I feel called out

Oh no! Well as long as it is stored safe <3

Get a fund me going for a tiny fridge and fridge thermo you can use just for your med storage maybe? I’d definitely pay into that what I can. We all deserve well kept estrogen, not our fault our damn ovaries went the wrong direction.

y’all keep your estradiol in the fridge?

Edit: I was sure I was right but I looked it up to be sure, don’t store it in the fridge ladies. Keep it in a drawer (away from sunlight), 20 and 25 degrees C (68 and 77 degrees F).

Sorry for hijacking the shitpost for the safety announcement. carry on dorks

I love this joke because you know the programmers were having one of those “friends laughing really hard at a stupid joke and saying ‘we should have a tv show’” moments.

It’s funny cause even if someone is transphobic, on some level they do see you as valid which they’d never intentionally admit. But they will unintentionally admit it with their misandry/misogyny.

heartbreaking… beautiful statue of danny devito is AI generated

Even worse the password was accepted in full when registered, but the login field won’t accept the full length.

Transgender is the correct term btw, the one you used is dated and derogatory

Yeah, I can totally see that being why the trope is super prevalent.

Me too, I had a non-gendered nickname based on my dead name, and was going to just have my middle chosen name be a lovely name that fit that nickname. But then I decided I hated the nickname and got sour on the idea of “making it easy” for my parents to dead name me in their heart, while using a chosen name.

Ended up not having a middle name, which is cool because I get to “legally attest” to not having a middle name sometimes which I thought was interesting.

That’s fair, I never intended to invalidate anyone’s decision to have any sort of chosen name.

But see, that’s a really great chosen name so I totally get that.

Never would judge any real person for their chosen name, I just find it silly when it’s like this in memes and stories.

that’s true

why does every trans meme assume we change our name to just the other gendered version of our dead names lol. It’s a trope at this point, but speaking as a trans woman that would be dysphoric af.

I guess, to be fair, I actually considered making my middle name similar to my dead name as a way out for my parents from the “it’s just hard for us” but I realized I hated that idea and screw them if they think respecting me is too hard for them.

Edit: btw 2 years post come out and my dad finally used my chosen name for the first time. They can change, though my dad keeps misgendering, which shows me his heart isn’t in the right place. He’s thinking “appease” me as in his heart I’m still a guy, even though he definitely glanced at my chest… guh

Money makes things possible, people will do things they love for the passion of it, but without enough money it isn’t feasible. It’s capitalism, folks

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trashgf is right I’m doing subq, shorter needle, injects into fat. Result is the same, it absorbs a bit different I guess but I feel much less sore.

Edit: You can also do subq on your thigh, but on the other side(ish). My partner does that, but I still avoid the legs. Subq also avoids larger bloodvessels. I had quit injecting for a while doing IM because of a…

After that I switched to patches for a while. Those are worse and have their own annoyances. When moving in with my partner who knew how to do subq I went back and she does it for me (I know I am lucky.) There’s almost no pain at all for subq, a good injection I barely feel and when done perfectly I don’t even notice.

When doing subq though there is a greater chance to lose some of the oil, so z-tracking is more important. when you do IM the muscle soaks up the oil like a dry sponge. fat is slower and of course you are injecting closer to the surface of your skin, but yeah if you do it right subq is way better imo

If you don’t know how they measure you probably haven’t been selected. Rarely, maybe once or twice a year (from my experience) steam asks you if you want to participate in the hardware survey, and if you click yes it packs up your hardware info and sends it in.

I prefer tummy injections, but yeah it’s a big deal, congrats on hrt! Take pictures to look back on!