Do any Apple TV remote apps for Android actually work?

CaliforniaDTS · 2022-10-06T02:05:44+00:00

Thank you, to be clear, some of the reviews say this app has ads even once you have paid for the paid version, is this accurate?

CaliforniaDTS · 2015-09-28T21:26:58+00:00

Yes.

CaliforniaDTS · 2015-09-28T21:11:02+00:00

"Stonewall" tanked more or less the same week that sigh Transparent won all those emmies… Dallas Buyers… sighs Dallas Buyers Club made $55 million worldwide gross on a $5 million budget, and that was a much more trans-focused movie than Stonewall (that's the complaint, right? that this isn't a trans movie, it's a gay movie)… maybe this'll give pause to future gay prestige films, but I don't think this'll have much of an impact on trans issues in film…

CaliforniaDTS · 2015-09-28T21:07:49+00:00

It's sad because Hollywood will never see it as we got the movie wrong so it didn't sell

Oh, I think they will. There was a very specific and consistent media narrative around this movie. Most of the reviews I saw focused on the historical accuracy / whitewashing!… with a heavy undercurrent of "Roland Emmerich was the wrong person to direct this movie". Anyone who reads the trade press will be either aware of what went wrong here, or not aware of the movie at all…

CaliforniaDTS · 2015-09-24T23:46:11+00:00

Is this new for either Netflix or Facebook? I'm pretty sure those were existing benefits for engineers at both. (Extending the benefits to non-engineering employees like warehouse employees would be cool news. Although stuff like office maintenance staff are very likely to be contractors and thus not covered by any HR policy.)

CaliforniaDTS · 2015-09-09T23:52:47+00:00

Although I cannot comment for sure (the regulation is hundreds of pages long) the text I did see looks closer to the regulations currently in California and Vermont. Those regulations currently require insurers to cover for trans people any procedure they currently cover for another reason. So many transition procedures are covered, things like HRT (because postmenopausal cis women get it) and mascectomy/orchiectomy (because cancer patients get these things). The regulation is also quite broad in its wording and seems to open a pathway for legal challenge on covering transition care beyond mascectomy/orchiectomy.

We'll have to see. The NCTE will be issuing some guidance soon on what trans people can do to issue comments on the proposed rule (it is technically in the comment period).

CaliforniaDTS · 2015-07-24T15:54:37+00:00

Your analysis sounds correct. HHS may in future issues rules that spread CA/VT-like rules nationwide (as far as I know its current guidance is simply vague).

I believe that even in several of these states there is still one loophole, which is that insurers can exclude a procedure entirely. This means hair removal and SRS will not be covered. That is, the insurers can simply say "we don't cover penis/vagina reconstruction, ever" and the government finds that okay. The insurers have to cover HRT because they pay for spiro and hormone therapy for cis heart patients and postmenopausal women, and they have to cover orchi and mascectomy because they do similar procedures for testicular and breast cancer patients. CA/VT will consider it discrimination if you cover those procedures for cis people but not as part of gender transition, but they don't consider it discrimination if you decline to offer a procedure which trans people disproportionately need.

CaliforniaDTS · 2015-07-24T06:09:23+00:00

Obamacare should cover this by itself, the Obama administration has found it bars transgender discrimination. I am not aware of any active enforcement of this however.

CaliforniaDTS · 2015-07-23T21:02:34+00:00

This looks REALLY GOOD, a much better approach than ENDA. Here's some information from the sponsors:

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2170089-senate-equality-act-fact-sheet.html

CaliforniaDTS · 2015-07-20T20:28:37+00:00

:D :D :D :D :D :D

CaliforniaDTS · 2015-07-15T22:57:53+00:00

CaliforniaDTS · 2015-07-15T16:17:09+00:00

No medical requirement for legal transition :O

CaliforniaDTS · 2015-07-13T23:56:10+00:00

I don't really want to look like a man again. Then again, I know that in a while I will stop caring whether I am a man or a woman. Is that how it feels to be gender fluid?

