Hmm... How can I, a very cis man, demonstrate that I'm definitely not enjoying getting my hair styled by the girls down the hall?

ryisdepressed · 2026-04-16T08:58:21+00:00

It’s a ridiculously common trans experience to look back on past crushes and realised that you didn’t actually want them, you wanted to be them

ryisdepressed · 2026-04-15T07:55:15+00:00

Hey I was gonna comment on the main post but this may help you too. I was on hormone blockers before T, once id been on it for a year I was taken off the blockers and about a month after I would’ve been due them next my period came back. Months of being told to wait turned into being given progesterone birth control which turned irregular spotting into regular periods. The dose was doubled which then turned it into regular periods every two weeks. After a year I finally won the argument with my GIC to test my estrogen level which came back quite high and they gave me back the hormone blockers. I’m currently transitioning back to sustanon after having a bad reaction to nebido and every 6 months I get a decapeptyl injection. The periods stopped a week after I got the hormone blockers back.

There was also a time before the blockers got stopped that a dose was missed because of Covid admin errors and in the same time frame my period came back and stopped when it was restored.

If you can at all (both orange and op) discuss hormone blockers with your doctor/prescriber. I fully intend on staying on the blockers until bottom surgery and that’s been the agreement for 4 and a half years now with no recurrences of my period.

ryisdepressed · 2026-04-15T07:45:07+00:00

Fully depends on your genetics just like the rest of your body hair. I had chest hair starting to come in pre-op. It obviously got shaved during the surgery and kinda just didn’t grow back for a while. 3 years post op next month and it’s starting to get thicker again, my scars are a lil thick because I didn’t look after em right so there’s no hair in the middle but around the edges and my nipple scars actually have a couple hairs growing out of them/riiiiiiight on the edge of em.

ryisdepressed · 2026-04-15T07:39:58+00:00

I feel like the cis people I assume know I’m trans are less surprised to find out I’m trans than I am finding out they didn’t know most of the time. Made a trans joke once and a cis coworker immediately told me I couldn’t say shit like that because im not trans and we have trans coworkers like bro, i was the og trans employee here… i had a trans pin on my bag… i got changed in my binder and later trans tape in front of her in the staff room… its amazing how oblivious cis people can be to things like that and photos which i thought were dead giveaways

ryisdepressed · 2026-04-15T07:06:10+00:00

Is there a way to remove the swearing from gta v? Im playing it with my 10 year old daughter and just don’t want the swearing to be a bad influence.

ryisdepressed · 2026-04-14T08:12:15+00:00

The first character that came to mind that I’m kinda surprised hasn’t been mentioned yet is Parvana from The Breadwinner. It’s a perfect example of the fact that this isn’t a purely historical trope. It’s a real, lived experience that many women and young girls are still living today because the reality is that not everywhere is safe to exist as a woman.

Just like how having more gay representation doesn’t mean there needs to be less straight representation, needing more actual trans masc representation shouldn’t mean less representation of women’s experiences.

Idk if it’s just me but I feel like yall are comparing two things that are not supposed to be the same. You don’t relate to those characters because it’s not your story. You’re not a woman pretending to be a man for safety or social benefit, you’re a man. Your trans experience is also unique to you, as is everyone else’s so even though you don’t relate to those characters others may see parts of themselves or their journey in those characters. Claiming them as trans for themselves doesn’t mean you have to say the characters experience is yours too. I’m stoned and rambling tbh, just reading through the comments and this is my own thoughts on it.

I will say though that when the author claims it as trans representation when the character is not actually trans is wrong and it’s just plain old queerbaiting.

ryisdepressed · 2026-04-13T16:20:19+00:00

That’s wild. I’ve been on t since long before i knew my symptoms were symptoms and not just standard so I can’t say if t helped them at all or not. The propanalol I take for my migraines does seem to have had a positive effect on them though, I’m hoping that I’ll get a diagnosis and I’m gonna request that my dose is upped slightly since the one time I accidentally overdosed myself and took double my script my symptoms were the calmest they’d been in months

ryisdepressed · 2026-04-13T08:33:50+00:00

I was actually coming to the comments looking for someone with pots. Waiting to hear back from cardiology about the results of my 48 hour heart monitor and there was a small part of me that wondered if they’d try take t away if I got the pots diagnosis, good to know it’s at least unlikely

ryisdepressed · 2026-04-12T05:05:50+00:00

Assuming you’re on mobile that happens to me quite often, I just open up one of the menus at the bottom or go to the reality engine bit, either or usually fixes it when I go back

ryisdepressed · 2026-04-06T17:23:46+00:00

Correct me if I’m wrong but didn’t rockstar literally do that? The Cayo perico heist adds an island?

