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Lexi Koren @lexikoren.bsky.social · 8h

I can vouch that estrogen has been unbelievable for my skin, has put my HDL cholesterol normal range for the first time in my life, and makes my risk of getting prostate cancer near zero. But uh… it does a lot of other things that most cis men prob would not want.

OODA Stan Acct 🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸🇺🇦 @lampsofgold.bsky.social · 8h

Just to be clear btw this is based, cis women should take T if they want to, it’s dope and does stuff for ur body, so does estrogen and progesterone btw if cis men want to get in on the action

Lexi Koren @lexikoren.bsky.social · 1d

Cis women in anti-trans religious communities are literally fucking medically transitioning, and the NYT buries this fact 1000s of words into the article.

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Lexi Koren @lexikoren.bsky.social · 8h

Fun fact, you can sidestep a lot of this with a DHT blocker. Lots of other changes like a deeper voice that you can’t, though.

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Lexi Koren @lexikoren.bsky.social · 9h

You argue that the extended assessment period done after puberty blockers are initiated doesn't have much value, which I agree with. I'm talking about the practice of doing a standard protocol of X number of assessments before they're prescribed.

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Lexi Koren @lexikoren.bsky.social · 9h

Look, I agree with a lot of what you're saying in this article. But also, I'm extremely critical of anyone who suggests that shortening assessment times could create more false positives without explaining exactly how longer assessments prevent false positives. This is a major hobby horse of mine.

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Lexi Koren @lexikoren.bsky.social · 10h

Here you’re assuming that there’s not value in clearing the cases quicker. There is value in that Tavistock was full of gender critical clinicians doing Freudian nonsense trying to talk kids out of being trans during those 6 sessions. Read Spilliadis’ case studies. They’re frightening.

The review notes that the average patient waited three years before accessing any gender services, before having an average of >6 appointments before seeing the endocrinologist who would actually prescribe blockers. There is an obvious consequence of this - the prospect of telling this adolescent to wait even longer to get more assessment will be received incredibly poorly, and create massive friction between the care team and patient, even if it is what is necessary. It also incentivizes those doing the assessments to make quick decisions to clear cases quicker, creating room for both false positives and false negatives. The system as it exists is the worst of both worlds

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Lexi Koren @lexikoren.bsky.social · 10h

How exactly is extended an assessment useful? The Dutch would (maybe still do) do shit like grill the kid and parents on whether they’d been molested and have them do a “draw a person” test. If people think Freudian nonsense leads to better outcomes, they should have to prove it.

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Lexi Koren @lexikoren.bsky.social · 11h

I’m incredibly biased because I work for Claudia, so rather than give my 2 cents, I’ll leave you with @theurbanist.org’s endorsement write-up of her.

2025 General Election Endorsements » The Urbanist

# The Urbanist Elections Committee is excited to announce our 2025 general election endorsements, which span the region from Tacoma to Everett. Be sure to vote by November 4.

www.theurbanist.org

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Lexi Koren @lexikoren.bsky.social · 11h

She co-chairs the King County/City of Seattle joint committee on responding to federal overreach.

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Lexi Koren @lexikoren.bsky.social · 11h

Ok, but if they wrote this headline my first instinct would be that they’re just getting in to your game.

Reposted by Lexi Koren

Julia Serano @juliaserano.bsky.social · 1d

it's been an open secret that some (def not all) anti-trans activists seem driven by trans feelings that they themselves possess but are trying to suppress. but this right here it's completely batshit!

Lexi Koren @lexikoren.bsky.social · 1d

Cis women in anti-trans religious communities are literally fucking medically transitioning, and the NYT buries this fact 1000s of words into the article.

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Lexi Koren @lexikoren.bsky.social · 1d

Here's the thing. A doctor could prescribe off-label testosterone to adolescents assigned female at birth for "low energy" and not be in violation of any of the laws upheld in Skrmetti. The thing is that they'd still absolutely be prosecuted under said laws if any of those kids were trans.

eli shroom's altered ego @shroompunk.com · 1d

so if HRT is banned for trans reasons, can i just claim I need T for whatever the hell this is? or is it a prerequisite to be a transphobic shitbag?

Lexi Koren @lexikoren.bsky.social · 1d

Cis women in anti-trans religious communities are literally fucking medically transitioning, and the NYT buries this fact 1000s of words into the article.

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Lexi Koren @lexikoren.bsky.social · 1d

NYT comments section validating the strong correlation between testosterone levels and starting a podcast.

