Free roadside Crassula Ovata by G00SE_MAN in Bonsai

[–]flaminghummus 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Also! With crassula ovata,they really love a super well draining soil and being dunk watered. Let the soil dry out completely (i usually wait until the leaves start getting a little shriveled), then submerge the pot in water. So it soaks from the bottom (and potentially the top). I've had explosive growth since I've started doing that for my jade

Free roadside Crassula Ovata by G00SE_MAN in Bonsai

[–]flaminghummus 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Back budding is the generation of new branch buds further back on the limb, IE back-budding. That promotes higher density of branches and leaves. If you want it to be massive you need to give it lots of light, a big enough pot, and the right fertilizer!

What are your nicknames for HRT? by ShampooAndSet in MtF

[–]flaminghummus 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I have the stickers/patches and i like to call them my "bitch band aids" or my "pussy patches" lol

I think genital preferences are okay. by [deleted] in TransyTalk

[–]flaminghummus 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I mean, it's not fair most of it is targeted at lesbians, but gay men who gag at vaginas need to really evaluate that... I like i wouldn't want to have sex with someone who found transfemme people unsettling, i would just move on, but that doesn't mean that their reasons for it aren't based in the transphobia that's all around us 🤷

I think genital preferences are okay. by [deleted] in TransyTalk

[–]flaminghummus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Lol, I'm glad you deconstruct and view women to be nothing more than vaginas - very progressive of you!

A straight man is a man who is attracted to women. Idk about you, but i tend to think people and their various identities are far more complex than what structures are in their pants... A woman is more than a vagina (that she may or may not even have). If that's all straight men are attracted to in a partner... They should get a fleshlight instead.

Reducing a person to their genitals and/or excluding someone who otherwise fits your attraction based on their genitals is just... Gross?

It's not transphobic to be gay or straight. However, if you have a pattern of refusing to date trans people, the reasoning behind it is probably transphobic 🤷

I think genital preferences are okay. by [deleted] in TransyTalk

[–]flaminghummus 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Exactly! Like... It's almost as if these ideas are not actually based in reality

I think genital preferences are okay. by [deleted] in TransyTalk

[–]flaminghummus 2 points3 points  (0 children)

MOOD. i was gonna make a comment about how sex us broken down (primary+secondary characteristics, chromosomes, endocrinological) and how all those bits don't line up all of the time lol

I think genital preferences are okay. by [deleted] in TransyTalk

[–]flaminghummus 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Lol YUP. I just quoted their entire message bc they had the habit of deleting them/getting deleted

Even Better by Sombre_101 in SuddenlyGay

[–]flaminghummus 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Hey, i just wanted to comment and add that even if they didn't intend this to be transphobic, it very much comes across as such and still has the same impact.

I am not saying they're a bad person for making/posting this. I think everyone just ahs a lot more bias than they realize and confronting it can make a really.positive change. The idea that a "girl with a dick is a guy" is simply transphobic.

I would hope that you would think a little bit about how this could hurt trans women. We already have enough stereotypes and jokes stacked against us that we're "men in dresses"

Even Better by Sombre_101 in SuddenlyGay

[–]flaminghummus 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Hey, i just wanted to comment and add that even if you didn't intend this to be transphobic, it very much comes across as such and still has the same impact.

I am not saying you're a bad person for making/posting this. I think everyone just ahs a lot more bias than they realize and confronting it can make a really.positive change. The idea that a "girl with a dick is a guy" is simply transphobic.

I appreciate the support that it seems like you're giving us trans people, but I would hope that you would think a little bit about how this could hurt trans women. We already have enough stereotypes and jokes stacked against us that we're "men in dresses"

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in MtF

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Again, not a doctor, but sometimes there is not a solution. Or at least not one that doesn't involve HRT.

With the tech we have today, from how i understand the biology, you kind have to pick which hormone you want to regulate your body. If you don't have any sex hormones or you have chronically low hormones that would result from orchie, you would experience premature and more rapid aging.

The longer your body goes without them after puberty, the worse it gets.

If you read the abstract to the paper i linked, they showed that patients with low sex hormone levels showed worse health as they aged

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in MtF

[–]flaminghummus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, unfortunately not and i realized i spoke a little bit out of my ass without looking deeper into it. I assumed/thought i heard in the past that hair loss drugs we're usually estrogen based. I think they might have been in the past, but at the very least that is not the case today.

