Personally as a kid I never exercised unless forced to (e.g. the annual 1 mile run in gym class) and didn't enjoy sports, even before I realized I was trans.
This was for so many reasons, too. For example with swimming, not wearing long-sleeves & pants was unbearable in social situations as a kid, let alone taking my shirt off & wearing swim trunks around peers.
I also had very poor body coordination / awareness ("proprioception"), and frequently was injured when I would play.
(I was hit in the head by balls so many times in sports it became a running joke with friends and family - I have distinct memories of having painful experiences being hit in the head when playing basketball, baseball, and kickball, some of these happening more than once.)
As an adult I learned coping strategies, and I adapted to living as the wrong gender and dissociating from the body. Looking back, it was dysfunctional the way I used my self-loathing and gender dysphoria as tools to push myself to endure physical suffering that wasn't safe or healthy. I also had a hard time gauging my body's needs and injured myself many times, and I now have life-long conditions as a result.
I have heard similar stories from other trans women IRL about not being able to read the body and injuring themselves, and about poor body coordination / proprioception. There is also just the obvious discomfort of the way sports puts you into your body in a social context, and for trans women the way sports is male-coded and all the complicated social dynamics around being "athletic" or into sports as being masculine.
What were your experiences, and do you have any advice for trans people wanting to be healthy with movement?
generally yes, but children, elderly, immune-compromised, etc. are more susceptible and the toxins in that mushroom could theoretically result in a person's death even if in most cases it usually it just results in vomiting, diarrhea, etc.
still, it's a good call out that it's not as dangerous as something like Angel of Death.
cool, I've never heard of an auto-injector like that, but I'm glad it sounds like they exist.
Either way, I don't think I personally would want to use one - I can imagine getting wigged out about initiating the auto-injector just as much as jabbing without one. (Though maybe initiating an auto-injector would be safer and easier to coordinate when wigging out, lol.)
Something I learned about my own needle phobia is that control is an important element for me (which is unfortunate because it puts me in a paradox: I need to control the needle going in, but I am frozen by the prospect of putting a needle in me).
For example, my partner has offered to do my injections, but the thought of them doing it is worse than doing it myself.
So I think I would be more afraid of the auto-injector than being able to control that part of the process manually.
Everyone's different, though, and I hope people are able to find what works for them, and this seems like a really good idea!
so, I always soak the beans overnight, and they don't soften even after more than a full day of cooking - it's almost like the cooking prevents it from further softening.
I'm not sure I've tried soaking 48 hours, though, and I would be happy to make them into a refried bean or cooked into a starchy soup - anything that doesn't leave hard beans would be great.
Thanks for this advice and for helping me, I'll try it out - this is giving me some confidence to try bulk beans storage again. I usually keep them in mason jars with the oxygen absorbers like you describe, so I'll try that again.
have always felt it's weird the way the focus is more on the assigned sex than on the self-identified gender ... e.g. if someone is trans and you call them transfem it also communicates they were assigned male at birth (this is required such that being an enby or woman makes them trans).
Focusing on assigned sex can "undo" someone's gender in a way that calling them a transfem doesn't, for example.
Honorary Mancunian is pointing out the problem is that space that comes before the last ~~, if you delete that the strikethrough might work, but I'm not sure it will work for a whole block like you were trying, let me try:
~~testing one two three
four five six~~
nope, the strikethrough only works inline, so you would have to strikethrough each sentence:
~~Important note: Shes also a Trump supporter. She actively voted for Republicans who were going to do this to us and when they then did what they said they were going to do she was supposedly surprised. She fucked around and her getting arrested is her finding out.~~
~~She also shouldnât have gotten arrested and many many trans people go to the correct bathroom in states where itâs illegal to do so and have only not been arrested because we do everything we can to get in and get out and not make ourselves known.~~
which would look like:
Important note: Shes also a Trump supporter. She actively voted for Republicans who were going to do this to us and when they then did what they said they were going to do she was supposedly surprised. She fucked around and her getting arrested is her finding out.
She also shouldnât have gotten arrested and many many trans people go to the correct bathroom in states where itâs illegal to do so and have only not been arrested because we do everything we can to get in and get out and not make ourselves known.
yeah, it was an intentional act of civil disobedience, though she might have a different view on that. She is a conservative Catholic who believed if she prayed and appealed to her fellow conservatives' consciences, they would ... just not uphold the hateful laws they created to target her. She was wrong, unfortunately. She explicitly has said she isn't an activist.
yes, even with soaking before cooking they remain dry. Even after boiling for an hour, cooling, and then simmering for hours. Even after simmering for multiple days - they just remain hard and never fully soften or cook.
how do you store your dry beans? I always end up with my beans getting too dry and they stay hard even after lots of cooking, dry beans have become something I can't buy in bulk and only fresh.
so true, and such a good example.
Personally as a kid I never exercised unless forced to (e.g. the annual 1 mile run in gym class) and didn't enjoy sports, even before I realized I was trans.
This was for so many reasons, too. For example with swimming, not wearing long-sleeves & pants was unbearable in social situations as a kid, let alone taking my shirt off & wearing swim trunks around peers.
I also had very poor body coordination / awareness ("proprioception"), and frequently was injured when I would play.
(I was hit in the head by balls so many times in sports it became a running joke with friends and family - I have distinct memories of having painful experiences being hit in the head when playing basketball, baseball, and kickball, some of these happening more than once.)
As an adult I learned coping strategies, and I adapted to living as the wrong gender and dissociating from the body. Looking back, it was dysfunctional the way I used my self-loathing and gender dysphoria as tools to push myself to endure physical suffering that wasn't safe or healthy. I also had a hard time gauging my body's needs and injured myself many times, and I now have life-long conditions as a result.
I have heard similar stories from other trans women IRL about not being able to read the body and injuring themselves, and about poor body coordination / proprioception. There is also just the obvious discomfort of the way sports puts you into your body in a social context, and for trans women the way sports is male-coded and all the complicated social dynamics around being "athletic" or into sports as being masculine.
What were your experiences, and do you have any advice for trans people wanting to be healthy with movement?