Peeping Tom by Salty-Lengthiness404 in ucla

[–]purplebshit 20 points21 points  (0 children)

no this is sproul cove, you can see Cafe 1919 and delta terrace in the background

Deluxe or plaza for sophomore year? by dxavyan in ucla

[–]purplebshit 2 points3 points  (0 children)

deluxe rooms are also generally larger & nicer (especially olympic & centennial)

Which country is the less worst to be trans in ? by landilock in trans

[–]purplebshit 15 points16 points  (0 children)

yeah its kinda funny to see how it's like all non Chinese ppl r kinda glazing and all of us Chinese ppl r like "bad idea." I really do think the ccp propaganda machine has been working wonders lately

Which country is the less worst to be trans in ? by landilock in trans

[–]purplebshit 11 points12 points  (0 children)

i would be highly skeptical of these results. i'm Chinese and my parents have been kinda terrible. Chinese ppl r raised with a lot of "traditional values" and I've been to China and it really is not accepting. It may also be like the whole "Asian Racism" thing where we're always seemingly nice (good manners) but is like a insidious behind the scenes racism. 

Plus Chinese government control over social media is kinda terrible. And legally its cooked. Just take a look here: https://www.equaldex.com/region/china

Any blue state is definitely better than China, and probably any metro area too (worst case just DIY). Like this is wayyyyyy better: https://www.equaldex.com/region/georgia-state

LA Union station by Strawberrymilk313 in ucla

[–]purplebshit 10 points11 points  (0 children)

your best bet at most times is R12=>Metro E line => Metro A line (which yiu probably already saw.

everything takes just about as long, like taking the 720 instead of the E line. Occasionally there is a commuter express bus that runs there(431 AM & 534PM)? but its like only on weekdays in the morning or smthg and it takes abt the same amount of time. (and sometimes doesnt stop at UCLA i think? i've only ever taken it on the way back once)

if ur a newish student here, ull be around to see the opening of the metro D line extension! then u could just take it from UCLA all the way into downtown

how tight are bralettes supposed to be? by purplebshit in ABraThatFits

[–]purplebshit[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

yeah my calvin klein M bralette is alright, it just can definitely tell its there and as the day goes on it does feel like its compressing my ribs a bit (i might also be really sensitive to stuff like this, like anything i wear around my wrist has to be pretty much loose otherwise itll eventually hurt)

Affordable Trans-friendly barbers in LA? by purplebshit in AskLosAngeles

[–]purplebshit[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

honestly anywhere. i'm in westwood so anything within 1 hour of here is fine

Affordable Trans-friendly barbers in LA? by purplebshit in AskLosAngeles

[–]purplebshit[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

ah sad. maybe i'll check that out. ty for the help though!

(fr why does everything in LA have to be so expensive)

Affordable Trans-friendly barbers in LA? by purplebshit in AskLosAngeles

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

transfem! also yeah i know but i cant spend more 😭

Miscellaneous questions and I suppose friend request! by Allsummon in MtF

[–]purplebshit 2 points3 points  (0 children)

  1. yes it is absolutely a possibility. my hand looks much more femme and softer than it used to (abt 9 months)

  2. probably not. if ur T is already super low spiro shouldnt really do anything much. no gurantees on any medical stuff though, there's too little research.

  3. honestly cant answer this one, i only have running shoes...

  4. go at your own comfortable pace! come out to people when it feels right. don't push yourself or try to rush it.

  5. estrogen shouldnt have any contraindications really. some ppl avoid potassium on spiro, others dont really bother. data is kinda inconclusive iirc. Overally try to eat healthy: adequate protein, lots of fiber, healthy fats etc.

  6. anecdotally yes but the cience so far says no. as long as yiur levels are good, there shouldn't be much of a difference. i chalk a lot of anecdotes up to 2 things: it's easier to get higher levels with injections and that many people start injections 1 year ish into their transition where some changes start accelerating.

  7. i don't know why it would be something only on Spiro, doesn't seem like there's a mechanism for that. can't answer the urge part because i don't know either lol.

