If detransitioning was right for you - your transition was a success. You learned where you needed to be. Which is the goal.
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And if anything the lesson to be taken is that the conversation, evaluations, and support for people who are questioning themselves and their identities can and should be improved. Hitting the breaks on it is not progress or productive.
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Even more so is improving support for those who have recently transitioned and are struggling emotionally and socially with living as themselves. For the large majority of detransitioners, itâs not that they donât want to live as that gender, itâs that they canât deal with the emotional and social blowback. Friends and family who reject them, coworkers who are suddenly weird around them, finally deciding that life in the closet is better (or safer) than openly living as themselves. I find that incredibly sad. Not that our youngest has had a completely easy time, but a supportive family and viciously supportive parents and (most) family make a huge amount of difference. I am also a big proponent of âfamily of choiceâ for those who cannot get the support they need from their bio family. Anyway, as a cis, straight, white guy I have probably already said too much about this. But it hits really close to home.
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Youâre spot on.
Coming out meant I lost a lot of friends, most of my extended family, my wife (though I got a new one who understands me better), a lot of opportunities (callback for interviews dropped from 80% to under 20%), professional respect (I was just lamenting to my coworker how I get asked about to other people a lot more, whereas I used to get asked directly) and a whole lot more. I can understand why some people canât deal with that and detransition. I literally cannot go back.
That said, I have a very active social life I never had before, I have more energy for living, and I have a ton of friends who go out of their way to help and I would do almost anything for.
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ERWIN, Tenn. (WVLT) - A plastics factory in Unicoi County is under fire after some employees were trapped and killed there during flooding brought by Hurricane Helene.
One Impact Plasticâs employees â Jacob Ingram â said lives could have been saved, had employees been allowed to leave the facility sooner.
âI didnât hear anyone say âleaveâ or nothing like that. I actually asked one of the higher ups,â Ingram said. âThey told me âno, not yet.â They have to ask someone before we was able to leave, even though it was already above the doors and the cars and everything else.â
Ingram said he was swept away by floodwaters Friday, having to clamber on top of a semi-truck to get to higher ground. Thatâs when he was rescued by a helicopter.
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Assholes, all the way down.
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Does suggest her taste in men is consistent, even if consistently badâŠ
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In the letter, Bishop Johnston wrote falsely that any health care professional â including a dental hygienist or pharmacist â could legally perform an abortion.
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Scientologist doctor
Putting those two words together should never, ever happen. Their denial of psychological diagnoses makes them ineffective in caring for most primary care patients.
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Thatâs on par with having a 21st Century doctor who doesnât believe in Germ Theory.
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I kind of want to see a Native American get told this and go âIâll do you one better and go back to where all my ancestors came fromâŠâ walk out the door, then come straight back in. âOkay. Done, Iâm back where I came from. Your turnâŠâ
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Wow. This guy has also called his own district a cesspool of liberalism, threatened to call police if constituents tried to visit his office again, and after yelling at another constituent and calling them a âliberal nuttardâ because they criticized his performance in office, had a cop comment, âThatâs exactly why heâs not gonnaâ (I expect the end of the sentence was âget reelectedâ but the video cuts out).
He did lose the following election, but somehow got back into office in 2022. So we probably have a couple more years of hateful rhetoric from this particular asshole. Some people seem to live their lives like itâs a competition for how many people will dance on their graves once they are gone.
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Geez, that writing:
âbut we will not align with an even promoting murderers such as Kyle Rittenhouse capitalizing off of their pseudo celebrity.â
and
The promoters have been nothing less than understand.
Pretend AI writer is my guess:
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I donât undetstand anybody who knows anything about metalheads thinking that asshole would be a draw. I am certain there are racists and fascists in among us, but overall, IMHO, we are a hell of a lot more âmind your own fucking businessâ than the general public. WowâŠ
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