Trans masculine porn star Apollo Moon aka Forest Harader has died. These were her last tweets, posted to her porn account. In them, she seems to express resentment and judgment of people who don't check on their friends, but also offers some absolution and condolence that perhaps nothing could have saved them from their mental illness and suffering.
It's framed as her feelings about friends' suicide, but perhaps she knew what was coming in the next few days, and wanted her loved ones and fans to not blame themselves for what her family has so far euphemized as an "injury."
Some are saying the family said she died in an accident, but every source that refers to mechanism, that I've seen, does so obliquely using the term "injury," not "accident." True accidental deaths are typically reported as such immediately as accidents to avoid this kind of speculation. I suspect they're waiting for either a tox screen result or the injuries were known to be self inflicted or otherwise embarrassing for the family.
Forest's way of making a living - BDSM porn - must have disgusted her, if sex itself repulsed her.
She had been trying to get out of the sex industry, and had even announced her departure 5 weeks ago. Forest had only been making porn since the pandemic. She mentioned her decline in mental health.
Did it start to sink in that she could leave the industry but what she'd done and seen would continue to haunt her and limit her opportunities in life? Did she reflect on the debts she wouldn't be able to pay if she did not keep participating in an activity she found disgusting?
The irony is only bitter now.
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Near the end of her life, she was also experiencing significant sexual dysfunction, which can be a symptom of a mental health emergency. It also could be the logical end result of 4 years of working in pornography and becoming wealthy and famous for an act which disgusts you.
In her last Tiktok, she stated her trans masculine gender was a performance based on what she thought others would accept and who she wanted to be. It was not always authentic or truthful. Did backlash from the trans community over this video contribute to her "injury?"
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Chad supported surrogacy, suggesting she took a drug (testosterone) known to sabotage women's reproductive systems with an expectation of being able to AirB&B someone else's uterus.
Chad developed cancer requiring radiation treatments and possibly bowel surgery some time after using high dose testosterone. No word on whether the testosterone was stopped during this period.
Can transgender br3ast binding during critical periods of development cause chest wall deformities? A thread 🧵 of examples from the trans community and an argument that this is a logical and predictable consequence of the sacred trans rite of cosmetic rib compression
While chest wall deformities can be congenital, they can also develop over time in response to situations such as vitamin D deficiency, connective tissue disorders, and other causes. The solution to this issue, if caught during development, is targeted medical binding.
Since binding is the medical strategy to structurally reshape an abnormal chest wall by applying continuous targeted pressure, it stands to reason inappropriate compression could deform a normal chest wall. This is exactly what many in the trans and detrans community report.
Hunter Schafer is a therapeutically shepherded minor male to female transitioner who began taking cross sex hormones at age 16, according to publically available information.
In 7th grade, Hunter reported same sex attraction, but by 8th grade, he was in therapy for "gender dysphoria" and on hormones by the end of month grade.
By 2016, Hunter made headlines for being a named plaintiff in a lawsuit to get into the women's bathroom. We were told this was because he was somehow female brained and really a woman trapped in a man's drug-modified body. But was he?
Due to personal factors that made me susceptible to the social contagion of gender ideology as taught by my university courses and reinforced by my peers, I adopted a male gender gremlin from about 2009-2014, followed by a nonbinary gender gremlin in 2014-2015. I engaged in breast binding, name change (Exulansic was my nonbinary name) and gender-affirming menstrual suppression with a few different hormones, which were known to negatively impact bone maturation and cause reproductive atrophy. This thread will include my videos and posts about my own story.
Gallagher has been medically licensed since 2007. Her practice is currently based in Florida.
Dr Gallagher appears to have posted her first gender affirming surgery advertisement for her practice on Tiktok on April 14 of 2020. This would later be revealed to be less than 3 weeks after she botched a cosmetic breast reduction so badly the patient died.
I first became aware of her in 2021, and featured her in a round-up of gender-affirming surgeons called Medical Mercenaries: Special Orders Don't Upset Us.