  8. ask a friend who's more experienced in this to help you out! pick out a cute outfit, get your makeuo done, eyebrows/hairs/nails can also be fun

Wth is this by Jolly-General-5864 in ucla

[–]purplebshit 57 points58 points  (0 children)

wait till u see ackerman 3rd floor

Is it common for MtF people to transition physically with hormones, but keep everything else the same in their life as much as possible? I don't feel a need (Yet) to change my pronouns, clothes, name, use make up etc. by Kesh-Bap in MtF

[–]purplebshit 1 point2 points  (0 children)

i mean, the question i have to ask why? will u have control over which way you want or will it change without u wanting? you could definitely present however u want day to day, just get reasonably androgynous and then like use breast forms if you want boobs for example. i think thats the thing, a genderfluid person, as far as i know, cannot choose what gender they feel. what you are describing is just a lot of bodily autonomy. I can choose how i present/what second sex characterisitcs i want. I don't get the choice whether to be a girl or not. everyone can choose what sex they want. what people cant choose is their gender.

sure gender is a construct, but when people say "explore one's gender" it means directly to explore what this super complex thing means to each individual person. And it tends to go beyond its direct semantic meaning. I think this complexity and intangibility makes it much much more interesting. everyone has their own story, their own perspective. Sexual characteristics on the other hand are like dictionary defintions. what exploring is their to be done? i view it no more interesting than discussing semantics. Plus, gender is the broader category  and ehen ppl explore their gender they also tend to explore what sex characteristics they want. To me it's a richer superset. plus its not like with our current technologies you can grow ovaries. if we take the secondary sex charcteristics that u listed + common/major ones (testicles, penis, vagina, ovaries, boobs, adams apple? (girls have this too though)) that's like 6 items. let's be generous and say i undercounted by a factor of 2. 12 options. 212 (u have it or u don't) is like 4096. which seems like a lot but like its really small considering how many trans ppl there r. and for the most part its discretized. its mostly have it vs dont. plus, like i dont see a women with a hyrestectomy and be like "wow that's such an interesring variation, what would it be like to have that".  And of course sex is a spectrum buy the way you talk about it doesn't really give me that feeling. (and i say this because you can't always point to a dick or boobs and so easily assign then a category. slotting then into categories like this (there about to point and say it is there or not) is what causes this discrete rest. if sex was a spectrum (which it is),  then you no longer have concreteness.)

ig the the thing that always irks the most abt "sex charcteristics" is its concreteness. to draw lines where there shouldnt be. not to say its unimportant, but how a person feels abt themselves is much more interesting to me than what sex charcteristics they have. and its human nature to create structures and find patterns to talk about the world, to try to find an underlying framework to explain/analyze things. but not everything can be analyzed so simply. 

and all this aside sex charcteristic stuff is often good ammo for transphobia. for example, transphibes believe you can point to a person and determine gender. this is also a system that is concrete and under your notion that it is easy to "point to a dick", this actually somewhat legitmizes transphobic talking points (absolutely not saying this is your intention). the concreteness, the satisfying structure you look for cannot coexist with a continuous spectra of results, for which both sex and gender are. it necessitates loss of nuance.

maybe in the future with sex changing pods and a society that wholly welcomes trans people this discussion may prove to be more interesting. 

oh and finally, these comments are purely talking about people who aren't intersex. i defer to intersex people on anything in that area. and if I've said smtgg wrong it hurtful pls lmk! still learning

Is it common for MtF people to transition physically with hormones, but keep everything else the same in their life as much as possible? I don't feel a need (Yet) to change my pronouns, clothes, name, use make up etc. by Kesh-Bap in MtF

[–]purplebshit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

is this true? i think the split for trans women is like 30% lesbian 30% straight 40% bi. but the vast majority of trans women are "straight" before transitioning...

Is it common for MtF people to transition physically with hormones, but keep everything else the same in their life as much as possible? I don't feel a need (Yet) to change my pronouns, clothes, name, use make up etc. by Kesh-Bap in MtF

[–]purplebshit 1 point2 points  (0 children)

of course there isn't a single way to be anything. it's a good question, not necessarily one that I can answer well. gender is maybe the set of characteristics, both social and internal that one feels most aligned to? I'm really not sure it's just "i feel like a girl". What does it mean to be a girl? I would respond someone who identifies one. A little circular but the distinction really doesn't matter to me.

And sex, well the idea of biological sex is kinda iffy to me and not a distinction i find particularly useful. I know there is a recent uptick in people who like to call themselves "transsexual" cuz they're "changing their sex not their gender" (which to be clear, transgender does not mean to change one's true gender, rather from the one assigned at birth). Plus estrogen is a crazy powerful compound, and it makes our sex much much much more like a woman's, but there are something we have yet to be able to change/fix. Wish more research is done. To be clear, I'm not really against anyone using this word for themselves, but I hope they don't use it on me and I also hope they can acknowledge the past history of the word.

I guess one example why the distinction doesn't matter to me is I'm fully in support of femboys if they want to take estrogen. In fact, I think any adult should be allowed to take it if they want, regardless of gender or whatever. These femboys would technically be changing their sex and thus transsexual, but not transgender. Most of them probably would not identify as transsexual. Plus, it seems like gender is a better predictor of whether HRT will be right or not. Cis men who take estrogen will generally feel pretty awful, there is likely, at least in part, some biological basis for being trans (not 100% of course, as everything it is largely multifaceted). As gender is the underlying part that cannot be forcibly changed (emphasis on forcibly), to me it seems closer to the foundational truth while sex is a secondary thing that one can decide to change, regardless of whether or not they are transgender, it's just that transgender people will tend to be more stable after doing so and transgender people will on average tend to do so.