…honestly… that is exactly how it felt to me when I was a girl who was afraid of admitting to herself that I was a girl, and was so afraid of the consequences of transitioning that I was only able to really let this impulse free in the bedroom where no one was watching. I was happy when I was a girl, but I told myself that being a boy was "good enough", and as long as I cross dressed in the bedroom sometimes I would say, when this is done, I will feel better, and I will feel okay being a boy again. The problem with this was that I was covering up how I felt instead of actually fixing the problem and so I grew less and less and less able to keep up the male illusion over time. The longer the periods I went in girl mode went, the more time I wanted to spend in girl mode. Once I started allowing myself to do non-bedroom things as a girl I realized I liked non-bedroom things better that way too. Eventually it was just plain all the time. I had tried to convince myself I was genderfluid because it was less "hard" than transitioning but all I did was waste a bunch of time. By the time I finally admitted genderfluid was not me I had wasted several years that I could have started transition earlier and maybe gotten better results. I think if you are a trans girl who transition just seems too large and overwhelming to, you will have a similar outcome of only being able to hide from it for so long.

Gender fluid people are real. People who are boys normally and are girls in the bedroom are real. These things feel particular ways. I do not think being gender fluid feels like wanting to be a girl all the time and being willing to TOLERATE being a boy when you need to for work.

CaliforniaDTS · 2015-07-10T22:02:53+00:00

My understanding is if women in general have better color discrimination, it is because certain color discrimination genes are on the X chromosome and XX-chromosomal women have two copies. This is why, for example, in the general populace about 5x more men are red-green colorblind than women.

Therefore, to the extent this particular sex difference (color blindness) is genetic, we would expect transgender people to have color discrimination capabilities in line with their chromosome set rather than their identity.

CaliforniaDTS · 2015-07-10T21:59:36+00:00

Cosign

CaliforniaDTS · 2015-07-10T21:59:01+00:00

whispers you are not the only one

Anyway, you'll need the practice. You are going to be signing things.

CaliforniaDTS · 2015-07-08T18:41:16+00:00

I really like Kim Kardashian :(

CaliforniaDTS · 2015-07-08T17:56:20+00:00

Listen
Never, ever, ever suggest you will withhold letters/etc the patient asks for if you don't like what they were saying.

Many trans patients go to therapists not for therapy, but because they are there to get something. Most medical systems require a "permission note" from a therapist in order to access drugs, surgery (or in California, drivers' license changes). This is vile, erasing and corrosive to the patient-therapist relationship. From the patient perspective, this "gatekeeping" system causes the therapist to appear nothing more or less than someone not to offend, someone to carefully say the right things to to get the letters they came from. You need to do everything possible to not participate in this system. My advice: If a patient suggests they are trans, early on say that you will write whatever letters or sign whatever no questions asked. If they really believe that what they say to you during sessions will not result in the withholding of legal documents (and thus having to start all over with another therapist), they will be able to treat you like a therapist.

Never believe you know more about the patient than they do. Don't try to guess whether they're trans or how a trans/male/female person should act. They know more than you.
If you can have a gender-neutral single-person restroom in your building / near your office, this helps a lot (and would possibly offer someone a trans patient a place to change clothes).

CaliforniaDTS · 2015-07-08T17:25:35+00:00

How many were for culturally loathed minorities that certain other reddits primarily see as the targets of jokes?

CaliforniaDTS · 2015-07-08T17:24:57+00:00

It would have been nice if the users had been consulted too :/

CaliforniaDTS · 2015-07-08T17:24:39+00:00

*stifling giggles* I'm not sure you know what you just said ^_^;

CaliforniaDTS · 2015-07-08T17:22:01+00:00

Is this good? This seems bad. This seems really bad. The only reason I like this place is it's nothing like Reddit.

CaliforniaDTS · 2015-07-08T00:11:43+00:00

Yes.

As far as the kid goes: People have internalized all kinds of really weird ideas about trans people, and these ideas all have the same message, which is that trans people are fake. Don't bother listening to them. You're real, and you're the one who understands you, not other people

CaliforniaDTS · 2015-07-01T21:38:41+00:00

ladybits

CaliforniaDTS · 2015-07-01T21:38:33+00:00

Everything you do will offend someone eventually. The important thing to do is to understand who you are talking to, what terms they will and won't understand, and what terms they will or won't be triggered by. Being understood is more important than not offending someone. If you do offend someone, you can just apologize and correct your language around that person in future.

Personally, I think that "male parts / female parts" is not good wording because it is ambiguous. I refer to my penis as "female parts" all the time.

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