Icon by @ThatSpookyAgent. Call me Tir or Julian. 37. He/They. Queer. Twitter: @tirlaeyn. ao3: tirlaeyn. 18+ Only. Star Trek. The X-Files. Sandman. IwtV. OMFD. Definitionless in this Strict Atmosphere.
Im not my blorbo’s defence lawyer. I’m their rich mom at parent night and for the money I’m paying this place, my little darling treasure gets to bite as many classmates as they like
stop calling every piece of fabric with a plaid pattern “flannel”
flannel is a soft, warm cotton. it has nothing to do with what pattern is on the cloth
I see there’s drama in the plaid fandom
im a lesbian
So am i and i say every plaid is flannel! You can’t change my mind! See that plaid blanket over there?? That’s flannel. The latitude and longitude grid on world maps? That’s a nice flannel you got there buddy
hey are you free this saturday night. id like to meet up and have a passionate discussion with you
i can’t tell whether that’s a callout or an ask-out
When you spend so much time together that you take on each other’s mannerisms.
Tomorrow Is Yesterday / The Lost Years by J.M. Dillard
[Image description: screencaps from Star Trek: The Original Series featuring Kirk, and a small passage from the The Lost Years book by J. M. Dillard.
Kirk sits in a chair with two armed officers around him. One of them is holding his phaser, they lean into him and ask, “Is that a uniform of some kind?”
Kirk looks at himself and gestures to his shirt, “This little thing? Just something I slipped on.” And looks up at the officer and smiles.
The next image is from a book, it says, “"They look the same,” Jim answered shortly. He’d hoped McCoy would cheer him up; instead, he seemed to be bringing the doctor down with him. He podded at McCoy’s clothes. “Dressed for shore leave already, I see.” For the past several weeks the doctor had expressed his eagerness for an extended leave to anyone who would listen.
McCoy looked down at himself and spread his hands demurely. “What, this old thing? Just practicing. I wanted to see what it felt like to wear civvies again.
"Brings out the color of your eyes. Looks good with the silver in your hair too.” Jim took a swallow rather than a sip of his drink. Cognac, and a very good one—it went down too easily. Kirk breathed in the aftertaste of fire and vanilla and apricot.“
my insurance asks for my AGAB as well as my gender, then uses my AGAB as my de-facto gender marker on all documents without telling me.
my adderall (which I have to order by mail because I’m on an island) is then stuck in “processing” for a week, and I am forced to call just to find out why. Its because the gender my psychiatrist and pharmacy use is “male”, but my insurance has me listed as “female”, so they can’t give me my medication.
when I call my insurance to fix this, a man argues with me about why I need to be listed as “female” even though my gender has been “male”, legally, to the state as well as the federal government, since before I signed up for this insurance in the first place. he says there are “internal biological differences”, then that people cannot access or get coverage for care they need without the “female” gender marker- pap smears, abortion, birth control, etc.
so now my options are:
1. change my gender marker to “female” for all of my medical information/documentation, including dental (bc it’s the same insurance), even though the vast majority of my medical care has nothing to do with my AGAB- I don’t need to be “female” to need adderall, for example- or
2. give up all access to and coverage for medical needs related to my reproductive system.
anyway, I got my gender marker changed to “male” with my insurance, since that was the fastest way to get my medication. I guess we’ll see what happens when I need a pap smear next.
btw this is why abortion is not a “women’s issue”.
legally, materially, men need access to abortion, too.
I feel like I should also stress that this is Washington state. Notably progressive and, afaik, the most trans-friendly state overall in the US.
I am on state health insurance, which is legally required to cover all trans-related care (from HRT to surgery!) 100%. This is the same state that was one of the first to adopt self-ID, including the third “X” gender marker option.
They asked for my “gender assigned at birth”, using that language, in the signup process.
Which means a couple of things:
1. Progressive areas are still systemically transphobic. Trans people in your life are not unaffected by things like this if you happen to live in a Very Progressive Area.
I know what yall are like in these kinds of places, and you can’t just handwave this stuff as belonging to “backwards” southern or conservative areas. This is your problem.
2. Language =/= safety. Systems and people can use the right language to be just as transphobic (or otherwise bigoted) as they would be using the worst or most outdated language possjble.
3. Trans men cannot access abortion in WA state unless their gender marker is “female” under insurance and all related medical documentation.
Even in a state where abortion is fully legal and widely available to cis women, it is still not available to trans men (without intentionally misgendering ourselves to, and being misgendered by, every vaguely medical-related professional we have contact with).
4. This is a problem that would not exist if men were also granted access to abortion.
ALT
