Here’s one of the more recent meta analysis papers on it. When people who detransition are asked, the majority of the cite external factors like the ones here.
I’m sorry, but if you think that there aren’t huge portions of the trans population who have no support system, then it doesn’t really feel possible to have a meaningful discussion about this with you.
I’m not saying it implies that. I’m saying that trans people and established research both say that. Your minimal experience with one of the detrans subreddits is not more substantial of a source than first hand accounts and peer reviewed papers.
Did you spend substantial time in /r/detrans and /r/actualdetrans? Were you aware of drama around when that split happened? Discussed it in the other trans communities on the sites? Because right now, your comments make it seem like you’re a passerby who has popped into a trans community and tried to say that your interactions with one community known for astroturfing are more meaningful than decades of research.
Part of the issue it seems like people are having in this thread is that it’s really unclear what you mean by nonpolitical help.
I’ve never experienced any communities calling gender dysphoria beautiful, but I also see that idea as distinct from acknowledging it as a real problem that affects people. I don’t think it’s in any way political to talk about the fact that gender affirming care is well supported by medical research.
It’s not even people being offended that creates the rules a lot of the time. If you don’t have strict and clear cut rules, it’s going to eat up a ton of mod time trying to keep out trolls and people asking the same things repeatedly in bad faith. I liked the split that was on Reddit between an asktransgender group and the groups meant for community.
For me though, I’ve just never wanted to be in that particular kind of place as a trans person. It takes a lot of energy to constantly answer the unintentionally offensive and invasive questions from all the people in your family, job, and just general day to day life. It’s hard to find people who consistently can and want to give time to helping slowly warm people up to the same basic facts that they could find on their own.
NK Jemison is a great new scifi author who always includes a trans character in her stories in really natural ways. Not sure they’ll be what you’re looking for, but they’re also incredibly good books.
I really don’t know why some of the more conservative dosing recommendations still give two week dosing schedules for EV. It has a lower half life than cypionate and should be injected more often, assuming you’re aiming for stable levels (most people are). A lot of our original recommendations for transfem people were based around studies for populations with prostate cancer and menopause, and it seems like dosing strategies for them have stuck around.
I personally wouldnt ever go over a week long dosing of ev, and would likely switch to twice weekly injections if were I on it. The people over at transfemscience.org put together a neat way to visualize the difference in esters for achieving a steady state dose based on the pharmacokinetics of them all. Basically, at this point if I get a recommendation from a doctor for 14 day dosing of EV, I’m going to assume they’re not up to date on current feminizing hrt research and are likely going to also be giving old information about things like IM vs SubQ injections.
Finally, nobody should ever be paywalled from medical information (and it’s pretty abhorrent that this research even has to have hoops to jump around to get through). Just as an fyi for anybody else reading this, most articles that aren’t brand newwill have a copy of it you can access by its doi number on sci-hub.ru (or another mirrored domain, searching scihub normally gives a list of current working addresses). In the case where it isn’t available yet, the journal should provide a way to email them asking for specific articles for patient access.
It’s also important to note when in your injection cycle you tested. I’m mostly interested in what my trough values will be (so immediately prior to the next injection), since that’s the best approximation of steady state tissue levels. Especially on a two week injection cycle of EV, I’d be worried about my levels dipping quite low by the end of the cycle.
For me personally, I got mood swings right before my next dose until I changed the frequency because my levels would drop. But in general, the goal with feminizing hrt is to change your hormone profile to something approximating that of a cis woman in order to get the changes you want. With a long enough gap between doses, the short half life of EV means that you’ll have very low levels of estrogen right before your next injection, below your goal range.
Go fiddle with the calculator on the website I linked to see how injecgion time changes peak-trough gap in the hormone curves. But generally I want stable levels because research shows we need a minimum amount of estrogen in order to have feminizing effects. We don’t want to overshoot it because your body will create SHBG at too high of levels. I’ve never seen any research that hints at varying levels be more effective.
