Another Seahorse Dad on Dialysis, Now Dead at 35

RIP Liam Johns

Source: Liam’s facebook.

[VIA: A pregnant trans identifying woman with indigenous symbols painted on her abdomen and a hand print over her mouth in red. Text reads PRIDE.]

This is Liam. Not to be confused with the Liam from Keloid Me Softly episode of Phalloplasty Philes. I never made a video about this Liam.

Liam was on the transplant list when she died. She was waiting for a new kidney and pancreas. Like Griffin, her life was placed on hold for hours every week to filter her blood via dialysis.

Source: Jeff A. Chamer at the Charlotte Observer

Liam was 35 when she died last week on the 14th. She transitioned in 2009, the same year I did, and she would have been about 20 at the time. She was on testosterone since at least 31, which is as far back as I could scroll on Facebook. She had two children, at least one of whom followed her breastectomy. I've found no mention of phalloplasty or metoidioplasty on her social media.

VIA: Liam poses with her two young children.

During her pregnancy, she reportedly developed pre-eclampsia, or nearly excessive high blood pressure in a pregnant woman that could progress at any moment to eclampsia. Testosterone level is a known risk factor for the development of pre-eclampsia.

VIA: Text reads: various studies have implicated testosterone as a causative factor in the pathogenesis of PE.

Because she'd had cosmetic breastectomy, she had to travel out of state to pick up donor breastmilk for her baby.

VIA: Text reads “made my flight…to pick up donor milk for Cypress.

She identified as two-spirit, a term coined by a still-living activist in 1990 who said the term came to her in a dream sequence.*

Liam also may have smoked cigarettes, at least as of a couple years ago.

Via: my favorite memories are sitting out on their front porch smoking too many cigarettes.

Testosterone progresses kidney disease.

She was reportedly type 1 diabetic:

Source: Karen Garloch at Charlotte Observer*

Tonight, trans activists are trying to tell me it was probably the diabetes or other health condition that put her at risk of kidney failure. It couldn't be that the high dose of the cosmetic nephrotoxin might have had an unintended negative outcome. My question is why would a doctor put a type 1 diabetic smoker on a drug that has such a negative impact on female kidneys? Was he trying to hurt her or was he just incompetent? There needs to be major investigations under the air travel model of fully understanding the crash so that it is never repeated.

https://odysee.com/@Exulansic:d/Chapel-of-the-Second-Spirit-Dream-Team:0

https://amp.charlotteobserver.com/living/health-family/article74652892.html