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[Crunchy Leaf]

This is all true, but the facial hair growth that doesn't follow pcos-type patterns is pretty rare in ftms and so is a convincingly deep male voice so there's that.

the problem with the voice is that they think oh, my voice is deeper, now i sound like a man, when men and women speak differently even at the same pitch. this is why gay men are perceived as gay--they talk more like the way women do then the way men do, even if their voice is in the male range.
i also assume ftm treatment plans don't account for this because it used to be every ftm was a former bulldyke who basically had the lesbian version of gay voice, e.g. talking like a man in the female range, but now that you have straight girls who liked yaoi a little too much transitioning it's a problem.

 

[break these cuffs]

why...are there so many holes?‽

I haven't spent a lot of time staring at stink ditches admittedly, but I coulda sworn that they have properly placed fake labia and shit around the hole and not some kinda fake ass looking vagina facsimile up front with the hole in the back.

 

[Borzoi]

Just from self-reports I've seen, FtMs also seem to receive worse medical care as well.

No blood tests, herculean doses of testosterone without an aromatase inhibitor so a bunch of it gets converted to estrogen and you immediately start ovulating.

Your ovaries are producing every sex hormone known to man while you've got more testosterone wandering around your veins than a professional wrestler and you wonder why you're not having a great time with this whole HRT thing.

It's great, find a local gender clinic near you!

Why does it seem easier to get HRT as a FtM than TRT as a man with low testosterone levels? If the justification to deny TRT is based on harm done to the body then why is HRT allowed at all when it seems way worse?

 

[Crunchy Leaf]

Why does it seem easier to get HRT as a FtM than TRT as a man with low testosterone levels? If the justification to deny TRT is based on harm done to the body then why is HRT allowed at all when it seems way worse?

because HRT for an FTM is done off-label and, historically, off-label prescriptions were allowed with the understanding they were for truly desperate reasons, like when they pulled out a disused sixties cancer drug in the hopes it would work for AIDS.
also, there's been lawsuits over TRT for men, whereas there haven't been lawsuits over HRT for FTMs yet. doctors understandably are wary of prescribing anything there's been multiple legal cases over.
there's a lot of really sketchy off-label prescribing going on rn with psychiatric medication and there's definitely gonna be lawsuits there too in five years.

 

[eternal dog mongler]

Why does it seem easier to get HRT as a FtM than TRT as a man with low testosterone levels? If the justification to deny TRT is based on harm done to the body then why is HRT allowed at all when it seems way worse?

Lawsuits. FtMs (and most trans patients) generally do not seem inclined to sue. They just get mad and post on the internet.

Pharmaceutical companies have been very very careful to let providers take all the blame for HRT for transitioning now. They're backchannel recommending drugs off-label but they're not researching anything else that could be used on-label or marketing off-label use publicly.

AbbVie got into shit because of their marketing strategy for TRT.

 

[kissbummer]

A well-known guy in the Reddit commie community complains about how other commies are too thirsty for t-girs

Trans women and communism, a match made in heaven

 

[remiem]

Lawsuits. FtMs (and most trans patients) generally do not seem inclined to sue. They just get mad and post on the internet.

Pharmaceutical companies have been very very careful to let providers take all the blame for HRT for transitioning now. They're backchannel recommending drugs off-label but they're not researching anything else that could be used on-label or marketing off-label use publicly.

AbbVie got into shit because of their marketing strategy for TRT.

I have hope that one day there will be a very mentally unwell rich person who troons out, eventually gets help and goes oh shit- and all this will change.

I don't think they sue because the vast majority of them will bankrupt themselves to fund their transition then sit and cry about the fact that they can't get hired while looking like franken-humans that no one would want to interact with in any sort of work environment. They don't have the money for that kinda lawsuit and any troon connected to the Troonparentship will really have to cut the cord on their beliefs, support, and any ability to be part of the community if they did sue because the first person who does sue will assure that gatekeeping measures are put in place when all the horrifying details come out.

