I know I’ve been over this but man HRT is good stuff. I wanna shake the hand of whoever invented it. It’s a crime that I don’t know who that is actually. They’re more important than Einstein
id also been really curious about the history of hrt so i had some tabs open:
The first hrt treatments were mostly estrogen extracted during pregnancies to be used for menopause symptoms, but the first usage of those medicines for trans women is credited to the world’s first Trans Clinic, opened in pre-WW2 Germany by Magnus Hirschfield, a gay jewish man.
Oh he looks delightful
Thank you grandpa
The comparasion to Einstein was actually made at the time too! He was commonly refered to as “the Einstein of sex”, to which he supposedly once replied that he would rather Einstein be called “the Hirschfeld of physics” lmao
Oh my god
The story of the Institute of Sexology should be mandatory learning in all schools. It is arguably where the science of gender and sex were codified and became a field, featuring such hits as development of HRT, gender affirming surgeries like top surgery and bottom surgery, and understanding of gender and sex which were inclusive of gay, bisexual, asexual, trans identities, etc. Hirschfeld advocated free sex education and contraceptives, and destigmatization of LGBT identities. He coined transsexual, as a departure from transvestite, and wrote medical passes for trans people to show police who would hassle them for crissdressing.
The Institute of Sexology, was burned by the Nazi regime. It was one of the earliest targets and one of the biggest, of the book burning efforts, and the majority of photos depicting Nazi book burnings were from that one specific event. It had medical research, records, case studies. The burning of the Institute set back the entire scientific field entire decades.
Musk just said that unverified users will only be allowed to view 600 tweets a day before being rate limited, so everyone should get ready to welcome some new tumblr neighbours
Is that why it’s down right now?? Or is that incidental to some other bullshit
As far as I’ve been able to determine there are currently (July 1 2023) up to three different bullshits going on
(1) Unverified aka non paid accounts can only view 600 tweets a day and new unverified accounts can only view 300. This shows up as an error telling you you’re rate limited.
(2) Nobody can view any tweets without being logged in. This shows up as a “something went wrong” error.
(3) I have heard that Twitter is also currently DDOSing itself somehow – that is, trying to look at its own pages so often that nobody else can get through to load them – but I haven’t been affected by or been able to verify that, or figure out whether it’s linked to one of the other two issues.
