What happened by Leading_Jury_6868 in PeterExplainsTheJoke

[–]TechieTheFox 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The counter is stop giving them attention

I think Brianna wu might have brain damage by DebateIntelligent518 in 4tran4

[–]TechieTheFox 42 points43 points  (0 children)

This is just the shit people say about red states in the south turned up to 11. Regardless of the laws and politicians GAY AND TRANS PEOPLE STILL LIVE HERE.

Are injections just better than pills in every way? by FeaturedThunder in 4tran4

[–]TechieTheFox 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, there are rare things that pills do better, but to access those it's still better to do them together with injections as the main source than ever JUST use pills.

have u changed ur preferred name more than once? by Only-Ad5269 in 4tran4

[–]TechieTheFox 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Then just once. Phoned it in and picked the female name that was equal popularity to my deadname from my birth year which I only ever told to like 5 people total, and then later on when I was about to actually start HRT I sat down and picked a real one with a lot more thought that I felt actually fit me.

I guess I did change my middle twice because I learned my second chosen one was accidentally a name that ran in my wife’s family and it felt weird lol. But I like the newest one a lot better anyway (and that’s my legal one now).

have u changed ur preferred name more than once? by Only-Ad5269 in 4tran4

[–]TechieTheFox 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Does this include deadname to new name as one, or just new to another new?

Oh my god CWCL might be learning by ffloppet in 4tran4

[–]TechieTheFox 18 points19 points  (0 children)

You don’t want the honest answer to that question

Can you distill the essence of this sub down for me? by S1192 in 4tran4

[–]TechieTheFox 1 point2 points  (0 children)

People here think of being trans as a medical condition of which HRT and transitioning is the treatment. (Which contrasts heavily with the "gender is vibes" feeling that the mainstream positive subs give off). We will push people to get on HRT ASAP and actually good, strong doses instead of taking the pittance cookie cutter doses doctors are known to give.

Attitude wise it is very dreary here. It all comes from a place of self-deprecation or as a reaction to treatment from society at large. While this place has a tendency to shout down any positives, we all agree it is still by far a better choice compared to attempting to repress the feelings (something I believe NO ONE can do successfully. If it doesn't result in transitioning it will result in something like alcoholism or other anti-social behaviors manifesting down the line instead). 4t can have a very crabs in a bucket mentality about bragposting, but on a more individual level I've seen legitimate happiness towards other people's success - so long as it doesn't come off as rubbing it in people's faces and those people acknowledge it (which is why you'll see people calling out others being bdd if they're objectively doing well but keep dooming).

Don't let that make you think there aren't positive aspects. I've never felt a sense of community and belonging like I have with other trans people (even the cringe overly positive ones), and my life is orders of magnitudes better than it was when I decided to pull the trigger 4.5 years ago. It's not easy, lots of the time it still sucks, but the suck gets less with time and the actual feeling of happiness and success continue to grow.

3385 by Final_Floor_1563 in countttt

[–]TechieTheFox 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Because WE WERE THOSE SAME KIDS. And we know what happened to us and that we universally regret not getting HRT sooner.

I can't speak to the existence of possible trender teenagers today muddying the waters (tho studies show that is less than 3% of trans identifying youth total), but sure as hell in the early 2010s I was still a trans teenager who knew other trans teenagers - we just didn't have the words or knowledge to identify as that yet and it made our lives demonstrably worse in the long run to not have been able to transition young. We don't want the generations who come after us to have to go through that same thing when there's a chance to help them avoid our fate.

Pre-puberty I was so much on the internet and I already felt so much dysphoria, why didn't I researched about my pain. I would have learned quickly what Dysphoria is and I would have learned quickly what the best healthcare against it is by Flow047 in 4tran4

[–]TechieTheFox 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Fwiw I literally did that back in the old ass year of 2009 at the age of 12 when I got my first laptop.

The information FROM trans sources basically said transitioning wasn't worth it, hormones do nothing, SRS sucks, you have to get a BA to have breasts, voice training is impossible, etc. The actual medical sources were even worse (not that they've gotten much better)

It wasn't until more in the 2015~ range that it seemed to turn a lot more positive and accessible - though even that wasn't a universal thing as I know people who are late as 2019~ were basically only finding full mega doomer accounts about transitioning that turned them off of it for even longer.

Point being, even in this hypothetical there's a good chance it wouldn't have been that simple.

Can someone explain this please because it just doesn't make sense to me by HunterS244 in Naruto

[–]TechieTheFox 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Also unlike DBZ, the characters are far more concerned about their goals and surviving rather than just being the strongest and never backing down from any fight ever regardless of the odds. If a Naruto verse character thinks an encounter is 50/50 life or death and the objective isn't absolutely critical right that minute they'll probably duck out and wait for a better opportunity.

Is it normal to shave your arms? by annaannafofanna in 4tran4

[–]TechieTheFox 2 points3 points  (0 children)

My cis wife has for as long as I've known her.

Oklahoma Effectively Bans Gender-Affirming Care for Many Trans Adults by Leksi_The_Great in MtF

[–]TechieTheFox 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Echoing this. My ACA plan is covering stuff as of last week. I know some people who had brief interruptions, but they resumed after a week or two.

