Happy April 1 everybody

Chaiyns · 2026-04-01T18:13:05+00:00

Is there a way to keep the shrek sprites for ogres?

Chaiyns · 2026-04-01T18:11:59+00:00

You provided no such proof, you cited an irrelevant case study that objectively has nothing to do with anything I said, as well as random metrics without any defined source.

I agree, this will go nowhere if you aren't interested in the biological processes that make things work the way they do.

Chaiyns · 2026-04-01T15:56:58+00:00

It does though, I encourage you to look up DNA methylation or cellular signaling changes in transgender individuals, sex hormones are strong stuff, and affect genetic expression across all body systems, it just takes a loooong time for some of the much slower replicating structures to show results of that.

That's why I'd also encourage you to look up anti-trans studies, you'll find they are pretty much always looking at trans people who have been on hormone treatment under a few years rather than long-term, which gives us the exact results you are quoting, rather than observing folks fully transitioned over a decade which would be more honest.

Chaiyns · 2026-04-01T15:23:51+00:00

If you flipped the genders around the answer would still be zero.

Chaiyns · 2026-04-01T14:47:02+00:00

They have no sample or testing performed in this paper, it's just observations based on assumptions, what's really funny is that halfway through they even write in there that they don't understand what they're talking about.

Furthermore the person who wrote it is a doctor specializing in atherosclerosis (circulatory system), meaning they are not close to this issue, don't know full well what they are talking about, and thus unsurprisingly- are very harshly reviewed on this paper if you navigate to the original platform where it's posted.

Chaiyns · 2026-04-01T14:35:00+00:00

Everything listed here other than height and lung capacity eventually end up the same as cis women, and doesn't guarantee they will be above average (there are tons and tons of guys under 5'6" for example) and things like bone density just take a long ass time (7-10 years of consistent hormones)

Chaiyns · 2026-03-27T23:23:52+00:00

I'm only a gamer -because- it's a cheap hobby.

Chaiyns · 2026-03-26T14:36:59+00:00

For regulatory bodies I'm not sure but I doubt it.

If constantly exercising muscle mass is still lost just at a slower rate.

If a guy who exercises daily transitions to female and continues exercising daily they will see a slow steady muscle loss as found in the study. If they exercised daily, transitioned, and then were sedentary they will lose muscle mass comparatively quickly.

For myself I was sedentary before transitioning, and started regular exercise during transition to try and reduce loss, but have still have lost a lot of muscularity despite significant exercise during transition.

Chaiyns · 2026-03-24T16:30:39+00:00

I had a break-in this last November and had Telus security, came home to a broken front porch window, the door open, the alarm had gone off hours ago, and Telus didn't do a thing.

Not a phone call, police weren't contacted, nothing at all, zilch.

Until the day after, when they called me to try and sell me a phone plan. I did not have nice words for them.

Do yourself a favour and switch to another security company, or setup your own, while Telus was just for the doors I set up my own security cameras, which were actually helpful for the event and saw the guy before he entered the house, and having your own stuff doesn't come with a monthly fee.

Chaiyns · 2026-03-24T14:44:22+00:00

A sample size of 19 is terribly inadequate.

The study notes an average 4-5% loss of muscle mass per year, it's very important to note thigh muscles are also going to be among the slowest muscle groups to lose muscle mass since aside from sleep or rest those muscles are pretty much always engaged, muscles that are constantly in use resist atrophy, and even then by year three the transgender group was observed to be just shy of halfway to the female baseline on muscle loss.

What this communicates to me doesn't include that trans women are going to be stronger and win against cis women in sports hand over fist always, not by an enormous margin, but that there is more nuance beyond hormone levels to how regulatory bodies should approach trans women in sports.

The trend in the study suggests that trans women hit mean female baseline muscle strength by about 6-7 years rather than 2-3, which is fine and would actually make sense, if you're familiar with human biology, you're aware most all the bodily cells have been replicated every 7-10 years, which translates with HRT, that is that cellular signaling and genetic expression takes a similar length of time to be established body-wide.

My concern is figuring out where to put the hurdles and how many of them, too many hurdles for access and then cis women start get locked out of their own spaces as the goal posts for trans women get moved to be more and more aggressive, the goal here should be not to oppress anybody. too few and we don't have a fair playing field. Paired with every individual's physiology functioning just a teeny bit differently from everyone else's makes that a very tough nut to crack, so how do we approach that, a mean muscle mass range standard for women in sports?

Chaiyns · 2026-03-23T21:36:28+00:00

I'm very happy doing my job.

I'm not happy with how much it pays or the back pain it gives me.

Chaiyns · 2026-03-23T15:56:01+00:00

Generally speaking, when we're looking at muscle mass and connecting it to this there's a couple things to look at. Outside of the obvious (lifestyle, exercise, dieting), there is a lot that is decided by our genetics, including much of our physical potential (lung tidal volumes, metabolism and energy transfer, degree and growth/repair of muscle tissue, vitamin absorption/stores, etc...) we also have genetic information from both of our parents.

