AspieEgg

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[–] AspieEgg@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Ontario’s health card doesn’t even display a sex marker on it, though it is part of the information associated with the card. I really don’t understand why other forms of ID need it. It isn’t relevant toward identifying you or your ability to operate a vehicle. So why does it exist? Like you said: no reason at all!

[–] AspieEgg@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 points 5 months ago

It’s probably just that you’re not the target market for Harry Potter anymore and the only part of HP that’s still relevant to you is JKR and her transphobia.

HBO and their parent company Warner Bros are making a big deal out of their upcoming TV show. They own the rights to the films and merchandise and HP is a cash cow for them. They flopped with the Fantastic Beasts series, so you can bet there is going to be a push to try to cash in on nostalgia and novelty with the Harry Potter series.

[–] AspieEgg@lemmy.blahaj.zone 29 points 5 months ago (1 children)

As someone who grew up on HP, there are way better books in the same genre out there anyway. The hype of Harry Potter is all just marketing from Warner Bros (they own most of the rights on merchandise).

If you want an actually good children’s/YA story about a young person learning magic and becoming the hero, try the Tiffany Aching subseries of Terry Pratchett’s Discworld novels. They are much better written than HP.

[–] AspieEgg@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Oh yeah. This story is way less interesting and stupid when you realize what the “unicycle” is.

[–] AspieEgg@lemmy.blahaj.zone 22 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

You don’t need to hate yourself or your body to be transgender. If you think you’d be happier living as a woman, then you might be. When you feel happy about dressing or presenting as your true self, we call that gender euphoria, and it can sometimes be a more powerful feeling than dysphoria.

[–] AspieEgg@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I don’t know where you can get them from central Europe, but Gaff and Go is a British company that makes really nice gaffs. Their “magic gaff” line works well for me. I get them shipped to me in Canada.

 

I know this isn't specifically transfem, in fact the author is transmasc, but I am transfem and this is the biggest trans community I can find. I bought the book "The T in LGBT" by Jamie Raines and I want to share it with my wife. She has a hard time reading paper books, and I saw there was an audiobook version of it on the UK Audible website. I tried to buy it there, but as soon as I entered a Canadian credit card, it told me that it wasn't available in my region.

Anyone know where I can get this audiobook that doesn't put region restrictions on it?

EDIT: In case anyone else comes looking for this audiobook, I found this Italian website that sold it. I signed up for the website with a fake UK address and paid with PayPal. I'm not sure if it was necessary to give a UK address, but that's what I did. After that, I was then able to listen to it with the Kobo Reader on my iPhone.

https://www.ibs.it/t-in-lgbt-audiobook-jamie-raines/e/9781529911565