Dani
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I think one of the mantras I've been given to fellow colleagues as well as to our leadership to get their heads on straight is that fascism is messy, right? It's a scary, messy, there are a lot of throwing stuff at the wall and seeing what sticks. But the things that in theory are still in place Like when and if they fall, we have different problems than the ones we're facing now, right?
I think one of the mantras I've been given to fellow colleagues as well as to our leadership to get their heads on straight is that fascism is messy, right? It's a scary, messy, there are a lot of throwing stuff at the wall and seeing what sticks. But the things that in theory are still in place Like when and if they fall, we have different problems than the ones we're facing now, right?
So we still have, in this country, protections for your healthcare information. So if what you worry about in going to the doctor is that someone will find out that you're trans and put you on a list, like I can't tell you that's never going to happen.
So we still have, in this country, protections for your healthcare information. So if what you worry about in going to the doctor is that someone will find out that you're trans and put you on a list, like I can't tell you that's never going to happen.
So we still have, in this country, protections for your healthcare information. So if what you worry about in going to the doctor is that someone will find out that you're trans and put you on a list, like I can't tell you that's never going to happen.
But I can tell you that if it happens through your healthcare clinic, like we have significantly changed the threat model that we're all living in because HIPAA doesn't matter anymore and doesn't exist.
But I can tell you that if it happens through your healthcare clinic, like we have significantly changed the threat model that we're all living in because HIPAA doesn't matter anymore and doesn't exist.
But I can tell you that if it happens through your healthcare clinic, like we have significantly changed the threat model that we're all living in because HIPAA doesn't matter anymore and doesn't exist.
Your providers are spending enormous amounts of time thinking carefully about how they document, where they document, how much of a deal they want to make it, whether or not they can change the thing they're prescribing for you and what diagnosis it's for. We are finding ways to sort of throw as much cover and shade and camouflage over this as we can. But you shouldn't not come get care.
Your providers are spending enormous amounts of time thinking carefully about how they document, where they document, how much of a deal they want to make it, whether or not they can change the thing they're prescribing for you and what diagnosis it's for. We are finding ways to sort of throw as much cover and shade and camouflage over this as we can. But you shouldn't not come get care.
Your providers are spending enormous amounts of time thinking carefully about how they document, where they document, how much of a deal they want to make it, whether or not they can change the thing they're prescribing for you and what diagnosis it's for. We are finding ways to sort of throw as much cover and shade and camouflage over this as we can. But you shouldn't not come get care.
Your life matters. You being in the body that you were meant to have matters. Come talk to us. Come ask for help. We're here to do it. And we're not going to stop until they make us. And right now, they can't make us. And so we're going to keep doing it.
Your life matters. You being in the body that you were meant to have matters. Come talk to us. Come ask for help. We're here to do it. And we're not going to stop until they make us. And right now, they can't make us. And so we're going to keep doing it.
Your life matters. You being in the body that you were meant to have matters. Come talk to us. Come ask for help. We're here to do it. And we're not going to stop until they make us. And right now, they can't make us. And so we're going to keep doing it.
It's really important to ask your friends. That's really solid advice in part because whether I like it or not, a lot of organizations are taking the stuff that says, hey, we treat trans people down off their website, off their marketing materials. We are not trying to draw that attention. It doesn't mean we don't do it.
It's really important to ask your friends. That's really solid advice in part because whether I like it or not, a lot of organizations are taking the stuff that says, hey, we treat trans people down off their website, off their marketing materials. We are not trying to draw that attention. It doesn't mean we don't do it.
It's really important to ask your friends. That's really solid advice in part because whether I like it or not, a lot of organizations are taking the stuff that says, hey, we treat trans people down off their website, off their marketing materials. We are not trying to draw that attention. It doesn't mean we don't do it.
It doesn't mean we're not skilled and trained and educated and smart and passionate about it. It just means we don't really want to totally fly a trans flag on the roof right now because it's just going to cause everybody harm. So talk to your friends, talk to people in your community. They know us. We know them. I have a lot of activism experience outside of my work.
It doesn't mean we're not skilled and trained and educated and smart and passionate about it. It just means we don't really want to totally fly a trans flag on the roof right now because it's just going to cause everybody harm. So talk to your friends, talk to people in your community. They know us. We know them. I have a lot of activism experience outside of my work.
It doesn't mean we're not skilled and trained and educated and smart and passionate about it. It just means we don't really want to totally fly a trans flag on the roof right now because it's just going to cause everybody harm. So talk to your friends, talk to people in your community. They know us. We know them. I have a lot of activism experience outside of my work.