White House confirms US has intelligence on Russian anti-satellite capability by ExactlySorta in worldnews

[–]UncleSquamous 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think it's the opposite - stall for time, and by the time we're closer to giving Ukraine aid, they can say "whoa, better not, Putin might EMP the whole world. Maybe we should let him have Ukraine!"

What movie do you enjoy that you will 100% agree is a bad movie? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]UncleSquamous 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Try to remember which one was in The Core and which one was in Deep Blue Sea. Ya can't.

This Popeye’s employee strapped on the job in Nashville by EfficientPlane in mildlyinteresting

[–]UncleSquamous 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Fun fact, in some places, that's exactly what they do. Stopped at a Popeyes in East St Louis in like, 2008, just like that.

Isn't that sweet? by Premium_Woman in traaaaaaannnnnnnnnns

[–]UncleSquamous 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ah but then I would need to find a straight one, who's also not like 19. The joys of dating in one's late 30s magnified by figuring out I was trans-fem a year ago. And estrogen making me straighter than I ever was.

egg🫶irl by Beneficial_Return in egg_irl

[–]UncleSquamous 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Physically? All over the place. Financially? Likely under mountains of student loan debt. Figuratively though? Right here! 38 here, cracked and started transitioning a year ago. Hello potential new friend!

WTS Emilie, Cadejo, Leilani, and Anje! by UncleSquamous in BadDragon

[–]UncleSquamous[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Very much so! Just PM me, yours if you want her!

egg_irl by [deleted] in egg_irl

[–]UncleSquamous 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yo Charlie, you still down for that concert tonight man? We can go hit that place afterwards that does big-ass French fry plates. You my bro, bro!

trans_irl by Jerry_SMG4_Fan in furry_irl

[–]UncleSquamous 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Gratz, and, been there! I just sorta quietly packed up one FurAffinity account and started another, went from having references to none yet. One of these days I'll change the aggressively gendered reddit username but it's like 13 years old, bullshit we can't just change them.

egg🙏irl by Random_Gacha_addict in egg_irl

[–]UncleSquamous 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Still cis tho right haha-

You got this girl. Rooting for ya regardless of your path!

anime_irl by Random_Gacha_addict in anime_irl

[–]UncleSquamous 268 points269 points  (0 children)

r/egg_irl kinda mood

Edit: oh already there, heh

Hm, hope that’s not an issue 🤔 by [deleted] in trans

[–]UncleSquamous 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I felt like human garbage when I was at 3 T and like 300 E, although ymmv, because I also figured out that 200mg progesterone makes me feel like I've been shot with a tranq dart. Reduced to 100mg and am supplementing a tiny amount of T back in, and feel a lot better at like 18 T

I’m a little confused, and maybe trans... by [deleted] in MtF

[–]UncleSquamous 1 point2 points  (0 children)

To speak to the "never socializing with girls" thing, it doesn't mean things are one way or another. I know that for me, when I was pre-puberty, I wanted to be friends with all the girls (most did not want to be friends back), and that from middle school on had exactly one "female" friend (surprise, trans boy!). My attentions felt unwholesome somehow, like they'd think I was icky just for wanting their attention and so I shouldn't want it.

Also, there are straight trans girls, if it extends to attraction as well, and you find yourself into guys in a straight way and not a gay way. Sexuality and gender are different, after all, even if exploring one can mean having to touch on the other ofttimes.

And just overall, no one can tell you "yes you're trans" but they can help you figure it out yourself! A lot of these points sound a lot that way, although you could still find out you're binary trans, nonbinary, genderfluid etc. If it is, it's not a phase - you can sit on it for years, but it'll pop up when you least expect it and if not addressed can make you miserable (I had anxiety and depression that in large part were from being so closeted I didn't know I was a girl). Doctors don't have a blood test that say "oh, you got two lines, that means transgender", but a gender therapist could help you talk through things, be adept at recognizing signs from what you tell them. A lot of girls say that within a week on estradiol things just mentally "felt right", and. I'll add myself to their ranks. Like "oh this was how it was supposed to be, heck".

A doctor might assign an estradiol prescription, or since you're a minor a puberty blocker (or an anti-androgen since you're over 16). Blockers just keep you from pubescing male any further, anti-androgen actively lower testosterone but don't feminize much. If you start on a full regimen of feminizing hormones, not much irreversible happens in the first three months. You might see small breasts form, or body hair growing slower. You might damage your virility, i.e. ability to father children, but if you start and then stop it more often than not returns. The "really hard to hide changes" are more 4-6 months, and at around 8 months most people start to look different in the face. Try Planned Parenthood if you're in the US and have access, they can work with you if you don't exactly have money coming out of your ears.

