Witchfire
@Witchfire@lemmy.world
Queer tiefling fire witch
- Comment on How does one figure out what to do, after getting out and done with high school? 1 day ago:
Likewise, it’s possible to change careers 10 years in. I was laid off earlier this year and don’t really feel like going back.
- Comment on As of today, I have stopped using Reddit entirely. 3 days ago:
I’m in for saying riot police should quit their jobs in shame following the Roe v Wade ruling. Nowadays I’m blocked from even accessing reddit.com for some fucking reason, even without a VPN
- Comment on Why do we need legal genders at all? 4 days ago:
You’re Just Asking Questions™ eh?
Firstly, so much of the world is actively hostile to trans people that trying to use it as a defense would backfire in the vast majority of courts. The trans panic defense is unfortunately a very real thing that lets killers and rapists get away with heinous crimes. A recent example of this is in Tennessee, where a court overturned a murder conviction upon finding out that the victim was trans - news article.
Secondly, assuming you do make it to a court where they have to plead, under oath, that they are trans and should be sent to a women’s prison, and it somehow doesn’t backfire- now they have to show proof of this history. A random cis dude claiming to be a woman is very unlikely to have a documented history of dysphoria or transition.
I don’t think you understand how much emotional and physical labor is actually involved in transition. Just getting approval for HRT is usually a huge task, with people often waiting up to years for it. HRT is a lifelong marathon, not a sprint. That’s not even talking about surgery which is a whole other can of worms. Now, I’m not arguing for transmedicalism and you can be a fully valid trans person without taking the medical route, but even then theyre likely to have at minimum a recorded history of dysphoria with a therapist. It’s really not feasible to just “claim you’re trans” overnight.
I find it particularly interesting that you assume being in the US would benefit you as it’s literally heading towards a trans genocide. Fwiw, I fled the US a while ago when I saw the writing on the wall.
Please take some time to meet actual trans people and talk to us, rather than resorting to strawmen
- Comment on Why do we need legal genders at all? 4 days ago:
I’ve been on HRT for 12+ years. My body fat and hormones are literally nowhere near “genetic male”. I’d also love to see what emergency meds you’re talking about that care more about hormones and where on your body your fat is than something like body weight.
- Comment on Why do we need legal genders at all? 4 days ago:
That’s not how that works
- Comment on Why do we need legal genders at all? 5 days ago:
“biological sex” does jack shit at telling a doctor what a trans person’s biological characteristics are. It’s a dogwhistle used to imply that trans women have the same violent sexual tendencies as many cis men.
- Comment on Why do we need legal genders at all? 5 days ago:
They’ve been doing just that to trans women. Look into a practice called V-Coding
- Comment on Why do we need legal genders at all? 5 days ago:
We don’t.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
It’s so fuckin bad now. I was an early adopter of them, they were so much better back in the day. Nowadays if I ask it to turn on the lights it starts playing Lights by Ellie Goulding. Ask it to set an alarm and it’ll make your bedroom red.
- Comment on Are airsoft H&K SL8 replicas still a dream? 2 weeks ago:
Lol I had one back in the day, well over a decade ago. Even had a polycarbonate body. Loved the thing.
- Comment on Why is Christa Pike from TN being kept alive after two failed execution attempts? 2 weeks ago:
She also warned them that she had a medical condition that made them ineffective. Unfortunately, the pigs who sign up to administer those drugs are in it for the pain and misery.
- Comment on In the US can a felon own a gun if it is dismantled and hanging like a piece of art? 2 weeks ago:
Couldn’t you just weld the barrel sealed like they do for prop guns?
- Comment on How do fonts for people with dyslexia work? 3 weeks ago:
It looks like that one targets low vision more than dyslexia so it lacks things like heavy bottoms. However, they are both easier to read than typical typefaces.
Similarly, the US govt used Calibri for a short time since it’s more accessible than other typefaces. But as with anything intended to help people, Trump axed it
- Comment on Is gender affirming care for cis people a thing? 3 weeks ago:
Yes. Viagra, breast implants, breast reduction, hair transplants, laser hair removal, cosmetic surgery, even Musk’s botched penis job are all forms of gender affirming surgery
- Comment on Can you open up an unmanned store in the US and will it stay in business or close down? 3 weeks ago:
I’ve seen similar in Canada (though not public public), but never saw anything like that in ~25yrs in the US
- Comment on Realistically, what do people plan to do on the Moon and Mars that requires a permanent, or long term human presence there? 3 weeks ago:
They basically wish they could be Adrian Veidt
- Comment on In about 3 or 4 years can I move to Canada with 250k US and get myself a trailer and a couple acres to grow pot for the community? Get a license to sell it to local businesses? 3 weeks ago:
My partner got her citizenship through ancestry, though it was relatively easier since she has a much closer connection.