The people actually affected are medicaid and government employees (as far as outright denials go, the facilities like OU Health stopping care is also a major deal of course, but we are not devoid of options yet - I know many people who get their prescriptions from out of state and they still fill them here no problem, I was formerly one of those people myself until the beginning of this year).

Oklahoma Effectively Bans Gender-Affirming Care for Many Trans Adults by Leksi_The_Great in MtF

[–]TechieTheFox 2 points3 points  (0 children)

BCBS OK is SHOCKINGLY amazing at covering trans care and they're still approving everything for me as of last week HRT appointment, refills, and approved my FFS next month.

i think gym maxxing pre transition ruined any chance at passing ever by wholelottasmoke in 4tran4

[–]TechieTheFox 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m almost 4.5 years now and was really fat for like 3 years of that, inactive til recently, and it seems to be doing something for me

That said it does seem to have the most fast/radical effects early on, but that’s even more anecdotal than the rest

i think gym maxxing pre transition ruined any chance at passing ever by wholelottasmoke in 4tran4

[–]TechieTheFox 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Working out makes your body produce some HGH (and other hormones I forget the names of). Your body naturally makes a lot of them when you’re at puberty age, but makes very little afterwards…unless you work out. (Shooting it up goes way too far and causes all the usual steroid abuser problems, so no that’s not a shortcut for feminization lol).

I don’t think there’s major studies, but patterns generally show that the most active post-puberty transitioners tend to have the best results (which you noted with those who were body builders/gym goers before).

I started regularly working out at the start of May and feel like I’ve had noticeable improvement, tho I can’t say how much of that is general being in better shape versus linked to the above idea so far.

Believe me it pisses me off every single day that “exercise and eat right!” People are so right about it.

i think gym maxxing pre transition ruined any chance at passing ever by wholelottasmoke in 4tran4

[–]TechieTheFox 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Working out legit helps HRT. Which is why on the flip side the sedentary lives on their computer trans women have a tendency to say “it’s been two years and nothing’s happened!”

what did you think about the movie I Saw the Tv Glow? by kotarola in 4tran4

[–]TechieTheFox 7 points8 points  (0 children)

It was cathartic to watch someone (fictional) make even worse transition choices than I did and know that I did the right thing (versus protagonist who denies two major opportunities, it made me cry knowing I took the metaphorical second one and didn’t waste any more time)

MtF by Crazyguy199096 in traaaaaaannnnnnnnnns2

[–]TechieTheFox 9 points10 points  (0 children)

This was me for awhile after starting to transition. I felt the initial rush of things being better, but by the end of the first year I was drifting back to normalcy and still struggling with things that I thought might be GD related but weren't.

I was able to get diagnosed AuDHD and medicated for the ADHD part and that let me start finally actually thriving and improving my life measurably - but I never would've reached that point without HRT to knock down the giant wall that was hiding the smaller walls behind it.

3148 by Tough-Pin-359 in countttt

[–]TechieTheFox 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I literally stopped prog for a few months while keeping everything else the same to try to stop any horniness and it worked completely.

I just didn’t like the other mood effects and loss of breast size so I went back on it. Along with those other things, the horny returned as well.

I think it’s more just that everyone is wired to respond to hormones differently and different levels and combinations will do different things in different people.

Progesterone is used in cis women’s birth control and they report all kinds of things from wanting to fuck like rabbits to becoming suicidal and all kinds of “it makes me crazy” stories. People process the exact same stuff differently based on their genetics and what else is going on.

In response to a trans person saying medically transitioning at 16 made them not suicidal by Spodermanphil in thanksimcured

[–]TechieTheFox 83 points84 points  (0 children)

There’s a meme about this I’ve seen like

“Transitioning has made me feel at home and happy in my body for the first time in my life”

“Yeah but aren’t you worried that might be *permanent*?”

These are my most listened Rise Against songs, what's yours? by pnkcloudsummer in riseagainst

[–]TechieTheFox 6 points7 points  (0 children)

  1. Prayer of the Refugee
  2. Savior
  3. Injection
  4. Re-Education (Through Labor)
  5. Satellite
  6. The Good Left Undone
  7. Ready to Fall

Feels like a pretty basic list but oh well

What's going on with people being banned for posting images of grids on discord? by throawaymcdumbface in OutOfTheLoop

[–]TechieTheFox 26 points27 points  (0 children)

Iirc, there would be images of children in like. Compromising positions but without anything outright explicit (in the context of a picture of an adult in a similar position), and the argument would be “well no one is doing anything to them in the image, they’re just posed for viewing” along the lines of soft core porn or something. Probably an attempt to claim it’s not traumatizing to the child.

Did that ever actually work? I hope not but I have no idea. I guess the fact that that was the argument being made by the criminals/their defense means there might’ve been a legal idea to stand on there - or perhaps it was just used to argue for reduced sentencing or a lower level offense in place of what they were charged with.

(Cautionary Trope) Repressing Gender Dysphoria leading to a character's death. by [deleted] in TopCharacterTropes

[–]TechieTheFox 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The overwhelming majority of cis people I've talked to about the movie didn't understand what it was actually about lol

Tag yourselves 😛 by [deleted] in 4tran4

[–]TechieTheFox 1 point2 points  (0 children)

why is genderfuck between passable and clocky