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I've been reading and watching stuff from the past that I never got around to when it first came out and it sucks to be reminded how phobic the world was 15 years ago. I'm watching the machinist and it opens with a trans sex worker joke. I'm finishing 100 bullets and it has way more homo and transphobic commentary than can be justified by just trying to flavor the characters as scum bags. so much lauded stuff was so casually bigoted 
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well the machinist was tedious and stupid.
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The MUMPSorceress posted:I've been reading and watching stuff from the past that I never got around to when it first came out and it sucks to be reminded how phobic the world was 15 years ago. I'm watching the machinist and it opens with a trans sex worker joke. I'm finishing 100 bullets and it has way more homo and transphobic commentary than can be justified by just trying to flavor the characters as scum bags. oh god yes it is awful. like the bigotry often had zero reason to be there but they went out of there way to include it. sitcoms were especially bad about it and if there was a single character there was almost certainly going to be a transphobic joke or even entire episode where the existence of trans people is the punchline.
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Jan 4, 2020 16:01
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It's real hard watching old comedies sometimes
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i work in laboratory medicine (hospital lab). my workplace is doing rainbow badges/lanyards, for anyone who supports LGBTQ+ people. you sign a pledge, print out the certificate, and swap the printout for a badge. i've pinned mine to my lab coat. it feels great to just.... be out, talk about my partner, and be gay, do science. i feel a little better about the world every time i spot a colleague with a rainbow badge or lanyard. my colleagues had me help with a terminology question, too. we had a hormone panel for a trans patient, but our records system only has a single marker, for biological sex (which sucks). they wanted to make sure they interpret the data correctly, so they asked me the definition of trans man. i feel like i've arrived? now i want to make sure others can feel this happy and free, even if their experience or expression differs from mine
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Jan 8, 2020 10:57
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Was just at my Pre-op appointment with Satterwhite and another patient was a state prisoner. They had 5 loving cops with her and she wasn't allowed to have her exam room door closed and half the cops were male. gently caress you Kamala
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Jan 14, 2020 02:38
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gently caress that poo poo
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Jan 14, 2020 03:31
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got my first prescription for testosterone blockers, biohacking my body and getting illegal in some countries, i have become a real cyberpunk
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RustyKnight posted:got my first prescription for testosterone blockers, biohacking my body and getting illegal in some countries, i have become a real cyberpunk congrats 
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RustyKnight posted:got my first prescription for testosterone blockers, biohacking my body and getting illegal in some countries, i have become a real cyberpunk 
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RustyKnight posted:got my first prescription for testosterone blockers, biohacking my body and getting illegal in some countries, i have become a real cyberpunk Hell yeah
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Jan 14, 2020 21:02
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welp, looks like first estrogen injection is scheduled for the 3rd. hoping i'm not going to regret this 
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Jan 23, 2020 00:29
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speaking of I’m on loving like 6mg a day and I’m only at 50 blood estrogen. that feels like a stupid high number of pills for a low blood e. how are injections? hard to do? do I need to get it done by someone for me?
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Pollyanna posted:speaking of I’m on loving like 6mg a day and I’m only at 50 blood estrogen. that feels like a stupid high number of pills for a low blood e. if you do them on yourself you generally have to do them on your thigh which is slightly harder / more dangerous than having someone else there who can do them on your butt. i've got a few friends who do their own though and they've never had problems with it so  my wife started out on injections that I administered and that went fine for like 8 months, but estrogen has the weird side effect of increasing your sensitivity to pinpoint pain so they eventually became intolerably painful for her and she had to switch to pills. ymmv
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my primary concern is that’s a lotta fuckin pills for not much benefit injections don’t sound too difficult but that note about “more dangerous” worries me. dangerous how? if I have chubby thighs am I hosed?
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Jan 23, 2020 16:47
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~my boyfriend~ does he own t shots and has thicc thighs and he's been a-okay biggest dangers are either accidentally getting air in or accidentally getting into a vein from what he says Improbable Lobster fucked around with this message at 18:47 on Jan 23, 2020 |
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Jan 23, 2020 17:33
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Has it always been like that or is this a dip? They kept bumping mine up until I created 100.
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Jan 23, 2020 18:00
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Improbable Lobster posted:~my boyfriend~ does he own t shots and has thicc thighs and he's been a-okay yeah the vein thing is the danger I'm talking about, with butt injections there's an enormous easy to locate safe zone without any particularly big veins anywhere nearby, while in the thigh the safe zone is smaller. it's not that big a deal though as long as you're shown the right way to do it and follow the rules
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Jan 23, 2020 18:17
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this might be useful https://www.bd.com/documents/in-service-materials/syringes-and-needles/MPS_HY_Principles-of-injection-technique_IM_EN.pdf it's pretty easy to hit yourself imo, people tend to get squicked out cause of needles. read up on and become familiar with your anatomy (muscles and veins / arteries etc)
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Jan 23, 2020 20:27
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Fatty Crabcakes posted:Has it always been like that or is this a dip? we’ve been doing labs very rarely (like less than 1/year) but it’s not a dip, this is a bump up from like 37
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Jan 23, 2020 21:50
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should I go straight to injections or keep chugging more pills?
