I am trying to spread awareness about the omission of clitoral neural anatomy from OB/GYN literature. The goal is to leverage social pressure in order to get it added to textbooks and board exams. The effect of this change would be improving female sexual medicine and protecting patients from preventable harm caused by ignorance of this anatomy.
Please reblog 🙏🏻
The most efficient solution would be to get the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology to add this anatomy to board exams. This would force OB/GYN textbooks to add it and OB/GYN residency programs to teach it. ABOG refuses. Enough social pressure would force them to acknowledge and remedy this problem.
If anyone wants to sign up for Medium and clap for my article that would be awesome. If anyone wants to share this on Facebook, twitter, or Instagram, that’s awesome too. I posted it on Twitter here:
https://twitter.com/jessicaannpin/status/1019764547098423298?s=21
Hey y’all, I know it’s been a while but life has thrown me a number of curveballs over the past couple years and Tumblr’s been a bit of a hard thing to keep up with, but right now I could really use y’all’s help.
Due to negligence and mismanagement on the part of doctors at a clinic I was going to for help with my hormones, I lost access to HRT back in November of 2016, and since then I’ve had to contend with homelessness alongside watching all the benefits HRT brought me start to fade away, and let me tell you, it’s been a bad time.
But! I’ve managed to reconnect with my old endocrinologist who is willing to cut me a deal on treatment due to an opening in her patient roster, and so, if I can get together $150 ($75 initial consult + $50 follow-up + $25 blood work) before she is approached by any other new patients, I can get back on HRT with the help of someone who knows me and my history and who I trust to get me back on track with my hormones.
This also means that this is a time sensitive situation, and so if you can’t donate, please reblog and get this out there so I can hopefully finally bring this part of my current life struggle to a close. Thank you!
Holy shit y’all it’s really happening!
Thank you so much to those who donated and spread the word, I can’t explain what a relief it is to know people will still look out for a gal when things are at their worst, and I can’t wait to just put this year-and-a-half long nightmare to rest.
Bless all y’all!
Hey y’all, I know it’s been a while but life has thrown me a number of curveballs over the past couple years and Tumblr’s been a bit of a hard thing to keep up with, but right now I could really use y’all’s help.
Due to negligence and mismanagement on the part of doctors at a clinic I was going to for help with my hormones, I lost access to HRT back in November of 2016, and since then I’ve had to contend with homelessness alongside watching all the benefits HRT brought me start to fade away, and let me tell you, it’s been a bad time.
But! I’ve managed to reconnect with my old endocrinologist who is willing to cut me a deal on treatment due to an opening in her patient roster, and so, if I can get together $150 ($75 initial consult + $50 follow-up + $25 blood work) before she is approached by any other new patients, I can get back on HRT with the help of someone who knows me and my history and who I trust to get me back on track with my hormones.
This also means that this is a time sensitive situation, and so if you can’t donate, please reblog and get this out there so I can hopefully finally bring this part of my current life struggle to a close. Thank you!
Hey y’all, it’s me.
So, needless to say, things for us have not been going well. I’ve been trying for the past year to get my life together, seek mental health treatment, and find work so I can reach some level of stability, but Portland is clearly not the place to do it. It’s too expensive, nazis are everywhere, and a guy in our building more than likely wants to kill us, so at this point we feel like we just need to get out.
Only problem is, we’ve got no resources to make this happen. Right now I’ve got family willing to provide a space in a storage unit to keep our stuff and a moving truck to drive the stuff to Santa Ana, CA where the storage unit is located, but beyond that, we’ve got nothing.
So, that’s where we’re at, and we really need y’all’s help. I’ve lived on the street before, but my girlfriend hasn’t and I don’t think either of us are in a state of psychological health well enough to do it effectively, so anything y’all could toss our way would do wonders to helping us finally getting some sort of stability, and even if you can’t donate, sharing helps too.
We’ve arrived safely in SoCal and thanks to the donations we’ve received so far, we managed to cover a week’s lodging in a motel, so huge thank you to all who shared and donated for that <3
However, we’re still getting stuff related to EBT and Medi insurance sorted out, so we still need help covering costs for food, meds, and other necessities, as well as further lodging when the week is up, so if you could please keep sharing this around, it’d be a huge help!
Hey y’all, it’s me.
So, needless to say, things for us have not been going well. I’ve been trying for the past year to get my life together, seek mental health treatment, and find work so I can reach some level of stability, but Portland is clearly not the place to do it. It’s too expensive, nazis are everywhere, and a guy in our building more than likely wants to kill us, so at this point we feel like we just need to get out.
Only problem is, we’ve got no resources to make this happen. Right now I’ve got family willing to provide a space in a storage unit to keep our stuff and a moving truck to drive the stuff to Santa Ana, CA where the storage unit is located, but beyond that, we’ve got nothing.
