Doing so would be a valuable contribution to the discussion and morally good so I sure hope so

Mastodon is also not backed by any major donor and also has a better UI??

This comment kinda makes it clear that it’s your service and you’re plugging it though so I’m glad I could have that suspicion of mine confirmed

what does this have that Mastodon doesn’t?

and why is the very first thing I see on the starting page a slur?

the privacy policy is a fucking nightmare

and also you have literal nazis on your trending

lmao this place sucks

I like the taste of coffee a lot, I also really don’t like the caffeine high so I order decaf more often than not. Some people don’t like the taste; they drink it for the caffeine high, although most of them end up getting white chocolate mochas or frappuccinos is something

I initially uploaded a gif, it looks like that breaks things, especially in jerboa. I replaced it with a different graph to the same effect.

Perfect case of Betteridge’s law of headlines. No, the AIDS pandemic is not ending. Almost nobody has access to this level of care and that will not change until we fix some other things (you can all see my home instance lol). But this is promising for our understanding of the virus and the human body as a whole, so it’s not sensationalism, just overly optimistic.

ummm fuckign absolutely

They’ll keep doing it though. Maybe not with this one creator, for the sake of proving that they get final say whenever they want, but all the other anti-vax content will stay up, because it’s profitable.

yeah, most of us over here tend to be upset about the fact that our tax dollars get spent on genocide and then people get defensive when we even say it. I’m frustrated by a lot of defenders but I answered the question honestly, those are the worst.

Defending US military intervention. I’ve heard people defend US intervention in Korea, I’ve heard people defend US intervention in Vietnam, I’ve heard people defend US intervention in the middle east, hell, I’ve heard people defend dropping the bombs on Japan. Shit’s wild.

OHH lmao that’s what I get for trying to focus on three things at once, no that’s actually hilarious now that I actually read it correctly without my brain doing word swaps

“documented” is tricky because very little of this is super well documented, seeing as trans people are a super small and, even proportionately to their small numbers, understudied minority in medical science. this is largely a community communication effort and a lot of the knowledge is not done through academic study. that being said, it does seem like it’s talked about a lot less in the transmasc community, so possibly? on paper, the mechanism of action (tendon/ligament/muscle changes) goes both ways, but I haven’t really seen many transmascs talk about it, so I don’t know for sure!

I’d even go further and confidently call it causal. This is very much a thing that happens soon after ( < 1 year but mileage varies) you start gender affirming hormone therapy, at any age. nobody’s fully sure on the exact causes, but the one most certain thing is that it’s a multitude of factors - potentially, but also not limited to, the blend of tightness/looseness of ligaments and tendons that hold your pelvis neutral, the muscle mass and strength of muscles involved in posture, the amount of fat/weight your pelvis has to carry, and for trans people lucky enough to start gender affirming hormone therapy during puberty, the actual bone shape of your pelvis (although this last one shouldn’t be too overstated - again, transfems transitioning well into their 50s and 60s notice changes in gait, balance, and posture).

lol yes, you’re spot on. Facial Masculinization Surgery exists as well for transmascs, but it’s a lot less common because, well, I’m not fully sure? but getting a beard for the first time in your life does wonders for transmasc gender euphoria and is often plenty enough for most transmascs.

I’m not sure of the rates although I know a huge number, probably a very large majority, of transfems only take E and sometimes a T blocker. I can also tell you that after a while on E, facial fat and muscle will redistribute to create a more feminine face. Many people are happy at that but some more want additional feminization and that’s where FFS comes in!

(statistics are very poor because us trans folks are an extremely under-studied minority as well as a moving target because of changing culture and treatment modalities, so I wouldn’t trust most studies purporting to know statistics on things like how many transfems get FFS besides being a ballpark range)

hi! just so we’re clear, there’s no “the” surgery, there’s a number of surgeries that trans people get: phalloplasty, vaginoplasty, mastectomy, breast implants, FFS, the lot of them. generally, most of these surgical interventions don’t do too much to whole body musculature and are more localized, although having/not having a pair of boobies that you weren’t/were used to can do a lot to your balance, but that’s not the main thing that changes posture, center of gravity, etc.

possibly more relevant to the question, one of the most common medical interventions is hormone therapy, and this will absolutely change your musculature, flexibility, strength, and more. Transfems on E will see dramatic changes in their strength, muscle mass, and flexibility to be much more in line with cisfems, and transmascs will see similar but opposite. it’s a super common meme among transfems who are dating cis women that they have to hand over jars to their cis girlfriends to open after starting E. Transmascs often report gaining an inch or two of height on T, transfems often report losing an inch or two of height on E, with no other interventions. Some people see shoe size changes, postural changes, more. there’s no universally agreed upon cause for this but the current leading theories are that it’s a combination of fat redistribution, muscle mass changes, and changes in tension in various tendons and ligaments. Anterior Pelvic Tilt is probably the largest cause of changes in postural change in trans people (and it’s caused exclusively by GAHT), so if you’re looking to learn more, that’s probably the first thing you may want to read up on!

so to more explicitly answer the question, starting E will add a lot of fat to your lower body and remove a lot of muscle from your upper body, cause your pelvis to tilt, and more, and starting T will add a lot of muscle to your upper body and remove a lot of fat from your lower body, cause your pelvis to tilt, and more.

i’m super comfy with good faith questions btw so if you have more, feel free to ask me!

willing to bet if you ask it 100 times it’ll be a white man for over 90 of them

Remember, when a corporation says they’ll donate something when you buy something, like rounding up to the nearest dollar or donating $0.25 for every purchase, they are doing it because they were going to throw their money at some 501©(3) for tax reasons anyways and they figured they’d make it a big opportunity to publicly launder their reputation as an ad campaign

If you want to donate, never let a grocery store round up for you and take your tax write-off so they can pay even lower taxes subsidized by you, just donate $10 every month or so and take the tax writeoff yourself.

allllmost

Titanius Anglesmith, that’s 8 out of 18 letters for 44%

That was my intention with plugging The Will to Change, it’s definitely not a “here’s why men suck” piece, it’s a feminist analysis on all of the unique harms that men are subjected to under patriarchy, how those manifest, and how to heal from them. Any analysis of the suffering of men under patriarchy that lands on individual responsibility as a cause for psychological suffering is a bad one.