And Steiner (it/its)

Dear Good People of Mastodon,

I've been dealing rampant state violence.

I started a petition to get the death of Jean Busch, a transgender patient, investigated as well as allegations of systemic abuse of Queer patients at Lemuel Shattuck Hospital and rampant deadly medical neglect of BIPOC patients in Massachusetts.

As a result of my whistleblowing on the Massachusetts Department of Mental Health, I am experiencing severe abuse and retaliation by the facility.

Fortunately damning evidence is finally surfacing of this abuse including a letter recently released by Disability Law Center.

👉If you’d like to help:

1. Set aside just 3 minutes

2. Scroll to the bottom of the page linked below

3. Copy, paste and send the pre-written email🙏

You can help regardless of location!

https://www.change.org/p/black-transgender-lives-lost-to-medical-neglect-demand-justice-in-ma-hospitals/u/34309164

Your Human Family Member,

-And Steiner it/its

Please boost for visibility!

#transgender #lgbtq #mentalhealth #abuse #helpfolkslive2026 #healthcare #psychiatry #fascism #media #journalism #queer #BIPOC

Fedizens! Hello!

In the process of

*working on a petition to get a 🏳️‍⚧️ woman's death investigated

*being denied GAC as MA DMH patient myself and

* continuing to network with various law and legal groups I've come across a horrible truth:

⚠️MA Dept of Mental Health has no policies in place to ensure gender-diverse patients receive gender-affirming care!⚠️

This is shocking when considering that

👉🏼MA's Dept of Corrections already have policies and procedures in place👈🏿 to ensure inmates receive life-saving gender-affirming care!

We have law and policy makers and legal advocacy groups expressing interest! However, let’s sign this petition to ensure the job gets done! You know what to do!

https://action.allout.org/en/m/68f59987

Please *sign* (regardless of location), share and 🚀 BOOST🚀

🏳️‍⚧️✊🏾🏳️‍🌈

#transgender #enby #petition
#activism #queer #lgbtqia #disability #HRT
#genderaffirmingcarea

Update: 430 sigs!

Imagine if someone was having “behavioral issues” with their kitten and in order to correct them someone suggested;

-shaming them
-restricting food
-restricting warmth
-isolating them from their kitty friends
-locking them in a cage with lots of other angry kittens
-impoverishing them and their entire cat family
-not allowing them to participate in cat society after release

That's what we do to humans.

#humanrights

Dear Good People of Mastodon,

I've been dealing rampant state violence.

I started a petition to get the death of Jean Busch, a transgender patient, investigated as well as allegations of systemic abuse of Queer patients at Lemuel Shattuck Hospital and rampant deadly medical neglect of BIPOC patients in Massachusetts.

As a result of my whistleblowing on the Massachusetts Department of Mental Health, I am experiencing severe abuse and retaliation by the facility.

Fortunately damning evidence is finally surfacing of this abuse including a letter recently released by Disability Law Center.

👉If you’d like to help:

1. Set aside just 3 minutes

2. Scroll to the bottom of the page linked below

3. Copy, paste and send the pre-written email🙏

You can help regardless of location!

https://www.change.org/p/black-transgender-lives-lost-to-medical-neglect-demand-justice-in-ma-hospitals/u/34309164

Your Human Family Member,

-And Steiner it/its

Please boost for visibility!

#transgender #lgbtq #mentalhealth #abuse #helpfolkslive2026 #healthcare #psychiatry #fascism #media #journalism #queer #BIPOC

goddess I wish we treated people like we do cats

There’s so much information online about #HRT and I don’t know which sources to trust over others.

Can anyone else in the #trangender and #nonbinary community direct me to some quality sources that go into depth about HRT?

I’m also interested in non standard-of-care options like #microdosing.

Please boost for visibility.

#transjoy #transfem #transmasc #hormones #queer #lgbtq #lgbtqia

@calsnoboarder@universeodon.com @GottaLaff@mastodon.social @cherold@zirk.us @aburtch@triangletoot.party @mjj@mstdn.dk @davidaugust@mastodon.online

In my experience you can pick up on the underlying beliefs and intents of anyone if you pay attention long enough.

Even people that might be labeled as "delusional".

It's pretty clear that Trump wants to be a dictator and intends to continue to do whatever he can to accomplish that.

What shocking is that anyone is shocked. His actions and words over many many years have asserted this repeatedly.

There is a pervasive misunderstanding of mental and emotional wellness challenges, “mental illness”, in our society. We all have them.

Trauma caused by abuse, poverty and lack of access to services exacerbates them in some of us to the point that we get labeled as “mentally ill” or “criminal”.

Even when there is a medical consensus, or even a legal consensus, that any specific behaviors, such as addiction or manic behaviors, are outside of our control we are somehow still responsible.

We are locked up in hospitals and prisons, further alienating and traumatizing us. We are told to take medicines, which we do, that often lead to more challenges and do not cure our problems, sometimes they cause even more.

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#mentalhealth #disability #disabilityawareness #homelessness #activism #poverty #trauma #humanrights #prison #ableism #accessibility #addiction

I'm working on my hormone replacement therapy regiment and need some advice.

I am MTF non-binary/transgender.

