all states are authoritarian

Not in the same ways. You support dictatorships where workers have no power, nor the means to eventually hold power later down the line. I support neither capitalist regimes nor dictatorships pretending to be socialist.

To get rid of the state, all property needs to be collectivized, which both gets rid of class and the state itself.

Yes.

There’s no “promising to abolish” anything, the state gradually withers away with respect to class withering away as property is sublimated and collectivized.

No marxist can describe how this will happen. The dictators in charge do not have incentives to give away their power, nor are there other mechanisms in place that can bring about socialism. It’s literally just propaganda. Inequality in china is not withering away, there’s just a growing middle class the same way we had a growing middle class in other places where industrialization happened. The state owning and running things does not equate to socialism. It could, if there was democracy of some kind rather than oligarchy supplemented with very minor political participation from a fraction of the population.

I am a Marxist, yes. I became one after engaging with history, theory, logic, and practice. The fact that poor logic and false history doesn’t sway me doesn’t diminish my points. I haven’t seen any ethical arguments being brought up here.

Your auth states commit all the evils of capitalist empires and yet you still defend them. That’s not exactly ethical. Authoritarianism can’t be ethical in practice because of the incentives the people in power have to keep their power, and the things they do to keep it. “Communist” states are far more authoritarian than most liberal democracies, which is why I call them authoritarian. I call you authoritarian because you defend them and wish to implement similar oligarchies/dictatorships elsewhere. This is not to say I like liberalism, just by comparison your system is in many ways worse. Unions are way more suppressed, people are less active politically, and there are no big benefits to make up for it. Genocide is still happening, billionaires are still being produced, freedom of speech is still suppressed, etc. Like yeah we can sit here and compare metrics and see both capitalist and marxist states are doing good and bad in all sorts of different ways. Both systems work to a point. I don’t care. I want actual democracy. I want actual freedom. I want actual socialism, or at least a system which can produce socialism unlike your auth vanguard states.

I will be blocking you after this.

Edit: To me the big mystery is why defend these states? Why aim for vanguard states? Can’t we aim for something better rather than something that has “succeeded”? Why do we have to choose between liberalism and marxism when we can instead try to work towards actual socialism?

The revolution comes, comrade :3

I will not be an enemy of existing socialism or of the working class of those countries.

You already are, auth

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Can I recommend giving this a read? It’s a great resource for getting a decent understanding of some trans stuff. Covers a lot of what we feel and go through, and also the effects of hormones and such. There’s a chapter on intersex conditions also. Lots of good stuff!

Eneste som ikke er lov er testosteron og sånt for transmaske :( Østrogen, blokkere, og progesteron er ikke ulovlig (sånn som jeg forstår det iaf) men er ikke lov å selge.

Ja om det du kjøper blir tatt i tollen (som skjer ofte desverre), så tar de det, men så lenge du ikke svarer på noe så får du ikke noe problemer. Kan hende de sender brev og spør om du har resept og sånt, og da svarer man ikke altså. De fleste selgere har 1 gratis omsending om ting blir tatt, men etter det så må man kjøpe på nytt. Sjekk at det de sender forkledes som noe annet, det er ganske viktig for at ting ofte skal komme gjennom. Kalles gjerne stealth.

Personlig har ca 50%-70% kommet gjennom?

Om du skal kjøre DIY anbefaler jeg at du leser grunndig og nøye gjennom guider og om stoffene etc. Kort fortalt er det tryggeste å ta kun østrogen gjennom injeksjoner. De andre metodene krever som regel at du også tar en hormon blokker som over tid ikke er optimale for helsen din. De er ikke super dårlige i de dosene vi tar for HRT men om du kan unngå dem er det best. Jeg anbefaler ikke piller. Det er den verste måten å ta østrogen på. Om sprøyter høres skummelt ut (det er skummelt til å starte med men er egentlig veldig chill!) så kan du prøve spray eller gelé i stedet! Det fungerer veldig bra, men man må ta flere ganger per dag da i stedet for 1 gang per uke som med injeksjon.

Jeg anbefaler uansett da at du ber om å bli referert til riksen, selv om du bestemmer deg for å gjøre ting på egenhånd. De har lange ventelister, men om du får kjønnsinkongruensdiagnose av dem får du statsstøtte på diverse greier som hårfjerning, kirurgi, stemmetrening, osv.

