Sociopathy is absolutely a real, defined condition. It’s shorthand for someone who suffers from Antisocial Personality Disorder (ASPD), which removes ones ability to feel empathy and to distinguish between the morally right and wrong. You’re right that it can be treated, but it is notoriously difficult to treat, as patients are highly unlikely to believe they have a problem, and even less likely to commit to treatment for it. Being a personality disorder, treatment is done through therapy, as medications alone cannot treat it. As someone who suffers from a personality disorder (BPD), I am able to recognize personally how difficult they are to treat. That doesn’t mean they can’t be treated, and certainly doesn’t mean it isn’t worth seeking treatment, but it can often feel that way (in my personal experience). Having BPD, I am solely responsible for the harm I do unto others, and the same can be said for ASPD. I understand (and personally struggle with) others not wanting to be around me or have close personal relationships with me. I’m currently in the beginning phases of treatment and have a lot to go. I understand that the person I am right now is not someone who is ready for a committed relationship, and don’t believe it to be ableist for one to not be attracted to me for that. Again, at the beginning of my treatment, I still have a long way to go before I’d be comfortable even thinking about relationships. Sometimes people simply aren’t ready for relationships, and while that doesn’t mean they won’t ever be, it does mean that it isn’t ableist to not be interested in someone who isn’t ready (whether that person understands if they’re ready or not).

You’re thinking of the term “psychopath”, which is no longer in use.

Unfortunately, this is the only area of DIY HRT I don’t have experience in, because I was already infertile before starting and had no desire to pass on my horrible genetics (a plethora of chronic illnesses). My understanding is that you would usually go about this at a dedicated fertility clinic, so if you were reaching out to a general practitioner’s clinic, then I’d try searching for a fertility clinic instead. Depending on how healthcare works in whatever country you’re in, you may need a referral from another doctor to the fertility clinic. I’m not aware of any other method of long-term gamete storage than cryopreservation.

Here in the US, there are even private options that allow at-home collection and pre-paid shipping to a storage facility, though I imagine that’s more expensive than simply going to a local fertility clinic (I don’t have any personal experience, though).

I put a vote in for Norwegian. The grammar is simple and pretty consistent, it can be treated as genderless, and the pronunciation is much more consistent than English. It’s easy to learn and sounds beautiful!

I can also speak Spanish (not fluently, but enough to get by), and I have my own irks about it. One of the big ones being that nouns are pointlessly gendered.

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By your own statistics, and assuming we’re discounting independents, Republicans have over twice the gun owners than democrats, putting them over 2/3 of American gun owners. Of course, that’s assuming they are actually “roughly equally sized”. I’d say over double is in fact a massive difference.

You’re right, however, that Democratic gun owners tend to he less vocal about the second amendment. There are plenty of Democrats that own 1 or 2 small firearms for self defense that support heavier gun restrictions, for instance.

What you’re referring to, or at least one of the variations that fits, is called optimistic nihilism. Nihilism is not a single perspective, it is simply a class of philosophies based on there being no inherent purpose or meaning to life. I, as someone who subscribes to optimistic nihilism, believe that despite there being no inherent purpose or meaning to life, I can choose my own; exactly as you describe.

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It is unfortunately much harder to do DIY via testosterone, as it is a controlled substance (in the US, it is a Schedule III controlled substance). Estradiol and progesterone, on the other hand, are not, so they’re much easier to source. The only places I’ve heard you can source testosterone injections are…shady at best. Think hidden onion services through Tor, the same place you can buy even less legal things; the dark web. You aren’t going to find legitimate online spaces because distribution is a major criminal activity. It’s unfortunate that trans men are much more limited in DIY, but if you’re looking to source testosterone, your best bet is to ask the right people in person. You can find resources on how to dose and inject online, it’s just much, much harder to source.