I've started estradiol transdermal but am unsure, for various reasons, about wanting to start any androgen antagonists (like spironolactone).

I am interested in reducing facial and body hair and receding hairline for which 5-alpha-reductase inhibitors are used, namely *Finasteride and *Dutasteride.

What’s y'all's experience, if any, with these drugs?

My main concern is that there's a chance of increased anxiety and depression.

THANKS!!

Please boost for visibility.

🏳️‍⚧️💜🏳️‍🌈

#HRT
#transgender
#transfemme
#enby
#genderaffirmingcare
#genderaffirminghealthcare
#nonbinary
#DIYHRT
#OpenHRT
#TransFem
#Trans
#finasteride
#dutasteride
#LGBTQ+
#LGBTQIA+
#queer

@largess@mastodon.au @JeffC1956@mastodon.social @breadandcircuses@climatejustice.social

Honestly, it's not rocket science.

People *can’t care about issues like The Climate Emergency when they’re in poverty, intentionally uneducated on the subject, surrounded in a toxic, authoritarian, albleist, capitalist, un-trauma informed culture that is spiritually bankrupt and doesn’t honor community and is constantly worried about their or their loved ones immediate safety.

Their are communities around the world that have succeeded in creating zero-waste economies so it's not something our brains are incapable of handling, maybe inherently challenging.

When the boat is sinking everyone needs to grab a bucket no matter what your expertise is. For the time being we need to work on fixing the above.

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My friends tell me they feel comfortable talking about their feelings, needs and boundaries with me.

Now THAT is a compliment!!

#nonviolentcommunication

👉🏻The CIA admitted that…DIRECTED ENERGY WEAPONS (DEWs)… exist and are being used against Americans.

There are reports that these weapons can be as small as two suitcases!

What are the chances dissidents, activists and marginalized communities *aren't being targeted?

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/jun/02/microwave-weapons-havana-syndrome-experts

💥DEWs are weapons that often use electromagnetic frequencies, are capable of effecting people from a distance, are undetectable and leave no trace.💥

"How they're designed is to make the target feel like their crazy. Like they're imagining things.”

It was admitted in Select House Committee meeting on 05/08/24 and the video posted on DHS website.

https://homeland.house.gov/hearing/silent-weapons-examining-foreign-anomalous-health-incidents-targeting-americans-in-the-homeland/

(This is mostly talking about Americans being targeted by foreign entities but it's not hard to deduce what America is doing with these weapons at home.)

#BlackMastodon #lgbtqia #transgender #war #warcrimes #humanrights #indigenous #corruption #activism #gay #queer #bipoc

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I AM AN IT!

I am trying to convince the queer and trans community to EMBRACE the pronoun IT!

I realized over 5 years ago, before I realized my own trans, non-binary gender identity, that our community needed a singular, gender-neutral pronoun.

Being a linguist I understood that *We already have one!*

-->IT<--

And, the best part, it's already in common usage (just not in referring to people).

So it's used as a slur. So what? So was queer! And guess what? Now most of us HAPPILY refer to ourselves as queer.

I think even people cis people should consider changing their pronouns to it/its in support of creating a world *where gender doesn't have to be assumed* just to have a fucking conversation!

(This is not to negate those who identify as plural/systems and feel more comfortable using they/them)

🏳️‍🌈✊🏾🏳️‍🌈💜🏳️‍🌈✊🏾🏳️‍🌈

Take a look at this doctor’s passive aggressive and creepy response to my friend’s post. 🤢🤢🤢

Please boost for visibility!!

..so that we can bring awareness to the brazenly abusive and creepy nature of the medical establishment. @mikka@medic.cafe

Check out my Substack post about my experience with psychiatric abuse in America’s nightmarish healthcare system!

If more people come forward with their own stories of psychiatric abuse we can change conditions for our comrades in these hell holes!

Comment your first-hand or second hand experiences with mistreatment in American hospitals below!

Checkout the petition linked in my bio to help hold Massachusetts’ medical system accountable for deadly medical neglect of Black, Brown and Queer patients.

DM me if you have stories you want amplified. I have a platform to do so.

⚡️Please boost for visibility.⚡️

🌈Your Loving Human Family Member,

-And Steiner it/its

https://andsteiner.substack.com/p/an-american-nightmare?r=26wk3m
(Trigger Warning)

#trangender #mentalhealth #humanrights #lgbtq #queer #BlackMastodon #BLM #blog #writing #enby #transrightsarehumanrights #black

I've been wanting to create a sort of collective to help gender-diverse psych abuse survivors.

Like really helping them. With everything from housing, money, support groups, service dogs, patient advocacy, information and other resources.

From the moment the #justiceforjean petition started to pick up traction, link in bio, (CW), I started to realize fund raising might actually be an option and I immediately started dreaming of starting a fund/charity/org to help get gender-diverse patients in MA service dogs.

I feel like it's SO needed…it would save and improve soooo many lives… and I sense it's something people could really get behind donating to…who doesn't like puppies?

Anyone interested? Pls boost for visibility!

#transgender #enby
#genderdiverse #mentalhealth
#transjoy #psychiatry #resources
#servicedog #collective #charity #hospital #healing