That’s awesome! Glad to hear it worked for you!

You should really think through the possibility that once you start estrogen you will not want to ever go off of it, even to regain fertility.

Yeah, that is a concern that I have… maybe it would be better to freeze sperm first, to be on the safe side.

I’ve browsed that document before, but I’ll read it through and check out that channel, thank you!

Everyone I’ve talked to has sung the praises of injections over any other method, so it’s definitely the one I’m leaning toward most

Thank you for such a detailed breakdown! I have my first GAC appointment with Planned Parenthood in a few weeks, so I’ll definitely talk with my doctor and see what they think. I’m more than a little nervous, but I’ve heard they’re really good at the one near me

Thank you! That’s really helpful

Do you need a referral to a fertility clinic where you can freeze it?

Let’s imagine this decision is upheld by the SC. Would state-level discrimination protections still apply, in states that have them?

Oh, absolutely. As my instructor put it, if you cause an arc flash and are killed instantly, you got off lucky. Because if you survive, your body will be severely damaged for the rest of your life.

Those trainings put the fear into you for good reason. I don’t fuck with high voltage at all, shit is way too scary for me.

Everyone should listen to the series that Molly Conger did on her podcast Weird Little Guys about the myth of genocide against white South Africans. It’s really well done, and I learned a lot that I never knew about apartheid.

Link to the first episode in the series

And that arc flash’s temperature is several times hotter than the surface of the sun. It’s hot enough to instantly vaporize any surrounding metal, meaning that if you manage to survive being near an arc flash, there’s a chance that you’ll end up with tiny metal shards in your lungs, when they cool down after you breathe them in. Arc flashes are scary stuff.

And so energy inefficient.

Exactly. It’s an energy conservation measure

Very confused about how I went from being a cishet conservative Catholic guy to an atheist bisexual trans woman. So, probably not stoked about that.

Aside from that, probably pretty happy! I’ve got a good job and a kickass wife. I have a dog and friends and a little garden. Those were all things I wanted in my future even when I was 15, and here we are!

Just gonna drop this here, no reason:

Multivariate analysis indicates that economic elites and organized groups representing business interests have substantial independent impacts on U.S. government policy, while average citizens and mass-based interest groups have little or no independent influence.

Testing Theories of American Politics: Elites, Interest Groups, and Average Citizens

Thank you!

Hey, please don’t use ableist slurs. It’s easy to criticize conservatives without doing so.

They say they’re disbanding because they feel that the issue is now solvable via domestic politics. That seems like a good thing to me

Yeah, I didn’t particularly like that doctor. After I had a bad bout of depression, she started treating me like I was an addict drug-seeking, even though I used my meds at work and never used cannabis at work because, you know, rules and stuff.

I have a hard time believing that she was that critical of prescribing to people who use alcohol on a regular basis.

Having them was really nice. I had such an easier time staying on top of my health and fitness, the tidiness of my home, getting my work done, and working on hobbies. I didn’t love feeling drained at the end of the day when I crashed, but on balance, it was an improvement to my life.

Then there was a shortage, so I couldn’t get it, and my doctor said that she wouldn’t prescribe it for me any more anyway, until I stopped using cannabis (even though it’s legal here). And now my new doctor can’t get any of my diagnosis paperwork and doesn’t want to prescribe it until I get tested again.

It’s like the process for getting ADHD meds is uniquely designed to be difficult to navigate for people with ADHD.

If California were somehow allowed to secede peacefully, I think their economy is strong enough that they could survive independently. Pretty much any other state though, I don’t see how it could work.