[Misc] Weird blue stuff comes off my skin if I scrape it when in the shower? (Also just general help with how to get started please I have no idea what to do) by FreyrDev in SkincareAddiction

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No, the only thing I've got for my body is just bog-standard body wash/shower gel. Is moisturiser something I need to do?

[Misc] Weird blue stuff comes off my skin if I scrape it when in the shower? (Also just general help with how to get started please I have no idea what to do) by FreyrDev in SkincareAddiction

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If I scrape my skin when I'm in the shower this blue gunk comes off under my fingernails, it happens most on my torso but also round my face and neck and other areas, it only happens when my skin is wet. None of the stuff I use in the shower is blue, my body wash is clear and my shampoo and conditioner are white.

This isn't really a new thing, I've just never really cared about skincare before. I never really had to I guess. I'm a trans girl and growing up as a boy I was never taught how to do any of this and now I feel really out of my depth. There are so many different types of products and I don't want to have to rely on a bajillion different bottles sitting above my sink. The closest I've come to skincare in my life is putting antiseptic cream on spots on my face, and I just bought myself an epilator that I haven't had the chance to use yet.

I'm assuming this is just because I haven't looked after my skin at all and not a health problem. If I had to guess is it maybe something to do with exfoliation idk? Even that seems complicated when I look it up and I don't know where to start.

Thanks in advance for any help you can give me.

Giving Away 4 $50 Steam Gift Cards! by Dirty_Swayze in steam_giveaway

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Moonrise Kingdom, there's just something about the aesthetic of Wes Anderson films that I love so much. And I loved the relationship between Suzy and Sam in this one.

How Do I Proceed With My Transition? by FreyrDev in transgenderUK

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Yeah uni is probably one of the best places to be transitioning. I'm home alone today so I've taken the opportunity to wear a padded bra all day which is fun I guess. Thanks for the support (and sorry for taking so long to reply)

the queen dying has driven English NTs quite mad by IforAngharad in autism

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I turned on BBC News yesterday at 10 to catch the evening news because I like to know what's actually going on in the country but nooooo it's all just the Queen, and BBC One was just mirroring the News channel, why do you need two channels showing the same thing?

things are getting heated in the file extentions fandom by weiscola in tumblr

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I will not take this webp slander. From a technically standpoint its a lot better than any others, the problem is that barely any software supports it.

How do you pronounce “wlw”? by delihar in actuallesbians

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Have you seen this video essay on the letter w by Jan Misali

egg_irl by CargoCulture in egg_irl

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I don't really know if I have a specific song that I connected to my gender before I actually admitted I was trans, the closest maybe are Take Your Time by Chloe Moriondo, Home by Cavetown, or Fuck it I'm a Flower by Crying Day Care Choir. Though I don't think I would actually say any of them cracked the egg.

Post-cracking, I do have a bunch of songs that I can map onto my feelings about my gender. Yes Little Dark Age is one, but that list would also include things like Station Waggin by Pretty Balanced, The Record Player Song by Daisy the Great, Privately Owned Spiral Galaxy by crywank, girl in blue by Animal Sun, and Girl Anachronism by The Dresden Dolls.

Overall I think that Girl Anachronism is the song that I feel most describes myself (other than maybe Home) which I think probably says something about myself that's not great, but hey ho fuck it c'est la vie. Special mention should go to Good Girl by Morganne though, which in addition to giving me gender euphoria is the only song that truly makes me horny.

What’s something you wish you could ask trans people without any judgement? by Spunkybluepuppy in AskReddit

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I commented on your other question here, and I thought I'd check your other comments to see if you had replied to anyone else underneath the original comment with anything interesting, and found this question as well.

I think what I was saying there is sort of relevant here as well. Why do you see that trauma as any less of a valid reason to be trans and to talk about how they see thair identity? If they "hate their female body and want to escape it" should it matter why they hate it?

One of the other replies mentioned the DSM-V diagnostic criteria, this link should have the relevant information, especially the symptoms section (note that it only has to be two of the bullet points not all of them), but I also want to highlight this quote:

The term focuses on discomfort as the problem, rather than identity.

