Actually insane how most surgeons just outright refuse to operate on fat people for no real reason
Even more insane how many people within the trans community will tell fat trans people to ‘just lose x pounds’ instead of criticizing the BMI limits themselves
Here are a few resources for surgeons that will perform top surgery with either no BMI limit or a much higher limit than other surgeons!!! Note that the google doc also specifies surgeons that do bottom surgery and hysterectomies. Fat Trans ppl that want top surgery deserve the same care and compassion that thin people get when it comes to medical care.
Thank you so much!!
I wanna add that I just checked the FEDUP Collective mentioned here, which mentions some non-US surgeons (super excited about that as a Canadian!!) and is supposedly up-to-date.
In Toronto specifically it mentions the Women’s College Hospital and lists their BMI limit at 40, but this is no longer true! WCH actually has NO BMI limit currently, which makes it super popular. I was actually really hoping to get my top surgery done there, but their waitlists are closed due to high demand until 'sometime next year’ and from what I can tell waiting time is usually around 2 years anyway.
The fact that FEDUP still has a BMI limit for WCH when I didn’t even know they ever had one is honestly extremely reassuring. It could mean there are other surgeons that have increased or removed their BMI cut offs that I hadn’t even considered yet.
i hope tumblr never gets rid of the feature to press and hold the like button so a bunch of hearts explode on your screen you know? it’s the little things
i know our philosophical beliefs are skewed at best but we have a deeply held precept that if nobody in the world knows you exist or agrees that you do, you’re not entirely “real”, part of this undoubtedly being a result of the fact we only existed to mod for half a decade and are thus not able to point to anything to even kind of back up what we say. which is awesome because what i claim you should feel about my childhood is deeply fake sounding and having like any kind of paper trail or witnesses would be REALLY GREAT HONESTLY
Too tired to draw but I still need everyone to be aware of this bizarre interaction I had at work this morning
Worth mentioning is that I’m in Iceland and the store I work at only accepts icelandic króna so like even euros wouldn’t have worked in this case
On the one hand I refuse to defend Americans and this behavior is kind of embarrassing but on the other hand dumbasses enraging Europeans by not caring even a little bit about their funny little currencies is absolutely hilarious so I’m conflicted here
I think I’ve decided it’s time to topple the dollar as a world standard
I propose we switch to Chilean Peso
I think we should go back to harvesting seashells
I can’t do this anymore I am seriously at my limit here
Idk I’m in full support of forcing the English to accept my green construction paper
Could you do me a quick favour and point out where England is on this map?
“oh yeah even if your opponent has an unexpected advantage that completely turns the tides of battle (you thought they were unarmed when they aren’t) you shook totally just keep going with your current plan, otherwise you’re a coward”
he would not say that.
you’re just afraid of a big thick girlcock
Whether Sun Tzu would be into girldick is completely orthogonal to whether he would give bullshit bravado advice that will get you killed. He’s the “logistics win wars” guy.
His ladycock advice would be more like “The wise general chooses an adversary who uses familiar techniques.”
there is a lot we will forgive for girlcock on this site but misconstruing Sun Tzu is NOT on that list
fucked up blend of various pink inks I have, it’s primarily dahler rowney’s platinum pink mixed in with ferris wheel press’s pink eraser with some solvent and water, I think there might be a drop of ziller’s flamingo in there too idk. it’s a bit frankenstinian
University of Pennsylvania students are reportedly appealing to fellow student Naomi Biden to pressure her grandfather for a presidential pardon of Mangione on Sidechat, a Yik Yak clone.
one thing i hate about english is your open compound words. what do you mean it’s a light switch and not a lightswitch or a water bottle instead of a waterbottle. get real
This pizza was made over here in Brazil and I’m happy to inform everyone that the method they used to get the toppings over the whole dough evenly is just slightly less funny than what the last poster in the thread suggested:
They hovered a guy over it using a crane and maneuvered him around by pushing him with a pole.
One of the underdiscussed tragedies of covid is the fact that a ton of newly disabled people have been shoved into the discursive spotlight as the dominant voice on disability issues to spew frankly rancid takes
Basically everything said i have immense compassion and solidarity and time for coming from struggling individuals but whej spoken as a major discursive line, many of these takes are having pretty disastrous effects on the discourse and efficacy of the socio-medical field of chronic illness management and justice
Long covid is real, and debilitating. It’s also novel– the longest anyone can possibly have had long covid is about 5 years. I don’t know that I know any chronically ill person who’s condition arose as an adult who’ve made meaningful progress in managing their illness well in under 5 years; NOR anyone who hasn’t made significant progress coping in under 10 years.
