also I'm not sure I'm ever going to get used to The Question ("when was your last period?")

got asked that within 15 seconds of my name being called in the waiting room and yes we were still in the hall walking back. the guys tell me being asked so quickly is merely a little odd.

Although if it does happen, that seems like a totally valid reason not to do HRT. Perhaps it is equally true that the endogenous hormonal cycle isn't right for some otherwise cis women.

That's rather interesting. It now makes me if wonder if any trans feminine people have similar mood issues with HRT -- I hear it's a well-documented as a possible side effect for BC? Perhaps their takeaway ends up being "not really trans" or "HRT isn't right for me."

. . . and in a bit that will please the likes of @katie.bzky.team and @mel.bzky.team, the lab is indeed in a basement, so they have a literal forcefem basement (but sadly only for mice).

I've heard that too second-hand. Once met a lab assistant at Name Redacted University on a research project that uses genetically modified mice to model EDS, and administer cross-sex hormones to see how they change the mice.

That's right, the WOKE researchers study TRANSgenetic TRANSGENDER mice.

I was worried estrogen might make things worse but I haven't actually noticed a difference. Haven't even gotten shorter. (I'm mildly disappointed -- if I shrunk an inch, I'd be exactly average height for a woman.)

That's interesting. Something I'll have to keep in mind.

I haven't been diagnosed with a *disorder* but I am definitely hypermobile. Just not to a degree that's gotten me a diagnosis.

I'm stealing "Like vampires, they’re incapable of self-reflection"

I don't think I've seen another skeet ever get ratio'd so hard.

The assumptions were challenged, they just don't listen.

how long did that take?

This guy must have a terrifying fear of tunnels. . . .

am I right to understand that this over-one-million-word story was inspired by the notion that the NHS is so awful to trans people that a literal torture dungeon would be preferable

“Reversing the US’ slide into authoritarianism will require democracy’s defenders to recognize the twin dangers of complacency and fatalism. On the one hand, underestimating the threat posed to democracy. On the other hand, believing the country has reached a point of no return.”

The cypionate I started getting doesn't expire until 2029 so that makes me feel a lot better about not running out.

and also it tastes better

(I found that skeet so funny I made it my pinned skeet.)

impressed yourself with your own banger?

praxis

A cis asexual girl clocked me in high school and actually tried to crack my egg. But we were the nerdy crowd so she did it by giving me a copy of Kashimashi: Girl Meets Girl and saying my name should be Stacy.

I admit that I can see why Stacy would fit me.