So, that’s where we’re at, and we really need y’all’s help. I’ve lived on the street before, but my girlfriend hasn’t and I don’t think either of us are in a state of psychological health well enough to do it effectively, so anything y’all could toss our way would do wonders to helping us finally getting some sort of stability, and even if you can’t donate, sharing helps too.
Hey everyone, first of all, huge thank you to those who have donated so far, you’re wonderful and I can’t really say thank you enough.
So, today’s the day of the move, and we’re gonna be w/o internet for the foreseeable future, but please keep spreading this around as we’ve only managed to raise $40, which will keep us fed for a bit, but will dry up quickly.
Again, everything counts in small amounts, so if you have anything to spare, it’d be a huge help.
Hey y’all, it’s me.
So, needless to say, things for us have not been going well. I’ve been trying for the past year to get my life together, seek mental health treatment, and find work so I can reach some level of stability, but Portland is clearly not the place to do it. It’s too expensive, nazis are everywhere, and a guy in our building more than likely wants to kill us, so at this point we feel like we just need to get out.
Only problem is, we’ve got no resources to make this happen. Right now I’ve got family willing to provide a space in a storage unit to keep our stuff and a moving truck to drive the stuff to Santa Ana, CA where the storage unit is located, but beyond that, we’ve got nothing.
So, that’s where we’re at, and we really need y’all’s help. I’ve lived on the street before, but my girlfriend hasn’t and I don’t think either of us are in a state of psychological health well enough to do it effectively, so anything y’all could toss our way would do wonders to helping us finally getting some sort of stability, and even if you can’t donate, sharing helps too.
Hey y’all, it’s me.
So, needless to say, things for us have not been going well. I’ve been trying for the past year to get my life together, seek mental health treatment, and find work so I can reach some level of stability, but Portland is clearly not the place to do it. It’s too expensive, nazis are everywhere, and a guy in our building more than likely wants to kill us, so at this point we feel like we just need to get out.
Only problem is, we’ve got no resources to make this happen. Right now I’ve got family willing to provide a space in a storage unit to keep our stuff and a moving truck to drive the stuff to Santa Ana, CA where the storage unit is located, but beyond that, we’ve got nothing.
So, that’s where we’re at, and we really need y’all’s help. I’ve lived on the street before, but my girlfriend hasn’t and I don’t think either of us are in a state of psychological health well enough to do it effectively, so anything y’all could toss our way would do wonders to helping us finally getting some sort of stability, and even if you can’t donate, sharing helps too.
Like, that’s one of the most insidious things cis people have done to us, create this idea that we suffer because we are trans and not because of how we are treated for being trans.
I mean, it constituted a huge “discovery” in the psych world when research showed that rampant depression and increased risk of suicide in trans people was tied to how badly we are isolated and alienated, and that conclusion would likely never have been reached without transness first being slowly de-pathologized, and thus not treated as just being something that is conveniently co-morbid with debilitating mental illness.
Cis people are deeply invested in any narrative that removes their involvement in our suffering and thus places the onus of change on us, demanding we subject ourselves to a psychiatric community that first attempts to obliterate our transness before it even considers helping facilitate it.
This misdirection of responsibility needs to be called out for what it is, an act of violence against trans people at the hands of cis people, and whether its through media, or medical discourse, or casual cissexism, it needs to fucking stop, and y’all cis folk need to hold yourselves accountable for how you perpetuate it.
too many big words I need a summary XP
Cis people spent years assuming that trans people are depressed and kill ourselves at a higher rate than the general population because being trans means that you’re crazy, so of course we’d be depressed/suicidal.
Yet, despite research building that shows that it’s actually largely external factors that cause those statistics, most cis people are unwilling to acknowledge the part they play in causing those factors, and instead try to find new ways to argue that our suffering is in some way our fault. or the fault of some vague, hypothetical thing they aren’t involved with.
As a result, even well-intentioned cis people perpetuate that harm because they refuse to question and examine how their comfort in their assigned gender, and really their entire understanding of gender as a whole, is in part made possible by the things that cause trans people to suffer, and so they prioritize ignoring it for their own comfort’s sake over the importance of acknowledging how it influences the way they think about and communicate with trans people, which leads to them just contributing further to our suffering.
Steam ID: Glitch-Witch
Skype: glitch-witch
Some Quick Things
-If you read this and want to follow, and you are not a trans woman, please message first introducing yourself. I'd just like to know why people unlike myself are interested in my blog.
-Unless specifically tagged otherwise, everything I post is free to reblog.
-Don't hesitate to ask me questions or just say hello. I am very friendly to the right people.
-If we're mutuals and you choose to unfollow, I'd appreciate knowing why. This isn't a demand, just more of a request for my own peace of mind.
Terms & Conditions
Gender Stuff
To be as clear as possible, I'm a camab NB trans woman. I've had a complicated relationship with gender since I was very young, but I didn't start acknowledging myself as a trans woman until I was in my mid-twenties (24-25), and didn't start hormones until I was 27.
