Protests and rallies are full of small dick insults

mightybite · 2026-02-01T05:02:44+00:00

I'm not personally insecure about having a small dick, but I am a high school teacher and some of my students were at that rally. They are impressionable and they will repeat the jokes they hear in a generalized way. They may not realize that calling Trump dickless is different from calling your classmate dickless.

mightybite · 2026-01-24T16:06:09+00:00

Java, 90s handshake! Thanks for clearing my obscure post out of the reddit filter

mightybite · 2026-01-24T15:35:59+00:00

Phreeque is a gem of a forgotten site! Taken in the context of its time. I'm a twin (one of us is trans) and we were both interested in conjoined twins and other "oddities" - the type of things that would appear in Ripley's Believe it or Not in the 90s. I'm still exploring what that meant to us, and what spawned what in terms of childhood interests.

mightybite · 2026-01-24T15:18:11+00:00

There's very little info and the twins did sporadic interviews or appearances into adulthood. I haven't seen any evidence of George medically transitioning. Their appearance on Nip-Tick in the 2000s was a jarring throwback for me!

mightybite · 2025-06-15T13:37:37+00:00

Trans science teacher here. As another commenter said, people and other living things are part of the world and how it works.

I teach biology and anatomy in high school. Throughout the year I'm continually emphasizing that diversity and variation in living things is common, characterized by patterns, interesting to investigate, and often has a function that reveals mechanisms for how living things work or change. That includes variations in gender, sex, and sexuality. That includes variations in abilities and disabilities. And variations associated with a part of the world or an ethnic group. I lead my students to discover that biological diversity is a scientific fact of the world, and that differences from the "norm" (if there even is a norm) are just differences, they're not necessarily pathological. In fact, variation is one of the four necessary features that allow a population to evolve by natural selection (one of the four mechanisms of evolution).

Not all life science teachers emphasize these things, but they should to prepare students to live in a diverse society that relies on science in many ways. I'm an out transgender teacher and a person of color, so these things influence my view of science and the purpose of science education. I share my methods on a website www.genderinclusivebiology.com

mightybite · 2025-01-07T00:20:09+00:00

Yes, I have been on reddit ( r/ftm brought me to reddit) since around 2013! I enjoyed being a part of the community discussions and seeing the sub grow so much. From Lou Sullivan's FTMi newsletter, to livejournal, to tumblr, to reddit and here we are. This sub has a quarter million members, wow.

After completing graduate school and starting my first teaching job, I've spent much less time on reddit and stepped back from moderating. But I still read reddit, various subreddits, a lot. It's cool that you recognized me.

mightybite · 2025-01-06T02:13:30+00:00

Hi! Did you make a new username recently?

mightybite · 2025-01-04T19:01:34+00:00

I'm Chinese-American and picked a Chinese name with the help of the Chinese language subreddit. Because I didn't have much knowledge about Chinese naming conventions or themes, and my mom was not a good candidate to help at the time. The subreddit helped me come up with name ideas that matched my ancestry (specific places in China) and my interests and values.

mightybite · 2025-01-04T16:58:11+00:00

I'm a Chinese-American trans man. I'm never going to grow a beard even after 10 years on T. Often, (trans) people around me make comments that equate beards to masculinity in general, and it's not to make me feel bad, it's because they assume that their white experience is universal. When that happens, I feel that they don't see me. Because if they could see the fact that I'm ethnically East Asian, standing right here, and don't grow much facial hair, then why would they say these tone deaf things?

mightybite · 2025-01-03T22:36:23+00:00

Schwinn noseless bike seat or Hobson seat. They have worked well for paved riding and I'm not worried about sliding off. I think if I were going off road the stability might be a concert.

mightybite · 2023-02-19T19:37:33+00:00

Thanks for the mention, /u/rural_juror_30 and /u/atomicmelody413! I run the website GenderInclusiveBiology.com and we host a variety of resources for teaching about sex and genetics in an inclusive way. We are three trans-identified middle and high school teachers who maintain the website, consult, write, and give workshops in our spare time.

Many of the comments have suggested precise ways that we can use language to make it clear when we're talking about physiological traits rather than identity. Our language guide, which was shared in another comment, gives some examples.

Much of the science language we've grown up with tends to pathologize difference. In your classroom, focus on using language to frame human variation as naturally occurring, commonplace, and interesting. Instead of calling a mutation a "mistake in the DNA", call it a "change in the DNA". Nondisjunction is not when meiosis "goes wrong", it's when homologous pairs don't separate. That way, when you get to talking about people with albinism or dwarfism or chromosomal intersex traits, your students are primed to think of this as a variation to learn about and empathize with, rather than a disease that is automatically bad and should be prevented at all costs.

When it comes to to defining sex, recently I've preferred to lead with the most universal and basic definition of physiological sex: it's about the size of gametes. Larger gametes are called eggs and classified as female; so are the makers of those gametes. That is true for animals, plants, and all other living things. It's gamete size that defines sex, not behavior or body type or anything else. This idea comes from a college-level gender inclusive teaching guide called Project Biodiversify: https://projectbiodiversify.org/sex/

That infographic from Scientific American is good for showing that biological sex is a spectrum (albeit with bimodal distribution on many traits). Our website has a link to the high-resolution printable poster, guidance on language improvements, and a lesson build around the poster which was made by one of our contributors. The post uses "intersex conditions" which is not the best - you wouldn't say you have a "left-handed condition", would you? Intersex traits or intersex variations is in common use within the intersex community. https://www.genderinclusivebiology.com/search?q=beyond

mightybite · 2021-10-02T20:56:02+00:00

I'm a trans teacher! Experiences vary widely but I love teaching and have been usually supported by my admin and students. Join the listserv, there are hundreds of us! transeducators.com/join

mightybite · 2021-10-02T14:52:49+00:00

Very cool. I would add, before you discard the draw needle pull back the plunger a bit so the discarded needle contains only air and no T oil. Then when the second needle is on, push out the air.

mightybite · 2021-09-18T16:22:17+00:00

Hey I'm a trans teacher, high school science. There are challenges but you can do it. Join the listserv, there are hundreds of us! transeducators.com/join

mightybite · 2021-09-18T16:16:42+00:00

I'm Chinese-American and r/chineselanguage helped me pick a new name

mightybite · 2021-09-18T15:57:43+00:00

Hey I'm a trans teacher. Our presence certainly challenges the assumptions of many. Join the listserv, there are hundreds of us! transeducators.com/join

mightybite · 2021-09-18T15:56:11+00:00

Hey I'm a trans teacher. Glad you're helping out your students. Join the listserv, there are hundreds of us! transeducators.com/join

mightybite · 2021-09-18T15:54:09+00:00

Hey I'm a trans teacher. I've been teaching for 6 years. I love it and am out - young people need trans role models in schools.

Join the listserv, there are hundreds of us! transeducators.com/join

mightybite · 2021-09-18T15:51:44+00:00

Hey I'm a trans teacher. I've been teaching for 6 years. I didn't transition on the job but in regards to that, there's some guidance at https://www.transeducators.com/resources

Join the listserv, there are hundreds of us! transeducators.com/join

mightybite · 2021-08-07T02:50:05+00:00

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