/lgbt/ - LGBT

I don't use public pools, which is probably a factor as to why I've never been all that dysphoric aside from my face.

I don't think that's it at all. Maybe for some people, I'm sure. For myself, my wife, and many others I've talked about this with, though, bottom dysphoria very explicitly comes from itself - the physical sensation of having the wrong thing there is upsetting, as if you have a foreign entity attached to your body and continuously assaulting it with alien sensations.
A different society or set of categorizations wouldn't help at all in this scenario.

I've actually often seen this used as an example of whether you should get SRS or not - "If the world was happy with your current body and it didn't have any trouble categorizing you, would you still want SRS?" If no, some would say it's not worth it, since you're not even "doing it for you" so to speak. Obviously that depends on your own personal priorities, though.

When I got SRS myself, fitting a category was the furthest thing from my mind. I just wanted the fucking cancerous growth gone so it would stop dealing me constant psychic damage.

https://www.thepelvichub.com/blogs/ask-the-experts/do-i-have-to-use-dilators-forever-after-srs?
Sounds terrible

>>5591
That article seems to be missing some crucial information and falling for classic conservative talking points - for example, it isn't at any point "an open wound", that would be ridiculous as it would imply that penetrating it would lead to nothing but blood and insides, which isn't even remotely true. Any actual "wound" material is protected by stitches til it heals away.

It's just an area between your legs that's being acted upon by muscles a lot since you, y'know, walk. So the muscles will contract it. Likewise, your muscles can help open it up again. Ask anyone who's ever done kegels - the muscles in your crotch area can be trained like any others.

And, of course, a huge percentage of women have to do kegels and other exercises in that area, because these areas can be damaged in childbirth or simply not work right sometimes…
Which makes this the millionth example of people being scared and confused by something just because most cishet men don't have to deal with it. Big surprise.

Outside of the initial dilation to help the area heal right, which could indeed take many months, you can generally go months at a time between dilations and even undo shrinkage if you do have any. Also, penetrative sex does it just as well, meaning the "oh no you have to dilate forever" actually translates to "have you tried getting laid like half a dozen times a year maybe".

Also, y'know, even when done with toys, it's usually enjoyable, because you're penetrating your vagina 🙄

Getting laid or masturbating with toys half a dozen times a year isn't flashy or difficult. It's kinda, y'know, nothing. Effortless. Which doesn't make good headlines or play well as a way to scare gullible people.

Turns out everything is fine and boring actually.
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Can we stop with this stupid fucking "take your meds" meme already? Meds didn't magically cure your brain and make you come out as trans that is utterly absurd and you know it. It was obviously a long and difficult personal journey of self-discovery and you did the work figured it out yourself, meds had nothing to do with it. Stop externalizing.

Also you were the same person when your uncle was alive as you are now, you existed back then, that was part of your life too, your identity is one continuous everchanging whole that has always been there from the day you were born and you have been gradually figuring it out and evolving as you go through life just like you are supposed to. Your uncle knew you, he didn't get the chance to know you exactly as you are today in the most recent update, but he still knew you and it's not your fault that he died and can't be here to see you right now. He just died, it happens. Nothing you can do about it, nothing you could have done about it.

Also just because you realized that you are trans and not nonbinary doesn't mean that the same thing is true of me and other nonbinary people, you can validate yourself without having to invalidate other people in the process, you realize that right?

>>5493
why so angry? can't handle the slightest challenge to your worldview? the etymology of a word doesn't explain why it becomes popularized and maintains popularity?

>>5453
first off, you spelled it wrong. second off, why sapphic? what does that mean? is a trans man a man or not? can straight men be sapphic? can bi ones?

>>5503
>fascism is when words have meaning
asserting that words have primacy over material reality is fascist-adjacent, yes

next you're going to tell me that the words "man" and "woman" exclude trans people because [merriam webster]

>>5504
>the etymology of a word doesn't explain why it becomes popularized and maintains popularity?

Yeah I'm sure you are right, it's not like Ancient Greece or Rome were vast empires that influenced all of human society or anything.

>>5507
>asserting that words have primacy over material reality is fascist-adjacent
I'd say the material reality is that if you aren't a woman you can't be a lesbian.

>>5369
Using it is good. Having regular erections is better for penile atrophy, orgasms for that and your prostate as far as rule of thumb goes. The problem is that you might stop feeling compelled to do so, which means you'll spend longer getting used to changes in the sensitivity of your genitals. Or, you could find some sort of testosterone cream, though I'm not sure the specifics on that

Low doses of estrogen acrually work? I heard that microdosing estrogen doesn’t do anything because the testosterone would cancel it out.

of all the transhumanists i've met (transfem, transmasc, enby) the only petty pieces of shit have been (chronically) online

>>5301

idk i used to talk mostly to local boomer trans women, some of them lumpenized.

again i'm in Mexico so, that's just how it is.

