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[stickygirl]

Had a work day out in Bath Spa, UK. Such an elegant city and so I had to hunt out the Jane Austen centre located on...
Gay Street

We're the same people, Jane and me

 

[Escierto]

I was an English major and I love Jane Austen. I have read every one of her novels several times over. What a mind she had with her powers of observation! Was going to the center worthwhile?

 

[stickygirl]

I was an English major and I love Jane Austen. I have read every one of her novels several times over. What a mind she had with her powers of observation! Was going to the center worthwhile?

There was a talk going on behind a closed door... perhaps an embroidery class. The cakes sounded lovely but were too pricey for my pocket, so I simply had a little pot of tea, though it was not bone china Besides it was barely 11am and too early for cakes.

I was intrigued by the raised sidewalk you can see in front of the houses. The street is a whole level below, so I guess it was built that way. Fab architecture in a very hilly city.

 

[eomerson]

Wow...that looks beautiful. My daughter would love going there....she is a Jane Austen fanatic. Maybe next trip across the pond!!

 

[Escierto]

There was a talk going on behind a closed door... perhaps an embroidery class. The cakes sounded lovely but were too pricey for my pocket, so I simply had a little pot of tea, though it was not bone china Besides it was barely 11am and too early for cakes.

I was intrigued by the raised sidewalk you can see in front of the houses. The street is a whole level below, so I guess it was built that way. Fab architecture in a very hilly city.

Very interesting photo. Do you see the raised sidewalk like that anywhere else in England?

 

[stickygirl]

Very interesting photo. Do you see the raised sidewalk like that anywhere else in England?

I can't think of any, which is why I took the photo - we were waiting in traffic. Bath is pretty unique, having mushroomed in a singular style.
It still had plenty poorer areas, and I recall Jane's family lived in a very damp area in Bath, something that contributed to her father's death.

 

[Yesok1]

Very interesting photo. Do you see the raised sidewalk like that anywhere else in England?

Our sidewalks are called pavements, which are raised. The curb is the raised part. Its not as deep/high as those in the US.
We have soft verges down country lanes and to the side of motorways. In London some of the pavements are high to stop vehicles mounting them, but they are rare.

 

[NewOldGuy77]

Question: How does a MTF TG deal with hereditary stuff like male-pattern baldness?

 

[Bramblethorn]

Question: How does a MTF TG deal with hereditary stuff like male-pattern baldness?

Male-pattern baldness involves an interaction between genetic factors and androgens (testosterone etc.) Trans women who've undergone orchiectomy (removal of the testicles) or hormone treatments will usually have much lower levels of androgens, so they're unlikely to develop MPB.

This goes the other way too: trans men who get testosterone supplements often do develop MPB.

 

[Zrosey]

Had a work day out in Bath Spa, UK. Such an elegant city and so I had to hunt out the Jane Austen centre located on...
Gay Street

We're the same people, Jane and me

I need to be on Gay street

 

[Bigtitsbitch1000x]

Male-pattern baldness involves an interaction between genetic factors and androgens (testosterone etc.) Trans women who've undergone orchiectomy (removal of the testicles) or hormone treatments will usually have much lower levels of androgens, so they're unlikely to develop MPB.

This goes the other way too: trans men who get testosterone supplements often do develop MPB.

Numerous MTFs had MPB before their transition. They wear wigs. Estrogen does not grow hair.

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[stickygirl]

 

[Bigtitsbitch1000x]

The Transitional Program:

https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1938/tp/

I am confused as to why the above cartoon was posted in response to my comments on MTFs, MPB, and estrogen.

My comment had nothing to do with the condition of trans teenagers, or, horror of horrors, detransitioners.

There are five trans women in my building. One has lived as a woman for 40 years. In the older strata of trans society, MPB and wigs in daily use are quite common, as anyone knows who spends time in a gender-affirming program knows.

I know what I know about trans society from my personal experience and observation. I have been known as a sex and gender rebel most of my life, and was attacked as such at the beginning of my career as a public intellectual. I wrote and published on these topics throughout my career.

I am critical of detransitioners. The whole body of polemic about trans is distorted by ideological manipulation, most of it emanating from Vladimir Putin's regime.

Detrans come in two varieties, as I have seen them: those attempting to "return" from bottom surgery, who are sad and angry, and those who "detransition" from HRT, who are loudmouthed mercenaries of fascist reaction.

I have sympathy for detrans just as I have sympathy for Jews forced to work as sonderkommandos. Sympathy does not mean apologetics.

At the same time, issues of informed consent in gender therapy are significant. "Surgery salespeople" who foster ridiculous claims for facial feminization, chin reshaping, voice surgery, and some other procedures, but especially for bottom surgery as it is promoted today, are doing nobody good aside from ignorant shrinks, big pharma, and insurance companies.