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Jan 23, 2020 21:51
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I'd seriously consider it because that seems really low for 6mg, but I dunno what levels should be post-orchi.
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Jan 23, 2020 22:46
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try subbing the pills if you don’t already? idk
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Jan 23, 2020 23:30
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sublingual you mean? I did that and then was told doing it sublingually is effectively the same as oral by my doctor
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afaik subbing is more bioavailable, and you also get around some loss associated with 1st pass metabolism. of course there still is a bunch of variability in how individuals react to things, but if you haven’t tried it and your levels are low you should do so. and uh, it sucks that you can’t expect your doc to really “know” things, but, that’s part of the Trans Experience™️ i guess
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I mean, I see you said you subbed, but idk for how long, and if you got to see the numbers associated with that roa at a reasonable time scale (like say, after 3 months of doing so). id prolly try to get a bloodwork requisition to see if changing your ROA has a measurable effect on levels, if they were that low for me I’d lose it if I had to wait a year. still tho, injection is great and would indeed get you where you wanted, I’d switch to it myself if my insurance covered it
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Jan 24, 2020 02:31
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I did sublingual all these past 12 years then switched to oral (just swallowing the pills) 3 months before the test
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fellas is it normal to be completely devoid of emotion on blockers, not even anger, not even fear of death that I always had when depression hit me really hard, just feel bad but can't pinpoint why
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Improbable Lobster posted:It's real hard watching old comedies sometimes God, this. Ace Ventura was on the TV in the break room the other night, and while I knew it was bad, I did not accurately remember how bad.
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Łódź Province has declared itself as protecting traditional families, what that basically means they signed a paper declaring they will do anything to protect traditional families from wrong ideologies, it's another loving state in this country, that means that approximately 31% of population lives in areas that declare themselves LGBTQIAP+ free, Kurwa Mać. And to salt the wound it was singed day after 75th anniversary of closing down Auschwitz death camp. heres a handy map of all administrative regions which signed that, with my family area of Bielsko Biała in red (meaning they signed one of these) an Żywiec in yellow (meaning that it is yet to receive official statement from local authorities) https://atlasnienawisci.pl/?fbclid=IwAR2a38K-XfZLvQCkLFTaHvpiYzQM3tSJEOzyJtjpVkmYTKKFWf4skaX0Yzo People generally aren't that bad, it is mostly ruling party politicians who just sign anything with word "familly" and "traditional" in it, but I am still counting on bailing to Germany or somewhere to the west.
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those of us who take estradiol sublingually: do you also end up swallowing a lot of it? it feels really unavoidable that the estradiol ends up dissolving into saliva and getting swallowed instead of the intended dissolving into the flesh. is that just the type of pill i have?
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Pollyanna posted:those of us who take estradiol sublingually: do you also end up swallowing a lot of it? it feels really unavoidable that the estradiol ends up dissolving into saliva and getting swallowed instead of the intended dissolving into the flesh. is that just the type of pill i have? not me? but maybe i'm just practiced at holding poo poo under my tongue for a lot of minutes.
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RustyKnight posted:Łódź Province has declared itself as protecting traditional families, what that basically means they signed a paper declaring they will do anything to protect traditional families from wrong ideologies, it's another loving state in this country, that means that approximately 31% of population lives in areas that declare themselves LGBTQIAP+ free, Kurwa Mać. And to salt the wound it was singed day after 75th anniversary of closing down Auschwitz death camp. here we have an officially sanctioned government license plate you can buy with "FAMILY FIRST" on it and what is very clearly the anti-gay-marriage one man / one woman logo in case you want to tell everyone behind you in traffic that you're a complete rear end in a top hat
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trashy owl posted:not me? but maybe i'm just practiced at holding poo poo under my tongue for a lot of minutes. my mouth just immediately salivates whenever i have something in it and the pill dissolves and gets everywhere  but I think I found some spots where I can put it and it won’t go everywhere!!
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went to a concert on saturday, someone in the audience yelled trans rights between songs and the lead singer said it too in response and everyone cheered 
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Shame Boy posted:went to a concert on saturday, someone in the audience yelled trans rights between songs and the lead singer said it too in response and everyone cheered What band?
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iospace posted:What band? AJJ. i never really interpreted them as a particularly queer band (just a lefty band) but there were quite a lot of queer fans there, and now that i think about it one of the new songs on the new album this tour is promoting is "Body Terror" which, while not explicitly being about trans issues, sure does have a lot of trans energy. the chorus is "i'm so sorry that you have to have a body" which, yeah, mood. also at the beginning they came out kinda sneakily to watch the opening band with the audience and hung out right next to me which was cool as heck
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AJJ really is great, I think I’ve seen them more times live than anyone else.
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i can't wait to start going to concerts with my boyfriend i just need a loving job lmao
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I got AJJ mixed up with Brian Jonestown Massacre and my brain was trying to jam them together into Andrew Jonestown Jazzacre. new project name right there I used to be in a band with another bi, but there was a pretty rough falling-out I'm still dealing with. maybe i'll link something if the album i helped work on ever gets released
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