It literally only just now clicked that the guy who I was friends with before I transitioned who immediately flipped on me afterward has always been a big Joe Rogan fan. I don’t know why that took so long.

Anyway, thanks Will Ferrell.

Stopping or stalling development in the second or third tanner stage isn’t uncommon. There’s woefully little study of how different medication combinations affect our bodies, but Powers suggests progesterone (p2) when attempting to continue breast development if you’ve stalled. But you’re doing that.

It may make sense to ramp up estrogen to a method with more bioavailability. I don’t know what the bioavailability of patches is, but I know that sublingual is more effective than oral, and that intramuscular estradiol valerate has the highest bioavailability. I jumped straight to injections, but I’d probably ramp up from a lower dose and availability if i were starting again, to mimic typical puberty.

We have informed consent in Massachusetts, so we have a lot of options if you find a cooperative doctor.

I also use bicalutamide to reduce testosterone rather than more common AAs, because it isn’t a diuretic.

Obviously you’d have to talk to your doctor, but that’s some of what I gathered in the course of my own transition.

Say it with me: Kamala or Bust! 🌴 🥥

If we keep the presidency and sweep Congress, we can turn all this shit around. But we have to do it! We have the energy, we have the momentum, we just need to keep it! Don’t dive into hopelessness, get pumped for a solution!

I interpret this as a sarcastic dig at the politicians who can’t figure this out struggling to rub the two neurons in their brain together. Elise definitely isn’t transphobic.

Also like, when the transphobes came out to play under the guise of feminism, I feel like the UK leaned into it a bit. Now they’re seeing that hate and marginalization can’t really be compartmentalized in the long run.

It’s the same thing that’s playing out economically in the US and probably in much of the rest of the world. Tolerating somebody getting crowded out eventually means taking your turn unless you’re always at the epicenter, which you probably won’t be.

I’ve met a lot of people who were rich 20 years ago and are barely scraping by now because they thought they’d always be on top and spent that time entrenching the system. Surprise surprise, the system doesn’t care about you.

TERF island out here in shock that the wave of bigotry isn’t stopping with trans women.

Yeah. Personally, I find it encouraging to see the progress flag, because it explicitly states its support in a world that’s sometimes hostile. I definitely notice when people actively have a problem with me being trans, so it’s nice to see people who are supportive making themselves visible.

I had an older couple of gay men treat me like a zoo animal for just hanging around drinking coffee as a trans woman at pride, in Provincetown of all places, wearing my regular clothes. Like, shoving a camera in my face and commenting to one another about how butch they felt I was. I would have dumped my drink over him if I hadn’t been so shocked. A pride flag doesn’t really tell me anything about whether you’re transphobic.

Capitalism is primarily defined by the need to push for constant growth. There’s nothing wrong with buying and selling things, but making growth a matter of primacy automatically means the quality of the product and user experience isn’t. Neither is the well-being and livelihood of the workers.

In a system where companies are incentivized to compete on that level, we can’t have nice things. Not for long anyway.

It’s definitely capitalism, rather than just commerce, that’s the problem. It’s a social cancer.

The travel safety guide they posted seems to have a much rosier picture of Arizona than I’d attribute to a state that locks trans women up with men.

To me the issue is that outing people is something that not only takes agency away from queer people (with a media landscape that, at best, commodifies their queerness) and can be potentially damaging to their personal lives. When someone comes out should be up to them, not up to whether it’s profitable to invade their privacy. It’s a major decision that can have a huge impact on their lives.

Queer folks and allies are absolutely right to be wary of outing folks for money.

Are you able to book a hotel in another state and be sure you’ll be able to stay there when you get there? Do you have legal recourse if they decide to deny you? Are you able to pee in public bathrooms without being arrested? When’s the last time there was a ballot question explicitly asking if maybe it would be good to take away all your rights? Not some shady bill that effectively harms your rights, but one that comes straight out and says it’s targeting black people?

We definitely go through different things, that’s for sure. But you’re acting like the job’s done for us. It isn’t. Gay folks have made significant headway, but trans people? We’re literally the favorite political scapegoat of the era. If we happen to live in one of the few areas that deems fit to grant us basic rights, awesome. But many don’t, and even in those places where we do have rights that doesn’t mean we’re actually welcomed. Massachusetts is great, but there are towns where I certainly wouldn’t be safe.

There are definitely different elements to the struggle of black people and the struggle of trans people, but we live on the same street.

But hey, divide and conquer right? Might as well play into their hands like a crab in a bucket.

We literally do not have rights in most of the world. It’s fully illegal to be trans in a lot of places. In some places it carries a death sentence. Get real. A struggle you’re less aware of does not equal a struggle that doesn’t exist.

Oh, neat!

I prefer not to use apps where a website will do. No need to have yet another instance of chromuim.

That sounds lovely, I’ll have to take a look. I just use Firefox, so I’m not sure if I have that option, but it certainly would be work looking into if it’s possible.

It’s been so easy to get rights. Clearly that’s why there are literally states where I’m not allowed to pee.

I kind of hate that not only does this asshole’s face immediately leap at me on Netflix, but now it’s on Beehaw too.

I think a lot of people who don’t like trans people are probably something between resentful and defensive. They’ve spent their lives dutifully cramming themselves into a little pink or blue box; when they see that we readily disregard what they see as binding them, I could see that either seeming unfair or scaring the hell out of them.

If I can become a woman, live in the world and be happy with it and even grow my own genuine home grown organic titties, that has implications for what’s possible for others. Maybe even them. They may not want to transition, but there are probably things they’d like to do that they don’t allow themselves because of gender.

They could just follow our example and just do whatever they want too, but there’s probably a bit of a feeling of sunken cost, as well as the conflict between the obvious appeal and self evident goodness of freedom and the dumb bullshit they put themselves through.

60% sour grapes, 30% internalized fear of themselves, 10% thinking it’s cool and funny to hate on queers; something like that. That’s my guess.

Honestly not what I’d expect interacting with businesses as a customer. It feels to me like there are a lot of places where there should be some sort of training or guidance on interacting with trans customers and there just isn’t.

Pharmacies especially seem to do a pretty terrible job with literally just the most basic accommodations. I couldn’t get a flu shot that I’d scheduled recently literally because the pharmacy tech was so uncomfortable about talking to me that it took like 20 minutes for them to whisper to their coworker about me and put a and b together rather than just asking me. Even then, she couldn’t figure out how to put me down as female to match the consent form I’d signed at home and they literally sent me away.

Half the time I call any call center i get repeatedly misge dered, no matter how politely or insistently I correct them.

If anything it seems like bigger businesses are worse about it.

You’re putting words in my mouth. I’d suggest reading it back over with fresh eyes and trying not to make these assumptions.

Ew, who said anything about being a libertarian?