Isn’t she a Tory?

Is homosexuality still politics? Because I’m definitely feeling a lot of that at the moment

Jokes on you I met my players in my local bdsm community. I couldn’t think of a place more likely to have a bunch of socially capable people interested in pf2

No, march but be aware and keep safe

All journos have bias.

Unfortunately it’s an ancient tradition. Transitioning is like abortion in that people will find a way if desperate enough even if that way is life threatening.

I think maybe we need to acknowledge this more.

Eating disorders are tied to body image issues. If you have access to mental health services seek eating disorder treatment. Moving from binge eating to a more dangerous eating disorder can be easier than moving to a healthy relationship with food

Listen I transitioned because I hated not having tits and because having a penis felt wrong.

I’ve found myself getting more feminine as I get older though. I rejected it a lot when I was younger (been transitioning as long as you actually and am also post transition). I still have my firm feminist stances like I won’t ever wear makeup to work, but I wear it going out now, just not because I feel I have to but because I do like the self expression with it. I’ve found that I feel most myself when I embrace being a large badass femme. And it’s when I feel most confident. And I think part of why I feel this way is because I’ve always rejected letting it be forced on me and because I’ve always found femininity to be beautiful and powerful looking. I also think that starting transition at 20 and being heavily involved in lesbian communities influenced it. My conversation with femininity in myself has always been spoken through my lesbian identity just as much as my trans identity.

I get that but also I love what her content has become. I haven’t seen the new one but last year’s episode was excellent.

They’re a commitment now. It’s a movie that my wife and I plan a date around and discuss with our friends. I think she’s definitely in a new golden age of her content for those of us who like YouTube documentaries, an era that rivals her autogynephilia video.

Yeah that’s a common stage of transitioning, it’s difficult and important to do

I’m sure others can give better advice if you ask, but tutorials are everywhere and help a lot of people. But I didn’t do that. The thing I did was really look at styles I liked and try to figure out what makes it all work and what components it contains.

Also liquid eyeliner, look up tight lining and accept it’s hard and you’ll do it poorly a lot before you do it well.

Also keep in mind that not everything looks good on everyone. I look best in dark looks, but some people look terrible with them. A big thing will be learning to match makeup that works for you with outfits.

Oh absolutely and it’s an exciting time. When your chest starts itching shits going down.

And now is the time to suck at stuff. I did the whole don’t learn makeup until bottom surgery recovery thing and it was stupid. Learn it when you want to know it.

If they keep this shit up they’ll get shot sooner rather than later. Gays are armed here

Good luck. Don’t get your hopes up for another few weeks. The first month is waiting. It’s not a bad kind of waiting, just waiting for it to kick in you know. Sorta like when you just took the tab of acid and you’re excited to trip but you may as well eat breakfast now because it’ll be an hour before it hits.

But when it does it’s slow then fast then a slow fade as the hormone changes slowly shift to just being the changes of aging

Unfortunately what do they care? Look at the CEOs of social media. They like us better dead.

This is why I worship a different deity. Ishtar blesses the release of my pain rather than sanctifying the suffering.

I left Catholicism because I’m trans. Not because I thought god hated me for who I am, but because I didn’t believe a loving god would dangle a joyous end to such pain in front of my face and damn me for taking it.

I love my body. I earned that love by making it a body I could love being in. I can respect the trans Catholics who don’t believe their body is a mistake in the same way that they believe god created wheat and grapes instead of bread and wine so that we too may enjoy the act of taking something good and making it into something better.

That’s not even true. Highly intelligent people may feel it’s all bullshit, but a lot of highly important scientists were clergy. Hell often tracking the stars, reading, writing, pharmacology, medicine, and math were the responsibilities of the priestly class in ancient religions. Modern genetics was discovered by a monk. The pope currently has astronomers.

Yeah exactly. And considering clerics are devotees of specific deities it’s not like they’re going to be experts outside of it. As a DM I assume clerics have a firm understanding of their god. You don’t have to roll to know anything I expect an ordained minister to understand about them. But just like I don’t expect a priest of Iuppiter to understand Cybellian rites or Saturnian prayers you’re shit out of luck about questions not relating to your god.

And in that vein basic questions about local religion should have a low dc, but cultural distance can increase it. That priest of Iuppiter may have reason to know about other deities in their region even secret ones, but knowing jack shit about Shiva is academic to them. Knowing anything about Zoroastrianism is on par with knowing history to them. They likely know a bit about Ra and Osiris, but only because those are basic facts about a significant nearby culture’s religion.

All the advantages that being a cleric provides here should be represented in the form of proficiency. But you aren’t studying this shit, you’re deepening your connection to your deity.

That said I do think there’s room for an int based holy caster in something like pf2. A religious scholar rather than cleric

Yeah you’ve built an association in your mind. Wear one around a whole weekend and just try to normalize it to yourself

Now for the orientation shit. Why can’t you picture yourself with a man but can when imagining yourself as a woman? Is it heteronormative expectations? Yes. The question is which side is being pressured heteronormatively. And frankly it’s gonna be hard to parse out until you’ve got an understanding of your gender. Maybe you’re a gay man, maybe you’re a feminine straight man, maybe you’re a straight trans woman, maybe you’re a trans lesbian, there’s a good chance you’re some flavor of bisexual regardless of your gender. And some people’s orientation is hormonally impacted (HRT took away the little attraction to men I had). Other people gain increased understanding of their orientation through the process of exploring and enacting their gender.

But don’t just think of sex, also think of love. And think of the whole picture. Think about who you’d want to curl up with while watching tv on a Friday night because you got boring after getting married

But also yes do think of sex, but not just dicks. The whole entire person. Think of faces. But also just accept that it’s ok to not know yet. If you click with someone and find them attractive go for it. If you don’t you don’t.