Becoming disabled is terrifying and there’s a lot of grief and frustration and rage to work through– and a lot of ableism. Most people who became #disabilityjusticeadvocates after being disabled by long covid have absolutely 0 knowledge of the history or tactics of disabled movements. Frankly offensive and ludicrous comparisons to AIDS, for example, run rampant– despite the fact this is nothing like AIDS and ppl making these comparisons appear to be only passingly familiar with the AIDS epidemic and wholly unaware of the current abuse and criminalization forced on ppl who are HIV+. We can make critiques of how capitalism and frankly civilized society disables people, specific political critiques of covid even, without rudely and unhelpfully asserting that this is the Worst Thing That’s Happened And Nobodys Ever Had It As Bad As You. It is not, and will never be, *literally illegal* to have long covid. Fuck, governments actually DID SOMETHING and responded!! It sucked, because it will always suck, it pushed poor people hardest, and so on, but cmon. You cannot seriously compare problematic but prompt vaccine rollouts and ongoing intense research into management and cures to 20 years of unaddressed death; nor a “resistance” movement that essentially amounts to insults & ineffectual propaganda to one that worked extremely hard at building communal support structures and making legit gains. Yall ain’t even pumping infected air into the cdc offices. Smh.
My heart fucking hurts for the huge numbers of ppl who have become disabled without access to support and then asked to become discursive authorities on disability while still trying to figure out what living as a newly disabled person can look like, but I’m also fully pissed at the behavior of some of yall and how bystanders willing platform really ineffectual and frankly ableist shit because of “listening to affected voices”.
People ARE making moves– there are support groups and communities sharing new strategies both from DIY versions of new literature and observations from personal experiments. Nicotine patches are what I’m aware of most recently and i bieve Four Theives published a guide to a drug that *cures* a meaningful, but not fda-requirememt-satisfying # of cases. It is possible to take strides, movement is still possible, it is important to not lose rage or critique! AND everyone is still figuring this thing out (let me reiterate that long covid is getting a comparatively huge amount of research and attention than many other chronic illnesses, like fr) & the least some of yall can fucking do is not drag the entire concept of chronic illness management down in your despair.
icant even explain why i feel this way about it but this meme, this specific version, just makes me so emotional i love it so so much. its very heartwarming. peace n love on planet earth
DC’s Beach Blanket Bad Guys Summer Special #1 - “Help” (2018)
written by Jeff Loveness art by David Williams & Steve Buccellato
Fuck, the last panel hit hard.
I’ve been watching and reading Superman for 50 years and still, the big guy means something to me.
Not enough people talking about how that guy knows exactly whose tirehe’s changing. Getting his name wrong is one thing, but getting it wrong a different way every time you say it?
Oh, I had not put that together before. Fantastic.
raw milk is specifically unprocessed (so not pasteurized and not sterile) milk. boiling it is an effective method of pasteurization. they’ve pasteurized unpasteurized milk.
Okay but this is serious, I work in retail and I had a lady come up and ask for 2 $500 Google play gift cards. We have been trained to look for these scams and to warn the customers NEVER give the card numbers over the phone unless you have met this person face to face. I told the lady this and she started crying, saying they were the IRS and that if she hung up they would call the police and have her arrested. They wanted to keep her on the phone so she couldn’t call her husband, who was more aware of how the IRS works. I was able to convince her to hang up and call the police on *them* instead, and saved her $500.
Scams are serious, people lose a lot of money and older people are targeted the worst because they’re easy targets.
First of all, the IRS will *never* call you and ask for money, and they definitely won’t call the cops on you. They’ll get your money if they really want it through taxes.
But now they’re trying to target our generation using crypto, which is super hard to trace if the money gets lost. So they’re getting smarter, and they’ll use whatever they can to get you to give them money.
What you really need to know or take away from this is: NEVER, and I mean EVER, buy a gift card and give the barcode number on the back to someone over the phone. It is ALWAYS, 100%, a scam!
Please be safe and hang up on these fuckers the second they ask you to buy a gift card.
“Just string it together in any order, the more random it is the more complex it’ll sound" improvising music on the fly was one of Mozart’s party tricks
Not saying this guy is Mozart but he’s smart and clever and talented and way, way underappreciating himself
Bimbo qualities
babe wake up new flavor of imposter syndrome dropped
Today, the richest person in the world suddenly and mysteriously drops dead. Tomorrow the same thing happens. It continues every day, unexplainable and unstoppable.
Yippee!!! Yippee yippee!! Street parties abound!! Question: does this continue until everyone is dead? Is there a lower threshold to richness? Or do we just burn through them and then start picking off the upper middle class? Like. Also what if you’re married to a rich person but have minimal personal finances. What then?
It would take years just to burn through the billionaries so I wouldn’t worry myself
… I’m pretty sure by that point the world governments would ban currency entirely
becoming president just to put lumen, decibel, and size restrictions on vehicles.
i shouldn’t be seeing floaters shaped like your car’s headlights for thirty seconds after i pass you. also shut the fuck up. and your car does not need to be that big. you’re putting other people in danger. let’s get you a more conscious-of-other-people car