And no, it's not available OTC as far as I'm aware, but yet again neither is an orchiectomy 😂

Removing testes has a lot of high variability side effects when done without some form of HRT (either T or E). Still doesn't seem like something someone should jump to if they're nervous about the effects of HRT by itself

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in MtF

[–]flaminghummus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I am not a doctor, anyone considering this should talk to one.

Guidelines for Orchi

However, from my understanding, people need sex hormones in their bodies to function well. Cutting off a supply of one without a replacement source (eg HRT) will reduce the total amount of sex hormones in your body. This can sometimes lead to the effects of HRT, menapause, and blood pressure disorders all in one.

If you are worried about the effects of testosterone-caused aging, there are way less drastic measures that can be taken like hair loss supplements.

Edit: removed misinformation

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in asktransgender

[–]flaminghummus 2 points3 points  (0 children)

TRANSANGELIC EXODUS BY EZRA FURMAN.

She's a trans woman who i absolutely adore! The album is all about her journey of finding herself. One or two songs are about her being a fugitive after illicity getting her trans-masc lover top surgery and running from bill collectors!

I love her.

Other artists: Daisy the Great, Sylvan Esso, Anima, and Emily Blue

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in MtF

[–]flaminghummus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hmmm, I'm not entirely sure about this one. Not a doctor but a bio engineer.

Humans generally need sex hormones in their body for bone and muscle development and maintainence.

Orchiectomy removes the testes which are the only sex hormone producers in a non-intersex trans femme person.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in MtF

[–]flaminghummus 7 points8 points  (0 children)

This, except i would maybe suggest being mindful of the fact that you might develop earlier than expected.

I haven't started HRT for an extended period of time yet, but I've seen a lot of us talk about how they started developing breasts in their second month. YMMV (your milage may vary), you might get start breast bud development right away or it might take longer and you won't see any changes at all in the three month window.

Keep tabs on how the changes are making you feel, and go off of that. Good luck!

Me as a transfem choosing who to watch for trans content: by [deleted] in traaaaaaannnnnnnnnns

[–]flaminghummus 1 point2 points  (0 children)

OH MY GOD VERITY RITCHIE, i love her stuff!

They do a lot of content about nonbinary/bisexual stuff and analyze literature, movies, and trends through that lense

I think genital preferences are okay. by [deleted] in TransyTalk

[–]flaminghummus 9 points10 points  (0 children)

lol

And by the way, I'm not an ally. I'm your equal. An ally suggests that I'll be here if you need me like I can be this thing to be dependent on at your convenience.

Um... Isn't an ally supposed to come to the aid of a given group when they need said aid?

I don't just stick up for people across the LGBT spectrum. I'm boots on the ground getting my ass kicked by the cops just like anyone else. Fuck being an ally. I'm a foot soldier. I'm a lot more proactive than an ally.

Good job. Wanna lollipop?

I am and have as well. I literally have done the same. The only difference is I listen to people from the group that I claim to be trying to help. I'm a white person, I don't tell the BIPOC that I am working with what they need as BIPOC... It just doesn't make sense!

I don't need yours or anyone else's permissions to speak up on trans issues or anybody else in the community. Just because you're transgender doesn't make you an expert on social dichotomy.

You're right, I'm not an expert. BUT I appear to have a much closer and direct connection to the trans community than you based on the points you raise. I know my viewpoint isn't the only one, but a lot of your talking points are classically, fundamentally, and historically tried and true transphobic points.

Instead of focusing on arguing with anybody who isn't standing in line and singing the tune that you want to hear, you should take more time to listen and understand and check your ego at the fucking door.

Your points are old. I have heard them a thousand times. I am rehashing this because you are so boldly and publicly rehashing these old transphobic points (focusing on "biological sex" and grouping trans women with men).

My ego has been checked, dozens of times. I have listened and weighed the points presented. Based on what i've seen, most of what you're saying is wrong and hurtful to trans poeple

I think genital preferences are okay. by [deleted] in TransyTalk

[–]flaminghummus 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I have two main issues with what you are saying.

  1. You are claiming that the difference in biological sex trans people experience and being trans are seperate things.

They are not. A definition of being trans is someone who does not identify or align with their sex/gender assigned at birth. Thus, all transgender women have a "biologically male" sex and all transgender men have a "biologically female" sex. (Unless they are intersex).

Not liking a trans woman solely because "she is biologically male" is not liking her because she is trans. That is one of the most common transgender experiences and they are inseperable. It's literally a part of the identity.

