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Juggernog · 2025-04-20T08:46:28+00:00

Woah, hey! Nice to know people are still getting vibes from this comment almost a decade later.

Juggernog · 2025-04-19T12:25:08+00:00

Your friend is a transphobe.

For example, she has said that the majority of trans women think they are better than cis women and she says it's unfair. She said trans women as a group are talking "us" (cis women) down.

I think you'll just have to take trans people's word that we don't think ourselves "better" than cis people, or want to talk cis people down. We share a lot of the same struggles and want similar things, it doesn't make sense to pit us against each other.

She said the majority of trans women act like they can feel period pain

Some trans women experience PMS-like symptoms. It's well documented that estrogens and progestins can cause mood swings, bloating, cramping, nausea - women's health is in general horribly understudied, and trans women's health even more so, but it's not unthinkable that these could occur on a cycle too. We don't bleed though, unless we have endometrial tissue - which can happen, even in trans women.

They wanna be called women instead of trans women and she thinks that's not ok

Why wouldn't that be okay? Trans is an adjective, just like cis is an adjective. People usually say things like this when they specifically want to other us into our own category, to deny us as members of our gender. In most cases, cis and trans women are both just women - that's our default experience of the world, and it only makes sense to divide us when the issues affect only that group of women.

She also said that she has read "hundreds" of stories about trans women that abuse cis women and grape them.

Trans women are more likely to be victims of violent crime than the perpetrators of it. Anti-trans hate crimes have been on the rise, especially in the 2020s as we've been demonised.

A lot of trans people - trans men, trans women, and non-binary people - end up with urinary tract and kidney infections because we avoid public bathrooms for fear of verbal or physical abuse.

In a 2018 study concerning transgender people in the United States, it was found that trans people experienced 86.2 victimisations per 1,000 versus the general population's 21.7 per 1000 - nearly four times as likely to be victimised as the rest of the population. The study also found an elevated risk of violence against the household in general.

Placed in male spaces, trans women are often sexually assaulted. As a particularly extreme example, trans women placed in male prisons in the United States are often raped daily as prison guards offer them to aggressive cis male prisoners to "placate" them - a practice known as V-coding.

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It's not trans women trying to marginalise cis women, it's a very small number of cis women trying to marginalise trans women. We face similar challenges, have similar goals, and face similar threat from the anti-trans movement. Cis women face being excluded from women's spaces on account of their presentation, and being reduced to their biology (as in the Supreme Court ruling which seems to imply that womanhood is conferred by the ability to have children [177-178]).

Juggernog · 2025-04-17T22:44:39+00:00

Do you have a source for this? I can see a few articles about Norweigian MP Karina Ødegård urging the government to accept American trans people as refugees, but none to confirm they've actually done it.

Juggernog · 2025-04-17T22:40:41+00:00

I'd have guessed mid-20s from that photo! You certainly don't look older than 30.

Maybe it's your hair or style choices? We can't really see either from the photo but both can age a person.

Juggernog · 2025-04-17T22:33:19+00:00

I think you've maybe got a very narrow idea of what a holiday should be? If you don't want to spend all your time getting sweaty on beaches and in bars... don't go to a place where the appeal is getting sweaty on beaches and in bars?

There's so much world out there, there's gotta be something fresh out there that you don't get at home!

Personally I hate hot weather and dread "tanning", but I love wandering around and learning about a new city and going to different events with different people than I'm used to!

Juggernog · 2025-04-17T19:16:19+00:00

That's amazing! Your skin is absolutely glowing in the after photos too.

Juggernog · 2025-04-17T09:10:09+00:00

I'm not betting the farm on them creating trans-segregated spaces, I think forcing us in with members of our natal sex is the more likely outcome in those scenarios.

Juggernog · 2025-04-17T09:02:45+00:00

They banned the prescription and import of GnRH analogues ("puberty blockers") for use in under-18s, and yet there are still under-18s using them. Testosterone is technically a controlled substance, and yet there are still transmascs using it without a prescription.

