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As a French woman, femme in French, maybe femme in the sense of femme, definitely fem though, it makes conversations akward 😄

I do prononce it the accepted way in English, don’t worry.

Very fair point. The AMOC collapse is not going to be a problem for a while though. Time to invade Greenland then? That one should be plenty arable by then. Iceland too for logistics, probably. I’m not sure I’m comfortable with the amount of collateral damage now.

Maybe we should.

Statistics-wise, let’s assume that the repartition of potential combating she people is the same.

Terf Island + their occipied territories’ population is 69 millions people.

A conservative estimate of the trans part of the population is about 1%.

World population is 8B, which would make a ratio of 80/69 if favor of trans people.

Considering that a quick search on military doctrine yields the amount of 10 soldiers per 1000 inhabitants, 20 in the case of active insurgency, the numbers are there.

If we expand to LGBTQIA+ people in general, I don’t have a lot of stats but polling in the US gives 9%, which I’ll round to 10% because I suck at math and it’s 2AM. That brings that number to 800/69.

Then, there’s the question of armaments. Reliance on the enemies of the UK proved quite effective the last time they faced a civil war so this seems doable.

Understanding how the UK treated the population they colonized as a frame of reference for how they should consider the idea of others colonizing them, it is clear they are clearly not afraid enough.

Did I spend 10min typing this just out of spite for terf Island? Yes. Was it worth it? No.

That’s an extremely good way to articulate this! Thanks 😊

Thank you for the clarification! I wasn’t sure whether Japan mostly operated on a public healthcare like in the EU or private healthcare like in the US.

It’s a topic I find super interesting and Universal Healthcare is under attack by neoliberals and other right wing political actors about everywhere it’s been enacted like my own country, France. So it is very interesting to learn about how it work in other places.

Thanks for sharing all that, that’s super interesting. I hope you don’t mind is I ask a few questions. I don’t know anything about healthcare in Japan, if and what is public, and what is private.

When you talk about insurance, do you mean a private health insurance that you pay for?

And are those 70% you mention at the end also from a private health insurance?

I got some hormone prescription change recently. Feels pretty good.

Jerboa also shows the symbol.

Got my legal name/gender marker change approved. Now I need to wait for papers before requesting changes to more papers but at least I’m making progress.

I didn’t really get comfortable with it before changing. I only got used to it a while after changing.

Before and after, there were feelings of guilt, shame, and fear. And the imposter syndrome on top of that.

I would like to encourage you to try with your therapist and if you’re privileged enough to have them, trusted friends. Those are helpful spaces to make you more comfortable.