What they do to #intersex children should HORRIFY everyone.
"Removal of gonads can end options for fertility and will lead to lifelong need for hormone #therapy. The genital surgeries done on intersex children can result in loss of sexual sensation and ongoing #pain. The procedures are #irreversible, in that tissue or organs that are removed cannot be replaced, nerves that are severed cannot be regrown, and scar tissue can limit options for future surgery."
Complementary and Disparate: Conceptualising Female and Male Genital Cutting in Northern Tanzania
Mary-Anne Victoria Decatur, PhD dissertation, U of London 2023.
Yes, I do read your dissertations!
"It is the normal, functioning cells of all foreskins that are deemed dangerous. And yet it is specifically Black male bodies that are being constructed as promiscuous sources of infection in need of medical intervention."
"Integral to this appears to be the assumption that if medicalised, (male) genital cutting will be consensual and safe."
Doctors have conflated medicalization with consent and safety. Just because you are using sterile instruments does not mean that your surgery is consensual nor does it guarantee that the patient is safe from iatrogenic harm.
Portland Pride 2024 is July 20-21, and GALDEF needs people like you who care about bodily autonomy!
The Genital Autonomy Legal Defense and Education Fund is looking for people passionate about bodily #autonomy to help staff the exhibitor booth. We will help you make a real world impact in the fight for #LGBTQIA bodily rights.
Freedom requires no-lock in, which is why we self host domains, don't we? Rather than building on somebody else's domain. Oh, you use Gmail. Still?! 🤦♂️
Our desire for ease in a difficult world is what betrays us.
So freedom requires we make the following easy to obtain:
Provincializing Intersex: U.S. Intersex Activism, Human Rights, and Transnational Body Politics
D. A. Rubin, 2019
"the transnational regulation of sexed bodies occurs not only through the globalization of Western biomedical conceptions of sex/gender normativity, but also through global circulations of human rights discourse and impositions of US neoliberal democratic frames of subjectivity."
How to know when you've crossed over to full, freakin' paranoia?? When you read an article like this & immediately envision #Christofascist legislation to grow "abandoned" frozen embryos via artificial wombs so they can become neglected, traumatized kids--oops, I mean properly-educated RW voters. Voila... the next anti-abortion tool. 🤦♀️
⚕️ 🌊 If this doesn't scare & infuriate you, I don't know what will.
"even if a pregnant patient had a prior written, notarized advance directive stating that they would not want to be kept on organ support if they weren’t likely to ever recover, a doctor could be required under 30 state laws to ignore those wishes and keep her alive.... in 12 of those states, that requirement would be in place even if the pregnancy was not viable."
Schloendorff v. Society of New York Hospital - Wikipedia
"Every human being of adult years and sound mind has a right to determine what shall be done with his own body; and a surgeon who performs an operation without his patient's consent commits an assault for which he is liable in damages. This is true except in cases of emergency where the patient is unconscious and where it is necessary to operate before consent can be obtained."
Rethinking Mastectomies: Why Transmasculine Top Surgery May Be Healthier Than You Think
Emry Cohen, MD for Assigned Media
"A healthy body is not synonymous with a cisgender body, and having breasts is not a marker of increased healthiness. But, most importantly, we need to let people make choices for their bodies and mind our own business."
Circumcision as Child Abuse: The Legal and Constitutional Issues
W Brigman, 23 J. Fam. L. 337 (1984-1985)
"This paper will examine the medical and psychological case against routine neonatal circumcision and will discuss the potential legal and constitutional barriers to treating the practice as child abuse."
Did you know that #algorithm based platforms like #insta have "tools" for creators to know when their audience is usually active so they can plan when to post for more "engagement?"
Guess who can't access those kind of "helpful tools" because it's inaccessible - cognitively broken me
More in this hoot train
Love a #Mastodon rant from my janky insta posts...
It takes a lot of #energy for me to practice self care and even more to try and grow my #SmallBusiness which as a full-time #caretaker for my elderly mother it's my only form of income that I can manage
I make the rules of how much I should work, when, how long etc
I don't have to rely on exposing the intimate details of my disability and the needs they present to anyone unless I want to - this gives me #autonomy and #freedom
From riches to ankle bracelet: UK tech tycoon #MikeLynch’s stunning fall
I have little sympathy with either party. Many of us in the #technology business (and I was working at HP at the time) were amazed at the acquisition - or at least at the price they were paying.
But due diligence (the #HP CFO admitted to not reading the reports) was not on the books. #Apotheker was hell bent on exciting acquisitions.
More fool all of them. #US ‘justice' will prevail.
Thinking about that 2017 zine from Southern Illinois that set a bunch of regional #autonomy goals before this upcoming #eclipse on April 8, 2024. I'm sincerely curious about how they did and whether there will be a followup published.
Dismembering the Ethical Physician
Genuis, 2006. Postgrad Med J.
"Informed consent is not an objective reality that secures autonomy and negates paternalism, but a subjective interpretation heavily influenced by the state of knowledge and perception of the educating clinician, which in turn may reflect the values and perspective of that individual doctor."
Which childhood body modification procedures do Americans think are unacceptable?
Taylor Orth, YouGov Survey 2023
"Procedures performed on babies without their explicit consent are seen as more acceptable than procedures performed with the consent of older children or teenagers (consent being implied in the question via the term "allowing")."
Seven Things to Know about Female Genital Surgeries in Africa
By The Public Policy Advisory Network On Female Genital Surgeries In Africa
We should have debates based on facts, not based on prejudicial, ethnocentric stereotypes and hyperbole. White feminism and western media have let a lot of prejudice run rampant in the name of ending female circumcision. We gotta unpack the white imperialism eventually. For now, let's get the facts.
#ClimateDiary Today a colleague texted: brace yourselves! Redundancies email at 12pm! In fact it still hasn’t come (though it will). But i was irrationally angry with my colleague for rather ruining my day, making it harder to give lecture etc. I just really don’t want to know until it happens. Totally head in the sand about this. Made me relate much more to people not wanting to hear about #ClimateCrisis - they too just want a bit more blissful denial, because the news are too bad. 1/2
Among these European #train lines to be improved, notice Vienna-#Budapest-Western Romania. Why not to #Bucharest?
It turns out that 20% of the population in Oradea is of Hungarian origin, and 8% of that of Arad.
This improved train line, proposed by the Hungarian Ministry of Transport, aims at better connecting Budapest with the #Hungarian communities in Romania.
1.1 million people living in #Romania are Hungarian. Welcome to "Hungarians in the Carpathians"