principlesoflilith:

whoremoantherapy:

principlesoflilith:

whoremoantherapy my answer to how it could be implemented effectively is full socialism. I know that’s not an immediately helpful answer, but I honestly just don’t have a more immediately helpful answer. I’m interested in whatever solutions between now and then that reduce harm and help trans women survive until then, but the biomedical industry is so incredibly varied in quality of trans care even within the US. This doesn’t mean that solutions are impossible but I do think it means that a solution for people seeking medically assisted transition for people in NYC is gonna be different from people in Birmingham, in Los Angeles, in Detroit, or in wherever else. And I know even within a given locality the quality of care and how knowledgeable a given doctor is varies widely. My current doctor who is actually competent acknowledged that I know more about HRT and transition related healthcare than most doctors. The fact that a medical professional is willing to acknowledge that me self medding and independently ordering labs for myself was safer than working with many other doctors I think speaks volumes about the state of trans healthcare. My doctor wouldn’t recommend self medding, but she wouldn’t recommend going to a doctor who knows nothing about hrt either as that can basically be self medding in some cases. Ofc I have a handful of other medical issues and was lucky to find a doctor who specializes in hormones and in some of the relevant other areas. Unfortunately I’m moving soon and will need to find another doctor or figure out a way to fund traveling to doctor appointments.

Agreed 100%. In my ideal world we’d all have state sponsored health care that included all forms of cosmetic surgery, body mods, otc hormones, etc. for EVERYONE on demand with no questions asked. Then a trans diagnosis becomes sort of besides the point.

Of course, I don’t see that sort of revolution happening in my lifetime so we’re all just getting by however we can and hopefully seeing some gradual improvements. And I acknowledge that at least among other poor people, I’m coming at this from a standpoint of very substantial privilege regarding gatekeeping.

I think we need to stop assuming it won’t happen in our lifetime and start saying “what can we do to make it happen in our lifetime?” I think “we won’t see liberation/revolution/etc.. in our lifetime” rhetoric directly serves the status quo. I would be surprised if it did happen in my lifetime, mainly cause I’m always surprised I survive till my next birthday, but for other people who’ll survive longer than me I believe it’s possible. Please note I’m not advocating accelerationism as I believe that is the kind of shit that increases harm and decreases survival rates to even more unacceptable levels. thepeacockangel has talked about “not in our lifetimes” stuff before and might have something to add?

I think that honestly, something is coming, I expect the revolution or at least a revolution definitely within my lifetime, and I’m beginning to suspect within the next ten years.

I think this bourgeois decadent asceticism (which is particularly offensive in the face of everyone else’s deprivation) is causing a lot of unrest, and I’m hearing stirrings of something… not anything definite, but there’s a change in the air, something is coming, and I think if we all decide it’s going to happen, act as if it’s coming, then it’ll at least have a chance of happening.

I don’t believe in accelerationist tactics, at least not the ones usually described in those terms (helping to dismantle all the controls on capitalism).  The only accelerationism I’m in favor of is mutual support, fiery rhetoric, and the reminder that there is hope, that every revolution is impossible until it happens and then it was inevitable.

I think we’re down trodden, I think we’re sad, but I think in leftism there is hope