I’m writing a policy for the clinic I work at that basically intends to cover a few things with regards to transgender patients and I was wondering if any of my trans followers of any identity would like to reblog/comment/send me asks telling me:
1. what kinds of things would help you feel comfortable and safe in a waiting room setting? What about the exam room setting?
2. what things make you feel uncomfortable or unsafe in a waiting room setting? What about an exam room setting?
3. how important is it to you to have all personnel use your proper name (rather than birth/legal name) and pronouns?
3.1. If you are not “out” or don’t publicly use your pronouns/name or present/publicly transition, are there any things you can think of which would lessen anxiety? (Such as being offered the chance to request an intake examiner of a certain gender without necessarily having to disclose your own?)
4. Have you ever had any poor, uncomfortable, hostile, or triggering encounters in a clinic setting?
4.1. In particular, are there any that you believe could have been prevented with proper staff training?
4.2. Are there any situations in which you believe you received lower quality healthcare than a cis person would have received? For example, has a healthcare provider ever foregone any essential or routine physical exams upon identifying you as a trans patient?
4.3. Has a provider ever acted inappropriately whether in speech or in body language? Have they ever asked offensive or prying questions regarding sexual history/health, overall health, or genital/reproductive health?
4.35. Has your health provider ever wasted appointment time asking you questions relating to your sex organs, gender identity, transition/intent to transition, or other topics when you were seeking medical care unrelated to those topics?
4.4. Has your provider ever neglected to ask routine questions regarding sexual history/health, overall health, or genital/reproductive health? Have they ever rushed through your exam leaving you inadequate time to voice your health concerns?
5. Have you ever overheard or been directly subjected to verbal abuse, gossip, transphobic/cissexist comments, casual use of slurs not directed at a patient, or other inappropriate conversation of any kind between any staff on-site (whether or not it was directed at you)

I might ask some more later but here’s part 1! Anon asks should be on and i will not publish any of these whatsoever. If you’d like to answer via email, email me at medicalsettingsurvey@gmail.com! Reblogs are greatly appreciated!

really i think the reason the onceler fandom was so bizarre was because it represented the ultimate conclusion of very proto typical fandom behaviour in a context that was absolutely not able to handle it and it demonstrates itself most effectively with the way oncest happened

because if you check the patterns you’ll see that the immediate characters and ships that everyone gravitates towards in any fandom are the most conventionally attractive guys that tend to be at the center of the work (but occasionally slightly off to the side); sam/dean in supernatural, john/sherlock in sherlock, john/karkat (arguably john/dave? its been a while) in homestuck, ishimaru/mondo in dr1 and hinata/komaeda in dr2, there’s one for teen wolf but i don’t know enough about it to remember what it was

basically that tends to be the pattern for it, but the problem with the lorax is that there was really only one character that fit that mold: the young onceler. who else is there? the lorax? that kid who’s the central character of the framing device for the film? o’hare? tree girl? all you have is this one guy

so in a furious attempt to create something out of nothing, oncest was born; the idea of shipping the young, innocent onceler shown in the films early sequences with his slightly older, (but still “pretty”) more evil self that is portrayed in the “how bad can i be” number (i believe this iteration was referred to as greedler).

but what about the people who don’t like that dynamic? what is there for them? just one guy again. so it began spiralling out of control, AUs upon AUs spawned for the million possible variations of one character, and shipping them with the original, and then shipping them with each other and ignoring the original, and then creating alternate versions of those that are so wildly different from the original canon that they might as well be something else entirely, and it just became this huge ouroboros of a fandom desperately trying to justify its own existence that was inevitably doomed to basically eat itself

its not so much that the onceler fandom is weird, but that fandom in general has bizarre behaviours and it took this one shitty animated film to really demonstrate that maybe we need to chill

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what’s better than dudes?

guys being this.

guys being what

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