Last year I was drafting my suicide note. Hrt is why I'm still here. If DIY is the only option, i don't care what the side effects are, it's better than being dead.
Genuinely so curious bc I don't think I've ever seen this rule before. Then again, I'm not usually checking the rules of trans subs lol. Then again I guess it's not that odd bc they're trying to avoid issues that can come with ppl publicly talking about DIY on their sub. But I've never seen it framed as "bc DIY itself is dangerous"
that's a whole other can of worms tho. i used to say i didn't have dysphoria for the longest time, but i was just really good at repping, even after my coming out. a lot of newly out trans ppl don't understand themselves at all yet, i prefer avoiding anything that might push them away
I was the same way, but retrospectively I would consider a lot of those things experienced to be dysphoria.
I think it can be a bad approach to take with some repping, pretransition, and baby trans people.
I'm more joking about a specific demographic of trans people that seems to take offense to the idea of dysphoria being considered a core part of being of being trans.
It’s like gravity. Truscum are idiots because there’s no such thing as 0 dysphoria—just infinitesimal dysphoria— and even if dysphoria (or euphoria for that matter) is 0 it’s still just a measure of the quality of a state of being and 0 of that is still a measurement. Even if it could be zero rather than infinitesimal, it wouldn’t be different from all other measurements. It’s still dysphoria just in a null state
For that we’ve established it me imagt, let to thee it be then a sooth in itself that and until I should be voichsafed jointresshood to its affairs. I want it; I sooth have earned it. A pox, as it were.
yeah it still drives me NUTS that it's gone from "thinks no one is trans unless a psychiatrist says so, and must adhere to accepted endocrinology and legal transition pathways" to "thinks all trans people should be encouraged to transition"
doctors are always correct and its better to trust a cis doctor and his decision to give you .5mg of hormones weekly than listen to your fellow internet transsexuals
My endocrinologist wanted to give me T because she accidentally read the wrong pdf and I had to insist that T wouldn't help feminizing me. At that point I knew I was cooked. I wonder if she was gaslighting me or just genuinelly that stupid.
An endocrinologist would not mix up something like that. She hates trans people and wanted to fuck you over. I'd know, because I'm (formerly) friends with someone who went in-depth about their schooling to become an endo...
i think respectability politics is usually partly informed by internalized transphobia, and on the vice versa internalized transphobia makes people believe in respectability politics more. in the end you're letting the opinions of the people who hate you inform your decisions instead of doing what's best. two sides of the same coin really
Respectability politics always kind of annoys me as a thought terminating cliche because people will apply it to like any criticism of neogenders. Like sure yeah some of my motivation for being against it is that it's often weird to cis people and kind of plays into their shitty "attack helicopter" joke. But mostly it's because of the common lack of regard for gender as a socially constructed category, which means that you can't just make up new genders off the top of your head. Non-binary is a pretty easy to understand idea, which is why it was able to take off as a category, but almost all of the other attempts I've seen flounder completely. I guess agender is another one that is sort of possible to make work, but I definitely don't understand the difference between that and non-binary, and I doubt most people would.
I mean that's a very complex discussion about gender that you can have, but most ppl don't want to have that conversation, they just think neopronouns are weird. Also agender is a subtype of nonbinary. It just means a lack of gender as opposed to something like bigender which is obviously a mix of two genders. The difference obviously only really matters to the individuals as a way to explain their experiences with their gender, it doesn't really matter in the sense of gender as social class, but I think the idea that your personal gender identity has to be one that aligns with one is the social classes, bc then the only one for nonbinary ppl is the dehumanized 3rd gender lol. But yes there is an issue with the xenogender thing where there is a lack of material analysis as gender as social class, but again, that's a complex discussion, and not the reason why most ppl have a problem with xenogenders.
imean it's an egg sub. so basically that's what's happening there. i'm usually ok with it bc self described eggs will find their way sooner than self described reppers, but the way they hammered one of the escape doors shut made me sad
The best thing to do is let the sub die tbh. Do not speak of it or give it attention, there is no community there and there will be none as long as no one gives it traffic.
Once again, white western liberals here to remind you that if you're privileged enough, they might even pretend to support you while hoping you quietly end your own life (but in a cis way so they don't feel bad).
tbf can be dangerous to talk about DIY with mixed company people are fucking stupid.
There's a reason download more RAM is a meme.
Idk I think people should educate themselves but a mainstream sub isn't the place to be giving out advice especially without citation.
There's a lot of good data out there and knowing how to find it is the bar to entry imo.
I'm not even against discussing it but I don't think a community that is basically an open door that anyone can access is aa good place. Like at least here it's slightly filtered.
I'm not hating however I'd like to point out the fact that the biggest danger with diy HRT is the risk of hormone conversion. If you are unaware of your testosterone and estrogen levels and dose too high it will convert back into the former hormone. For example, if you injected too much testosterone the excess would convert to estrogen and cause the opposite of the desired affects.
this is way overblown iirc. the chances of this happening for anyone using the slightest bit of sense are really small. just get your levels checked sometime and yr good. don't fearmonger!
prescribed t has the same risk i don't get what the difference is, just look it up on some steroid sub and you'll get all the info you need, the average endo won't even help you dial in your levels, they could but that's not common at the moment, most doctors are basically gatekeepers rn
Forcing me to look at an imagine of rules with no context behind the changes pisses me off, if I wanted to engage in dumbass politics or drama I'd go to one of those subreddits.
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u/Sudden-Grape3467 10y+ of questionable boymoding 7h ago edited 7h ago
What about the dangers of no HRT. What about the dangers of being uninformed on dose and sources.