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GeneralVincent

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  • Should I start progesterone right away?

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  • I'm not sure that's the best source. I don't see any links to sources for the progesterone claims, and there's a bunch of fear mongering regarding doctors and official medical advice. Like

    Don't give a vial into the hands of a doctor, he'd destroy it. Doctors are jealous.

    and

    Medical professionals routinely make mistakes in both directions: approve crazy people and unnecessarily delay transsexuals who'll not regret.

    and

    Endos are used to such approach, it keeps them busy and paid. With the only goal to maximize quantity of doctor visits paid by patients or insurance, gangs of American endos write guidelines how to treat transsexuals: with same approach. All the numbers in such guidelines and all the bogeyman stories about side effects of estradiol are bullshit. "Normal range" is from measurements of 90% of healthy people: 5% of lowest and 5% of highest results are discounted. Normal range of estradiol for pregnancy is up to 40000 pg/ml = 147000 pmol/l. In a group of 86 pregnant women estradiol level was up to 75137 pg/ml = 275753 pmol/l: http://cebp.aacrjournals.org/content/12/5/452.figures-only. Pregnant women don't drop dead from such estradiol level, so you wouldn't even if your peak reaches 5000 pg/ml. It's even darker than that: the numbers in guidelines are chosen deliberately low to force transsexuals to pay for more doctor visits to beg for more estradiol. Doctors also recall the mantra in their gospels (textbooks) about estrogens: dosage the less the better, stop as soon as possible. They never realize that this mantra was written in the fear of uterine cancer. And that you haven't an uterus.

    I appreciate the link to source here at least, but I think the logic is flawed and not the best advice. I totally get assuaging fears of estradiol overdose, but peak estradiol isn't the same as sustained, long term elevated levels.

    Also, saying there's no evidence for low dose methods-

    So they claim that it's allegedly better. Doctors in other countries parrot that. There isn't any evidence. People repeat doctors' claims.

    -but then advocating for higher dose with no research evidence seems like hypocrisy to me

  • Resilient Zelensky tells BBC Putin has started WW3 and must be stopped

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  • You're posting propaganda when your statement has no source and is not supported by evidence

    19.4% The percentage of Ukrainian land occupied by Russia, according to the Institute for the Study of War. Over the past year, Russia has gained just 0.79% of Ukraine's territory in the grinding war of attrition, the Washington-based think tank said in calculations provided earlier this month to The Associated Press, underscoring the little progress Moscow's forces have made despite huge costs in troops and armor.

    Source: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/4-years-into-russias-invasion-of-ukraine-a-look-at-the-war-by-the-numbers

    Their kingdom is still defending itself incredibly well against the larger nation after four years, with Russia taking extremely heavy loses with no clear sign of victory on either side. The recent fighting has gained barely any ground at all for Russia

  • He's so close to getting it...

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  • What do you think the solution to that problem is?

  • Grapefruit Redbull

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  • Yup, I made a bad generalization. My bad, and to be clear I'm not a doctor or anything.

    Some SSRIs may have an interaction with grapefruit. But grapefruit interacts with different medications differently, and it's not based on the class of medication, it's med specific.

    e.g. Sertraline (Zoloft) is an SSRI and is listed as having an interaction with grapefruit

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grapefruit%E2%80%93drug_interactions

    Eta: thanks for calling that out, I've learned some interesting things, for example;

    Ketamine: After drinking 200 mL of grapefruit juice daily for five days, the overall absorption of orally ingested ketamine was increased three-fold compared to the control group in a clinical trial. The peak blood ketamine concentration was increased over two-fold.

  • Grapefruit Redbull

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  • Russian journal banned from writing on same-sex animal behavior without expressing disgust for it

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  • "Male penguins may exhibit homosexual behavior. However, as the author, I would like to make it clear I would NEVER have gay sex with a male penguin. That's gross. I would only ever have sex with a woman penguin, as Putin would want."

  • QWERTY Phones Are Really Trying to Make a Comeback This Year

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  • It's not exactly the same but the Clicks phone keyboard is touch sensitive so you can swipe on the keyboard, and the button on the side has a notification LED

  • sometimes we get lost in the sauce

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  • Pretty sure thats the point tho, there are often multiple different explanations for each mystery. So having a diverse group of archeologists is beneficial to get as many theories as possible.

