One of the most basic facts about biology we have known for decades is that a woman’s estrogen levels are supposed to go up and down quite significantly during the course of her cycle. A cycle that starts around the same time as Puberty and which ends during menopause.
It makes no sense to me that in spite this being common knowledge doctors and even fellow trans people will parrot the idea that you can just average a woman’s cycle out and as long as you stay around that average (often far below average) you’ll be fine.
To me this comes from the transphobic idea that trans women and cis women are these fundamentally different creatures who respond to estrogen very definitely.
I didn’t test this intentional at first but “luckily” Hrt isnt a thing in my country (trans people as far as the medical system is concerned don’t exist) so I’ve been forced to DIY. As a result of fumbling around trying to figure out my doses without really checking levels I came to realize multiple things.
My sex drive changes depending on my dose. High doses meant for the week my libido would be very high low doses meant the opposite.
Where I felt changes (my skin stretching from fat redistribution) changed depending on dosage. Typically a lower dose meant more chest development while a higher dose meant I felt more stretching in my hips)
Emotional changes where either more present or less present depending levels
After doing a bit o research I found that all these things are natural things the majority of women go through during their cycle.
The trans people who completely lose their ability to have a libido are likely just on a dose which represents a low for them and since they constantly stay at a low they don’t experience what their natural libido is supposed to be.
And on the flip side the trans people who become hyper sexual have the reverse issue. They are constantly at a level which represents a “high” for them meaning they never get a break from it and are also robbed of what a natural libido is supposed to feel like.
I’m tired of people trying to claim at x dose you should experience changes as if looking feminine is the only function of estrogen in the human body and as if “average levels” Don’t already look way different from person to person.
Trans women are normal women and shouldn’t be robbed of as natural of a hormone system as possible. Our current system is working backwards from the idea that trans women are just men who “want” To look like women when that’s not true.
Haha, yeah, on the gpt thing, remember, LLMs as they are implemented today, are the Plagiarism Machines.
Rich fucks trained their models on the entirety of the internet, and what is the internet full of? Forums of people giving useful information to each other. People who learned to format their responses using Markdown (what gives you the italics-bold-bullets-etc to use, here on Lemmy as well), as best they could, to get their points across.
Text that is, in my opinion just well written, has become the aesthetic of chat gpt and others, like innumerable other times in the history of rich assholes. And that makes me feel both mad, and mad (lol).
I went back to the original comment, and dialed down the appeasement, and increased the passive-aggressiveness, to get my point more across, and be less “LLMy”, in the first couple sentences haha
Honestly the use of “datal” does sound really interesting and cool! It makes sense in today’s context, and fills an interesting niche, for which I can’t think of another word right now.
And it being a pleasure to speak with me, is a great compliment, haha, thank you 😄
Also based on you using
Have you read qntm’s Antimemetics division, like so many other trans people? I swear, when I heard the Wachowski sisters use the word “memetics” in an interview, I was so excited. If you haven’t, I highly recommend it, I think you personally, would like it a lot, from what I can tell about you.