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Yeah I tried really hard to like it but it was simply too slow and dry. Like I found the plot intriguing, but gosh I get why what most editors do for the first draft is cut a whole bunch out (to the dismay of authors)

As others have mentioned it’s different for everyone!

In addition to all of us responding differently we also take HRT differently. I take enanthate injections every week and so at the end of the week I don’t feel much of a low because my levels are very stable. Would I feel a relief if I took HRT orally or transdermally and therefore had more swingy levels? Maybe. Maybe not. I certainly remember noticing changes more easily back when I did gel, but it was also early on in my transition and so perhaps things have changed now.

That’s likely your menstruation cycle! Trans women have observed and experienced menstruation since HRT became a thing

We have all the parts needed to experience menstruation, just less of some of the tissues involved, so typically we experience weaker or even not noticeable periods. Some trans women do have very strong periods including period shits, cramps, and large mood swings. It’s also possible that how we take HRT affects how noticeable the period is. I’ts not well studied for obvious reasons.

Also, all the different ways of taking HRT have different half lives which is why you feel better or worse when low. Often doctors prescribe people valerate for injections but put people on on a 7 day injection cycle when the half life is 4.5 days, and don’t give people a high enough dose for them to have comfortable levels on day 6 and 7. Ideally valerate is instead taken every 5 days to avoid a very large dose and to avoid the 2 days of being too low.

With gel and pills the half life is very short and so you can notice the same day if you are a few hours late, but blockers will change the experience a lot ofc.

ADHD and other neurodivergencies are neither binary nor a simple scale + we have different personalities and circumstances, so there are people that qualify as having ADHD yet manage it very well or have lives that mesh really well with their brand of ADHD by pure chance.

Some of these people think since it’s easy for them to manage it must be easy for everyone, and some sympathize and understand they have it (compared to us) easy.

It’s frustrating to have a genuine disability and not be believed because it’s not visible and obvious, and doubly so when it’s someone you think should get it.

I’ve met one person I didn’t believe had ADHD yet he thought for sure he did. He kept asking me and my other ADHD friend why we didn’t simply do this or that whenever we mentioned we struggled with something. He did later turn out to have another neurodivergency which made much more sense to me, but it’s also important to note that not all symptoms are gonna be in the part of someones life that you are witness to.

Uhm… sure 😳, here you go: 🪿🪿🪿

Hey sister. These are scary times and I wish you the very best. I’m about to go to bed and I just wanted to share this link with you: https://genderdysphoria.fyi/en

It was very helpful to me when I started out.

I also wanna say that transitioning is whatever you need and want it to be, and that there are no requirements to being trans or a woman. You are exactly who you feel you are and no one gets to tell you what that means to you. Clothes, make-up, voice training, hormones, surgery, etc. While I recommend experimenting in a way that is safe and comfortable to you, I also wish to stress that there’s nothing wrong if you don’t feel you need some of these things.

Realizing that transitioning meant doing the things that relieved my dysphorias and also just the things I want to do was very freeing to me, and so just in case you’ve ever gotten the impression that some things must be done, or that you have to have some dysphoria of some kind to qualify please be aware that this is not the case. This is all both about relieving dysphoria but also about freedom of expression. (Your identity is descriptive not prescriptive is what I’m trying to say. Do whatever you feel like, and then whatever label you use is just how you describe it to others)

I’m sorry about your situation and I wish things were easier. There are many here who have lived through similar things or are in the midst of that sorta thing right now. Hopefully they can offer advice on that. I recommend checking out the blåhaj matrix channel as there are several americans there who you might wanna talk to.

The comic is about the news reframing bad stuff said about trans people to not obviously be about us, and my comment is pointing out that I don’t often see this but rather see news gleefully fuel the anti-trans fire.

Edit: in fact your linked article is a great example. it specifically uses transphobic dogwhistles and uses languages that creates sympathy for the transphobes yelling about people minding their own business.

Edit 2.0: It occurs to me that you maybe thought I didn’t think there was much transphobia being pushed by the news these days, but by “this” I mean what the comic is saying and not what I am saying.

I dunno, most news sites seem pretty good at spreading anti trans propaganda on their own, usually quoting transphobes verbatim and even using their language when not quoting them.

