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PhD trans girl! She/Her, thing explainer and #TeamRhetoric technical writing scholar who loves explaining trans science! ⚢. Opinions mine. Don't crack eggs. Build nests. Kindness is a hard choice worth making. Stainedglasswoman.substack.com

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⚡🧟‍♀️ MAD DOCTOR IMPOSSIBLE!! 🧟‍♀️⚡ @impossiblephd.bsky.social · Sep 1

Hi! I'm a technical writing professor with specializations in biomedical communication, page design, and trans stuff, and I do Thing Explainers on all that.

This is a thread of some of my bigger pieces, for anyone stumbling across my profile for the first time!

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⚡🧟‍♀️ MAD DOCTOR IMPOSSIBLE!! 🧟‍♀️⚡ @impossiblephd.bsky.social · 1h

I honestly feel for the guy, because he has *absolutely zero* frame of reference to understand the scale or scope of the economic calamity that transition often, unfortunately, is for us, between surgeries and losing any generational wealth.

But Christ. To be that blissfully ignorant. I envy him.

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⚡🧟‍♀️ MAD DOCTOR IMPOSSIBLE!! 🧟‍♀️⚡ @impossiblephd.bsky.social · 1h

I just bumped into a well-meaning cis person online who honestly asked, when I talked about the importance of cost of living to trans people, "Are trans people typically more poor or less educated? I wouldn't think there'd be a correlation here but am I wrong?"

*Sigh*

Where to even start?

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⚡🧟‍♀️ MAD DOCTOR IMPOSSIBLE!! 🧟‍♀️⚡ @impossiblephd.bsky.social · 2h

Its getting better these days. I was thinking more from the beginning of the clinics in the 60s through the early 00s.

⚡🧟‍♀️ MAD DOCTOR IMPOSSIBLE!! 🧟‍♀️⚡ @impossiblephd.bsky.social · 2h

Ex-Catholic here.

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⚡🧟‍♀️ MAD DOCTOR IMPOSSIBLE!! 🧟‍♀️⚡ @impossiblephd.bsky.social · 3h

The Protestants to the Catholics who run the clinics, I suppose.

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⚡🧟‍♀️ MAD DOCTOR IMPOSSIBLE!! 🧟‍♀️⚡ @impossiblephd.bsky.social · 3h

I mean, yeah. I didn't want to just accuse all religion if being evil and extractive. I don't like painting with that broad a brush.

⚡🧟‍♀️ MAD DOCTOR IMPOSSIBLE!! 🧟‍♀️⚡ @impossiblephd.bsky.social · 3h

"Estrogen me, Father, for I am trans."

"Give me five Wrong Body Narratives and ten Stories Of Wearing Dresses As A Child, lest thou be a heretic and cast out. Also, we require your monthly tithe."

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⚡🧟‍♀️ MAD DOCTOR IMPOSSIBLE!! 🧟‍♀️⚡ @impossiblephd.bsky.social · 3h

Transactional feels almost more right, but I mean it in the cruellest sense. They extract our money & suffering but only if we validate their place as inherently superior & normative.

Its the priest-penitent relationship, but evil. Pay for salvation, but only if you conform. Otherwise? Damnation.

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⚡🧟‍♀️ MAD DOCTOR IMPOSSIBLE!! 🧟‍♀️⚡ @impossiblephd.bsky.social · 3h

While I agree with the principle entirely, something about "extractive" sticks as being not-quite-right to me, thinking of the history back at The Beginning Of Modern Gender Clinics. They fought hard to bar as many of us from care as they could, even when more people would've made them more money.

Abigail Thorn @theabigailthorn.bsky.social · 15h

Thinking more about this, the relationship of gender clinics to trans people has always been extractive. They make money and careers off the suffering they inflict on us.

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⚡🧟‍♀️ MAD DOCTOR IMPOSSIBLE!! 🧟‍♀️⚡ @impossiblephd.bsky.social · 3h

I'm thinking more about this scholarly book I'm trying to publish.

