Work toward FreeCalypso handset

[Mychaela Falconia]

Hi David,

> sorry to admit that your last message is more interesting to me than your
> descriptions of technical endeavours, which are largely over my head,

My vision of FC community is not just technical, but also social.
Right now those of us who detest and refuse to use sheeple smartphones,
preferring traditional dumbphones instead, and those of us who wish to
use GSM instead of the 4G/5G abomination, are a highly oppressed,
endangered and trampled-upon minority, EXACTLY the same as the anti-
Covidian-cult and anti-injection minority, and we need to stick
together socially.

It is certainly unfortunate that I have not yet found any other trans
women (or helping professionals who work with our kind) who share my
anti-smartphone beliefs OR my anti-4G/5G beliefs OR my anti-Covidian
beliefs, but there is at least one teensy-tiny overlap between our GSM
work in FreeCalypso and the kind people in Mexico who helped me realize
my life-long dream of becoming a complete woman: when I told them about
Rhizomatica and the indigenous GSM networks they operate in Oaxaca,
all of those medical tourism coordinator people in Tijuana really
liked it, and I was happy to tell them that I give out free-of-cost
FreeCalypso hardware to those kinds of maverick operators.

Speaking of the medical tourism industry in Mexico, transgender
surgeries like mine are only a very small part of that business -
instead the vast majority of their patients are cisgender folks
(meaning not transgender), mostly cis women, and the surgeries for
which they come to Mexico range from vanity cosmetic stuff to the
rather horrible bariatrics - the latter I do NOT approve of.  But
whatever their reasons and motivations, the steady flow of all those
medical tourists keeps the prices very competitive and affordable, and
possibly even encourages the Mexican govt to stay away from draconian
anti-tourist policies, so as to not bite the hand that feeds them.

Some of those non-transgender medical tourists also provide for a
lively social company.  While I stayed at the medical recovery
guesthouse after my surgery, I had a roommate who was a cisgender girl
who came for a bunch of vanity cosmetic treatments.  She checked into
the place where we stayed a couple of days before her surgery, whereas
I was already post-op - but I was recovering so well that I was very
social despite being only a few days out of my surgery.  She quickly
realized that I was a hot commodity when I told her not only about my
hobby projects like FC, but also about the work I do with terrestrial
microwave links in my day job - and then as I was entertaining one of
the nurses with my singing, my roommate could not believe that I don't
actually speak Spanish, she thought I was pulling her leg - I have a
couple of rather long and complicated Spanish songs in my repertoire,
I have them meticulously memorized and I sing them from memory without
actually speaking the language, and my American roommate thought it
was impossible.  The other person in my audience, the Mexican nurse
who was obviously a most native Spanish speaker, was also impressed by
how correctly I was pronouncing some of the more complicated words in
those songs.  So yes, I had a good amount of entertainment thrown in
at no extra cost along with my surgery in Mexico!

> I'd resigned myself to never travelling again;

In my case, I may indeed never again in my life be able to do the kind
of travel that requires getting onto an airplane for an international
flight, but I am *so* thankful for my ability to travel by land,
including cross-border travel in my car, without having to get onto a
plane and be subject to all of the mistreatments that come with the
latter.

> I think if I went to Mexico, I'd have to spend 14 days or so in an isolation
> facility at my own expense on return.

Quarantine on return to your own home country, ouch!  In the case of
USA citizens coming back home from overseas travel, I heard something
about them requiring a negative test before you can get on the plane
home, which is certainly very problematic: at 40 cycles they are
basically amplifying random noise, and if that random noise comes out
positive in your case, not being able to get on the plane back home
would be really major trouble.  Thankfully there are no such impositions
for land border crossing back into USA from Mexico: just show them
proof that you are either a USA citizen or what they call a "lawful
permanent resident" (my status here), and they let you through on your
merry way.

> 5 star hotel rates for the privilege of being imprisoned in other words
> - nice  neh?

What you just said is exactly what the diabolical govt of Thailand (a
country that was once previously referred to as Vaginaland) does to
innocent medical tourists (mostly trans women) who go to that country
for their quality-of-life surgeries.  Unlike Mexico, Thailand is the
world capital for gender-affirming surgeries, and many of my kind
still go there for that purpose.  I am extremely fortunate that I
found a kind surgeon in Mexico who was able and willing to do what I
wanted (being post-op now, I have no complaints: he did exactly what I
asked him to do on me, same YAFIYGI principle as good old UNIX), but
many other trans women still go to Thailand, even today with all of
their unspeakable Covidian tyranny.  Why?  Every trans woman's needs
in the surgery department are different and unique, some really need a
different surgery variant than what I got, and there are many for whom
top Thai surgeons are still the only ones in the world who can deliver
the desired result.

I have read stories that are just heartbreaking: trans women just like
me (OK, they may not share my extremely strong anti-Covidian beliefs,
but their lack of clarity in this regard does not reduce their humanity)
go to Thailand in order to get their long-desired surgeries done by
the very best in the field, but as they arrive in the country, they
are immediately escorted to what you quite accurately described as a
prison implemented inside a 5-star hotel.  They are not allowed to
leave their room at all, exactly the same as if it were a jail cell,
and the only time they take you outside for a few minutes is for the
purpose of shoving a hockey stick up your nose.  They tear families
apart, imprisoning each person separately - I remember reading a story
where a married couple had to beg for special permission to be allowed
to quarantine together in the same room, and they only found one hotel
that allowed them to do so as a special rare exception.  The crimes
against humanity that are now being committed in the country that less
than 2 y ago was THE beacon of hope for people of my kind (it was
called Vaginaland for a reason - just ask Leah Rowe of Libreboot) are
just unspeakable.

Now if anyone thinks that those of us who seek and eventually undergo
sex change surgeries are wrong in our heads and that we bring all of
our suffering upon ourselves, including suffering inflicted directly
at the hands of tyrannical Covidian govts, you have no idea what you
are talking about, so just shut your ignorant trap, please.  Just
because YOU were born with the PRIVILEGE of soul and body of the same
sex does not mean that everyone else was born with the same privilege
- some of us were born without such.  People with my condition (the
currently accepted scientific term as of ICD-11 is gender incongruence,
replacing previous terms which were less accurate) have existed for as
long as humans existed, our existence in remote antiquity is documented
on clay tablets and other similar long-lasting media, and even
surgeries, obviously far more primitive than what I just got, were
also done for thousands of years.  Transgender priestesses devoted to
several ancient Goddesses (Hekate and Selene at minimum) very willingly
underwent primitive orchiectomies and penectomies without any
anaesthesia, without sterile operating rooms and without antibiotics,
knowing full well that their chances of making it through alive were
maybe 50% at best.  Giving gratitude where it is due, I am extremely
thankful that I was able to get my body-match-soul surgery done by a
good doctor using highly advanced techniques which were simply
unavailable even a couple of decades ago - so much more advanced than
what I would have been limited to had I lived in ancient Greece some
2500 y ago.

Back to Covidian tyranny, when trans women seeking surgeries suffer
more than other people at the hands of those evildoers, we are simply
being used as the canary in the coal mine.  I hold steadfast to my
view that all current anti-human Covidian policies are crimes against
humanity, and that various high-placed perpetrators of these crimes
need to be subjected to the same trials and punishments as the Nazis
after WW2.  And no, you can't invoke Godwin's Law against me here, as
I am the listowner, so there you have it.  And to bring this thread
back on topic, if anyone reading this rant is an anti-Covidian freedom
fighter and you also happen to like GSM, you are welcome to receive
whatever FreeCalypso hardware you like free of cost.

Hasta la Victoria, Siempre,
Mychaela aka The Mother