>>4907
some of us are the result of society trying to make us be male some of us are the result of secret seia experiments

>>5310
that's fair, i don't know what mexico queer life is like because im not from there
all the people I know in my local scene are like 18-30 so its probably v different
i get the lumpenization tho - think that's just part of being transfem unless girl's family has money
maybe thats it too like, the loudest white ppl are the most visible because they're not scrabbling for survival? meanwhile everyone else is trying so hard to keep their head above water that they're silenced purely by the fact of being socially unacceptable/tired/dead

idk, i just got in from a 13 hour shift so my brains fucked idk if any of this makes sense

>>5460

it does dw, i couldn't even get into the military because "i did not know which gender i am"

i'm literally fucking willing to die for your pension, does that matter? fucking old fuck

Does risperidone help with autism?

>>5470

Risperidone is an atypical antipsychotic. I haven't taken it personally but I've tried a few antipsychotics over the years like Seroquel and Zyprexa and in my experience these drugs tend to make you more emotionally flat, sort of tired and drowsy and feeling like you're not fully awake all the time, and they often cause weight gain and metabolic side effects, I think risperidone can also cause hormonal side effects such as gynecomastia in rare cases. The side effects tend to be numerous and unpredictable and affect everyone very differently.

I'm not a doctor or anything but from what I've learned, I would say that atypical antipsychotics, particularly ones like Risperidone or Seroquel or Zyprexa, are rather heavy-duty drugs, commonly used as a sedative for people who are freaking the fuck out because they take effect immediately and they tend you knock you out especially when you first start on them. Most doctors don't like to prescribe them unless they think there's a good reason to, and if they do they would prefer it be a temporary emergency measure than a continuous regimen, trying the safer and less drastic options first before pulling out the big guns. For example they might give a suicidal patient an antipsychotic to calm them down and just let them sleep it off, but for a schizophrenic having recurring chronic psychosis all the time they might have to take an antipsychotic every day for the rest of their life, continually having to moderate dosage and try different options as tolerance builds up or side effects become too problematic. They're sometimes used off-label for irritability in autistic patients, i.e. autistic children throwing violent tantrums and potentially hurting themselves or others - that would be a case where a doctor might have to take drastic measures and prescribe antipsychotics, but any competent psychiatrist would want to avoid that option if possible and not risk disrupting the child's normal growth and development unless it's literally a matter of life and death.

When I took Seroquel years ago it just made me too drowsy and out of it to even function at all and I was sleeping most of the day away. I tried Zyprexa for a while and initially that one helped a lot with my anxiety and depression but it was diminishing returns, after being on it for a couple weeks or so the positive effects seemed to fade but thePost too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>5486

Yeah because your time is so valuable right?

>>5485
I used to take risperidone as a child and I grew up chronically lazy, a bit apathetic and I have man tits and Idk if it's gyno or just fat, it's very flabby, soft and not pointy so I think is body fat but idk

>>5347
i have the opposite problem, i'm rather short and give off sub vibes sometimes but i'm a switch that's heavily into topping

ogkay ^-^>>4731

>>5347
domming someone taller than me feels masculinely gender affirming in a goblin kinda way, not sure how to convey it better

>>4731
Post hog

>>4731
but i look like a man

Gym and testosterone

>>5351
Work out BITCH
Pump those muscles
Get SWOLE

date me so i can teach you how to be mare masculine

just kidding haha

Battle jacket that you stick loads of lesbian and palestine flags on

>>5288
I never mentioned anime even once in this entire thread lol

>>5298
I suppose so, but its definitley not just liberals portraying it as such. Ive seen plenty of transwomen on this board reinforce the concept of transbrain and other stuff like that. And im also not sure that I can just choose to alleviate my discomfort, i cant really control the fact that I feel discomfort.

>>5332
But labels are so heavily ingrained into society though, idk how id live without one.

>>5333
>I never mentioned anime even once in this entire thread lol
<wanting to be a girl but also wanting to just be a femboy
one is being trans the other is retarded weeaboo shit. and your pic is literally from anime

>>5332
This is an undialectical understanding society. Read Stalin.

>>5334
Femboys don't originate from anime, the subculture literally started in the west and is still mostly only prevalent in western countries. I havent even seen the anime the character in the pic is from, I only used an image of him because he's a popular well-known femboy character.

>>5333
>im also not sure that I can just choose to alleviate my discomfort
No, you can't, or personally i think you only can with a shit-ton of psychedelics and at the cost of your current identy and most personal values. I'm refering to the fact that your desires, however deeply ingrained and essential to you they may be, are still malleable to a degree. I see this thread very clearly as your attempt to, on the one hand come to terms with, but on the other hand also to negotiate your exact way of living as transfem, which would be impossible if femboy and transwoman were all just brain patterns along a malebrain/fembrain spectrum.