#bodily transition

[gwydionmisha]

Social Transition? They're Targeting SOCIAL TRANSITION???

[madtomedgar]

Like I am so fucking sick of fucking. White Gen Zennial anrachists/punk leftists from the burbs acting like asking them to not blast their music at all hours in crowded apartment buildings or dense neighborhoods or asking them not to smoke in enclosed spaces or put their trash in the public trash can and not in somebody's mailbox or on the sidewalk or loose in some else's trashcan (so they have to clean it out or get fined) or not dine and dash and shoplift when they absolutely can afford it is exactly the same as calling the cops on a black teenager for laughing too loudly.

Working class and working poor people have to work early hours and late nights and weekends and not being able to sleep because of your stupid party is a reasonable thing to be mad about! Babies need to sleep and the baby crying for four straight hours because of your stupid fucking party is a reasonable thing to be mad about!

Running people who have asthma and copd and emphysema and lung cancer out of public spaces because you want to get high on the train, when people who grow up poor are much more likely to have these conditions, is selfish and evil and the bus driver or transit cops absolutely should throw you out. Because you are creating a harmful environment for others.

People who harass women* in public absolutely deserve to be thrown out of wherever they are doing that because getting your ass grabbed is not the price of being in public! You should not have to risk your safety to get on a bus! It is So Easy to not harass others in public. It is literally a non action

*overwhelming it's women,but also applies to people harassing lgbtq people and kids.

Like can we stop equating voluntary dangerous, antisocial, unsanitary behavior that actively makes life worse for everyone around you, especially poor, working people, children, parents, women, elderly and disabled people, many of whom are people of color, is something you are a bad person for not accepting?

"Oh being annoyed is the price of community, I don't mind getting hotboxed on the bus, I don't mind hearing people's music, who cares if some dude masturbates in front of me, I don't mind seeing needles everywhere or stepping around feces" like do you hear yourself.

[centralnavigation]

THE MORE WE MAKE AN IMPACT THE SCARIER THE NEWS SOUNDS AND BECOMES. DO NOT FORGET IT. DO NOT LOSE HOPE. WE ARE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER. MAKE FRIENDS WITH YOUR NEIGHBOURS. HAVE YOUR MUSTER POINTS.

[pickapea]

(average everyday trans person voice) blasphemy? before what? god? a god repulsed by the miserable humanity he created in his own image? I will not be shackled by the failures of your 'god'. the only blasphemy is to wallow in insignificance. I have taken refuse of your god's failures and I have triumphed!

[sparklemaia]

Dear Maia, I just saw your substack comic about your growing disconnect from your body and journey to getting top surgery, and I found it deeply touching. As someone who doesn't feel the need to apply firm labels to themselves and their gender identity, there was something very comforting about seeing your journey, seeing you come out on top and feel at home in your body even if it means not having a simple answer. I feel as though nowadays young queers are expected to have perfectly defined answers about their identity and not stray from the chosen label (sometimes even ironically). Gender and sexuality aren't shameful or taboo topics, but must I wear it on my sleeve? Must it be obvious, neatly arranged for consumption? Isn't it enough to feel at peace with my body, whatever that might mean for me? Though I might be entirely wrong, I feel like I don't see enough stories of self discovery where the newly discovered territory can't be easily mapped for others to read. And that doesn't mean the place itself is any less alive and beautiful! I wish you the best of luck & a quick recovery from your top surgery. 💕

Right! Like, I know I don't neatly fit into any of the boxes we've got, and "nonbinary" as a catchall for "everything that doesn't fit in Box A or Box B" can sometimes feel restrictive too! So I'm just vibing I guess 😜. But oh wow my relationship with my body now that I'm tit-free is so much better, regardless of what gender terms it might suggest or elicit.

I'm very supportive of the right to bodily autonomy for *everyone*, without people needing to fit a script or follow the rules✌️ Babes if you have a body that developed breasts and you want top surgery for any goddamn reason, you deserve it. Full stop. (Actual access is another whole barrel of monkeys, but if you're asking yourself if you're *worthy* the answer is unequivocally yes.)

I also don't see many stories like mine, that stray from the more common binary transition experience (valid! important! but not mine!) which is one of the reasons I choose to share my journal comics. I hope they help others feel less alone ❤️

[fearandhatred]

could this be how every day begins?

first light by hozier + before the beginning

[taraxippos]

I am going tobe absolutely fucking real I don't think describing the experience of a significant amount of trans people as legitimate is appropriate to frame as 'running cover for taking away medical care from those who need it'. Both statements made here are, in fact, a radical perspective on the right to bodily autonomy.

