oh btw the reason you only see like 4 detransitioners publicly is because those are the people with conservative enough opinions willing to go out and speak about their experience. there are thousands of detransitioners in the US but most of us are NOT far-right, and do not wish to be conservative pawns.

there’s actually nothing stopping the democratic party or the left generally from organizing events for detransitioners, trying to learn more about us, generally just understanding we exist and have a range of opinions about many things. we are not a political group, the only thing we all have in common is that we have transitioned and detransitioned. until the left decides it’s worth caring about medical malpractice, conservatives will unfortunately continue to have a leg up in this issue. it’s actually baffling – democrats could SO easily scoop this up and host their own detrans events and spaces. i’m still waiting

divinewahine:

Austronesians did also rely on a form of a physical map called a stick chart, illustrating the specific wave and swell patterns surrounding different island chains. These were particularly helpful during cloudy conditions when the sun and stars were less useful. To navigate the Marshall Islands, the Marshallese represented ocean swell patterns using parts of coconut fronds and shells as islands. Like a subway map, they don’t so much represent distances as they do relationships. The complex and decorative stick charts were often only understood by the person who made them. They were memorised before a voyage by the pilot who would lie on the floor of a canoe to get a sense of swell movement and often lead a squadron of 15 or more boats.

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