Ashe

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[–] Ashe@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

As a trans woman, the look on someone's face when I said there were at least 9 variations on the 23rd pair is always priceless. It doesn't matter if having one of those variations is irrelevant to being trans, it shuts down their sixth grade understanding of biology and sex determination.

Yes I had the discussion with someone who I thought was better than this today.

[–] Ashe@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 2 years ago

Fedora with Cinnamon desktop has been gooood to me. Admittedly it's on a Thinkpad

[–] Ashe@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

They vary heavily by region. They're fine in the northeast floating around $3/gal

Obviously that's not a product of Biden, it's from the free market etc etc

[–] Ashe@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 2 years ago

And yet, there is very little overlap

[–] Ashe@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 years ago

It's be totally fine for me. I only take 50mg so it's about the lowest dose you can be given. Stepping up the estradiol tablets at the 3 month and 6 month mark. I'm predisposed to hypertension so it helped with that and let me worry less about sodium intake. But I'll probably be moving off of it soon. I actually got a call earlier today and the idea of injections came up

[–] Ashe@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

As others have said, you'll likely land somewhere between 4-6 mg a day. How you space it out will largely be up to you, as I took 6 mg a day; I was taking 2mg 3x a day. Once in the morning, once after work, and once before bed. With 50mg of spiro thrown in. I could probably do without the spiro now to be honest.

My levels were:

2mg a day: 68 pg/ml

4mg a day: 146 pg/ml

6mg a day: 282 pg/ml

I was asked to bump down my dose to 5mg since it was so high at my last test. So I'm taking 5mg a day now.

[–] Ashe@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (10 children)

You can believe what you want to believe, you didn't say it in a hateful way at all.

I'm curious about what your opinion would be of trans people going through HRT though. When starting hormone therapy you are warned of potential changes to your sexuality. I am transfem, and prior to transitioning I was bi. Since starting HRT, I tend to have an aversion to men sexually and am more lesbian aligned now.

I guess that is fluidity and environmental factors, but biological factors even still.

Other people meanwhile experience the opposite effect (which is what I expected) or none at all.

[–] Ashe@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 years ago

In my state, police aren't allowed to use your fingerprint against you, but they can use facial recognition. It's backwards and doesn't make a ton of sense, but that's the state of affairs.

[–] Ashe@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Part of that is only because any and all Instagram accounts are also considered Threads accounts. I have a feeling active users is probably in a similar ballpark

[–] Ashe@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 2 years ago

Always check your doors and corners.

Such a great series

[–] Ashe@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 years ago

Only states with one political leaning are mandating changes to the course curriculum to try to stave off queer youth and rewrite history. To undermine the historical significance of their actions. Pearson and every other major textbook brand has had to alter their curriculum for states such as Texas and North Carolina.

[–] Ashe@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You call people who view things from a different scope emotional, but I'm ultimately concerned about my safety, and the safety of everyone I care about.

Only one side is dogwhistling against minorities, and when it comes to trans people, advocating for outright "elimination of transgenderism". They want us removed from the public eye, and will do everything they can to achieve it. Legislating access to healthcare away from us, jeopardizing our safety, and encouraging their base by trying to say it's morally just. While the "live and let live" types such as yourself don't see the insidious nature happening along party lines. Trans people simply don't matter enough to the average Republican, so no matter what they say, as long as the taxes are lower for them, who cares if some minorities have to suffer for it?

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