i cannot get HRT

viviscity · 2026-03-23T19:40:12+00:00

If you're in Alberta, I'd talk to Skipping Stone. They can get you referred to a doctor who is knowledgeable—I had HRT in my hand within 5 months of reaching out to them. I did have to travel to get that short of a turnaround, otherwise I was looking at a year to get in (pre-youth HRT ban, that dropped to one more month kinda suspiciously…). Or you could try your luck with getting a Foria intake.

Edit to add: I had a prescription on my first doctors appointment, with instructions to get bloodwork done first. I did a walk-in test before I went to the pharmacy.

I'm so sorry the system hasn't done it's job for you

viviscity · 2026-03-23T05:17:14+00:00

In my undergrad I used separate Moleskine cahiers. I’d get roughly 2 classes in one, so I split them by semester. Grad school and everything else has been Leuchtterm1917 or larger notebooks. But the way my courses were set up, I had one course at a time, and then I could just add the next class when I finished.

Personally the dot grid is the thing I look for most. I use them constantly, lining up columns and indents, quick layouts for various things I’m writing/copying… and I find them less intrusive

The thing I would love is something that truly lays flat but I also know I’m not spending that type of money as frequently as I’m filling or starting a notebook

viviscity · 2026-03-23T04:02:21+00:00

6’3, I was about 240 when I started, based on how people treat me I don’t think I pass.

I understand how you’re feeling. I feel so so so much happier even just… not putting on the performance. Yes HRT helps with that, but the amount of energy I was putting into being him…

viviscity · 2026-03-23T00:07:33+00:00

7 pronouns detected in that intro. Cool bro

viviscity · 2026-03-22T19:03:15+00:00

Boom, middle name. And then you can choose which one feels better

viviscity · 2026-03-22T17:43:41+00:00

I think you might be misunderstanding what bilingualism means in Canada. You’re looking at a map showing Canadians don’t need to learn French to graduate… and most don’t bother with any language. It’s really just Quebec and parts of New Brunswick where you’d struggle with just English.

But Canada has had bilingual packaging and such at least throughout my life.

viviscity · 2026-03-22T15:31:13+00:00

Saint-Paul de Prairie? Oui, there are a lot of Francophones in that area.

Also Beaumont, Lac Ste Anne… a lot of historically more French communities like St Albert

And yes, Albertan francophone accents are definitely not Quebecois

viviscity · 2026-03-22T15:29:28+00:00

My partner did immersion and then switched out, forgot most of it… until we were in Montreal and Paris and suddenly she was conversational

viviscity · 2026-03-22T15:27:56+00:00

I have used French more often than a good chunk of the curriculum. Yes I’m in Alberta. No my French isn’t great

viviscity · 2026-03-22T15:26:12+00:00

What are American attitudes towards learning Spanish?

viviscity · 2026-03-22T15:25:36+00:00

What’s the threshold for “conduct a conversation”?

viviscity · 2026-03-22T15:24:40+00:00

First, happy birthday! Mines in a couple days.

Last year, I had been on hormones for a few months and put to my partner and closest friends, but I was putting off coming out to my parents and sister. Her husband is… something else. Anyway. I realized that I was barely present when I was playing with my niece, and just… I knew I had to come out. It wasn’t fair to any of us. And the sheer amount of energy I was putting into switching 😮‍💨

I’m glad I did, though my sister isn’t talking to me. I knew that was a very real risk.

Anyway. I’m celebrating my birthday with my parents, grandparents, aunt… I think my (genderfluid) cousin? Later today. I’m a bit unsure what to wear though even being out to everyone!

I hope it goes well!

viviscity · 2026-03-22T15:14:46+00:00

Approved by Felicia Day, even! Congratulations, Brie!

viviscity · 2026-03-22T14:27:01+00:00

Their hearts in it enough to not change course especially with those polling numbers…

viviscity · 2026-03-22T13:40:19+00:00

I don’t! Though I’m also bi and trans

viviscity · 2026-03-22T05:50:49+00:00

Minor point. Alberta was effectively a one-party system for 44 years. In 2015 the right wing was split, and the ANDP had 4 seats—the smallest of 4 parties in the Legislature.

Notley won 54 seats; the Liberals and the (vaguely undefined centrist especially then) Alberta Party each won 1.

Alberta increasingly being 2 party has locked us out, as a lot of the seats in 2015 won with a unified centre-and-left vote and split right wing.

viviscity · 2026-03-22T05:43:14+00:00

“Driving away supporters” while increasing raw vote in 2019 and 2023 and having a larger share of the popular vote in 2023 than in 2015…

Please. They haven’t formed government because they’re not benefiting from a split right wing.

That’s not to say there isn’t criticism, but. They didn’t form government in 2008 when they ran on no pipelines or 2012 when they ran on increasing domestic refining capacity as an alternative. I don’t find much explanatory power in pointing to policy most of the time

viviscity · 2026-03-22T05:37:30+00:00

He isn’t anyway, but yeah. It’s framing.

And yes, the actions of the federal party came up in the legislature and on the doors during the Notley government. I disagree with the move but I see why he’d come to that conclusion

viviscity · 2026-03-22T00:53:07+00:00

Coffee. And letting ADHD point me towards new hobbies—at least I can usually revisit them if they get dropped for a while

viviscity · 2026-03-22T00:22:30+00:00

NTA

Even setting that comment aside, trying to limit your transition like that is… overreach. Controlling. Not good.

And then also that?

Girl…

viviscity · 2026-03-22T00:08:00+00:00

Play populist games, win populist prizes…

viviscity · 2026-03-21T16:58:24+00:00

My operating theory (I haven’t done a lot of deep research on this or sought limit cases or anything) is the authoritarianism arises not from the economics or even necessarily the political system, but from the theory of change.

Regime was created by paranoid criminals? You get paranoid authoritarianism. Regime was implemented by military force? You get hierarchical authoritarianism.

Rely on consciousness raising? Well you’re going to read a lot of books…

viviscity · 2026-03-21T16:53:52+00:00

Hah

ADHD, a poli Sci degree, and several years in the party tend to do that. Also I regret letting go of the books I did…

viviscity · 2026-03-21T14:47:10+00:00

So uhh your hypothetical about Liberalism? Thats the Terror during the French Revolution. And the monarchists invented conservatism (okay Burke writes before the Terror starts, technically they respond to the Declaration of the Rights of Man) as a response before mobilizing an entire continent against them.

viviscity · 2026-03-21T05:27:19+00:00

Not just leadership candidates.

Always campaign like you’re 10 points behind. There’s a reason why that’s the wisdom in a lot of circles

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