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As a transgender woman myself, I have been witness to many in my community reduce some recreational drug use with HRT. I think it's unlikely that estrogen liter
by DoctorOW 1y ago
As a transgender woman myself, I have been witness to many in my community reduce some recreational drug use with HRT. I think it's unlikely that estrogen literally causes euphoria, but gender euphoria is real, lasting happiness. When you compare to the health effects of letting someone waste away on recreational drugs to dull dysphoria, it paints a visceral picture of transition as healthcare.
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- AzzyHN 1y agoI'm pretty sure you're being transphobic, but for the life of me I can't understand what this statement is supposed to mean.
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- DoctorOW 1y agoYour writing is so incredibly smug as to be incoherent. Both comments are so thickly coated in irony, that an actual point can not be derived.
- PartiallyTyped 1y agoThey are, they are also being intentionally obtuse and claim it to be a "novel" affliction. Plenty of evidence showing that Nazis murdered trans people and destroyed the first sexology clinic that provided health care to said people [1]; as well as evidence from history [2] and mythology [3] in support of trans people existing throughout history. To claim otherwise is to lie or regurgitate disinformation. Either way, not HN-worthy content. [1] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-forgotten-history-of-the-worlds-first-trans-clinic/ https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-forgotten-his... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transgender_history https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transgender_history [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBTQ_themes_in_mythology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBTQ_themes_in_mythology
- karcass 1y agoI lost interest in psychedelics after transitioning.
- antithesizer 1y agoAmen
- deadbabe 1y agoIs gender dysphoria thus caused by the body craving testosterone or estrogen hormones, when it doesn’t have?
- DoctorOW 1y agoI haven't studied gender dysphoria but I've been diagnosed with it. In my experience, it's an incongruence between your idea of yourself and your perceptible form. In some ways it could be argued your body is "craving" it but not in the same way it may crave a specific nutrient. Instead, you're sort of surprised and often upset by the way that you are.
- deadbabe 1y agoHow do you cope?
- DoctorOW 1y agoHonestly I truly believe that I will reach a point where my body feels like mine. The changes with HRT do a whole hell of a lot to minimize dysphoria in my experience. I also live with, work with, and am friends with people who genuinely see me as the way I see myself, as a woman. You can tell from the way people interact with you, how they see you. Being perceived as a woman fits with my perception of myself.
- tasuki 1y ago> Honestly I truly believe that I will reach a point where my body feels like mine. There are two ways to achieve that: changing the body, and changing the mind. (I'm not claiming one to be easier than the other, but I've noticed most people have a strong preference for changing their body rather than changing their mind)
- DoctorOW 1y agoI believe you have to do both. On the rest of my comment I tried to convey that in addition to changing my body, my female mindset is a key part of expressing my gender identity.
- nyanpasu64 1y agoIt's chilling watching the latest political powers openly declare that trans people are not who they are inside and must never be allowed to become what they are inside, while eliminating legal recognition and protection and criminalizing life-saving transition healthcare. I find myself retreating into dissociation because to feel the horrors is more than I can bear.
- wahern 1y agoThe glass-is-half-full take is that no states have prohibited gender affirming care for adults. All the present bans in the U.S. only proscribe treatments for minors. But one would be forgiven for not knowing this because it's not how it's reported. Point being, even the most conservative states haven't (yet) sought to limit treatment for trans adults.[1] Which is not nothing considering how many were so quick to ban abortion. Also, it's not just the U.S.; plenty of "liberal" Western European countries have reversed course on care for minors. Even the Netherlands, the origin of the WPATH protocol, has pulled back on the reigns for minors, though they haven't yet instituted any prohibitions. IMO, the trans advocacy rhetoric that equivocated hurdles to gender affirming care for minors as murder backfired. The fact there seems little motivation to limit treatment for adults suggests substantial openness to the issue among even conservative populations. And there are many in the LGTBQ community, include trans community, who share similar sentiments, at least regarding the rhetoric. [1] Not sure about legislation dictating certain aspects, like waiting periods, but those were widespread as a practical matter in even the most liberal states.
- NewJazz 1y agoYeah but the whole point so far has been to pass laws under the guise of "protecting children" because that was easy to justify politically. Now that SCOTUS has green-lit denying healthcare on the basis of assigned gender at birth, the gates are wide open.
- titanomachy 1y ago“Denying healthcare on the basis of assigned gender at birth” seems like a deliberately loaded way to state this. Isn’t it more accurate to say it’s a blanket denial of a certain type of treatment to all minors?
- Zardoz84 1y agoI have a friend that sometimes described having good trips when she got a strong dose of hormones. I wonder how I would feel when I begin with hrt.