listen i know tumblr is the Lie On The Internet For Attention website but this is just sad
It’s obvious that anon is clueless and making shit up, but what gets me about things like this is that it’s not hard to have a conversation with a child if they do feel this way. “At your age, there are no surgeries. But if you want, you can pick out clothes that feel nice, you can use pronouns that feel right, and you can even pick a different name for us to call you. When you’re older, if you still feel like it’s the right choice, we’ll talk about it then.”
I have a kid who lived as a girl for a while because he thought he was trans. It was for like a year. I spoke about the ignorant reaction from the education system at a government committee, but that was the only downside. Nothing bad happened. He wore dresses, grew his hair out, took the name I would have given him if he was born a girl, and then said “I think I’m a boy after all” and we changed it all back. He wasn’t hurt by it. And if he really was trans, this would have made him feel confident and safe and loved.
Now, years later, his sister and he openly talk to me about everything. Just a few weeks ago they happily opened up to me about if they like girls or boys or both, and I didn’t have that with my parents as a queer kid.
Transphobes are scared of made up problems. Just nothing.
this is so fucking funny like all the little girls in madeline wanted their appendixes removed after madeline had hers removed, and that book was written in 1939. “kids wanting surgery they don’t understand” isn’t a new problem, or even really a “problem” at all. every adult on the planet just responds “no you can’t have surgery but if u want a neat scar we can maybe draw that on with makeup, and if you want to be trans we can get you different clothes for a bit”
yall will talk about regular common medical conversations but put the word ~trans~ in front of it and suddenly its a big scary idea.
I keep saying this, but: I started orthodontic treatment at 10. I had a palette expander, which is basically a Lego attached to the roof of your mouth that you ratchet up to stretch your mouth out to make room for your teeth. I had four teeth removed when I was thirteen or so to make even more room for my teeth (I have an extremely small mouth). I suspect that my TMJ problems as an adult are partly due to the techniques used to correct my overbite, though that’s entirely speculation.
I am glad that I did it, but like any medical procedure, there are risks involved, not even counting the months of headaches and jaw aches I had every time they got tightened.
Kids can start orthodontic treatment as early as seven, or earlier if they have serious dental problems. And while there are definitely problems associated with having a flawed bite, a lot of times it’s primarily for aesthetic reasons.
This happens all the time, and no one is bemoaning the fact that kids across the nation are getting their palettes stretched or having perfectly healthy teeth removed for the sake of aesthetics. And both of those are a lot more permanent than being on puberty blockers, and definitely more permanent than getting a haircut or wearing new clothes or going by a different name.
Because it’s not about whether it’s a permanent change or not, or if it’s a fad or not. It’s because it involves trans people.
Little boys are not only allowed but encouraged to participate in football, an activity known to carry a high risk of brain injury.
Little girls are not only allowed but encouraged to participate in ballet, an activity which permanently changes bone structure.
genuinely obsessed with the grimace milkshake meme I hope it’s got the McDonald’s marketing team locked in a board room biting their nails desperately trying to figure out if this is positive press or not
au where everything is the same except the white book is a google doc or some shit and jaime keeps going off on loras calling him a prepubescent loser but he is in deep water the moment he has to rotate a pdf
A Game of Thrones, Sansa VI // Judith Slaying Holofernes, Artemesia Gentileschi // A Feast for Crows, Arianne, The Princess in the Tower // Medea, Giuseppe-Raymondo Bernardazzi // A Dance with Dragons, The Watcher, Areo Hotah // Tomyris Plunges the Head of the Dead Cyrus Into a Vessel of Blood, Peter Paul Rubens // A Clash of Kings, Theon V // The Two Princes Edward and Richard in the Tower, 1483, John Everett Millais
BOOK COVER REVEALLLLLLL!!!!! “A Starlet’s Guide to A Sensational After-Life” by Kendall Kulper. Very proud of this one and excited I get to finally share it :) :) :)
Thank you to Kendall for writing this fantastic and witty book and always being so supportive.
Thank you so much to Kerry Martin for being an incredible art director/creative collaborator and Holiday House Books for being a fantastic client.
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don’t always get to read the manuscripts ahead of time but I got to
read this one and I’m genuinely telling you it’s great, as was Kendall Kulper’s previous book Murder for the Modern Girl. She has perfected “dark screwball comedy” and we are all better for it.
“superman knows everyone’s secret identity because he can see through masks and eavesdrop anywhere, batman knows everyone’s secret identity because he’s the world’s greatest detective, and wonder woman knows everyone’s secret identity because she has a magic lasso” is fine and all but i think it’s funnier if clark makes an active effort not to look through masks because he thinks it’s rude, bruce knows despite making no effort because they’re all actually terrible at keeping secrets, and whenever diana wants to know someone’s identity she just asks bruce and it never occurs to him not to tell her
it’s been said before but the fact this site used to let you edit other people’s posts is beyond unhinged. the potential for slander was next level, you really could just edit the body of posts that weren’t even your own and it’d look like the OP said it. just casually spread misinformation via reblog, the original post being lost to time. john green cock monologue. sayonara you weeaboo shits. they gave us way too much power. can you imagine if a website let you do that today? people would lose their fucking minds. sure, on twitter you can impersonate anybody, but you have to make your own tweets. they would never let you edit other people’s tweets! that’s stupid! it’s literally the worst feature any social media site could ever have! if it ever happened somewhere else, it would be by accident and fixed immediately! but on old school tumblr? yeah, you could edit someone’s childhood fear from vampires to danny devito, and we all just had to live like that for years. INSANE.
@babytrain I AM PUTTING YOU ON BLAST???!!! MISS MA'AM DO YOU KNOW HOW ICONIC YOU ARE????
I mean I do want to clarify: it let you edit your reblog of someone else’s post. It did not allow you to change the post as it existed on the original tumblr, where OP stuck it. It was just treating everything the way email threads in list-servs used to work: your reblog was the equivalent of your addition to an email chain, and the editable function was in part to avoid the horrible phenomenon of twenty-and-counting reblogs to a post making everything unreadable - you could snip them. That’s why xkit restored the function for a while. k
The original post would still exist as it actually was. Those of us with some critical thinking skills dealt with this nonsense by, especially if something seemed off, clicking back to the link to the original post to see if it did in fact say what the later reblogs said it did; it wasn’t actually that difficult to handle once you realized how it worked.
