I’m not the best at talking but my DMs are open if you ever wanna talk. There’s also the matrix which has lots of people in it, including some people who have done bottom surgery

You ever been on an instance that doesn’t have their own rules?

Edit: And it’s hardly flipping our shit to ban people who dehumanize us or spread anti trans propaganda.

I recommend https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/ Cozy queer instance with quick moderation, and open to allies as well

Ah, yeah, we do block instances. Only transphobic ones or ones that don’t moderate however.

https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/

You don’t get the point of the instance. That sports thing is deliberately pushed by the alt right because it gets people riled up, it was literally a non issue until they started bringing it up (and lying about it, making it seem like a bigger issue than it really is). There are not a lot of trans women and we largely don’t compete at a professional level. We have to keep hearing this tired old debate over and over, and so on blåhaj, which is supposed to be a safe space, we simply ban all alt right rhetoric targeting us rather than engage in it.

Do you know how often someone shows up and randomly brings up some unrelated alt right talking point? In an unrelated post? Yeah this is not us being sensitive, this is other people not understanding what it means to be a minority being specifically targeted to create engagement. We can’t all expend all of our energy all of the time to rebuke every single argument. That effort would legitimately be inhuman

Yeah. Before I started using lemmy and matrix more I was on discord a lot, and some of the mods there are rather shitty I have to say. Many even think they are allies despite allowing and defending all sorts of transphobic rhetoric like AGP etc.

Blåhaj has been such a relief in that sense. The only instance I know for sure has my back 100%. No “allies” telling me what is and is not transphobic

I went over some lessons talking about raising the larynx at first, but got discouraged and focused on some other stuff. I feel I’m a bit better equipped now to just work on that, so thank you for the great video <3

Also helps to hear your one year progress

Yeah that for sure passes! How did you practice for this, if I can ask? I can get the pitch down at this point I think, but stuff like intonation is harder

Thank you for sharing your experience <3

Yeah this is more or less what I’m hoping to one day get. It all sounds so very affirming, even the peeing yourself easier part haha :P

Best of luck with the insurance situation, btw

They’ve been systematically eradicating palestinians for a long time. It just wasn’t legally recognized as a genocide by many. Fun things they’ve been doing before that is stuff like forceful relocations, murder, and denying water and medicine to civilians

So I’m transfem and have never used binders, but from what I understand wearing ones that are too tight for extended periods of time can hurt your breast tissue. So long as you get ones that fit you properly you are likely good to go?

Don’t quote me on this. Hope you can find some good answers

Gosh, yeah I would love to be on pellets

you are person I was thinking of :P

If you do ever consider DIY we in the HRT chat in the matrix have lots of info and experience. We can help you with every step. It’s safe and cheap, and tmk people aren’t denied referrals or anything for being on diy in most countries.

I know someone post op on pellets. She is very pleased to only have to think about hrt once every six months. I’m a bit jealous

Yeah :3 I’m not post orchi but een has a decent half life so I can put off my injection by a day and feel fine, but I feel very minorly off after two, but not comparable to when I was on gel. Really did feel kinda desperate back then.

Unfortunate. No label with any info? Just a bottle with pills in it? Never heard of things being prescribed in this manner before

We all mean estradiol when we say E here! I meant more the brandname and such.

Well, I’m glad you’re feeling alright now at least!

Personally I feel like I would like to have slightly higher T. If it hovered around 30-40 that would be nice. I just want my downstairs stuff working fine with minimal maintenance until I can get surgery and rid myself off it :P

But yeah, I’ve heard plenty of people notice some kind of dysphoria at trough. I remember feeling very clearly off if I was late by an hour or two when I was taking gel. Got worse when I was on higher dosages actually, so I suspect it’s the spikiness that does it.

This might be of interest to you: https://transfemscience.org/articles/estrogens-blood-clots/

Basically taking E has a reputation of giving you a higher chance of blood clots, but what we see is that this mostly a thing to worry about when taking non bio-identical E and when you take E orally. This is not to say that I recommend going back to 400pg/mL, but it is something to keep in mind since AAs have side effects of their own.

Also, I have had rather varied blood tests from taking the same dosage of E for a long time. I’ve had between 170 and 320 pg/mL. How many blood tests did you take when on patches? I suppose it’s also possible patches are a bit more stable in what levels you get, and going back to that regime might be too much of a hassle anyways.