“We’re seeing a war against trans individuals being waged by our federal government, and we, as citizens, need to be willing to step up and say this is not OK,” Kluwe said. “The Democratic Party has taken a very defensive posture on trans issues when that’s the absolute wrong thing to do. You don’t make a bully go away by cowering in the corner and say, I’ll agree with you on these little things. That just encourages the bully.
“We need to be full-throated in the attack, saying these are people who pay taxes, who serve in our military, and who are entitled to the exact same rights that every single other American is entitled to, which includes health care and the opportunity to live a prosperous life. We can’t be afraid of the right-wing fear machine. We have to take it to them, show that we’re willing to fight.”
Seriously though. Check yourself for fatty liver. If you have it, then start exercising and keep doing that until you go out into the silent night. But I mean you can take a break for sleeping, work, and sex. And eat less.
My doctor watching in horror as a perform a breast self-examination on my liver
If dying young is the price I pay for living without the constant anxiety of everything that could possibly go wrong with my body, then I guess I’ll just have to pay it.
I’m not going to cram a medical textbook’s worth of anxiety into my every waking moment. That will kill me sooner, there’s no “maybe” about it