Interesting, thanks

Are the loop earplugs special compared to other plugs? They’re kind of expensive and they seem less comfortable than for example the alpine sleeping earplugs

The info paper I got when I got my mediation prescribed said that it’s only meant to be used temporarily and that research on dependency and health implications was only done for temporal usage. But my prescription isn’t temporal so it all feels pretty shady.

She’s a multi millionaire, not as rich as the others but still definitely not part of the working class.

Square

I used to be envious of gender ambiguous people I saw. Now I am the gender ambiguous people

I always felt unsafe around those hex bears because they’re openly against kamala which means that they want me and other trans people to die 😕

I have so many thoughts about going out while looking very gender ambiguous and the way people treat me differently and how I personally feel differently. But those thoughts are way too unstructured to be written down so I’m just going to leave it at this: I feel pretty fucking awesome and everyone else wishes they could be as awesome as me

Curly is so generous

Ew, I’ve never seen that but that’s very transphobic

The differentiating between sex and gender is definitely transphobic but I don’t see a problem with a trans person menioning that they were amab or afab. I think that the difference in which male presenting and female presenting children are treated are important topics to talk about, also for trans people (if they want to obviously).

I view my experiences of sexual assaults and aggressions when I was a child as part of growing up while presenting as a girl. These events would not have happened if the perpetrators did not see me as a girl. And these events have had a huge impact on who I am today, and I need to share the afab part to anyone that is important enough to me that I want them to understand who I am and why I am who I am. Transphobes will use it to disregard my gender, but anyone smart enough to be able to distinguish gender identity and assigned gender at birth will understand what I mean when I tell them that my assigned gender at birth was female.

Idk if I need to add a disclaimer that I recognise that sexual violence can be a part of a boys’ childhood as well same for trans children who present as boy or non binary. It’s just that in the violence that I experienced my female presentation was very explicitly the reason why I was assaulted. I’m pretty sure that the median cis woman gets most frequently sexually harassed when she is a child (for me it was between ages 10 and 16), so sexual harassment is a pretty big part of growing up when you are perceived as being a girl as well.

A very similar thing has been said in Dutch parliament by an elected representative a few weeks ago.

Cool, good luck :)

That’s probably why it’s so hard to get that first prescription here, even if a doctor wanted to they could only do it with a diagnosis from another specialist.

Being able to prescribe hrt to new trans people would be pretty cool and fulfilling work though, are you seriously considering it?

Self medicating isn’t as common across the border (The Netherlands) as far as I know. It’s easier to get a diagnosis online from a country where the process is much shorter and then get hrt at a private clinic that’s not covered by insurance. If I wasn’t able to skip the waiting time at my current clinic I’d probably have gone for that option as well

Rare W for Texas I suppose, that’s awesome. I think in general medication in most of Europe is way more strictly regulated, so it makes sense that the same is true for hrt. Not a good thing :(

I’ve looked into it but it’s expensive and I have a lot of medical anxiety. Knowing that I can probably get hrt for free in less than a year and will have regular appointments with a specialist then as well makes it worth the wait for me. If the rules/waiting times change then I’ll probably look into self medicating again

Wow that’s awesome. To get hrt and/or surgery you need a diagnosis in my country. Even if you’ve already socially transitioned this can take months. There are private clinics that do the diagnosis faster but those are not covered by insurance so very expensive