I find it curious that so much participation in Lit is based on hostile, presumptuous, and ignorant attitudes.

I am also a trained linguist and successful author in several languages. I do a lot of wordplay. It goes with my background in the Surrealist Movement. But I am hesitant about ideological neologisms. What is "desistance?"

Let's be clear: transphobia is not just the fostering of moral panic/backlash. That is a confused way of approaching the issue. We are past that stage. We must prepare ourselves as trans women to resist, subvert, sabotage, and otherwise destroy the enemy's attempted genocide. We are not in Mariupol or Gaza... Yet.

The art of politics, to paraphrase, is that of making distinctions, not confusing them.

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[Bigtitsbitch1000x]

"Desistance" is a term used in reference to criminal behavior. I don't understand its application here.

I fear the time is not far off when the weapons of criticism are replaced by the criticism of weapons; when cartoons are trumped by cartridges.

As a human rights investigator and historian, but especially as a trans woman, I am alarmed to see that trans woman are, in my view, the human group most oppressed in history and least prepared to defend ourselves. I fear gendercide, in many forms.

Clarity first.

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[stickygirl]

I've always been keen in my thread to provide useful information for anyone wanting to advocate for trans rights. Ammunition if you will, to push back with truth against conspiracies.
JK Rowling is not my favourite person and tbh I kinda avoid articles with her named linked for my own mental health. That's why I love ZRosey's thread that it's not all bad news!!

I've read a little about Hirschfield, who was an early pioneer in providing rudimentary medical care to transgender folk in the 1930s in Germany. So when this article by a professor of history in Seattle popped up, it broadened my knowledge.

 

[Crios]

I've always been keen in my thread to provide useful information for anyone wanting to advocate for trans rights. Ammunition if you will, to push back with truth against conspiracies.
JK Rowling is not my favourite person and tbh I kinda avoid articles with her named linked for my own mental health. That's why I love ZRosey's thread that it's not all bad news!!

I've read a little about Hirschfield, who was an early pioneer in providing rudimentary medical care to transgender folk in the 1930s in Germany. So when this article by a professor of history in Seattle popped up, it broadened my knowledge.

Thanks for sharing Dr. Marhoefer's article! Pretty much shreds JKR's "evidence!"

 

[Zrosey]

I've read a little about Hirschfield, who was an early pioneer in providing rudimentary medical care to transgender folk in the 1930s in Germany. So when this article by a professor of history in Seattle popped up, it broadened my knowledge

Thank you for the pride magazine link. It's pretty sobering imagining the things that happened to trans and diverse folks back in that era....

 

[stickygirl]

Thank you for the pride magazine link. It's pretty sobering imagining the things that happened to trans and diverse folks back in that era....

If you get a chance, read up on Hirschfield, because it links into the film about The Danish Girl. There's a decent about of info online - Science Museum, Scientific American, and the Guardian
You can browse them as you watch the six foot of snow fall outside!!
I'll come back and read those later, but I gotta dash for work x

 

[Bigtitsbitch1000x]

Hirschfeld (correct sp) was a contemporary of the Galileo of our time, Wilhelm Reich.

Reich invented the phrase "sexual revolution."

When I came out 24/7 as a transfemale, ending years of half-concealment and half-disclosure, I did so after publishing significantly on the Sexual Revolution.

I conceive of my writing in this context as revolutionary pamphleteering. I made the colossal error of thinking Literotica, which claims to be literary and to advocate for trans and other sexual minorities, was something better than Craigslist.

I was wrong. Literotica is a catchment for haters whose polemics would have had Julius Streicher, hanged at Nuremberg, weeping in jealous rage.

Literotica needs to be liberated.

While Hirschfeld was a giant in physiological medicine, Reich laid the foundation for a grand step forward in human relationships.

Reich died in prison in the U.S. after being targeted, along with the great sex rebel Henry Miller, my personal guide in this area, by Russian agents.

The time is not far off when the martyrdom of Reich will be a blot on American jurisprudence the way the persecution of Galileo now is on Renaissance Italy.

I find the work of Reich flawed by phallocentrism. Much like Chomsky's work, which is weakened by his failure in comparative linguistics. Both lack an appropriate superutopian strategy.

Still, both Reich and Chomsky end up, IMHO, as greater political than scientific figures: Reich for his indispensable work on fascism, Chomsky for his path breaking study of the Spanish Revolution of 1931-39.

To ignore Reich is to submit to oppression. But in an online culture dominated by 4chan, the absence of Reich from Literotica is predictable.

Things will change.

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[Bigtitsbitch1000x]

On Rowling.