Pellets are implants

I use Bazzite as my only desktop OS at the moment (I have multiple headless servers with either Fedora or Debian), and have been using Fedora atomic for awhile before that. I noticed no significant change in general purpose computing when switching from Fedora atomic (Kinoite) to Bazzite, other than all the non-free codecs and drivers I would have installed in Fedora already being present in Bazzite. If anything, that improved my experience. I don’t even game much, it’s just something I do occasionally, though I’ve been using Linux exclusively for over a decade now, so I can’t say I get frustrated enough fixing minor things that I’d really remember things that are easy for me to fix, but potentially difficult for someone new to fix. Honestly, the only time I’ve really had to fix stuff in my recollection is from bash scripts I wrote in other distros no longer working, and since it’s atomic, I chose to rewrite for the tools available instead of layering unnecessary packages. Certainly not something I’d imagine someone new doing.

As far as most software goes, you install it via Flatpak, so the experience should be identical across different distros.

I can’t wear denim or anything with a high amount of synthetic fibers (nylon is the worst for me). Well, I can wear skirts with synthetic fibers, solely because they aren’t in constant friction with my skin, but anything that’s tight to my skin is a no go for synthetic fibers

More specifically:

Women only… trans women are women, and transphobic or gender critical talk isn’t allowed. Anyone under the trans umbrella (e.g. non-binary, bigender, agender) is free to decide whether a women’s community is a good fit for them.

(For context, I checked OP’s comments and am not merely assuming)

Excuse me, I am a lesbian. OP said that they cook more than their wife thus they contradict the post. They are implying that they are a man that is in the kitchen.

I highly recommend LeoLines! They make the extra hardware disappear, and they’re also super comfy. Worth the price, IMO. I have no problem wearing leggings, other than the fact that I don’t have an ass lol

More specifically:

Women only… trans women are women, and transphobic or gender critical talk isn’t allowed. Anyone under the trans umbrella (e.g. non-binary, bigender, agender) is free to decide whether a women’s community is a good fit for them.

More specifically:

Women only… trans women are women, and transphobic or gender critical talk isn’t allowed. Anyone under the trans umbrella (e.g. non-binary, bigender, agender) is free to decide whether a women’s community is a good fit for them.

I see you and raise you this:

IP over Avian Carriers

My professional training for subcutaneous injection when I started them over 4 years ago was done through a phone call. It’s not rocket science, it’s genuinely hard to fuck them up. You aren’t finding a vein, as it isn’t an intravenous injection, you aren’t even at risk of hitting a vein (like with intramuscular). You’re just injecting into the fat layer. The injection leaves a depot of medication in the fat that is absorbed by fat cells very slowly, usually over the course of multiple weeks in oil-based suspensions.

I have never once messed up a subcutaneous injection, and I’ve done them while blackout drunk before. It is significantly riskier to use an EpiPen on someone, and those are commonplace (and I’m not talking about the effects of epinephrine, I’m talking purely about the safety of injection). I cannot get it across just how incredibly hard it is to fuck up a subcutaneous injection. OP is not at any risk here; you’re manufacturing fear in a place that should be celebrating OP. Please stop; it does nothing to help anyone.

Lack of gender affirming care for gender dysphoria has been shown to lead to significantly increased risk of suicide. If you’re unaware, suicide is deadly, so yes, it is life threatening. Over 40% of transgender adults in the US have attempted suicide in their life. Transitioning, and specifically implementing gender affirming care like hormone replacement therapy, has been shown to significantly decrease the risk of suicide. So yes, HRT is a life saving treatment.

As someone with chronic health issues that I’ve been hospitalized for multiple times that would also certainly qualify as “life threatening”, I am in no way “insulted” by gender dysphoria being called life threatening. In fact, now that I am properly medicated for my health issues, I’d say gender dysphoria is the second most deadly thing in my life. It’s only usurped by Borderline Personality Disorder (which cannot be treated with medication), which has a completed suicide rate of 10%, and up to 85% of people with BPD are estimated to attempt at some point in their life.

Please stop attempting to minimize and illegitimize our problems. The only thing “insulting” happening in these comments is your fear mongering and blatant dismissal of trans issues.

EDIT: This released a few minutes after I commented, and I found it to be incredibly topical to this comment: Hormone replacement therapy lowers suicidality by nearly 70% among transgender youth

Yeah, I started on 4mg Estradiol Cypionate as monotherapy, and I’m down to 2mg and it still may be too much. It’s definitely different for everyone