Month: April 2022

School forces teachers to remove LGBTQ safe space stickers because they’re not “appropriate”

The school district demanded the teachers stop saying that their classrooms are safe spaces for LGBTQ students.

School forces teachers to remove LGBTQ safe space stickers because they’re not “appropriate”

Teachers in a Missouri school district have been instructed to remove LGBTQ-inclusive “safe space” signs and stickers from their classrooms.

Singal and the Noise

Singal and the Noise

For those unaware, Jesse Singal is a journalist and former editor of New York Magazine’s science vertical. He has a Master’s in public affairs, and has (ironically, as we will see) written a book on the failings of “fad psychology” and the replication crisis. Many of his writings—such as 2016’s “How the Fight Over Transgender Kids Got a Leading Sex Researcher Fired” in The Cut and a 2018 Atlantic piece, “When Children Say They’re Trans”—have echoed transphobic narratives that have flared up in the U.S. and U.K.

04/23/22

My ears have been bothering me a lot today, mostly because it’s been really windy. It’s a constant reminder I may have permanent hearing loss due to one of the micro strokes. I hope I’m wrong, but I would rather expect the worst and be wrong than get my hopes up and have them dashed.

I suppose the disconcerting thing is I told the doctor what the clinic said and he mostly shrugged it off and repeated that he wants the neurological evaluation as soon as possible. Doesn’t sound promising , but there it is,

~Kira

04/22/22

I had my doctors appointment today to go over the results of the MRI along with my hearing issues. I’ll cut to the chase here and then work through what I’m thinking.

First, it appears I have had a long history of micro strokes going back more than six months and probably much longer. There is also evidence of extensive blood vessel damage throughout my brain which is only going to get worse as time passes which might mean more micro strokes or even a major event. At this point the doctors not sure exactly what’s going on but he is worried, so he is trying to get me a neurology referral so they can do more tests. He is also getting me a cardiac sonogram to look at the arteries in my neck to make sure there aren’t issues there. He’s also making changes to my medications, mainly blood thinners, as a stop gape until more information becomes available. unfortunately I already bruise and bleed far too easily and this is going to make that worse but it’s a risk he feels we need to take.

Second, these medical concerns assure I will have zero chance of pursuing any form of medical transition. Estrogen would raise my risk of heart attack or stroke to an unacceptable level if not kill me out right. Surgeries are also off the table when I could bleed out. Of course, surgery was a long shot at best for financial reasons, but it’s moot now. So, wherever I am now, it’s where I’m going to stay.

This of course is a lot to process and doing so is going to take some time, as much as I would like to make a snap decision on future plans, I know it would be the wrong path to take. There is just too much damage which would be done to my physical and mental health.

I do have some thoughts on what comes next, but I’m not comfortable discussing them yet. Maybe at some point soon, we’ll just play it by ear for the moment.

~Kira

Resisting Right-Wing Christian Co-optation: How I Responded as a Detrans Woman When Conservative Christians Misused My Work

Resisting Right-Wing Christian Co-optation: How I Responded as a Detrans Woman When Conservative Christians Misused My Work

Ky Schevers:

I decided to share this post from my old blog because I want people to see an example of a detransitioned person resisting co-optation by right-wing Christians and talking about how their interests are aligned with those of trans people. I want to point out that I published this almost a year before Ryan T Anderson published his anti-trans book When Harry Became Sally, where he used my story and quotes from my writing without consulting with me first (or with the other detrans women whose stories he used). So by the time his book came out, I had already publicly stated that I opposed my work and story being used by conservative Christians such as himself to push transphobia and a larger right-wing political agenda. I made it clear that I found such actions harmful and deeply violating.