I have proposed a book to my editor, to be titled IN DEFENSE OF J.K. ROWLING.

Content:

Nobody should be cancelled except Nazis and pedos, and even they can get a hearing... In court.

But media do not promote Holocaust denial or excuse exploiters of children.

JKR is mainly and embarrassingly wrong about transfolk, except when she hints at one issue: the lack of fully informed consent about estrogen flooding.

In some trans women who were bisexual or closeted homosexuals, estroflooding may cause a radical change in one's sexual profile.

This happened to me. I had always defined myself as bi and always lived with women. I only fell for one man in my life, but I fell for many women.

Yet at night my thoughts were all about cock. I wanted to be a bottom. I watched gay porn more to study threeways than for jerkoff inspiration. I wanted to be married to a man.

The dissonance between these two sets of feelings was so extreme that, as it always began at nightfall, I imagined myself a werewolf.

Estroflooding turned me, over a period of four years, into a truly raging cumslut. I began life in The Life, as a full time ho, after chipping cock, so to speak, in bi buffet style, hanging with hos.

It was terrifying and tested my relationship with my Big Domme. But I am now fulfilled by getting my holes thoroughly filled. I walk around half naked and am finding ways to be publicly obscene (away from kids) without getting arrested. Indeed, while being photographed and videotaped by elite artists.

And after that, we all went home.

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[stickygirl]

On Rowling.

I have proposed a book to my editor, to be titled IN DEFENSE OF J.K. ROWLING.

Content:

Nobody should be cancelled except Nazis and pedos, and even they can get a hearing... In court.

But media do not promote Holocaust denial or excuse exploiters of children.

JKR is mainly and embarrassingly wrong about transfolk, except when she hints at one issue: the lack of fully informed consent about estrogen flooding.

In some trans women who were bisexual or closeted homosexuals, estroflooding may cause a radical change in one's sexual profile.

This happened to me. I had always defined myself as bi and always lived with women. I only fell for one man in my life, but I fell for many women.

Yet at night my thoughts were all about cock. I wanted to be a bottom. I watched gay porn more to study threeways than for jerkoff inspiration. I wanted to be married to a man.

The dissonance between these two sets of feelings was so extreme that, as it always began at nightfall, I imagined myself a werewolf.

Estroflooding turned me, over a period of four years, into a truly raging cumslut. I began life in The Life, as a full time ho, after chipping cock, so to speak, in bi buffet style, hanging with hos.

It was terrifying and tested my relationship with my Big Domme. But I am now fulfilled by getting my holes thoroughly filled. I walk around half naked and am finding ways to be publicly obscene (away from kids) without getting arrested. Indeed, while being photographed and videotaped by elite artists.

And after that, we all went home.

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Hey babe - can I respectfully request you have your own thread? You have tons of content but to be honest, your brand of trans experience doesn't match mine. Lets not forget it's a spectrum and we should each have a space where we can post and allow others with a similar outlook share content

 

[Bigtitsbitch1000x]

Sure. It's great to be informed of yet another Literotica limitation.

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[Bigtitsbitch1000x]

One other thing: "an MtF." Rules.

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[stickygirl]

Sure. It's great to be informed of yet another Literotica limitation.

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That's good of you, thanks. Be sure and start that thread

 

[stickygirl]

A fairly long article linked here now that the long-running Cass report has been finalised. The main gender clinic in the UK was the Tavistock and was the one I attended all those years ago. There was hardly any waiting list back then, staff remembered who you were and the process felt safe and sympathetic.

In the years that followed, gender became a loaded word: initially as a cool thing for kids to question, then increasingly, drawing alarmist headlines about the apparent epidemic of transgender kids.
The numbers speak for themselves with patient lists at Tavistock mushrooming from 250 to 5000 referrals per year.

I haven't read the review, but this seems a fairly balanced report on it. I agree with much of its findings but I can understand how clinicians were overwhelmed by numbers and also under pressure from advocates who'd scream 'transphobia' if ever questions were raised about diagnoses or practises.

I have cousins who teach and they report that it is often parents who seek attention by over-reacting to their child's questions such as 'why don't boys wear dresses?' as being reason to run straight to a psychiatrist. The pushy-parent is well known phenomena in schools and not just limited to my cousins observations.
It's the same pushiness that sees parents avoiding normal vaccinations for their children so that the UK has outbreaks of measles that run rampant in schools "... but we heard summinck on the internet that said vaccinations makes your kid autistic..."

My memory doesn't go back to know if the same hysteria circled the gay community: that gay men were all pedos, that homosexuality could be beaten out of a child or that being gay was infectious. Maybe that pendulum swung wildly before common sense prevailed?