I definitely understand where it's coming from because there's a lot of attempts to use the fact that you CAN be trans without medically transitioning to sneakily tack on transphobic rhetoric ('yeah testosterone makes you ugly' 'a neopenis/neovagina doesn't even 'work' what's the point' '[transmasc cryptoterfs and co making thinly veiled attempts to describe HRT/top surgery as mutilation of your precious 'Female' Body and corruption of your mind via introducing the Evil 'Male' Chemicals]'). I would also very much agree that agitating for full access to and the lifesaving necessity of trans medical care is a central, critical issue, and takes priority over assurances that you don't Have to medically transition.

That shouldn't come at the expense of framing trans people who do not medically transition/do not undergo a 'full' transition as somehow regressive or damaging to the trans community by expecting THEIR OWN exercise of body autonomy to be respected. You do know that trans people who do not transition do not structurally benefit from this in any capacity right? It MIGHT provide a very basic safety net as maintaining plausible deniability in passing as a cis person of the wrong gender (often with associated emotional tolls) and that's it. Attacks against transitional medicine aren't on the basis of 'I'd be fine with the transgenders if they just didn't go on HRT/get surgery', it is the head of the spear being used to remove us (and most SPECIFICALLY and pointedly trans women) from existence. The end goal is to, at the very least, force trans people completely into the closet via a culture of transphobic violence and lack of access to medical care, and at best to fully eradicate us one way or another.

[taliabhattwrites]

Less Fearmongering about Testosterone, Please, Or: There is no "Boy HRT"/"Girl HRT" Dichotomy

Hello folks, I'm a trans woman and I'm on testosterone gel.

As an immigrant to a regime that is currently setting trans standards of care on fire, there is no way I can acquire any of the drugs I need to put in my body through the official channels. I've been on E monotherapy (weekly injections, no T-blocker, works out really cheap and I have a few years' worth stockpiled) for a while now, and started T-gel about a year ago.

We initially grabbed it because my wife was interested in microdosing and I decided to do so with her (though she's on injections now). Most feminizing HRT regimes nuke our T levels to lower than the healthy range for cis women, and that frankly isn't good and can lead to various health issues. T is, ultimately, just a hormone, and even if I had too much of it in the past, I still need some of it to be healthy. One noticeable effect for me is that it's helped a lot with my energy levels.

In terms of acquisition, T is actually relatively abundant compared to E because a lot of cis men buy and take steroids, while most cis women who need E are just getting it prescribed by their doctors without much fuss. Our community is the only one that really has a need for E-compounders, while the population of people who consume steroids is way higher.

Funnily, our biggest challenge in acquiring the gel was just finding a forum that would point us to a gel supplier instead of just insisting that "Gel doesn't lead to enough gains, bro! Here just buy these injections." All very well-intentioned advice, of course, but that was very much not my goal and not what I needed.

Where I am, it's legal to purchase and own T, just not to sell it. T possession is not particularly harshly cracked down upon, given that its use amongst a certain crowd is basically an open secret. Gauge your level of risk but ultimately, the official policy on trans existence is discouraging transition and making it harder for us to be able to change our sex. A friend from Germany showed me this extract that explicitly advocates for therapy to dissuade bodily transition:

It's from the guidelines for transition-related care by the association of German health insurances!

If you can get it from a doctor, good. Do that and don't forget you'll constantly have to advocate for yourself. Even if you can, however, you should frankly have your back-up options sorted out, because we live in times increasingly hostile to transitional care, and we all need to have fallbacks.

Maybe the world will eventually become less trans-eliminationist, but in the meantime, transition is always going to carry with it a certain level of risk. All I can really advise is to take charge of your own bodily autonomy, to decide how you want to shape your sex, and if you feel like you can't currently do that, to start making plans for when you eventually can. That kept me going for five years in the closet, and eventually paid off.

Good luck, and death before detransition.

[transsexualfiend]

"No one should be transitioning for fun" why not... If you want a haircut you cut your hair if you want to get muscles you work out if you want a physical trait to change you can change it.

[master-gatherer]

You want to see how far the Overton window has shifted here, I didn't even mention Roe being overturned in the tags of that post

[awsteb]

calling urself a detransitioner bc you used a binder n he/him pronouns for a while but never anything beyond that is kinda pathetic tbh. the victim complex is coming from inside the house

[raskolnikov-moved]

Does anyone else have a split view of their gender and their body dysphoria? I feel like physically I should have had a perisex cis male body but I don't identify as a man at all. Like my sex is male but my gender and presentation is completely androgynous. I wish people would uncouple bodily sex with gender

[imworkinghere]

if a 1% regret rate for transition is so bad... and any population is about 1-3% trans... wouldn't that make the potential regret rate of NOT giving kids puberty blockers... three times worse than giving them puberty blockers?

[griffonatrix]

"you don't have to transition to be trans": overdone, dull, runs cover for taking away medical care from those who need it

"you don't have to be trans to transition": exciting, poignant, radical perspective on the right to bodily autonomy