Also nobody who ever took steroids or testosterone supplements.

You could also have a high tolerance for DHT, which is the metabolite of testosterone associated with hair loss.

In general though I think a lot of people focus very hard on the specific hormones, and typically they’ll do what they say on the tin in standard doses. But there are a lot of edge cases. Higher or lower sensitivities, general proclivities, etc.

Before transitioning most people would’ve suspected I had very high T. I had a deep voice at a young age, built muscle fast, full beard as a teenager, the whole shebang minus baldness (but I transitioned young so that could just be time). But nope, my levels were average. I also responded fairly strongly to estrogen.

What’s far more important than your numbers is if you’re getting healthy and acceptable effects from your hormone levels. There’s no need to mess with your levels unless there’s need to mess with your levels.

Your family sounds fun lol

Do any femmes still wear pantyhose?

Idk, shortly after seeing trans lesbians I decided to transition. And I clearly didn’t have years of struggling with those feelings prior to that… Every teenage boy hates not having breasts and for some reason suspects he’s only compatible with bi women.

Stop mandating vaccines but get them anyways

There are things outside morality that are subject to shame and judgement. But also freedom can be defined in the ability to make the choices others would like you not to. Mass surveillance aims to enable punishment of freedom.

And beyond all that, philosophically, there is no virtue without the capacity for vice. Integrity is often described as what you do when nobody’s watching.

Oh and this mass surveillance is already seriously fucking with everyone’s heads. So many people are living increasingly performatively. Between mass surveillance and social media it’s becoming more and more normal to feel this shame and self consciousness that impairs the ability to just live.

Yeah it wasn’t the dreams I had that were a sign I was trans, it was the ones I really kept trying to have. Also the daydreams

My actual dreams are of being an adult stuck in a stage of education I’ve already completed with no idea what my class schedule is or what room they’re in.

Combine them all and it’s a generic Wachowski flick

Ok yeah I need that dream

Oh I’m very much not like that. Very masc pre transition, mid transition pretty butch, learned makeup while recovering from bottom surgery and have slowly gotten more and more feminine. It’s wild to me that these days I can just throw on eyeshadow and lipstick without having to stress about how to make it look good

I was so afraid to come off too feminine and be punished for being a large trans woman who attempted to perform femininity and failed

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My wife

Yes and that’s catastrophic to America

Where they will be almost certainly subjected to v coding

I mostly just say that I’m poly when hitting on them. I’m married now so I mention that as well. They can respond as they wish

I’ve watched some people fall out of it over the years, but plenty of others fall in. And some who fall out really just needed a break and get back into it

Yeah I’ve got beef with their love of domestic violence, not their aversion to technology

There’s a stage of maturity in being able to acknowledge why someone acted the way they did, but still recognizing that they needed to do better and need to actually work to heal the damage they did.

Really I just want more of the Ozai situation in media. The shitty parent who actually doesn’t care when the kid doesn’t live up to expectations. Or stories where it doesn’t matter because the damage is damage.

Learning to stop waiting on my father’s love was an important growth step for me.