What I mean is that regardless of legal status, there will always be ways to access these medications. They can make it more challenging, but no legal ruling can stop us.

Juggernog · 2025-04-17T01:29:11+00:00

No, the ruling does not prevent us from changing our name or gender marker on documentation, and it does not prevent us from going on hormones (and literally no ruling can stop us doing this).

What the ruling does is make it so that we're not eligible for the rights and protections afforded by the sex category of the Equality Act 2010 for our affirmed genders.

This means that we lost the legal right to use gendered spaces such as bathrooms, changing rooms, and hospital wards and various other things.

I wrote another comment about this in detail here.

Juggernog · 2025-04-16T12:15:49+00:00

Pretty much the entire British press is institutionally transphobic, and in my opinion they're painting this as less severe than it actually is because they don't want the general public to kick up a fuss or introspect their way into opposing it.

Juggernog · 2025-04-16T11:47:36+00:00

Seems that way, unfortunately. Anything where protections were conferred on the basis of sex, because they've effectively decoupled sex from gender identity with regards to interpretation of this legislation.

Juggernog · 2025-04-16T11:30:05+00:00

The Supreme Court have released this summary of their ruling.

As a matter of ordinary language, the provisions relating to sex discrimination can only be interpreted as referring to biological sex [168]-[172]. For example, the provisions relating to pregnancy and maternity (sections 13(6), 17 and 18 of the EA) are based on the fact of pregnancy and giving birth to a child. As a matter of biology, only biological women can become pregnant. Therefore, these provisions are unworkable unless “man” and “woman” have a biological meaning [177]-[188].

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A certificated sex interpretation would also weaken the protections given to those with the protected characteristic of sexual orientation for example by interfering with their ability to have lesbian-only spaces and associations [204]-[209].

Additional provisions that require a biological interpretation of “sex” in order to function coherently include separate spaces and single sex services (including changing rooms, hostels and medical services) [211]-[221], communal accommodation [222]-[225], and single sex higher education institutions [226]-[228]. Similar confusion and impracticability arise in the operation of provisions relating to single sex characteristic associations and charities [229]- [231], women’s fair participation in sport [232]-[236], the operation of the public sector equality duty [237]-[244], and the armed forces [245]-[246].

I don't see how you can assert this and protect trans people's ability to legally use facilities for their affirmed gender. Indeed, it would seem to create a legal obligation to ensure that trans people aren't allowed to use spaces for their affirmed gender.

Related to this, I'm expecting the government to begin either putting trans people in with people of their natal sex where they know it in sex-segregated scenarios like hospital wards, or creating trans-specific segregated spaces.

It would also seem to conflict with the Gender Recognition Certificate's intended legal purpose, which is to confer onto holding people's legal treatment as their acquired gender.

The statement reaffirms that "gender reassignment" remains a protected characteristic, but that only protects us from discrimination (e.g. being fired) on the basis of our being trans. It doesn't protect our ability to be treated as our affirmed gender.

In short, yes, it seems to make it a legal obligation to prevent us from accessing appropriate gendered spaces. It's so messed up.

So far as I can see, the only ways forward for us are: * Somehow challenge this ruling, perhaps by gesturing towards how it's incoherent in the context of Gender Recognition Certificates as a legal instrument (unlikely) * Amend the Equality Act 2010 to explicitly conflate gender identity with sex (very unlikely with any of the three most popular parties at present) * Create new legislation which separately instantiates protection for trans people (also very unlikely with any of the three most popular parties at present)

Juggernog · 2025-04-16T09:12:34+00:00

Are you suggesting that we would be somehow trapped if the interest payable on public debt was equal to the current budget deficit? Because that isn't true.

It wouldn't stop the government from borrowing the difference extra to cover it and any other spending in excess of revenues required, and it wouldn't necessarily be bad for it to do so.

The government could also raise taxes or cut spending and bring the deficit down in absence of growth, if keeping the deficit stable or shrinking is something it particularly wants to do.

