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  • I'm sorry! Try not to let people get to you like that! You don't have to win any arguments because you don't need anyone's permission. You don't need their acceptance or support if they don't actually have any to offer. There is a world of folks out there who will accept you.

    I know how hard it is to feel secure enough to be the source of your own affirmation early on but do try to find it within yourself. If you can't find that security, then let go of the need for it and just follow your heart. We are all winging it through life anyway, so go ahead with the DIY. Keep it somewhere safe at your university or at a friend's place in a lockbox. You said, "no one spoke with me about it ever." If you don't have trans friends in your life yet, go find some at those organizations you mentioned. The trans organization in my city has lockers available for people with problematic parents.

    If you feel like you have to self-harm again, try to put it off for a little while. You can always do that later, right? Try to put the sharp thing away too. If you can't quit thinking about self-harming, try instead to let the thoughts pass by without interacting with them. Just breath, let the thought come, and let the thought go. There's enough suffering in that moment, so just be with it.

    By the way, the whole nature isn't queer thing was a total cover-up. The old explorers knew nature was queer as fuck and hid the information to deliberately create ignorance. Now we have to deal with their mess hundreds of years later.

  • I have no idea if this is true, but if you want out, Canada could be an option! According to SL's Substack, it will take about two years for them to process your application for asylum. The author claims that you will be allowed to remain, work, and study in Canada. You will get some healthcare coverage, could qualify for free legal assistance, and might even qualify for financial assistance.

  • Yay! Glad you like it! It took me several sessions to do everything below the neck at first. That was before starting hrt so it was terrible. I remember slowly eating dark chocolate in between short breaks to counter the pain. Hopefully you're still happy with the epilator and get to unlock the euphoria soon! There's always some pain for me but the bliss kicks in so hard and fast it doesn't even matter.

    I just learned that cacao contains anandamide, one of the endocannabinoids, so maybe eating the chocolate helped train my body to deal with the pain? Who knows!

  • Fortunately, there is a cheapish laser salon in my area that works well for my face, but some women have told me that they get their laser done by the students at a cosmetologist school that's even cheaper. It might be worth looking into whether that's available in your area.

    An epilator works great for the rest of my body, and my skin feels much better to me after the hair has been pulled all the way out. It only really hurt the first few times. After that the pain turned into pleasure. Seriously, it feels so nice that I have to remind myself to not just bliss out. My sense of general happiness even stays improved for days after as well! Try the epilator. But don't use it on your face!

    Don't dare use this one on your face, but some folks make their own electrolysis setups. It will cause scaring if you don't know what you are doing.

  • The same places that hold munches might have other events as well. There are polyamorous gaming nights at the place nearest me.

  • Do you only experience attraction during sex? I feel it in my eyes when smiling, hear it when someone's face makes pretty noises, bounce off it when trying to hold a walking conversation and failing. Just be open to your feelings!

  • Really explore ideas and concepts from the base of your psyche without lumping all the societal bullshit on top, if possible.

    Approaching my lived experiences of attraction as mere phenomena, was critical to (or was it the cause of, or rather the anticipation of?) finding them to be unbound by social constructs of gender, sex, or sexuality. Try not to mistake the map for the territory. The menu is not the meal.

  • Behold the elder-lore, once sung 'round internet campfire tales of yore! /j

    Transfeminine Science has a thorough discussion of the concerns:

    These suggestions include progestogens having known antiestrogenic effects in the breasts, animal studies finding stunted mammary development with high doses of progestogens, clinical publications cautioning against premature introduction of progestogens in female puberty induction due to concerns about possibly stunted breast growth, clinical use of progestogens to treat macromastia in cisgender females, poor breast development with estrogen therapy in cisgender girls with a disorder of sexual development that results in high progesterone exposure, and breast development with estrogen and CPA (a very strong progestogen) typically being poor in transfeminine people.

    Folks very much are starting earlier now! A recent paper noted that, "[m]ost patients who started progesterone began after 1-6 months on a standard GAHT regimen (59.3%)." But only two women were doing rectal administration in that study, which is what everyone online says works best.

    My first year of hrt was all diy. I added progesterone after a bit more than eighteen months of slowly increasing estrogen, with the advice of a doctor, around seven years ago. At the time my dose of e was 6mg/day buccal, and p was 100mg/day oral for the first six months, then the other way. Maybe a year after that, a different doctor increased p to 200mg and eventually started me on injections around four and a half years ago. It's been more than eight and half years now since I started hrt. The younger woman I was when beginning would be thrilled with where the girls have ended up, but I'd still like them a bit bigger.

