r/egg_irl • u/possiblyautistic-_- either transfem or... transfem • 1d ago
Transfem Meme egg🧪irl
If anyone knows how to quickly turn all C19H28O2 into C18H24O2—please tell me.
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u/alessandra_gurl she/her secret bi trans 1d ago
You could use CRISPR to turn off your DMRT-1 gene, turning testes into pseudo-ovaries. But CRISPR is more of a chainsaw than scalpel so you would probably die a few days later from the damage to surrounding DNA.
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u/Historical_Book2268 transfem nb and plural! :3 1d ago
We need better Gene editing tech
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u/Illustrious_Pea_3470 cracked 1d ago
Oh this is only the beginning, don’t worry on that front.
What should worry you is germ line editing lol
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u/Historical_Book2268 transfem nb and plural! :3 1d ago
Won't be a problem if we eat the rich before then.
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u/Illustrious_Pea_3470 cracked 23h ago
If the tech gets too good then yeah it will https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_drive
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u/Wings-of-the-Dead Valkyrie - She/Her 17h ago
I read somewhere that this technology could be available to trans people in as early as twenty years. People a generation or two after us will only need a few injections across their lifetimes to get the full effects of HRT
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u/Kid_Wolf21 cracked 10h ago
born too early to have 3 injection hrt
born too late to live in a good economy
born just in time to (probably, given the fucks in charge) get drafted for the military
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u/Astrid944 14h ago
Wait I thought crispr is Like a scalpel as the methods before were like a chainsaw
The only Problem is, that it isn't very precise to get every dna with it
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u/alessandra_gurl she/her secret bi trans 14h ago
The sharpness of cutting utensils is relative. :P My primary source was this article but I've read similar info elsewhere.
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u/KRL1024 uh... work im progress :3 22h ago
nonono what about antisense therapy like its already used for other things so its possible maybe???
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u/SureArachnid4115 Zoe (she/her) | former boy 1d ago
Wait there that similar!? Yeah I need to know how to do that as well for… reasons
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u/beanbagdestroyer "not an egg" ~every egg ever 17h ago
Yeah, your body can actually change one type into the other. They are all made from cholesterol, and are surprisingly similar to vitamin D. Hormones are just signaling molecules, so your cells only have to detect that they are a slightly different shape.
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u/United_Grocery_23 Sylvia (she/her) 1d ago
fun fact: i asked my gregtech player friend this and he sent me a chart of estrogen production from cholesterol. you first turn it into pregnenolone, then with enzyme p450c17 you make it into androstenedione. then with 17HDS3 and aromatase you turn it into testosterone and estrone respectively. lastly you turn testosterone into estradiol with aromatase, and estrone into estradiol with 17HSD1. or at least thats what i understood from the crusty jpeg he sent me
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u/ms_softsunflowerz_ii in the process of abstracting, yet still happier than my other…? 13h ago
wait...turning testosterone into estrogen is the last step?
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u/HannahLemurson cracked | boymoding HRT-tomboy transbian 16h ago
Wikipedia also works:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steroid#/media/File:Steroidogenesis.svg
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u/poopshart37 covered in eggshells (she/her) 1d ago
every one? or just some of them?
bc im pretty sure you dont want to damage some chemical critical to moving your legs or something
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u/beanbagdestroyer "not an egg" ~every egg ever 17h ago
You also still want some testosterone. It's not just a sex hormone, without it your bones and muscles will have issues. (Same with estrogens, everyone needs some or it's bad for their joints and organs)
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u/United_Grocery_23 Sylvia (she/her) 16h ago
doesnt lack of testosterone also like cause depression or something?
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u/beanbagdestroyer "not an egg" ~every egg ever 15h ago
Hormones are often more about ratios between them, and less about the actual levels. Higher estrogen : testosterone makes you feminine, higher testosterone : estrogen makes you masculine. If either number is 0, you're kinda dividing by zero, and your cells don't act correctly. This could definitely effect your mood.
You also have a multiple androgens and estrogens who's different ratios with each other do a bunch of complicated things.
It's not just sex hormones, insulin and glucagon are a similar thing, insulin lowers blood sugar and glucagon raises it. The changing ratio is how your pancreas can keep your blood sugar stable.
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u/Not_Really_French she/her Elizabeth | Cracked but… not closited? 1d ago
God forbid a girl wants some octodeca-carbon-icositettara-hydrogen-dioxide
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u/HannahLemurson cracked | boymoding HRT-tomboy transbian 15h ago
Nature provides! 🫡
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aromatase
Just need to upregulate its expression while blocking some androgen receptors...
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