It sounds like a kei car so already not street lega

Oh hey, a car that’s basically what I wanted. A reasonably sized and priced electric hatchback.

Not in the market for a new car though

Congrats!

Yeah I want lightning to do it

See that narrative does strike a chord. My life is externally very difficult because I’m trans. But I didn’t get an easy and happy option, my choices were to face all that and do my best to build a happy life anyways or to live in misery tortured by the threat of it.

I feel that hard. It didn’t come out of nowhere, it came out of me exhausting every alternative I grasped for despite knowing full well that it would always end here. And of course the signs were all easy to brush off like me hating being photographed, I saw how people who violated gender expectations were treated. And especially I saw how trans women were treated in society. Why the fuck would I have been open about having these thoughts until I was damn sure? I spent a lot of my teen years trying to stay safe and wantable while also trying to push those boundaries and see what I could get away with

Started at 20, got hormones in under a year after coming out. Been over 10 years, and have had surgery. My regrets are all about not getting to start sooner, that I should have gotten more modern approaches to hrt (reduced spiro and increased estrogen with injections sooner), and how I should’ve learned to be more feminine earlier.

I’m alive now, truly and fully. I was just barely surviving before

Yeah, the lesbians sent over a nice femme with cleavage and I was hooked.

The gas tax is far below what’s needed for the roads

What can I say, the lesbians had a really good recruitment pitch at the queer meetup.

I didn’t realize parts of ohio were in the Bible belt. But yeah, that tracks for 20 years ago in ohio imo

I remember back in the day I knew a woman whose mom was totally supportive of her transition, but was wildly homophobic to her. Like, refused to acknowledge that her wife wasn’t just a friend.

While healing from full srs, yeah I absolutely had a lot of pain that my brain interpreted as in the balls. Once the pain subsided it never returned and it feels weird to remember my body was ever like that. That said, I had phantom sensations of a more feminine body before I started transitioning. Both phantom breasts from around early puberty until I grew my own, and a phantom vulva until bottom surgery.

This is why you get a pill organizer. That and so you can check if you took your meds that day.

Also prevents the “accidentally took amphetamines with my night time meds” which while rare is worse than the “took them twice this morning”

Why would we make those when we can ban the only country actually trying to make evs

That’s fair, I had sorts of folks I had to spend time around to get comfortable with too. I think a lot of people think that it’s necessary or easy to suddenly become comfortable with sorts of people who are marginalized. But what we should be doing is demanding people be moving towards a more equal and free society and not making their discomfort those people’s problem.

ETA: building comfort with those groups is also important, but it’s slow and it’s something we shouldn’t beat people up for not being quite at yet.

Yeah fortunately it’s been mostly in good ways

It’s funny hrt didn’t make me look anything like my mom (for both better and worse), but it did make me act more like her.

Many of us did that and only learned while recovering from bottom surgery lol

Yeah I’ve gotten decent at it thanks to my attitude that I only want to wear it occasionally and never to hide flaws (so nothing like foundation). The biggest thing is to try to replicate styles that you like on nights you aren’t going out. Also eyeliner is hard, everyone knows it.

Additional tip is to learn what colors/shades look good/bad on you. For example I only really look great in darker colors and tend to look best in jewel tones, this means that less bold lip shades tend to look awful on me, while I look great in really dark reds and purples.

I regret taking so long to actually learn, I spent a few years with a more masc aesthetic than I like because I was afraid to be more feminine. Turns out I’m pretty femme, though lazy about it and with a simple style.