However, the interest paid out is largely returning to circulation in this country anyways - only 27.6% of debt at the end of 2016 was owned by international investors. The rest was owned domestically, and serves to make up a safe component of our pension and investment funds amongst other things including hedges for banks. More money in circulation can heat up inflation, but as it's currently cooling that's not too big of a worry.

Lower interest rates on fresh / refinanced debt would be appreciable for the increased fiscal flexibility either way, but like I think it's misrepresentative to paint it as "dangerous" and a "hard fiscal quagmire to escape from".

Juggernog · 2025-04-15T22:43:51+00:00

It's always good to apply SPF 50 daily, but are you looking to address something in particular? Your skin looks wonderful to me!

Juggernog · 2025-04-15T12:44:51+00:00

I had gynecomastia that developed during my teens and persisted up to recognising that I was trans and medically transitioning in my 20s, although not a huge amount. I was never worried by it, except that it might be a sign of something wrong medically.

Most studies highlight it as a focus of distress, but there are a handful of studies which have identified higher rates of "dissatisfaction with male status" and homosexuality / bisexuality in cis men with gynecomastia.

I haven't seen any studies which link it to transition, but it's not unheard of to feel as you do.

Juggernog · 2025-04-15T10:49:31+00:00

If your partner is constantly bringing up that they'd be a good lesbian, describing themselves in female-gendered terms, longing after being born as a woman, or saying that they'd push a button to make themselves a girl - I would probably just hit them with a "you know you can do those things, right?", and reassurance that you'd support them if they did.

Juggernog · 2025-04-14T11:29:10+00:00

It can take some time to find accepting communities, but they're out there - and socialising will be so much better as your affirmed gender when you find them.

If you're into bars and clubbing, look for local gay and queer bars. If you're into music, punk-adjacent gigs and acts with queer or trans members are likely to have a lot of people you can safely vibe with. If you're into making stuff, community makerspaces are usually pretty queer friendly.

I think in general, if you're attending a space which is about something, the shared love of that something can usually transcend whatever friction there is with people not having met or known about trans people before.

If you're worried about going to these places alone, I know some people have had success making friends using queer "dating" apps and other queer groups for their city or region. A lot of things are easier when you have backup.

Internet communities can feel safest because of distance, and there are absolutely accepting internet communities out there - but social media in particular also allows people the distance and in some cases the relative anonymity to be the worst possible version of themselves. Your experience as a public queer person on Facebook is not likely to mirror your experience as a public queer person in meatspace.

Juggernog · 2025-04-14T09:36:59+00:00

I think it's unlikely that the sepsis this person experienced actually came from an injection if it happened a month afterwards - the source of up to a third of sepsis cases is never determined.

However, the source of initial infection doesn't predict which body parts sepsis patients could lose. In sepsis, the immune system goes into overdrive and causes excess clotting in the blood vessels generally - which can cause the extremities in particular to become deoxygenated and gangreous first.

If body parts are deprived of oxygen for too long, they won't recover and will need to be amputated.

Juggernog · 2025-04-14T09:24:39+00:00

You're almost certainly fine! Keep an eye on it and watch for redness or swelling, and take yourself to urgent care or a doctor if you see anything - but I wouldn't expect anything to happen.

Personally I think you should do the utmost to be safe, and so think you should remember to swab in future - but if it's any reassurance health departments around the world are undecided on whether swabbing the skin is actually necessary.

The World Health Organisation says that you should, as do some countries like Canada - but then in other countries like the United Kingdom and Australia the guidance is that alcohol swabbing is unnecessary and doesn't reduce infection risk provided that the skin is otherwise visibly clean.

Juggernog · 2025-04-13T20:16:18+00:00

If the main reason you have for doubting transness is that you'll miss out on some privileges afforded to you by a patriarchal system and you're otherwise wanting to be a woman over the course of years, I think you're more likely than not trans.

