u/quokkafarts

Picking up my new Inster base model on Friday, can't wait! It's my first EV and my first time splashing cash on a car I really loved; every other car has been for pure utility.

A big thing for me was the air con isn't run on the same system as the battery cooling like the byd Atto 1. It gets HOT here in Perth and my work doesn't have undercover parking. How do you find it goes on peak summer, and the performance of the car generally?

Original post here: https://www.reddit.com/r/FTMOver30/s/jRj2Yw4U6i

Thanks everyone who contributed, I didn't respond to many people but I did read every comment.

The general sentiment was that I need to look after myself first before helping others, and on reflection I agree. I could also potentially do more good being perceived as an ally who is knowledgeable about trans stuff, particularly as in my experience sometimes cis people need another cis person to pull them in line.

I will probably come out to the other co-chair of the Pride group simply bc its kind of unavoidable in the long run and I trust him not to blab (I've worked with him on other things, he's a solid dude). If I stay here for like 10 years I might come out at some point casually cus knowing the culture by then I'll be totally untouchable.

Anyway thanks to all who responded, really appreciate this community!

G'day guys, I'm a safety advisor for a government owned utility company in Australia. I'm stealth at work, but am shit at code switching so everyone detects that I'm queer, I just say I'm gay and call it a day. No one has a clue. I didn't transition in this company, totally changed careers a few years ago and have been enjoying the peace (previous job did not handle my transition well).

Recently I've been appointed co-chair of our Pride group (more like I was the only one who put my hand up lol), I thought it would be a good opportunity to network and promote psychosocial safety initiatives particularly as we are the sole provider in a lot of rural areas. Unfortunately a lot of the right wing culture wars bullshit has drifted down this way and is being pushed hard by the Murdoch media, particularly impacting those in regional communities, so driving meaningful messaging beyond flaccid social media posts is pretty important imo.

I haven't even told the Pride group that I'm trans, but apparently there have been some talks where they've had external trans people as guests that were received extremely well. The Pride group have said they'd love to do that again but they need volunteers. So I'm weighing up the pros and cons of doing this, but it would totally out me to everyone. Help me decide what to do, please?

Pros: potential to have a meaningful impact in terms of helping others in our communities, particularly in remote areas who may be targeted by the most hate. Reflects well on me professionally. Potential further networking opportunities. Put my money where my mouth is regarding psychosocial safety initiatives.

Cons: cis people can be exhausting. Don't want people being weird behind my back again. My direct coworkers won't give a shit, but others I need to work with might. This could potentially impact the outcomes of future incident investigations/safety initiatives I have to lead.

I'll drop a pic in the comments as he's only 14%.

I wasn't surprised to find this out as I've sworn for ages he tries to herd people and he has other herding dog traits like the above mentioned intelligence and attitude, but he has behavioural problems as he was owned a byb for the first year of his life (he's nearly 3 now, ive has him for 1 year). He is quite lead reactive which we are working on a lot so we need to be able to play this game inside.

The behaviour: he always wants to direct people to where he wants them to go. He will use a soft nudge with his snout to kinda boop you, then he will usually lead you to his chosen spot. He will turn around and make eye contact to make sure you're following. If you don't follow he will grumble like an old man but eventually will go wherever you are. He only does this to people inside, he doesn't do it to my cats and I've never seen him do it at the dog park.

Games he likes: "sit/down/go to bed/stay/ go spinny" game (no one tell him this is basic training or he won't do it any more). Fetching squeaky toys and empty toilet rolls (NOT balls, balls are ignored even if they squeak). Bitey face game that all dogs seem to know except he "bites" my hands. Big zoomin (idk what this is he just zooms like a spaz while I sing his theme song as his hype man). I have recently introduced hide and seek which he is a bit puzzled by but he's got the spirit.

Obvious propaganda is Obvious. Consider the following:

Creepy old pissman become big tiddy schoolgirl cus that's his fetish.

MIY is known to eat human organs (known tran behaviour), ate victors mum; trying to consume her womynly essence? Hmmmm

Literally there to decieve everyone into the town and trick the audience into gooning. Perversion.

Wants to destroy destroy the town (aka SOCIETY) as traumatically as possible. THE AGENDA.

Covered in piss, come on so obviously trans coded.

WAKE UP SHEEPLE