  • been on e for a several months now

    It kind of blows my mind that folks are starting progesterone so early now. The old lore was to wait at least two to three years due to fear of stunted growth.

  • You might enjoy Surfraw, the Shell Users' Revolutionary Front Rage Against the Web. I once used an old laptop like that with byobu and w3m but all the keybinds became tiring. Now it's just a soon to be e-waste interactive fiction interpreter.

  • Are you familiar with the Buddhist teaching of The Arrow?

    When touched with a feeling of pain, the uninstructed run-of-the-mill person sorrows, grieves, & laments, beats his breast, becomes distraught. So he feels two pains, physical & mental. Just as if they were to shoot a man with an arrow and, right afterward, were to shoot him with another one, so that he would feel the pains of two arrows; in the same way, when touched with a feeling of pain, the uninstructed run-of-the-mill person sorrows, grieves, & laments, beats his breast, becomes distraught. So he feels two pains, physical & mental.

    The mental pain is due to our resistance, repulsion, anger, or hatred. Often this resistance takes the form of judgement and anxiety. What are you gaining by holding on to this resistance? Is it worth it?

    Thich Nhat Hanh, in his exegesis upon The Arrow in No Mud, No Lotus (p. 46), writes:

    ...there is real danger attached if you don’t have enough to eat or can’t afford necessary medicine. But you don’t need to make this suffering worse by spinning stories in your head that are much worse than the reality... It’s important to remember that everything is impermanent. A suffering can arise—or can work itself out—for anyone at any moment.

    Instead of throwing good energy away on condemning yourself or obsessing over what catastrophes might be lurking around the corner, you can simply be present with the real suffering that is right in front of you, with what is happening right now. Mindfulness is recognizing what is there in the present moment. Suffering is there, yes; but what is also there is that you are still alive...

    What has happened to you is wrong, but none the less there is still joy all around you if you choose to find it. I hope that you do! Please take a look at these links and reconsider.

  • Your severe mental illness might qualify you for disability! That could help with getting the medication covered.

  • Would you be able to work as a server in a restaurant on your days off from your non-profit work? The tips can be really good in the nicer ones.

    Have you explained your situation to your boss? Maybe you could get a raise?

  • In your situation two different events are taking place. The first, losing healthcare coverage, is not of your own doing. The second, your reaction to this fact, is something over which you have agency. It is within your ability to choose how you respond.

    If you are sick or injured, it is your responsibility to get yourself to the doctor or hospital. This is no different but merely more difficult. Have you called your doctor's office for advice on your situation? Have you called manufacturers of this medication to ask if they have a reduced cost option? Have you looked online for cheaper sources from abroad?

    The worst-case scenario is that you and your partner have to sell all your possessions, buy some one-way tickets and move to a different state.

  • Taken together, 82% of those who went back to living as their sex assigned at birth at least for a little while did so because of social and structural factors that made it difficult to be trans in their community.

    That could include folks who continued medical transition but chose to boymode or girlmode over a summer holiday or until finding a more inclusive work environment.

  • LGBTQ+ @beehaw.org

    Being Trans in Philosophy

    being.transinphilosophy.org
  • Pronouns hard? Don't thee thou me, thee thou thissen, and 'ow tha likes thee thouing!

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    Judge halts deportation of non-binary American in ruling after Trump’s gender edicts

    www.theglobeandmail.com /politics/article-judge-halts-deportation-non-binary-american-trump-gender-edicts/
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    Two new documentaries highlight trans history

    www.washingtonblade.com /2025/07/04/im-your-venus-documentary-movie-review/
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    Laura Jane Grace - Your God (God's Dick)

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    Queer Wanderings through the Other Germany and the Anti-Nazi Underworld: An Invocation

    crimethinc.com /2024/08/19/queer-wanderings-through-the-other-germany-and-the-anti-nazi-underworld-an-invocation
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    Virtual Burnout, by LukHash

    lukhash.bandcamp.com /album/virtual-burnout
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    Startup aims to make lab-grown human eggs, transforming options for creating families

    text.npr.org /1184298351
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    Erin Reed's Top 5 States To Be Transgender In 2023

    www.erininthemorning.com /p/top-5-states-to-be-transgender-in