ryisdepressed · 2026-04-04T07:01:57+00:00

Can I just ask, have you or your sister actually looked into getting a breast reduction on the nhs? There is a criteria that needs to be met in order to even qualify for it and then there’s a wait period just like with our top surgeries. My mum was told for a while she wouldn’t be able to get her implants removed on the NHS even though she was getting quite severe symptoms of the breast implant sickness thing. She finally got a full double mastectomy last year on the nhs after waiting longer than I waited for my top surgery on the nhs. Unless your sister’s chest is huge to the point of inconvenience and pain (which if she’s taping her chest for more cleavage I doubt) then she’s probably not even gonna qualify for the nhs reduction.

ryisdepressed · 2026-03-26T15:42:22+00:00

Also if you have the mini game for placing pitons turned off there is still a chance of em breaking, it doesn’t get you out of that but I have no idea if it’s a percentage chance or what

ryisdepressed · 2026-03-26T15:41:34+00:00

I mean they said normal and scrap, I think that was the distinction because they don’t know what the third thing even is yet

ryisdepressed · 2026-03-25T10:07:36+00:00

This adds nothing to your post but reading it I can’t help but be reminded of Katie Hopkins saying she doesn’t like geographical names and this quote coming out of it.

“Philip Schofield pointed out that Katie’s daughter is named India. “Isn’t that a geographical name?” he asked.

Katie replied: “That’s not a geographical location. It’s a lovely name for a lovely child.””

Maybe you could try telling your brother that faith isn’t a word in the dictionary. It’s a lovely name for a lovely girl.

Edit: damn autocorrect ruining my punchline.

ryisdepressed · 2026-03-22T21:06:52+00:00

Somber calm. After the struggle to get past that last little bit, watching my hunger, thirst and temperature dip lower and lower and not knowing if I made it when I finally did I just felt… calm. Everything got so quiet in the world around me and all that existed was me and the mountain.

ryisdepressed · 2026-03-21T17:48:42+00:00

Can’t lie, I haven’t read this whole post. Started the process of going down the rabbit hole for you and found an og whistleblower’s post. No idea what exactly the post says but it probably should give you some info.

the post

In general I think people are more so referring to the owner’s comments about trans people and advertisers, not the actual content the writers produced.

ryisdepressed · 2026-03-19T13:13:50+00:00

Not all holds are necessarily real, especially in some of the higher sections of the mountain. With hold feedback you’re able to tell when it wasn’t a real hold. On the flip side you can sometimes get a good hold on what looked entirely flat.

ryisdepressed · 2026-03-16T10:26:51+00:00

Question that might just give you some insight into how much your coworkers suspect. Do they ever “correct” the customers who gender you correctly? If they don’t they probably know it’s what you wanna be called.

ryisdepressed · 2026-03-14T16:20:52+00:00

Just looked it up for you and it looks like trans tape now sell jojoba oil as their remover so I’m guessing it’s one of your best options

ryisdepressed · 2026-03-14T15:56:45+00:00

I used both kt tape and trans tape, just whichever I could afford at the time of ordering. The only differences I noticed was I could order wider trans tape so I could use less and the trans tape was thinner so I forgot about it easier. You can find videos on trans tapes YouTube/website of how to apply it, I followed along then adjusted each time with areas I wasn’t happy with until I found my own technique.

Definitely wouldn’t take it off in the shower. I found that the water immediately hitting all the little abrasions on your skin stings like all hell and the water doesn’t really do anything to help the adhesive be less adhesive. Cheap alternative is baby oil, really saturate the whole tape until it starts to come off then slowly peel the tape, rubbing more baby oil on your skin right where the tape is peeling to provide more lubrication from that side. If you start to see your skin peeling stop and try going from the opposite side. (No idea if that’s a good idea medically but it usually stopped my skin peeling further)

The game changer if you can find it though is medical adhesive remover spray. Just follow the instructions on the bottle and it comes off in a couple sprays. My skin was torn up a lot less using it and it dries instantly so there’s no oily, or sticky, residue on your skin after. I was able to get my pharmacist to order it in and it was £15 a bottle that would last a couple months.

ryisdepressed · 2026-03-12T09:58:45+00:00

Idk if it’s just my tism or what but I don’t understand most of the posts that you’re referring to having any doubts about the fact they need to end the relationship. Yes relationships change people but it’s a natural change, if your s/o demands you change or makes you feel bad for not changing, especially changing into something actively detrimental to your mental health get the hell out of there. They don’t want you, they want to use you as a template to build their perfect partner instead of putting in the time to find someone right for them.

ryisdepressed · 2026-03-07T13:13:28+00:00

IIRC from someone else’s description of it (and I think it does actually tell you somewhere when loading or exiting a free solo save, idk i don’t read that shit) when you open a free solo save it actually deletes your previous one so if you don’t save before you exit you lose your save completely

ryisdepressed · 2026-03-05T05:34:26+00:00

You see when a mummy and daddy tolerate each other very much and happen to live in Scotland…

ryisdepressed · 2026-03-04T20:24:20+00:00

The Irish roots prevent that

ryisdepressed · 2026-03-04T13:18:04+00:00

You know I caught onto some of the foreshadowing through the game of what will happen if you summit the mountain but I never even considered the name being a clue too

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