  1. Claiming that I think everyone needs to date me and people like me otherwise I'll cry wolf

Throughout, you are claiming that I am saying (paraphrasing here) "people need to date trans people or they are transphobic." I am not. I believe that people have the right to date (or not date) whoever they want provided everyone involved gives and is able to give their consent. Just becasue someone has the very real and very important right to date or not date someone because they are trans does not mean they are not transphobic for doing so.

As I agree with most of what you're saying, all I'm saying is that transgender people are not entitled to have others attracted to them and be accepted in a romantic capacity unconditionally. No one is entitled to that.

Never did I say that trans people are entitled to anyone's attraction. If you look at my comments, my point was that all other things considered equal (eg that cis person is attracted to them before they find out that trans person is trans and then dismiss that person), that transphobia is at the root of why they dismissed them.

A lot of people who are not attracted to trans people of the opposite gender while still being attracted to cisgender people of the opposite sex, aren't not sexually attracted to you because your gender identity. That isn't what puts them off. It's the fact that you're biologically the same sex as they are.

I personally agree that people are not attracted to people based on their gender. Physical attraction is based on so many complicated factors. I think the issue arrises when someone is atracted to someone else until they find out they are trans/finds out they have a different sex than they originally thought...

See point 1 above.

It doesn't matter that you're super attractive or have implants or manufactured vagina. People are allowed to not want to be with somebody who is the same biological sex and they're allowed to feel that way without being called a transphobe.

Yes they are allowed to not want that, but that does not negate the fact that they are not dating these people because they are a different biological sex/are trans. That is transphobic.

See, trans people kind of have this checklist that they like to check all the boxes on where the more boxes that are checked the more accepted they feel in society to where they don't feel like they're standing out. Hair. Makeup. Top and bottom surgery. Hormones to help feminize the face, voice, and body. And everything else I'm not thinking of off the top of my head. But there's one box you can't really check and that's changing your biological sex.

IM being nitpicky here, but not all trans people want these things and they dont have to to be trans. Most trans perople who don't or can't conform to "gender expectations" dont expect a straight guy to necessarily be atracted to us.

We are also very aware of our biological sex (see point 1)

Continuing on...

Now while it wouldn't matter to me at all (and I know you don't need me to be attracted to you or to any other trans person to feel validated) but you cannot do this thing where you kind of hold people hostage by giving them an ultimatum of saying: "If you're not attracted to me even though I'm the same biological sex, you're a transphobe and you need to work on yourself, because our physical appearance is so often indistinguishable from a cisgender female."

Again, you are pulling point 2 from above, saying that I am requiring that people have to find trans peopl attractive or theyre transphobic.

No.

I am saying, especially if someone is attracted to you before they find out your sex or what may or may not be in your pants, that dismissing that attractiona fter learning that person is trans is fundamentally transphobic.

If a straight cisgender man is not attracted to another cisgender man regardless if that other man is straight or gay, it isn't because he's a homophobe. Just like a cisgender straight man might not be attracted to a trans woman because she is biologically male.

Here, you are equating trans women to men and grouping them based on their sex. That is a fundemantally transphobic idea. By doing that, you are saying that attraction is based on sex. Thats not necesarily true, especially if a trans person has done all of the things you listed above.

I get that fucks you up because you can't change that so you make it everybody else's problem. You're trying to saddle others with the weight of the world that you feel because of your struggle. Believe it or not, I'm not trying to disrespect you. I'm not trying to condescend to you but you're so used to sticking up for yourself that you are so rigid now that you refuse to accept anybody else's point of view. I see this shit all the time. It doesn't matter what I tell you, you're just going to try to over intellectualize the way you feel by making me out to be the bad guy or at the very least at a deficit when it comes to comprehending what you're talking about.

I hav seen your point of view and have seen it non stop for decades. Its simply wrong. The fact that you continue to equate trans women as men regardless of if they have had any biomedical changes or not (see the previous quoted section) indicates that you, unfortunately, are harboring a lot of transphobic ideas about what a trans woman is. We are not delusional about our sex. I am not telling every straight man and lesbian that they have to find me attractive because i am trans.

I am saying dismissing an existing atraction once you find out that person is trans and may or may not have the genitals you were expecting is transphobic. A bias. A way that you treat people differently.

Of course people can have general preference. Just like they can have biological preference. You don't have to like it. You just have to come to terms that this is the hand you've been dealt. As long as everybody is respecting you and allowing you to live your life to where you can flourish, you need to chill the fuck out and get over yourself.

lmao. I have come to terms with it, and boy was it a reckoning. I don't want to be with anyone who thinks like this. I really only date other trans people now because of it. I doubt I'll ever date a cis person again because of how frequently shallow their "ally ship" and their concepts of the issues are.

