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White women in the US South felt uncomfortable being around black women. This led to racially segregated bathrooms. Same story. Different century.

Meanwhile, the necromancer is standing on shore saying, “I really don’t want to get my robes wet. Take your time, bring me the kid, and I’ll take care of it.”

I want a telescoping flag pole so I can fly a flag at double mast when someone wicked dies.

Go ahead and start it now. There’s no evidence that it interferes with breast development. In fact, the only study on it shows that it increases breast development.

Your understanding of the reversibility seems spot on. If you’re not 100% certain, just make sure you are 100% content with the permanent effects. And just be aware, breast growth can be highly variable. You could end up with permanent c or d cups or something impossible to conceal. If you really want to be certain, ask yourself “if I am wrong, am I ok needing ftm top surgery in the slim chance I’m wrong?”

As far as aging, it really varies. Most trans women I know don’t induce an artificial menopause by cutting HRT at age 50 or so. I plan on continuing HRT for as long as I can, into my 70s or 80s, only stopping if I have some severe health effect that hrt would be contraindicated for. I don’t think anyone stops hrt because they don’t feel their gender isn’t important. I think some may do it in their old age simply to address health risks. And for me, I don’t mean, “is there evidence that ancient methods of hrt contributed to risks (like blood clots.)” My standard is, unless a condition would require cis women to get off hrt, or if it would require prescribing estrogen blockers, then I’ll stay on hrt. A lot of docs really don’t get the importance of hrt and are willing to recommend ceasing it on the flimsiest of excuses. Hell, I maintain a very robust HRT stockpile so I never have to worry about a doc cutting me off.

As far as whether an informed consent clinic would prescribe you hrt, I think they would. That’s really the whole point of informed consent. Instead of gatekeeping care, the decision is ultimately left to the patient. The doc makes sure the patient is fully informed and capable of giving proper consent. But if a clinic is truly practicing informed consent, the final decision should be up to you.

HRT really is magic at times.

Congrats sister! Let the estrogen flow through you!

Damn it, I forgot where I’m posting.

How many dudes have you slept with recently?

They are a bad thing though. Not because of the horseshit FUD reasons transphobes say, but they are a bad thing. They’re a necessary evil at best. Ideally every trans kid would go through puberty at the same age as their peers. Sometimes people aren’t sure of themselves and need some additional time to think things through, but in an ideal world, people would figure this stuff out long before puberty even starts. Puberty blockers are a necessary evil, but in an ideal world, no one would be on them except kids who get very early precocious puberties.

Trans kids having to start puberty at 16, 17, or 18 is not a good outcome. Not when they’re now years behind their peers developmentally. A trans girl should be able to get her first bra at the same age her cis female classmates do. A trans boy shouldn’t have to go through the awkwardness of learning how to shave while in college. Trans kids should be able to have all the normal developmental experiences cis kids have, at the ages everyone else gets to. Today, sometimes puberty blockers cannot be avoided, but in an ideal world, puberty blockers would have no use at all in gender-affirming care.

Trans kids shouldn’t be on puberty blockers at all. They should be given full hormone therapy at the same age their peers undergo puberty so they can have a normal development. Puberty blockers were meant to be the peace treaty. They were meant to be a compromise to hyperventilating cis people. And then they just went and demonized the compromise. I’m done.

Know a trans kid? It’s your moral obligation to get them access to full hrt. Order it off the Internet and give it to them. It is your moral obligation to disobey evil and unjust laws. These laws have no more moral legitimacy than the Nazi anti-Jew laws. Anyone who respects and follows them is damned.

I played a whole Curse of Strahd campaign as “Merrtyle.” She was a bard, didn’t play an instrument. Painted instead. She was a fanatic of Ilmater, and I had her follow a bonkers over the top sect. She went everywhere in a hair shirt, self-flagellated herself with a cat-and-nine-tails, and generally lived the most miserable austere existence possible. Her physical stats were garbage. Once when the party had to scurry up a rope to an upper floor, she couldn’t make it, and the other party members had to pull her up by a rope around her waste. And a common saying of hers was, “hold your horses, in coming…” as the party waited for her to catch up.

She was a blast to play.

Whenever [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiglath-Pileser_III](Tiglath Pileser) shows up in a history podcast, I chuckle.

“He he. Tickle Pleaser.”

I spent 23 years role playing as a guy. I’ll be damned if I ever play an RPG as a male character ever again.

Exactly. Why not make them crit? It’s going to be up to the DM anyway to define what a “critical success” means on a skill check. There’s no hard rule like the extra damage that comes with crit successes on attacks. The DM gets to choose what a critical success on a skill check actually produces. The DM can easily just make sure the crit success isn’t game breaking.

Your players are in an audience with the king. The bard tries to be funny and tries to convince the king to give him his crown and hand the kingdom over to him. Actually making the bard the new king would break the game. But maybe a critical fail means the bard gets sent to the dungeon to be tortured for daring to make such a request. A critical success means the king will grant the bard one “wish,” ie, any reasonable single reasonable request that is within the king’s power.

The whole situation is fully in the DM’s power.

Cats truly are assholes. They’re lucky they’re so damn adorable.

My cats are like that except instead of an automated litter box they’re curious about, it’s me in the bathroom. If I don’t close and latch the door all the way, they’ll push the door open and barge their way in.

WHAT ARE YOU DOING IN HERE???!