Description: A small Blåhaj in a hospital bed. He is drinking from a glass of water on a bedside table though a straw.
Blåhaj
BlueSharkEnjoyer
joined 1 year ago
Pretty much.
It's either my alarm clock or 5.1 speakers, both of which would be somewhere over 20 years old.
Follow international medical guidelines (i.e. WPATHv8) as a baseline, actually listen to trans people, and be willing to deviate based on patient need.
Have the trans community involved in governance in a non-tokenestic way, e.g. seats on the board.
Took me maybe a year to fully stop doing.
It varies in practice. Most people I see using identify, including many trans people, are well-intentioned and think it's the preferred polite language without thinking too hard on the implications of it.
However there are definitely anti-trans people who will use it pejoratively, which I presume is where that wording originated.
He longs for the ocean.
Testosterone can convert to estradiol via aromatase, however there's no metabolic pathway in the other direction.
For me I noticed minor benefits after 4 days, and it took about 2 weeks for it to more fully kick in.
Personally the other side effects ended up with me going off it. The focus benefits stayed, though the low mood it turned out it was causing took 3 weeks to go away after I stopped.
my male genitals are not working well
This is a common side effect.
Image Description: A Zoladex injection is being administered to a small cat plushy wearing a blåhaj costume, by a larger version of itself which is also wearing a non-binary scarf. The Zoladex is almost as thick as the smaller blåhaj's arm.
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You're not likely to have the energy to do anything beyond lounging around for at least a week or two, I'd plan on taking at least a month off work.