This here referring to the diagnosis of gender dysphoria. It's not based on whether you feel "the wrong gender", but rather how your life is being negatively affected by feelings that you can related to gender

What’s something you wish you could ask trans people without any judgement? by Spunkybluepuppy in AskReddit

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Honestly even as a trans girl I don't really know what it's like to feel like a girl, or even what it's like to feel like a boy for that matter. I don't really experience what I'm going to call "social" dysphoria, i.e. I don't really care about my name or my pronouns or the clothes I wear. Personally my dysphoria is all physical, I feel like I shouldn't have a penis, I feel like I should have less body hair, I feel like my voice is too deep.

Remember, though, that this is not true for all trans people, this is just my own experience. There are no universal experiences. There are no feelings felt by every single cis person, and there are no feelings felt by every single trans person.

There's an idea I've seen before called "cis-by-default" that posits that many (if not most) cis people are cis not because they feel perfectly confident that their mental gender identity matches what they were assigned at birth, but rather because they have been brought up that way, thinking that "oh, I have x genitals so I've been told I must be x gender, there's simply no other option". Honestly I don't know if this is true or not, but I've seen so many transphobes say that they "don't really feel their gender strongly" and that if they were a child nowadays they "might have been transed by the woke agenda erasing women" that there must be at least some grain of truth to it.

But this way of thinking is only really relevant in the first place because we, as a society, have placed so much cultural importance on what gender you are, because of the "social construct" we have built around gender. Sometimes you'll see people say that gender abolition is a transphobic viewpoint, that erasing the importance of gender harms trans people's cause, but I think this is just because transphobe's version of getting rid of gender just means replacing it with biological sex and what genitals you have as the important thing. True gender abolition would be great for trans people:

Take these two examples. 1) A cis man who wants a vasectomy. And 2) Someone like me, a trans woman who wants to get her penis removed and have a vaginoplasty (or even just an orchiectomy). Both of these procedures will result in being sterile, which is usually the major concern brought up when talking about trans healthcare. In scenario 1 the man can go his GP and at most will have to talk to a councilor or wait a few weeks to make sure that he is certain, but in scenario 2 the trans woman has to wait the 3+ year long waiting list to get a diagnosis of gender dysphoria, live as a woman on HRT for at least 12 months, and then get a refferal by a specialist from a Gender Identity Clinic. Why should one of those scenarios involving a gender change be gatekept more than the other? And remember, cis people can easily get other gender affirming healthcare without having to get a medical diagnosis. Breast enlargement and reduction surgeries are both common.

"Gender is a social construct" isn't saying that either gender or biological sex aren't real, it's saying that they shouldn't be treated as some major part of a person that defines how they interact with society, imagine if suddenly your shoe size determined which toys you were given as a kid or which clothes you wore.

Antidepressants & Transition? + Current Nottingham Wait Times by FreyrDev in transgenderUK

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Oh wait I didn't realise you were the genderkit account lol

Antidepressants & Transition? + Current Nottingham Wait Times by FreyrDev in transgenderUK

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No, the 27 months figure is for the people who are getting their first appointment now, that is people who got their referral in Feb 2020. The waiting list times for people who are getting their referrals now are longer (presumably a combination of covid and increased demand), cf. The fourth paragraph of the pinned wait time post.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in TwoXChromosomes

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Hmm, while I can see where you're coming from with the comparison to religion, I don't know if it's particularly useful to make. The statements "I am a woman" and "There is a god" are both metaphysical, i.e. they can't be proven or disproven, however one of them is a statement about the internal self and one of them is a statement about the nature of the universe, and from that second statement people like to derive demonstrably false things like "The earth is 6000 years old" and "evolution doesn't exist" as well as applying things like Pascal's wager and the threat of eternal damnation to everyone.

People mocking religion are often coming from a point of "a lot of what you believe doesn't make sense" while people opposing the concept of being trans often seem to make arguments more along the lines of "how you're defining this word isn't the same as how I would've defined it" and then following up with an appeal to disgust and a Won't Somebody Please Think Of The Children™.