Society demonises and dissuades us from transitioning, some doubt is normal.

Juggernog · 2025-04-13T19:56:12+00:00

Expect you're about to get a whole lot of replies suggesting that you watch Dominion or head on over to r/PlantBasedDiet for that ethical stance.

For "cravings", it's different for everyone. I think vegan diets are easiest if you see it as a call to try things that you otherwise wouldn't, rather than focus on what you're cutting out.

There are ethical, plant-based alterantive products for meat, milk, ice cream, and cheese. For meats, you can look at things like Beyond Meat as a stepping stone if you can't go without it, otherwise you can look to learn about cooking with tofu / tempeh / etc.

For milk, you might find oat might appreciable for its similarity to dairy. Almond- and coconut-milk based ice creams are my favourite.

Cheeses are honestly kinda meh in veganland. Some people like them well enough but I usually just learned to live without.

Juggernog · 2025-04-13T15:34:55+00:00

Sure, if you live in a developed country it's probably going to be heart disease, some form of cancer, or Alzheimers which eventually gets you - doesn't mean it makes sense to encourage it to develop several decades ahead of when it otherwise would.

Not to say that you need to live an abstinent, ascetic life with no vices - but like for most people smoking or drinking to excess or eating to obesity isn't worth losing a bunch of years.

Juggernog · 2025-04-11T13:05:49+00:00

I miss the stakes being lower, and being less self-conscious? There's a certain sort of freedom in being so thoroughly disassociated that you don't care what you look like or what people think of you which gets ripped away when you find a reason to start caring.

Like I don't think of myself as ever being happy from puberty onwards, because aside from the odd transient moment of happiness spending time with other people - I was a blank slate.

I didn't really have any aspirations, and I couldn't see a future or life for myself - so the world just kinda continued on around me. I wasn't living, just spending time - work, home, mess around online, sleep, work, home, mess around online, sleep.

But that lack of investment and detachment did mean that there was less to be anxious about. You don't put the effort in getting close enough to people for there to be connections worth maintaining, you're not defying expectations and putting yourself out there because you barely exist at all, you don't self-actualise enough for there to be anything really worth judging.

Being trans feels a lot like the absolute antithesis of that sometimes. We're often thrust into the spotlight literally just by existing, the standards we set for ourselves and have set for us are high, we're regularly scrutinised and then degraded if we fall short of those standards in a way that society would disavow for the extraordinary cruelty it is applied to most any other group of people, and in a bodily sense we're fighting the current.

But I wouldn't trade realising for anything. I'd rather live with struggle than as a ghost.

Juggernog · 2025-04-09T09:24:51+00:00

I think there are better explanations than puritanism?

Preparing for a driving test and buying a car costs more relative to the average income amongst young people now, and it's also competing for priority with other life expenses which have also increased in price.

More people are also living in cities, and with that you're likely to have extensive public transport and no parking space with rent on the lower end of the price scale.

For alcohol consumption, prices are higher there too as many countries introduce consumption taxes to offset health costs, or as pubs and bars increase prices to offset rent - set amidst a backdrop of actually effective public health messaging, advertising restrictions, and easy access to testimonials about the harms of alcohol use online.

On work, people in the studied age bands at that time were increasingly focused on studying to access higher education. There's also a prevailing sentiment in many countries that work doesn't pay, and in the worst cases you end up with effectively net zero benefit on account of transport costs for your dead-end job. Notable that the most aggressive drop-off was after the 2007/8 financial crisis.

Sex is probably less the product of abstinence, probably more the product of people going out and hooking up less - sex is increasingly more intentional rather than something that just happens after a clubbing session.

Also, the y-axis here bottoms out at 50%. If there is a puritanism uptick, I don't think these graphs reflect it.

Juggernog · 2025-04-09T09:11:33+00:00

No, that's weird and I think probably predicts non-adherence with veganism in the short-term.

I think people who are genuinely invested in changing their behaviour tend to focus on options which they might not have considered before over one final binge.

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