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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • In the US, difficulty in finding a place/surgeon will depend on the state you are in and perhaps your insurance. You can claim bilateral testicular pain as the reason that you want orchiectomy to try to game the system, but many urologists will counsel you towards cord denervation for pain if so.

    Recovery is a few weeks. No bike riding or riding lawnmowers for 4 weeks. You may get 5-7 days of narcotic pain medications, but most are typically on Tylenol/ibuprofen before then. Ice packs can help as needed.

    Incision is usually through the midline of the scrotum (the raphe), and surgery should leave the entirety of the scrotum in place for future vaginoplasty should you so desire. As others have said, given enough time the scrotum will atrophy/shrink without testicles to stretch it.

    Most urologists will follow WPATH guidelines for pre-surgery evaluation, so check those out.




  • 1000% true. Makes it so much easier for unpopular, minority ideas to make a much bigger impact because it limits voting power of the majority. Without the current arbitrary limit, you’d set the number of congressmen each state gets by the least populous state divided by 3 (since each state gets 2 senators and at least 1 representative). That state is Wyoming and they have just under 600,000 people. With 1 congressman per 200,000 people, California alone would have 196 representatives and 2 senators.

    The best option is to rewrite the constitution and put some population restrictions on state representation in Congress (because why does a state with less people in it that the unrepresented city of Washington DC have 3 congressmen?!). But as that seems very far away, the best thing that would be done is to get rid of the cap on representatives and let all Americans have an equal (representative) vote in Congress.

    Plus with 1,555 representatives (plus 100 senators) we can loosen the two party stranglehold on this country.






  • I would not view it as a difference in accuracy, but you would likely get different numbers because these lab companies may have different methods of testing the same thing.

    For example, let’s say that you needed to check your sodium level. The same blood sample sent to Quest may come back as 140 with a reference range (normal range) of 135-145 whereas if it was sent to LabCorp it may come back as 137 with a reference range of 130-143.

    There would be no clinical difference between those two values because both are within the normal spectrum. The range of normal spectrum though can differ depending on a company’s method of testing.