I thought this had to be old, because why the fuck would they be holding a hearing on this now when he’s not president? But no, that’s what they’re doing. Fucking Republicans.

None of that implies that it’s because of any influence she has on the situation, much less the fanfic that was written about her getting half his stuff.

Democratic senators that voted yes:

Angela Alsobrooks (D-Md.); Cory Booker (D-N.J.); Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.); John Fetterman (D-Penn.); Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.); Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.); Maggie Hassan (D-N.H.); Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.); John Hickenlooper (D-Colo.); Andy Kim (D-N.J.); Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.); Jon Ossoff (D-Ga.); Alex Padilla (D-Calif.); Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.); Adam Schiff (D-Calif.); Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich.); Mark Warner (D-Va.); Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.)

Weird comment, considering she was arrested and charged with a felony.

Good luck! I’ve never dealt with that, hope it goes smoothly for you

There are two passport renewal processing offices, once you mail your forms out. Regular renewal is in Texas, but if you do expedited (I think like $60 more or something like that) it goes to Philadelphia to be processed.

I’m not saying that if you’re trans you will never have success with the regular renewal, but I paid for express before Trump was sworn in just to be safe and it worked out for me.

Hearing something mildly displeasing, dramatically sitting down and flipping open my skull ring, and tipping the skittle into my mouth like a shot of liquor.

You can’t teach kids mnemonics about straight sex anymore, because of woke.

FBI presence must mean they at least had reason to think it could be murder, right?

I was expecting this to be a heat or fall deaths for sure.

How soon? The guidelines for renewal are a year before it expires, but I think they might have still counted mine as a year when it was like, 1 year and 350 days or something like that. Rounding down, basically.

If kids can give informed consent doesn’t the entire argument for not fucking kids cause they can’t consent go right out the window?

What is with people being absolutely unable to reconcile ‘children should have some input over their own healthcare decisions, actually’ with ‘grown adults should not be able to sexually prey on children’?

Knowing your gender is so different to having sex that I’m having trouble believing anyone is bringing it up sincerely.

The important thing to remember with trans kids is that there isn’t a ‘do nothing’ option if they want HRT. ‘Nothing’ is actually ‘force them to undergo puberty for the wrong gender,’ which is traumatic and has effects as permanent as taking HRT.

Going through puberty with HRT as a trans person isn’t any more inappropriate than going through natal puberty is for cis kids. Natal puberty is having permanent, unpredictable effects on their bodies as well, except we just call that growing up. Trans teens also deserve to grow up like their peers, without spending most of their waking hours managing their dysphoria because some third party who’s never met them is uncomfortable.

I’ve replaced my ice cream with fruit popsicles (the kind with blended up fruit bits, not just a bit of juice), I figure even if it’s just as bad for me it’s at least got marginally more fiber.

Instead of using a single meta study (which itself has limitations) as a reason to declare that HRT has no effect on suicidality—which isn’t even something the meta study claimed—you could take a peek at the political climate for trans people right now and just not?

because studies range from showing HRT helps a little to not at all at preventing suicide

You’re misinformed, the evidence supporting HRT for those that want it is sufficient that withholding it is unethical. HRT alone not being able to overcome extreme minority stress for everyone doesn’t mean it’s not helpful or necessary.

While family and community support is extremely important, it can’t replace medical transition for those that want it. You can’t hug the dysphoria away.

Yeah, when you live in a society that treats you like shit for an immutable characteristic that tends to happen. It’s called minority stress, and it happens to cis queer people as well.

No, that was me giving them the chance to clarify what they meant if their comment wasn’t them huffing about how preteens/teens can medically transition but not have sex with adults.

Anyway, as someone who is trans and used to be a kid, knowing your gender isn’t really anything like having sex.

Uh, do you want to rephrase that, because it sounds like you’re mad you can’t fuck kids.

This thread is about kids medically transitioning, by the time they’re undergoing puberty they’re teens or preteens. Not like six year olds who want to do ballet or whatever.

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