ah, didn't realize you meant "racism" as meaning anti-white. To be honest I do think the relevant aspect of what makes something racist is the direction of the flow of power.
When a marginalized group is persecuted or oppressed by a dominant group, it's the oppression and power difference that is relevant even more than the narrow sense in which group categories are used to make decisions. This is why affirmative action is not racist, for example.
you mentioned it would be bold for a Black-only community to try to exist IRL, and that's accurate - those communities even when just majority Black without exclusion policies have historically been oppressed and met with physical violence... Same with indigenous communities and so on, turns out white settler-colonial culture is intolerant and violent.
angry white people have been attacking communities of color for a long time in this country
most gay folks are cis ...
cooked my first meal after moving into my new place!
oh, you mean trans women? Since men get their testes removed from cancer and other reasons, it's the misogyny and homophobia that seems to motivate the anti-trans sentiment, at least it seems.
oh my god
I recommend seeing someone experienced in performing gender-affirming surgeries for trans patients, and who has a strong track record of good results.
I would even recommend going with a surgeon who performs vaginoplasties and who will know how to perform the orchi in a way that preserves the scrotum so you could use it for a skin graft in the future.
Sometimes surgeons don't know to prioritize the scrotal skin for later surgeries (or just have particular methods and preferences that could conflict with future surgeons), so having a skillful surgeon who routinely performs orchiectomies before vaginoplasties on the same patients will hopefully know how to preserve and treat that area better than a generic urology surgeon who performs orchi's on men or outside the context of trans healthcare.
Also, if you later use the same surgeon for the vaginoplasty, having had an orchi from them before creates more trust and confidence they will be able to use the scrotum as a skin graft, etc.
thank you!! ๐ซถ
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/29789039
Theresa Garnett (1888 - 1966)
Thu May 17, 1888
Theresa Garnett, born on this day in 1888, was a militant British suffragette whose acts of feminist rebellion included assaulting Winston Churchill with a whip, shouting "Take that in the name of the insulted women of England!"
Garnett was born in Leeds on May 17th, 1888. In 1907, she joined the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) after being inspired by a speech given by the feminist and later co-founder of the Australian Communist Party Adela Pankhurst.
The WSPU fought for women's suffrage in the United Kingdom and was noted for its use of direct action. Its members heckled politicians, held demonstrations and marches, broke the law to force arrests, broke windows in prominent buildings, set fire to post boxes, committed night-time arson of unoccupied houses and churches, and, when imprisoned, went on hunger strike and endured physically traumatizing force-feeding.
Garnett participated in several of these actions as a young adult, chaining herself in 1909, along with four other activists, to a statue in Parliament in protest of a law meant to prohibit disorderly conduct while Parliament was in session.
On November 14th, 1909, Garnett assaulted Winston Churchill, who instituted policies of force feeding suffragettes in prison, with a whip, striking him several times while shouting "Take that in the name of the insulted women of England!"
- Date: 1888-05-17
- Learn More: en.wikipedia.org, spartacus-educational.com.
- Tags: #Labor, #Feminism, #Birthdays, #Protests.
- Source: www.apeoplescalendar.org
yes, I'm somewhat reiterating a view you were originally criticizing - though I'm doing that because you pointed it out, not sure a "yes, actually" is really a "called it" moment, but sure - let's go with that anyway, it's almost Friday ๐