I sense your frustration and empathize. I cannot imagine how challenging it must be to manage your levels without the benefit of doctors or proper lab tests. Working from first principles and self observation takes amazing patience and discipline.

However, while transphobia and bigotry is ascendant right now, I’m not entirely sure we can use your account as evidence of widespread systemic malpractice against our people.

I have a doctor, she prescribes estradiol valerate and spiro, and tests my blood every 3 months. We work as a team to produce hormone levels that will eventually converge with those of any afab.

The thing is, everyone is different from the jump. Even with the benefit of a fully equipped treatment plan, my physiological goals are a moving target that we can, at best, only approach.

There’s no conspiracy, other than the social conventions of gender that held me prisoner for decades.

Where is my bathroom in this scenario, because i’d prefer it be nearby

Honestly on the fence about good/bad here.

One of my parasocial trans mothers.

Learning how to move like a girl is a challenging task.

…though my wife doesn’t seem to mind me bending over at the waist…

I suppose they have a better idea to sell us, yeah?

I would have assumed the visual capitalist wouldn’t use a stacked bar graph if the goal was to show progress versus China. They seem to be doing pretty well, for a command economy.

Cool, now start selling them in the states.

We keep attributing these evil maneuvers through the legal system to old Grandpa Puddin’ Brains, but come on.

There are armies of dead-eyed kitten-torturing menswear fetishists toiling in buzzing-fluorescent subterranean cubicle farms to destroy everything bright, joyous, and free in our civilization. It’s fun for them.

These motherfuckers are the ones to watch out for. That incontinent conman will be a corpse soon enough, but the evil nerds are gonna be buried in the flesh of our polity, like ticks, for decades.

In the end, it will be impossible to say “no” because the language will only have words for praise and capitulation.

How do you know when a tech article is bullshit? It declares something popular, by dint of their unassailable insight and authority, is definitively dead.

Windows has been dead for decades, but people still insist on using it. Hell, I know people still writing useful, functional new code in Perl. It’s not my cup of tea, but if it’s getting the job done, who am I to judge?

But now we have this chucklefuck who is going to single-handedly steer the course of adoption for millions of people through main force of will? Okay, sure.

Do not tolerate the intolerable.

Old age is a gift. I plan to make the most of it.

Currenly I’m in my early 50s and some of my friends are not taking care of themselves. They are not exercising, not eating properly, not cultivating their social circles or participating in their communities. The decline is beginning to be more evident and I’m NOT here for it.

In addition to being at the start of Second Puberty™, I’ve lost about 160 pounds over the last few years, have a well-researched supplement regimen, hit the gym, go rock climbing, and ride my bike all several times a week. Will it let me reach immortal escape velocity? Probably not, but I am looking forward to being the hottest trans dyke in the village.

The Rotor Propulsion Laboratory

I started HRT in November. Changes are taking a while to really come into their own, but I’m wondering if stuff like this is more evident than I realize because it’s taking place over a period of months.