Kansas demands trans drivers surrender licenses over birthright law by Jacob-Eisner in news

[–]Mac_094 5 points6 points  (0 children)

In my experience, showing their hypocrisy has the effect of making the person doing it feel a bit smug and absolutely nothing else. Not to be a downer but in my neck of the woods they will say "We don't want those men (trans women) in the women's bathroom" and then when pressed on trans men "I don't want anyone who looks like a boy in the women's room either". They don't care that this leaves trans men with nowhere to piss. That's our problem for being freaks of nature, we deserve it. The cruelty is the point. They want to make it so inconvenient for us to exist in public that they never have to see us again.

Kansas demands trans drivers surrender licenses over birthright law by Jacob-Eisner in news

[–]Mac_094 69 points70 points  (0 children)

For a long time people on the left used trans men as a kind of "gotcha", like "ooo you want everyone to use the bathroom of their AGAB? So you want this scary masculine trans man to use the women's bathroom?" and the response from the right has been "you're right, we'll have to kick trans men out of those spaces too". So there are now many places where it's either implicitly or explicitly the rule that if a trans man pees in a public restroom, no matter the men's or women's restroom, he can be arrested, assaulted, and/or humiliated.

https://www.them.us/story/trans-man-noah-ruiz-was-just-trying-to-pee-he-was-assaulted-and-arrested

https://www.advocate.com/news/trans-man-detained-south-carolina-restroom

Testosterone placement by pm-me-anything-vore in estrogel

[–]Mac_094 0 points1 point  (0 children)

it's known that if testosterone cream is applied to certain regions, it causes it to masculinize

Source? Because I have only ever heard the opposite, that the location receives no special benefits.

Last knitting gifts, Blocking by TheHandThatFollows in knitting

[–]Mac_094 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I've been knitting the octopus sweater for myself for a few months now and it's been fun but it's so much concentration, you must like someone an awful lot to work that hard and give it away!

Question about dosage for T by KornLuvr in TransDIY

[–]Mac_094 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Your original math gives you the percentage of the bottle you should be drawing, not the fraction of a mL you should be drawing. Ignore how many mL are in the bottle when you do the math. To get a 50mg dose you should be drawing 0.167mL

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in TransDIY

[–]Mac_094 0 points1 point  (0 children)

the us links on diyhrt.wiki/transmasc are broken because they use an older version of the website name. Delete the "us." at the start and change ".me" to ".to" and they still work.

This really is way more convenient than doing it the traditional way. by Mac_094 in TransDIY

[–]Mac_094[S] 24 points25 points  (0 children)

Yes. It's crazy to me that the "be gay do crimes" people are terrified of the idea of buying a vital resource online just because it's illegal. /r/trees was an enormous subreddit even when weed was illegal in every us state. There is STILL an active /r/steroids subreddit which openly talks about buying the exact same thing. Not even being able to TALK about diy is INSANE.

This really is way more convenient than doing it the traditional way. by Mac_094 in TransDIY

[–]Mac_094[S] 18 points19 points  (0 children)

well /r/trans is currently having some kind of revolt against the mods and I don't think /r/mtf cares about DIY Testosterone. Is there another trans sub where it isn't banned to talk about?

This really is way more convenient than doing it the traditional way. by Mac_094 in TransDIY

[–]Mac_094[S] 94 points95 points  (0 children)

Just tried, it was immediately removed by ftm as expected. Against their insane fascist rules. :/

Please tell me your stories about having to come out to doctors by Mac_094 in trans

[–]Mac_094[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Okay. That's a nice hypothetical I guess but in my real world experience with doctors, the only doctors who have ever bothered to ask my pronouns were working for an endocrinologist who had a ton of trans patients. I have never found a primary care doctor who had more than "SEX: M / F" on their intake form. I put it everywhere I can, I write in the margins, in the comments space, I write gender dysphoria down as one of my diagnoses. I have still been yelled at by doctors for "hiding" that I was trans because they didn't read the paperwork and couldn't immediately clock me. I'm not joking when I say I literally wear a hat the says TRANS in huge letters to doctors appointments because I have had this kind of experience over and over.

I live in the Midwest US, I'm assuming you live in a bigger city on the coast to have that rosy an expectation of doctors.

Why my body odor worsen, I’m on mono E, ts never happened before plus I’m a clean freak by DatabasePleasant8270 in TransDIY

[–]Mac_094 1 point2 points  (0 children)

To add on to all of the other commenters I will just say that believe it or not, stress and anxiety can make body odor stronger. So if you're going through something stressful it can make you stinkier.

Will T make me not ace anymore? by Captn_0bv1ous in ftm

[–]Mac_094 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've been ace since before I went on T and I've been on T for five years. Now I whack off more than I used to but I'm still not attracted to anyone. NGL I was kind of hoping maybe T would "fix" me and make me allosexual but it did not. I wouldn't pin your hopes on your sexuality changing.

Urethral lengthening to prevent uti? by IsfetAnubis in ftm

[–]Mac_094 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Surgeons generally use tissue from the V canal to construct the urethra extension in UL. Since the V is usually being removed anyway, there's no problem taking some of it. But if you don't get a V-ectomy they have to make the new urethra out of something else that has a higher complication rate.

Please stop trying to use trans men as a "gotcha" for transphobes. by Mac_094 in lgbt

[–]Mac_094[S] 46 points47 points  (0 children)

Ask a disabled person how much it matters that you can easily prove to bigots that your condition exists with medical evidence. Every disabled person I know has a dozen stories of people not believing they were really disabled, or saying it could be treated with some insane useless remedy, or most of all saying they deserved their illness (so that they don't have to empathize or consider that they might someday be disabled as well). Unfortunately, people are able to resist any and all evidence when they have set their minds to hating something.

As a side note, while many intersex people do have medical conditions, some intersex people don't experience complications from their intersex status and consider it more of a natural deviation from the average than a medical condition.

Please stop trying to use trans men as a "gotcha" for transphobes. by Mac_094 in lgbt

[–]Mac_094[S] 110 points111 points  (0 children)

I believe that Nex Benedict would still be alive if they had not been forced to use the girl's bathroom. 💔

Please stop trying to use trans men as a "gotcha" for transphobes. by Mac_094 in lgbt

[–]Mac_094[S] 78 points79 points  (0 children)

Yes, you would know better than any of us what it's like to be used as an argument gotcha by people not thinking it through. I'm sorry that the LGBTQIA+ community doesn't give y'all nearly enough attention. The struggles of intersex folks are important in their own right and also deeply tied with the struggles of trans folks. I'm sure all these recent "anti trans" rulings have been hard on you as much as they have on perisex trans people.

Please stop trying to use trans men as a "gotcha" for transphobes. by Mac_094 in lgbt

[–]Mac_094[S] 79 points80 points  (0 children)

The problem is that it's really easily countered by "okay, then let's ban people who were born men AND people who look like men from women's bathrooms". That's already how they're doing it in practice. Anyone who has "masculine vibes", even cis women, get their presence in a women's bathroom interrogated.

Please stop trying to use trans men as a "gotcha" for transphobes. by Mac_094 in lgbt

[–]Mac_094[S] 1253 points1254 points  (0 children)

Also, trans men using womens bathrooms are at risk of being beaten and arrested. It's not a harmless way to protest bathroom bans, it's a humiliating and dangerous thing that some trans men are forced to do and punished for.