I started testosterone pellets because I was having alarming brain fog, combined with the loss of energy and motivation that is common for a middle-aged working mother. I had accepted the latter, but needed something for the brain fog. The pellets took care of all of it. I was no longer forgetting why I had opened a computer browser right as I did it. I also started a podcast, which I absolutely would never have gotten around to doing without my increased motivation for life. I suppose I’m just on a regular dose because my libido improved but not like described in this article. I pay about $1200 a year, which is worth the life improvements I am experiencing.

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Lexi Koren @lexikoren.bsky.social · 1d

Look, I know the Supreme Court is going to rule that it’s unconstitutional to ban conversion therapy. But very curious where they stand on outsourcing your Freudian quackery to AI.

Membership now includes
RepairBot, your 24/7 Al assistant trained on the approach.
ROGD Repair and RepairBot were created by a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with over a decade of experience working with trans-identified youth and their families, who now exclusively guides parents that know there must be a better path than
"affirmation."

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Lexi Koren @lexikoren.bsky.social · 1d

Oh, they made a graphic for this back in the late 2010s.

Circle graphic contained all of the alleged causes for gender dysphoria, with transgender” being a bubble tinier than all of the others.

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Lexi Koren @lexikoren.bsky.social · 1d

As I also said after the Reddit posts, "Not vetting these people is how you get more Fettermans."

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Lexi Koren @lexikoren.bsky.social · 1d

There's no good evidence that testosterone causes a high. But every gender critical hack claims it's the cause of mental health improvements in short term studies done on trans men starting T.

Their source? "It's common sense! Ask any dude at the gym on gear and they'll tell you about roid high!"

Evil Orc Heart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 1d

People are missing the strong undercurrent of anti-transmasc moral panic from this weird cautionary story that continually suggests testosterone causes a "high" without any sort of scientific justification for using that word.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/m...

‘I’m on Fire’: Testosterone Is Giving Women Back Their Sex Drive — and Then Some

www.nytimes.com

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Lexi Koren @lexikoren.bsky.social · 1d

Ultimately, I think that's correct. I also think there's a line of thinking that goes something like: "We've tried electing the perfectionists and the nepo babies and the result is what we have now. Let's try electing the fuck-ups, because, at least we haven't tried that yet."

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Lexi Koren @lexikoren.bsky.social · 1d

All of this is maybe a little bit harder of a story to swallow with Platner, though, because he didn’t have the same limited options coming out of high school as a lot of people who enlist. Then again, he was 18, 18-year-olds do rash things.

Lexi Koren @lexikoren.bsky.social · 1d

My (very limited) understanding is that it’s a common experience for enlisted vets not to be able to succeed under American capitalism, partly because of trauma, partly because the military it just different than the civilian world, so they end up doing what they know.

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Lexi Koren @lexikoren.bsky.social · 1d

I mean, the Nazi tattoo he still had till yesterday is a dealbreaker. I argued last week we should still give this guy a serious look after his Reddit history was leaked. That “serious look” was about demonstrating he’s changed. Clearly he hasn’t.

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Lexi Koren @lexikoren.bsky.social · 1d

He doesn’t exactly have working class roots, but doing three combat tours, not being able to hack it in college (likely because of PTSD from said tours), and then spending a decade trying to recover from his trauma and make a living however he can is not a typical politician story.

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Lexi Koren @lexikoren.bsky.social · 1d

Yea, another reason why I’m meh on the guy. I’m just saying the vibes are appealing if your mentality right now is, “Can Democrats please just run anybody other than more of the same fucking people who got us here?

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Lexi Koren @lexikoren.bsky.social · 1d

I mean I don’t really care because Nazi tattoos are disqualifying, but I think the answer is because the Democratic Party has no shortage of sons of college professors who went to Harvard, but we do have a shortage of enlisted vets who never went to college.

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Lexi Koren @lexikoren.bsky.social · 1d

By the way, I have my critiques of postmodern gender theory and its applications. But the headline of this article really should be, “We interviewed a bunch of women who have never read Judith Butler, but are proving her right about everything.”

Lexi Koren @lexikoren.bsky.social · 1d

Cis women in anti-trans religious communities are literally fucking medically transitioning, and the NYT buries this fact 1000s of words into the article.

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Lexi Koren @lexikoren.bsky.social · 1d

Dutasteride is a really good workaround for two of those, not the voice though.

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