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⚡🧟‍♀️ MAD DOCTOR IMPOSSIBLE!! 🧟‍♀️⚡ @impossiblephd.bsky.social · 4h

Its more that I guess I'm worried that I'm gonna humiliate myself because I've manages to misunderstand, misinterpret, and/or misstate like.. I dunno... everything?

I dunno. I've always felt like a dunce among scholars.

⚡🧟‍♀️ MAD DOCTOR IMPOSSIBLE!! 🧟‍♀️⚡ @impossiblephd.bsky.social · 4h

I'm not gonna lie, sometimes I look at the work of other queer researchers and it feels *absolutely ludicrous* that I'm trying to add my own research to that body.

Like... dang, who the heck do I think I am?

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⚡🧟‍♀️ MAD DOCTOR IMPOSSIBLE!! 🧟‍♀️⚡ @impossiblephd.bsky.social · 5h

I'd be 100% there for some old person finally having their gender crisis at the old folks home D&D session.

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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Blade Wielding Bisexual (Lordean arc) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 10h

Since Link is banned, his mutual aid Fridays have gone with him. This was one of the most altruistic things I’ve seen anyone on this site do.

In light of this, I’m gonna try to fill the gap.

Drop your mutual aid requests under this thread and I will repost them for as long as I can.

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⚡🧟‍♀️ MAD DOCTOR IMPOSSIBLE!! 🧟‍♀️⚡ @impossiblephd.bsky.social · 7h

There's definitely gonna be a couple of D&D games every week.

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⚡🧟‍♀️ MAD DOCTOR IMPOSSIBLE!! 🧟‍♀️⚡ @impossiblephd.bsky.social · 7h

Oh yay!!!!

⚡🧟‍♀️ MAD DOCTOR IMPOSSIBLE!! 🧟‍♀️⚡ @impossiblephd.bsky.social · 8h

Ahh, the difference being:

"Your actions are that of a hack" is an argument to ethos.

"*You* are a hack" is an ad hominem, unless supported by a mountain of evidence.

The difference is whether we're focusing on the person or what they're doing.

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⚡🧟‍♀️ MAD DOCTOR IMPOSSIBLE!! 🧟‍♀️⚡ @impossiblephd.bsky.social · 8h

Yeah, I got bored of the dummy and muted him.

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⚡🧟‍♀️ MAD DOCTOR IMPOSSIBLE!! 🧟‍♀️⚡ @impossiblephd.bsky.social · 9h

Oh, that's a great look!!

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⚡🧟‍♀️ MAD DOCTOR IMPOSSIBLE!! 🧟‍♀️⚡ @impossiblephd.bsky.social · 9h

For real. I too would be willing to bear that burden.

⚡🧟‍♀️ MAD DOCTOR IMPOSSIBLE!! 🧟‍♀️⚡ @impossiblephd.bsky.social · 9h

I missed your birthday?! Happy birthday!!

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⚡🧟‍♀️ MAD DOCTOR IMPOSSIBLE!! 🧟‍♀️⚡ @impossiblephd.bsky.social · 10h

🥰

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⚡🧟‍♀️ MAD DOCTOR IMPOSSIBLE!! 🧟‍♀️⚡ @impossiblephd.bsky.social · 10h

Again, I will cheerfully defer to your clear expertise on the subject of you publicly admitting that you are a narcissist so completely out of control that it could never be affected by someone else making an argument of any kind.

Someone should give you an honorary PhD for that level of expertise.

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⚡🧟‍♀️ MAD DOCTOR IMPOSSIBLE!! 🧟‍♀️⚡ @impossiblephd.bsky.social · 10h

No, you didn't. You accused her of having an imaginary conflict of interest. You said none of these things, nor have you presented any evidence to support any part of it.

Just bad trolling.

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⚡🧟‍♀️ MAD DOCTOR IMPOSSIBLE!! 🧟‍♀️⚡ @impossiblephd.bsky.social · 10h

I will defer to your clear and unchallenged expertise in not being right.

Also, Dr. Guest was the last participant in this thread to present evidence about AI, so she's the expert here. I'll look at any compelling evidence you have if and when you offer it.

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