Why the Transsexual in me is attracted to Blockchain tech

in #religion8 years ago (edited)

Your pope has compared us to nuclear weapons, people identifying themselves as your spiritual leaders have stated they see no place for us in nature, we kinda have no choice.

Would you question a diabetic's desire to buy insulin interest using blockchain technology?

If by any medical breakthrough (or miracle) the diabetic person can reverse the condition, how simple would it be for them to transform their insulin interest into another interest type?

I, and many like me, have an interest in human sexual hormones. Other people with other life conditions may have an interest in other stimulants and I am sure they too could benefit from being able to have access through the blockchain.

Hormones

There's only few things that a human being truly needs in life, I'd like to see the day in which things like food, water, energy and refuge could be managed with this technology. Perhaps if we were given the chance to split our interests in the things we know to be important people would re-think their wants against their needs. I think this is something that the world could use right now given how humans keep growing in numbers and other numbers decrease as result.

I am one of those trans people that go unnoticed. My introvert personality doesn't allow for people to assume much about me when they meet me anyways. And since my beard is longer than most dicks, no one ever questions my sex as I walk down the street or go about my day. My human interactions do not revolve about me being trans but me being a man or a person, except in activism.

I never meant to rally my rights, I just kinda fell into this. I am a very private person, always have been. However, most people don't have to calculate how they'd need to take a detour in a TWD type of end of the world situation to find their weekly injectables.

When I started calling myself trans about 10 years ago I did so not because I wanted to be known as anything different than you, I did it simply because I did not want to doctor myself. We had to create words to talk about what we were feeling. Because those feelings were influencing us to do things we didn't necessarily want to. People were dying because they were treating themselves, being their own doctors. We had to compile information, address this issue, we needed to name the pain we were feeling to ask for help. Back then there wasn't as much information as there is on the subject nowdays, back then you knew for sure upon coming out you'd be seen as a pervert for the rest of your life, just a decade ago. I didn't start calling myself trans because I wanted trans friends or a trans family or to belong, I started calling myself trans to convey an unfulfilled desire that was making me suffer and I didn't think I could tackle on my own.

Only after I was perceived as a man by everyone around me, because my appearance had changed, did I become aware of how vulnerable I was by being unknown. Yes, I had taken years to study everything I could get my hands on about the subject, I had to learn a few things about medicine to be able to do what I was doing. Luckily I had the internet, the internet has been good to us. But just a year into taking testosterone I was being examined by doctors at this public hospital, and even though I warned the doctor about my birth sex, he just couldn't help to share the discovery with the rest of the doctors as it seemed to be something so foreign for him. If it had only been him, in a 3rd world country, I would had understood. But the more doctors I would visit the more aware I would become about how clueless they were. This made me panic, I had to do something. What would happen if I saw myself in a car accident and couldn't explain my anatomy to one of these doctors because I was unconscious? Would they be too thrown off to act and help me on time? Some trans people who had faced this issue suggested to carry a letter on my wallet explaining...

Explaining, I've done a lot of that in the last few years. Some days you just don't feel like it. But everyone has to explain themselves to some extent. Still, I wish I could purpose some of the time I use explaining into other things. I guess that is why the idea of splitting my interest into fractions is so appealing.

I've never really liked the idea of democracy, it looks more to me like a democrazy or a crazy demo, a demonstration on how not to do things. And the reason I don't like democracy is because it sells to people the idea of majorities having the control over what is done is a good thing regardless of the outcome. and I will never be a majority. I will never be a majority and that's why I don't like it. But the real problem of having people believe the majority wins something, is that people spend more time trying to be a majority or know whether they are a majority than doing anything else. And a lot of good people never try because they understand their contributions won't be taken since they will never be a majority.

I can see how blockchain technology could help us in the issue of interests governing us, there is a chance, however small, that we could one day govern our interest and not the other way around.

This was written by one of the trans people I keep some contact with, Adam Lodestone, for the Trans Encounter Project. He wrote something with the intention of changing perspectives about how may trans people are believed to be alive right now which really got to me:

There are an estimated 25 million Transgender people in the world, according to the medical journal, The Lancet (May, 2016), and that figure also applies to the number of Millennials in the U.S. It equals or is greater than the population of each of the following countries (only the top 50 countries in the world, out of 250, by population, have numbers higher):

Here is the list of those other 200 nations.
​Please DO have a look. Scroll down through the list and contemplate just how many countries we would have the gall to address with: "sorry, but your people don't matter, there are just too few of you". We will pick up this thread after you absorb the information...

