what people think detrans is: evil white terfs who were never really trans to begin with, who weaponize their invalid experience to hurt trans people and dedicate their lives to it
what detrans actually is: an extremely wide variety of experiences, people of all genders, people of all races, people who are afab, amab, or intersex, people with and without dysphoria (and of varying levels), people who were/are at different stages of their transitions, people with different political and religious affiliations, real life people who are not a monolith and whose experiences are not for your own personal pawns to win arguments online, and people who are marginalized by their experience whether you want to admit it or not
Transitioning to male had not ended Nele’s feelings of despair. She was still suicidal, and her eating disorder was manifesting itself in extreme calorie-counting, and an obsession with her diet. Nele began to think testosterone was the only good thing in her life – and she still wanted a mastectomy. But she did not feel she could be totally honest with her gender therapist.
“I was very ashamed of my eating disorder. I mentioned it in the beginning, but I didn’t dare talk about it more because of the shame – I think that’s normal with eating disorders.”
Nele was worried her transgender treatment might be halted if there was any doubt about her mental health.
“It’s a very tricky situation in Germany, because the therapist is the one who gives you the prescriptions for hormones and for surgery.”
There are few studies exploring the link between eating disorders and gender dysphoria. One review of the UK’s Gender Identity Development Service in 2012 showed that 16% of all adolescent referrals in that year had some kind of “eating difficulty”. But bear in mind that most referrals are young people assigned female at birth – natal girls, as they are called, who are more vulnerable to eating disorders than their natal male counterparts.
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There is little academic research about detransition. The studies that have been done suggest the rate of detransition is very low – one put the proportion of trans people who return to the gender they were assigned at birth at less than 0.5% . But so far, researchers have not taken a large cohort of transitioning people and followed them over a number of years.
“The longitudinal studies just haven’t been done,” says Dr Catherine Butler, a clinical psychologist at the University of Bath.
“But on social media – for example on Reddit – there’s a detransitioning group that has over 9,000 readers. There will be academics like myself who are part of that, but even so, it is a huge number of people.”
The lack of academic research in this area has an impact for those re-thinking their gender journeys.
“It means there aren’t guidelines or policy that informs how statutory services can support detransitioners. So they’ve had to self-organise, to establish their own networks,” she says.
And that is what Nele and Ellie did. Using Nele’s skills as a professional illustrator, they created post-trans.com – an online space where people like them can get in touch and share their experiences.
I love to doodle and draw to just relax and unwind sometimes. I already have quite the arsenal of pencil crayons, markers and paints, but these by a long shot beat them all! I don’t think I’ve ever come across a marker this cool. There’s just something so satisfying seeing it outline my drawing as a write on the paper. I’ll be sure to post some of my other vids and pics of what I’ve drawn so far 🙂
I just got these on Friday and have already started playing around with them. Here’s a test sheet of all the colors that come in the set. Definitely the coolest thing I’ve bought this year 😊
I’ve been getting messages that these receipts are somehow faked/not valid. Those messages really mean: stop because you’re making us look bad. There’s nothing that would indicate these receipts are faked.
Also, for those of you who suggested estrogen cream to ease the atrophy? These testimonials seem to indicate that its effects are limited, and possibly ineffective for advanced atrophy. Besides, even if it was effective, wouldn’t you have to painstakingly slather your vaginal walls with this cream regularly every day to make sure you don’t miss a spot? Which is pretty much impossible and uncomfortable, especially if penetration is already difficult, because, you know, your vag is now made of ph-imbalanced, bacteria-loving tissue paper.
Notice the the first user who says she is unable to walk without pain after ONE YEAR on T. Advanced atrophy in ONE YEAR. Worse atrophy than a 50 year old woman who has gone through menopause in ONE YEAR.
🌊🌊 🐚 BENTHIARY 🐚 🌊🌊day 13-14 Thaumastochelidae is a family of deep sea lobsters, one of them includes the Thaumastocheles zaleucus, the Atlantic deep-sea lobster. They’re blind and have an enormous spiky claw that looks like a secondary mouth! I wonder how they balance themselves with such a huge size difference on one end… 🦞 ❤️ 🦞
By the way, I have historically been bad at drawing animals. But here I am trying to draw a lobster for the first time, let alone a side view of it..! This was my third draft of it, reeeally wanted to showcase that huge claw somehow. I wonder what colour they are in the wild, never did figure that out.