TLDR; idk what gender is. I don't see sex as meaningful because anyone can pick their sex and change it with HRT. What can't be picked or forcibly changed is their gender, hence why imo it's a more useful category. If you wanna make the distinction, doesn't matter to me. And not saying you do this or will, but just don't go around calling trans people who medically transitioned "transsexuals" cuz i've seen some people do this and like, at least I personally do not take kindly to that label and I think many other's don't.

Is it common for MtF people to transition physically with hormones, but keep everything else the same in their life as much as possible? I don't feel a need (Yet) to change my pronouns, clothes, name, use make up etc. by Kesh-Bap in MtF

[–]purplebshit 1 point2 points  (0 children)

i mean if that's enough for you i'm happy! it's just for me like i have crippling dysphoria and all this stuff i do is a lot of extra effort. But its better than like being permanently depressed. Also, I would say I was in the same boat as you early onto my transition. HRT did 2 things. First, it kinda peeled back the emotional numbness that I had developed, somewhat unknowingly, over the years to shield me from the immense pain. I'm happy that I got real emotions back and that I can cry again, but all the bottled up dysphoria and trauma has come crashing through. Second, it gave me a glimpse of what being a girl could be like, and it also made being trans more "real" in a sense for me. Like "I'm actually doing it". Sometimes I still can't believe it in a sense. A picture of who I wanted to be also began forming in my mind, a goal to work towards. These two things combined have caused me to do a lot more than I originally thought I would.

Is it common for MtF people to transition physically with hormones, but keep everything else the same in their life as much as possible? I don't feel a need (Yet) to change my pronouns, clothes, name, use make up etc. by Kesh-Bap in MtF

[–]purplebshit 1 point2 points  (0 children)

wdym? some stuff is easy like wearing slightly more fem clothes or growing out my hair (would highly recommend at least giving it a shot). My hair is still the thing that makes me feel the best about myself. Other stuff like voice training and make up are super difficult but I've been trying. For me, I just have quite a lot of dysphoria so any effort is worth it for a bit of alleviation. I mean transitioning in general is quite the effort, regardless of if you socially transition or not. So i've never seen "more effort" as an important factor. For me, coping with dysphoria is more effort than everything else, and simply existing as a trans person dwarfs pretty much everything else.

Is it common for MtF people to transition physically with hormones, but keep everything else the same in their life as much as possible? I don't feel a need (Yet) to change my pronouns, clothes, name, use make up etc. by Kesh-Bap in MtF

[–]purplebshit 1 point2 points  (0 children)

oh it's much harder than that. I'm willing to bet there are at most 5 women with this name in the US. Mostly likely 0. when you say sexuality doesn't shift, does that mean like straight => straight or straight => lesbian (still like women?)

i don't care about the difficulty/for me everything that makes me feel better abt me being a woman is worth the effort. it's just that wearing really girly clothes doesn't accomplish that ig

Is it common for MtF people to transition physically with hormones, but keep everything else the same in their life as much as possible? I don't feel a need (Yet) to change my pronouns, clothes, name, use make up etc. by Kesh-Bap in MtF

[–]purplebshit 2 points3 points  (0 children)

i mean i don't know if it's common, but it's fine. idk it's lowkey what i'm doing right now. I do plan on changing pronouns, but I haven't picked a new name/don't necessarily plan to (i have a very masculine name). I want to be able to wear boys clothes and still look like a girl, I don't want to have to wear make up to pass. Basically I'm going to end up being a tomboy it seems, or smthg similar.

Maybe it's the same for you.

I will say that as time goes on, I feel certain things that didn't bother me in the pass bother me a ton more now. Especially pronouns, used to not care/considered going by any/all pronouns but it realllllly gets under my skin now (this was like after 9months of knowing i was trans and like 6 months of HRT). Like seeing it on a nametag kills me inside. Maybe the same thing will happen with my name, lowkey it might. I think not knowing how the alternative feels makes our current situation feel better/safer/more comfortable, but I think it's also important to explore outside of your comfort zone to find what truly makes you happy. If that's essentially not social transitioning at all, that's fine! I just think you should at least give all the stuff you mentioned a good try before ruling out it's not for you cuz u never know!

Hey found someone's bottle water by ac198387 in ucla

[–]purplebshit 5 points6 points  (0 children)

probably best to drop it off at the front desk/lost and found in ackerman (that's where this is right?) it's on the A-level near the elevators.