MechanizedPossum

The kulaks deserved it.

this looks like a prison

I really enjoy bangers like Transgender Dysphoria Blues and True Trans Soul Rebel, but i keep confusing Laura Jane's band with that other punk band that has a really similar name.

Ha mucho mas

This guy is the biggest red flag collection outside of the DPRK

As others have pointed out, there's pharmaceutical options to achieve this. I also know nonbinary transfems who use binders, although that's a temporary fix (it works for them bc they're plural / DID and some of the people within their system are femboys or transmasc, so all the personalities have agreed on the compromise that their shared body undergoes HRT, but that they can bind once in a while to present more masc). You could also try lowdose HRT and do workouts focussing on the hips and thighs to feminize your sillhouette. Lastly, there's the mastek option, but that's obviously the most expensive one unless you somehow have an NB friendly healthcare provider and you'd grow boobs first and you'd lose sensation in your nipples post OP.

I don't have a gf, just a (v. cute) gal pal, so no worries about that.

I feel this super fucking hard. Wanting to feminize my body is not the same as me wanting to be a cis woman. Like, NOT AT ALL. I do not want to be cis, that is completely irrelevant to my transition process. There's cis women that look more masculine than pre transition me (which, btw, is completely ok, no shade here), the entire idea of linking transition progress to being more cis like is transphobic, mysogynist bs. I do not even care about passing anymore, i'm fine when people can't tell if i'm a boy or a girl, it's actually hillarious that some of the cissies break so easily that they need to know this. That i keep transitioning further is (apart from one procedure i have deeply personal and to a straight guy forever inscrutable reasons for), more of a quality of life update at this point, because HRT is fucking magic and has done things unimaginable to me, in spite of not making me the tiniest bit more cis. If i keep getting blasted with lasers on top of that is now a question of how often i need to shave and how much concealer i need to put on, no longer one of stalling the body horror that sprouted from my upper lip. None of that has anything to do with being cis, either. I could press the button and always have been a cis woman that is able to grow a beard that connects, something which i have never been capable off in this life. That's a thing. That's actually something some cis women have to put up with, i have cis friends who went through as much laser hair removal as me. The button does fucking nothing but giving you menstrual cramps, uncontrolled hormone levels and the risk to get preggers when your goth GF cums inside of you. As hot as my goth gal pal is, neither of us is fit to raise a baby, i'm sorry but that's how it is. And let's not even begin on the binary nonsense that is "the opposite gender" that has been sneaked into the wording of the question as the rotten cherry on top. My gender is and actually always has been something like "transbian mailbomber witch", what is the opposite to that? Jordan fucking Peterson on dubious testosterone supplements? A gay frog? A new type of male somebody on 4chan just made up? Who fucking knows?

And yes, i feel you on my past being part of who i am. Surviving when people tried to break me and shoehorn me into the boy role, finding my gender nonconforming niches to weather the storm until my egg was ready to crack, going through the questioning process and understanding gender in ways that just aren't accessible to cis people, living my wild and wonderful and weird experiences as a nonbinary transfem lesbian are what has made me the communist monster woman i am today and i'm fucking proud of all of that. It wasn't the happiest life, but it's mine and if i'm being honest, it's cool af.

The button test conflates basic comfort and survival needs like not wanting to feel dysphoria or not being exposed to transphobic hate crimes with the asinine, unattainable and actually undesirable idea of wanting to be cis. It is the pure distillate of the conditions under which gatekeepers struggle to reconcile the clinical reality of us existing and sitting in their practice with their need to keep believing in the actual existence of two neatly seperated boxes named MAN and WOMAN. Fuck. That. Noise. Gender is made up nonsense, even biological sex is just the reification of a loose cluster of optional characteristics, we are just blessed by the accident of our birth as trans people to realize that and be free to live the way we want to.

Let me tell you something: If i could choose between two buttons, one that instantly transforms my body into the likeness of Tailor Swift and one that instantly makes all transphobes shit themselves to death in agony, i'd immediately opt to live in a world with still just one Tailor Swift, but zero J.K. Rowlings.

If you put enough life plants and filter media in, it becomes a miniature ecosystem and you can poop in there

I'm sorry to say this, but if you're a white cishet dude and complain about "white cis gays", you should probably leave that discussion to queer people and PoC, we're the ones actually affected by assimilationist gay men trying to pull up the ladder behind them and you do not have the nuance and knowledge to engage in already messy debates within queer communities. This isn't the best place to show your solidarity, there are enough queerphobic straights to spend your time on. You can and should ofc debunk obvious transphobia and racism spouted by such people, but do not go after them being gay if you're straight. Even if you aren't motivated by homophobia, all you're doing is to buy into the reactionary PR strategy to make cis gay men and cis ex-feminist women the most visible mouthpieces for transphobia when in fact gay, lesbian and feminist people are vastly underrepresented amongst transphobes. They're ofc still an issue, but they are an issue that should largely be dealth with by such communities internally. It's extremely counterproductive if you amplify such voices by prioritizing engagement with them.

And yes, this is very likely to take the exact same trajectory "Karen" had. That term went from an airing of a very legitimate, acute grievance PoC had with white women utilizing their relative privilege and wielding systemic racism against black workers to "haha i can be a mysogynist on reddit and still sound woke". Honestly, i think that apart from the weird wording about "white adjacent" people that sounds like critique of colorism gone haywire, this isn't a particularly unhinged point to make and it would probably have been better not to include that part.

Also this belongs in the dunk tank.

IRL i know labor aristocracy as a term used mostly in its original context, as a critique of the complicity of the working class of imperialist nation states.

Apart from that, no, nobody who has even seen grass in the last 12 months ever uses these terms and i'm fucking glad about that.