I would be tempted to tell her my adverb is fabulously.
"I fabulously eat. I fabulously think. And I'm going to fabulously walk away from this conversation now."
Image description: A list of pronouns with gender symbols next to them.
He [Mars symbol]
She [Venus symbol]
They [Trans gender symbol, combination of Mars, Venus and Androgyne symbols]
We [Hammer and sickle]
Image description: Quark from Star Trek: Deep Space 9 sitting at his bar looking at the viewer. Text is overlayed on the image that reads, "Yes, I memorized all the genders. Some alien cultures are impossible to do business with if you don't gender them correctly."
image description: Twitter post by Faith Naff @faithnaff.
I think trans people should get thrown transition showers like brides and pregnant people get. All your friends come over to celebrate this big moment in your life, gift you things to start living your true gender, and just have a big party. Can we make that a thing?
Image description: The text "No-one:" followed by nothing. Then the text "Trans people:" followed by an image from the anime Azumanga Daio with a girl holding an inflatable shark. The caption in the image reads "Ta-da! Here's a shark!"
Image description: Two images. The top image is of a sign for a "Back to the Bible Holiness Church*" that reads "God created man & woman Satan made gays and transgender gen 5:2". The bottoms image is of a women sitting on a porch wearing sunglasses, dark clothes, and smoking. The caption reads "Praise Satan."
Image description: Kirby standing in front of a whiteboard while holding a pointer towards it. The whiteboard has the text, "You don't need to have signs from your childhood to be trans. The only requirement for being trans is to want to be a different gender."
Image description: A photo of a young boy and girl cowering in a corner scared. A rabbit and bucket is sitting on the floor in front of them. The young boy and girl are labeled "Transneutral", "Transfems", and "Transmascs". The rabbit is labeled "mirror mazes".
Hopefully nothing.
Some tucking techniques use tape to keep things in place.
I love this one too. I do wonder how my past-selves would react to me. There was definitely some internalized transphobia I had to deconstruct in my realization. I'm not sure how I would of reacted if I was forced to confront my trans-ness before I was ready.
This might be my favorite version of this trope. The knowing look from the future-self. The nervous confusion from the past-self.
They'll just keep giving you shots of Ambien until you stop.
The gendered leagues exist to promote women in chess. They need to do this because women have historically been discriminated against. These new rules feel like they are asking trans women to prove they are oppressed enough to deserve to play in women's leagues.
Some of the requirements for the change in status is problematic as well.
That is a hard requirement to meet in large chunks of the world. Many countries don't legally recognize gender change so it may be quite literally impossible to comply with "national laws and regulations." There's some carve out for asylum and refugee status. But it is possible to be a trans woman in a country, not be able to legally change your gender, and not feel unsafe enough to seek asylum.
I'm reading more on the titles now. So from the actual FIDE document:
And from what [FIDE titles]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIDE_titles) are on Wikipedia. It seems there is an underlying misogyny in how women's titles work. It seems to me the proper solution is to get rid of the separate title requirements.
Looking from lemmy.blahaj.zone, it looks like those posts didn't federate. I don't see them on your profile from here but if I look at your account on your instance I see them.
That's not how science generally works. It's not up to others to disprove your results. It's up to you to prove results to them.
You generally do this by very carefully explaining what you did and what the results where. Then others can follow your instructions and get the same results.
If they don't get the same results you haven't proven anything.
Yes
“if a potion/pill/button existed that could turn you into the opposite sex, would you use it?” and think to myself “Yeah, I’d be down to at least try that.” I know that doesn’t automatically make me trans, but it does make me question.
There is no minimal requirement to call yourself trans. I think it would be perfectly acceptable to call yourself trans even if you decide to do nothing about it. Also there is a pill to turn yourself into the opposite sex. It's generally called HRT. It took me years to realize that.
As far as labels, for me at least, their use is mainly to communicate with others and explore yourself. They do not actually define who you are. You can even use multiple labels that seem mutually exclusive with each other. There are no hard and fast rules.
For where to go from here, explore how you want to present yourself. Do you want a more feminine or androgynous haircut? Get one and see how it feels. Different clothes? I can tell you there are androgynous clothes in the women's section of stores that fit well on male bodies. The real point to to liberate yourself from others expectations and present yourself how you want to. That takes times, self-reflection on why you don't do things you want to do, pushing your own boundaries and discovering yourself.
Nonbinary people go to college to become ineffable.
From my understanding how a body responds to HRT is basically down to luck. Changes can be large, small, fast and slow. The chances of seeing large changes might decrease over time but is probably never zero.
One thing to note is that we are often our worst critics. We see all the things that haven't changed or things changed so gradually that we never noticed. These changes can be obvious to those around us while we remain blind to them.
The question I would ask is do you want to continue taking HRT? Is it causing you an undue burden or harm? Will stopping make you feel better? Will stopping make you feel worse? These are probably things to discuss with a doctor to help you come to a decision.