    So the 'gotcha' by the professor probs isnt a 'this is definitely the only explanation', it's just to have the students question their biases and seek diverse opinions.

  • Women’s Institute will no longer accept trans women as members from April

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  • Well not overnight obviously, I'm sure it has to go through a board of directors and have a vote for it. My comment may have come off a bit more flippant then intended tbh. But I'm not aware of any legal reason they can't go that route though, but I'm not in the UK so ¯(ツ)/¯

    I did find this, which I think is relevant. https://the-icm.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/CC363.pdf

  • Women’s Institute will no longer accept trans women as members from April

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  • What legal reasons? They're not legally bound to only accept cis women, its just one of their own rules. They don't have to go through the courts, they can change their bylaws to include trans women. Or whatever verbiage they need.

    Unless I'm missing something, they have no legal obligation to keep the same bylaws as an organization. Then there's no basis for a terf to sue.

    ETA: whoop, missed this part of the article apparently;

    Green said the organisation wanted trans women to remain “part of the WI family” and that from April it would launch new “sisterhood groups”, open to all, which would be “a place where we will recognise transgender women as women and explore what it is to be a woman in the 21st century."

    So if that's possible, then it seems absurd that the main organization could be at risk of legal action

  • Who do the ACAB rules apply to?

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  • Kinda, but the big difference is being a man is an identity and not a choice, while being a cop is entirely an intentional choice.

    So we should be empathetic to the perspective and struggles of women while trying not to demonize men as an identity.

  • The Palantir Stare aka The Thiel Razzle

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  • I was curious how he tracked that

    https://talktoadam.com/adam-sensor

    Found it. Kinda tempted to try it as a trans woman, HRT typically lowers the number of random erection. Wonder if there's any, or what 'AndroAge" it thinks I am

  • Fact

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  • I found the original, a video by sagewind_farmstead (instagram, tiktok, youtube, etc)

    eta: looks like she has hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, which could explain the legs and arms looking a bit different

  • Trans Rights Are Workers Rights

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  • Yeah a bunch of maga think that's an insult, and not just evidence of their cruelty and ignorance.

    also yeah i just copy and pasted tbh so could be ai used by the source, ~ ~idk

  • Donald Trump Is Reportedly Considering Commuting Diddy’s Sentence This Week

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  • I doubt it's trump being smart, but... since the 2016 election, his support from young black men has doubled. That might have something to do with him pardoning Lil Wayne, Kodak Black(pedo rapist pos), and NBA YoungBoy. He probably has some advisors picking people to pardon that will boost his abysmal reputation among certain minorities.

    And it gets him the attention and headlines that he so desperately craves.

  • Trans Rights Are Workers Rights

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  • A 2020 academic study with a sample size of 372 respondents found that 40 percent of transgender people had attempted suicide. It found that interpersonal microaggressions and emotional neglect by family members were the leading contributors to the attempts.

    Similarly, in 2016, the National Transgender Discrimination Survey found that 41 percent of 6,450 respondents said they had previously attempted suicide. By comparison, the CDC found that in 2020, 0.36 percent of the population had attempted suicide.

    According to a 2022 survey by The Trevor Project, an LGBTQ+ suicide prevention organization, nearly 1 in 5 young people who identified as transgender or non-binary have attempted suicide.

    Meanwhile, a 2018 study of more than 120,000 children age 11 to 19 found that 41.8 percent of non-binary adolescents—those who do not identify as definitively male or female—had attempted suicide

    source

  • Spotify to Continue Running ICE Recruitment Ads as Boycotts Grow

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  • I really like Tidal, feels similar to Spotify at a similar or lower cost, surprisingly wide music selection, decent music discovery and suggestions, offline download and hifi audio, etc.

  • Federal agents shoot woman they say 'boxed in' authorities on Chicago's South Side

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  • Is this... is this a headline that doesn't use a passive voice to describe people being shot by cops? Good on them

  • Doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results is not the definition of insanity. It's the definition of practice.

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  • "Einstein wasn't talking about anything at all, since it's a misattribution. Einstein never said that. Someone just stuck Einstein's name in front of their own stupid garbage quote to make it sound smarter." - Einstein, 2025