“What the media gets wrong on gender reassignment”
Two things can be true at the same time. First, the Republican-backed state laws banning medical gender-transition treatment for youth — one has already passed in Arkansas — are a very bad idea. Second, there is a serious dearth of solid evidence in this area of medicine — and some reasons to be genuinely concerned about these treatments. If you’re a consumer of mainstream American media, you’ve likely received a heaping dose of the first message. But the second, if you’ve encountered it at all, has probably been presented to you as a deeply unscientific, bigoted… Jesse Singal Read More "“What the media gets wrong on gender reassignment”"
“Women, shame and Aspergers”
Women, shame and Aspergers Fear, guilt, and shame are often amplified for women on the autism spectrum | The Art of Autism(opens in a new tab) My feeling of being waste material stuck to my soul early in life, and it’s been my biggest challenge to release that sense of worthlessness. By Eva Angvert Harren What is it about relationships that’s so hard to get? I know that “everybody” has challenges with relationships, however when you are on the Spectrum, and socially blind, the odds against you are so much greater. How can we keep friendships going without losing ourselves? Losing ourselves by people pleasing, or allowing behaviors that do not feel good to us? How can we learn to put our Self first, our sense of self, our feelings of integrity and truth for us? How can we feel intact in who we want to be, and still have… Read More "“Women, shame and Aspergers”"
“Let’s Have No More Talk of Dysphoria”
Let’s Have No More Talk of Dysphoria …Geeze, I wonder why this contagion of young women wanting to have their healthy breasts amputated has emerged. Is it possible they are absorbing the messages that promote body dysphoria as progressive, cool, and edgy by media conglomerates selling this exact message? The culture was primed for this contagion by the media, which we’re groomed to believe, in most western cultures, is a free and open-source of information in democratic societies. Remember all those stories, seven years back, of poor children “born in the wrong body,” boys with a love of the color pink and hair ribbons, meant to rip at our heartstrings? Stories of families with young children who like the stereotypical things of the opposite sex flooded the media, across western cultures, always with the same narrative: discovery of an unacceptable identity, initial anxiety within the child and the family, and… Read More "“Let’s Have No More Talk of Dysphoria”"
“hip anatomy at DuckDuckGo”
Hip Anatomy Working on my hip top bits Very tight and stopping the smooth line Yoga Anatomy: A Simple Trick to Align Your Pelvis in Warrior I (Virabhadrasana I) | YogaUOnline Tom Myers: Change the Body to Change the Mind – Dynamics of Transformation in the Light of New Fascia Research | YogaUOnline Read More "“hip anatomy at DuckDuckGo”"