WalrusDragonOnABike [they/them]

My mom ended up with stage 4 cervical cancer (she recovered) because of her wife at the time (the person who birthed us) cheating on her and giving her STDs she was unaware of and didn’t realize she needed to be getting more frequent checkups. I still agree with you, but I also have a hard time being mad at someone for passing on information that could be important to other’s health depending on the motivation. Idk much about cishet relationships though.

Wouldn’t that be minors? Still, every group except young children were about the same, so minors as a whole would still be lower than non-minors.

They should just learn to edit the pdfs if they’re sent with actual text.

Young children were like half the rate of adults and adolescents. Even if you averaged the 6-11 in with them, they’d still be below adults and adolescents.

We know it’s a patent suit though. Just because the article focuses on specific patents doesn’t mean those parents are not already ridiculous and that the lawsuit, even if it’s not based on those specific patents, is also ridiculous.

Severe/morbid obesity is a BMI of 40+, rather than 30 for obese. I’ve been at the low end of that briefly and started getting out of breath doing things like going to my car, so I immediately decided to drop weight. Bar things like severe depression or significant medical issues, I don’t see how people are able to maintain that kind of weight when it has such an obvious direct impact on quality of life.

Curious if the survey also included children, where the rates tend to be lower.

Oh yeah… no clue how I forgot about that. Guess I was specifically thinking about Clinton/Bush because they’re the ones who’ve had multiple in the family on the ballot.

Nixon, Ford, Carter were 70’s, not after the 70’s. Reagan’s VP was a Bush, wasn’t it? Maybe they’re also including the primary ballots to count Clinton in 2008? But I don’t think she ran in 2012…

Driving to work and Nandemonaiya by Radwimps starts playing, so I think about Your Name/Kimi no Na wa and suddenly feel like I’m about to cry hard. Probably would have if I wasn’t about to laugh at how silly that felt. E be weird sometimes.

Ye. I still use my (very male-only) birthname and the provider made sure to double check that is what I wanted her to use in the appointment. Glad informed consent exists because annoying gatekeepers probably wouldn’t have like that, among other things.

Sweet. It’s cool when brain decides to be nice to us in your dreams.

Its kinda weird reading something from 1995 saying something like

There’s a lot of writing about gender now. I keep reading the magazine articles, the newspaper columns, and the text books, pre- and postmodern. I read, watch, and listen to all the ads and commercials. You can learn a lot about gender from those commercials. I’ve also been watching the talk shows, listening to the call-in programs, and browsing the electronic bulletin boards. When I was very young, growing up in the 50s, I read the medical texts, devoured the tabloids, and hoarded the pornography—because I was intensely interested in me and my people.

Like, I was too young then to be noticing such, but its still weird seeing that when I don’t think I really had even a vague idea of what transsexual/transgender was until probably the late 00’s or maybe even early 10’s. My parents frequently took us to LGBT family events as young children, so I wonder how much representation the T’s got or if it was almost exclusively the LGB at those? Doubt I’d have noticed though… I remember one time being at a church my parents had taken us to occasionally (mostly for Christmas service) and I had missed that it was largely an LGBT church until I was in the middle of high school because I simply didn’t notice all the same-sex couples (suddenly it made sense why my mom went so far out of the way to go to that church). So maybe I was just oblivious.

Personally used PP. Had a virtual appointment and part of the sign-up is clicking a dropdown menus/box telling them why you are scheduling the appointment, so they already know what you want. For my appointment, they were like “what are your goals?” and I was a basically a deer in the headlights and they were like “that’s okay, but its good to know what you aiming for” and then asked if I wanted both E and anti-androgen or just one (I put non-binary for my gender when I signed up, so that might have influenced their questions) and asked what form of E I wanted (I went with pills at first). If you are taking anti-androgens (I did), in the US the standard is spiro, which can cause high potassium, so they’ll probably do a blood test to make sure you’re K isn’t already high (mine did not test baseline levels of T or E). For virtual, you’d get bloodwork done at a place like labcorp (at least for me, they couldn’t tell the appointment was from planned parenthood). There should also either be a discussion of potential effects/side-effects or give you paperwork explaining that.

Follow-up for seeing how your levels are doing and possibly adjusting how much you take is at 3 months. If things are already good, follow-ups might be spaced out more.

Lol. Can’t help but follow up “harder” with “better” and if that was already done, i’d have to go with “faster”.

“Oh, you hate the ‘feminization’ of western culture? Well we’re all gonna go see the most feminine movie we can over and over, that’ll show 'em!

Also think there were some guys who’d do things like ‘crossdress’ to go watch it and such? Idk… just what I heard 2nd hand. Never seen it.

Post better.

I had no issue with prescriptions getting covered by insurance. Informed consent clinics are still just doctors. So… just a matter of finding one covered by insurance. I went with PP because my insurance covered them and they had virtual options (I’ve met with them once during my lunch break at work for a follow up; super-convenient).

As long as the prescription doesn’t require pre-approval processes, it shouldn’t be an issue. And also good doctors will just lie to insurance companies who demand preapproval to get things to be covered when they’re necessary.

If you are in the US, you don’t need to talk to a psychiatric person to get HRT in most places. Informed consent clinics* do exist: https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?mid=1DxyOTw8dI8n96BHFF2JVUMK7bXsRKtzA&ll=37.77742828588296%2C-103.34469751119877&z=4

Personally, I haven’t ever talked to such a person. But if informed consent is an option, then perhaps the focus should be a broader discussion about gender and goals (which would include HRT) rather than specifically HRT?

Or from the foul zone.

I knew gendered bathrooms were created by Big Bathroom to sell more bathrooms! /j

If gendered bathrooms weren’t the norm, I’m curious how frequently people ignored it when it they first encountered them.