Telling trans people that disclosing their trans status in medical contexts on the surface seems defensible, but it seems to me that it may be more motivated by a desire to reduce trans people to their assigned sex in medical contexts, which in the end is less about good medicine and more about cis-sexist norms.

Yeah. I’ve yet to have a medical professional gender me correctly in reports. I’m a man who thinks he’s a woman to them. They all seem so pleasant until I read their reports and see what they were actually thinking.

Edit: This is Jorunn btw :P just with my lemmy account

Kommentaren federer enda så svarer her på lemmy kontoen min i stedet. Nei var i en liten by i nordland, på vop. Det beste du kan gjøre er å flytte til oslo og komme deg inn på HKS om du er 30 el yngre. Du må bo i oslo for å få behandling der. Alternativene er riksen (som suger, de er onde, det tar veldig lang tid, og kan hende de bare sender deg hjem for å “ikke være trans nok”), eller imago (dyrt og kun over nett). Du kan forsåvidt også begynne med hormoner på egenhånd som jeg gjør. Vi har en lemmy community med lenker og ressurser, men den faktiske aktive communitien er på matrixen om du vil gjøre DIY. Det finnes noen leger som skriver ut hormoner, men da må man være heldig eller finne gjennom andre trans folk. Om du er transmask er det også mulig å få tak i hormoner gjennom de som bruker steroider og sånt. Det er samme greierne. Ah, ser ut som du er transfem <3

Legen min gav meg ikke store problemer fordi jeg er trans, han bare hjalp meg ikke forbi simple blodprøver. VOP var problemet for meg, og siden jeg var i en liten by hadde jeg ikke noen andre behandlere å gå til. De er redd for at det at du er trans skal være svært forstyrrende og gjøre det vanskelig å vite hva som er at du er trans og hva som er andre problemer. De var også redde for at hormoner (jeg tar ikke en gang blokker) skulle påvirke adhd medisin som er latterlig. Mange leger er nok også litt redde for hvordan det at du er trans påvirker andre ting fordi de ikke har kompetanse om det og fordi de ikke har tiden / ikke orker å sette seg inn i det. Du kan spørre folk på trans norge discorden eller transnord redditen om forslag til leger og frisører og sånt.

Håper jeg har svart på spørsmålet ditt <3

Valid :P

It’s actually [email protected]

I’m not the best at talking but my DMs are open if you ever wanna talk. There’s also the matrix which has lots of people in it, including some people who have done bottom surgery

You ever been on an instance that doesn’t have their own rules?

Edit: And it’s hardly flipping our shit to ban people who dehumanize us or spread anti trans propaganda.

I recommend https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/ Cozy queer instance with quick moderation, and open to allies as well

Ah, yeah, we do block instances. Only transphobic ones or ones that don’t moderate however.

https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/

You don’t get the point of the instance. That sports thing is deliberately pushed by the alt right because it gets people riled up, it was literally a non issue until they started bringing it up (and lying about it, making it seem like a bigger issue than it really is). There are not a lot of trans women and we largely don’t compete at a professional level. We have to keep hearing this tired old debate over and over, and so on blåhaj, which is supposed to be a safe space, we simply ban all alt right rhetoric targeting us rather than engage in it.

Do you know how often someone shows up and randomly brings up some unrelated alt right talking point? In an unrelated post? Yeah this is not us being sensitive, this is other people not understanding what it means to be a minority being specifically targeted to create engagement. We can’t all expend all of our energy all of the time to rebuke every single argument. That effort would legitimately be inhuman

Yeah. Before I started using lemmy and matrix more I was on discord a lot, and some of the mods there are rather shitty I have to say. Many even think they are allies despite allowing and defending all sorts of transphobic rhetoric like AGP etc.

Blåhaj has been such a relief in that sense. The only instance I know for sure has my back 100%. No “allies” telling me what is and is not transphobic

I went over some lessons talking about raising the larynx at first, but got discouraged and focused on some other stuff. I feel I’m a bit better equipped now to just work on that, so thank you for the great video <3

Also helps to hear your one year progress

Yeah that for sure passes! How did you practice for this, if I can ask? I can get the pitch down at this point I think, but stuff like intonation is harder

Thank you for sharing your experience <3

Yeah this is more or less what I’m hoping to one day get. It all sounds so very affirming, even the peeing yourself easier part haha :P

Best of luck with the insurance situation, btw