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Cake day: November 26th, 2020

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  • These all seem like pretty typical signs of transness to me, but imo that doesn’t really mean a lot because feelings around transness vary quite a bit from person to person. I think since you are already questioning, the better way to see if it is for you is to experiment with yourself a little. If you have people you can trust to be cool, maybe explain your feelings to them and ask them to refer to you with a different name or pronouns in private, just as a test run. Or maybe try the same but by making an account online somewhere, if anonymity is a concern. If you’ve got the money, maybe pick out an outfit that you can wear for yourself. Or maybe try painting your nails or getting them done. If these things make you happy, that’s probably a good sign to continue, and if not, then you can just change back, no harm done.








  • So I went looking for more details on this story, and it seems like there is a bit of a catch here in that the patient here was (is?) taking immunosuppressants for the liver transplant mentioned in the SCMP article. (Source: https://archive.ph/4kUXJ) Of course, this is still great news and a major victory! The results of this treatment are incredible and very exciting for the future. The two other participants in this trial apparently also have had very positive results, and are approaching a year of being insulin injection free themselves. The SCMP story mentions that she had already undergone an unsuccessful pancreatic islet cell transplant, so hopefully the success of this treatment is a sign of great things to come.

    By the way, does anyone know of a mirror for this research paper? I was hoping to give it a read, but it’s locked behind a paywall.