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Its very niche - but I do know of a couple extremely misogynistic (like stereotypically so) trans men who are necessarily pro trans rights.

Cis men - not so much.

Without excluding trans patient, any healthcare professional would be forced to do harm to the trans patient or go against the law.

Orchi was such a game changer - but wow that is waaay too low a dose. I've also had to educate my endo but there is still a limit where they will still under prescribe to stay within an artificial E range

My Endocrinologists all tell me to blood check in the middle of an estradiol valerate cycle - which tells me they are ill informed and use useless metrics. Thankfully they prescribe enough that I can double dose and just do the periodic blood tests the morning before injection

Its DIY via insurance

Many transition via DIY resources. I've never seen an endocrinologist or a psych because I don't want to go through a combative and adversarial diagnostic process to access what I need.

The healthcare risks are along the lines of "increased risk of breast cancer because I have breasts now."

All I see this leading to are 10,000s of Abe Simpsons who watch this channel yelling at clouds about something they are manufactured to incorrectly hate out of total ignorance.

The data here is super sus too.

I mean this has been going on since the early 1900s. "A city that nobody else knew about outside the Old Testament was discovered, every other claim in the Bible is true!"

Meanwhile The Great Gatsby was set in NYC...

You have all wrong! It was that Saul guy that was the scammer, Paul is a completely different person.

This perception is so weird! Anecdataly, like 95% of my friends are cishet because I do a lot of hobbies and most local queer people are a 35+ minute drive away. And I would rather do a dance/yoga class or basically any activity over sitting in front of the computer longer than I have to for my job.

And if they claim to care about evidence, it's always, "x isn't considered in this study, and though I am not an expert I don't believe y. There isn't enough data yet to be conclusive and we need to protect the sanctity of Women's Sports - just don't ask me to name any woman athlete."

It just doesn't have the memory to remember magic resource utilization. That's what happens when your lead dev is a failed singer name Barry Mana Low.

God. I'm still both even with a metric crap-ton of therapy.

I blame growing up in the extremely religious South as a queer woman :/ (j/k j/k)

It's so hard to go to any other taco places in Tucson when Tumerico exists. That's like the best Mexican food I've ever hard - but I'll try this out next time I'm there

My Zumba class adored dancing to several of these songs soooooo much! NUEVAYoL was the favorite song/dance in the past year for all my classes. He is amazing

I saw this as a preview before Song Sung Blue. I thought that was a fever dream until this post - and now I recall how droll and plastered just the preview looked. So... curated.

Go see it if you are a masochist I guess. I guess you would get more out of such a movie with your background.

My immediate thought as a woman indifferent to sports was "but I heard Aaron Rodgers is still playing" and then google was all "lol nope, he's 42".

Seriously though, welcome to the 44 year old club! Life is great here. Friendships are deeper now than ever before. Its wonderful and beautiful.

Testing mid-cycle for E2 levels and basing the dosage off that is also an "interesting" choice. My breasts are now growing rapidly again at 4.5 years when basing on levels collected the morning of injection.

Increasingly its clear that these signers just wanted to say anything and influence policy and narratives without consequence.

Catching up on the last few chapters. Its so eerie because I live where the fire burnt and a lot of my friends evacuated their homes in the areas of the book - Poway, Rancho Peñasquitos, etc.

The funniest thing is PUSD is such a LGBTQ+ supportive and great school system now (my girls attended).

Darkly funny that if you’re trans and you pass you’ll constantly get asked if you play professional sports on the basis of your apparent biological height advantage over other women

99% passing and I get volleyball all the time - way more than basketball though sometimes that. My closest cis friend is also 5'9 so we are asked if we are a team. Then we tell them we are dancers and they are like, "y'all have perfect dancer bodies".

Its so weird.

Telling a trans woman that she has more responsibility than cis women in any social or romantic situation is veering on transmisogyny and is prejudicial.

Its also funny how easy it is for queer cis women to throw us under the bus to our cis mutuals when they cross the line and our boundaries

Its so true though. I'm glad you received this message well. I've experienced this in full and can state I will be so much more resilient in future hard times because I am much more myself

There is usually a lot at play, but happiness is so much easier with minimal internalized insecurity

*Laughs at the new food pyramid in vegan.*

Could we please have a non-bigoted and pro-trans threshold for these “rehabilitation” stories before they air? Literally she is still the same bully just jumping away from a sinking ship.

That’s not a great look, nor is the stink from “journalists” that prop up the bad for being upset at other bad

Interesting take. Still needed lots of work to integrate into large groups of women seamlessly - but that was more due to being homeschooled and never developing basic socialization skills regardless of gender. It speaks volumes that some people just assume this was male socialization *whistles*

I don't understand why we need to bring in perfect logical dichotomies into everything trans related... Its not like transgender the label is a perfect superset for everything that falls under it (like nb, for example).

Understood - I thought I would never pass or would be an ugly woman at best. This fear was something I had to push past to start the journey - I had to be ok with being what you posted.

But I do pass and am quite attractive from what others say - but a lot of that is because I'm truly happy now.

I started at 39 and at 44 am pretty much fully passable to like 95% of the world. YMMV but for a lot of people you get out of transition what you put in (tip: its not just physical changes)