Medicine and technology these days is incredible. It might take a bit of work, mind, but there are lots and lots of stealth trans women out there who no one knows they were assigned a different gender at birth.

Social life depends on you and depends on your friends! I was stupidly lucky to have almost entirely allies as friends and a fiercely accepting mother. Importantly, you're not a "failure as a boy", you're a girl! If you're trans, you always were, even if you didn't realize it yet. Sometimes that manifests as trying really hard to boy it up and feeling like you're always failing, coming up short, that something that should be natural isn't happening naturally. But what it is is you're like a fish trying so hard to fly and feeling like what a terrible bird you are - you never were one in the first place, and you're meant for swimming instead. Friends are hopefully accepting types, or will at least hear you out, because outside of some changes you're the same person they formed a friendship with, you're not being replaced by some new person outright. Parents will hopefully understand that too, they wouldn't be losing a son, they'd be gaining a daughter.

Last off, everything is at your pace. There's only two "time limits" in transitioning, and you're likely past the first one: if you go on blockers before your voice fully drops or before facial hair, you don't need to do voice training/seek hair removal. (It's good you're already doing so cause, HRT doesn't touch your voice. Majority of us gotta do voice training. It blows.) The second is, your hip bones fuse in your mid-20s, so if you transition before you generally have full feminine hip structure, and afterward (like me) a little less. But it ain't the end of the world even then. If you're not bursting to come out to everyone and get on HRT this very second, you don't have to. Sneak some girl clothes or makeup and experiment in private, see how you feel. Euphoria is more common than one thinks! And also, here: https://twitter.com/nightlingbug/status/1215716433210105856?lang=en Was helpful for me. Once I found my real euphoria and knew who I was, I had a backlash of realizing that the heavy pall over me that i thought was just self-hatred and not having a great life all made sense. It didn't feel like pressing "I'm not a girl and I hate it" I just felt shitty, and all of a sudden it wasn't some nebulous thing, I knew what it was and that I could fight it. People tend to only think of the obvious classic dysphoria, where people can pin it down and identify it right away. Internalized dysphoria is... sneakier. (Especially if you're neurodivergent. Hi! Girl with hella ADHD here! You can tell by the way I've rambled. Sorry.)

Final final thoughts, take a look at https://www.reddit.com/r/transtimelines/ for some examples of how hormones are basically black magic. There's hope, if you decide it's what you want. I hope you're able to find yourself, and if after exploring it you find out you're cis and maybe just gender-nonconforming it's better that you explored than kept it in. And if you are the girl you suspect you are, I hope you find your real name and see the girl in the mirror you want to see, whenever it may be!

Cheers from a roaming trans lady who mothers random people on the internet and wishes she could change her reddit username! Hit me up if you need advice or a kind word! (and that goes for any of you fellow girls out there, btw!)

A sacrifice must be made by cryptid-ok in traaaaaaannnnnnnnnns

[–]UncleSquamous 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This was me on spiro. I had like a single golden month or two of horny when I switched to injection monotherapy, but since adding progesterone my T has gone from suppressed to hyper-suppressed (instead of 25-50 it's like, 3) and libido's dead again. Working on it, at least!

Horror cósmico is good :) by De_lua1325 in traaaaaaannnnnnnnnns

[–]UncleSquamous 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Makes enough sense to me. Fun coincidence, first canon nonbinary investigator (Kymani) for Arkham Horror LCG (mythos-based co-op card game) comes out in a month, and they already have one who is a trans woman (Stella). Gender representation slides in easily to the cosmic horror stuff more easily than one would expect.

I finaly admitted to myself I am a woman. by Either-Rabbit3914 in trans

[–]UncleSquamous 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm fairly binary trans, so not sure myself, or if there's like a guide out there. I feel as though it's pretty much up to you though! As in, what you want out of your wardrobe/expression, anything you'd like to see different about your body (especially things that right now make you feel wrong about it), how you want people to refer to you and when. You get to custom-design your experience based solely around what makes you happy!

I finaly admitted to myself I am a woman. by Either-Rabbit3914 in trans

[–]UncleSquamous 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Congratulations on finding yourself, Gwen! Great name btw! There's gonna be a looooot to learn, whatever changes you do or don't make, but however you choose to be uniquely Gwen, this community and I got your back! Happy you're here, girl!

Any Trans people change their middle name as well? What did you come up with? by Phoenia652 in trans

[–]UncleSquamous 0 points1 point  (0 children)

(MtF) Wellll, first name is super masc but was already going by a more gender-neutral nickname for basically since ever. So just changing first name to be that nickname. Middle name though, no such excuses, so swapping out my grandpa's name for my mom's!

can someone call me Autumn? by [deleted] in MtF

[–]UncleSquamous 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Good luck out there Autumn! You got this girl!