“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.
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.
Kinda feels that way. My mom never cared about how we fit gender norms at home… As long as we didn’t go out in a way that was too transgressive for others. Whether it being worried about us being bullied by other children in school (or worried about potentially losing custody of us) or worried about harassment from cop as adult. Not to say she isn’t also transphobic or didn’t gender me as male, but as a young child I didn’t worry about things like playing dress up or playing with dolls or nail polish (although I don’t think my mom liked that last part because of how hard it is to get off and the no presenting like that outside implicit rule).
But between the implicit rule implying it was something to hide and clear societal expectations, I no longer would freely engage in those kinds of things by early adolescence even at home. Even then, she might have at one point offered to buy me a bra in seriousness, but I’m not confident in my memory of that and the only other person who would potentially know is her and I don’t want to ask.
Guess dream brain took my comment here as a challenge and decided to make me look like a girl in my dream. Still not something I’ve consciously done - I’m not usually able to do that sort of visualization even intentionally, so I kinda suspect it still just borrowed from somewhere else.
Even that’s context dependent. Plenty of cultures that just considers boobs hanging out normal. My household wasn’t one of them (although my mom also just assumed everyone was asleep if it was 4am when we were young children and she was just going from the bath to her bedroom). Personally always thought it was stupid women’s chests were treated different then men’s.
Calling me out like that. xD Maybe it is because I’m basically never in a rut, especially since starting HRT, that I don’t think much of those I live with seeing me topless. No complaints so far… but one of them has difficulty expressing dissenting opinions. The other, my brother, offered to measure my boobs just this week while I was topless and we were ordering t-shirts and I wasn’t sure what size I should get, so pretty sure he doesn’t care (but we’re siblings, so rutting season doesn’t apply anyways and he’s also ace-spec I think).
you don’t even notice any secondary sex characteristics even. What a relief!
Would that mean people don’t notice their own secondary sex characteristics too?
That’s sounds like a lot of people watching porn of Jeff and Dunham fucking. I think the most we ever had over watching a fairly pornographic movie was like 5 or 6 people? /j
Actually don’t really know much about Dunham’s work. Is it any good?
Did anyone else experience “imagining yourself as the opposite gender” like this?
For sure. Imaging something that doesn’t already exist is hard. I don’t have the mental image creativity for that. So… if I ever thought about myself as a girl, it would have to have been either without a mental image or using something else that I’ve already seen. That said, by high school I mostly just repressed thoughts like that. I don’t remember enough to remember before that. After that, the only time I really did that was in sexual fantasy (which I considered allowed to be a self-judgement-free time). Like… I’m sure there were still exceptions. Like I remember one time not long before egg-cracking when I use using an umbrella as a parasol and sorta imagined myself as Edna from Tales of Zesteria because she uses umbrellas/parasols as weapons.
Also, I did go through a period of a couple years where I had a typically to use crossover crossdressing anime characters for my profile picture, which seems like its probably somewhat adjacent…
The guy sounds unfortunately normal… which is a problem. Hets are so used to the constant enforcement of heterosexuality that any deviation from that is somehow seen as an attack. Like how white male christian republicans in the US seem to always think they’re the victim.
Not bi/homosexual, but still a fan of anti-heteronormative jokes and have never had a problem with people assuming I was gay. I can see why someone who was het might not like that since potential partners would assume they’re not interest, but that’s not an issue for people assuming you’re bi…
I wonder how many barely used bottles I have somewhere or another. I only even both taking them because others tell me I should because things are supposed to hurt a lot and after like the first day after a surgery, I’ve only really taken them at night to make sure the supposed pain doesn’t start while I’m trying to sleep.
Hopefully I’ll get my desktop working again soon, so I can start using my ebike again for commuting again
I’d like to be able to try dealing with that amount of hair, but I suspect I’d somehow hurt myself because of it.
Was your brother my 6th grade history+english teacher who spent more of class time having recess or playing Risk (the board game) than anything else?
Lol. Can’t help but follow up “harder” with “better” and if that was already done, i’d have to go with “faster”.