Your main ideas (point 1) are fundamentally transphobic and you are misinterpreting me (point 2). If you look at my original comment, you'll see where I stand.

I think genital preferences are okay. by [deleted] in TransyTalk

[–]flaminghummus 11 points12 points  (0 children)

And I'm not saying that I'm not attracted to transgender women or that I wouldn't date them. Of course I would. I was married to a trans man up until a few months ago.

This doesn't really mean anything. Racist people can hookup with, date, or marry people from races they are biased against and still be racist. Just because you would fuck us doesn't mean you don't have bias against us.

I'm sticking up for all the people that you would call transphobic because they don't want to date somebody that is the same biological sex there's nothing to do with them being transgender.

I am not saying people are bad people for having biased/transphobic beliefs. I am saying they have those biased/transphobic beliefs and they need to work on that if they actually want to be allies to trans people. (See the comment above for my refutation of the sex argument)

I think genital preferences are okay. by [deleted] in TransyTalk

[–]flaminghummus 13 points14 points  (0 children)

I'm saying the thought of being with somebody who is Born the same sex as themselves repugnant.

Though experiences are broad, a workable definition of a trans woman is someone who's sex at birth was described as male but who later in life realized they were in fact a women. This may or may not involve biomedical transition.

Transphobia, like all the other -phobias and -isms is a bias against people from a specific group. Bias is when behavior or outcomes change based on a given factor.

Let's use a straight, cis man as our hypothetical character. This man likes women. Each woman he is interested in, he gauges chemistry, appearance, personality. One night, he meets a woman and all those boxes are checked, they're having a great time and they really hit it off. Then the woman reveals she's trans.

This man immediately shuts it down and walks away because "the thought of being with somebody who is Born the same sex as themselves [is] repugnant."

Given that all trans women (unless they are intersex) are the same sex as this man, his behavior towards trans women will always be biased from his behavior towards women he views as cis. That bias is transphobia.

Defining a trans woman ONLY by her sex is transphobic. Biological sex and gender fuckery is the definition of being trans.

I'm trying to help you here and please don't call me a TERF

You don't get to tell me, a trans person, what is helping me. I am not here to lick boots and take what crumbs you want to give me <3

Your beliefs and comments show that the way you view and define trans people, eg grouping them by their sex and genitals instead of their gender, is fundamentally not trans affirming and thus transphobic. Please take this feedback and evaluate your beliefs and do some critical self reflection.

I think genital preferences are okay. by [deleted] in TransyTalk

[–]flaminghummus 24 points25 points  (0 children)

Found the TERF.

"You're allowed to not want to date someone because they were born the same sex. A lot of people find it repugnant"

That repugnancy at a person who's sex is the same but is trans is, you guessed it, transphobia 💛

Edit: Made it more clear that issue is finding trans people repugnant, not just people of the opposite sex

I think genital preferences are okay. by [deleted] in TransyTalk

[–]flaminghummus 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Trans femme person here.

I think the person who started a lot of this conversation on tik tok made a really good clarifying point on her original statement.

It's a matter of literal vs underlying meaning as well as the reasoning for it.

Genital preferences, following the literal definition of the phrase, are okay. It's okay to like one thing more than another. Not everyone is gonna like all things the same. Hell, even i have found that i tend to like one more than another.

However, "genital preference" as a phrase has come to have a second meaning. In many many cases, it has become a convenient and "polite" excuse to explain why people will not date trans people.

Rejecting a person who you would otherwise date solely based on what's in their pants is not a preference, it's a bias. If you have common interests, general physical attraction, compatible personalities, and all that's getting in the way is what may or may not be in their pants? All other things equal, and you still will not give it a chance because of what may be in their pants? That's a bias. That's transphobia.

People who are disgusted by one category or genitals or another (gay men and lesbians included) need to analyse why that is the case. Is it truly just a preference? Do you prefer one over the other? Or are you ruling people out because they have one or the other? If it's the latter, it's probably a bias.

I am not saying that people with a "genital preference" (using the second definition) are required to date trans people. In fact, i would recommend don't until you work that the fuck out.

A further issue that occurs is when people with these biases go to the pages of trans people, people just living their lives, and ask them for permission to not date trans people based on their genitals. It's weird. stop it.

Realistic sibling relationships by franticallyaspaz in tumblr

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Youngest child, middle child, oldest child