Its the passport that also works for domestic air travel now that they banned drivers’ licenses.

It does not have your address on it, so its a safer document to use to prove your age.

When learning a language, you don’t do literally everything by the book. In the real world you have to figure it out and extrapolate from incomplete information, and sometimes you get it a bit wrong.

From a few minutes playing on an autotranslator, it appears that Norwegan uses the same word for male/man and female/woman. Like the noun and adjective versions are the same word with different conjugations. A Norwegan learning english as a second language can quite reasonably be unaware that there is a distinction there.

It’s pretty normal to use male and female when specifying gender as an adjective. Man and woman are nouns. Calling a professional a female manager, or male teacher is normal english grammar. Using male or female as a noun is the red flag, which upon re-reading they also do… hmmmm

But OP constantly genders the channel instead of the creator which feels more non-native english speaker to me. They post about european stuff and in norwegean. Don’t read too much into it.

What advice do you have for absolute beginners? I have never fired or even handled a firearm. Interested in eventually getting a CCW, but no idea where to start.

Be aware that you are not alone in this. All people have the throat lump. It’s part of the speech hardware. Testosterone does cause it to grow larger, but cis women have it too. Cis women with visible adams apples have similar negative feelings about it. The idea that the throat lump is a male only structure, or it’s the tell for otherwise passing trans women, is misinformation peddled by transphobes. Also dysphoria has a tendency to hyperfixate on certain body parts. I can assure you, you are far more aware of your throat than anyone else.

But anyway, practical solutions.

Fashion! I know you’ve posted about your protective scarf. That’s a good thing! Concealment is effective. I would also suggest turtlenecks for this. They are a good look that conceals your entire neck. But also they make short sleeved and sleeveless turtlenecks that will still be suitable for summer.

Another strategy is distraction. Instead of hiding the bad parts, draw the eye away from it. If you wear a necklace with a pendant, it will draw attention away from your neck and onto the pendant below. A top with an interesting neckline like a keyhole can work too. Really anything with a visually interesting pattern near but not on the neck will work well for this. People will pay far more attention to that then your neck.

The value of the distraction strategy is that it doesn’t draw attention to itself. If you hide your neck it can make people think you have something to hide, which makes them curious. You can do this distraction strategy with posture too. If you carry yourself with the appearance of confidence as if nothing is wrong, people will pay far more attention to that then your neck.

I would also suggest doing voice training if you’re not already. Or do it more enthusiastically from now on. A big part of feminizing your voice is changing the resonance to emphasize the higher overtones. Achieving that higher resonance raises the throat lump upward in your neck, which makes it far less viable. And with enough voice work, you can eventually just hold the throat lump consistently up as the default position.

As far as more longterm things, when you gain weight, some fat will be deposited around your neck, which will make the lump less visible. It’s not very visible for me, but that’s mostly because I’ve not taken good care of myself for the past few decades. oops. To be clear, I’m not advising you to deliberately gain weight for this, especially if you’re not yet on estrogen. But once you are, over time the throat lump will become less visible. Most people do end up gaining weight in their mid 20s. Rest assured it will be less of a problem someday even if you do nothing.

Also if its still a problem, I think is possible to get the lump surgically reduced. I know nothing about the details other than it is a thing. Obviously not something to do anytime soon.

I hope this helps! Take care of yourself! <3 <3 <3

Are you wanting sympathy or suggestions? I can provide either or both on request.

security through obscurity is not security

It is a scar. it reads more clearly in other pictures

I was discussing real world sounds in open air. Yes, destructive interference is something you have to account for when dealing with sound systems. A speaker playing the same sound in the inverse phase will cause issues, but a group of people, as was the topic, will never be anywhere close that precise.

If the concern is safety, as it is in this example, the concern is the worst case. And the worse possible case is when all the sounds interfere constructively.

It’s not really a counterargument when I specifically said my logic of ignoring destructive interference doesn’t apply in “situations designed to cause it” like two synchronized sinusoids. Most people are not synchronized sinusoids.

Sorry for the very tangent.

That speech frequency graph is a good visual of why for trans voice training, resonance is more important than pitch. The pitch is nearly the same, the difference is in which overtones are projected.

Where did you find it? I would like to read more about the methodology.

Sound is complicated. Its both physics and perception.

The decibel scale is logarithmic. If you double the energy you increase the dB level by 3. Two people will be about 3 dB higher, four people would be 6, eight people would increase the level by 9 dB, sixteen would be 12 dB higher and so on.

Some people in this thread are talking about destructive interference. That really only happens in noise canceling headphones, or situations designed to cause it. In open air, its not really an issue that comes up. I’ve never become quieter by playing an instrument with someone else. It just doesn’t work like that.

What lets the monster hear you is the peak volume, not the minimum or average, so it will be close to the 3 dB doubling rule.

There’s also perception. Your brain does a ton of filtering of sound information. Your brain is constantly trying to pick out the important sounds and ignore the rest. That’s why the quieter severs seem quieter when something louder happens. Also that’s why some people use white noise machines to sleep.

Its not hard to learn but it does take time to become confortable with it. I recommend renting a car. Driving manual car for the first time with the added stress of driving in a different county is a recipe for disaster. By all means try it. Take up the offer of that lesson, but its unwise to have to rely on a manual car for transport when you’ve never driven one before.

But also make sure you actually need a car. The US is built with fully car dependent infrastructure, so americans are taught their whole lives to just assume they always need a car. That isn’t the case everywhere, and might not be where you’re going. Be sure to check.

I use ublock origin and you can add a custom filter. They put the shorts in a specific panel that you can block easily.

The DMCA is the US’s implementation of treaties from the World Intellectual Property Organization’s, WIPO Copyright Treaty. It is signed by 115 countries.

Wikipedia’s page on the WCT has a map of the signatories

On the bright side, that saying is not a reflection of reality. A real frog will jump out of the pot.

few words are more apt to describe the united states

The military is a jobs program that many people are eligible for, who might not be able to get work elsewhere. There’s a reason that the military has many lower income and minority members, and why paying for a college education is such an important part of the compensation. If you have better options you should take those, but many don’t.

The idea that the US has a volunteer military is mostly propaganda. This country does a lot economic coercion to drive recruitment.

You have made significant improvements since last time. Your voice sounds much more resonant and free to move in pitch. However I think most of my criticisms still apply. It sounds overly high, and forced rather than authentic.

You seem to begin phrases at about 250hz, which is quite high. The voice book that was posted to the transvoice community recommends starting work at a pitch of 160-200hz. I just now decided to listen to my ideal female voice (Jennifer Hale’s commander shepherd from mass effect)(don’t judge), with a spectrogram, and she seems to start around 215hz, with most statements having a descending intonation that settles around 200hz. And I know plenty of cis women who have voices much deeper than that.

You have quite a bit of room to relax and lower the pitch, which will probably help the tone. You have made good progress keep working!

Could it be a regional thing? Tabling a bill means the literal opposite depending on the legislative structure.

There is more of a danger of being wiped out by microsoft than anything else