So, my egg finally cracked a few weeks ago. And while generally dysphoria isn’t terrible for me at the moment, one thing that is really making me uncomfortable is my body hair. I’ve always been pretty hairy, so I bought an epilator a while ago, and while I’m really happy with it for my legs (smooth legs are aweeesome!),...
In general, body hair will reduce slightly on hrt. It’s still there, but in particular I saw a lot less growth for chest hair. If laser works for your skin/hair color combos at a practioner near you, I found it very effective and tolerable. Otherwise I use a safety razor for everything else. Once you’re good with it, it’s a very close and low irritation save.
For facial hair, almost everybody will see no effect with hrt. New growth (as in fully new follicles) should stop, but any existing hair will need to be removed if you want a smooth face all the time. I did laser for some initial clearing and now am doing electrolysis to finish up.
The vast majority of computer vision research leads to technology that surveils human beings, a new preprint study that analyzed more than 20,000 computer vision papers and 11,000 patents spanning three decades has found. Crucially, the study found that computer vision papers often refer to human beings as “objects,” a...
This still just feels like a muddying of technical language. If you were to write an article about autopilot killing somebody and use object to refer to them, that’s certainly dehumanization, but saying that an object detection algorithm performs poorly on humans doesn’t feel like it is.
Part of the problem is that in general we aren’t talking about specialized human detection models that incorporate things like pose estimation. Instead it is almost always a general object detection alg, and referring to the same models differently based on the subject just adds muddiness.
I’m mostly familiar with AI within healthcare, and in my workplace, any released model is going to have a number of conversations and evaluations about the technical performance, practical impact on patients, and general ethics of the model. Those conversations blend, but it’s harmful to make the language less clear in any one of those contexts.
At my last telehealth appointment, I asked my provider if I could switch to injections after reading some advice on here. Taking the strain off of my liver seems like it can only be a good thing!...
A note for everyone who is interested in injections but doesn’t like IM, you can also do subcutaneous injections. My understanding is that estradiol in common preparations is a depot injection where absorption is controlled less by physical factors and more from the lipophilicity of the medicine itself.
Anybody who’s interested can look for the article “Comparison of the Subcutaneous and Intramuscular Estradiol Regimens as Part of Gender-Affirming Hormone Therapy” published out of Dr. nippoldts group at Mayo recently.
I have been looking into dry herb vaping as a reusable some what healthy way to consume trees but I have seen some mixed reviews. Some say that vaping is even more potent that combustion while others claim that most dry herb vapes suck and only giant ball vapes can compare to a bong hit. Is it purely subjective or are there ways...
Aw, I’ve been using my evo for a while and didn’t realize they’d gone out of business. They were always great to deal with for me. It’s a nifty device, and I like the all glass air flow. That really only stayed true when using it with extracts in the glass nails though.
Have you found a reasonable clone for the baskets? I love those little things and used them in my portable as well.
Anybody dislike the production today even if the race has a great end? It felt like it took so long to see replays of any significant incidents/moves, if we saw them at all.
Plus, it was great to watch the four racing at the end for so long, but why take away the time splits? They just showed like lap times between two drivers at a time for all of it.
I rediscovered this video a few years ago and everytime I watch it, it makes me feel quite sad. I couldn’t quite put a finger on it but now I think it brings me extreme dysphoria because I never got to experience the girl teenage years.
I feel like hair volume and fun styles, plus a lot of late 90s early 00s clothing is coming back in style right now! I’m having fun wearing it this time around.
I just got my dream job helping run a trans healthcare program, and I’m looking for input from the community on on what would make you feel more comfortable or engaged with your medical provider. We provide everything from HRT to surgery to non-trans medical care. My goal is to have the happiest, healthiest patients in the...
Probably not something you can affect, but my biggest issue with trans care is just access to it through insurance. Free clinics and out of pocket payments make it doable, but around me, the offices specializing in trans care don’t cover insurances except the few largest.
I’ve tried to use different types of corn flour, but it’s never quite right. The nixtamilization process dramatically changes the texture of the resulting masa. Fresh masa is even better, and can be made yourself if you’re up for a project day.
