Exactly. I'm a trans woman, and I'm a tomboy. It can cause issues for passing, but I try my best to balance between being gendered correctly and wearing what I want to wear. This is why these stereotypes are so fucking stupid.

why does it even matter if he's trans or not? Why does it matter how he dresses or presents himself? Why does it have to mean anything? Maybe it's just his fucking preference? My short-haired, baggy jean wearing tomboy high school self is so pissed right now. No I don't want to be a boy, I'm just fucking comfortable!

Ugh. In the early 1950s, my in-laws lost a close friend in his 20s who came down with polio and died a couple of days later. My husband and I were born in 1956, a year after the Salk vaccine came out, and were members of the first cohort of kids whose parents didn't have to worry about their children winding up in an…

This brings up a good question. If Trolly Dove's family thinks vaccines are teh evolz why are they still in the biz? I wouldn't work for a tobacco company or something like that. Shittygetty Dove must have some morally bankrupt relatives.

I rather enjoy this method of sorting out people who actually know what they're talking about.

I could introduce him to my father-in-law. And then help said FiL beat seven shades of shit out of him with his crutches.

This is what I think of whenever someone suggests that measles might not be that big a deal:

Or for my 82 year old grandmother who has walked with a limp ever since she almost died from polio when she was 3? Who now has reoccurring, sometimes severe, pain that might be related to the initial damage from the polio?

My grandmother had polio when she was 3 and she almost died from it, and it left her with a permanent limp from a leg that doesn't work. And now that she is elderly (she turned 82 this past September), she has reoccurring pain, pain that can be crippling some days, that some doctors have suggested originated in the…

While we're at it, I wonder if she has any advice I can pass along to my high school friend who lost his infant son to Pertussis a few years back. /s

Apparently breast milk cures it! Or else, colloidal silver.

I love that this post has been up for more than 30 minutes and has zero stars.

Coconut oil. Rub coconut oil on the kids.

*tsk* Duh, neti pot.

Did she try a "V-steam"?

A titer measures the amount of antibodies in a persons blood. It shows if the antibodies are in a higher enough concentration to provide adequate protection

That guy is not an MD.

I think it's a measurement test for any existing antibodies may still be present in your system

How's your "family" of "vaccine" "researchers"? I mean, mom-and-pop businesses are hurting in this economy, especially if you are in biotech R&D.

My grandma and great-aunt had polio. They are rolling over in their graves at the idiocy of these anti-vaxers.