1. Most bodybuilder cycles shoot for higher than 3x the high of the range (300-1000), plus all kinds of other gear. 2. They do prescribe transmen the lower half of the range, probably less for teenagers. 3. The effects of testosterone are not perfectly linear or equivalent among all men. It’s hard to arm-chair…

F2M generally will read after female puberty. My F2M support group looks like a short-man therapy group. Nobody looks at a short man with small hands and thinks, transgender man. However, many of us would have preferred to have avoided top surgery and a lifetime of being a few inches shorter, with wider hips.

It’s a psychologically diagnosed condition, and this is the recommended treatment. It takes a patient, therapist, doctor and parent to all agree on the treatment plan. It’s not a tattoo.

The standards of care are very cautious. It involves the adolescents, therapists, doctors and parents in a conversation. Puberty blockers which are relatively safe and reversible are generally used at the onset of puberty till around 16. It’s only then transgender adolescence are prescribed cross-sex hormones. The…

To be fair, sometimes that’s what you have to do to remember people’s pronouns. I know a guy that has had no medical interventions. It took almost a year of being super conscious of his trans identity to start thinking of him as a guy, at least most of the time. Brains are wired to notice/determine gender. This is why…

Transguy here. Your discomfort is probably around ambiguity in some transpeople than transpeople themselves. Lots of people, even the most open-minded people, tend to have a visceral deep discomfort with ambiguity of gender/sex. Even many transpeople struggle. I now read 100% male to people after medical transition,…

Yeah, co-sign. Though in my experience biphobia has been expressed more about  the fear of being left, and for a relationship with the perks of heteronormativity.

Yeah, people have this idea that gay means down with minorities. There are plenty of well-off gay masculine white men that can’t wait to sell everyone behind them down the river.

Was “...stop pissing on intelligence community” to on the nose?

Yeah, you would need a mad doctor with no ethics to help you out. They would be able to tell it wasn’t your gebetics.

The IVF rhythm method.

Amen. Even just understanding the process enough to know conception is necessary but not nearly sufficient for a viable pregnancy, and what things like plan B actual do.

It’s crazy people are so ignorant about arguably the most important part of human anatomy. Thanks Puritans!...“...like Chuck Liddell with ovaries, it’s like—and minus the testes....”

Sorry, comments don’t always appear threaded, making them more context-free than they should sometimes.

Yes, I am using basic as “standard of care” which is kind of what insurance and HMOs are meant to cover. My sister is being treated in a multistage, multiyear, complicated procedure for a growing benign brain tumor. It’s not simple, but it’s the basic, standard of care for that ailment. Prisoners referred for similar…

More and more it is covered with regular insurance. But a MTF vaginoplasty is more around 20-30k.

It’s a treatment that’s been used for transpatients for over 40 years and has been proven effective at alleviating severe psychological distress from gender dysphoria. There is no other known effective treatment for severe dysphoria. That sounds like basic care to me.

Body dysmorphia and gender dysphoria are not the same things. Surgery tends to exacerbate the former and alleviate the latter. Which is why it is not a treatment for the former but is for the later. You can make the argument that prisoners should only have surgery that keeps them with a pulse, or maybe not even that.…

The suicide rate of untreated patients is much higher than the rest of the population. Imagine knee pain so bad suicide wouldn’t be an uncommon reusult without treatment. A knee replacement would technically be elective surgery, but not treating inmates for a condition like that would be considered a form of cruel and…

Think of it at incredibly painful knee condition. So painful, some people commit suicide to escape the pain. Gender dysphoria can a very torcherous mental condition for people, one of the reasons for high suicide rates. Knee surgery is also elective, and often covered for inmates.