I agree that flour tortillas may be your best bet if you can’t find maseca. A wine or round liquor bottle with the label removed makes a great impromptu rolling pin.
Title says it all, I’m looking for something as user-friendly as a chromecast but not made by a company like google. I’m familiar with linux and if some open source software exists that can do this I would love it....
Yeah same, except it was later overturned where I live and they came right back. Luckily, at lesser numbers, because more of us were used to bringing our own by then.
Just wanted to add that event digitizing older records these days is better. Some hospitals do make old scanned notes indexed and searchable through OCR now.
Is it because I’m slightly overweight and was before hrt, is it my chin fat. I’m just so dysphonic I don’t even feel like girl moding cause I’ll feel awful.
Obviously everyone else is right when they say that clearly this isn’t your fault, and add the most of the visual feminization comes from fat distribution, so it’s going to need to be there anyway.
I also want to mention that changes only really happen once your hormone levels get to where they should be. For some people, it takes a while to work with their doctor to get T suppressed and E elevated enough to start seeing changes. Just keep up with your labs and don’t be afraid to talk with your doctor about hormone levels that aren’t where you think they should be.
This was originally posted as a comment under an image in 196,but due to the popularity of 196 I decided to move it to a (Hopefully) less federally public space, due to harassment concerns....
The fun part of transitioning is that you’ll get both traditional misogyny and new, unique flavors!
Seriously though, joining a group of people that you aren’t used to being in will always feel weird, but luckily that goes away with familiarity. I feel like my advice is always the same though, which is to find a therapist informed on gender issues if you can afford one.
Some conservatives say transgender people regret surgery. A new study says otherwise (www.sacbee.com)
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Hey girls! Baby trans here with some questions about body hair
So, my egg finally cracked a few weeks ago. And while generally dysphoria isn’t terrible for me at the moment, one thing that is really making me uncomfortable is my body hair. I’ve always been pretty hairy, so I bought an epilator a while ago, and while I’m really happy with it for my legs (smooth legs are aweeesome!),...
How the “Surveillance AI Pipeline” Literally Objectifies Human Beings (www.404media.co)
The vast majority of computer vision research leads to technology that surveils human beings, a new preprint study that analyzed more than 20,000 computer vision papers and 11,000 patents spanning three decades has found. Crucially, the study found that computer vision papers often refer to human beings as “objects,” a...
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At my last telehealth appointment, I asked my provider if I could switch to injections after reading some advice on here. Taking the strain off of my liver seems like it can only be a good thing!...
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I have been looking into dry herb vaping as a reusable some what healthy way to consume trees but I have seen some mixed reviews. Some say that vaping is even more potent that combustion while others claim that most dry herb vapes suck and only giant ball vapes can compare to a bong hit. Is it purely subjective or are there ways...
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Anyone else experience extreme dysphoria from watching this video? (www.youtube.com)
I rediscovered this video a few years ago and everytime I watch it, it makes me feel quite sad. I couldn’t quite put a finger on it but now I think it brings me extreme dysphoria because I never got to experience the girl teenage years.
What woukd you like in a Trans Healthcare Program?
I just got my dream job helping run a trans healthcare program, and I’m looking for input from the community on on what would make you feel more comfortable or engaged with your medical provider. We provide everything from HRT to surgery to non-trans medical care. My goal is to have the happiest, healthiest patients in the...
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Title says it all, I’m looking for something as user-friendly as a chromecast but not made by a company like google. I’m familiar with linux and if some open source software exists that can do this I would love it....
If you have the power will you ban high fructose corn syrup?
rt, will you ban it?
Bad software destroyed my doctor’s memory (www.theregister.com)
I feel really awful, I see all these girls who look really fem at like 6 months hrt I'm nearly a year and 6 months. Is it my fault?
Is it because I’m slightly overweight and was before hrt, is it my chin fat. I’m just so dysphonic I don’t even feel like girl moding cause I’ll feel awful.
complicated feelings
This was originally posted as a comment under an image in 196,but due to the popularity of 196 I decided to move it to a (Hopefully) less federally public space, due to harassment concerns....