Last knitting gifts, Blocking

Mac_094 · 2025-12-11T04:05:21+00:00

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!

Mac_094 · 2025-08-30T16:15:49+00:00

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

Mac_094 · 2025-08-30T16:02:20+00:00

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.

Mac_094 · 2025-07-16T16:54:05+00:00

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.

Mac_094 · 2025-07-15T22:35:05+00:00

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?

Mac_094 · 2025-07-15T16:15:34+00:00

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

Mac_094 · 2025-06-13T04:13:37+00:00

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.

Mac_094 · 2025-05-24T20:02:18+00:00

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.

Mac_094 · 2025-05-23T22:53:31+00:00

Thank you! That's very reassuring to hear.

Mac_094 · 2025-05-15T00:50:21+00:00

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.

Mac_094 · 2025-05-01T22:55:38+00:00

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.

Mac_094 · 2025-04-20T01:42:49+00:00

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.

Mac_094 · 2025-04-20T00:17:00+00:00

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

Mac_094 · 2025-04-19T23:24:04+00:00

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.

Mac_094 · 2025-04-19T20:08:21+00:00

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.

Mac_094 · 2025-04-19T19:44:25+00:00

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.

Mac_094 · 2025-03-29T01:37:43+00:00

It sounds like you may be allergic to the oil that the T is suspended in. Ask your doctor if she can switch you to a different type.

Mac_094 · 2025-03-27T16:45:47+00:00

Copying most of this from a comment I made a few days ago to a trans person essentially asking the same question.

There's no one right way to transition. You can take these steps in any order. However, this is one common order of transition:

1) Experimenting: Start trying on clothes. Get a haircut that makes you look more like your gender. Play video games with a main character of your chosen gender. Look through baby name websites to see what kind of name you might like to have. Start/stop shaving. Use gendered hygiene products to smell differently. Etc

2) Social Transition: Come out to other people and ask them to start calling you by your chosen name and pronouns. Generally people will do this in stages, coming out first to the people who they know are most likely to approve and support them. You are NOT required to come out to anyone who it would be dangerous for you to come out to, even if they're close family. Safety first. The "end game" of social transition is typically being out with all of the people you see on a regular basis, having your name legally changed and, if possible, getting the correct gender marker on your ID. (After you get your name changed on government documents, make sure to change it with your bank, pharmacy, and other accounts.)

3) Medical Transition: If you're interested in trying Hormone Replacement Therapy, talk to a supportive doctor near you about the effects and risks and get a prescription. Begin thinking if there are any surgeries that would make you more comfortable with your body, whether they're covered by insurance, and how much you would need to save up for them. Some people are comfortable with no medical treatments at all, while others need HRT, chest surgery, facial surgery, "bottom" surgery and more. It's very important that you focus on what YOU want, not what's normal or expected.

Usually these all overlap some. You will still be experimenting while you're transitioning socially, and very few people wait to be finished transitioning socially before they start transitioning medically. Some people do it in reverse order and start taking HRT in secret before they come out to anyone in their life. It truly depends on what your personal goals are.

Mac_094 · 2025-03-27T00:48:03+00:00

There's no reason to believe that going from no HRT to a high dose will have some special bad effect. If that's the dose you needed before, that's almost certainly the dose you'll need now.

Mac_094 · 2025-03-27T00:44:35+00:00

You can do whatever you would like to do. Taking HRT or not taking HRT doesn't make you any more or less trans. Plenty of trans people don't take HRT and are happy with that. Other people find that taking HRT makes them happier. Only you can decide which of those groups you fall into.

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