A lot of people get confused about the idea of a non-binary woman, and I think each of us has a somewhat different take on it, but the sparknotes version is that, due to a number of factors including neurodivergence and my history with gender, I have a very particular relationship to ideas of humanity and artificiality that I feel don't align me with the concept of binary womanhood.
Gay Stuff
I am a lesbian, 100%, end of story. I am not bi, pan, or curious, nor am I a prop or sex toy for failing relationships. Other women are who I seek companionship and recognition from and who I center in everything beyond my own survival.
I do not actively pursue associations with non-women, as I find they frequently become huge drains on my emotional and intellectual energy.
Do I have friends who are non-women? Yes.
Are there non-women who I will burn energy on? Yes.
Is it likely that, if you are a non-woman, you'll be one of these rare people? Highly unlikely.
Political Stuff
I've been around for a bit, hearing many different philosophies on political organization and praxis, and at the end of the day I don't quite align with any one particular political approach.
I started out as a Communist, and while I still see value in dialectical analysis, I feel there is too much energy spent on affirming Marxism and its off-shoots as being "scientific".
Anarchism on the other hand, I feel much closer to, mostly because I have reached a point where the concept of a state has proven to me time and again to leave no room for the people I work to care for and protect, and as such it is my natural enemy.
Still, it too presents its own problems, and so I simply guide my politics via my personal goals and imperatives which are prioritizing trans women, and finding any and every opportunity to extend aid how and when I can.
You can think of me as a sort of Social Justice Cleric in that regard.
Also, I refuse to participate in intra-community conflicts between either groups of trans women or individuals. Nothing short of overt bigotry/fascism will make me value politics over my relationships with other trans women.
I am also against exclusionary/isolating politics which brand other trans women as unacceptable, except in the most extreme of cases. As someone whose politics are centered around healing and recuperating, and who is all too familiar with the harm isolation does to us, the act of choosing to cut away and alienate certain trans women is predicated on the question of whether I think that they deserve to die, so I hope it is clear why this is not something I willingly participate in.
Brain Stuff
ADHD, BPD, and am currently researching my own symptoms and comparing them with the literature on C-PTSD.
I am currently unable to afford participation in the world of psychiatry, and as such deal with my mental health issues via complex coping mechanisms rather than medication. This means that on occasion the tone of my blogging may change drastically, and if this occurs, don't be alarmed, this is normal for me.
That being said, I will never turn down even the clumsiest attempt at checking in on me, so don't worry if you need to message me for your own peace of mind.
Body Stuff
I suffer from localized chronic pain in my hands, spine, ankles, and feet. What this means is that I cannot stand, sit, or lie down for very long at a time without it becoming immensely painful, not to mention typing can become incredibly tiring, so I sometimes can't do anything beyond liking/reblogging stuff if I'm on at any given time.
If you message me during one of these times and I don't respond, this is likely why, and I will get back to you as soon as I'm able.
I also suffer from moderate hearing loss as well as auditory processing issues, which doesn't affect me much as a blogger I guess, but like, fuck people who complain about captions on videos.
Kin Stuff
Misc. Privilege Stuff
-To recap I am white, educated, in my late-20s, lgbt, neurodivergent, and have minor physical disabilities.
-As far as class, I'm poor and grew up poor
-I was born into a Jewish community but was forcibly removed at a young age, and so while I have retained very little Jewish cultural identity, it is a connection I am trying to rebuild, and I still feel a personal, vested interest in confronting antisemitism.
-I am not currently a sex worker, but I do have a history in it which I don't talk about very much, but what this means is that issues re: sex work are of a going concern for me, and if I ever do participate in discussions about them, it's as a former sex worker and not as a civilian.
~~~Stuff I'm Into~~~
Just some lists of things which you can prod me about and I will likely explode over.
Stuff I Listen To
-Girls Rituals (or any Blacksquares project tbh)
-Ashby and the Oceans
-FEMM
-Grimes
-Studio Killers
-Chvrches
-Cashmere Cat
-Andrew Jackson Jihad
-The Protomen
-Vaporwave in general
Stuff I Watch
-Jojo's Bizarre Adventure
-Serial Experiments Lain
-Revolutionary Girl Utena
-Adventure Time
-Rick and Morty
-Noel Fielding's Luxury Comedy
-Workaholics
-Over the Garden Wall
-Bob's Burgers
-The Venture Brothers
Stuff I Play
-Undertale
-The Secret World
-Monster Hunter
-Animal Crossing
-Metal Gear
-Final Fantasy XI
-Borderlands
-Saints Row
-Phantasy Star Online
-V gay/trans Twine games (especially those by ohnoproblems and porpentine)
To those I love, endless honey. To those I despise, angry bees!