well surgery to modify genitalia or chest tissue can be a part of transitioning. its not a misconception, it’s just described by transphobes in a way that makes it sound more repulsive than any other medical procedure. it’s important to note that trans people are not the only ones who receive gender affirming surgeries, any cis woman you know who has received breast implants or cis man who has received penis enlargement surgery have both undergone types of gender affirming surgery. but for trans people, its just a way that some choose to transition.

how it works depends on what kind of procedure, but the most common categories are “top” and “bottom” surgery (top of your body, bottom of your body, not the kind of top and bottom you might be thinking of lol). for trans men, operations to remove chest tissue and operations to create a penis from existing tissue (phalloplasty) are the most common. for trans women, operations to add breast implants and to modify a penis into a vagina (vaginoplasty) are the most common. some trans women also get facial feminization surgery, such as a tracheal shave which cuts down the adams apple to make it not visible.

this research shows that gender affirming surgery is more common for trans men (around half of those studied in the linked paper), whereas for trans women it was around 28%. i think these statistics are pretty accurate in my own experience, i frequently meet more other trans women who haven’t had any operations than those who have (i myself don’t want to have any and know a lot who feel the same).

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sheep penis is disgusting if chinese people eat it, but bull testicles are perfectly acceptable and considered a delicacy when americans eat it? got it.

a lot of these shelters will also prohibit substances on the premises and not all of them involve treatment programs, so if you are addicted to a substance (usually fentanyl right now), you’d have to go cold turkey just for housing. you’re expected to get clean on the street and then get housing.

the game is horrible copaganda and the community is exactly what you’d expect. some of the most popular ready or not gameplay videos i’ve seen involve the player exercising extreme brutality to unarmed civilians. the digital civilians will submit willingly and then the player will just go up and pepper spray them, or sometimes just shoot them because that’s funny right?

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at least they’re not being subtle about their true beliefs with the nato symbol on the nazi eagle

anyone receiving genuine political opinions from call of duty must be sent to the countryside for re-education through labor.

maybe stop drinking depending on how the year goes

mix of good and bad. i’ve been having some successes recently in the romantic realm, i’ve got some dates planned which has definitely provided some source of joy in my life. but overall, i haven’t been sleeping at all the last few days and recent events have been making me so increasingly hateful and angry at the evil capitalist system that it genuinely brings me down all day. the days are blurring into one and everywhere i go i feel enraged.

is your source for this call of duty or something?

this is a recent graphic, right? i’ve never seen them use the term “occupiers” when referring to the russian military, how much do you wanna bet this is their sad attempt at co-opting the conversation around the “israeli” occupation?

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i wonder why wonder woman didn’t swoop in to stop that tank from getting obliterated by that single based fighter

israel did not attack first, right?

colonization WAS the first attack. none of this would have happened had the zionists not started the colonial project of “israel”.

really??? that is so beyond idiotic. the right will call themselves the rational ones and then say shit like this.

so is the point here that the nazis were actually multicultural and diverse or something? i have no clue what the message here is supposed to be, because i’m sure that nazis wouldn’t be too enthusiastic about presenting themselves as ethnically diverse lol

AI. even as a communist, i thought that we could just make minor progress in AI research and then overthrow capitalism and have socialist AI which will be awesome. but after seeing the internet polluted with AI-created drivel (that “internet is mostly bots” theory might be true in all honesty…the capitalists would absolutely do something like that to make the internet look more populated because a lot of industries now rely on the internet) and ben shapiro using AI generated fake images to fuel hate against palestine, i want to see AI completely gone. i despise it. if i had the choice to destroy AI and LLMs and all that shit, i would. and i say this as someone in a field that is currently seeing some fledgling AI implementation.

another classic instance of “everything bad about communism is an existing bad thing in capitalism”

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