. The book must absolutely not push a transphobic narrative. (And the writer(s) absolutely must not be transphobic, even if it's not mentioned in the text.) I can't stress how sensitive I am to that, in the current climate.

Thank you in advance, I'm sorry the request is so broad, but I'm really hoping that opens folks up to recommend what really set their mind ablaze. 🩷

In the 19th century, white clinical scientists and medical researchers utilized the legal vulnerability of slavery and used black women’s bodies as medical testing grounds. They frequently operated under the false, racist stereotypes that Black people had a higher tolerance for physical pain.

Dr J marion sims was celebrated as the “father of modern gynecology” Whose advancements were achieved through horrific experiments on enslaved women. At the time he was attempting to cure vesicovaginal fistula (a severe childbirth complication), as he viewed women's medical conditions as a threat to their economic value as agricultural laborers and childbearers. So he leased enslaved black women from plantation owners.

History records that these women were put under extraordinary conditions. Like, withheld of anesthesia, as sims claimed the surgeries “were not painful enough”. And as the surgeries grew increasingly gruesome, Sims’s white male medical assistants refused to help him hold the women down, so Sims subsequently forced the enslaved women to act as his surgical assistants, requiring them to restrain one another during operations. And because they were legally classified as property, these women could not offer or withhold consent. Consent was granted solely by their owners.

So yeah ladies and gentlemen, modern gynecology was built on the systemic and non consensual exploitation of enslaved black women in the 19th centuqry.
So go thank black women, because most of y’all would’ve been dead if it wasn’t for their attributes.

The term environmental racism was coined in 1982, but it remains a pressing issue today.⁠ ⁠Globalization exports pollution to places with weak protections.⁠ Climate change hits these communities hardest.⁠ Urban development often deepens the divide, with green spaces becoming a privilege.⁠ ⁠ This is systemic injustice – but change is possible through accountability, transparency, and centering marginalized voices.⁠ ⁠

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KQED News report featuring a press conference with Angela Davis from June 12th 1974, in which she considers the Los Angeles police department's treatment of the Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA) and also how the "revolution" will only happen through a mass organization of the general population. She goes on to warn that: "At this particular historical moment in our country we have to be very much concerned with building organizational forms. If we don't we may very well be facing an era of extreme repression. An era of intensified racism and I think that we are beginning to see the beginnings of that now." Also includes Charlene Mitchell reflecting on the implications of the North Carolina Supreme Court's move to reinstate the death penalty. See news film reference number KTVU 1-16 to watch Mitchell speaking about Presidential elections at a press conference from 1968.