dystopia au where we are all assigned one of two chosen genders at birth
Thanks to ultrasounds, the genders can be assigned before birth. The people are so excited to conform they throw “Gender reveal parties” to make sure their offspring exist in a strict binary since before they can even form thoughts.
Children are color-coded according to their binary assignment.
One of the genders is seen as inherently inferior.
This all sounds really effing creepy when you put it that way
#BECAUSE IT IS
And if you deviate from the assigned gender you can be disowned by your family, fired from your job, and beaten by authorities.
One of the standard objections to asking for better disability representation in film is that it wouldn’t be reasonable to expect an action hero in a wheelchair – but if you think about it, is an action hero in a wheelchair really any less plausible than an action hero not in a wheelchair? Your average action hero’s physical capabilities are demonstrably so far off the human baseline to begin with that I’m not sure what standards for reasonableness we’re applying here.
“When I was young, my dad always let me listen to comedy albums. I always knew about comedy, I always loved comedy.The day that I saw Whoopi Goldberg on television, I cried so hard, because I kept looking at my daddy going, ‘Oh my god. there’s somebody on TV that looks like me! She looks like me! Yay! I can be on TV! I can be on TV! I can do it! Look at her look at her! she looks just like me.‘”
The medical community on literally every female specific health issue ever: “very common condition” “no known cause” “no known cure” :))))))
What the fuck is tumblr? Like honestly what is this? Do you guys pull shit out of the inner most depths of your rectum and then just throw it on your keyboard and have it turn into a post???? This site is something else what the fuck is wrong with you people????!?!?
Endemetriosis
Vaginal Thrush
Menorrhagia
Polycystic Ovary Syndrome
Fibroids
Very common conditions, causes are unknown or only speculated, long term cures have not been found. Most can cause chronic pain or discomfort, all can seriously impact your quality of life.
Men are so damn privileged they can’t even imagine female bodies have different healthcare needs than theirs and that our healthcare needs are important even if they can’t be affected by one of these conditions.
Endometriosis causes excruciating pain and is a leading cause of infertility. Thrush is extremely
uncomfortable, and expensive to treat repeatedly; over-the-counter preparations rarely completely eradicate it. Menorrhagia, which I
have, makes you anæmic. PCOS causes hormonal symptoms that are socially
difficult (facial hair, acne, hair loss, weight gain). Fibroids are so common, and are often treated with a hysterectomy.
Add in fibromylgia, which affects 8x as many women as men, as well as lupus (and almost any other autoimmune condition), systemic exertion intolerance disorder (SEID), iron deficiency anæmia (all of which affect more women than men), and you have well over 25% of childbearing-age women globally living with chronic pain and tiredness.
Basically, this is a huge problem, and also one of the reasons I have been considering medical school.
Don’t forget that most pharmaceuticals go to market without ever having been tested on people with a uterus, lest someone get pregnant… seriously that is the whole rationale behind not testing >50% of the population. This has been legislated against in some countries, but still persists in the of majority drug development because of other regulations, and traditions and laziness. The use of a drug is of course monitored in the population after release, but the people “trying” it in this capacity get none of the insurance, close and regular medical examination or monetary benefit of essentially being in a late stage drug trial. Drugs that are pulled from market after release are sometimes done so on the basis that the dosage is just too high for females/afab people and this is, of course, after they’ve experienced the adverse affects.
This is why if you get pregnant your doctor will take you off basically any and all medication you’re taking (including mental health medication, can’t imagine any implications/dire consequences there), not because they know it will have an adverse affect on the foetus but because they have no idea. How wonderfully kind of them to prioritise the health and life of an unborn foetus over that of a living person, let’s just hope they don’t become ill whilst pregnant. How charmingly logical it is that they wouldn’t even bother to test drugs in people with a uterus because it’s all too difficult and gosh, darn what an ethical conundrum we’ve been faced with, let’s just not! Which is so in the spirit of capital S, Science!
Indeed, the issue is so severe that, in many cases, folks with uteruses are routinely told that their diseases and disorders are not, in fact, disorders at all, and are just a normal part of having a uterus.
Take menstrual cramps, for example. Everybody knows that cramps are a normal part of menstruation, and that virtually all people who menstruate experience them throughout their lives, right?
Except that’s not right at all.
Yes, it’s true that about two-thirds of individuals who menstruate begin to experience menstrual pain during adolescence, but it’s basically a side effect of puberty, and normally subsides by your late teens. Only about 20-40% of menstruating adults experience menstrual pain on a regular basis – and according to some estimates, as much as 80% of that figure is due to undiagnosed endometriosis or some other underlying medical condition.
Yeah, roll those numbers around in your head: if you’re an adult who experiences menstrual cramps, it’s overwhelmingly likely that your pain is a symptom of some potentially serious medical condition.
And yet we tell folks it’s just a normal thing that everybody has to deal with.
Bonus round: Look up PCOS and gender identity.
Then look up PCOS and diabetes.
Ok, to show how incredibly important this post fucking is, I just looked up endometriosis and I match just about every sympton, and it would explain not just my incredibly painful periods but many other things as well. I had no idea this existed.
Please, read this post and reblog this so others can learn.
I will reblog this every time because my cousin (a cis girl) went through seven years of pain without being taken seriously until SHE suggested it was endometriosis. And that’s not even unusual – that’s the average amount of time it takes between first symptoms and a diagnosis of endometriosis.
It took me over 14 years to have a cumulative diagnosis pmdd, menorrhagia, and Lupus. So my formative years were spent in pain and sickness.
it took me roughly 8 years of persistent nagging and constant excruciating pain to get diagnosed with fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue syndrome, and I recently also got a diagnosis of PCOS even though my medical records state I’ve been exhibiting symptoms since puberty but hey no one bothered to connect the dots. add a diagnosis of Aspergers on top of that which is sometimes almost impossible to obtain for afab people. ALSO when I hit puberty I had horrendous knee problems like pain and swelling etc and the first doctor I went to told me I was just looking for an excuse to not attend PE, he said that IN FRONT OF MY MOTHER. thank god she trusted me and took me to another doctor who treated me right away and did not doubt me even once. he said that if I had waited even a week longer I would’ve had to have surgery. to this day my kneecaps are slightly deformed and my knee ligaments give me hell when I exercise.
fuck every doctor who didn’t believe me but I’m also eternally grateful for those who did.
yup, i didn’t know i had premenstrual dysphoric disorder until i was about 21 because of this kinda response. as if there isn’t help to be had for pms or pmdd.
my severe iron deficiency was also dismissed so many times. until this year, i was getting a period and i was told i was likely to have anemia or at least iron problems from that…. since the pill had messed up my hormones before, my problem was just swept under the rug for years.
just because someone has a period doesn’t mean you should just let them have terrible blood iron.. making them exhausted.. and unable to concentrate.. all the time??
i also had no idea about the cramps/age thing, that’s funny/fucking horrible.
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This inlaid ceiling panel is from the Norman Palace in Palermo, Sicily. It depicts animals
associated with the royal court, where they were kept as curiosities, pets or
for hunting. Some were also used as dynastic symbols, like the eagle and
falcon. The complex geometrical design also creates an Islamic, eight-pointed
star motif, and the whole panel reflects the mix of cultural influences in
Norman Sicily.
Discover the cosmopolitan history of this
remarkable island in our exhibition Sicily: culture and conquest(21 April – 14 August 2016).
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