51 North Korea 24.72 million
52 Mozambique 24.1 million
53 Taiwan 23.3 million
54 Madagascar 22.6 million
55 Syria 22.46 million
56 Cote d'Ivoire 22.4 million
57 Australia 22.26 million
58 Romania 21.79 million
59 Sri Lanka 21.68 million
60 Cameroon 20.55 million
61 Angola 18.57 million
62 Burkina Faso 17.81 million
63 Kazakhstan 17.74 million
64 Chile 17.22 million
65 Niger 16.9 million
66 Netherlands 16.81 million
67 Malawi 16.78 million
68 Mali 15.97 million
69 Ecuador 15.44 million
70 Cambodia 15.21 million
71 Guatemala 14.37 million
72 Zambia 14.22 million
73 Senegal 13.3 million
74 Zimbabwe 13.18 million
75 Rwanda 12.01 million
76 Chad 11.19 million
77 Guinea 11.18 million
78 South Sudan 11.09 million
79 Cuba 11.06 million
80 Burundi 10.89 million
81 Tunisia 10.84 million
82 Portugal 10.8 million
83 Greece 10.77 million
84 Bolivia 10.46 million
85 Belgium 10.44 million
86 Somalia 10.25 million
87 Dominican Republic 10.22 million
88 Czech Republic 10.16 million
89 Hungary 9.94 million
90 Haiti 9.89 million
91 Benin 9.88 million
92 Belarus 9.63 million
93 Azerbaijan 9.59 million
94 Sweden 9.12 million
95 Honduras 8.45 million
96 Austria 8.22 million
97 Switzerland 8 million
98 Tajikistan 7.91 million
99 Israel 7.71 million
100 Serbia 7.24 million
101 Hong Kong 7.18 million
102 Togo 7.15 million
103 Bulgaria 6.98 million
104 Laos 6.7 million
105 Paraguay 6.62 million
106 Jordan 6.48 million
107 Papua New Guinea 6.43 million
108 Eritrea 6.23 million
109 El Salvador 6.11 million
110 Libya 6 million
111 Nicaragua 5.79 million
112 Sierra Leone 5.61 million
113 Denmark 5.56 million
114 Kyrgyzstan 5.55 million
115 Slovakia 5.49 million
116 United Arab Emirates 5.47 million
117 Singapore 5.46 million
118 Scotland 5.29 million
119 Finland 5.27 million
120 Central African Republic 5.17 million
121 Turkmenistan 5.11 million
122 Ireland 4.78 million
123 Norway 4.72 million
124 Costa Rica 4.7 million
125 Georgia 4.56 million
126 Congo, Republic of the 4.49 million
127 Croatia 4.48 million
128 New Zealand 4.37 million
129 Republic of the Congo 4.34 million
130 Lebanon 4.13 million
131 Liberia 3.99 million
132 Bosnia and Herzegovina 3.88 million
133 Puerto Rico 3.67 million
134 Moldova 3.62 million
135 Panama 3.56 million
136 Lithuania 3.52 million
137 Mauritania 3.44 million
138 Uruguay 3.32 million
139 Mongolia 3.23 million
140 Oman 3.15 million
141 Wales 3.06 million
142 Albania 3.01 million
143 Armenia 2.97 million
144 Jamaica 2.91 million
145 Kuwait 2.7 million
146 West Bank 2.68 million
147 Namibia 2.18 million
148 Latvia 2.18 million
149 Botswana 2.13 million
150 Republic of Macedonia 2.09 million
151 Qatar 2.04 million
152 Slovenia 1.99 million
153 Lesotho 1.94 million
154 The Gambia 1.88 million
155 Kosovo 1.85 million
156 Northern Ireland 1.81 million
157 Gaza Strip 1.76 million
158 Guinea-Bissau 1.66 million
159 Gabon 1.64 million
160Swaziland1.4 million2013
161Mauritius1.32 million2013
162Bahrain1.28 million2013
163Estonia1.27 million2013
164 Trinidad and Tobago 1.23 million
165 East Timor 1.17 million
166 Cyprus 1.16 million
167 Fiji 896,758
168 Djibouti 792,198
169 Comoros 752,288
170 Guyana 739,903
171 Bhutan 725,296
172 Equatorial Guinea 704,001
173 Montenegro 653,474
174 Solomon Islands 597,248
175 Macau 583,003
176 Suriname 566,846
177 Western Sahara 538,811
178 Cape Verde 531,046
179 Luxembourg 514,862
180 Brunei 415,717
181 Malta 411,277
182 Maldives 393,988
183 Belize 334,297
184 The Bahamas 319,031
185 Iceland 315,281
186 Barbados 288,725
187 French Polynesia 277,293
188 New Caledonia 264,022
189 Vanuatu 261,565
190 Mayotte 231,139
191 Samoa 195,476
192 Sao Tome and Principe 186,817
193 Saint Lucia 162,781
194 Channel Islands 161,235
195 Guam 160,378
196 Curacao 151,892
197 Grenada 109,590
198 Aruba 109,153
199 Tonga 106,322
200 Federated States of Micronesia 106,104
201 Virgin Islands 104,737
202 Kiribati 103,248
203 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 103,220
204 Jersey 95,732
205 Seychelles 90,846
206 Antigua and Barbuda 90,156
207 Isle of Man 86,159
208 Andorra 85,293
209 Dominica 73,286
210 Marshall Islands 69,747
211 Bermuda 69,467
212 Guernsey 65,605
213 Greenland 57,714
214 American Samoa 54,719
215 Cayman Islands 53,737
216 Northern Mariana Islands 51,170
217 Saint Kitts and Nevis 51,1342013
218 Faroe Islands 49,7092013
219 Faeroe Islands 49,5062012
220 Turks and Caicos Islands 47,754
221 Sint Maarten (Dutch part) 39,088
222 Liechtenstein 37,009
223 San Marino 32,448
224 British Virgin Islands 31,912
225 Saint Martin 31,264
226 St. Martin (French part) 30,959
227 Monaco 30,500
228 Gibraltar 29,111
229 Palau 21,108
230 Anguilla 15,754
231 Wallis and Futuna 15,507
232 Tuvalu 10,698
233 Cook Islands 10,447
234 Nauru 9,434
235 Saint Helena, Ascension, and Tristan da Cunha 7,754
236 Saint Helena 7,700
237 Saint Barthelemy 7,298
238 Saint Pierre and Miquelon 5,774
239 Montserrat 5,189
240 Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) 3,140
241 Norfolk Island 2,196
242 Svalbard 1,921
243 Christmas Island 1,513
244 Tokelau 1,353
245 Niue 1,229
24 Holy See (Vatican City) 839
247 Cocos (Keeling) Islands 596
248 Johnston Atoll 315
249 Pitcairn Islands 65
250 Ashmore and Cartier Islands, Spratly Islands, Wake Island, Clipperton Island, Coral Sea Islands, Jarvis Island, British Indian Ocean Territory, Jan Mayen, Howland Island, Midway Islands, Navassa Island, Bouvet Island, Heard Island and McDonald Islands, Palmyra Atoll, Paracel Islands, French Southern and Antarctic Lands, Antarctica All with a population of 0.0 as of 2013
Why this painstaking list?

