Why demonize an important aspect of Japanese LGBT+ culture and sexuality just because it offends our tender Western sensibilities? Next we’ll be denouncing sea monster tentacle rape, despite it being an established trope in their artwork long before widespread contact with Europeans.

Take your linguistic colonization elsewhere.

That is a very important hyphen.

The internet once told me raw milk was better for lactose intolerance. The internet lied.

It’s ironic that the headline is both abjectly horrifying and at the same time would also make a good premise for a raunchy manga.

I don’t have T anymore so the hair loss has stopped, but what’s gone ain’t coming back. I tried Minoxidil and the results weren’t worth the hassle.

I’m already too far gone for a scalp advancement, and hair transplant is beyond my means. Plus the outcomes seem to vary depending on how good a surgeon you can afford, putting it further out of reach.

Thanks nonetheless. Just felt like venting. Hair sucks, both in its paucity and in its excess.

At least the one negates the other.

But why bicker? I never meant to insult you; I thought you were shitposting.

“city” was not capitalized in the headline.

There’s a huge difference between homebrew (tea, otokonoko etc.) and grey market (like ihp) sources, but the article ignores this. Only in the former case is quality control potentially an issue, and community testing efforts can obviate that considerably. Plus, it’s obvious that the people selling homebrew really know what they’re doing and are working in good faith.

As for medication management, anyone can order a blood test and endos often work off the same publicly available treatment guidelines to which individuals also have access.

Really, the DiY movement is about the democratization of medical care. Articles that try to sow doubts are counterproductive, even if well-intentioned.

I am in awe of your pedantry.

Just wanted to disentangle starting HRT from actually socially transitioning: the one doesn’t necessarily imply the other. Some people take HRT for years before transitioning; in many cases the results are not obvious for a long time, if at all, or can be disguised. DiY is safe and relatively inexpensive.

How do you fix bald(ing)? Wigs suck.

California is a very diverse state: about as many people there voted Trump as did people in Texas (in absolute terms, not as a proportion of population).

From the thumbnail I thought the dog was balancing a potato on her head.

A dozen eggs costs about an hour’s wage around here.

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Then what do you put in the little egg-shaped shelf in your refrigerators?

Checkmate, atheists.

Britbongs still haven’t learned how to wash eggs

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From personal experience: if you stop HRT you turn back into a pumpkin.

I stopped after a couple years on hormones and pretty much everything reverted (except breast growth).[EDIT: Over the course of a year or so,] Body and facial hair came back in full force (on face only where it had been lasered, but electrolysis’d portions remained bare). Hair on my head resumed its retreat. My member grew back to normal size and I started producing sperm (didn’t test for motility). Quality of orgasms changed, scent changed, and probably a bunch of other stuff I’m forgetting. Dysphoria massively increased.

Luckily a while later I went back on hormones and everything sorted itself out. I got an orchiectomy to ensure this never happens again, highly recommend it. Quick, simple surgery with almost no recovery time, that doesn’t impact eligibility for GRS later on.

[EDIT]: All that happened after being off HRT for a year or two. If you just end up going off titty skittles for a couple months, you’re probably fine. Wanted to clarify.

Funny how this started out as “protect the children, who are too young to make permanent decisions,” which is not prima facie absurd, and then, once they pushed that through, became “no taxpayer money for trans surgeries,” which is much less defensible, but still may seem reasonable to many voters. I wonder where they are going with this.

Maybe some slopes are indeed slippery.