one of the justifications of the ontario government trying to stop schools teaching gender theory is that it’s “not scientific”, which i find hilarious cause are we going to ban religion classes and catholic schools over all in ontario than?

allthecanadianpolitics:

Also Gender Identity is backed up by Science:

As arguments rage over the sources of transgender identity, science weighs in

nientedal:

speedoweedo:

speedoweedo:

im dead at ‘in zoology science licks you’

a science licks a man

what a big science

neurodivergent-crow:

batbitequeen:

enyafan:

microcroft:

microcroft:

things i never expected to learn through a tedtalk but now am glad to know:

the founder of Sirius XM radio is a sapphic trans woman and is currently trying to preserve her wife’s consciousness in a digital file so her wife can be immortal in the body of a robot.

heres the tedtalk if you dont believe because everyone deserves to know this reality of the amazing world in which we live

Holy shit you neglected to mention that when her daughter got a terminal disease with no cure or treatment possible she literally went to the library got some medical textbooks and taught herself enough biochemistry to actually begin developing a drug that halted the disease good god why have we never heard of this absolute genius

that seems kind of fabrication-y, it’s more like she found the specific molecule needed to make a treatment but they wouldn’t give it to her since she wasn’t a scientist herself, so she actually hired a team of doctors and technicians and started her own company that made the very first treatment for pulmonary hypertension, which sparked more pharmaceuticals to improve upon the effectiveness of the drug. However, United Therapeutics will provide the treatment to patients that can’t afford it for free. So she didn’t just go to the library and make a treatment all by herself, she sparked the medical field to not only develop a treatment for a fatal disease but to keep improving it over time, all out of love for her daughter. Martine Rothblatt is a really ridiculously impressive person

MARTINE ROTHBLATT 👏👏👍👍✨💙💜

saxifraga-x-urbium:

roachpatrol:

caelumrising:

oldmanyellsatcloud:

tenderwear:

Found this reddit post. This kinda makes me feel better. And it’s something I think about sometimes because I always feel like regardless of how hard I work on something I don’t get anywhere.

Nice summary. If you’re curious, the anon here is referring to studies over the last decade that have pointed to major impacts on pattern separation with depression, and how depression can have major impacts on nonsynaptic plasticity.

Psychology is amazing folks and more of it needs to be common knowledge

YOUR BRAIN IS AN ORGAN AND DEPRESSION IS A REAL PHYSICAL THING THAT HAPPENS TO IT. THIS IS REALLY SUPER IMPORTANT TO REMEMBER.

Yeah your brain literally isn’t making the corrections and selections it’s meant to when you’re depressed – dean Burnett has a very accessible & plain English section on that in “the idiot brain” (is the last chapter)