Because of the sentiments expressed by those like Cher Moor, who writes: "Before Obama, people tended to see transgenders as they are in real life: too few to count. Thanks to a jumped-up community organizer whose policies on minorities are always divisive, folk now see transgenders as invaders of public school bathrooms, change rooms, showers and other public facilities whose privacy people took for granted."
Because of the numerous individuals and various groups seeking to minimize or erase the human value of our existence. Our issues, our rights, our very lives becoming meaningless, in their eyes because our numbers are considered insignificant, beneath notice, unworthy of any serious attention.

Well then, please DO tell the populations of North Korea, Australia, Portugal, and Israel, Chile, Denmark, Singapore, Ireland, Kuwait, or the combined population of the island nations that make up Indonesia that they are too small in number to matter.

The number quoted by The Lancet is rather conservative. We know that, based upon estimations of populations by the US Census Bureau, referencing census history and reporting sources, that for every known Transgender person, there are likely 2 more that are never counted. Let that sink in. 25 million, times three. 75 MILLION Transgender people, worldwide. That is larger than the population of the entire United Kingdom, It brings our actual numbers up to equal the populations of each of the top 20 nations in the world.

Tell me, then, WHEN do our numbers begin to matter?

Admittedly I haven't taken the time to review whether that data is true, but you have to admit those numbers are pretty shocking. Perhaps that's what pope Francis is so afraid of, that there really is that many of us at all times and we could come to agreements about all kinds of things. That we would remind the people that united there is very little that we can't do. In that way, it makes sense to compare us to nuclear weapons because if we have as much power as to divide atoms, we have as much power to unite them.

Imagine if just 1 million of those 25 join steemit in one day? We don't even have to build a blockchain for ourselves, we just have to adopt one, or hijack it, as your pope would describe it to the press.

Transsexuals are not the only ones with an interest in these hormones or affected by their absence, everyone needs these hormones, some just don't need to buy them.

(http://www.patheos.com/blogs/danthropology/2015/02/pope-francis-says-trans-people-destroy-creation-and-compares-them-to-nuclear-weapons/)

(https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/aug/09/injectable-estrogen-shortage-transgender-healthcare)

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I am anti transtrender/tumblr stupidness and the reason why is that what you had to deal with and still are dealing with is not some fun game to fit in and be popular. You need to speak out more about your experiences because the people that are really trans with body dysmorphia need to hear a rational voice. The tumblerettes are doing a disservice to the people really afflicted with being trans.
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