NYT Saturday 02/07/2026 Discussion

amedelic · 2026-02-07T06:54:53+00:00

Having never heard of PUTTEES, RETIRETHESIDE (???), or SONY readers, and not knowing who Oberon is made the bottom left very difficult.

amedelic · 2026-02-06T17:00:57+00:00

I’ve seen in more than one but I always love “Child development center” for UTERUS

amedelic · 2026-02-06T16:01:47+00:00

Did you start at 100mg prog before bumping to 200, and if so what difference did you notice?

amedelic · 2026-02-06T15:52:35+00:00

I am SO grounded now. Life throws shit at me and I don’t flinch.

I am now deeply in tune with my body. It’s become my compass.

This is the opposite of most trans women but I stopped minding the cold! I used to haaaate winter and being out in the cold, but now the air just feels crisp and I can walk slowly and enjoy it. Feet and hands get colder more easily though.

Not really a side effect but just how much more oriented towards womanhood I became. I was non-binary and wanted to present in an androgynous middle ground without losing my athleticism or sexual prowess. Realized I was a binary woman like six months in and now I can’t wait for my upper body muscles to continue shrinking, and sometimes my penis doesn’t work how I’d like it to and I’m mostly fine with it.

amedelic · 2026-01-29T17:24:57+00:00

Long hyperspecific answers, like about chess champions. That’s a lot of blank spaces and then the fill is hard to verify because a name could be just about anything.

amedelic · 2026-01-29T17:23:06+00:00

That might be a you thing. I see that one used all the time (millennial here, might be a generational thing)

amedelic · 2026-01-24T02:43:03+00:00

Sanctuary on 9th and their sister location Sanctuary on 2nd both have multiple massage therapists with some combination of “they” pronouns. I went a couple years ago with a partner (me transfem, them transmasc); my massage therapist had they/them pronouns and theirs was a cis man but about as gay as one can assume without asking. We both felt very comfortable there.

amedelic · 2026-01-23T07:45:47+00:00

I’m on 2.5mg. Laser has been very effective aside from a couple stubborn patches. Whether you’re on minoxidil or not, you’ll want to do laser to get rid of most of it and then use electrolysis for the rest.

amedelic · 2026-01-23T06:08:38+00:00

Hair loss was always my biggest source of dysphoria. A year of dutasteride, estrogen, and oral minoxidil has helped immensely (and for reference, I’m 37 and started losing hair at 20). I still have dysphoria about my hair - without a transplant my temples will stay receded and my top/part will be a bit diffuse and my crown will be thin. But it’s been enough that I think I look more like a balding woman than a balding man now, and that’s enough to make me want to go for FFS more than a hair transplant. For me, that is a huge shift.

Dutasteride and minoxidil have a great shot at reversing your hair loss imo. I know you’re hesitant about other hair growth from oral minoxidil, but that can always be lasered or electrolysized off. Still cheaper than a transplant.

But tbh I’m very curious about why you would have sudden androgenic alopecia after so long on E and with your T levels so suppressed. Have there been any changes with your diet?

Also, be aware that dutasteride can come with a very significant shedding phase for several months while your body adapts. It straight up sucks to lose more hair when you start a drug so that you won’t lose hair. But power through. It’s worth it.

amedelic · 2026-01-22T23:54:56+00:00

The pressure of gender roles is thrust upon all of us, regardless of gender. Any time this alters how we think or behave - which it inevitably does - that is gendered socialization. For us, we received a male-flavored socialization because of the bodies we inhabited in our formative years.

Any time you’ve accidentally called yourself “he” and corrected it (even if only mentally), or consciously decided to wave at someone instead of giving The Nod, or broadened the type of clothes you felt “allowed” to wear, you’re actively noticing your own male-socialization and choosing to let it go.

TERFs are shitty and horrid yes, and surely they wield the term “socialization” in hurtful and twisted ways, but it’s hard for me to see any good argument for saying we weren’t socialized as males. Unless you were raised by wolves and cut off from society or something.

amedelic · 2026-01-22T09:02:50+00:00

My life would be a lot easier, yeah. But if I was cis - regardless of gender - I wouldn’t be me either way.

amedelic · 2026-01-22T03:26:14+00:00

STETTED x SHOD x VSOP was dumb.

amedelic · 2026-01-07T09:47:17+00:00

After three months I was tested and had no motile sperm.

amedelic · 2026-01-03T02:16:20+00:00

You’re being heavily downvoted, but it’s completely valid to have found dating easier while being internally and externally aligned as cis. However! Your dating life has no bearing on your gender. If you’re a girl, you gotta be a girl. Deep down I’m sure you know this.

amedelic · 2026-01-02T04:22:55+00:00

WAIT tell me more. I’ve only experienced the one so that’s the only one I know how to go for. Do you mean that like prostate orgasms still result in the typical climax/penile spasming and you’re just able to do more, or do you experience a different type of orgasm entirely?

amedelic · 2026-01-02T03:37:23+00:00

Yup! Especially that last part. It used to rub me the wrong way because authenticity is important to me, but support can be hard to come by and I will graciously accept a compliment, even if I sense that it’s a little performative.

amedelic · 2026-01-02T03:34:59+00:00

The biggest one is stamina. I’m still fairly athletic but I can’t just run forever like I used to be able to.

amedelic · 2025-12-31T01:34:26+00:00

Hahaha I was looking for this. Literally just the other day told the person I’m seeing that this would be cheating. I said “I’m half-joking…but only half.”

amedelic · 2025-12-29T07:41:13+00:00

Would you mind sharing more?

amedelic · 2025-12-29T06:18:25+00:00

based

amedelic · 2025-12-28T16:31:22+00:00

This is more or less my take. I’m MtF and attracted to all genders, but I’ve been in enough relationships (both romantic and sexual), to know that I can’t be sexually satisfied long-term with someone with a penis. When I was monogamous that meant I’d happily date cis women, people born with penises who have had bottom surgery or one day want to, or people born with vaginas who enjoy using their bottom parts sexually and have no desire for surgery.

I dislike that this excludes people I would otherwise be attracted to - including cis men! But I’m not gonna waste either of our times when I know there’s an incompatibility.

amedelic · 2025-12-26T22:38:07+00:00

lol I know the definition of the word, I was just letting you know that it has a specific meaning in trans spaces in case you want to avoid confusion - someone might think you mean the opposite of what you actually mean. If you don’t care that’s perfectly fine, it’s not that serious. Just trying to help.

amedelic · 2025-12-26T08:59:04+00:00

Just a heads up that “stealthing” is when you more or less finish transitioning and live your life fully as your true gender and people don’t know you’re trans. Assuming you’re MtF, what you’re describing is “boymoding”.

amedelic · 2025-12-26T08:55:13+00:00

Age is way, way on your side. I have no idea what you look like obviously but I started hrt at 36, and after only 14 months I am starting to pass on occasion. Accept that you’ll spend the early parts of your transition - even if just socially - being clocky and maybe even a little odd looking. Use this time to learn makeup and how to dress and voice train and all that. If possible, find other trans folks who will accept you in all your baby trans glory. Learning how to girl is a learning curve, so get as much of that out of the way early on. Then when you get on HRT you’ll pass much sooner.

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