“transition poses some ethical questions. Such as, from what age should you be allowed to irreversibly change your body.“
This of course completely ignores the fact that puberty makes irreversible changes to your body. But let us just rephrase the question: “from what age do you gain bodily autonomy?” Now it gets very easy to answer: From the moment you’re fucking born.
I’m sorry, I’m reblogging this twice in a row it is that important
Stand up and say it again for the people in the back row.
This is all completely true and correct, of course, but on the topic of changes that irreversibly change a child’s body, prithee, go and talk to a fucking ballet dancer.
If you start ballet at 16, you are too old to ever expect to be able to do it seriously. If you start at 12 you’re too old. If you want to do ballet as a serious thing, as a career, you need to start at like eight years old or even younger, because your bones and joints need to be trained while they’re still flexible in order for you to be able to perform many of the required motions and stances of ballet. In particular, you need to be able to perform turnout of the hips, but all of your joints in your legs and feet will be affected, and this irreversibly changes your body.
And yet! Nobody talks about this as a negative thing! Little girls say they want to be ballet dancers, and if their parents have enough money, that’s what they get to be! Does it cause problems in later life? Yeah, sometimes! Often, even! But nobody talks about that because it’s a thing for cis people to do and so naturally it’s all fine!
Go and talk to a fucking ballet dancer.
Even common everyday sports do this.
If you play soccer for a few consecutive years sometime between the ages of 8 and 15 it will permanently affect your knees.
If you play a lot of soccer and for longer it will affect the entirety of legs, muscle and bone, and not for the better.
Almost every soccerplayer in the world has a shortening of the back of the thigh muscle that will cause pain as they age. Most develop severe knee problems by the age of 30.
People don’t age out of sports in general around 30 because they’ve “passed their prime physical condition” in the sense that age has taken it’s toll, but in the sense that the sport itself has taken it’s toll.
And yet, no one is advocating against letting children play sports.
Drawing in mspaint? Cool, impressive, But whenever I see that, I think about the person who makes their art in power point Every time I see them it boggles me
*eyes audibly snap open* i gotta draw ulrich in a dress Immediately
hey sorry i sketched these then went for dinner and now i think i’m getting a fever from the tetanus shot i got yesterday so here are some very rough fashion boys i’ll clean up later lmfao
Stuff like this reminds me that not only are Elephants immensely intelligent and deeply social, they also generally consider humans to be legitimately “cute/adorable” in the same way we do for dogs or cats.
This playful elephant is likely acting accordingly.
Warden Battling is so different here, I feel as though I learn something new every day and I have never felt more alive for it. The other day I was window shopping in Veilstone and found myself in a department store that sells battle items. Battle. *Items.* Items that Pokémon can use mid-battle. I have never had my Pokémon hold an item before, I didn’t think that a hectic and full-out battle could *permit* such a thing but now I feel as though there is a world of opportunities for exactly that and I don’t know where to start strategizing.
Warden Oh, apologies. I will be away from the keyboard for just a moment. Rosie is reminding me that it is almost time for me to take my medication, in my fervor I nearly forgot. One moment.
SitrusPieCrustle No battle items ever??? Absurdity. Incomprehensible. They are incredibly useful and the diverse selection to choose from uplifts a battle to new heights. We must absolutely strategize together. I love battling. I already have ideas for Ah, oops. Np, will wait.