Edit: Perhaps this was more correct some years ago

biological male who identifies as a woman

I hate them so very much

Edit: as in I hate the bbc for using this language

Busy! I’m currently in the middle of a cell biology test thingy that I need to complete to qualify for exams. My legal name and gender has finally changed and as a result lots of things are no longer valid and will need to be renewed with my new details. My mom will be visiting next week also, and I’ll likely be coming out to her then. Too many things :P

So she has had surgeries from what others are saying but I should add hormones do change where the body stores fat, so while you can’t get changes to your skeleton (unless you start early enough), you will be a bit surprised at what curves you can get. Makes it easier to get a slim waist and big thighs. You also get a thin layer of fat under all your skin making you a bit softer in general. There’s ofc breast growth which usually yields smaller breasts than cis women, but you never know. Some people get honkers. Exercise to build up muscles that help you look more feminine is a way to change your body as well.

Basically what I’m saying is that yes, you won’t get these results from HRT alone, but HRT does do a bit more I think than many expect. Many things put together makes you look very different, even if many of us hope for more.

I wasn’t available at the time? I can’t be expected to respond instantly to everything. It is nazi apologia, even if that was not intentional. At least in context it seemed like it. I would have written “nazi” if I removed the comments because I thought you were a nazi and would then promptly have banned you.

We considered your comments without the context of who the guy really was. We still found them in poor taste.

Was about a literal nazi propagandist from nazi germany. We did indeed interpret Satans comments as muddying the waters

Was about a nazi propagandist in nazi germany, not a conservative reporter (same thing these days I guess)

Hi!

Here’s the context:
Post

(Not relevant but this post was removed for misinformation as he wasn’t some random journalist: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_Streicher)

Comments

Your scenario wasn’t terribly relevant to a nazi propagandist being hung after the war, after the holocaust. It came across as trying to paint the idea that nazis were hung as bad. When others brought up death tolls alluding to genocide you likened the idea of killing nazis to the current US government killing reporters.

I had a brief look through your profile after and it’s clear you’re no nazi, but we still found your comments in poor taste.

Why would you write this

It’s literally led by a billionaire businessman that markets with make czechia great again hats.

The party’s ideological character is contested by political scientists, though it is widely considered to be populist in nature. After being formed predominantly as an anti-corruption vehicle, the party has at different times been considered centrist, liberal, conservative, right-wing, social democratic[17] or centre-left[18] by different commentators, leading to a further characterisation as a syncretic or catch-all party. Since the 2024 European Parliament election, the party has positioned itself to the right, co-founding Patriots for Europe, a group in the European Parliament that is made up of Eurosceptic parties that primarily adhere to national conservatism and right-wing populism.

From wikipedia.

The czech wikipedia mentions donations from big companies and vague promises. They are for cutting taxes which is a common right wing populist thing. They also do seem to be in favor of investing in infrastructure and such, at least in 2017, but my understanding is they have moved more to the right.

He’s also pro trump which makes him automatically right wing in my eyes.

While in the past the movement has publicly presented as liberal, during recent years[23] it has intensified the national-conservative direction, which also consists in the fact that some of the more liberal members of the movement have gradually abandoned, or also in the fact that the ANO movement has become a member of a European faction composed mainly of conservative parties.[ 24][25][26][27] While in the past the movement supported the adoption of the euro, correspondence, same-sex marriage, ratification of the Istanbul Convention or the Green Deal for Europe, recent years have been rather negative about the topics mentioned.[29][30][31][32] The former European Commissioner Věra Jourová,[33] the Emeritus Mayor of Brno Petr Vokřál[34] and the Emeritus Moravian-Silesian Governor Ivo Vondrák represented the Liberal Wing.[33] 35] Among the more liberal members of the movement are MP Robert Králíček, the Minister of Justice Emeritus Helena Válková, the MP Jana Pastuchová and the mayor of Zlín Jiří Korec,[36] rather conservative positions are held by the MP Aleš Juchelka,[37] MEP Milan Brázdil, the Minister Emeritus of Finance Alena Schillerová[38] and the MP Patrik Nacher. 39]

From the czech wikipedia.

ANO is a right wing populist party

How gatekeepy :/

Informed consent is far better than the subjective interpretations of doctors. No trans person should have to justify surgery and hrt by proving we have dysphoria or anything else, at most we should have to show we aren’t currently psychotic.

Also, the risks of HRT are overblown. Doctors frequently cite old studies on non bioidentical estrogens and studies where progestogens were also used. They also still prefer blockers rather than monotherapy when mono is far safer, and often choose cheap blockers over safer ones.