Notices by bioluminescently (bioluminescently@disabled.social)

@babe Amazon is in league with the body snatchers and is pre-emptively sending us all our pods?

Oh look, they invented a new spin on medical misogyny and racism. Because you know who'll bear the brunt of this... they literally illustrate it with a picture of a woman of colour ffs...

https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/what-ask-your-patients-somatic-symptom-disorder-2024a1000csd?form=fpf

Reading this was a real eye-opener. Back when I was first trying to leave domestic abuse, I asked about supported living, and was told I couldn't have it because I was under... 50? 55?

The NI Housing Executive didn't recognise my disabilities and overall circumstances as significant in that way. It's been a battle ever since to get me the support I need, and we have simply never got there.

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce99616dq4no

@eaton This is also why it's such a problem that independent websites are now falling so far down search engine rankings. When I was younger, if you had a problem with A Thing from a larger category of Things, you'd go to a website run by some Thing Enthusiast or group of them, and look your Thing up in the site's index or inbuilt search box. If it wasn't there, you'd post on the site's forum and another Thing Owner might help. But now... good luck even finding out that indie site exists.

@grayface_ghost The couple have settled in Malta, which has been fine from both an immigration and a trans healthcare point of view, but I don't know to what extent that is due to my friend being an EU citizen, and her spouse therefore deriving access from that.

In terms of accessing EU citizenship, if you have even one grandparent who was either born on the island of Ireland (so the north counts), or who was an Irish citizen at birth, even if born off-island, you can get an Irish passport.

@grayface_ghost As Ben said above, the Common Travel Area is solid, so from that point of view I wouldn't worry about Ireland, but I would look into the healthcare angle at this site: https://www.transhealthcare.ie/

I'm not knowledgable enough to say exactly what's possible in your situation, just that I've been hearing that even a lot of people who are Irish citizens have been really struggling to access care, so definitely worth looking deeply into.

@grayface_ghost Re: the Republic of Ireland, a friend (NI-born, dual UK/Irish national) who'd lived abroad for many years recently tried to move to Ireland with her husband, who's trans and has citizenship outside the EU. The issue they ran into was that while the immigration side was grand, they could not get him T - he'd been on it for years in his birth country, had all the paperwork with him, but despite the positive stuff like Gender Recognition Certs, the RoI is shit at trans healthcare.