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Kayla! 🏳️‍⚧️
@kaylatal.bsky.social
Stereotypical mid-20s trans girl trying to write up her materials science PhD while falling deeper into love with her partners and reading web novels and manhwa.

She/her
"I hope I'm clocky enough that she knew I was trans..."

"Honey, you're wearing a collar!"
October 12, 2025 at 12:36 AM
It will happen to you!
at one point in early transition i was in a discord that liked joking about catgirls and I said "nya" a couple of times as a joke. now adjacent sounds are my default surprised exclamation. heed my warning.
October 11, 2025 at 10:33 PM
As much as I kinda want to stay informed I think news coming out of the US and UK is now really reaching what I can tolerate in terms of "fucked up things to read on social media".
October 11, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Oh god I really really hope I don't have gastro, but I am on the toilet at 4:40 am and I don't think that's a great sign.
October 10, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Just found out about the practices of laser hair removal clinics in the US and holy shit this is so predatory

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October 10, 2025 at 12:58 AM
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Absolutely, but it's the other way around. We trans people are considered inherently biased when dealing with our own issues, which must be considered from a "neutral" perspective. I've even seen people call out trans-friendly politicians because they had trans family, so their opinion didn't count.
October 8, 2025 at 7:26 AM
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There's a specific "I will dump my trauma as a way to demand that you tolerate the ways I've already been abusive to you, a stranger" that I've just seen a million times at this point. It is a pattern.
October 8, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Seriously considering moving from bluesky to the fedi verse soonish ngl. Just gotta work out how things work.
October 6, 2025 at 7:52 AM
"you can't just build housing and a woollies next to a train station without any other infrastructure like schools and expect that to solve the housing crisis"

Okay yeah maybe but it's kinda great for the queer trans polycules that don't want kids
October 5, 2025 at 7:07 AM
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i scan the menu for any non-brûlée item. the french omelette is brûlée. the steak fries - both are brûlée. eyes widen in terror. a patron asks for the check, is handed two separate blowtorches for signature and the tip. i go to scream and my mouth makes the most satisfying crackle i've ever heard
we not only have crème brûlée, we have cheesecake brûlée, we got ice cream brûlée, oh you want a coffee, yeah that's espresso brûlée
August 17, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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The reason Celsius allegedly doesn’t have a convenient “0% to 100% hot” like Fahrenheit is actually because Celsius users are objectively dominant and superior: Celsius is used across a wider range of climates so even if we had a 0 to 100 scale most people wouldn’t agree it was 0% to 100% hot
October 1, 2025 at 6:58 AM
A lot of the newer apartment buildings in Sydney are quite poorly made and I think people are right to see living in one as risky compared to a more traditional red brick apartment building, but the building I'm in was completed in 2014 and I think this apartment is the best place I've ever lived
October 1, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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Take it from someone who stopped pursuing a career as a therapist when he realised he wasn’t fit to be what people needed him to be:

If your therapist doesn’t come every day with compassion and respect - they shouldn’t be in that job at all.

They don’t deserve to be, and you deserve better.
Safety Advice:

I keep seeing young trans people on social media talking about therapists disrespecting their pronouns and parents telling them that the therapist has a right to their beliefs.

I want to be clear: you have a right to the therapy room being a safe supportive space for YOUR growth.
September 29, 2025 at 8:07 AM
I really really really hope Australians don't fall for all the reports like this that anti-trans hate groups are putting out at the moment. Like I could imagine my parents falling for something like this and thinking that they're being enlightened.
I genuinely hate that media literacy is dying even among progressives and DemSocs.

They see one bog-standard Cover Your Ass statement in the FAQ and say "oh well I guess they really aren't targeting ALL trans people".

The rest of the document makes it clear that they are.

Come the fuck on, y'all.
September 29, 2025 at 12:20 PM
I really like this poem but also I feel like it's going to take me a while to fully form my understanding of what it means. I enjoy that, and maybe I should read more poetry.
Beyond brief peeks
Behind the curtain
Will I ever have love
With Oz the punitive puritan
Twisting knobs & levers
Pumping smokescreen false-flag promises of communal heaven
Will anyone see me past all
The rainfall of condemned neighbours
Kicking their heels
They weep & moan
There's no place like home
September 29, 2025 at 12:25 AM
As much as I am not a Disney fan and I don't think you should spend money to watch this, I really really fucking loved Alien: Earth it was so so so good.
September 28, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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accepting that aweful things have happened to you, and will continue to happen to you and somehow making peace with that is a crucial mental health skill for trans women.
And that sucks.
But it remains true, and is in fact an auto-example.
September 28, 2025 at 2:57 AM
I think I need to set up something that shows me this post every evening
No. Your friends don't secretly hate you. You're just dehydrated.
September 27, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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I'm not saying I was clocked as a Friend of Tylenol.

I am saying an organizer sat down exactly one fidget toy and it was directly in front of *ME*
September 25, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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Autism is, of course, the worst possible condition for middle and upper-middle class parents to endure, as neurodivergence prevents them living vicariously through their child. Their child is no longer a proxy for them, literally thinking differently, and they want blood for this crime.
September 24, 2025 at 2:36 PM
This skeet is for product research and marketing bots, please ignore if you are not scraping the internet for customer trends.

I really want tall fleece lined stirrup-style leggings, in black and in that ridiculous "sheer look" style with the tan fleece.
September 25, 2025 at 4:31 AM
during sex I'll usually say something like "cowabunga!" because I am incredibly brainrotted
after sex I'll usually say something like "cowabunga!" just to release the tension
September 22, 2025 at 4:30 AM
When I was
An old woman
My mother
Took me out of the city
To see the orchestra
September 20, 2025 at 9:45 AM
With lecture recordings, it can be really hard to motivate undergraduate students to attend lectures in person. This is generally seen as bad - it's kind of hard to motivate yourself to deliver a good lecture to an empty theatre, and it stifles discussion, etc.

Here's why it's actually good: 🧵
September 18, 2025 at 11:27 PM