The whole informed consent model, the young adults being freely given things that cause life altering changes under informed consent, the lack of any sort of consistency of these surgeries, or mental health care, or requirements to allow transition, the young kids being munched by their parents into troondom, the side effects we'll be seeing in 20-30 years of those guzzling these off-label meds right now. There's no way this can continue on completely unregulated as it is now, something will give at some point just like every other medical scandal. It's just gonna result in a lot of innocent misled people being totally fucked in the process.

 

[Silence of the Troons]

From an old lolcow thread

 

[Nykysnottrans]

From an old lolcow thread

"Even the fat ugly smelly bulldyke ones are after skinny pretty little petite women", now now honey, can't afford to get all haughty and picky if you're really as desperate a transcel as you claim to be. He needs to stop posting in /r/Incels and move over to the actual trans sub for transcels, which is of course /r/LateStageGenderBinary where little petite anime girls are free for the picking, on their knees and willing.

 

[wthfujoshis]

From an old lolcow thread
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I love how he doesn't even think about dating other trannies yet all women are horrible for not wanting to date him.

 

[break these cuffs]

From an old lolcow thread
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Even as he scrapes the bottom of the barrel of what some call men, he has to ensure that everyone knows he's a super special tranny and he has it worse than everyone else. Were any of the responses saved?

 

[lingling]

Don't incels hate trannies though? To them, troon women are what happens when a man goes so crazy from a total lack of Stacy pussy that he cuts his own balls off in an attempt to gain sympathy and maybe lure in a few people who are lonely and desperate enough to fuck anything. Troonism is total emasculation in their eyes and therefore shameful. I can't imagine this one received a warm welcome.

 

[Crunchy Leaf]

Don't incels hate trannies though? To them, troon women are what happens when a man goes so crazy from a total lack of Stacy pussy that he cuts his own balls off in an attempt to gain sympathy and maybe lure in a few people who are lonely and desperate enough to fuck anything. Troonism is total emasculation in their eyes and therefore shameful. I can't imagine this one received a warm welcome.

And they're right!

 

[break these cuffs]

Don't incels hate trannies though? To them, troon women are what happens when a man goes so crazy from a total lack of Stacy pussy that he cuts his own balls off in an attempt to gain sympathy and maybe lure in a few people who are lonely and desperate enough to fuck anything. Troonism is total emasculation in their eyes and therefore shameful. I can't imagine this one received a warm welcome.

The fact that incels can consider anyone more shameful and emasculated than themselves is shocking to me.

 

[Silence of the Troons]

Not from Reddit, but since I'm in this thread

The fuck is this?

Even as he scrapes the bottom of the barrel of what some call men, he has to ensure that everyone knows he's a super special tranny and he has it worse than everyone else. Were any of the responses saved?

Sadly not. The normal incels were probably not overjoyed about it though

 

[Sonya-chan]

lol Yeah sure

 

[remiem]

Not from Reddit, but since I'm in this thread
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The fuck is this?

Freethebulge so you're even easier to identify and avoid, good idea.

 

[break these cuffs]

Freethebulge so you're even easier to identify and avoid, good idea.

They often have retarded piercing and hair dyed obnoxious colors, but one more indicator can't hurt!

 

[Positron]

I've heard that estrogen can treat dysphoria directly--as in, no need to wait weeks or months for muh validation, or for actual feminization. If someone actually has dysphoria, and they take estrogen, they might start to feel better within hours

Steroid hormones take a while to act. If someone feels better within hours, it is likely placebo effect.

 

[CIA Nigger]

Mashable did a fluff piece on Reddit's tranny meme community.

Most notable about this article is that it has a chart showing that /r/traa is exploding in popularity.

I'll just post the best quotes from it:

There are dozens of subreddits for the trans community on Reddit, each designed to meet a certain psychological need.

There's r/asktransgender, dedicated to people's questions about the community, r/transgender, a subreddit for trans news, and r/transtimelines, where people can document their transitions. These are large and vibrant groups, with followers in the tens of thousands.


But for some folks who are just coming out as trans, memes and GIFs — not traditional, location-based support groups or advice-based subreddits — are where they first find community.


Take r/traaaaaaannnnnnnnnns, Reddit's oldest active subreddit for trans-centered shitposts, memes, and GIFs. Traaaaaaannnnnnnnnns currently has over 84,300 "shitposters," many of whom post meaningful content about transphobia or transitioning, then disguise it in shitpost robes or meme make-up.