You’ll have to dig up every document to prove your line of ancestry back to Canada. Word of mouth is not enough, they’re looking for certified birth/death/baptismal records. If your ancestry comes from Quebec, I hope you can read liturgicsl French.
Be warned that the cost and processing times for these have skyrocketed recently. The cost for a record from the BANQ went from around $30 to close to $300 iirc
- Comment on Can I break my sense of taste? 4 weeks ago:
There’s a specific chemical extract from some berry that makes EVERYTHING taste like Splenda. You can bite into a lemon and it will taste sweet. Lasts a few minutes, fun novelty
- Comment on What could the US get rid of to balance the budget and make prices drop very quickly? How is some trash or misspent money on thing we no longer need? 5 weeks ago:
Bring back pre-Raegan tax rates
- Comment on TicketMaster has started requiring government IDs and facial scans 1 month ago:
Somehow it’s still in TM/LN
- Comment on Number of trackers and cookies I had to go thru after installing a currency converter app 1 month ago:
I miss when you could toss an app developer $5 and never have to deal with ads or data mining. Nowadays everything is a subscription model absolutely riddled with both.
- Comment on I either want to learn French or Italian. Which should I learn in your opinion? 1 month ago:
Autocorrect c’est pas mon ami 😂
- Comment on I either want to learn French or Italian. Which should I learn in your opinion? 1 month ago:
Yep, there’s a lot
- Comment on I either want to learn French or Italian. Which should I learn in your opinion? 1 month ago:
Merci
- Comment on So Austistici/Inventati just got designated as a "global terrorist organisation" by the Trump administration, what do I do now? 1 month ago:
Oh for certain, there’s a large subset of the population (around 30% at a guess) who, much like Stephen Miller, are afraid of their own shadows and wish to exterminate anything that casts a shadow. For them, the reasonable doubt is purely a facade. They are fully Nazis, they just won’t admit it publicly (but even that social veil has started to crumble)
There’s also a large portion of the population who is largely unaffected by or uninterrested in politics. Here, reasonable doubt is among the tactics employed to make them look away, allowing the Nazis to maintain control. For the most part, these are the “both siders” who prefer a false peace through inaction.
If you ask me, both groups are idiots. They’re powerful idiots but nevertheless they’re the lowest percentile that humanity has to offer.
- Comment on So Austistici/Inventati just got designated as a "global terrorist organisation" by the Trump administration, what do I do now? 1 month ago:
They put all transgender people in the same bin. They’re straight up Nazis.
- Comment on So Austistici/Inventati just got designated as a "global terrorist organisation" by the Trump administration, what do I do now? 1 month ago:
The Trump regime is proud of that. They are happy to do all the signalling that they are dill blown fascists short of admitting directly to it. That way there’s enough “reasonable doubt” that they can sell their snake oil to idiots.
- Comment on Olive Branch MS mayor refusing to lower flag for Dolly 1 month ago:
You seem fun at parties
- Comment on I either want to learn French or Italian. Which should I learn in your opinion? 1 month ago:
Selon moi, je trouve que les Québécois sont plus amicaux que les Français en apprenant la langue, tant qu’on ne dit pas «parking» 😂
- Comment on I either want to learn French or Italian. Which should I learn in your opinion? 1 month ago:
I speak English, Spanish, and French
French is a lot more globally applicable. Outside of France it can be used in Canada, Belgium, Switzerland (I think?), and basically everywhere else France has stuck their dick. Italian is mostly limited to Italy and parts of NYC.
That said, they’re both romance languages so they’ll have some similarities. If you reach a point where you’re comfortable with it, it’s easy enough to switch to the other one. Italian sounds much closer to Spanish so it’s easier to springboard to Spanish from it than it is from French, if you ever want to.
Learning a language can only ever benefit you so you can’t go wrong either way
(Mais surtout, je vais te recommander le français simplement parce que c’est lequel que j’ai appris et aime lol)