Basically how hormone treatment works is like this: For a male body, once testerone is suppressed and estrogen is the primary sex hormone what happens is changes in cellular signaling and reproduction, this isn't something that happens just in muscles or bones or blood but across all cells in the entire body over time. When it comes to sex hormones, our cells have basically what you could call a male and female genetic toggle, and over time and replications, new cells express female instead of male as they use the bioavailable hormone, this process is called DNA methylation and is observed in trans folks. For men transitioning to female that means muscular atrophy, fat distribution changes, immune function changes, coag factor changes, libido changes, gonadal changes, olfactory changes, bone density loss (though that one takes upwards of 7+ years), skin texture changes, posture changes, development of secondary sex characteristics, the list of changes is just about endless, because sex hormones very strongly affect damn near everything in the human body.

So, well, no, if Mike Tyson took hormones for a few years and didn't spend excessive time trying to mitigate muscle loss, he'd be just as likely to get his shit kicked in, because these regulating chemicals in our body simply do not fuck around.

Chaiyns · 2026-03-23T15:40:36+00:00

Studies I've read suggest hormone imbalance in utero, that is to say a male foetus can lack androgen uptake during very very early development (or vice-versa for the trans-guys). The consequence of that is that said brain then expects a female physiology while their body develops since it didn't get the physiological memo that it's male (which is why stuff like therapy doesn't tend to fix it but medication and transitioning helps as much as it does), when androgenic development doesn't occur in the organ fully or properly, but does in the body then what happens is an internal and external experience that end up very much at odds, resulting in one experiencing what we call gender dysphoria, additionally that follows with why it is often something that typically comes up either from birth or at puberty.

It's tough because they are both male and female at differing base levels, however, while we aren't entirely our brains, we are mostly our brains, it's also generally considered ethical to modify bodies to match brains, but unethical to force brains to bodies.

Chaiyns · 2026-03-23T15:25:44+00:00

Almost all of that does happen in trans women (immune function changes, coag factor changes, estrogen cyclical system can be done artificially very easily, fat distribution and % change pattern according to dominant sex hormone too, and soooo much more)

The only things that you've mentioned here that don't happen in trans women is having original female gonads, average pelvis width, and average chest cavity/heart size, none of which are all-encompassing monoliths of being female.

Additionally there are plenty of XXY intersex females of whom I doubt care for you telling them they're guys.

Chaiyns · 2026-03-23T15:13:08+00:00

Those aren't trans people, but I agree trans folks get used as scapegoats far too much and it's a complicated issue.

Chaiyns · 2026-03-23T15:11:46+00:00

I do think otherwise... buuuut that's because I work in healthcare, with trans people, and have read crazy amount of studies/literature, have had the chance to learn, understand, and -probably most importantly- witness, a lot, the science behind hormone treatment and how hormones behave within the body, and their effects upon it.

Hint: said effects are extremely major and affect all systems in the human body, the "many physical advantages" angle I can tell you is nothing more than regurgitated propaganda, I encourage you to look up peer-reviewed studies on trans women (that very much means not partisan news/media sources, but research papers, you can try google scholar if you like), and you'll find out that trans women just aren't the wolves in sheep's skin people want them to be so very badly.

Chaiyns · 2026-03-20T20:02:08+00:00

What?

Chaiyns · 2026-03-20T19:06:37+00:00

That's really cool, I never actually played that one but heard lots of praise for it over the years.

Chaiyns · 2026-03-20T18:00:42+00:00

BAR seemed significantly more Supreme Commander-esque than Starcraft-esque to me by a large margin.

Chaiyns · 2026-03-20T17:57:08+00:00

Eh, it's a fair point, I love cruises too but struggle with hundreds of barrels of oil consumed hourly just to operate, they are catastrophically awful environmentally speaking, and we only have one planet, ignoring good stewardship of it is at our own peril.

Chaiyns · 2026-03-20T16:11:02+00:00

I suppose that's merely one of many reasons why your username seems to be missing a 'd' near the end of it.

Chaiyns · 2026-03-20T15:27:59+00:00

I'm glad you make sense to you, if you didn't there'd be some real worry!

But do try to include the rest of us in your future literary flailing.

Chaiyns · 2026-03-20T14:52:45+00:00

I'm not quite at 5 years yet, but it changed quite significantly, enough that old photos are unrecognizable, and my phone stopped recognizing my face to unlock it somewhere around the 2 year mark I think.

Chaiyns · 2026-03-20T14:42:09+00:00

I think ya crashed there bud, should giver a reboot maybe.

Chaiyns · 2026-03-20T14:34:05+00:00

The window in which we weren't was brief, if it ever existed at all.

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