Each of these subreddits has a slightly different tone and their own rules for moderation. What they all share in common is a sense of community-building: The mods know that, given the growth in trans visibility, their subreddits now serve more than just memes.

Corinne, one of the moderators for the Traaaaaaannnnnnnnnns subreddit, described it this way in a phone interview with Mashable:

"When I started, it was a lot more edgy memes. Now it's more like a place where people can leave events, support others, and comfort others while seeking humor. We didn't realize the user base had changed so much. It was just a couple thousand people just making crass jokes. But really, by Christmas last year, it had became something more than that."

"I think a lot of it has to do with increasing acceptability," Corinne says. "Of course during this presidential administration we've regressed a lot in terms of human rights. But in terms of social consciousness, people are more aware of what being trans is. People want to know what options there are for people who experience gender dysphoria or who are not their assigned gender at birth. It's really hard to be able to explore those things alone ... We've noticed we've gotten more and more younger users. They are feeling more open in their lives to come out — at least come out online. So a lot of trans people turn to [us]."

GaySoundsShitposts is a much younger subreddit, having formed a little over a year ago after a controversy developed on Traaaaaaannnnnnnnnns. At the time, Traaaaaaannnnnnnnnns had decided to eliminate any posts that weren't strictly memes and were more supportive/advice-seeking. (The subreddit has since relaxed their policy.) Some users migrated to GaySoundsShitposts, which was meme-focused but open to all forms of trans-centered content. Since then, it has grown to over 14,500 subscribers or "hatched eggs."

Moderator of GaySoundsShitposts Val K. isn't surprised to find so many trans folks who have either just come out or are thinking of coming out on the sub.

"After a person initially comes out, they often don't know anyone else who is trans," Val told Mashable in a phone interview. "If they're early to transition or they're quite late in life they probably wont' know anyone. Trans Reddit provides a place for people to go, 'Oh, it's not just me. There are lots of other people like this.'"

This quote cracked me up:

"Trans people are often some of the most marginalized people in society," Corinne says. "So they develop thick skin, which translates into humor. Because a lot of trans people's experiences are pretty dark and pretty sad, there has got to be some way to keep the hope up [and this is one]."

Despite having "thick skin", they also have to constantly be told not to kill themselves, as the article also admits there's a pipeline:

For all their inclusivity, the subreddits have limits. As a moderator for GaySoundsShitposts, Ingram works hard to ensure that the sub's subscribers have room for self-exploration (be it in meme form or the occasional advice-based post) while acknowledging the sub's limitations.

Ingram explained that at the beginning, "[W]e were fielding about one major depressive crisis for day. We ultimately had to say, 'We're not trained for this, please call a crisis line,' simply because everyone was burning out from intense stress — but we've been shaped by that. We know that, by banning someone, we could be cutting their only lifeline."

These subreddits provide community. But every community has their boundaries.

TransQualityGIFs, GaySoundsShitposts, and traaaaaaannnnnnnnnns provide a critical home base for trans Redditors who love memes and GIFs. And as happy as Val K. is to provide that space for users, Val wants folks to travel beyond large, meme-based subreddits.

One sub can't do it all.

"Our hope [for our subreddit] is that it doesn't grow too much," Val says. "People need to move on from it emotionally and ... [build] better support networks ... that are more close-knit. A community of 50 or so active people is typically what we want to get people into. That's a much better [environment] for people to be open and comfortable about stuff without needing an emotional barrier."

A smaller community — whether's it's on Reddit or elsewhere — has the advantage of intimacy and personalization. GaySoundsShitposts can affirm your gender identity, but it likely can't tell you where to find the most trans-friendly doctor in your neighborhood. You can identify powerfully and emotionally with a GIF in TransQualityGIFs, but the GIF can't come out to your parents. Traaaaaaannnnnnnnnns can validate your feelings about passing, but it can't always assist you in locating hormone replacement therapy.

These subreddits are critical. They're meaningful, affirming, communities that go beyond their stated function. It's just important to have reasonable expectations.

The memes are the start.